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Obama pick faces questions over bombers' clemencyBy PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Originally published Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM WASHINGTON — New York police detective Anthony S. Senft's life changed forever when a bomb set by Puerto Rican separatists exploded, blowing him 15 feet in the air and blinding him in one eye. Now, he's angry that Eric Holder, who played a key role in awarding clemency to the bombers, is in line to be attorney general. Holder, as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, worked closely with the Justice Department's pardon attorney to raise the possibility of...

THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR 3   by Mia T, 03.18.06   er head bobbed nonstop in servile compliance.... Her gaze was fawning, fixed on him.... Her mouth was frozen shut, corners upturned a carefully calibrated nine degrees above the horizontal.... Not a smile.... (Never a smile).... Just enough of an upturn to hide the always-present anger. His sock puppet was on display.... Finally.... He spoke for both of them, alternating between oily racist and reliable misogynist. Instead of striking out as her own person in this friendly venue--it was the...

-- NOW would be relieved to learn --CLINTON MISOGYNY IS FREE OF AGEISM(+ hillary-a-sock-puppet video) by Mia T, 03.17.06   It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton   ... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times. These are not ordinary...

Bush-basher Harry Belafonte blamed President Bush for the calypso singer’s no-show at Coretta Scott King's funeral.

By Larry Elder Feb 16, 2006 The "funeral" of Coretta Scott King turned into an ugly, disrespectful political rally.   Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder -- along with Martin Luther King Jr. -- of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, castigated President George W. Bush for insufficient disaster relief, failing to provide health care and failing to cure poverty. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," said Lowery. "But Coretta knew and we know that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for...

Just as they did following the memorial service for Sen. Paul Wellstone in 2002, Republican operatives and their acolytes in the media are now claiming that there was something inappropriate about the manner of how those who best knew Coretta Scott King mourned her passing. So great is the determination to protect George Bush from even the mildest expressions of dissent that commentators rushed to television studios Tuesday even before the service for King was over to denounce former President Jimmy Carter, the Rev. Joseph Lowery and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin for expressing sentiments not usually heard by this president....

RUSH: When I was out last week at Pebble Beach for the AT&T National Pro-Am, Neil Cavuto was also out there. He had his Fox show, Your World with Neil Cavuto, or My World with Neil Cavuto -- Neil's World, whatever. He was set up I think off the 18th green at Spyglass, and he asked me to come by for a little five to seven minute interview that went two segments. He asked me a lot of things (Video). Near the beginning of the interview he asked what I thought of the funeral for Coretta Scott King, and I...

As I witnessed the Coretta Scott King DNC rally-er-funeral and the debate around the blogosphere afterwards, it became painfully obvious how desperate the Democratic Party is. They were glad somebody had the courage to tell Bush off, no matter how tasteless the forum might be. The debacle underlies the greatest problem of the far left. They're angry and outraged at the War in Iraq and President Bush's methods of prosecuting the war on Terror. They're outraged as state after state passes Marriage Amendments, and at Democratic Senators refusal to support politically costly filibusters of President Bush's Supreme Court nominees. They're...

Politics, politics and more. Coretta Scott King's funeral was a political junkies' feast. Last Tuesday's show headlined one sitting president, three former presidents, buoyed by a raft of plots and subplots. The six-hour celebration was ripe, exquisite political theatre. When was the last time a major civil rights event in America found the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. sitting on his hands in the front row? Civil rights icons Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Harry Belafonte were also painfully absent from the podium. Belafonte, the 78-year-old entertainer and activist, was close to the King family -- he comforted Coretta Scott King...

President Bush spoke very highly of Coretta Scott King at her memorial service. Mrs. King, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks were three very strong hopes for the black community. Unfortunately, not everyone chose to eulogize her. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and former President Carter chose this opportunity for political gain and Bush bashing. Mr. Carter compared the Kennedy administration’s wiretapping of Mr. King to the “terrorist surveillance program” of the current administration. There were slams toward racism from Hurricane Katrina when the majority of responders were African American themselves. The Democratic Party and the black leaders that have...

