Posted on 04/17/2013 11:47:06 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Protocol: President Obama declined to send a high-level delegation to Wednesday's funeral of Britain's Margaret Thatcher. It's a measure of how little he values the special relationship and a sign of his own smallness. Back in more gracious times, vice presidents routinely attended funerals of foreign dignitaries. As such, the presence of Vice President Joe Biden if not Obama himself would seem fitting for as significant a U.S. ally as the late Prime Minister Thatcher, if not out of warmth of feeling, then simply to represent the U.S.' gratitude. Thatcher's uncompromising friendship with the U.S. helped to set off a free-market revolution, end the Cold War, and left the U.S. and U.K. the standard-bearers for freedom in the world the very basis of the power Obama now enjoys. But appallingly, not even Biden could be spared for the funeral of the most consequential British prime minister since Winston Churchill.
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Hell, Barack Obama is more of a lady than Michelle.
And the army of landsharks sitting on his records, and concealing the fact that his citizenship is so irregular -- if it is even American citizenship at all -- as to defy the meaning of "natural born citizen".
Did I mention fraud?
Small? But very large to his little constituents.
IMHO
The man who didn't know what language they spoke in Austria? It goes beyond England. Obama's not that much interested in Europe either. It's surprising after the big rally he had in Berlin five years back, but he doesn't need those people any more.
President G.W. Bush, probably, didn’t want to cause intrusive security problems.
The lady was white. She was not black. She was trivial
The City of London's 'Mourning Sword', last used during the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. It is used when the City of London wishes to do a deceased person's memory High Honour, and was carried into and out of the Cathedral by the Lord Mayor in all his ceremonial finery. He also almost managed to hit the Queen with it (she actually had to dodge - would have been very embarassing at the very least).
Protocol: President Obama declined to send a high-level delegation to Wednesday's funeral of Britain's Margaret Thatcher. It's a measure of how little he values the special relationship and a sign of his own smallness. Back in more gracious times, vice presidents routinely attended funerals of foreign dignitaries. As such, the presence of Vice President Joe Biden
I can't say I'm surprised.
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