Posted on 01/09/2025 6:09:10 PM PST by simpson96
Former first lady Michelle Obama did not attend the state funeral Thursday for former President Jimmy Carter.
Except for Michelle Obama, all of the living former presidents and their spouses were at the funeral, including Barack Obama, sitting in the front pews of Washington National Cathedral behind only President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses.
Michelle Obama’s office confirmed she did not attend the funeral but did not say where she was or why she was absent.
“Former First Lady Michelle Obama is not in attendance at President Carter’s National Funeral Service,” according to the statement from spokesperson Crystal Carson. “Mrs. Obama sends her thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from the remarkable former President.”
CNN reported before the funeral that the former first lady had a scheduling conflict and remained in Hawaii, where she had been on an “extended vacation.”
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Vacationing from retirement.
Nobody wants a big ugly tranny at a funeral anyway.
Vacay from what? Her kids are grown-up. She lives in a palace in Hawaii. She’s fabulously wealthy and doesn’t need to do anything unless it gets her a free ride to a resort area and a ridiculously large fee for speaking.
Her way of telling us she’s not proud of her country any more. Tsk tsk.
I really can’t blame mike on this one.
Good call
You nailed it... mass55th.
Big Mike could be the one to be sworn in next week had she wanted to be the president.
But she is lazy. She prefers the Vineyard and Hawaii. Even as First Wookie, she was not in DC much of the time.
Everyone knows that Barak would be the real president and Mo would be just a figurehead vacationing in Hawaii. But as we know.... She is incompetent and stupid. I sorta feel sorry for Barry. His wife kept him from a 4th term.
Her in your face no show shows a lack of class and common courtesy that Democrats are known for.
No one liked the Peanut Man. But she should have showed up. Instead she exposed herself as the petty ABF (Angry Black Female) that she’s always been.
“All this for a deceased president?”
Maybe she didn’t want to hear the syrupy nonsense ladled out by the likes of Gerry Ford’s son who presented a bawling eulogy for a flop of a President who in private was a very nasty man who became admired by the simpleton he defeated. In this, I agree with her.
“...First Wookie...”
LOL, you easily win the thread.
I watched the service and wondered where she was. Trump and Obama sat beside one another and seemed to enjoy visiting. The Bushs and Clintons sat side by side and didn’t talk at all - to each other or their mates. Trump and Melania talked to one another with smiles - nothing from any of the others - they looked like wax figures. Dan Quayle and his wife, Pence and his wife sat behind the former presidents/first ladies.
I had been watching the service at Carter’s church and preparing for the burial at Plains, GA when it was sent over for the replay of the service at the cathedral in DC.
Don’t know if the burial will be shown later tonight or what happened. A lot of wasted time waiting, waiting, waiting both days - the military had to be cold in MD and DC and still wait, wait, wait and then again today in GA. At least not as cold as we’re expecting tonight and into Friday.
A good man tho’ not a great president laid to rest today - I guess, if it took place tonight..
More Klingon than wookie
You mean he.
“Mrs. Obama sends her thoughts and prayers to the Carter family”
Isn’t it a long-running gag on the left that “thoughts and prayers” aren’t worth jack s—t?
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