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4 U.S. Presidents Expected at King Funeral (Live Thread)
AP on Yahoo ^ | Feb. 7, 2006 | Errin Haines

Posted on 02/07/2006 6:55:05 AM PST by 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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: corettaking; jimmycarter; king; wellstonememorial2; whitetrashcarter
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To: Getsmart64
Hey Pukin...I wish it were that simple.....even with the other news outlets...Kerry got wwwaaaayyyy to much of the vote.....Bush should have won in a landslide

You know how I like to think about that?

People have an unlimited capacity to be stupid.

Some people smoke cigarettes, some people are fat and don't exercise. Some people fly airplanes into the ground, and some people vote for Democrats.

What can I tell ya, except that I am still confident that the stupid people are still a minority.

941 posted on 02/07/2006 2:01:26 PM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: Libertarian444

yep..I saw that..she is a gushing liberal. I turned it off.


942 posted on 02/07/2006 2:01:33 PM PST by penelopesire
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To: hipaatwo

But.... Carter is going to travel all over the country to raise money for Jack's campaign. This means we'll be greeted with daily anti-Bush speeches from the wiezel and I pray Jack loses in Nevada.


943 posted on 02/07/2006 2:02:51 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Raebie
Here in Atlanta every channel is still covering the rally.

However, they cut into Oprah's 4-5 time slot. The black women will now join the white women who are furious because the soaps were preempted.

Jeopardy was preempted which caused a profanity laced tirade from my husband.

By the time this funerally ends the entire population will be against Mrs. King.
944 posted on 02/07/2006 2:03:45 PM PST by Republican Red (We will stay steadfast, we will not falter, we will never murtha)
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To: linda_22003

I thought differently when my mother died too,fortunately she had no political pull, so she was mourned only by those that loved her, not by those that wanted to be near someone famous.


946 posted on 02/07/2006 2:05:46 PM PST by jeremiah (MLK's main squeeze)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Bernice King up next to speak


947 posted on 02/07/2006 2:06:03 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Libertarian444
...and turn a solemn occasion into a commercial for the current-day race warlords of the Democratic Party.

You need to change that to overlords to make sense...

948 posted on 02/07/2006 2:07:37 PM PST by pageonetoo (email for Celebrity Cruises (and more)- www.acorntogo.com -Acorn Travel)
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To: pageonetoo

you didn't say anything in there to convince me he was a communist. Nothing will ever convince me of that, unless he said he was through his own words.

His actions sure as hell weren't communistic. Far from it.

BTW my dad grew up in the South and he has quite a different take on the way things were.


949 posted on 02/07/2006 2:07:46 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I guess I was wrong

CeeCee Winans is singing now

She sang at the DC Christmas tree lighting ... she has a very nice voice


950 posted on 02/07/2006 2:10:38 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: JFC

That's not the most becomming picture of Laura. She must have been ticked off when it was snapped.


951 posted on 02/07/2006 2:10:56 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: hipaatwo

6 hours later and this funeral is still going on!


953 posted on 02/07/2006 2:13:39 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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To: Flora McDonald

Looks like we didn't miss much.


954 posted on 02/07/2006 2:14:21 PM PST by Just A Nobody (NEVER AGAIN - Support our troops. I *LOVE* my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
The flowers must be starting to wilt..

sw

955 posted on 02/07/2006 2:14:25 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Raebie

Yep.


956 posted on 02/07/2006 2:14:38 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: AUsome Joy

451 bump


957 posted on 02/07/2006 2:15:05 PM PST by AUsome Joy
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To: Mo1

Now Bernice King is up speaking


958 posted on 02/07/2006 2:15:54 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Pukin Dog
What can I tell ya, except that I am still confident that the stupid people are still a minority.

I'd feel better if it were a bigger margin than the last election...

959 posted on 02/07/2006 2:16:32 PM PST by Getsmart64
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To: Mo1
Robert Schuller looks like he doesn't know what he's doing there.

I tuned in to hear BeBe Winan sing. I see Ma and Pop Winan are there, CeCe is there. Looks like a PTL Marathon, they got gold couches and chairs and the whole bit.

960 posted on 02/07/2006 2:16:35 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
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