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...
Get out .. I didn't think they would actually do it
LOL! That's cute!
You and faithincowboys always seem to be overly concerned about how the media will portray events. I'm not. And I haven't been for a while, because evidence shows the public is really losing faith in the media.
Yup, Fox covering it and showing a smiling Negroponte and Tony Blair.
Yes. It makes me sick, and angry. It is so smallish in nature. OF COURSE HE MET WITH REAGAN MORE...wasn't he a senator? (And I'll bet Reagan saw right thru him....big time!)
It WAS nonpartisan, until you got there, bill.
The top source says Clinton has been critical that both Bush presidents will address the crowd gathered at National Cathedral.
Are they entirely sure he’s only speaking of himself here? After all, We Are The President™.
And I'm quite sure that he's infuriated about the timing--wasn't his "book" due out right about now? Sucks being a publicity hound.
Things are turning for Bush, the dims will now step up their lies and rhetoric(how can it get worse?) My hope is that it puts them in a minority for ever, one can wish.!
Did the reporter also give us any idea why President Bush....while fighting a war for our survival and steering our economy to recovery...should have spent his valuable time with the Junior Senator from MA?
"Pyongyang uses advanced tech to extend range of No-Dong missile". Maybe Clinton would like to speak about this?
Ummmm .. Senator Kerry .. MAYBE IF YOU SHOWED UP FOR WORK YOU MIGHT MEET PRESIDENT BUSH MORE OFTEN TOO
Kerry sounds like and is a spoiled child. He is not fit to be President of the United States.
KEWL!
It's hard to tell with Dems. When they blush, only the cheeks they sit on turn red.
Check THIS out!!!
Dems never seem to feel red-faced about anything. And I agree with you..if it was a Republican acting like this, I would be deeply embarrassed. Clinton has no shame. Neither does Kerry.
Something tells me the security counsel members know that Bush is going to be re-elected.
Did you happen to just see Kerry's campaign event in Simi Valley?
It was really gross!!
How about the fact Reagan was president more than twice as long as Bush?
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