It isn’t too often that one who pens opinion articles will fully allow himself to “let it all out,” and quite possibly say more than ever intended. Here then, is one of those rare times--a time when I cannot contain myself, consequences be damned. For today, I will speak in no uncertain terms about one of America’s greatest elective mistakes, James Earl Carter, Jr. That is the last time I will use Carter’s full Christian name in this space, so cherish the reference if you must. But even that simple courtesy should be denied, in my mind. If one were...

In some form or fashion, I have known the players in what I am about to describe as a series of regrettable moments at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. The one I know least, President George W. Bush, won both my sympathy and respect for gallantly enduring the slings and arrows pointed directly at him during what should have been a celebration of a great woman, but instead turned into a political rally

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), when speaking during Monday's funeral service and memorial for the late civil-rights icon, Coretta Scott King, only told half the story when he spoke of his two brothers, John and Robert, and their relationship with Mrs. King's husband. Sen. Ted Kennedy drew roars of approval when he invoked the 1960 phone call placed by his brother, then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, to Coretta King to pledge his help in freeing her husband from jail. Kennedy also mentioned the call placed by another brother, Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's campaign manager, to a local judge to inquire...

Laura Bush says Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism of her husband's administration was "out of bounds." The first lady argued that the former first lady should show some empathy for the current White House occupants. Laura Bush is leading the U.S. delegation at the Winter Olympics in Turin. Clinton, the New York senator and a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, has called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history. In the interview with ABC News, Bush was asked if Clinton's comments were "just politics, fair game or out of bounds." She said, "Of course I think it's out...

Laura Bush says Hillary 'out of bounds' Sat Feb 11 2006 11:42:42 ET From ABC interview of Laura Bush at Winter Olympics today: Q Before I let you go, one political question, because I'll get fired if I don’t ask at least one political question. The ceremony for Coretta Scott King was just so moving, all the speakers at that. Hillary Clinton has now taken a little bit of the forefront. And I know that you all travel together, and just a week before, she had some very harsh words about this administration, saying it could be one of the...

The latest op-ed piece by liberal Los Angeles Times columnist Rosa Brooks is called, "When crass is called for" (Friday, February 10, 2006). It begins with the eye-opening line, "It's time to take a stand against civility, decency and appropriateness." The rest of the column is essentially a defense of the tasteless remarks by Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter at the funeral of Coretta Scott King on Tuesday. At one point of her piece, Brooks unbelievably declares, "I saw nothing uncivil about the remarks made by Lowery and Carter."And in her concluding paragraph, Brooks shrugs (emphasis mine),...

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ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL by Mia T, 2.10.06 will preface this by saying that Peggy Noonan is not my cup of tea. Her writing leaves a cloyingly sweet aftertaste. (Her speaking, too.) Worse, it is too often metaphor in search of a thought. That said, I thought her analysis of Coretta Scott King's funeral provided an interesting and coherent--if disputable--point of view. That is, until I came to this jumbled mess: (Noonan is in blue.) Amid all the happy bombast [bill clinton] was the one who pointed at the casket and said, "There's a...

(CBS) Former President George H.W. Bush has expressed dismay and anger at attacks on his son, President Bush, at the funeral for Coretta Scott King. "In terms of the political shots at the president who was sitting there with his wife, I didn't like it and I thought it was kind of ugly frankly," the former president said in an exclusive radio interview with CBS News White House correspondent Peter Mae "Anybody that shoots at the president of the United States at a funeral, I just didn't appreciate that," Mr. Bush added.

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today refused to "analyze" the political potshots his boss endured during the funeral of Coretta Scott King this week, saying only President Bush was "honored" to attend the marathon service. In posing questions to McClellan at the press briefing, WND pointed out some of media's observations about the jibes Bush took during the service from certain speakers. "The New York Post notes the following – and this is a quote – 'Jimmy Carter's disgraceful performance at Coretta Scott King's funeral marks him as the most shameless,'" WND noted. "While The New York Times Page 1...

