Scalia family asked the president not to attend, is what I am hearing.

[randys1]

Hearing that on the radio.

Would be easy to assume Scalia hated the Black president, so his family wants his wishes to be adhered to I am sure.

Clarence has been obedient to Scalia so he will be welcome, I assume.



Oh, and per responses here, sure it could be a simple matter of focus, traffic, etc.

Either way the point is the rightwingers saying it is an insult he is not attending, are full of shit, as usual.

[bkkyosemite]

1. Maybe they don't want a bunch of security at his funeral (that is for Obama)

[WolverineDG]

2. or it could be a security nightmare

which changes the focus from the deceased to the President.

[randys1]

3. Either way, the allegations that Obama is being disrespectful is bullshit

[unapatriciated]

4. agree it is BS

I have a co worker who was all upset about this today. She believes he was murdered and Obama is covering it up (she is a trump supporter).

[randys1]

5. If Obama cured cancer, your friend would be angry at him for harming RX profits.

Which is the example I always use.

UNLESS your friend had cancer, and in that case would credit everybody but Obama.

They need to admit they hate America unless it is run by white conservatives.

[spanone]

6. if he cured world hunger, they would accuse him of promoting obesity

[unapatriciated]

8. I went round and round with her about this and many things.

She hates Obama, the AFCA (we have insurance through our employer so this doesn't affect her) and thinks Sanders is a communist and wants to start a war with Russia. I don't know what her opinion is on Clinton because we were at work and after she accused Obama of covering up scalia's murder I ended the conversation.

What is most surprising is that when she first transferred to my store, she stayed with us for two weeks while looking for an apartment.
Never once did I think she was a republican let alone a tea party supporter. She is AA and working class so these statements were a shock to me. I assumed she was a D by the many conversations we had while staying with us. I should have learned by now never never assume. She is under the impression that only trump will save us.

[randys1]

10. Wow...Sometimes it is shocking to hear someone in that situation talk like that

but I cant judge them because as a white person I am clueless.

[unapatriciated]

12. I don't judge her either cause she stayed with us for two weeks and I really like her.

She probably did not feel comfortable discussing her politics, since I'm pretty outspoken (in my home) on republicans. In fact I warned her about it before she moved in. I was just shocked when she said what she did about scalia's death today. I got to know a lot about her personally when she stayed with us and she has not had an easy life. Her reasons my be flawed but they are hers not mine.


Yeah I'm pretty clueless too, but I do get to see a lot from the prospective of my grandson.

[madinmaryland]

13. "She is under the impression that only trump will save us." That is an interesting comment...

What I have noticed is the angry uneducated/uninformed voters are going for tRump and the angry and informed voters are going for Bernie Sanders (or Elizabeth Warren).

[madokie]

9. Or it could be, all of this is bullshit

I think its bull pucky

[aaaaaa5a]

7. Only "Uncle Toms" are allowed at the furneral. NT

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Easty peachy, Josh Ernst can tell us all that this is a family request

and that alone will take care of the optics problem.