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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

Only send one with a very full bladder...


61 posted on 11/28/2016 12:16:42 PM PST by Mr. K
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To: PROCON

Fellow traveller? These are Communists, my FRiend.


62 posted on 11/28/2016 12:16:44 PM PST by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: BenLurkin

Indeed I thought 0 going was a lock. I guess the political landscape has changed significantly since Trump won.


63 posted on 11/28/2016 12:17:50 PM PST by xp38
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To: PROCON

I would love to attend his Joe Moakley-like send off. They cremated his remains and are going do drive his remains across the island to where he started his “revolution”. I would love a chance to sh1t in his urn before they bury it and build a monument to the mass murderer.


64 posted on 11/28/2016 12:17:56 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Leftists are destroyers of everything good.)
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To: PROCON

I hear Colin Kaepernik is available.


65 posted on 11/28/2016 12:18:33 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Leftists are destroyers of everything good.)
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To: Qiviut

Someone like maybe....Susan Rice?


66 posted on 11/28/2016 12:19:19 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: PROCON

Perhaps, Richard L. Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO. Trumka can always be counted on to say good things about communists, and may be one himself.


67 posted on 11/28/2016 12:21:49 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Add Barbara Lee, Congresswoman of Berkeley.

-PJ

68 posted on 11/28/2016 12:22:30 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: PROCON

Their focus groups and private polls advised them to stay out of Cuba and not to attend Fidel’s funeral.


69 posted on 11/28/2016 12:23:38 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: PROCON

Send these Hollywood Elite losers on a one way ticket to Cuba to mourn their beloved mass murdering Fidel:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/11/26/9-liberal-hollywood-elites-normalized-communist-dictator-fidel-castro/


70 posted on 11/28/2016 12:26:50 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Kickass Conservative

Now that he is cremated I have visions of the Big Lebowski ashes scene.


71 posted on 11/28/2016 12:27:37 PM PST by xp38
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To: sanjuanbob

Someone like maybe....Susan Rice?

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I was thinking more like WH Pastry Chef, Chief Usher or Head Housekeeper. There are florists, too - might be appropriate for a funeral.


72 posted on 11/28/2016 12:27:59 PM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

I hear Colin Kaepernik is available.

Send him, the Former Niners owners, the NFL brass and ESPNers who support Colin!


73 posted on 11/28/2016 12:30:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Grampa Dave

I thought 0dumbass would go just to embarrass America one more time before he vacates the white house.


74 posted on 11/28/2016 12:36:07 PM PST by PROCON (Onto the Great American Rebirth!)
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To: PROCON

Ah they will probably send Valerie


75 posted on 11/28/2016 12:43:18 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: PROCON

Send Colin Kaepernick. One way.


76 posted on 11/28/2016 12:51:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: PROCON

Did we get a “He’s dead, Jim” yet?


77 posted on 11/28/2016 12:53:04 PM PST by muleskinner
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To: PROCON

Castro died 3AM March 9th and they have been keeping him on ice to hide the truth about that winning phone call.


78 posted on 11/28/2016 1:03:29 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies ('45 will be the best ever.)
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To: PROCON

Under Castro, the LUCKY one’s were SHOT.
One of Uncle Fidel’s favorite methods of dispatching those he most hated was absolutely diabolical.
The bastard had a nearly air-tight glass booth constructed to hold a single individual.
The floor of the thing was perforated with hundreds of holes. Under the floor was a powerful blower. The floor would be covered with powered glass dust and slightly larger bits.
Do I need to explain the next part? Uncle Fidel and his invited guests, complimentary Cuban cigars in hand, watched as the blower was switched on amid the short-lived screams of the victim-du-jour.
THIS is the MONSTER now being lionized by obozo, the leftist morons of the MSM and outright COMMUNIST fellow travelers here in America.
FAIR WARNING: If the left (aka “DEMOCRATS”) ever achieves full control, even worse will come HERE!


79 posted on 11/28/2016 1:35:28 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH STATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. TREASON TRIALS COMING?)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah I am surprised. He’ll probably go incognito.


80 posted on 11/28/2016 1:37:10 PM PST by ronniesgal (hey move on over, snowflakes. the adults are in charge again!!!!!)
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