Posted on 02/09/2006 7:04:39 AM PST by dson7_ck1249
In some form or fashion, I have known the players in what I am about to describe as a series of regrettable moments at the funeral of Coretta Scott King.
The one I know least, President George W. Bush, won both my sympathy and respect for gallantly enduring the slings and arrows pointed directly at him during what should have been a celebration of a great woman, but instead turned into a political rally
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
this is silly - all this attention just for sitting at the front of a bus....
How about "Low Class Acts, Featuring a Bunch of the Lowest of the Class Clowns."
well...that was Rosa Parks...
but I do think you have a valid point to say that there is a rather inordinate amount of hubbub surrounding any and all civil rights leaders, when they're certainly not the only ones worthy of veneration. And while I respect Mrs. King for her life of commitment to a cause that her husband really catalyzed...I do kind of have a problem with her getting the same kind of formalities (lying in state) that President Reagan got when he passed.
Wrong person. That was Rosa Parks. And your weak attempt to diminish what was a brave stand by her shows your true character. You might have a career speaking at Republican funerals and memorial services.
Funny. I don't remember any potshots at Slick Willie during President Reagan's funeral.
}:-)4
As El Rushbo pointed out, Bush was the only one with class.
What an absolute class act. Only someone with the true human warmth and dignity of President Bush's father could have reacted to such political savagery in such a disarming manner.
And then there is the president. When Lowery concluded his eulogy, President George W. Bush stood and embraced his verbal assailant. In my mind, at that moment, Bush rose to a new level of greatness...
And I did not realize until this article that former President Bush had the horrible task of following that hate-filled, petty preacher.
Mrs. King deserved better than the crap shown at her funeral service.
yup ,and, did'cha notice that Bar wasn't with "41" ??
... if Bar had been there , she would've given some folks "a piece of her mind"
... sotto voce , of course
Yes, yes, everyone, I know exactly who it was. Just a bit of humor for the humourless who are being outed here (at least Coop was respectful)
I'm glad my true character has been shown. Easy to determine this by reading about 10 words in a post and knowing absolutely positively nothing at all else about the person. Now THERE is a show of true character...
You mean like you did to Coretta Sc... er, Rosa Parks?
OOPS, meant to say at least dson7_ck1249 was respectful, nix the Coop comment please.
You'll never get it, so why bother?
Perhaps you've read about it? Or heard about it? You certainly didn't exhibit it here, but of course that doesn't stop your weak attempts to worry about my level of or lack of respect.
".... So allow me instead to change tacks by praising a father and son. Following Lowery's comments, George HW Bush helped dispel the tension by jokingly saying that his friend Joe Lowery almost always won the war of words when the two men had discussions during Lowery's visits to the White House.
What an absolute class act. Only someone with the true human warmth and dignity of President Bush's father could have reacted to such political savagery in such a disarming manner.
And then there is the president. When Lowery concluded his eulogy, President George W. Bush stood and embraced his verbal assailant. In my mind, at that moment, Bush rose to a new level of greatness.
I have not been wild about his profligate spending, his Medicare drug giveaway, or some of his other policies that I believe have steered the Republican Party off the Ronald Reagan-engineered road that led to GOP renewal and power in the 1980s and 1990s.
But I now better understand why he continues the fight in Iraq, despite the war's drag on his popularity. I better comprehend why he pushes issues often after the public has rejected them, most notably Social Security reform.
It's because he has genuine strength, fortitude and conviction. He possesses the ability to take punches and come up off the deck again and again.
In the church on the day of Mrs. King's funeral, I saw dignity from four fine children who had lost their mother.
I also saw it from a father and a son. They happened to be named Bush."
Thank goodness that the contest was between the low class Dem's.
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