You mean more like this:
Posted on 02/08/2006 9:20:47 AM PST by yoe
At the funeral of Coretta Scott King, President Bush said her dignity was a “daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segregation.” The president, with class and compassion, spoke at New Birth Missionary Church in Atlanta, Georgia, to honor the wife of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unfortunately, there were others who spoke and turned what should be a sacred ceremony into an opportunity to engage in left-wing attacks.
As noted in the story Political Posturing at King Funeral Draws Cheers, Jeers, liberal activists used the funeral of Coretta Scott King to demean President Bush and attack the Republican Party. In a setting that should have brought people together, so-called leaders such as former President Jimmy Carter and Rev. Joseph Lowery chose instead to engage in racial politics and left-wing talking points.
Stoking anger about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, former President Carter said, “The struggle for equal rights is not over. We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.”
Carter also alluded to President Bush’s current NSA surveillance program but noting the “’secret government wiretapping’ of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. many years ago.”
Carter failed to mention that the wiretapping of the Rev. King was ordered by then Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.
Rev. Joseph Lowery felt it appropriate to focus on Iraq during Mrs. King’s funeral. In his comments he said, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there, but Coretta knew, and we know, that there are weapons of misdirection right down here.”
The antics bring back memories of the funeral of the late Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone. During that funeral in 2002, which was held just prior to the November elections, Democrats such as Harry Reid turned the solemn event into a left-wing political rally.
Reid said during his comments, “The people of Minnesota are going to have to decide who they want to represent them in the United States Senate, whether they want someone who has the legacy of a Hubert Humphrey and a Paul Wellstone or whether they want somebody that is conducting polls while somebody is taken out of the woods, having been killed in a plane crash.”
President Bush left politics out of the ceremony and, instead, focused on honoring the Mrs. King for her strength and achievements.
In that life, Coretta Scott King knew danger. She knew injustice. She knew sudden and terrible grief. She also knew that her Redeemer lives. She trusted in the name above every name. And today we trust that our sister Coretta is on the other shore — at peace, at rest, at home.
There is a time and place for politics, and there is a time and place for honoring loved-ones as the pass from this world. Funerals are not political rallies, and the comments from the likes of Carter only provide further evidence that the left knows no bounds from which to attack.
Everday Democrats regularly write letters to the editor in my local newspaper. They hate Bush, and they're out of control.
You mean more like this:
Another book....awwww good, more toilet paper....
Sheets was heard saying ni****S on the Tony Snow Program, but no one asked him about {Not a chance son, he ain't a republican}.
The lefties dictating terms to the Democratic Party care about nothing but politics and getting their way. They care nothing for God, or a person's non-political thoughts.
Only a Democrat could stand on a coffin and be even smaller that before.
"They dishonored Coretta.. crapped in her casket.. lowest of the low."
And those living on the plantation will vote for the RATS again in 2006.
Wow. Juan Williams on Fox now and even he's saying Carter was over the line.
ML King was a Civil Rights Leader and and “anti-war” leader”, and toward the end of his life he had make it clear that he considered the latter as or more important than the former.
This was uncomfortable to many who – then as now - wish to embrace the former while ignoring or downplaying the latter, but his anti-war beliefs were an integral part of King’s life and King’s message, and it’s not surprising that one of his associates from that era would cite both parts of Kings message in a eulogy – in fact, it would have dishonest to Kings memory and his principles to soft-pedal this fact aspect of his life and work because prominent members of the audience might not have agreed with them.
The way I see it the President attended this event not in his role as representative of his party or philosophy, but rather as a sort of “official” representative of an American Public that’s deeply divided and conflicted about many of these same issues, he knew he was choosing to attend an event honoring individuals who espoused values and polices with which he in part disagrees; and he knew that those disagreements would likely be voiced.
In such a situation IMO a President's role is to honor by their presence that part with which they agree, and to react with the class and restraint befitting their role as President of all the people when the part with which they disagree is valorized. Which is exactly what this President did.
But this was an event honoring ML and Coretta Scott King, and as they attempted to honor King’s memory the speakers chosen by the Family owed no responsibility to tailor their comments to insure the comfort of anyone present – even the President of the United States – just as the eulogists at the Funeral of a Ronald Regan would have no responsibility to downplay his opinions and polices for the comfort of Democrats present.
ML King was a Civil Rights Leader and and “anti-war” leader”, and toward the end of his life he had make it clear that he considered the latter as or more important than the former.
This was uncomfortable to many who – then as now - wish to embrace the former while ignoring or downplaying the latter, but his anti-war beliefs were an integral part of King’s life and King’s message, and it’s not surprising that one of his associates from that era would cite both parts of Kings message in a eulogy – in fact, it would have dishonest to Kings memory and his principles to soft-pedal this fact aspect of his life and work because prominent members of the audience might not have agreed with them.
The way I see it the President attended this event not in his role as representative of his party or philosophy, but rather as a sort of “official” representative of an American Public that’s deeply divided and conflicted about many of these same issues, he knew he was choosing to attend an event honoring individuals who espoused values and polices with which he in part disagrees; and he knew that those disagreements would likely be voiced.
In such a situation IMO a President's role is to honor by their presence that part with which they agree, and to react with the class and restraint befitting their role as President of all the people when the part with which they disagree is valorized. Which is exactly what this President did.
But this was an event honoring ML and Coretta Scott King, and as they attempted to honor King’s memory the speakers chosen by the Family owed no responsibility to tailor their comments to insure the comfort of anyone present – even the President of the United States – just as the eulogists at the Funeral of a Ronald Regan would have no responsibility to downplay his opinions and polices for the comfort of Democrats present.
(Sorry for the double post - no idea why that happens sometimes....)
When one has no spiritual sense a dead body is just so much trash.
And do you think the slightly 'muted' reaction by the MSM would be the same TODAY........had two ex-REPUBLICAN Presidents and a Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell type demeaned and belittled a sitting Democrat President present at a born again Christian funeral church service for RONALD REAGAN?
The problem is that President Bush has never been a full-fledged racist who therefore can repudiate and be forgiven for a past history of pure evil against their neighbors of different color (like Jimmy Carter did in 1975, or Sheets Byrd, or even George Wallace--that's him above holding hands with Bush basher Joseph Lowery). Old racists, it seems, really appeal to the leftist DUmmies because saying "sorry" always forgives a wrong doing. I just wonder why Adolph Hitler didn't discover this magical political principal before the world came tumbling down on him in 1945 < /sarc >
He was not attending an "event". He was attending a funeral! It was about Coretta Scott King! Not about Katrina! Not about Wiretapping! Not about the Iraq war! Not about the poor! It was supposed to be to about her and to remember her and her contributions (whatever they were). This was disgusting as hell! How many funerals (other than Wellstones) do you know of where the person in the coffin was not the main reason of the event? Maybe I'm old fashioned. I just don't believe in speaking ill of the dead or ill of the person eulogizing her!
And yet, one searches their memory in vain to recall any partisan political vitriol being spewed at Reagan's funeral.
Oh, that's right there was some vitriol. From Ron Reagan, Jr. who decided to seize the opportunity of a public gathering to celebrate the life of his father and take a cheap shot at President Bush's religious observance.
Look, those who want to claim some "middle ground" on this incident should save themselves the effort and embarrasment. The left acted like an ass at Wellstone's memorial and they did it again at Mrs. King's and there's no two ways about that. Regardless of speculation about where Martin would have stood on Iraq or Bush's domestic policies.
That this needs to be pointed out is another road sign on the highway to hell that our politics is clearly on.
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