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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.
... 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.
... [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.
First lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of Nancy Reagan on Friday, a White House official said Monday.
There are only so many living presidents and first wives. He should be going to this with his wife.
I guarantee you that if the roles were reversed, and some white president was skipping Michelle's funeral... I think we all know the cries that would arise.
Based on which funeral he attends and which he sits out, it’s clear Obama does assign significance to the passing of some and not to others. When it comes to shedding tears and attending funerals, black civil rights leaders, left-leaning Hawaiian senators, and victims of gun violence -- whose deaths further his anti-Second Amendment agenda -- do have more worth when weighed against whether or not he should forego a round of golf or pay his final respects.
What’s obvious is that the president who preaches fairness is actually guilty of favoritism, especially when it comes to attending funerals.
Obama’s partiality is evident whenever a previously-scheduled golf game makes it all but impossible for him to break away, or if the deceased person is a patriot who died in the line of duty, embraces conflicting partisan views, or is a dead foreign leader whose political philosophy President Barack Obama rejects.
Besides, when Lady Bird Johnson died in 2007, Dubya didn't bother to attend. First Lady Laura Bush did, though. Which is as it should be.
Where was the right wing outrage then?
Among the mourners were former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, first lady Laura Bush and former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan.
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.
... 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.
... [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.
First lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral of Nancy Reagan on Friday, a White House official said Monday.
There are only so many living presidents and first wives. He should be going to this with his wife.
I guarantee you that if the roles were reversed, and some white president was skipping Michelle's funeral... I think we all know the cries that would arise.
Based on which funeral he attends and which he sits out, it’s clear Obama does assign significance to the passing of some and not to others. When it comes to shedding tears and attending funerals, black civil rights leaders, left-leaning Hawaiian senators, and victims of gun violence -- whose deaths further his anti-Second Amendment agenda -- do have more worth when weighed against whether or not he should forego a round of golf or pay his final respects.
What’s obvious is that the president who preaches fairness is actually guilty of favoritism, especially when it comes to attending funerals.
Obama’s partiality is evident whenever a previously-scheduled golf game makes it all but impossible for him to break away, or if the deceased person is a patriot who died in the line of duty, embraces conflicting partisan views, or is a dead foreign leader whose political philosophy President Barack Obama rejects.
What will you people complain about after this year, I think you will miss him.
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