Not like conservatives can.
Oh, heck no. When they don't like...oh, a President, for example...they are still totally respectful.
That is obviously different. Obama is a thug who supports thugs, he hates America and the Constitution.
Not like conservatives can.
Oh, heck no. When they don't like...oh, a President, for example...they are still totally respectful.
Actually I think it cost too much for Michelle and him to go, you know, all this expenses for travel and clothes.That is obviously different. Obama is a thug who supports thugs, he hates America and the Constitution.
For the handful of special individuals who insists that President Obama's drive-by at the wake after the ceremony is exactly the same as other government officials who will be attending Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral ceremony tomorrow in its entirety to pay respect to the man's 30 long years of service to our Constitution and the Republic: Your incredibly "progressive" line of thinking is simply too advanced for us ordinary human beings to comprehend.
Obama Spends Less Than 2 Minutes At Scalia’s Wake
02/19/2016
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid less than two minutes of respect to the late Antonin Scalia while the Justice lies in repose at the Supreme Court.
Friday, the Obamas spent approximately 35 seconds in front of the casket and then approximately 67 seconds in front of the portrait of Scalia.
The Obamas will not be attending Scalia’s funeral on Saturday. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill will be attending.
According to the White House pool report, Obama spent approximately 15 minutes in another room “meeting with others.”
http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/19/obama-spends-less-than-2-minutes-at-scalias-wake-video/
I get this uneasy feeling that there's some big reason why he won't be there, and none of us will like it when we find out.
My sense is this has to do with US Chinese relations.
Eisenhower went to Vinson's funeral, despite Vinson being a Democrat. Bush went to Rehnquist's. Both were sitting justices. That should be enough precedent for Obama.
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Dirtying the waters of the nomination process is Obama's own filibuster as a senator of George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito.
'That is an approach the president regrets,' Earnest said Wednesday.
Obama now wishes he'd followed the advice in 2006 that he's giving to Republicans, he said, and Democrats had made a 'public case' against Alito.
'They shouldn’t have looked for a way to just throw sand in the gears of the process,' he acknowledged.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...spend-weekend-vetting-potential-nominees.html
President Barack Obama will not attend Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral on Saturday, the White House says.
The president and first lady will instead pay their respects on Friday while Scalia lays in repose at the high court.
'I can tell you that Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will attend Justice Scalia's funeral at the Basilica on Saturday,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.
It was not immediately clear why the president won't go to the formal funeral.
'I don't have a sense of what the president's plans are for Saturday,' Earnest said after a reporter suggested it would be bad form for him to go golfing, a favorite weekend activity of Obama's.
The White House official had few details on the executive branch's involvement in the funeral proceedings. He could not say whether the vice president would give a eulogy.
When active Supreme Court Chief Justice Justice William Rehnquist passed away in 2005, then-President George W. Bush attended the ceremony and gave a tribute to the judge.
Scalia's chair on the Supreme Court bench and the bench itself were draped with black wool crepe in memoriam Tuesday — a Supreme Court tradition.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest:
Obama skipping Scalia's funeral because of "security footprint", will be reviewing Supreme Court candidates instead
Josh Earnest, Obama's White House Press Secretary, said the president will spend a significant portion of his weekend reviewing individuals who 'may be worthy of consideration'.
'I would expect the president will spend a significant portion of his weekend digging into those materials,' he added.
Earlier today Obama and Michelle paid their respects at the Supreme Court as Justice Antonin Scalia's body lay in repose.
The president then spoke during a Democratic Governors Association Meeting, in which he told a group of Democratic governors he will press voting rights this year.
Earnest said on Thursday the president would be skipping Scalia's funeral on Saturday because of his 'security footprint'.
Announcing the president's plans to attend the Friday ceremony but not following day's funeral, Earnest said: 'I can tell you that Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden will attend Justice Scalia's funeral at the Basilica on Saturday.'
'Vice President Biden, who is somebody that had his own personal relationship with Justice Scalia and his family, will be representing the administration at the funeral,' he said.
'Obviously, when the Vice President travels someplace, his security footprint is at least a little bit lighter.'
You know this how?
Answer a question for me if you like. Is there one thing that Obama did during his 7 years that you liked?
There were no security concerns during Eisenhower's time.
Renquist was a conservative and Bush the lesser was delivering the eulogy. Cheney was running the country and Dubya was just a puppet.
Who the fuck was Scallia... Other than some asshole that used his position to try to fuck minorities over and institute religious rule. People, myself included, don't respect him because he's undeserving of our respect. I'm glad Obama is throwing this amount of shade at that scumbag.
Yes and yes. And yes, Scallia was a shameful addition to the Supreme Court, a bigot and someone interested in promoting Christianity through his seat of power. He did a lot of harm in this world and kept a lot of people from enjoying the rights the deserve. And now he can't. It's really that simple. I think it's you that doesn't understand why him and people like him are such a scourge on this country.Honest questions, have you ever read the constitution? Do you understand the different methods of interpreting it? Which Scalia opinions make him a scumbag? Which parts of those opinions don't at least make sense in regards to constitutionality?
Disagree with his interpretation of the constitution all you want, but calling him all sorts of names because of his interpretations makes it seem like you don't understand basic concepts of constitutional law.