Antonin
Scalia was one of the greatest Supreme Court justices of all time.
News of his death filled the front pages of newspapers around the
world, because he was a great jurist, whether or not one agrees with
his originalist interpretation of the Constitution. But not all
mourn his departure. President Obama is one of those who sees
Scalia's death not as a loss to this country, but as an opportunity
to tip the balance of the Supreme Court in favor of his leftist
agenda.
The
president may have considered Scalia an ideological opponent, but he
owed the justice a measure of respect nonetheless. Obama ceretainly
did not show any when he chose not to attend Justice Scalia's
funeral. What he did show was an embarassing lack of class.
This
not the first time Obama has shown a lack of class. One of the first
actions he took when assuming the presidency was to return the bust
of Winston Churchill to Great Britain, a deliberate insult to a
nation he despised for its colonialism. Not long after that he
showed a lack a class by not attending the funeral of Margaret
Thatcher, one of the greatest prime ministers in the history of Great
Britain. She is not the only world leader he snubbed during his term
in office. His absence was noted at the funerals of presidents and
prime ministers from Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Zambia, Georgia,
and Spain. But he did attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela.
A lack
of class says a lot about the character of a man. When Obama puts
his feet up on his desk or prances around the Oval Office taking
selfies of himself, he shows a lack of class. When he declines to
join world leaders marching arm-in-arm after the Charlie Hebdo
massacre, he shows a lack of class. When he responds to a video of
ISIS beheading an American by going off to play golf, he shows a lack
of class.
Barack
Obama may be a brilliant politician and a spell-binding orator, but
as the leader of our country
and our first representative to the world, I just wish he had a
little more class.
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