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CLINTON DISAPPOINTMENT: LEFT OFF FUNERAL SPEAKERS LIST (Updated)
Drudge Report | 6/8/04

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'...


UPDATED:
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE JUNE 08, 2004 11:02:52 ET XXXXX

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...


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To: F.J. Mitchell
"When Clinton dies, Hillary can invite whom ever she wishes to speak at his service."

WHEN CLINTON DIES, CONSERVATIVES WILL LOOK LIKE THIS


701 posted on 06/08/2004 12:21:24 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: lainie

Clinton, Go away!


702 posted on 06/08/2004 12:22:19 PM PDT by b4its2late
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To: F.J. Mitchell
When Clinton dies, Hillary can invite whom ever she wishes to speak at his service.

I doubt Hillary will want anything to do with Bill's funeral. He'll be dead and not very useful to her and her future political ambitions.

Bill is only useful to Hillary while he is alive.

703 posted on 06/08/2004 12:22:26 PM PDT by Vision Thing (If you neglect to study Reagan, you'll never understand America.)
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To: MadIvan

Good to see your post, I've missed them. Seems like I hadn't seeen your name in a while. Oh, and yes, when it comes to Slick, it's all about the money.


704 posted on 06/08/2004 12:23:03 PM PDT by Bubbette (President Reagan, you are my hero and mentor.)
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To: mewzilla

Yeah, his publicity people are definitely driving this. It doesn't matter if he gets to speak or not, now. It's become about him. He's probably over the sink right now....


705 posted on 06/08/2004 12:23:22 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Retrosexual Vietnam veteran against John Kerry, proud to be a "crook" and a "liar.")
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To: lainie
Rabbi Harold Kusher will give readings

Huh?

706 posted on 06/08/2004 12:24:26 PM PDT by wardaddy (This is it. We either win and prevail or we lose and get tossed into that dustbin W mentioned!)
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To: Quilla

Taking a vacation day here... I don't expect there're many businesses in the Bay Area that'll close out of respect for RWR unless ordered to do so.


707 posted on 06/08/2004 12:24:27 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: clintonh8r
Just forgot who the Freeper was that had his expression on Klintoon,
"I despise him then. I despise him now. I will despise him until he dies. And then, I will despise his memory."
seems very appropriate now...
708 posted on 06/08/2004 12:25:41 PM PDT by Toidylop
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To: mewzilla

Of course slick willie went public with his whining.......


709 posted on 06/08/2004 12:25:58 PM PDT by OldFriend (LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
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To: exile

Fatty Unbuckle? That is funny stuff.

Clinton & his ilk did nothing but vilify the 80's and Reagans policies.


710 posted on 06/08/2004 12:26:05 PM PDT by Feiny (Hail to the Chief!!!)
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To: F.J. Mitchell
When Clinton dies, Hillary can invite whom ever she wishes to speak at his service.

Paging Al Franken...please pick up the white courtesy phone.

711 posted on 06/08/2004 12:26:54 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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My Son has hijacked my TV..... Has Kerry shown up yet?


712 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:05 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: Bahbah
jumps out in front again

this will continue to happen over and over again

... until he makes the mistake of jumping out in front of my car, you're probably right.

713 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:06 PM PDT by katana
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To: lainie

Clinton can speak --- His speech wil be written by Peggy Noonan.


714 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:36 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (NEOCON NOW)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Re: Pics in post 694...thanks for a great reminder!


715 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:40 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: OldFriend

I can believe he's whining. But the sheer moral bankruptcy and obduracy of people who don't realize how that whining's gonna look...Boy, that just floors me.


716 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:43 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Darth Reagan

http://www.nixonfoundation.org/Research_Center/Nixons/RichardNixonFuneral.shtml

I'm too lazy to do the html...but if you read this...George HW Bush NOR Gerald Ford spoke at Nixon's funeral. Clinton did simply because he was the sitting president.


717 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:47 PM PDT by jamz
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To: Steve_Seattle

I agree... Clinton would shed those Ron Brown tears and give a lovely speech that might even choke us up. I can't imagine Carter having anything nice to say.


718 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:52 PM PDT by ambrose (President Bush on Reagan: "His Work is Done and Now a Shining City Awaits Him")
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To: OldFriend

Dick Cheney filled in for Ford yesterday at the National Press Club's "Ford Journalism Awards". I thought then that he would not be able to make it to the funeral. Didn't he just recently have a stroke(?). He was in the hospital for something. Ford is 91. Birthday today or soon.


719 posted on 06/08/2004 12:27:58 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 ("Proud to be an American")
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To: valleygal

It's not just you; I've been begging for some sort of Freeper Infirmary from Jim Robinson!


720 posted on 06/08/2004 12:28:34 PM PDT by Howlin
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