SOTN Editor’s Note:
The level of outright disrespect from this president is unprecedented, unparalleled and unrivaled in U.S. history. President Obama’s willful decision to not attend the funeral of Justice Antonin Scalia is as shocking as it is unsurprisng.
Obama Exhibits Profound Disrespect for Office of the President
It’s almost as though Barack Hussein Obama was never taught his manners, or learned common courtesy, or understands the meaning of the word “RESPECT”.
Barack Obama: Guilty Of Conduct Unbecoming Of A U.S. President
Given the extremely suspicious circumstances regarding the death of the Honorable Justice Antonin Scalia, there can be only ONE reason why Obama has chosen to skip his funeral. While there may be several reasons that he uses for himself as excuses, there is only one explanation that rises above them all.
Truly, there can be only ONE reason why Obama simply cannot bring himself to attend the funeral of a fondly remembered and longstanding SCOTUS jurist.
No matter how you look at it, they killed him!
(Source: Justice Scalia’s ‘Natural Death’—Cui Bono? And Why They Did It?)
State of the Nation
February 19, 2016
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday tried to fend off criticism of President Obama’s decision not to attend the funeral this weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia, but even some administration allies lamented the move as a missed opportunity to ease the partisan warfare that has followed the justice’s death.
Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, will pay their respects by visiting the Supreme Court on Friday, when Justice Scalia will lie in repose in the Great Hall. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is Catholic — as was Justice Scalia — and had a personal relationship with him and his family, will attend the funeral on Saturday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception along with his wife, Jill.
Facing questions again on Thursday about the decision, Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, did not offer a direct answer but implied that one reason was the potential for the extensive presidential security detail to be disruptive.
“Obviously, when the vice president travels to some place, his security footprint is at least a little bit lighter,” Mr. Earnest said. “But given his personal relationship with the family and given the president’s desire to find a respectful way to pay tribute to Justice Scalia’s service to the country, we believe we have settled on an appropriate and respectful arrangement.”
Administration officials were stung by what they saw as an unfair attack on what they viewed as Mr. Obama’s dignified and respectful reaction to Justice Scalia’s death, a reaction they thought contrasted sharply with that of others in Washington who quickly politicized the loss.
Mr. Obama has repeatedly expressed condolences to Justice Scalia’s family and, while acknowledging their differences, praised him as “somebody who made enormous contributions to the United States.”
“Some people actually want to use the funeral of the Supreme Court justice as some sort of political cudgel,” Mr. Earnest said. “The president doesn’t think that that’s appropriate, and, in fact, what the president thinks is appropriate is respectfully paying tribute to high-profile patriotic American citizens even when you don’t agree on all the issues. And that’s what he’s going to do.”
Still, some supporters of the administration saw Mr. Obama’s decision as another reflection of the capital’s deep partisan divide.
“I feel like there ought to be a more respectful relationship between the political parties,” said Steven Rattner, a financier who led the restructuring of the auto industry in 2009 as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration. “That goes for political campaigns, legislative efforts and attending funerals.”
But Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who once clerked for Justice Scalia and shares the same faith, said that Mr. Obama made the right decision. Mr. Whelan emphasized that traditional Catholic funerals are deeply religious affairs during which even eulogies are discouraged.
“For Catholics, a funeral Mass is first and foremost a funeral, not an event of state,” Mr. Whelan said.