But President Obama wasn't done using the bodies of the troops to push forward his pathetic agenda. He did something even more retch-inducing: He used their still-warm corpses to stump for health care.
After Teddy Kennedy died, Obama had no problem propping him up in a perverse re-enactment of "Weekend at Bernie's" and wheeling him around to gain health care votes. But at least Teddy Kennedy was a liberal congressman who supported universal health care. These soldiers had nothing to do with the health care debate, but that didn't stop President Obama from using their remains to pressure congressmen into voting for his health care reform. Reported the Associated Press: "On Capitol Hill for a private meeting on health care, Obama opened his remarks by speaking about Fort Hood, participants said. He told lawmakers that the hardships members of the military make for the country 'is what sacrifice really is,' according to Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., as opposed to 'casting a vote that might lose an election for you.'"
Yes, you read that correctly. President Obama actually used the sacrifice of our troops to push congressmen into supporting his health care bill. The word shameless does not do justice to the utter indecency of this appeal.
But then again, the word shameless does not do justice to our president, who has repeatedly used the bodies of our troops as cover for his radical left agenda. He flew to Dover Air Force Base to salute the coffins of returning troops in late October -- and he made sure the cameras were right there to capture it, breaking years of presidential precedent in order to provide cover for his tergiversation on Afghanistan. The photo-oped dead/wounded soldier routine is one of Obama's favorites. Back in July 2008, Obama cancelled a planned trip to visit wounded troops at Rammstein and Landstuhl U.S. military bases in Germany because, as MSNBC reported, Obama "could not bring any media. Only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama's visit."
Dead soldiers are not props for Army diversity, props for health care reform or props for Obama's perennial campaigning. They are men and women who make the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our nation. Their memories should not be tarnished by cheap politicking by cheap and tawdry politicians.