Posted on 04/16/2013 1:59:30 AM PDT by UKrepublican
US President Barack Obama will snub Lady Thatcher’s funeral by failing to send a single senior member of his administration, The Sun can reveal.
Ageing former Secretaries of State James Baker, 82, and George Shultz, 92, will lead the US delegation, the White House will announce today.
The slight comes as German leader Angela Merkel also declines the official invite. She will send her foreign minister instead.
But Downing Street is most angered by rejections from Obama, First Lady Michelle and Vice-President Joe Biden.
And none of the four surviving ex-US leaders — Jimmy Carter, George Bush Sr, Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr — is coming either.
The response contrasts with glowing US tributes on the day Lady Thatcher died.
A No 10 source said last night: “We are a little surprised by the White House’s reaction as we were expecting a high-profile attendance.”
The snub came ahead of last night’s Boston marathon bomb outrage.
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I’ll go out on a limb and give W a pass since he recently had back surgery.
With all respect Obama would be a dishonor at the funeral.... An example of America’s failures such as BHO Inc would not, in its attendance be respectful to such a powerful persons funeral as Lady Thatcher. He has no right to get near her shadow, much less stand in it.
Know that those who served the free world during her and Reagan’s administration are grateful for her work.
False representation by posers polidiots such as we see today would not have been respectful IMO.
Hopefully only true friends and family that respected her strength and consistent ideals and goals were present to lay her remains to rest.
Don’t want Obama and those like him near me when I’m alive much less when I pass from this world. I’d like to think Lady Thatcher would agree.
....just my opinion.
Friggin’ unbelievable..........
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Sorry ‘bout that confusing mess. I hate auto-correct.
Not only does that Zippy Pinhead not have any class, he doesn’t recognize it when it slaps him in the face. I’m kind of surprised Bush 41 skipping, he was the Gipper’s VP. He may have health reasons.
“I find I don’t love America as much as I love the America I was born and reared in”.........
It’s NOT America that I don’t love, its the people who are currently trying to ruin it that I despise.
America is still America but control needs to be taken back. I mAY be wrong but there are millions of people who I believe would agree.
Problem is.. it’s America that keeps electing the people trying to ruin it.
GWB just had back surgery.
I’m a little disappointed with W over this one
I think he deserves a pass on account of recent surgery, but I am shocked more conservatives aren’t going.
I read Newt Gingrich was invited, does anyone know if he is going?
Sky have just reported Dick Cheney is going.
Now I’m happy.
neither obama nor kerry is the caliber of leader that Maggie was
disrespectung the dead doesnt add a wit to them or to her
Too bad Bush 41 too weak to attend her funeral but Bush43 surely should have gone, his absence marks him as also a weakling but didn’t we already see that ... stay home and paint dog pictures, George
obama announced his disrespect and dereliction before the bombing occurred, but nice try
Disgusting display of tribal politics.
But it is what you expect from low rent grifters like the Obamas.
And I don’t think much of the Bush clan for their lack of respect either.
I am thrilled he is not going. And I hope no scumbag from this current administration goes. Lady Thatcher would understand completely.
I was thinking the same thing.
My friend a little advice: what you are felling is hatred of FedGov™, not America or Americans in general. the 535 idiots should be the focus of your wrath. This is why I believe it is too late to save ALL of the USA, I wish a state(s) would secede and start over again WITH the Constitution. I have hope anyways, some will wake up eventually.
I can’t think of a single living person that I dislike more than barak HUSSEIN obama.
Cheney’s all we need. Maybe also Jean Kirkpatrick
No surprise that the bozo in the White Hut is insulting Britain, nor the other Dem ex-presidents, but the failure of the Bush family does, I think, show their true colors.
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