White House: Obama absence at Scalia funeral 'appropriate'

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Examiner:

The White House dismissed criticism Thursday that President Obama will not attend the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, calling his plan for honoring Scalia "appropriate" and brushing off charges that Obama's reason for skipping is politically motivated.

 

"There's so much rancor and politics and partisanship that we allow ourselves to get drawn into different corners to the extent that some people actually want to use the funeral of the Supreme Court justice as some sort of political cudgel," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

 

Earnest was asked why Obama wouldn't be attending, but never offered a specific reason for why the decision was made for Obama to skip it.

 

"The president doesn't think that that's appropriate," he said. "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" by going to a service at the Supreme Court on Friday while Scalia lies in repose.

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The golf course awaits...