[IBD editorial writer]

A small small small man, well beneath his office. He knows. And Thatcher shows.

[zeestephen]

I'm seriously disappointed that George Bush didn't step up and fill the political void.

It was a prime opportunity to deliver a stirring Conservative message and score a few badly needed points for the Republican Party.

Of course, they hate Bush even more than they hate Thatcher in the UK, so perhaps he would have been a bigger distraction than a help.

[csmusaret]

Margaret Thatcher; more of a lady than Michelle Obama; more of a man than Barack Obama.

(with aplogies to Pookie’s Toons)

[GoldenPup]

As such, the presence of Vice President Joe Biden — if not Obama himself — would seem fitting...

The Brits probably sent a "back channel" message for both of them to stay home. That's what would be fitting for those two morons.

[Wurlitzer]

To all our great friends in the UK, we apologize for the actions of our monkey boy president.

Our greatest downfall is too many public school educated robots fall for someone with charisma. Too bad they did’t all fall for Jim Jones.

[Redleg Duke]

“He’s a small man after all,
He’s a small man after all,
He’s a small man after all,
He’s a small small small small man!”

[JDoutrider]

Comment removed by self to prevent front door from being blasted down by Government agents at four a.m.

[Will88]

A petty, snide and spiteful little man who’s not all that bright.

[EDINVA]

“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 ...”

There’s the problem right there! He doesn’t think what Thatcher/Reagan/JPII accomplished has a THING to do with his power, much less to be worth of his gratitude or acknowledgement. THEY didn’t achieve that. He did.

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,we can be sure that one person will attend Osama Obama’s funeral....Bill Ayers.

[Albion Wilde]

Instead, an ex-ambassador, an embassy charge d'affaires and two respected former Secretaries of State from decades past will represent us. That's a lower-level delegation than the one he sent to Caracas for the funeral of Venezuela's anti-American dictator Hugo Chavez last month, which saw a sitting congressman there to represent the U.S.

This snub shows Obama places partisan politics above leadership or statecraft.

This; and death by several trillion other papercuts.

Excellent piece of writing. Thank you for laying it flat out.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

My guess is that the State Dept commissioned a focus group of Brits and had the pollster ask them:

1. "How angry would you be if Obama snubbed the Iron Lady's funeral by refusing to send the VP over?"
2. "How angry would you be if Biden attended her funeral and made one of his infamous gaffes, such as making a crude joke about her appearance at the viewing, or dropping an F-Bomb or two, or bringing his dog to the funeral, or forgetting her name while giving a drunken jet-lagged off-the-cuff homily at the podium, or holding a mirror under her nostrils just to verify, etc, etc, etc?"

After applying a weighting factor to the second answer based on the estimated likelihood of YAMBG (Yet Another Major Biden Gaffe) occurring, the statistical Least Damaging Course Of Action appears to be (by a mile) .....

KEEP HIM HOME!

[SparkyBass]

A lefty-idiot-Brit friend of mine proudly announced today

"I've gone all day without seeing any mention of HER!"

Margaret Thatcher has passed away and is still living rent-free in their heads.

Godspeed, Lady Thatcher.

[ripley]

Small? But very large to his little constituents.

IMHO

[bert]

The lady was white. She was not black. She was trivial

[Lee N. Field]

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.