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Obama, Biden to skip Fidel Castro's funeral
thehill.com ^ | Nov. 28, 2016 | JORDAN FABIAN

Posted on 11/28/2016 11:35:32 AM PST by PROCON

President Obama and Vice President Biden will not attend the funeral of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the White House said Monday.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters to “stay tuned” as to which top U.S. officials, if any, would attend the funeral, scheduled for Dec. 4.

Top Republicans have urged Obama not to attend the ceremony for Castro, 90, who died over the weekend.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) tweeted Saturday that Obama, Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry should “under no circumstance” go to Cuba for Castro’s funeral.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a Cuban-American, said that sending a high-level representative to the funeral would only burnish the legacy of a longtime U.S. adversary who carried out human-rights abuses against his own citizens.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; castro; communism; fidelcastro; funeral; obama; soskerry; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: PROCON

They should send a lovely bouquet of dead flowers, dripping wet, in the black paint they are covered in....

I did that once to a stalker, while she was at lunch.

Never heard from her again....


21 posted on 11/28/2016 11:43:27 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through you're anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: PROCON
America should send Colin Krapperdick to Castro's funeral.

Krapperdick would be the perfect LIBERAL representative.

22 posted on 11/28/2016 11:43:33 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: BenLurkin

23 posted on 11/28/2016 11:43:35 AM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And Justin fils.
24 posted on 11/28/2016 11:44:08 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: PROCON

Let John effin Kerry ride his bike around down there....

(Did you know he served in Vietnam?)


25 posted on 11/28/2016 11:44:32 AM PST by G Larry (America has the opportunity to return to God.)
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To: BenLurkin

If hillary had won they would all be there sipping champagne out of the skulls of dead cuban political prisoners


26 posted on 11/28/2016 11:45:00 AM PST by BRL
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To: PROCON

My money’s on Jimmah Cahtah.


27 posted on 11/28/2016 11:45:44 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Sasparilla

Ya, I heard Van Jones is openly communist in his ideology. He should enjoy being in such a workers paradise.


28 posted on 11/28/2016 11:46:05 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: PROCON

Funeral? They said he was Cremated.

Maybe everyone can Piss in the Urn.


29 posted on 11/28/2016 11:46:48 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (One Man's Free Press is another Man's Ministry of Propoganda.)
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To: PROCON

Hypocrites.


30 posted on 11/28/2016 11:47:40 AM PST by Tax-chick (Fidelito es muerto! Muerto, I say, at LAST!)
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To: PROCON

You can bet your bottom dollar Obama would be first in line to this if he wasn’t terrified of what Trump would say .

Obama has been well and truly stumped by The Trump


31 posted on 11/28/2016 11:49:08 AM PST by WashingtonFire (C)
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To: PROCON

Zero can send his Ambassador to Cuba Jeffrey DeLaurentis.


32 posted on 11/28/2016 11:49:22 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: PROCON

Is this the first good decision Obama has made since he was first elected?


33 posted on 11/28/2016 11:49:35 AM PST by djpg
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To: PROCON

Will Sean Penn go?


34 posted on 11/28/2016 11:50:23 AM PST by RummyChick (Trump Train Hobo TM Rummychick. Example - Ryan Romney Kasich. Quit trying to Jump on the Train)
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To: BenLurkin

Surprises me, too. I thought Barry and Uncle Joe would be leading the parade!


35 posted on 11/28/2016 11:50:28 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: SMARTY

““O” is a hypocrite and a spineless wimp!”

I think you have something, I considered similar after that extra long Trump meeting where later Obama caved on TPP among other things later. Maybe he fears finding himself all alone in the real world once his party becomes dust along with his legacy.

I call it the Trump effect. It means real positive change for America.


36 posted on 11/28/2016 11:51:34 AM PST by redfreedom (The nation has been saved. Thank you Dear Lord. Long live President Trump!)
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To: PROCON
Golf game get in the way of mourning a fellow traveler?

No, don't you remember how Castro laughed at Obama's visit?

37 posted on 11/28/2016 11:52:11 AM PST by yoe (By all means TRUMP! America needs hiim!!!)
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To: PROCON

Jay-Z and Bey.
Oh, that’s only for a fee of course!


38 posted on 11/28/2016 11:53:26 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: PROCON

The Trump Effect, plain and plain and simple. They would have gone, for sure.

Guaranteed, if they do go, Trump goes to Miami.


39 posted on 11/28/2016 11:54:05 AM PST by keat
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To: PROCON

Trump needs to go.
And drop trow urinate on his grave.


40 posted on 11/28/2016 11:55:49 AM PST by SparkyBass
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