Posted on 02/07/2006 11:32:39 AM PST by pillut48
"Thousands Remember Coretta Scott King" ---------- I was watching Fox News and they showed Jimmy Carter speaking at Coretta Scott King's funeral, and sure enough, he started talking about illegal wire-tapping and other examples of government run amok. I am appalled that he would use this opportunity to bash the President, but not really surprised. :-(
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I wouldn't watch the mess, but I followed it here on FR.
God bless President Bush, our lovely First Lady, Laura and America!
In the words of Betty D. - the rest can all go to.....
I wonder what happened to the demands for reparations?
You said it well, Coop.
I am so angry with their display that I just have to ignore it to keep calm.
I know..."all it takes is a few good people to ignore them and others will accept their actions and words as truth".
I will try to counter them some way. THINKING!
OK...got it. I am writing an open letter with special copies to the parties involved. 100 stamps purchased and then mail to newspapers etc. too...
Seems like $39 could be better spent supporting the troops...I'll have to THINK again.
I give Bush high marks for attending an event he likely knew would turn south for him personally. Carter and the preacher who tried to make points at Bush's expense, were exhibiting the pinicle of rudeness.
Coretta was never a favorite of mine. That doesn't mean that I didn't think she deserved a first class endoff. The events of the last week or a little more, were a little over the top as far as I was concerned, but hey, give Coretta the royal treatment, I didn't mind. Listening to the hoots and hollers that followed the insults from the platform, it was rather evident that Coretta was the last thing on those folk's minds. No, stick it to Bush outranked kisses to Coretta. What a sad commentary on several levels.
Under Bush just about every category has been impacted favorably with regard to Blacks. And this after an administration rumored to be headed up by 'the first black' president.
Clinton may have accidently said one thing of merit yesterday. He said, "We should remember that there is a body in this casket." Yes Bill, folks should have.
About the only one I noticed who did was the person who was the butt of the misguided insults.
Much of what the black pastor stated with regard to Bush was patently false. To have a man in that position that didn't know better, applauded and supported by a cross section of people who didn't know better, was a sad commentary for someone who deserving of a decent sendoff, if not a queenly sendoff.
Coretta would have probably agreed with the Pastor and Carter. Perhaps the sendoff was fitting after all.
President Bush, you showed class. That's all a person can do at times. In this instance, you came off looking stately and your detractors came of looking... well rather sad.
Just add this to the loooong list of things Jimmuh Cartuh is too stupid to know...
Whenever I see that plea of his (Carter's) for a donation to cure pancreatic cancer, I scream at the TV,
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Agree. HE'S the one we get to keep? At least Billy KNEW he was a national joke.
Same with Kennedy. All those sons and Teddy the Olympic swimmer is the one who lives.
God does have a sense of humor.
HAHAHAHHA.
Good dig
Well said, DoughtyOne. Thank you. God Bless President and Laura Bush.
bttt
I was at work all day and only got to see a few clips on TV when I got home. I was pretty disgusted by what I saw. Late last night I watched some of the funeral on CSPAN. It was late in the service, all the politicians had already gone, and the only people who were speaking then were friends and family members (sisters, sisters-in-law, cousins, a nephew, etc), and their comments were good. They spoke of the woman they knew as family for many years.
The politicians and the political activist preachers from earlier in the service were nowhere to be found at that point in the service, so I was relieved to see the service had returned to a more appropriate remembrance of Mrs. King's full life.
The people who disgraced themselves at the service earlier should be ashamed at their behavior, but I know they won't be.
Yesterday, I learned his son who moved to Colorado a few years ago is running for a Senate seat....
Maybe that's why Jimmy is turning into Mullah Omar......he wants to be sure all of the CO lefties vote for his boy. (Who can't seem to hold down a job.)
"Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about." - Sir Winston Churchill
Coretta would have probably agreed with the Pastor and Carter. Perhaps the sendoff was fitting after all.
No need in dragging her down with those hate-filled goons. She wasn't around to defend herself. Like you, I think she deserved a classy farewell. She got anything but...
I'm guessing the last words Jimmah will ever hear are, "I never knew you."
Allow one who lived through his presidency in the midst of her prime of life to recap:
-long gas lines; odd license #'a on odd days; even on even days.
-then there was the time Carter told us that he liked to start a fire in summer and turn on the air conditioning. Like that isn't wasting energy.
-Oh my....15-20% mortgage rates.
-a year without Christmas lights, remember that? Saved energy.
-the mad bunny
-the Iran-hostage crisis. Failed rescue attempt. Hostages released the day Reagan was inaugurated.
-"general malaise"
-economy in doldrums. Spent entire four years of his presidency worrying about my job.
Ah, yes. those wonderful Carter years. May history not be re-written. I lived through them. The man single-handedly turned me from a moonbat liberal to , well at the least a moderate.
If it's possible, the man is a worse EX-PRESIDENT then he was a PRESIDENT.
Let us never forget. So long as I am around, I shall remind you.
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