Michelle Obama to attend funeral of Chicago teen who performed at inauguration

Hadiya Pendleton

First Lady Michelle Obama will head to Chicago on Saturday to attend the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, the teenage girl who was slain last month just days after performing in the presidential inauguration activities, a White House official told CBS News.

Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will also attend, according to the official.

Pendleton, who was 15, was shot to death at a Chicago park on January 29. She was a majorette with the King College Prep High School band, which performed at several inaugural events eight days earlier.

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[mollysmop7]

Did she show up for the Funeral Services of those little ones that were killed at Sandy Hook?????...She does "pick and choose" as to who is more-important for her attendance.....

[Type_Z]

This is very sad. The democrat run Chicago politics are not handling "gun safety" too well in the Windy City. Very sad.

[ahh_moreperfect]

How many armed guards will she have? I don't want to hear "well shes the presidents wife"

[luadda22]

oldbroad-1956 replies: Like you really care...you're just looking for any chance to bash anything to do with the president. Your hatred is ludicrous.
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You're right and it doesn't matter whether it's this president or any other president!! It is ludicrous. There are about 32 Homicides a day in the US. Why is this one more important than the rest? When they spend our tax money for nothing more than political style points, that my dear "oldbroad" is what is "ludicrous"!!!

[Jaylah54200]

Of course, if she *hadn't* gone, you'd have been bashing her and her husband for "not caring.


There's just no pleasing you haters.

[hypnotoad72]

That is not an unfair point...

However, this means we must now ask the deeper questions and what can or will be done. Which leads to inevitable, misconceived accusations of others being "socialist", "communist", or whatever else... meanwhile the violence continues and those pulling the strings are probably laughing the loudest, assuming there are strings being pulled - which I doubt and for reasons I'm not going to specify right now because I'm not obligated to.

*sigh*

[luadda22]

Well, there goes another $300K of our taxes in travel expenses down the crapper.

I wonder if she will be staying for the funerals of the other 49 people killed in homicides so far this year in Chicago???

[rjack61]

Should she stay? If so, why?

[enlightenu]

And you probably contributed .00015% of a penny of that.