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."
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
"Every one of us are in a way the children of Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King"...
Gives a new meaning to: "Who's your daddy"? doesn't it?? :-)
American Blacks sink lower in political power. Coretta Scott King was a fantastic American for the entire country. The Democrat scum and Black leader vermin could not let the woman pass in dignity. As for the Clintons, they are nothing but pure excuses for human beings. Blacks, with leaders like you have, you are going nowhere fast!!! Dummies to the core!!! And...if you get your Democrat Scum into power, count on the Democrat aided terrorists to kill all of you, the Jews and the gays. You folks are not living in the real world. What a shame!!!
The democrats showing the world true class. /sarcasm
I don't think that are ANY depths to which a Rat cannot descend,LOL. I think all conservatives need to do is stand back and watch the circus-come election day,the clowns will REALLY be crying! And I will be laughing! Gloating! Preferably,in a Rat's face,LOL! Sweet revenge-on that day,I will be undignified on President Bush's behalf-I'M not the President,I can do that:)
I have no problem with what you think. You're entitled to your opinion, however vociferously I may disagree with it.
HOWEVER.......whenever I see the words Michael Savage equated with traditional Conservative thinking, it makes me livid!!
He most certainly is NO Conservative. He is a reactionary with psychotic, delusional tendencies. He is good, however, at what he does. His clever use of inflammatory words, coupled with his many contradictions of his own statements, is quite amusing to us "thinking" people. I listened to him the other night, and he contradicted himself 5 times in less than an hour. His childish name calling (Hush Bimbo) for instance, certainly should give you a hint as to his mental stability.
Is that about right?
I'm sure the "Lord" is taking "notes"....
Pitts is a pro-racist Oreo trying to defame the good names of Dr. King's offspring.
"The left loves to call the President an idiot.
President George W. Bush is no idiot."
The left is infested with idiots.
That too!
I was more along the lines of:
I'd be more embarrassed to lose to a mouse than to lose to a lion. Calling Bush a "mouse" is drawing attention to their weakness.
Did that make sense?
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Do you know of pastor Kurt Salierno. He has a street ministry in Atlanta
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Go ahead and rub it in!! The democRATS deserve it, and besides, I've been known to "rub it in" a bit myself!!
It feels sooooooo good, and it is sooooo well deserved!!
Dittos. While the children on the left continue to marginalize themselves and their 'cause' with the American people, leaders such as President Bush demonstrate what true class and leadership are all about.
America is watching you ... Dems ... comparing and contrasting everything you do, and not liking it one bit. This ain't 1968 anymore ......
You are being far, far too kind to the democRATS..............
Sorry, I do not.
I totally agree. The American people, by and large, will not like what they see from the democRATS today.
Just when you think the democRATS can't get any dumber, they do!! (and just in time for the midterm elections!!) Isn't that delicious??
Got your meaning. And agree!
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I thought it was just me!!!
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