Here’s Six Funerals The Obamas DID Attend

The Daily Caller ^ | 2/17/16 | Peter Hasson

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  U.S. President Barack Obama pulls up his collar as he arrives in the rain with first lady Michelle Obama to attend the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

The White House announced on Wednesday that neither President Barack Obama or first lady Michelle Obama will be attending the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. While Justice Scalia’s funeral apparently doesn’t warrant Obama’s presence, here are six funerals that did.

1. Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
   Less than two months before the 2012 election, both Obamas took time out of their schedule to attend the funeral of Senator Inouye. President Obama openly wept over the liberal senator.
2. Hadiya Pendleton
   Three days before his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama sent Michelle on his behalf to the funeral of 15 year-old shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton. Obama’s decision to send Michelle to the Chicago teen’s funeral set the stage for his SOTU address, in which he called for further gun control restrictions.
3. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
   Despite Robert Byrd’s well-known ties to the Ku Klux Klan, President Obama attended the Democratic senator’s funeral. Obama gave a speech at the ceremony and called the late senator his friend.
4. Reverend Clementa Pinckney
   Reverend Pinckney, who also served as a South Carolina state senator, was one of the nine people killed in the Charleston shooting last summer. Despite never having met Pinckney, President Obama delivered his eulogy.
5. Former Democratic House Speaker Tom Foley
   Just six months after snubbing the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Obama attended the funeral of former Democratic Speaker of the House Tom Foley. As he tends to do when actually attending funerals, Obama delivered a speech.
6. Walter Cronkite
   When the legendary newscaster passed away in September 2009, President Obama found room in his schedule to travel to New York for the memorial service. Once again, Obama gave a speech at the service. He had openly admitted that he never met Cronkite.

Justice Scalia leaves behind nine children and 36 grandchildren.

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[Eagles6]

Obviously meant to be an affront to the memory of Justice Scalia but I look at it as a blessing.

He will not foul that sacred ceremony with his presence and will not inconveniece the loved ones of the Justice.

Now if we could do something about Slow Joe...the thought of him groping Justice Scalia's grandaughter Megan is sickening

[Hulka]

If he did attend and was allowed to speak, he would make the speech all about himself.

[maine-iac7]

wonder if perhaps Scalia’s family requested his ‘absence”

[BwanaNdege]

I would not want either Obama to attend my funeral.

[Cincinna]

Why is anyone surprised? We’ve all known exactly who and what he is since the beginning.

[Ann Archy]

I’m GLAD the punk isn’t going!! It’ll be a Requiem High Mass, and he would probably take Holy Communion!

[ManHunter]

Forgive me, but I’m not the least bit surprised. He’s not even pretending to be American anymore.

[greedo]

7. Nelson Mandela,

which Obama attended along with the Republican party's very own world-class attention whore.

Dem press secretary says Ted Cruz, not Obama, made Nelson Mandela's funeral about himself

[ronnie raygun]

We can bet he sent representatives to all of the the thug cop killers funerals!

[Phlap]

He can come to mine if he wants but I would rather go to his. IYKWIM. lol

[TexasCajun]

The left throws out the ‘racist’ label ad nauseam , so I must ask is Obama being a racist?

What a national disgrace, the snub even has the left-wing media dumbfounded & unable to defend.

[arthurus]

Hussein is showing a modicum respect for Scalia by not attending. One only goes to the funeral of ones despised enemy to spit on the casket.

[LoneStar42]

Ping.

[dead]

If the Scalia family wanted Obama to attend, they would have held the funeral on a golf course.

[BlackElk]

If God did not strike Obozo dead for being in the presence of the Holy Eucharist, I would hope that the traditional Catholic Church that Scalia attended would have absolutely refused communion to Comrade Imam. If Biden attends, since he is effectively an apostate, he should be denied the Eucharist as well. This can be handled by enforcing a simple statement at the beginning of Mass that those who are not Catholic are not to receive the Eucharist nor those in a state of mortal sin.

[matginzac]

It will be interesting to see if Justice Scalia’s son, Paul, a priest, will conduct the funeral Mass...
He is VERY Conservative. Let’s see if any of the C-inos - Biden - receive Communion..maybe not at his dad’s funeral but any other time, for sure.

[matginzac]

He did send a Muslim cleric to the SEAL Team 6 memorial service to damn them...never forget that.

[BlackElk]

So you agree with the press spokesman of the Demonratic National Committee who objected to Ted Cruz walking out on Raul Castro? What reason would that press spokesman have to lie? Reagan walked out on Gorbachev at Reyjavik.

TRUMP!!! much???? Step slowly away from the dancing bears! Even they are going to get fed up at some point. Make sure they aren't able to feed on you.

[greedo]

I meant to say "world-class attention whore / whack job."

Sandblasting tombstones? Where did Cruz get that idea?

[Blue Collar Christian]

I wouldn’t want him at my funeral, unless it was at mass grave in which patriots died in the slaughter that took him out with them in some SHTF scenario and they couldn’t sift out the poop from the patriots.