Posted on 04/15/2013 6:05:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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 U.S. 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.
The Queen’s decision to attend Lady Thatcher’s funeral has effectively elevated it to a state occasion unprecedented for a political figure in Britain since the death of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965.....
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Another pointless Obama snub.
Obama decided the anti Thatcher rioters look like his son.
Good, the prospect of seeing the likes of Obama, Biden or Kerry there was nauseating.
He’ll send a video of himself reading a telepromtor or return something else to David Cameron. Glad to see the Queen to it seriously.
He hate de batch...
Maybe he’ll send copies of his anti-American college papers.
Michele Bachmann has been chosen to represent the GOP house.
Sending Moochelle would have been projectile vomit time
Good! Send Larry Kudlow or Mark Levin!
Evil bastard. (mods,,i mean that literally. I think the kenyan whelp is illegitimate)
If I supported Obama I would think this very tacky & classless. Wow!
It’s certainly intended as another snub of the country he hates most after the U.S., but frankly the idea of Michelle or Joe attending the funeral would be disgusting. Far better that he has decided to send a couple of her old friends to represent the U.S. instead.
Even if his intention is snotty. Can you imagine Joe Biden sitting there smirking, or Obama in the front row, picking his nose?
Just like he says later that he didn’t give back the Churchhill bust.
Fine with me. No commies desecrating her funeral.
The Obamas are SUCH a class act!
Another incident that causes me to be ashamed of actions by our president on the world stage............
I think, on balance, it’s good Obastard didn’t send an “envoy.” Whomever he sent would just pi$$ us off with some classless stunt.
What a small, petulent, childish punk our president is.
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