Andrew Malcolm of Investors Business Daily reminds of who didn’t bother to honor that legacy:
But Obama trumped himself this week by declining to send any representative of his administration to the funeral of free-market advocate Thatcher. The Chicago Democrat appointed instead two former secretaries of State in Republican administrations–James Baker and George Schultz–and a staffer from the embassy in London.
As our editorial page colleagues here pointed out, that’s a lower-level delegation to our closest European ally than the group Obama dispatched to last month’s funeral of anti-American demagogue Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Hmm.
Clearly, Obama has no time for such respectful things himself. He’s set a strategy dinner tonight with Democrat senators.
Normally, for a funeral of someone with Thatcher’s historical and diplomatic stature, an American administration would send at least a vice president, even a dufus like Joe Biden.
Of course, Joe might let go with one of his Pakistani jokes. And anyway the vice president’s schedule today is heavily-burdened. He’s scheduled to participate in an online Google+ Hangout.
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EDIT TO ADD:
Did anyone remind Obama that they have great gold courses in Britain?
And for those who want to watch the entire funeral, it was telecast here:
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ThatcherF
Last British leader that I respected. A once proud island nation taken over by PC zombies. Tough broad. And I say that with respect and admiration.