4 U.S. Presidents Expected at King Funeral (Live Thread)

AP on Yahoo ^ | Feb. 7, 2006 | Errin Haines

[katieanna]

LITHONIA, Ga. - Shivering in near-freezing temperatures, thousands of people waited hours in line Tuesday for one last chance to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King before her funeral.

"There's one word to describe going to go see Coretta — historic. It's good to finally see her at peace," said Robert Jackson, a 34-year-old financial consultant from Atlanta whose 10-year-old daughter, Ebony, persuaded him to take her to the visitation.

The lines had already started forming by 3 a.m. By the time the doors opened at 6:30 a.m., people toward the end were warned that if they stayed in line they likely wouldn't get into the funeral because of long lines that were already forming there.

An estimated 10,000 people, including four U.S. presidents, were expected to attend the midday funeral at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where King's daughter Bernice is a minister.

[Howlin]

Let's not disrespect the style of singing of people different than we may be familiar with.

What the hell is that suppose to mean?

FYI, there are some of us on here who actually know good singing when we hear it; that wasn't it.

No matter what "style" of singing it was suppose to be.

[spectre]

"Dreadful"...says it all..

sw

[andyland]

Agreed. The singing was awful regardless of the style.

[Churchillspirit]

Send me

You are so right.

What a blatant bit of politicking. These clintons have no shame.

[linda_22003]

Apparently YOU do; why don't you tell us? one is a minister at the church where this funeral is being held, I have heard.

[Howlin]

These things are so confusing, aren't they?

Are we not suppose to say it's horrible because he's black and blind?

[JFC]

strange things for a funeral/dnc pep rally/hillyforpresident Rally.


Actully, I figured it would be as much. It all started when bill and hill took the mic.

[bonfire]

Just drink the kool-aid, howlin'. It won't hurt a bit. Really. :)

[andyland]

I guess. I have never fallen for that PC junk.

Stevie has had better efforts....

[wardaddy]

Let's not disrespect the style of singing of people different than we may be familiar with

oh puhlease...acapella is often an excuse....like everyone thinks they are Aretha...they aren't..

vocal harmony is not by default relative

[OldFriend]

Oh, well that explains all that head bobbing by bubbette.

If she's the future of the dem party, they're doomed.

[OldFriend]

LOLOL....so he mentions Wellstone!!! LOL.....dummies are them!

[Churchillspirit]

I hope someone has a picture of Hitlery at The State of the Union address when the President mentioned two of his father's favorite people. Her expression then was priceless.

[half-cajun]

Oh my gosh. I just left for 2 hours to run some errands. Came back and this service is still on!! Can't believe it.

[DCPatriot]

Had the sound muted while Bubba and Hillary were speaking.

Hillary bobbing and nodding her head reminded me of the bobble-head dolls in the rear window.(..of somebody else's car of course);^)

[confederacy of dunces]

I am proud to say my first vote was for Reagan in the 1976 primary! Be glad you were climbing trees and throwing rocks instead of being lectured to about your malaise and how you should wear sweaters and lower your expectations and we had to understand the Iranians who took American hostages and it was inevitable we would lose the cold war. Carter always was a narcissitic, petty, bitter, self righteous humbug.

Oh, ag. "Jimmy Who?" I remember that stuff. Yuck.

I campaigned for Ford. Heh.

[OldFriend]

Is that what Stevie Wonder is doing.........singing???????

[Howlin]

Chris Matthews just said Lyndon Johnson wiretapped MLK.

It was the Kennedys.

Wiretaps, which were initially approved by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, were maintained on Dr. King's home telephone from October 1963 until mid-1965; the SCLC headquarter's telephones were covered by wiretaps for an even longer period. Phones in the homes and offices of some of Dr. King's close advisers were also wiretapped. The FBI has acknowledged 16 occasions on which microphones were hidden in Dr. King's hotel and motel rooms in an "attempt" to obtain information about the "private activities of King and his advisers" for use to "completely discredit" them. 2

[JFC]

http://drudgereport.com/flash8.htm


Drudge sums it up!