In a tear-streaked story in the New York Times bemoaning the inability of the Democrats to exploit what they see as the GOP's many weaknesses and use them to win back control of Congress in this year's congressional elections, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) sobbed that the health of his far-left Democratic Party is "A lot worse than it should be. This has not been a very good two months." "We seem to be losing our voice when it comes to the basic things people worry about," Dodd said. Senator Dodd, along with the outraged liberals who now dominate his party,...

Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 1:15 p.m. EST CORE Blasts King Funeral 'Outrage' The head of one of the nation's oldest civil rights organizations is blasting former President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery for politicizing the funeral of Coretta Scott King. In a press release Thursday, Roy Innis, chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, called comments by Carter and Lowery attacking President Bush "crass" and "disrespectful." "It was an outrage for such behavior to be exhibited in the presence of the President of the United States, and it was particularly outrageous for it to occur at a funeral for...

It was recently announced on the news that Americans are turning in ever greater numbers to the use of prescription sleep aids, despite the decided drawbacks to their long term dosage.

Inappropriate. That’s the kindest word one could use to describe some of the comments made by leading Democrats at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. Chief among them was, of course, former President Jim-ah, whose lambasting of George W. Bush, who was sitting three feet behind him as he spoke, was nothing short of an angry diatribe from a sore loser.

For a half-century, patients have flocked to clinics south of the border for treatments that are shunned, prohibited or regarded as quackery in the United States. Among the treatments offered: blood transfusions from guinea pigs, colon cleansings, and the zapping of cancer cells with electrical current. Supporters say the clinics offer an alternative -- and sometimes a cure -- to people written off by U.S. doctors. Critics say the worst of the clinics do nothing but offer false hope while taking money from people when they are most vulnerable.[snip][snip] On Thursday, the Santa Monica Health Institute -- the clinic where...

In the Bizarro World of the DUmmies, the PR disaster the Democrats created for themselves by politicizing the Coretta Scott King funeral wasn't really their fault. No, the true source of their problem is none other than Karl Rove who somehow manipulated the media and turned the public against them just like he did at the Paul Wellstone funeral. Therefore the DUmmies now believe that they need to somehow outflank Karl Rove and beat him at his own game as you can see in this THREAD titled, "Face it folks, Rove stole the funeral and ate your lunch." So...

Former first lady and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) steps off Air Force One in Washington after traveling with U.S. President George W. Bush to a memorial service for Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, outside Atlanta February 7, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing

STATEN ISLAND, February 7, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - This week, Priests for Life (PFL), the movement of pro-life priests, commended to the Lord the soul of Coretta Scott King, with prayers for the comfort of her family, and with fond recollections of the ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In a statement PFL President Fr. Frank Pavone said "Dr. King made it clear that he was not simply fighting for the Black man. He was fighting for the equality of every human life. We are honored to continue Dr. King's legacy in our day by fighting for the equality of...

To: National DeskContact David Almasi of Project 21, 202-543-4110 ext. 11, Project21@nationalcenter.org WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the black leadership network Project 21 are outraged by political grandstanding by speakers at the funeral for civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. In eulogies at the Feb. 7 funeral, former President Jimmy Carter and Reverend Joseph Lowery criticized the Bush Administration. President Carter attempted to tie the Bush Administration's terrorist surveillance efforts to 1960s-era FBI wiretaps of the King family. Reverend Lowery spoke about Iraq, health care and poverty. President Bush was in attendance. "I find it shameful that...

The Anchoress has some fantastic coverage of the Democratic reaction at the Coretta Scott King Memorial Service. She just utterly eviscerates the left for its bad conduct during the Memorial Service and makes some fantastic points. On the left, Pam Spaulding clearly Doesn't get itI think the short version is that its about class. Death is the common event that happens to everyone regardless of race, religion, or politics. We all die. Our time on this Earth comes to an end. The argument has been made that with four former Presidents on the stage, that politics couldn't be avoided. Nonsense!...

