I think the French say it best... "...une mer de merde."
Posted on 02/07/2006 3:39:43 PM PST by madprof98
President Bush, leading the nation in celebrating the life of Coretta Scott King, praised the civil rights leader for enduring extraordinary pain and loss to give generations of people "a better, more welcoming country."
"We knew Mrs. King in all the seasons, and there was grace and beauty in every season," Bush said at a New Birth Missionary Baptist Church service Tuesday that was attended by four presidents and a crowd of thousands.
"As a great movement of history took shape," Bush said, "her dignity was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation."
Bush noted that Mrs. King and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., her husband who was assassinated nearly 40 years ago, confronted vicious taunts, threatening phone calls and even the bombing of their home because of their early work for equal rights for blacks. Even after her husband's slaying and in the years since, she never gave up, he said.
"Coretta had every right to count the costs and step back from the struggle," the president said. "But she decided that her children needed more than a safe home - they needed an America that upheld their equality and wrote their rights into law. And because this young mother and father were not intimidated, millions of children they would never meet are now living in a better more welcoming country."
The funeral took on political overtones as former President Carter said of the Kings: "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps." Later, he said that Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal in America.
And both Bush and his father winced as they sat behind the pulpit and heard the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., take several jabs at foreign and domestic policies.
"We know there were no weapons of mass destruction over there, but Coretta knew and we knew there are weapons of misdirection right down here," Lowery said, complaining that were far too many in the U.S. are living in poverty and without health care insurance.
"For war, billions more, but no more for the poor," Lowery continued, a take-off of a lyric from the song "A Time to Love" which drew a roaring standing ovation.
Bush's father tried to defuse any political tension by joking that Lowery used to challenge him when he was president, too.
"I kept score in the Oval Office desk - Lowery 21, Bush 3," former President George H.W. Bush said. "It wasn't a fair fight."
The audience showed where its allegiance lay when former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, came to the podium to wild cheers and a long standing ovation. He opened by saying that he was honored to be with the other former presidents. Someone in the crowd yelled out, "Future president!" in reference to his wife's possible 2008 bid.
"We can honor Dr. King's sacrifice," Bill Clinton said. "We can help his children fulfill their legacy. ... Every one of us are in a way the children of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King."
I think Bush did the right thing going to the funeral. It wasn't Coretta Scott King who insulted him. She deserved the honors she received.
The behavior of the Democrats at Wellstone's funeral dishonored the dead. The behavior of Carter, Clinton, and the audience (which seems a more appropriate word than congregation in the circumstances) dishonors the dead, and it dishonors them. Not that they had any honor to begin with.
The Wellstone funeral lost several races for the Democrats and disgraced those who took part. Coretta Scott King's funeral will be a part of history, and once again it will disgrace those who misbehaved there.
President Bush did the right thing by being there. The Rats are going to bash him no matter what he does anyway,so he might as well continue to be the classy and dignified man that he is. Let the Rats continue to show that they have no class at all-on every occasion,preferably in front of cameras and microphones(I'm sure they will be happy to oblige,being the ranting media whores that they are). Let them by their own actions,more and more desperate and low-life,show the American people just what kind of people they are.
Thank you Bill O'Reilly
Bush showed class and dignity and many of the Democrats let the country know just how petty they are. What is it about funerals that brings out the stupidity of Democrats?
Putting King on the same level as the terrorists?
The DUmmies are having a field day, anyway. And knocking Bush for showing up at the funeral. Spiteful, nasty, small-minded people.
I guess Mrs. King couldn't get to pick who spoke at her funeral. So it became a political free-for-all.
I think the French say it best... "...une mer de merde."
Well said!!
I don't know which is worse. Michael Savage or the fools who listen to his paranoid rantings...........
I see the PLANTATION OWNERS really did themselves good today....and their slaves really were loyal to their "massers." Sheesh. If I were a Black person I would be soooooo embarrassed.
Just remember the very persons that call him an idiot blame him for manipulating them/their cause.
I have always laughed at this.
I cannot figure out what is more amusing your utter ignorance of politics or your arrogance in coming here to aggressively display it. As I said Boyo, the adults have no time to deal with your hissy fit tonight. We have more important things to do then validate your delusions of political relevancy.
What a biased story.
I thought Bush's speech was really good. He got dangerously close to becoming preacher-in-chief at times, which was awesome.
My own observation is the leaders of the Dems still think they are in high school/college but adults don't think that way.
I would bet that President Bush already knew that the lowlife scum in the Rat party would show their azzes at this memorial,just like they did at Paul Wellstone's.I believe that he has enough self-confidence and is secure enough in himself to not give a rat's stinky azz to care what they say. He knows who is going to look like the classless petty disgraceful losers that they are-the Rats.At the end of the day,he is still President with a Republican majority Congress,and the Rats are still-losers.
The Dems who were there acting as they did, insulting the President as he sat there, are just a continuation of segregation 21st century style.....and the continued demeaning of Black people throughout this nation.
I fully respect Mrs. King, and hope she is in a better place. But I have no interest in or respect for these ritual Democrat funerals.
If Bush had not shown up, the blacks would have attacked him for being racist or whatever they would come up with.
He is the president. He had to go.
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