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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The Poles have suffered and died for their freedom. Obama has no respect for anyone who loves freedom. Now if another tyrant had died, Obie would be the first one at the funeral.
This is not going to end well. Everyday is a new affront on America and on Americans. It’s a boiling pot and the commies keep turning up the fire.
thats what i was thinking. if my cousin could hop a train to Madrid and fly home, why cant the CIC somehow get them to maneuver Air Force 1 around the ash cloud.
It’s not going to end well for him.
Stupid title Washington Times.
Obama reminds me of Hitler. It took Hitler only 3 months to control the press. Obama hasn’t been able to control the press yet. I expect that, with today’s communication technology, Obama will never be able to control the press. The MSM looks soooooooo stupid kissing up to the Marxist muslim we have in the White House.
AT LEAST a symbolic diplomatic gesture at their embassy on the way to the golf course! What a shameless, self-centered loser-in-chief he is. Also, does this guy ever spend any time with his family...or his dog?
Not only should he, as President of the United States, have found the time to visit the Polish embassy and to attend a memorial Mass in some Polish-American community - he should, as a former Senator representing the millions-strong Polish community of Illinois, have reached out in a more special and personal way.
He seems to have lost any desire to project an image of a decent or even normal person.
It's obvious he doesn't care about this tragedy and that he doesn't care about the feelings of his former constituents.
What's amazing is that he doesn't even seem to care about how he himself is perceived.
This is not the behavior of a psychologically healthy individual.
There’s enough reason to dislike this president without this idiotic article and inflammatory headline. Sometimes people just need to give it a rest.
And, speaking as someone of Polish ancestry who spent two years in the windy city, most of the area Poles (especially those of the first and second generation) are devoted Democrats. What a friggin’ moron...
“Mr. Obama has not gone to the Polish Embassy in Washington since the accident..”
...but if it had been a Muslim head of state who was killed, he would have moved heaven and earth to get to the funeral and would have declared a national day of mourning in the US!! Any leader, of any kind, would have at least made a cursory attempt to show respect to the leader of a close ally. This guy is a no class, spoiled, narcissistic little boy who thinks everything revolves around only him. Boy is he in for a rude awakening some day soon!!!
This man is a bigger disgrace to the office than Clinton was.
This man is a bigger disgrace to the office than Clinton was.
This man is a bigger disgrace to the office than Clinton was.
He spends his free time with his body man, who carries his recreational supplies.
“I have four words for him.”
I thought “yourself” was one word, not two.
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