President Obama once again is facing criticism for planning to skip the funeral of a prominent conservative figure, with the president expected to attend a festival over the services Friday for former first lady Nancy Reagan.

Michelle Obama plans to attend the funeral in Simi Valley, California, but the president will instead be in Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, a popular interactive mash-up of music, tech and film.

Obama is set to deliver a keynote speech.

Obama’s decision immediately drew fire from some conservatives, with former 2012 Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann calling the move “self-centered” and “classless.”

The controversy comes after Obama chose not to attend the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February – a move that was heavily criticized by many on the right.

KT McFarland, former Defense official in the Reagan administration and a Fox News national security analyst, knocked Obama on Twitter for skipping the funerals of Nancy Reagan, Scalia and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

“That's petty, petulant & lowclass,” she wrote.

Democratic presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton, as well as former President George W. Bush, plan to attend.

Also in 2011, Obama did not attend the funeral of former first lady Betty Ford.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/09/obama-takes-heat-for-skipping-nancy-reagans-funeral-for-festival.html?intcmp=hplnws

What a real piece of $hit we have for a President. A real class act. Flirts with another woman openly in front of his wife at Mandela's funeral, misses political opponents funerals to go to rock concerts. Oh yeah, and the moron also touched the Queen of England.

But he's right there to give the Eulogy at the funeral of a murderer like Ted Kennedy. Go figure.

his Low Class ought to be painfully obvious even to his hardcore Supporters by now!

We are remembered for what we do, and do NOT do & for what we say & do NOT'say.

Nancy Reagan: " Say no to drugs "

Barrack Obama: Only does funerals for black criminals & Islam

I think he would be a hypocrite if he went by pretending to "pay his respects" to someone he never respected.
I'm not saying he is right, I'm saying the ideology that drives his narcissistic arrogance prevents him from respecting anyone that isn't or wasn't like minded.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/03/08/social-media-shares-disgust-but-no-surprise-over-obamas-excuse-for-skipping-nancy-reagans-funeral-314712

Obama to Skip Nancy Reagan Funeral, Head to Festival Instead…

CONTEXT: Obama attended the Funeral for Ku Klux Klan member Sen Robert Byrd

— Vote US Constitution (@notalemming) March 8, 2016



Obama SNUBS Nancy Reagan’s funeral so he can speak at hipster festival South By Southwest https://t.co/Xsma6WUSGP #RedNationRising #tcot

— Furrystoat (@Furrystoat) March 8, 2016



@NBCNightlyNews @suziique03 I have never seen a more petty, partisan, divisive, disrespectful excuse for an American President in my life.

— Chuck L (@TheChuckr) March 8, 2016

My guitars and I, will be forever absent at sbsw, from this year forward.


My condolences to the Reagan family.

I think he would have faced criticism if he showed up.
He couldn't "win" either way.

"Look at that commy, socialist, fascist, oblowme gloating over reagans legacy! Tell him to go home, he doesn't belong here. The funerals for an american, not no kenyan!"

Would anyone, especially conservative or republican, really want him there?

Personally, I'm glad he's not there. He shouldn't be.
I'm not going to fault the guy for not doing something I wouldn't want him to do in the first place.


Presidents are always pieces of $hit.

Can you name a president in your lifetime that was all rainbows and flowers and harmony that never did anything wrong?
Didn't arm terrorists, didn't ruin jobs and the economy, didn't screw up immigration, didn't screw up foreign relations with some country, didn't go to war, didn't expand government control reducing freedoms, and/or wasn't an immoral, dissembling, prevaricating sack of crap?

maybe so, but obarry is the currant president...

Can you say ' Protocol ' ?
And ' Respect ' & ' Tradition '?

BTW: He didn't go his Aunt's funeral either or to Margret Thatcher's

Barrack Obama: Only does funerals for black MALE criminals & Islam

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