White House finally reveals why Obama is snubbing Scalia's funeral: He plans to spend weekend vetting potential nominees

[mystery-ak]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3455274/White-House-finally-reveals-Obama-snubbing-Scalia-s-funeral-plans-spend-weekend-vetting-potential-nominees.html

White House finally reveals why Obama is snubbing Scalia's funeral: He plans to spend weekend vetting potential nominees

    The president and first lady instead came to the high court today to pay their respects while Scalia lay in repose
    The president's press secretary yesterday suggested that Obama was skipping the formal funeral because his 'security footprint'
    Today he said the president would spend a 'significant portion of his weekend' reviewing dossiers compiled on possible Scalia replacements

By Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com

Published: 15:59 EST, 19 February 2016 | Updated: 16:48 EST, 19 February 2016



President Barack Obama is not attending conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral on Saturday and the White House has been refusing to say why.

The president and first lady instead came to the high court today to pay their respects while Scalia lay in repose.

The president's press secretary yesterday suggested that Obama was skipping the formal funeral because his 'security footprint.'

Today he said the president planned to review dossiers compiled on 'individuals who may be worthy of consideration' to replace Scalia on the bench.

'I would expect that the president will spend a significant portion of his weekend digging into those materials,' White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.



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[mystery-ak]

Obama Spends Less Than 2 Minutes At Scalia’s Wake

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/19/obama-spends-less-than-2-minutes-at-scalias-wake-video/#ixzz40ewUcgsJ

[Paladin]

He's such a slug and this business of his spending the weekend vetting potential Scalia replacements is pure bovine excrement. I suspect he is planning a secret golf outing.

[Right_in_Virginia]

What does it say of a man who cannot put aside partisan politics to pray with his fellow citizens for the soul of a departed American who spent his life in service to the country he loved?

Words fail me.

[mountaineer]

Only if they consider the presidential golf cart a moveable office. The temperature in DC is around 60 right now.

[Charlespg]

     
White House finally reveals why Obama is snubbing Scalia's funeral: He plans to spend weekend vetting potential nominees
         

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'm a little disappointed that W didn't attend.   

[flowers]

BS....

[Lando Lincoln]

"God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools…and He has not been disappointed. Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ’s sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."

        -- Justice Antonin Scalia

Requiescat in Pace Justice Scalia

[mountaineer]

Amen, Lando.