In April 2011, Obama only sent a few former diplomats to mark the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had revived the U.K. economy with free-market policies and also solidified the U.S.-U.K. alliance.
Obama’s memorial speech for Mandela is expected to be “in the 10-15 minute range,” said Rhodes. The speech about Mandela will partly focus on Obama, Rhodes said…
Obama’s departure from D.C. means he’s absent from the long-planned Christmas parties scheduled with member of Congress, absent from budget talks and from the effort to rebuild the Obamacare system…
(Neil Munro, Daily Caller.)
