Obama won't attend Judge Scalia's funeral. Only to pay their respects at the high court.

[Auld Phart]

No reason given for Obama not attending the Basilica on Saturday. Only Vice President Biden will attend the funeral with his wife.

I have no words. Just sitting here shaking my head.

President will not attend requiem for Scalia

1. your source is questionable at best.
2. scalia never went to the state of the union.

i'd say they're even

now please go off on another obama deranged rant.

You fool. The source is solid. If you read the article the press was interviewing Josh Ernest. He's the one that broke the news.

Now politics aside. Judge Scalia was a loyal servant to the people of America. For thirty years.

This is a snub by Obama and totally without class. He's just showing his true colors again. Obama is just a punk from Cheeeeeeeeeeecago even after all the years in office.

How pitiful.

How is it a "classless snub" when other presidents have done the same thing

Really?

when is the last time a sitting president didn't attend the funeral of a Supreme Court Justice that died in office?

There's an extremely short list of those who died in office - not enought to claim custom or trend. Prior to Scalia...
The Political Graveyard: U.S. Justices and Judges Who Died in Office

• John Marshall, July 6, 1835
• Roger B. Taney, October 12, 1864
• Salmon P. Chase, May 7, 1873
• Melville W. Fuller, July 4, 1910
• Edward Douglass White, May 19, 1921
• Harlan F. Stone, April 22, 1946
• Fred M. Vinson, September 8, 1953
• William H. Rehnquist, September 3, 2005

The President attended Stone, Vinson, Rehnquist. Prior to that.....?

Definitely the last 3 , and that doesn't trend to be a trend?

The previous, no record of their funerals, so uncountable.

 

[Seawytch]

Presidents or Vice Presidents have attended SCOTUS funerals half the time, four out of seven. For three neither the Pres or VP attended. This is an ODS thread, period.

 

[Auld Phart]

When is the last time a sitting president missed the funeral of a sitting justice?

Don't know

When did the last sitting justice die? 1970?

You're the one who said Obama wasn't the first not to go so you should know the answer to that question shouldn't you?

Felix Frankfurter?

SO this is just more of your make up shit to protect Obama from deserved criticism shtick

got it

You got me there

Scalia is the first justice to die in a hunting lodge and not have the President attend his funeral

 

[bendog]

No reason given for Obama not attending the Basilica on Saturday. Only Vice President Biden will attend the funeral with his wife.

I have no words. Just sitting here shaking my head.

President will not attend requiem for Scalia

1. your source is questionable at best.
2. scalia never went to the state of the union.

i'd say they're even

now please go off on another obama deranged rant.

You fool. The source is solid. If you read the article the press was interviewing Josh Ernest. He's the one that broke the news.

Now politics aside. Judge Scalia was a loyal servant to the people of America. For thirty years.

This is a snub by Obama and totally without class. He's just showing his true colors again. Obama is just a punk from Cheeeeeeeeeeecago even after all the years in office.

How pitiful.

How is it a "classless snub" when other presidents have done the same thing

Really?

when is the last time a sitting president didn't attend the funeral of a Supreme Court Justice that died in office?

There's an extremely short list of those who died in office - not enought to claim custom or trend. Prior to Scalia...
The Political Graveyard: U.S. Justices and Judges Who Died in Office

• John Marshall, July 6, 1835
• Roger B. Taney, October 12, 1864
• Salmon P. Chase, May 7, 1873
• Melville W. Fuller, July 4, 1910
• Edward Douglass White, May 19, 1921
• Harlan F. Stone, April 22, 1946
• Fred M. Vinson, September 8, 1953
• William H. Rehnquist, September 3, 2005

The President attended Stone, Vinson, Rehnquist. Prior to that.....?

And Rehnquist had been sick for a long time. He had terminal throat cancer, but stayed on working. His death was long expected, and Roberts - one of his former clerks - already tabbed as his replacement. There just wasn't any political drama. Now if Obama wasn't even going to see Scalia lying in state ... that would be wrong.

 

[rightwinger]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

 

[Auld Phart]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

 

[rightwinger]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

Obama is a lame duck President

Shouldn't the people decide which President should attend the funeral?

