Election Year Special: Obama Meets with VFW Skipped last year to vacation at Martha's Vineyards.
12:21 PM, Jul 23, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
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President Obama will be traveling today from San Francisco, California to Reno, Nevada to “take part in an official event where he will deliver remarks at the 113th National Convention of the VFW,” according to the White House.
But last year, in 2011, when President Obama and Vice President Biden were not running for reelection, the Obama administration sent only the deputy secretary for veteran affairs to speak with the veterans group. Neither Obama nor Biden attended the annual meeting.
“An insult of the highest magnitude,” was how the VFW national commander, Richard Eubank, described the Obama administration snub last year.
But Obama and Biden were busy. Instead of attending VFW last year, they were vacationing and fundraising.
Last year, the VFW conference was August 26-September 1 in San Antonio, Texas. That time, at least between August 22-August 28, President Obama was taking time off on Martha’s Vineyard. As for Biden, he was fundraising.
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