CNN's new contributor Erick Erickson says President Obama, “really doesn't like the military,” evidently because Obama is “skipping the Memorial Day tradition of the President laying a wreath” at Arlington Cemetery.

That's pretty weak evidence that Obama “doesn't like the military.” Erickson himself notes that it's “not unprecedented” for a president to miss the ceremony, and Obama is not skipping out on the day in favor of a vacation. He's reportedly going to observe Memorial Day at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery's ceremony.

From Erickson's post on RedState.com:

Barack Obama is skipping the Memorial Day tradition of the President laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. It is not unprecedented. George H. W. Bush was on the campaign trail in 1992 and scheduled to speak at an American Legions event in Maine on Memorial Day.

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There was no question they [troops] respected and loved Ronald Reagan. Same with George H. W. Bush, the last veteran of World War II to serve as President.

Obama? Not so much. And what does the left do when you point this out? They equate dead soldiers to political props/ Seriously.

By suggesting this President, in the midst of a war, should probably be going to Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day instead of taking his second vacation in a month, conservatives are somehow suggesting he use dead soldiers as political props.

After eight years of the left demanding publicity of flag draped coffins returning to Deleware from overseas to use as political props against George W. Bush, it is more than a little humorous to have the left now accuse the right of doing the same. It also ignores a fundamental point leftists too busy calling our soldiers “war criminals” and our dead soldiers “political props” miss -- going to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns has nothing to do with using dead soldiers as political props and everything to do with a Commander in Chief who seems to not like the military showing some basic respect to the men and women, alive and dead, who have actually kept us free.

Obama may talk about the government in the first person, but the men and women lying at Arlington know differently.

Of course, Obama really doesn't like the military, does he. [A period there, not a question mark, is intentional]