Posted on 01/24/2015 8:41:14 AM PST by aimhigh
United States President Barack Obama will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to meet with new King Salman to pay respects after the death of King Abdullah, the White House said on Saturday.
The White House had originally planned that US Vice President Joe Biden would lead a delegation to Saudi Arabia, but now that Obama will travel to Riyadh, Biden will remain in Washington.
“The President is very much looking forward to this visit. It is a genuine honour to be invited as the guest for Republic Day” and Obama “is looking forward to see the festivities associated with Republic Day firsthand,” his press secretary Josh Earnest said on Friday.
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Where is hussein’s infidel wife?
Why was Obama’s original decision — to send Joe Biden to the Saudi King’s funeral because his own trip to India was too important to cut short — changed?
Was Obama threatened in some way? Whatever the reason, India’s 1.2 billion people, most of them Hindus, many of whom are Hindu nationalists who do not like Muslims, will be insulted by Obama’s choice of honoring a dead Muslim king instead of their own democratically elected living Hindu prime minister with whom Obama was understood to have scheduled important meetings.
No worries mate! The Saudis are building high tech fences to keep infiltrators and those crossing into the country illegally out. Unlike our leaders who actively invite infiltrators and illegal border crossers in and tell us a fence is not needed.
My mother caught a King Salmon once...what? Oh, never mind.
#25 That is spot on.
I expect to see him wailing and throwing himself on the coffin.
I guess we know who’s calling the shots.
What will Michelle wear at the funeral?
the newest selection of shower curtains from bed and beyond what else.
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