Obama Ditches Thatcher Funeral

[Yurt]

I <3 Maggie, but when do President's attend funerals of leaders who've been out of office for 25 years?

When they are our closest Allie? When we have a long history of great relations?

But then again, that takes character, what was I thinking?

FOUR!

Did the Queen attend Reagans funeral?

Bitch

prince charles came in her place

fail

 

[Ravi]

Did Maggie attend Reagan's funeral?

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

 

[freedombecki]

That's OK. Bush did spend almost 1000 days between Camp David and Crawford. That's 3 years of vacation during both terms. You know he would have skipped Reagan's funeral if he could have.

What vacations? He took his homework and members of his cabinet to his retreats with him. They were in constant vigilance to develop Homeland Security, jobs for Americans, encouragement of brownfield cleanup for free from the private sector with the incentive approach. He worked most all of the time. Only the scenery was changed.

The only problem was, DNC scorched earth policy was to give only themselves time off, while hard-working Bush got no time off from their constant petty carping, and he didn't whine about it either; he's not whining now. He is, however getting things done in quiet ways. His library will benefit the SMU campus with jobs and resources. It opens soon, and it will have copies of all the stuff Sandy Berger tried to steal from the National Archives to make him look bad.

It must be frustrating to know that from the BDS sector.

 

[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....

You could say he was multi-tasking.

Obama won't work on this event. He hasn't upgraded security on military posts. After 9/11 we had lines at all of the gates checking for terrorists. So far nothing here at Ft Campbell. Not even I.D. Checks at the PX gate.

When peeing your pants in fear, be sure to spend a lot of government money, right mud?

 

[Yurt]

Did Maggie attend Reagan's funeral?

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

you two are failures

yes she did attend

better luck next time

 

[thereisnospoon]

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

Another international blunder by this president.
Obama has breached presidential protocol so many times, it's impossible to keep count.
If in the event of the death of a world leader, the President of the US is required to either be present himself or send a designee with regrets.
Obama and his staff SNUBBED the British.
What a shit head.

Margaret Thatcher is not a world leader.

Bullshit, she wasn't...
She was a head of state. And of a important ally.
Obama fucked up..Tough shit

 

[Yurt]

RW: double fail? huh? i was correct dumb dumb. and the queen is not president RW...blair came, which is the equivalent of the president.

you fail...bitch

 

[thereisnospoon]

Did Maggie attend Reagan's funeral?

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

you two are failures

yes she did attend

better luck next time

Don't know. But then again, she was not a sitting head of state either.
Stop it.

 

[Ravi]

He was in Paris..

Seriously.

President George W. Bush was in Paris when Reagan died and acknowledged the death in a press conference.[6] President Bush said this on June 5, 2004:



“

This is a sad hour in the life of America. A great American life has come to an end. I have just spoken to Nancy Reagan. On behalf of our whole nation, Laura and I offered her and the Reagan family our prayers and our condolences.
Ronald Reagan won America's respect with his greatness, and won its love with his goodness. He had the confidence that comes with conviction, the strength that comes with character, the grace that comes with humility, and the humor that comes with wisdom. He leaves behind a nation he restored and a world he helped save.

During the years of President Reagan, America laid to rest an era of division and self-doubt. And because of his leadership, the world laid to rest an era of fear and tyranny. Now, in laying our leader to rest, we say thank you. He always told us that for America, the best was yet to come. We comfort ourselves in the knowledge that this is true for him, too. His work is done, and now a shining city awaits him. May God bless Ronald Reagan.[7]

Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Funny..I don't remember conservatives going crazy over that one.

i dont remember anyone going crazy over that.....i do remember we at the PO got a day off with pay....

Seriously? That's even worse than Floriduh renaming the turnpike the Ronald Reagan whatever. I actually gag when I see the signs. "small government conservatives" my ass.

 

[Redfish]

another disgraceful internatioal screw up by the kenyan messiah. He could have a least sent plugs Biden, maybe he was afraid Biden would say "come on Maggie, stand up and let us see you"

 

[Ravi]

Libs are funny...Whenever there is a critique of Obama they run to their keyboard to find out how they can attack Bush with something...

Poor Dubya, professional victim.

 

[Ravi]

Did Maggie attend Reagan's funeral?

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

you two are failures

yes she did attend

better luck next time

No she didn't. Damn, you're stupid. I thought you were going to stop your stalking, btw.

 

[Yurt]

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

you two are failures

yes she did attend

better luck next time

No she didn't. Damn, you're stupid. I thought you were going to stop your stalking, btw.

Foreign dignitaries attended as well, coming from 165 nations. The dignitaries included 36 past and present heads of state and government, and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Leading the dignitaries were Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, Brian Mulroney, and Prince Charles (representing Queen Elizabeth II).[37] Other world leaders included UK Prime Minister Tony Blair

Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

you really are dumb ravi.

you have an odd narcissistic personality. if someone responds to you, they are stalking. you're not that important ravi. get over yourself dumbass.

 

[Yurt]

Doubtful after his sexist crack about her.

you two are failures

yes she did attend

better luck next time

Don't know. But then again, she was not a sitting head of state either.
Stop it.

stop what? i specifically responded to someone talking about thatcher.

btw...blair attended. why don't you stop being such a dumb hack.

 

[Harry Dresden]

we at the PO got a day off with pay

At the tax payer's expense.

i dont think so.....you wanna try again.....

 

[tinydancer]

Yeah..like there's nothing else happening in the world..or this country.

Boston Marathon bombs packed with gunpowder, shrapnel | Reuters

Obama announced he would not attend before the Marathon bombing occurred. It was anticipated though that he would send at least one or two members of his administration.

No excuse is there now.

Such poor form.

 

[asaratis]

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

You have got to be fucking kidding me. That meme has been debunked every which way from sundown. here...Let me google that for you

From your link....


White House aide apologizes for incorrect fact check claim on Churchill bust | Fact Checker

He did send the bust back...on inauguration day.

 

[Ravi]

we at the PO got a day off with pay

At the tax payer's expense.

i dont think so.....you wanna try again.....

Who paid for it then?

 

[Harry Dresden]

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.

"Grover Norquist has no plan to pay this debt down. His plan says you continue to add to the debt..."
Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)

Same with Paul (still lyin) Ryan. His "plan" adds to the debt.

The Rs love that.

he is another one of them Anti Americans....right Dudly....the basturd....

 

[Harry Dresden]

kudos to sallow for admitting he was wrong

i was going to nail him, but he nailed himself first

wait...that doesn't right

he has done that before....