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Obama Skipping Nancy Reagan Funeral to Go to SXSW Festival
Mediaite.com ^ | 41:59 pm GMT March 8th, 2016 | Sam Reisman

Posted on 03/08/2016 11:31:18 PM PST by drewh

President Barack Obama will not attend Nancy Reagan‘s funeral this Friday, keeping his originally scheduled appearance as a keynote speaker at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival. First Lady Michelle Obama, who is scheduled to speak at SXSW on Wednesday, will attend the funeral.

“The president will not attend” Mrs. Reagan’s funeral, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday. “The president is actually traveling in Texas on Friday.”

The SXSW Interactive Festival is an annual symposium for digital startups and emerging technologies that takes place each year in Austin, Texas, concurrently with a film and music festival.

According to SXSW’s website:

[The president] will sit down with Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune Evan Smith for a conversation about civic engagement in the 21st Century before an audience of creators, early adopters and entrepreneurs who are defining the future of our connected lives. The President will call on the audience to apply their ideas and talents to make technology work for us – especially when it comes to tackling big challenges like increasing participation in the political process and fighting climate change.

After the event, President Obama will travel to Dallas, Texas, where he will stay the night.

The president courted outrage just a few weeks ago, when he did not attend the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, though he did appear at a memorial service. He also did not attend the funeral of First Lady Betty Ford in 2011, though Michelle Obama did.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; joshearnest; mediaite; nancyreagan; samreisman; sxswinteractive; texas
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To: drewh

The only people in Austin that actually go to this carnival are dimocrap types anyways. Losers, hipsters, foreigners, and millennials. It is an event geared to help hotels and failing music venues.


61 posted on 03/09/2016 1:16:07 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: octex

It is a queer festival.


62 posted on 03/09/2016 1:18:58 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: drewh

SXSW officially dead as THE MAN harshes everyone’s buzz.


63 posted on 03/09/2016 1:23:27 PM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016! #NoDNoR - Send Congress packing - third party in 2016!!)
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To: twister881

GHWB and Barbara Bush can campaign for Jeb, but can’t make Nancy’s funeral?
Yeah, sure.
There was absolutely no love lost between the Bush Dynasty and the Reagans.


64 posted on 03/09/2016 1:26:03 PM PST by mabelkitty (Trump 2016! #NoDNoR - Send Congress packing - third party in 2016!!)
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To: drewh

Good! Who wants Obama there anyway...?


65 posted on 03/09/2016 1:32:45 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: drewh

I guess it’s be damned if you do and be damned if you don’t. Personally I think
he should stay away just because of the added hoopla added by the President being on site.


66 posted on 03/09/2016 1:41:25 PM PST by deport
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To: Resolute Conservative

67 posted on 03/09/2016 1:43:41 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: mabelkitty

Don’t think 90+ y/o GHWB who is in a wheelchair was out campaigning for Jeb. He did attend the Texas debate near his home. Barbara, also 90+ y/o and on a walker, made a brief appearance in NH on one day. GWB & Laura going is sufficient representation by the Bush clan.

GHWB had flaws as POTUS; he was no Ronald Reagan. Barbara is at best a left of center moderate. But cut two elderly people some slack. He was the youngest Naval Aviator in WWII, and was masterful in forming the international coalition in Gulf War I. They can do no harm to the country, you, or anyone else at this point.


68 posted on 03/09/2016 2:21:45 PM PST by twister881
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To: fhayek

He even went to Mandela’s funeral in Africa even though Mandela had no relevance to U.S.


69 posted on 03/09/2016 2:24:34 PM PST by apocalypto
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To: apocalypto
He even went to Mandela’s funeral in Africa even though Mandela had no relevance to U.S.

If Mandela had behaved differently on coming to power he could have hurt US interests -- and something like that could still happen. So yes, there was some relevance.

70 posted on 03/09/2016 2:28:06 PM PST by x
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To: monkapotamus

Did not attend and will not attend, because both are Christian based.


71 posted on 03/09/2016 3:43:11 PM PST by annieokie
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To: drewh

Please, PLEASE give me a pass this ONE TIME to say what I think of this guy. I’ll be good forever after that.

@#$@#$@#$ing @#$@#$@# piece @#$@#$ of worthless communist f...t @#$@#$@#$ of garbage son of a @#$@#$@#$ and a @#$@#$@ @#$@#$@#$ mother @#$@#$@#$ @#$@#$# worthless @#$@#$@#$@#$ unable to shine Reagan’s shoes @#$@#$@#$@#$

would be a shame if his last decade was spent the same way a FAR FAR FAR FAR BETTER man’s was.

no it wouldn’t and I hope it’s TWO DECADES!!!


72 posted on 03/09/2016 3:59:17 PM PST by dp0622
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To: uncitizen

Many of the dumbest are lining up for Hillary and Bernie.


73 posted on 03/09/2016 4:45:56 PM PST by Zarro (Ted Cruz 2016)
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To: drewh

Obama can’t go near the Reagan Library. It would have the same effect on Obama as sunlight has on a vampire.


74 posted on 03/09/2016 4:58:22 PM PST by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: drewh

Party over here!!!


75 posted on 03/09/2016 7:44:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Gay State Conservative

“I hope I live long enough to pi$$ on that pig fornicator’s grave”.

Get in line. I plan on being first.


76 posted on 03/09/2016 8:07:23 PM PST by Captain7seas
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To: drewh

The classless Kenyan bugs out again.


77 posted on 03/10/2016 3:28:29 PM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: doc maverick

Paying off the hitmen in person?


78 posted on 03/10/2016 3:29:58 PM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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To: mabelkitty

I read that Nancy didn’t care for Barbara, but Lady Bird and Mrs. Ford were very friendly with each other. I wouldn’t think Rosalyn would care for Nancy because of 1980.


79 posted on 03/10/2016 3:37:30 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Theodore R.

Rosalyn can’t even remember yesterday, let alone 1980.


80 posted on 03/10/2016 4:58:00 PM PST by miserare ( "What difference does it make?"~~Benghazi Hil)
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