As America fights two wars and is watching the situation on the Korean peninsula, President Obama chooses to ignore his customary Presidential duties on Memorial Day.  Yesterday’s Washington Post reported that the President intends to spend Memorial Day in Chicago. 

According to the article:

“Vice President Biden and his wife will appear in Obama’s place, laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as holding a breakfast for Gold Star families — families whose loved ones died in military service — at the White House earlier that day.”

President Obama will speak at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, which is south of Chicago, on Memorial Day.