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...
P.S. bill klintoon...you are just a really bad memory now.
deal with it and get over it you arkansas hillbilly redneck piece of dog droppings!!
It is not about you anymore and it will never be about that fat ankled bull dyke "wife" of yours. break a wishbone to see which one was worse prez in history...u or the p"nut guy with no brain.
I predict Tynan will sing 'The County Derry Air (Danny Boy)' and that there will not be a single dry eye in the Western Hemisphere...
I never heard that about DiMaggio-Clinton. I heard the story about DiMaggio stepping out of a lineup at an old-timers ballgame so as not to shake RFK's hand as he walked up the base line and greeted the ballplayers.
Sticking their toe in the water to see if they can start spouting..."this is nothing but a politcal event" dreck...get ready for Sunday talk shows and HOW...GW Bush was manipulating the death to promote his presidency...same dumb ass excuse they bantered around about using the image from 911 in GW's ad...to them EVERYTHING is either good for THEM...or it is a dirty partisan political tactic and they are perpetually appalled...
It's what happens when an Arky trailer trash slut mates with a drunken itinerant without benefit of matrimony. Something happens when the sterno and STDs combine.
AMERICAN JUBILATION: CLINTON LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST
Look how the scumbag democrats all booed Senator Lott at the Paul Wellstone Memorial service.
And you tell us trust any of the democrats at Ronald Reagan's Memorial service?
I think WJC would give RR at least as respectful an oration as he gave RMN. He emulated Pres. Reagan in certain ways. However, Barbara Walters on ABC on Sat. made it clear that Mrs. Reagan would have Pres. Bush speak, and maybe Pres. Ford, but that certain former Presidents would not be speaking. That made clear, Clinton's "anger" that neither he nor President Carter had been asked to speak "as of yet" shows his complete lack of regard for the bereaved widow, and his belief that he can still shame her into changing her mind. I doubt that either the Clintons or Carters can count themselves among Nancy's 3,000 closest friends. Yet she was gracious enough to invite them anyway. More class on her part than either of them deserved.
" Screw you hippie ! "
I don't think the American people should have to deal with the hypocrisy dripping from Clinton if he were allowed to speak. I don't care what he said -- it's not about WJC.
Well, I should HOPE so. The gall, the arrogance, the stupidity to think that Clinton thought he had a right to speak at President Reagan's funeral. Why would he think he could ride on Mr. Reagan's coattails??
"It is a state funeral, using tax dollars," the top Clinton insider explained.
...and as a taxpayer I do not want Bill J. Clinton anywhere near the podium, waxing "sorrowful" at the funeral of MY president.
Bill Clinton removed his pants and used the sink.
Nuff said.
One can only imagine the tasteless spectacle planned by Clinton.
When he does that lower lip-biting thing I want to vomit three days worth.
There is no chance, no way, no how, that Republicans will turn the Reagan funeral into an "elect Bush" screaming orgy of a pep rally. There is NO parallel with the Wellstone funeral. Democrats are trying every chance they get to equate the two funerals, maybe to rub some of the stain off the Wellstone debacle. Don't fall for the trap. Nancy has been more than magnanimous by inviting Carter and Clinton to the funeral services.
That is possible
You know .. I don't remember hearing about such griping when LBJ passed away ..
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