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Obama to skip Scalia funeral
Politico ^ | February 17, 2016 | Eliza Collins

Posted on 02/17/2016 11:19:04 AM PST by C19fan

President Barack Obama will not attend Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral on Saturday, the White House said Wednesday. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will attend. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama instead will go to the Supreme Court on Friday “to pay their respects to Justice Scalia” while the justice lies in repose in the Great Hall, press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.

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To: maxwellsmart_agent

Obama will fly halfway around the globe for Mandela, but won’t ruin his Saturday afternoon for Scalia.

IMHO, he knows exactly what this looks like - and wants to send a clear cut message to the leftists who support him.

Same goes for removing the Churchill statue from the WH, missing Thatcher’s funeral, etc.


41 posted on 02/17/2016 11:29:57 AM PST by lacrew
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To: C19fan

I would not want the prick at my funeral.


42 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:07 AM PST by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: RummyChick
Calling history buffs. Who was the last president to skip the funeral of a sitting SCOTUS Justice?

Chief Justice Rehnquist was the last sitting justice to die, and Bush went to his funeral. Before that you have to go back to 1953 or 1954 and I have no idea if Eisenhower attended those.

43 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:17 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: C19fan

Must have booked another weekend get away, hell 4 Americans were dying ion Benghazi and he went to bed and then off to Vegas in the morning so what does he care about others.

Shame those facts are lost on his cult.


44 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:19 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: C19fan
Seriously, we could pick any homeless person at random and do better than Obama.

They would at least have more class.

45 posted on 02/17/2016 11:30:20 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: C19fan
Obama to skip Scalia funeral

"The Obama White House in turn privately viewed Scalia as a legal 'dinosaur' who was horribly out of place amidst the ongoing 'fundamental transformation' the Obama regime was pushing for the country." Read more at dcwhispers.com, Barack Obama "Thrilled" Over Justice Scalia's Death

Maybe Obama couldn't wipe the smile off his face. Or afraid he could not resist gloating and dancing ....

46 posted on 02/17/2016 11:31:04 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: dschapin

I would love to know what Scalia thought of Obama. What a dirtbag.


47 posted on 02/17/2016 11:31:28 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: PATRIOT1876

My question to.
When was the last time a SCOTUS judge was found dead where there were no witnesses and a judge declared the death and causes over the phone and then did not order an Autopsy?


48 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:05 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: mlizzy

At least we won’t have to listen to the arrogant POS give a eulogy/speech.


49 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:22 AM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: C19fan

Beyond Despicable

How did these hostile alien freak end up in charge of our country?


50 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:28 AM PST by Regulator
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To: KevinB

I’m with you! Can’t wait to hear what Trump, Cruz, Rubio, etc. have to say about this.


51 posted on 02/17/2016 11:32:44 AM PST by ryderann
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To: allendale
Has Obama ever set foot in a Catholic Church since he became President?

He's afraid somebody might spill some holy water on him and he'd start melting.


52 posted on 02/17/2016 11:33:13 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: C19fan

He went to a Baltimore Mosque recently, but not a sitting Supreme Court Justice’s funeral?


53 posted on 02/17/2016 11:33:50 AM PST by GrouchoTex (...and ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free.)
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To: C19fan

At least Don Barzini had enough stones to go to Don Vito’s actual funeral. This guy, not so much.


54 posted on 02/17/2016 11:34:08 AM PST by bakeneko
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I think it’s the vampire thing.


55 posted on 02/17/2016 11:34:29 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: C19fan
Of course he won't go to the funeral. Scalia was everything that Obama is not. It is like that old tv ad that it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Scalia is the candle and Obama can do nothing but retreat from the light.

56 posted on 02/17/2016 11:34:44 AM PST by Parmy
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To: ealgeone

He doesn’t fit in with the Italians. Good!


57 posted on 02/17/2016 11:35:50 AM PST by angcat
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To: C19fan

G. William Rice is a friend, colleague, lawyer and a leading American Indian law scholar/practitioner. He is Keetohaw Band of the Cherokees. I went to his funeral this morning. He was an important figure in these parts and had won an important Indian case before the US Supreme Court.

Obama honored the Rice family here in rural Oklahoma with a phone call of condolence last night. Yet he has little time for a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court? Disappointing, but not surprising. He should go and he and Bill Clinton could laugh with one another like it is the funeral of Secretary Ron Brown and then fake cry together.

Oldplayer


58 posted on 02/17/2016 11:36:17 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: C19fan

He must have a golf game scheduled.


59 posted on 02/17/2016 11:36:29 AM PST by Rusty0604 (oh the stories I could tell. but I really don't think scalia's death is suspiciou.)
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To: C19fan

Obama has priorities. He travelled halfway around the world to attend Nelson Mandela’s funeral, brought Michele along (and made a complete *ss of himself there).


60 posted on 02/17/2016 11:36:33 AM PST by grania
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