White House reps at funerals

The White House sent three officials to attend Monday's funeral for Michael Brown in St. Louis -- three more than it sent for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral last year.

The administration's handling of the Brown funeral already has started to raise comparisons between the two.


For Monday's funeral, the White House sent two officials with the White House Office of Public Engagement as well as Broderick Johnson, chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force.

No White House officials, though, were part of the presidential delegation sent last year to Thatcher's funeral. For that, the White House sent former secretaries of State George Schultz and James Baker III -- as well as the charge d'affaires to the U.K. and the former U.S. ambassador.

At the time, the nature of the delegation stirred controversy in the British media as tabloids claimed British officials felt snubbed that high-level American officials -- including President Obama himself -- were not attending.

The White House countered that Baker and Schultz' attendance were "testimony" to Thatcher's "global stature and reputation." British Prime Minister David Cameron's office also denied claims at the time that the administration had snubbed the late prime minister.

But in the case of Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old fatally shot by a police officer earlier this month, the Obama administration has devoted considerable resources. Attorney General Eric Holder visited Ferguson, Mo., last week and has dozens of investigators on the ground conducting a federal civil rights probe.

The administration also said that one of the White House officials attending the funeral on Monday had a personal connection.

Marlon Marshall, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, is a St. Louis native and went to high school with Michael Brown's mother.

The other White House official is Heather Foster, public engagement adviser for the White House Office of Public Engagement.

The White House also came under criticism recently when Obama did not attend the funeral for Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the highest-ranking U.S. military officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War.

He was killed in a suspected insider attack in Afghanistan. Obama was in Martha's Vineyard during the funeral, but Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno attended.

When Greene's body arrived at Dover Air Force Base days earlier, Odierno and Army Secretary John McHugh reportedly were there for the transfer. While White House officials typically do not attend these transfers, Obama and past U.S. presidents do from time to time. Obama and top Defense officials attended the transfer, for instance, of the remains of 30 U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan in 2011 when their helicopter was shot down.

Meanwhile, the highest-level administration official at the 2010 funeral for border agent Brian Terry was then-Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

And it sent not one representative to Jim Foley's memorial service.

The reason Obama snubbed Margaret Thatcher's funeral is based on his father's gripe with "colonial" Britain (in Kenya).

On Day One in the White House, Obama sent Winston Churchill's bronze bust back to Britain for the same reason.

Obama is trying to foment violence between races. He's allowed thousands of smuggled Latino youths to be merged into communities, while blacks see Illegals as taking their jobs. Obama is making as much of this border "Crisis"—and Ferguson as a "Crisis"— as he can.

"Fundamentally Changing" America shouldn't look like this!





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When DC cops executed Miriam Carey, they cheered.

America's 1st Black President won't attend, either.

You know the President who had fewer African Americans in his cabinet than Bush...





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President Barack Obama sent no White House representative to the memorial Mass held yesterday in Rochester, New Hampshire, for James Foley, the American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorists. President Obama, however, did send three White House aides to Monday’s funeral for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American fatally shot in an encounter with a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. The memorial mass for James Foley took place Sunday at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Foley’s hometown. Connie Hammond, an administrative assistant at Holy Rosary,

Hussein Obama dithered ONE MONTH before authorizing a rescue of James Foley by US forces.




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James Foley's funeral is October 18th.

Yes but they already had a memorial Mass.

How can you make any conclusions about who is or isn't appearing at his funeral when it's still 6 weeks away? The title of the thread is White House reps at funerals, not memorial services! You have no clue who is appearing at Foley's funeral! This is just another typical Obama bashing moment here on the Forum of Gloom!

My condolences to the Foley family.

Well, excuse me! We're being a little picky aren't we?

News Buzzard wrote:James Foley's funeral is October 18th.

No funeral would be necessary had B. Hussein Obama not dithered one month regarding Foley's rescue by US troops.

Maybe there'll be a pre-election "October Surprise" at the funeral?  




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News Hawk wrote:No funeral would be necessary had B. Hussein Obama not dithered one month regarding Foley's rescue by US troops.

That's your anti-Obama take sans any factual support! No surprise there!!

News Buzzard wrote:

News Hawk wrote:No funeral would be necessary had B. Hussein Obama not dithered one month regarding Foley's rescue by US troops.

That's your anti-Obama take sans any factual support! No surprise there!!

Check Yahoo News, too...

Pentagon sources said Foley and the others might well have been rescued but
Obama, concerned about the ramifications of US troops being killed or captured in Syria, took too long to authorize the mission.

Anthony Shaffer, a former lieutenant-colonel in US military intelligence who worked on covert operations, said: “I’m told it was almost a 30-day delay from when they said they wanted to go to when he finally gave the green light. They were ready to go in June to grab the guy [Foley] and they weren’t permitted.”
Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/08/25/obamas_iraqi_mission_impossible_123753.html#ixzz3BeI9PlUi
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Since when do you rely on hearsay? Is this a repeat of the alleged stand down order?

News Buzzard wrote:Since when do you rely on hearsay? Is this a repeat of the alleged stand down order?

Long before "You can keep your doctor", I had a need to rely on news coverage aside from what's on America's TV screens.

He lies.
We know he lies.
He knows that we know he lies.
He does not care.

This is a completely lawless country now. There is no consent of the governed and no Law of The Land in any real sense. There are just powerful men with military weapons, ruling through force and terror.





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