 

[bodecea]

Presidents or Vice Presidents have attended SCOTUS funerals half the time, four out of seven. For three neither the Pres or VP attended. This is an ODS thread, period.

I quoted something said by someone else elsewhere....this person has quite the knack of cutting right to the chase:

Is there a name for this phenomenon, which we've seen endlessly here for the past 7 years, in which Rightwingers get indignant about Obama doing/not doing X, implying that his doing/not doing X implicates him in failing to meet some neutral standard of behavior (or decorum, or whatever) in an unprecedented way; but then, it turns out, the assumed precedent doesn't exist and Obama is not an outlier? This is definitely a whole category of ******** FWD:FWD:FWD emails I've received over the past several years.

ODS is too broad—want something more precise.

It's also distinct from the claims that are simply made up (Obama is the first U.S. president not to lay a wreath at Arlington on Memorial Day!), but the two phenomena are related.

 

[jillian]

No reason given for Obama not attending the Basilica on Saturday. Only Vice President Biden will attend the funeral with his wife.

I have no words. Just sitting here shaking my head.

President will not attend requiem for Scalia

1. your source is questionable at best.
2. scalia never went to the state of the union.

i'd say they're even

now please go off on another obama deranged rant.

Did the thugs who were killed in the commission of their thuggery attend the state of the union?

Good to see you admit Obama is just playing a childish game & "getting even"

try that again in English, gramps.

 

[jillian]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

Obama is a lame duck President

Shouldn't the people decide which President should attend the funeral?

actually, "lame duck" is considered the period between the election and inauguration.

they're just insane and wish he was a "lame duck". it's awesome how everything he does makes them cry

 

[rightwinger]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

Obama is a lame duck President

Shouldn't the people decide which President should attend the funeral?

actually, "lame duck" is considered the period between the election and inauguration.

they're just insane and wish he was a "lame duck". it's awesome how everything he does makes them cry

They have considered him a lame duck since Jan 2009

 

[jillian]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

Obama is a lame duck President

Shouldn't the people decide which President should attend the funeral?

actually, "lame duck" is considered the period between the election and inauguration.

they're just insane and wish he was a "lame duck". it's awesome how everything he does makes them cry

They have considered him a lame duck since Jan 2009

that's certainly their wishful thinking.

but it has nothing to do with the color of his skin....

nah...

 

[Unkotare]

Maybe Obama is listening to Mitch McConnell and will delay the funeral so the next President can attend

Obama is a lame duck President

Shouldn't the people decide which President should attend the funeral?

actually, "lame duck" is considered the period between the election and inauguration.

they're just insane and wish he was a "lame duck". it's awesome how everything he does makes them cry

They have considered him a lame duck since Jan 2009

that's certainly their wishful thinking.

but it has nothing to do with the color of his skin....

nah...

Pathetic leftists like you are why playing the race card has become a punchline.

 

[Valerie]

Unkotare
unkotare \ woon-ko-ta-re \ , noun;

Japanese. Roughly translated as dripping poop. This word is used to describe a pornographic genre commonly known as Scat.

 

[Valerie]

shit head says wha?

 

[the_human_being]

 

[Dot Com]

No reason given for Obama not attending the Basilica on Saturday. Only Vice President Biden will attend the funeral with his wife.

I have no words. Just sitting here shaking my head.

President will not attend requiem for Scalia

because he visited him in repose at the SCOTUS you idiot

 

[JoeB131]

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Um, what legal theory are we holding those 14 "al Qaeda" guys under, dude? Either they are Prisoners of War (and entitled to be released when hostilities end) or they are Criminals (which means they are entitled to a day in court.

 

[the_human_being]

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Um, what legal theory are we holding those 14 "al Qaeda" guys under, dude? Either they are Prisoners of War (and entitled to be released when hostilities end) or they are Criminals (which means they are entitled to a day in court.

I partially agree. They were enemy combatants and should have faced a military tribunal. As far as when hostilities end, have any idea when that might happen?

 

[JoeB131]

I partially agree. They were enemy combatants and should have faced a military tribunal. As far as when hostilities end, have any idea when that might happen?

Except you don't try people for fighting for their country. Sorry, man.

As far as hostilities. Major combat operations are over and Afghanistan is requesting the repatriation of its citizens.

Gitmo is a disgrace, and the sooner we close it, the better.