Barack Obama's rank hypocrisy over his shameful snubbing of Lady Thatcher's funeral

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100216767/barack-obamas-
rank-hypocrisy-over-his-shameful-snubbing-of-lady-thatchers-funeral/

In his joint press conference yesterday with David Cameron at the White
House, President Obama began with warm words for the former British prime
minister, who passed away on April 8.

�Here in the United States,� declared Obama, �we joined our British
friends in mourning the passing of Baroness Margaret Thatcher, a great
champion of freedom and liberty and of the alliance that we carry on
today.� The British Prime Minister responded by saying: �Thank you for
what you said about Margaret Thatcher. It was a pleasure to welcome so
many Americans to her remarkable funeral in the UK.�

Significantly, however, those Americans who attended Lady Thatcher�s
funeral in St Paul�s Cathedral did not include a single serving member of
the Obama administration in Washington.

As is so often the case with President Obama, his flowery, grandiose words
frequently fail to match his actions. There is a name for this kind of
approach � rank hypocrisy. As I noted in a previous piece:

Incredibly, the Obama presidency declined to send a single serving
official from Washington to attend the Iron Lady�s funeral in St. Paul�s
Cathedral in April.

While the United States was represented by former Secretaries of State
George Schultz and James A. Baker III, the only American official present
was Barbara Stephenson, charges d�affaires and acting ambassador at the US
Embassy in London.

To put this in context, the US sent a similar level of representation, in
terms of serving officials, to attend the funeral in March of Venezuelan
despot Hugo Chavez.

To say this was a huge insult to the memory of the greatest peacetime
prime minister of the 20th Century would be an understatement. It was an
act of tremendous rudeness towards the British people, who turned out in
large numbers to bid farewell to Lady Thatcher as her coffin was carried
through central London on its way to St. Paul�s.

Vice President Joe Biden usually represents the president at such
occasions, but was a no-show despite receiving an invitation. Also absent
were First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was also nowhere to be seen.

In sharp contrast, former Vice President Dick Cheney made the journey
across the Atlantic, despite suffering from ill-health in recent years.

So did Edwin Meese III, President Reagan�s stoic Attorney General, who
organised the first White House meeting between Margaret Thatcher and the
new US president in February 1981. Politicians came from across the world
to pay their respects, from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to
Lech Walesa, hero of the Polish Solidarity movement.

To their credit, several Republican Members of the House of
Representatives traveled to London for the funeral, including
Congresswomen Marsha Blackburn and Michelle Bachmann, as did former
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

No members of President Obama�s ruling party were present, and Senate
Democrats even held up a resolution honoring Lady Thatcher for an entire
week until the day before the funeral itself.

I spoke to several Americans who attended the funeral who expressed their
outrage over their own president�s disdainful approach to the event, which
they viewed as utterly shameful and disrespectful. Downing Street was
quick to deny this was a snub by the White House.

But the Obama administration came under heavy fire from several prominent
Conservative MPs, including former Secretary of Defence Liam Fox, and
chairman of the Thatcherite Conservative Way Forward group, Sir Gerald
Howarth. A number of senior British officials have also been privately
critical of the White House�s shoddy treatment of Lady Thatcher�s funeral,
including some at the very heart of government.

Perhaps it is not surprising that Mrs Clinton did not attend the service,
after she assiduously backed a series of Organisation of American States
(OAS) resolutions sympathetic to Argentina�s stance on the Falklands.

Under Clinton, and now Kerry, the Obama administration has been deeply
unhelpful towards Britain over the Falklands issue, preferring instead to
appease a left-wing Latin American regime that isn�t even an ally of the
United States.

It would have been awkward for Hillary Clinton to have attended the
funeral of a true conviction politician whose defence of the Falkland
Islanders stands in marked contrast to the Obama administration�s
kowtowing towards Buenos Aires.

President Obama has been a disaster for US-British relations, and his
government�s conspicuous absence from St. Paul�s was further confirmation
of it.

Fortunately, the Iron Lady and Great Britain itself, remain firmly in the
hearts of the American people, who overwhelmingly look upon Britain�s
great prime minister as an inspiration.

Americans today badly need the leadership of a figure like Margaret
Thatcher, but are finding that the kind of courage, loyalty and conviction
she exemplified are in short supply in the Obama White House.


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