A Not So Special Relationship

So Barack Obama is not going to Margaret Thatcher's state funded funeral. Joe Biden is not going as well. Michelle Obama has also got better things to do this week.So the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States Of America is not that important to the Obama Administration. I wonder if Margaret Thatcher's total refusal to support sanctions against South Africa in the Apartheid era has anything to do with it? George Shultz and James Baker are going but they come from the Ronald Reagan Administration. Newt Gingrich is going as is Hillary Clinton but no former presidents just failed presidential candidates. Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger will be there no doubt representing America's commitment to human rights in the Middle-East and South East Asia. Not exactly a great turnout for somebody who has Stateswoman as the occupation on her Death Certificate.