If you are a leftist, you do not have to be civil. Your hate, your ire, you incivility, your just plain not being nice can be on full display at any time, whether it is an "appropriate" time to display these character traits and emotions or not. James Burnham once said of leftism that it "... is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the...

IF LAURA INGRAHAM WRITES A FOLLOW-UP BOOK, IT SHOULD BE TITLED, SHUT UP AND MOURN! Yesterday, the Left again chose division over reconciliation, bitterness over harmony, and the transient over the transcendent at the funeral of Coretta Scott King. For the third time in as many years, leftists politicized a funeral service. And the most outspoken partisans present were a failed former president and a man who once bestowed an award on Moammar Qaddafi. President Bush, as ever, maintained his dignity and demeanor. He honored Coretta Scott King at the opening of his State of the Union Address and spoke...

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams told The Hill that he wrote Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.) letters of apology last week after he confused the two men at the State of the Union address. During NBC’s broadcast, Williams noticed Obama on the House floor and identified him to the viewing audience. Unfortunately, it was actually Ford. “I made a silly and honest mistake, and knowing both men I knew instantly what I had done,” a contrite and gracious Williams said in a phone call. “I obviously should have corrected it, but the proper time...

Telegram to President Eisenhower, 1957.Little Rock Ark Sep 30 The President The White House We the parents of nine Negro children enrolled at Little Rock Central High School want you to know that your action in safe guarding their rights have strengthened our faith in democracy. Now as never before we have an abiding felling of belonging and purposefulness. We believe that freedom and equality with which all men are endowed at birth can be maintained only through freedom and equality of opportunity for self development growth and purposeful citizenship. We believe that the degree to which people everywhere realize...

Jimmy Carter shows his only colors are all partisan.. Deciding to desecrate the funeral of Coretta Scott King , the former president decided to ignore the grief of the King Family, to throw away the teachings of Martin Luther King Jr., and focused his speech on attacking the President of the United States. Why? Because he could so he did. This is the essence of hate.. Why the Left Wing is so bereft of leadership, bereft of a path, bereft of morals. Their whole platform is simple hate. “I hate the President”, “I hate the USA”, “I hate Children”, “I...

Congrats to Michael Reagan with not putting up with Alan Colmes and his usual crap. Tonight Michael Reagan and a dem strategist Michael Brown were on Hannity and Colmes to discuss the Coretta Scott King memorial service. The service got political when "rev." joseph Lowery did with WMD tirade and the worst president of all time Jimmah Carter tried to make wire-tapping an issue.

[snip] Mr Clinton was joined at the podium by his wife, Hillary. When he said how pleased he was to be in attendance with the current and former presidents a voice in the crowd shouted, “and the future president”, provoking first laughter and then applause. [snip]

What is it that makes Democrats incapable of controlling their hostility, even during funerals? Especially during funerals. Rush Limbaugh just played a clip of today’s “Wellstone Funeral moment” from Rev. Joseph Lowry in which he raised the issue of weapons of mass destruction in the Coretta Scott King funeral, then talked about how not enough money is going to the poor. I know I have seen figures that indicate that Bush has spent more on some programs for the poor than Clinton did, but it wouldn’t matter if he had spent ten times more. Facts don’t matter. This is pure...

President Bush, leading the nation in celebrating the life of Coretta Scott King, praised the civil rights leader for enduring extraordinary pain and loss to give generations of people "a better, more welcoming country." "We knew Mrs. King in all the seasons, and there was grace and beauty in every season," Bush said at a New Birth Missionary Baptist Church service Tuesday that was attended by four presidents and a crowd of thousands. "As a great movement of history took shape," Bush said, "her dignity was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation." Bush noted that Mrs....

Today, President and Mrs. Bush traveled to Atlanta, Georgia today to attend the funeral of Coretta Scott King at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. The President spoke from the heart, showing his class and character in honoring Mrs. King, in contrast to the petty political digs of others who spoke. For a complete reading of the President's remarks, go HERE. Last evening the President and First Lady hosted The Dance Theatre of Harlem with a dinner in the State Dining Room followed by a dance performance in the East Room at the White House, where he made remarks, and himself...

