President arrives at King's tomb site to lay wreath (and is greeted by protesters)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 1.15.04 | JEFFRY SCOTT, BILL MONTGOMERY and CHARLES YOO

[mhking]

That's more like it - I don't know what happened with the first posting.

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[ladyinred]

This is just despicable behavior, despicable!!!!

[Southack]

Below is why the Democratic Party elite are so upset...

Mary Langston, who said she has been homeless since her divorce few months ago, had more positive things to say.

"I'm just a homeless person, but I'm proud he's taking some of his busy time to honor Dr. King," Langston said.

Anthony Bozeman, a former fast food manager, said while at the barbershop that he supported the president's motives for visiting King's grave.

"I don't think it was strictly politics. I think it comes from his heart. Dr. King was a great man, and he showing respect for that," Bozeman said. He added that the invasion of Iraq was "a good job against a man who spent his life torturing and killing his own people."

[mountaineer]

"With a spoken position against what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, the Bush administration has stood against -- affirmative action ...

Now where did I hear something about having a dream that some day people would not be judged by the color of their skin?

[Huck]

These are the animals who will be receiving 1.5 billion dollars worth of "interpersonal skills" training, thanks to GWB. Good money after bad.

[EggsAckley]

I'm surprised there hasn't been an earthquake reported there today, given how many times Dr.King must have rolled over in his grave.

[mountaineer]

Hundreds of protesters greeted President Bush in Atlanta ...

I'm guessing it was more like a few dozen, having had personal experience with the way the press exaggerates the anti-Bush numbers.

[cyborg]

yep I agree

[eddie willers]

"With a spoken position against what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, the Bush administration has stood against -- affirmative action

MLK Jr. said it was the content of one's character that was important, not the color of one's skin.

With affirmative action, it's all ABOUT the color of one's skin.

[CSM]

I am glad to see they had a couple of reasonable quotes in this article. The rest of it is a reflection of the inclusiveness of the democratic party.

[Mike Darancette]

"It's all politics," said barber Seaborn Johnson, as he sliced an apple waiting for customers in the Auburn Avenue Barber Shop. "It's an election year, isn't it? Hell, I would come there too if I was running for office. But the Bush family always opposed everything Dr. King did, so he's just applying for votes, that's all he's doing."

I know that the public education level is somewhat lacking but if I remember correctly it was Ted Kennedy's brothers that had MLK bugged and followed by the FBI and Al Gore's daddy that voted against Civil Rights.

[Warren]

Imagine the outcry if he hadn't visited the 'shrine'

[thoughtomator]

Wow... the behavior of the Left gets more and more sickening... now not only does "shall make no law" mean its opposite, but so does MLK's message of blindness to color under law.

[Lance Romance]

Hundreds of protesters greeted President Bush in Atlanta shortly before 4 p.m.

Don't these people have jobs? Oh yeah, Bush took them away, it's all his fault.

[Weimdog]

"The Bush administration has refused to meet with the national leadership of civil rights organizations, including the premier organization, the NAACP" -

I wonder why?

"Over the weekend Bond, speaking at NAACP's 93rd annual convention, said that the Bush administration represented, in his words, a right-wing conspiracy. "We have a president," he said, "who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy."

"When he spoke to our convention in Baltimore in 2000, he promised to enforce the civil rights laws," he is quoted as saying. "We know he was in the oil business. We just didn't know it was snake oil."

Bond frequently resorts to name-calling in his invective, as though feigned moral outrage somehow proves the point. He heaps scorn on Republicans and black conservatives alike, as well as anyone else who deviates from the Julian Bond agenda.

It is clear from the remarks of NAACP leaders that President Bush would not be welcome at their convention. It is equally clear he would not even be given a fair hearing."

http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/2002/pr_0711.shtml

[Dog]

I read an article that put the number at 300..

[eyespysomething]

With a spoken position against what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for, the Bush administration has stood against -- affirmative action [and refused] to meet with the national leadership of civil rights organizations, including the premier organization, the NAACP, which has been in existence since 1909."

And what was it Dr. King said?

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

And he won't meet with the very organization who is avowed to get him out of office? Why, that would be pandering, right?

[CaptRon]

But the Bush family always opposed everything Dr. King did,

Another it's-true-because-I-said-it moment from the Democrats.

[Tribune7]

Didn't George 41 support civil rights legislation as a Texas Congressman?