Not a problem, Jake. Many, including myself, do not always read an entire thread before responding to a particular post. Alabuck is quite intelligent, yet may or may not have connected your post to an earlier comment by me. In entering OPP, most of us have been advised to use 'quote reply' to insure all know to whom/what we are responding.

Just out of curiosity, when were you in the Corps I served from 1967 to '69...'Nam '68-69. There are quite a few of us on OPP.

This is total bullshit (all of it)! He shouldn't be buried on the White House grounds and we sure as hell shouldn't pay $120 million dollars to bury his sorry Muslim ass. Let his family bury his ass in Chicago at best. I'm sure millions of Americans would prefer he be buried in what he refers to as his homeland- Kenya. How much more of this assholes shit are we going to take... He has visions of grandeur when in reality he is/was an embarrassment to this nation! For God's sake; let's stop pandering to him and stop him in his tracks! He disgust me to no end & I'm sick of him constantly interjecting himself in everyday politics. He holds no government job and acts if he is still President. The liberals are allowing this to happen. I wish I had a solution to the problem that was legal.

This jackass got the nerve to even ask this after he had almost destroyed this country. We should fight so that would never ever happen. So he was the first black president who hates this country and wants to fundamental change this country and the US Constitution, so screw him.

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When a president dies, the country pays for their burial. In the case of a president like JFK, who was a war hero and assassinated in the middle of a term, something extravagant is in order His burial at Arlington with the memorial paid for by the people cost almost $4 million in today’s money, adjusted for inflation. The Kennedy family paid for the casket, vault and the eternal flame.

Ronald Reagan, one of the most influential men in history, is buried in California at his Presidential Library, paid for by donations from the people and the Reagan family. In fact, other than Kennedy, which we can all agree was warranted, no president has ever cost the taxpayers more than $100K in today’s money to bury.

The clause in the Presidential Contract enacted by congress in 1819 states that the president shall receive the burial service deemed fit for his stature and that the cost of the funeral and burial plot will be paid for by the people of a grateful nation. While every president who has died in modern history, except Reagan, took advantage of that perk of the presidency, none have gone so far that anyone would ever have noticed. Until now that is.

Barack Obama has just submitted his plans for burial in a plot that will house his entire family, citing the Kennedys, the Tafts and the Roosevelts as precedent, inside a monument he had designed to celebrate the nation’s first black president. (Don’t forget he is half white) The monument, will cost the taxpayers roughly $120 million and will be listed as a national historical place with 24 hour protection from the 3rd US Infantry Regiment, just like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The memorial would be built immediately upon approval and occupy the Northeast quadrant of the lawn near the Washington Monument with a view of the White House:

The monument itself would include quotes from his years as president along with a giant bronze statue and burial crypts for him and his family under a large arch:

You heard that right. Obama will be guarded around the clock in a monument among those of our founding fathers and greatest heroes, paid for by the taxpayer. It’s not too late to call your congressman and object.