Posted on 07/25/2005 12:41:42 PM PDT by Buckeyecop
When the family of Staff Sgt. Joseph Goodrich gathered in Pittsburgh for the fallen Marine's funeral, they expected a large crowd – after all, they've lived in the area for generations and Joseph had been a police officer before becoming a leatherneck – but they didn't expect to see Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor show up, hand out her business card and tell them "our government" opposes the war...
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Good Lord, this lt. governor is not only stupid, she no manners nor compassion. A real zero.
I could understand if she passed out business cards to promote Fast Eddie's "casinos for lower property taxes" program.
I have really respected President Bush's decision not to crash servicemen's funerals, which would turn them into political theater, but to extend his condolences in private.
Rendell's "apology" was rather tepid. I hope the PA GOP keeps the two of them "joined at the hip" in the upcoming election cycle.
At least show some respect for the grieving family.
bump
Un-fracking believable.
The best and brightest the Dimocrats have to offer I guess.
This woman is embarassing...there is a time and a place for everything. Regardless of political views or anything like that, she is out of line to bring something up like this at a funeral. There is a place for dissent if you do not agree with the government, and this was not that time.
Let's add insult to an already painful topic by saying her son died for no reason, since the government does not support him...
as crummy as it is, she went to one more funeral than Chillary.
Anti-War Dem campaigns at Marine's Funeral
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449833/posts
Lt. gov. crashed Marine's funeral, kin say [Pennsylvania outrage by Dem]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449489/posts
Soldier's funeral was not a 'function'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449413/posts
Politician crashes Marine's funeral
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449346/posts
Lt. gov. crashed Marine's funeral, kin say (comes uninvited and speaks anti-war at the funeral!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449282/posts
Lt. gov. crashed Marine's funeral, kin say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448942/posts
And related:
Rendell to send apology to Marine's family
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449995/posts
Rendell to send apology to Marine's family
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1449803/posts
What a role model she is for young women planning to get into politics. A real class act (not!)
OTOH Bush doesn't attend many of these affairs and he promotes an unnecessary war that has destroyed the lives of over 1730 US men and women, not to mention the uncounted tens of thousands of Iraqi noncombatants.
Let's honor those dead by seeking a prompt end to Bush's ungodly Iraq war!
MurryMom--so, you're back. And to what do we owe this pretentious visit?
Did you get fired from Moveon.org?
They're not "affairs", they're FUNERALS.
Funerals are for the families, not for self-serving politicians. No president since Eisenhower has attended the funerals of fallen soldiers.
We can assume by your comments that you also condemned FDR's unnecessary war with Germany and the hundreds of thousands of American males that died because of "Roosevelt's war"?
Troll alert!
A quote from the article: "Catherine Baker Knoll, who lives in nearby McKees Rocks, crashed the funeral, plopping herself down in the pew next to Linda Kubiak, Goodrich’s aunt. During the communion service, Knoll told Kubiak she attends 90 percent of these 'functions' across the state."
You'd engage in behavior like that at a stranger's funeral?!
Any person who would use their authority in such an abusive manner does not have the common sense , morals,decency, or character necessary to be an assistant turd sorter at the local sewage plant let alone a LT Gov.
She has no heart or compassion for the people she is suppose to protect...
imo
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