Posted on 06/08/2004 8:54:12 AM PDT by lainie
Edited on 06/08/2004 11:18:28 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Controversy develops over Reagan funeral speakers...
'President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was,' a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. 'He's angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet'...
CLINTON DISAPPOINTMENT: LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST
Former President Bill Clinton has privately expressed anger he has apparently been left off the speakers list of Friday's Reagan State Funeral, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
"President Clinton really held out all hope the funeral would be a nonpartisan event, like Nixon's was," a top Clinton source said on Tuesday morning. "He's angry and disappointed neither he nor President Carter have been asked to speak, as of yet."
The top source says Clinton has been critical that both Bush presidents will address the crowd gathered at National Cathedral.
Nixon's vice president Gerald Ford did not speak at Nixon's funeral.
Clinton's inner circle is convinced Nancy Reagan has personally shut out Clinton from any high-profile participation.
"It is a state funeral, using tax dollars," the top Clinton insider explained.
Former President George H.W. Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will join President Bush in eulogizing Ronald Reagan, Reagan's office announced. Presiding over the service will be former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri, who is an ordained Episcopal priest. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the Rabbi Harold Kusher will give readings, while Irish tenor Ronan Tynan will sing.
The eulogy is being prepared by President Bush's chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, who also wrote the president's moving speech for a memorial service in the same cathedral after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Developing...
For you, everything has to be about politics! I pity you, I really do.
Al Gore should be invited to speak. He invented funerals, after all.
OH, I hope your right!!!!
Something Bill or Hillary can't fathom.
This episode truly shows the desperation of democrats. I know Rush says it all the time and we all know it in the backs of our minds.. but the overwhelming support and love for Reagan and all he stood for is simply too much for them to take.
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its not "for me", I'm not spinning this, the media is.
Maybe the Clinton's feelings will be so hurt, they'll skip the entire funeral altogether. /wishful thinking.
I thought that it was Bush 41 that she trashed to Chelsea.
The political damage was as a result of the content of the fune-rally. No one knew about Cheney not being invited and that sort of thing. It was the ranting and raving and laughing and crap. The National Cathedral event post-9/11 didn't include Clinton even though he was the one whose intelligence failures allowed it to be planned in 2000 and carried out in 2001. You didn't hear about outrage from the public on that. It's because the event was conducted with respect for the dead. It's all about the content.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
I don't think anything in her character or history -- or that of her husband -- indicates the quality of giving in to screaming, crying brats. If it was she that decided, she won't back down.
He's probably starting withdrawl right about now while heading around the corner into depression.
Kerry... in SIMI VALLEY.... Reagan Country.... Right off the Ronald Reagan Freeway near the Ronald Reagan Library... Republican majority since the '60's. And Kerry wants to come here?
ok. *shrug*
MOM! Where'd ya put the rope??
It seems to my it was some buddy/buddy joking going on.
For all the terrible lies Clinton told about Bush41 in the campaign, it seems that they really have become friends in the XPOTUS Club and enjoy talking with each other.
Amen.
Did anyone consider that Mr Reagan himself may have requested that Clinton not speak?
Carter has waaaaaaaay more class than Bill Clinton. (That's still not saying much.) Carter would never dream of wanting to speak or expressing the desire to speak. Reagan disrespected Carter so much that Nancy would never let it happen. I imagine that Reagan was just as disgusted with Filthy Bill.
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