Obama Ditches Thatcher Funeral

[velvtacheeze]

Actually, there is a delegation going over...

The US is to send distinctly low-key official representation to Lady Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday, with a delegation led by George Shultz and James Baker, who both served as US secretary of state while Thatcher was in power.

While Barack Obama was invited, he has opted to send a presidential delegation comprising no serving politicians. Shultz was secretary of state to Ronald Reagan while Baker served the elder George Bush. Also representing Obama will be Barbara Stephenson, chargé d'affaires at the US embassy in London, and Louis Susman, the recently departed ambassador to Britain.

Now granted, many of us wold have expected someone higher up than a couple of retirees, but consider that Thatcher has been out of office for a while, her career pretty much peaked in the '80s, it's not like Obama knew her, and why not appreciate all the money that will be saved by not having to worry about security?

Rott has to make up shit to soothe his anger of Obama winning twice. Leave him be.

 

[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.

and that is why, i am sure, he will not be attending or sending anyone either....

Could be, but he's actually sending two envoys.

Maybe you can tell me what she did that was so noteworthy, Sy?

 

[Dot Com]

is Fox running this in a loop?

 

[Pop23]

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

and that is why, i am sure, he will not be attending or sending anyone either....

He IS sending people. Just not from his current administration. I've admitted that I think his choices in who he sent were good, but that he should have included a current dignitary. You can't seem to acknowledge the fact that is sending two people.

Key words being, just not from the current administration. Or, not touching this with a ten foot pole, I'll send a has been.

 

[MondoBongo]

is Fox running this in a loop?

Pffft. They're still talking about Benghazi.

 

[MondoBongo]

and that is why, i am sure, he will not be attending or sending anyone either....

He IS sending people. Just not from his current administration. I've admitted that I think his choices in who he sent were good, but that he should have included a current dignitary. You can't seem to acknowledge the fact that is sending two people.

Key words being, just not from the current administration. Or, not touching this with a ten foot pole, I'll send a has been.

exactly. I think he dropped the ball on this one. Of course, now because of that, he's being eviscerated by a bunch of people who couldn't find England with a map, a compass and an Indian guide, but that's obviously neither here nor there.

 

[Political Junky]

is Fox running this in a loop?

They must be.

 

[tyroneweaver]

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

Boston Marathon bombs packed with gunpowder, shrapnel | Reuters

ya like Americans fighting for their lives while the president sleeps

 

[Pop23]

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!

Gotta love it.

Now they are our closest "Allie" except when you start discussing socialism.

Then they are eveeeelll socialists.

Man..take a position guys.

Dude, she had our back. What the hell are you talking about?

Remember the cold war, way way back then?

 

[Ravi]

is Fox running this in a loop?

Yep. Instead of focusing on the attack in Boston they are focusing on attacking Obama.

Big surprise, right?

 

[Yurt]

is Fox running this in a loop?

Yep. Instead of focusing on the attack in Boston they are focusing on attacking Obama.

Big surprise, right?

liar

 

[Pop23]

He IS sending people. Just not from his current administration. I've admitted that I think his choices in who he sent were good, but that he should have included a current dignitary. You can't seem to acknowledge the fact that is sending two people.

Key words being, just not from the current administration. Or, not touching this with a ten foot pole, I'll send a has been.

exactly. I think he dropped the ball on this one. Of course, now because of that, he's being eviscerated by a bunch of people who couldn't find England with a map, a compass and an Indian guide, but that's obviously neither here nor there.

You had me until the Indian guide part.....

An Indian guide could help a fella find Wyoming, but not much help with Liverpool......

 

[Nova78]

It's a measure of how little he values the special relationship — and a sign of his own smallness.

 

[Yurt]

is Fox running this in a loop?

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click on it and find out what their big front story is

hint...not this

 

[Oldguy]

Nancy Reagan's not going either. Neither is either Bush, Angela Merkel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

So what?

 

[Ravi]

is Fox running this in a loop?

Yep. Instead of focusing on the attack in Boston they are focusing on attacking Obama.

Big surprise, right?

liar

Prove me wrong, coward, prove me wrong.

Last I checked they were mainlining Alex Jones.

 

[OriginalShroom]

He thinks it's more important to make illegal immigrants legal and to take away our guns than to attend the funeral of PM Thatcher.

 

[LeftofLeft]

What prime minister funerals did Bush attend?

Who Died?

 

[hjmick]

Nancy Reagan's not going either. Neither is either Bush, Angela Merkel, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

So what?

Nieto is not going?! THAT BASTARD!

 

[Yurt]

Yep. Instead of focusing on the attack in Boston they are focusing on attacking Obama.

Big surprise, right?

liar

Prove me wrong, coward, prove me wrong.

Last I checked they were mainlining Alex Jones.

you're not very bright. YOU made the claim, YOU back it up. that is the way it works.

btw...how long did you watch fox? was it the actual news or a show? come on, prove your claim. i bet you won't though, because we both know you're lying.