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.
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Asheville? What about Asheville?
The world literally burn while nerO plays golf.
I have four words for him.
don’;t forget how the children were used for both of them and how they had their own emblems Hitler and the NAZIS used a swastika bozo and his worshippers use that stupid circle.
I remember when he read that speech at the rat convention and the MSM went wild and I said tot he wife that he has done nothing and who he is.
All he did was read a speech and they had him up for president back then
I'm not even sure about that. He could come. And if all the might and technology of the United States is not enough, he could buy a commercial ticket from Aeroflot:
"Aeroflot, however, is flying to the United States, Transportation Minister Levitin said at the government meeting Sunday. Because of the ash, Aeroflot has changed its traditional routes to North America, flying over the North Pole instead, he said."
And once in Moscow, he could ask Dmitry Medvedev for a permission to tag along. I'm sure there would be no objections worth of noting :-)
The guy should have held a special memorial at a chaple there in DC and requested the attendence of many of the congress. What a total embarrassment this guy is.
TØTUS must not be worried about the Polish-American voters of Chicago.
(I guess their votes are already “in the bag” — whatever His Ø-ness does or doesn’t do.)
Frankie say, Relax. Don’t do it.
I think they KNOW he’s a fool and a dangerous one, at that.
The Polish people should thank God he didn’t come. He would have just bowed to the Russians and thumbed his arrogant nose at them.
Oh wow. Trip got cancelled and extra time on his hands. Too bad Zero could not find the time to hold a press conference.
...yeah he could have...the arrogant jerk just didn't want to go.....the President of the United States can go anywhere he wants, any time he wants..
...in this case...
Zer0 didn't want to be bothered by attending a white, honkey po-lock's funeral....
...there are more important things to do..like play a round of golf.
...what a jerk we have for a president.....
....may God forgive the people who voted for Zero and did this to us.....
exactly. if he really cared he could have flown west and arrived from the other direction. Go over the Pacific to Asia and then to Poland from Japan or wherever. No need to encounter the cloud.
>> What about Asheville? <<
He’s going down to help with Heath Shuler’s re-election bid?
I have family over in Europe and they are saying that everyone says obama seems to not have a clue, that he is naive.
They told me that some media outlets over there are now saying that he is making the world a more dangerous place by ignoring the main threats unlike Bush
Course I don’t expect the obama cult to understand that
'Obama skips Polish funeral, heads to golf course'
Sunday, April 18, 2010 8:04:28 PM · 5 of 29
The guy makes me want to throw up
The Poles shouldn’t feel bad—Zero has no time for the dead coal miners’ families either.
Ironic how he loves to play a rich white man’s game, though.
Muslim Marxist pig.
He can’t even take the time to pay respects at the Polish Embassy.
YEP...what YOU said! Hold a special memorial here.
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