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Obama skips Polish funeral, heads to golf course
The Washington Times ^ | 04/18/2010 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 04/18/2010 5:59:59 PM PDT by autumnraine

A massive volcanic plume covering most of Europe forced President Obama to cancel a Sunday trip to Poland to attend the funeral of the nation's president. But the last-minute change left an opening in his schedule, so the president headed to the links for a round of golf instead.

On a cool but sun-drenched Sunday, the president and three golfing companions went to Andrews Air Force Base to play 18 holes. It is the 32nd time Mr. Obama has played golf since taking office Jan. 20, 2009, according to CBS Radio's Mark Knoller.

After canceling the Poland trip on Saturday, the White House announced that Mr. Obama had no public schedule for Sunday. He was to have arrived in Krakow in the morning, attend the 2 p.m. funeral and leave for home by 5 p.m., arriving back at the White House after midnight.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, along with dozens of top Polish government officials were killed April 10 when their airplane went down in heavy fog after clipping a tree on approach to Smolensk, Russia.

Mr. Obama has not gone to the Polish Embassy in Washington since the accident, but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. both have. There, they signed a condolence book.

Mr. Obama was not the only world leader to miss the funeral because of the expanding volcanic ash cloud. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel also canceled.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, flew by plane from Moscow for the funeral.

Other foreign leaders used different modes of transportation to get there. Slovenian President Danilo Turk decided to drive the 500 miles to Krakow. Romanian President Traian Basescu traveled to northwestern Romania by helicopter and then continue by car through Hungary and Slovakia.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: golf; kenyangolfer; nobama; poland; tiger
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To: EternalVigilance; autumnraine
The Poles are probably better off that this a$$ and his wife didn't sully the sacred soil of Poland with their arrogant presence.

That being said this is a slap in the face to one of our, formerly, closest allies.

101 posted on 04/18/2010 7:44:41 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Greysard

I am sure the Secret Service killed the trip, just too much risk. Long road trip thru a foreign county is just too dangerous.


102 posted on 04/18/2010 7:47:37 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: autumnraine

32 times at the golf course.

The country would be better served if this marxist spends every waking moment of every day on the golf course for the rest of his term. Less time to spend screwing the citizens out of their freedom.


103 posted on 04/18/2010 7:50:01 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: FlyingEagle

Yes, but it is amazing how many tens of millions still worship at his feet.


104 posted on 04/18/2010 7:51:42 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: Eagles6

The memory of Koscuisko lives!


105 posted on 04/18/2010 7:52:34 PM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: autumnraine

Mega-disrespectful ... holy cow, what a jerk...magritte


106 posted on 04/18/2010 7:55:20 PM PDT by magritte ("There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
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To: autumnraine

bump to the top


107 posted on 04/18/2010 7:57:06 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?lang //hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=dam&lang=eng)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

His behavior is unconscionable. He’s out of control.


108 posted on 04/18/2010 8:02:05 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: manc

ignoring the main threats?

Hell, he’s encouraging the main threats while insulting our allies!


109 posted on 04/18/2010 8:22:48 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: ClayinVA

I don’t think he should risk Air Force One (note, just the plain, not the cargo) in attempting to fly. My issue is that it is beyond disrespectful to be out publicly golfing.


110 posted on 04/18/2010 8:29:54 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: autumnraine

I watched the funeral mass telecast from Krakow. It was sad but beautiful in its dignity. I am glad that Zero was not there. He would have been out of place. He’s an embarrassment to the country.


111 posted on 04/18/2010 8:35:27 PM PDT by Malesherbes (Sauve qui peut)
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To: omega4179

This is just stupid, immature spite. He’s doing what any celebrity would do while in office.


112 posted on 04/18/2010 9:06:40 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: autumnraine

He can not help that he is nothing more than a pimp soiling the Whitehouse.


113 posted on 04/18/2010 9:26:34 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: Past Your Eyes

I agree. The term picking our battles rings true.


114 posted on 04/18/2010 10:43:54 PM PDT by sybilll
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To: onyx

“Marxist Muslim Punk”

Why is this dope smoking a$$hole not in prison?

What qualifications does the “Punk” have to rule anything?

Affirmative action political agitators have no place here!


115 posted on 04/18/2010 11:12:43 PM PDT by tiger63
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To: manc
I have family over in Europe and they are saying that everyone says obama seems to not have a clue, that he is naive.

I read somewhere that, in Moscow, we used to be known as the Main Adversary, but now we are New Africa.

Not that the Rooskies are racist or anything.

The Decline of the West — it's Zero's plan.

116 posted on 04/18/2010 11:30:02 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Nachum

rude and insulting


117 posted on 04/18/2010 11:54:17 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: thecodont
A Pole created American Cavalry...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Pulaski

A Pole built Americans the first Hydrogene Bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam

The list is longer :)

118 posted on 04/19/2010 2:22:54 AM PDT by Verdelet (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori!)
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To: thecodont
The second part is very interesting... http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/polish/part01.html

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/polish/part02.html

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ebooks/polish/part03.html
119 posted on 04/19/2010 2:39:47 AM PDT by Verdelet (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori!)
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To: autumnraine

If it was Cuba’s Castro, Zimbabe’s Mugabe, or Libya’s Kaddaffi, Obama would fly the American flag at half-mast.


120 posted on 04/19/2010 2:44:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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