My man keeping it real.....
President Barack Obama will not attend Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral on Saturday, the White House said, adding that Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will be at the services.
Obama and first lady Mic e 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.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/0...#ixzz40UMIYinD
Usually when you use "quotation marks" it means those were the exact words that came out of someone's mouth. Not that you're known for your honesty, just FYI.
That said, I wish I was invited to this fat 's funeral. I'd walk up slowly to "pay my respects". As I approached the casket I'd scream "Vaffanculo pezzo di merda!", whip out my and take a piss all over this er's dead face.
That's because you are an idiot
Had a golf game scheduled Saturday.
It feels like you have way more than 40K posts, perhaps because they're so exceptionally ty.
LOL...
He just won't admit he wasn't on the guest list.
That's a bad thing? I avoid funerals like I avoid jury duty. Who the wants to go to any of those pointless s?
Scalia was a ty jurist, a bully, an "originalist" when it suited his biases. Thanks, Repugs.
In recent decades, Presidents have several times not attended a SCOTUS funeral.
Wait. There are guests lists for funerals here in USA????this ing country
Source? Names and dates?
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...uneral-n520236
... no secrets here, Just The Facts, Ma'am
oh. so since Clinton did it it's ok. Gotcha.
oh, and your article failed to clarify that the funerals not attended by Clinton were of RETIRED justices. No President has ever skipped the funeral of a SITTING justice.
Nice try, though, Bookaki. typical RSS feed forum pollution.
nice stretch, parasite.
WHO was stretching? You got Bukkaked again, Boukaki.
If the President went to Justice Scalia's funeral, the right would rip him for politicizing the funeral, or would claim he's trying to steal the spotlight, or would make up some other basis for indignation.
When the President simply allows the funeral to be about the deceased (while paying his respects to the deceased in person in a more private way), the Right gets up in arms about his refusal to make a spectacle of the funeral.
The guy literally cannot win. I don't even particularly like this President, but to many it seems that the fact that this guy still bothers to breathe is simply too much.
You really want that list? I'm sure its out there.
i disagree with your premise that he would be criticized for attending the funeral but you are certainly en led to your opinion.
+1
He is paying his respects, but keeping the Travelling Presidential Zoo away from what should be a private family affair.
Pretty classy, IMO. Presidential visits, with the attendant army of press/security/etc. are more than a bit disruptive/distracting.
Biden... not so much.
yeah it is. I found it. Clinton skipped a couple of RETIRED Justices funerals.
Jezus, you bloody well know that Fox "news" and the hysterical right would spin anything he did as negatively as possible. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.
You *know* better, so don't even try to play that off as "might". No one is buying it. We are all grown-ups here.
Derp, my bad. I thought you were asking for ty decisions and arguments made by Scalia. Withdrawn.
so you would criticize him if he went to the funeral because he would disrupt it?
The Right not taking an opportunity to criticize Obama -- with or without justification -- would be more surprising.
But (again) for many "conservatives" the only good thing Obama could do is die; and even then, I think he'd likely be criticized for not doing it sooner.
I wouldn't. But I also think taking account of the likelihood that his presence would disrupt the event -- and change the focus -- and electing to stay away because of that seems like a considerate and respectful choice.
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