Obama Ditches Thatcher Funeral

[boedicca]

Yet another tacky, unstatesmanlike performance from The Won. Neither he nor any active member of his administration will attend Thatcher's funeral. It's a state occasion, given that the Queen is participating. So much for our "special relationship".

Maybe he'll send the family an ipod with some of his speeches as a consolation prize.

I'll also note that the terrorist attack in Benghazi didn't prevent Obama from flying off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser the next day.


Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed 'surprise and disappointment' last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral.

Whitehall sources have revealed that the US delegation at tomorrow's service in St Paul's Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz.

Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. However, the Obama administration had said it would not be attending Thatcher's funeral before the Boston bombings

Other world leaders, including Canada's Stephen Harper, Mario Monti of Italy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, are attending the service in person.

President Obama paid tribute to Lady Thatcher's towering achievements when her death was announced last week.

But a US embassy spokesman confirmed that no serving member of his administration would be present to pay their last respects, citing a busy week in US domestic politics.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney and ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger will attend the funeral, Downing Street said today...


Margaret Thatcher funeral: President Obama won't send envoy - and leaves it to her old allies from Reagan era | Mail Online

 

[WillowTree]

Bamiecare hates the British.

 

[Intense]

Big Mistake.

 

[Harry Dresden]

and yet if he would have went.....i bet there would be threads about him going while this attack thing was happening.....just sayin....

 

[boedicca]

Bamiecare hates the British.

There is such a pattern of disrespect towards the British, that it is very difficult to resist such a conclusion at this point.

 

[WillowTree]

Big Mistake.

Why? There's nothing the British people can do but complain. France will cheer!

 

[boedicca]

and yet if he would have went.....i bet there would be threads about him going while this attack thing was happening.....just sayin....

Not from me. Terrorists win when we stop going on with our lives and proper business.

 

[WillowTree]

Bamiecare hates the British.

There is such a pattern of disrespect towards the British, that it is very difficult to resist such a conclusion at this point.

Isreal doesn't fare any better!

 

[Lonestar_logic]

and yet if he would have went.....i bet there would be threads about him going while this attack thing was happening.....just sayin....

Keep making excuses.

 

[martybegan]

Big Mistake.

I wouldnt expect him to go, but this is an event the VP position was designed for. Just ship Biden to it.

 

[Ravi]

and yet if he would have went.....i bet there would be threads about him going while this attack thing was happening.....just sayin....

Yep. And who cares, really? It's not as if Thatcher accomplished anything important. Just another blow hard rightwing nutter.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Yet another tacky, unstatesmanlike performance from The Won. Neither he nor any active member of his administration will attend Thatcher's funeral. It's a state occasion, given that the Queen is participating. So much for our "special relationship".

Maybe he'll send the family an ipod with some of his speeches as a consolation prize.

I'll also note that the terrorist attack in Benghazi didn't prevent Obama from flying off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser the next day.


Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed 'surprise and disappointment' last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral.

Whitehall sources have revealed that the US delegation at tomorrow's service in St Paul's Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz.

Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. However, the Obama administration had said it would not be attending Thatcher's funeral before the Boston bombings

Other world leaders, including Canada's Stephen Harper, Mario Monti of Italy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, are attending the service in person.

President Obama paid tribute to Lady Thatcher's towering achievements when her death was announced last week.

But a US embassy spokesman confirmed that no serving member of his administration would be present to pay their last respects, citing a busy week in US domestic politics.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney and ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger will attend the funeral, Downing Street said today...


Margaret Thatcher funeral: President Obama won't send envoy - and leaves it to her old allies from Reagan era | Mail Online

I never expected he would. One of the first things he did after gaining access to the oval office was to send Churchills bust back to England. - Jeri

 

[boedicca]

That's Biden's most important raison d'être...to represent the country at funerals and other state events.

 

[Dot Com]

Bamiecare hates the British.

ummm..... ok willer You didn't even cite that Rightard skinny injun bible thumper as a source. You're slippin' girl Why you got to be hatin' on our Two-Termer anyway?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Thatcher was no Chavez

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Big Mistake.

I wouldnt expect him to go, but this is an event the VP position was designed for. Just ship Biden to it.

An honorable President would go but there is nothing honorable about Mr. Obama. He is a serial liar. Imo.

-Jeremiah

 

[Ravi]

Big Mistake.

I wouldnt expect him to go, but this is an event the VP position was designed for. Just ship Biden to it.

An honorable President would go but there is nothing honorable about Mr. Obama. He is a serial liar. Imo.

-Jeremiah

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I'm sure Obama will cry when he reads that.

Maybe you could talk Dubya into going.

 

[poet]

Yet another tacky, unstatesmanlike performance from The Won. Neither he nor any active member of his administration will attend Thatcher's funeral. It's a state occasion, given that the Queen is participating. So much for our "special relationship".

Maybe he'll send the family an ipod with some of his speeches as a consolation prize.

I'll also note that the terrorist attack in Benghazi didn't prevent Obama from flying off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser the next day.


Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed 'surprise and disappointment' last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral.

Whitehall sources have revealed that the US delegation at tomorrow's service in St Paul's Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz.

Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. However, the Obama administration had said it would not be attending Thatcher's funeral before the Boston bombings

Other world leaders, including Canada's Stephen Harper, Mario Monti of Italy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, are attending the service in person.

President Obama paid tribute to Lady Thatcher's towering achievements when her death was announced last week.

But a US embassy spokesman confirmed that no serving member of his administration would be present to pay their last respects, citing a busy week in US domestic politics.

Former US vice president Dick Cheney and ex-secretary of state Henry Kissinger will attend the funeral, Downing Street said today...


Margaret Thatcher funeral: President Obama won't send envoy - and leaves it to her old allies from Reagan era | Mail Online

And why wouldn't he?
USA is the world?s biggest tax haven?which the GOP should remember while it honors Thatcher ? MSNBC
He compared what Americans pay to what British pay in light of Republicans “worshipping at the feet of Margaret Thatcher” after the former prime minister’s death this week.

“The Commander-in-Chief of the anti-tax party, Grover Norquist, leads every Republican in the constant chant that the United States is just drowning in taxation–that we can’t possibly be competitive in the world with such a harsh tax burden weighing down on this country,” said O’Donnell. These are the same people who have been praising Thatcher’s leadership, “many of them say she was even stronger and tougher than their much mythologized Ronald Reagan.”

O’Donnell reminded viewers Thatcher was a fiscal conservative by British standards, but she also “stood far to the left of any American president and any American politician” for her record on taxes. She kept a top income tax rate of 60% for 10 of her 11 years in office (20 points higher than the top income tax rate under President Clinton and President Obama); she raised taxes on lower incomes and doubled the national sales tax, which hits low income people the hardest; “she pushed her country’s tax regime in a progressive direction, but she maintained an extremely high overall tax burden on the United Kingdom.”

The Last Word said all these taxes helped pay for “an awful lot of expensive socialism…which she had no intention of eliminating”: universal health care.

 

[Truthmatters]

her own people dont like her folks

 

[boedicca]

Raving Loon once again displays her lack of any class whatsoever.

Nothing surprising here.