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What Is It With Democrats And Funerals?
polipundit ^ | February 07th, 2006 | Lorie Byrd

Posted on 02/07/2006 4:43:50 PM PST by george76

What is it that makes Democrats incapable of controlling their hostility, even during funerals?

Especially during funerals.

Rush Limbaugh just played a clip of today’s “Wellstone Funeral moment” from Rev. Joseph Lowry in which he raised the issue of weapons of mass destruction in the Coretta Scott King funeral, then talked about how not enough money is going to the poor.

I know I have seen figures that indicate that Bush has spent more on some programs for the poor than Clinton did, but it wouldn’t matter if he had spent ten times more.

Facts don’t matter.

This is pure theater, folks.

Can you imagine how the media would have reported a Republican using the Reagan funeral to make the point that Democrats were wrong about communism and that they are just as wrong on terrorism?

Fortunately we have a President with more class in his little finger than the entire Democrat party.

Following the Lowry comments, Bush gave him a hug.

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To: Sally'sConcerns

Good Find.


161 posted on 02/08/2006 8:37:05 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Reactionary
Haven't read through the posts, but the answer is simple. To the left, everything is political. Funerals, weddings, the planned "Gaying" of the White House Easter Egg Roll, the Boy Scouts, religion, plumbing (low-flow toilets), math (if 2,000 acres of rain forest are destroyed every day, how many acres are destroyed in a 365 day year), medicine (questionnaires at the doctor's office about how many firearms you own), etc. You name it; it's political. There is no time to them that should not be used to push a political advantage.

I saw a table discussion that included Rangel and a Republican strategist. At one point the Republican strategist turned to Rangel and said, "I don't want to silence you. As long as you're out there expressing your beliefs, we'll keep winning elections." I'm paraphrasing, but that was the substance. In one way, they anger me. Mrs. King's funeral could have been a time to honor her, but instead turned into a bout of political sniping because of comments by Carter and others at the funeral. On the other hand, they apparently learned nothing from the Wellstone funeral debacle, and that bodes well for the Republicans.

162 posted on 02/08/2006 8:38:20 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: sophist0914
A quiet, Baptist church in the south, just doesn't exist.

Wrongo, dude! Both of my parents had their services done in a Baptist Church in the South. And, dude they were dignified, respectful and somber services.

Besides which, you're completely missing the point. But then what would one expect?

soph·ist ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sfst)
n.

One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation. A scholar or thinker. Sophist Any of a group of professional fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic.

165 posted on 02/08/2006 8:47:45 PM PST by Sally'sConcerns (Native Texan now in SW Ok.)
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To: sophist0914
noob, I am NOT a "dude', and even if I were, your STUPID use of that word, immediately betrays your supposed "intelligence".

How YOUNG are you and WHY don't you know anything at all about MLK Jr., his wife, Carter, et al?

BOBBY KENNEDY was the AG, who set J.Edgar on MLK Jr.! And dear MLK was a serial adulterer; not to mention a virulent anti-Nam War protester, before he was murdered.

WHY do you think that it was just a "FUN", to bring up, by inferrence, those years of adultery, at Corretta's funeral? Ya think his kids got a "bang" out of it, do you?

Wakes are VERY different from FUNERALS!

This was NOT a "wake"!

Mrs. King, as far as I know, had NO Irish or Polish ancestors. Have YOU ever been to a BLACK FUNERAL? I have.

You're an utter and complete moron and/or a troll; not mention someone without any knowledge of good manners,proper public behavior, and a childish poster!

166 posted on 02/08/2006 8:52:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Richard Kimball
"On the other hand, they apparently learned nothing from the Wellstone funeral debacle, and that bodes well for the Republicans."

Indeed. They are shameless, and thus without the ability to understand the nature of the sacred.

It does bode well for Republicans. Most people are not shameless nihilists, contrary to what the Left would imagine them to be.

167 posted on 02/08/2006 8:53:25 PM PST by Reactionary (The Moonbats Need an Enema)
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To: sophist0914
This better the bloody hell NOT be a "smoke free zone", I doubt that you can afford to buy a Cohiba, and yes, I DO know what they cost!

Okay, so if you aren't a troll, then you act like one; same difference.

168 posted on 02/08/2006 8:55:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

The poster has given themselves away in their choice of a screen name...sophist?

soph·ist ( P ) Pronunciation Key (sfst)
n.

One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation.
A scholar or thinker.
Sophist Any of a group of professional fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic.

See, elaborate and devious argumentation. Superficial manipulator of rhetoric. Suits the troll to a T!


169 posted on 02/08/2006 8:57:49 PM PST by Sally'sConcerns (Native Texan now in SW Ok.)
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To: sophist0914

170 posted on 02/08/2006 8:58:26 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Reactionary

the term is DESPERATION....


171 posted on 02/08/2006 8:58:43 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: george76

I'm amazed they let Jimmy Carter out by himself. The only thing that shocked me was they kept Jessie buttoned up. Of course it is no secret that King's family dispises Jessie Jackson, mostly because of the "bloody hand" trick he pulled on Martin when he was shot.


172 posted on 02/08/2006 8:58:59 PM PST by greccogirl ("Freedom belongs to those who are willing to sacrifice the most for it")
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To: Sally'sConcerns

Yep, but he isn't even any good at any of that. LOL


173 posted on 02/08/2006 8:59:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: greccogirl
Bloody SHIRT, but otherwise, you're correct about the King family, Jesse, and his stunt.
174 posted on 02/08/2006 9:01:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
                                                    You Might Be A Liberal If...

You think that protestors outside nuclear power plants are dedicated activists, but protestors outside abortion clinics are dangerous zealots interfering with a legal activity.

You believe that even though the top 20 percent of taxpayers pay 80 percent of income taxes, that the rich are not paying their “fair share.”

You believe in global warming today just as firmly as you believed in global cooling back in the 1970s.

You have no problem with Hollywood movie stars flying around in private jets to give speeches on the evils of SUVs.

You deplore prejudice and bigotry in all its forms, but think that everyone in the “red states” is an idiot.

You are worried about how the French view Americans.
 
You believe that nativity scenes should be banned from public view...

175 posted on 02/08/2006 9:06:35 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

177 posted on 02/08/2006 9:14:16 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Sally'sConcerns
Sniff, sniff.... Hmmmm! Your posting history is rather interesting.

I've been keeping an eye out for that one. She made that ridiculous comment but when I posted a comment to her/he/she/it there was no response. I checked the posting history as well....I smell something that lives under a bridge, or under a DUngeon. lol ;)

178 posted on 02/08/2006 9:14:30 PM PST by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: nopardons
By Jove, I think you've sniffed out a damned troll! :-)

Hi nopardons. :) I'm so sorry I haven't freep-mailed you back. Posting, cleaning, posting, freezing....LOL Yep, I do believe there's a troll amongst us, but it hasn't posted much. Hit and run kind of troll.

179 posted on 02/08/2006 9:16:12 PM PST by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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To: nopardons; Sally'sConcerns

Dang it! I can't believe I missed this! This person finally came back to post more bullpucky. Obviously you two, and the Mod. have things under control. I suppose I should have done something yesterday when I responded to her idiotic post. I checked this morning but the poster hadn't responded to my comment.

Oh well, just water....I mean "troll" done gone under the bridge. LOL


180 posted on 02/08/2006 9:22:13 PM PST by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything.)
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