“Rev” Joseph Lowery preached some anti-Bush, anti-War rhetoric today: LOWERY: We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there were weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance, poverty abound, for war billions more, but no more for the poor. Only liberals can get away with using the funeral of the wife of a civil rights leader to preach your Bush hate and anti-War rhetoric, and only liberals would do so.

What a shame. The Rev. Joe Lowry, just turned Coretta Scott King's funeral/tribute into a political attack against the Bush policies and the War on Terror. I have been watching the funeral while working, and I can't believe this guy's tackiiness. What a beautiful event until this idiot did this. Very sad. Did anybody else hear the reference to the Weapons of Mass Destruction and other stupid comments? I think I'll write a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Constitution and let them know how tacky I think this is.

ROSARITO, Mexico — Officials said Friday they closed the clinic in Rosarito, the seaside town south of Tijuana where Coretta Scott King died this week, because it was operating without proper licenses and in violation of health regulations. Kurt Donsbach, director of the clinic, the Hospital Santa Monica, has a criminal record and has been known for more than a generation in Southern California and Mexico for offering alternative treatments, many of them considered suspect by medical authorities, to terminally ill patients, according to court records and health experts who monitor fraudulent alternative-health practices.

President and Mrs. Bush will attend Coretta Scott King's funeral on Tuesday, the White House announced Saturday. Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton will also attend the service at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, where Mrs. King's daughter Bernice ministers. More than 25,000 mourners braved cold, wet weather Saturday to pay respects to Mrs. King as her casket lay in honor at the State Capitol. She was the first woman and the first African-American to lie in honor at the statehouse. A horse-drawn hearse brought her bronze casket to the Capitol, and bagpipes played "Amazing Grace"...

In a Change of Plans, Bush Says He Will Attend King's Funeral By ELISABETH BUMILLER CRAWFORD, Tex., Feb. 4 — The White House announced here on Saturday that President Bush would attend the funeral of Coretta Scott King in Atlanta on Tuesday, postponing a scheduled trip to New Hampshire. White House officials told reporters on Friday that Mr. Bush would be speaking about the federal budget on Tuesday in Manchester, N.H., but on Saturday afternoon the White House sent out an e-mail message saying that Mr. Bush would attend the funeral instead and was switching the New Hampshire trip to...

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican clinic where Coretta Scott King died has been closed, U.S. Embassy officials said Friday. Mexican officials were not immediately available to explain why the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, was shut. Judith Bryan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, said the U.S. consulate in Tijuana was helping patients find new facilities. King last week traveled to the beachside clinic. She was seeking treatment for advanced stage ovarian cancer and a stroke she suffered several months ago. The clinic specializes...

Amid their grief over the death of Coretta Scott King, black advocates say that her passing underscores a growing concern: As the movement's iconic leaders fade into history, much of the focus is on honoring the past rather than pushing for equality today. "We will now celebrate Coretta Scott King as though the civil rights movement is finished and the mission has been accomplished, but the work is not done," said Bruce Gordon, president of the NAACP. "We should be very respectful of — and encouraged by — the substantial progress that has been made. But in no way, shape...

Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Coretta Scott King. Mrs. King was a remarkable and courageous woman, and a great civil rights leader. She carried on the legacy of her husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including through her extraordinary work at the King Center. Mrs. King's lasting contributions to freedom and equality have made America a better and more compassionate nation. Laura and I were fortunate to have known Mrs. King, and we will always treasure the time we spent with her. We send our condolences and prayers to the entire King family.

ROSARITO, Mexico (AP) - Coretta Scott King was partially paralyzed and suffering from advanced ovarian cancer when she arrived last week at the alternative medicine clinic where she died early Tuesday, clinic doctors said. They gave the cause of death as respiratory failure, related both to a serious stroke she suffered about three months ago and the cancer they said was diagnosed last year. King, 78, checked into the Santa Monica Health Institute in the Mexican beach resort of Rosarito, 16 miles south of San Diego, on Thursday under another name. The doctors said they did not know who she...