Obama Sends Three To Brown Funeral-None to Services for Margaret Thatcher
Why in the world would the president of the United States send three high-end officials to the funeral of Michael Brown, whom the New York Times called “no angel,” and, moments before he was shot by police, committed a strong-arm robbery at a local convenience store?
President Obama seriously ruffled British feathers last year when no White House officials attended the funeral services of long time ally and former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Obama himself also failed to make an appearance.
In attendance at Brown’s funeral today were two highly placed officers from the Office of Public Engagement, as well as the chairman of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force. Attending Thatcher’s funeral were two former secretaries of state and a former ambassador, but no one from the White House.
Obama also drew criticism recently for failing to attend the funeral of Major General Harold Greene, “the highest-ranking U.S. military officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War.” The president was on vacation in Martha’s Vineyard at the time.
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i can’t speak for the president and i agree wholly with norman, it’s all politics. until you brought it up i was unaware that there was any such thing as “the office of public engagement”. but if what that office is about is engaging the public, today’s funeral seems a very likely place to find such officials. not out of any particular respect for the dead man, but because the public is very, very much engaged over what caused him to be dead….apparently it had nothing to do with the strong arm robbery he had just committed.
sending two former secretaries of state and a former ambassador to the funeral of a former head of state of an ally seems like reasonable protocol. those folks represented the president whether or not they do their daily work out of the white house. depending on your own political views, you could argue it either way.
since 99.9% of all the dead bodies returning from our wars in afghanistan and iraq don’t belong to generals and as a former enlisted woman, i take some comfort in knowing that the commander in chief finds that one death no more a tragedy than that of any other soldier. should he skip the ceremony of the upcoming unknown soldier, i’d be irked.
it’s all politics.
I’m irked. Michael Brown was a criminal, not a saint. I’m irked.
It’s politics old bean. Just politics.
In other news, critics also called for President Obama’s impeachment and imprisonment because:
He eats three meals a day;
He swims less than an hour after a meal;
He once walked under a ladder;
He almost stepped on a crack and sprained his mother’s back*;
He ordered Dijon mustard on a burger**;
He has taken fewer vacation days than George W. Bush***;
He doesn’t chew his food 32 times.
*Some critics blasted him for being mean to his mother; others for not stepping on the crack and doing a proper job of it.
**This one is real.
***Would never happen – according to Republicans, the Shrub never took vacations.
LOL! Thanks E.A.
and the number one reason republicans want to impeach this president:
he’s black**
Yep.
Excellent!
There’s always someone trying to make something out of nothing and putting their own spin on the situation.