GW Bush will attend Nancy Reagan's funeral along with his family. Tell me more about the security problem. Obama didn't have a problem spending millions of the taxpayers money to go to Nelson Mandela's funeral in South Africa along with the security costs, but you are worried about security in California. With all the high level dignitaries that are attending, one more (Obama) would hardly add to the problem.
I didn't say a word about 'cost'. I said its a huge security hassle that overshadows and dominates the event itself. I said that a president's security is imposing, intrusive and dominates whatever event it involves. Instead of the event being about Nancy Reagan and her family, its about the President.
And GW's security detail is tiny fraction of the President's. Former president's go to these events all the time. Sittings presidents almost never do.
Obama didn't in 2011. GW didn't in 2007. Clinton didn't in 1993. Reagan didn't in 1982.
The only instance of a sitting president attending the funeral of a first lady in the last 40 years.......was Jack-O's funeral. And that's because Clinton was asked to give the eulogy.
You're trying so hard to be offended, to make up yet another in an endless series of manufactured outrages. And history demonstrates that you're shitting yourself for no particular reason.
I noticed you didn't make any comment about the massive security costs when Obama went to Nelson Mandela's funeral in South Africa. And, there are dozens of other dignitaries that will require security at the Reagan funeral.
For the third time....I haven't mentioned costs. You have. You're so irrationally and emotionally invested in your manufactured outrage that you're not even reading what you're replying to. Its a given that you're not reading any of this either. So I'm going to post my previous remarks on the matter in a large font in the hopes of piercing your shroud of panty shitting hysterics.
I didn't say a word about 'cost'. I said its a huge security hassle that overshadows and dominates the event itself. I said that a president's security is imposing, intrusive and dominates whatever event it involves. Instead of the event being about Nancy Reagan and her family, its about the President.
Did you get that this time?
I got it and I consider it a pile of bullshit.
Clearly you didn't 'get it'. As the only one bringing up costs....was you. Over and over again. I never have. I cited how utterly intrustive, imposing and dominating over the event a president's security it.
If you think the security hassle would be any more than what is already planned you are delusional. Does Michelle get any security?
Not the same as the president. Not even close. You're literally arguing your own ignorance. They don't even shut down airspace when the First lady is in town. They lock down entire airports if the President is so much as getting a haircut.
You simply don't know what you're talking about. And your bone ignorance doesn't translate into our outrage. You're just shitting yourself.
And you don't even have a good reason. As sitting presidents almost *never* attend these events. Not GW, not Reagan, not Obama, not Clinton.
It didn't bother Obama when he took a date night out in NYC and shut the city down.