I was going to start this post off with: I don’t jump on ‘The President didn’t do this’ without independent verification. BUT when a Retired Col tweets this.
#Obama bucked tradition of Nixon who attended MG Dillard's funeral in 1970 & Bush who attended LTG Maude's in 2001. pic.twitter.com/FpPDlot4Cc
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) August 15, 2014
But then doing my research (ie pulling up his twitter feed), you can get more truth to the story.
My fallacy tweet (Nixon & Bush didn't attend funerals) retweeted 225+ times by #Obama haters w/out checking "facts." pic.twitter.com/rJqlDtKCGO
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) August 17, 2014
Apparently Richard & George didn’t attend any funeral at all.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168636-guess-president-vice-president-2-star-general-laid-rest/