Probably stopped off at a BAsketball gym on the way home.
Storms Force Obama to Cancel Speech [Robert Costa]
From WSJ.com:
>>> Heavy thunderstorms caused President Barack Obama to cancel a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., on Monday.
Thunder and lightning started rolling in over Elwood, south of Chicago, just as the ceremony was to begin.
"Excuse me, everybody listen up," Obama told the crowd at the event, according to a White House pool report. "We are a little bit concerned about lightning. This may not be safe. A little bit of rain doesn't hurt anybody but we don't want anybody struck by lightning."
As people trudged, drenched and barefoot, across flooded fields to take shelter in available vehicles, a wreath Obama laid earlier blew over. White House spokesman Bill Burton walked van to van in the downpour to alert attendees that the ceremony would be canceled. Instead, Obama would visit with service families who had crowded onto buses.<<<
"Maybe he should have gone to Arlington," says Byron York:
While the rain was certainly a disappointment for the thousands of people who had gathered to see the president, it should be said that skies were sunny at Arlington, where Vice President Joe Biden took part in ceremonies. |
