Iron Lady has died

[Lemon Drop]

cbelt3 wrote:
$tevie-

To the US, she was our staunchest ally during the cold war, and was material in the eventual breakup of the Soviet Union. The US always remembers her that way. Hence the effusiveness.

Remember that national interest always defines how governments feel when people are eulogized. Obama's liberal-leaning political affiliation may cause you to believe he would wish her cast into Hell, but he is the President of the United States, Not the Democratic Party of the United States.

He could have paid his official respects without implying that all of her countrymen admire her, which is something that is obviously false and did not need to be said, particularly by a President of the United States. He needed to pay her respect as a deceased political leader, but he didn't need to insult half of another nation in doing so.
This would be like PM Cameron, upon the death of Jimmy Carter, saying that Pres. Carter had restored pride and confidence to the United States, the suggestion being that we were miserable under his predecessor. How absurd would that be??
It would not happen.

The Pres. screwed the pooch on this obit - I wonder who wrote that.