this is silly - all this attention just for sitting at the front of a bus....
Funny. I don't remember any potshots at Slick Willie during President Reagan's funeral.
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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.
".... 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.
I don't believe for a second that some of the speakers really knew the woman personally. I didn't watch the whole thing but I watched a lot of it and didn't see a tear shed by anyone.
The Lowrey fellow is a low-life poverty pimp in my view. Yea, I know his history but he proved what he's really all about. Just another guy that happens to have a certain color of skin and a big mouth that has won the "black leader lottery". He has no real job.
As far as Jimmah Carter? He's was the worst president in modern history. Jimmah was on the payroll for 4 years and he's turned that in to millions of dollars. He's another guy with no real job. He just wiggles his eyebrows and the left pours money in to Carter's nonprofit. The fact that Carter compared the tracking of international calls from moselm bad guys to wirtapping of MLK is just daft! MLK and Osama Bin Laden being compared? That's a slap at MLK's family. MLK pushed a non-violent agenda and Osama is a crazed maniac who wants to kill people.
I guess we can wait to see who next on the left kicks the bucket next and wait for "Welstone III".
It was a "Class" act alright, minus the "Cl".
Bush shouldn't have attended. The presence of that screwball Carter and the radicalization of many Black clergy should have been a tip-off as to what to expect.
He should have sent a wreath instead - a very small cheap one.
By the way, why the heck do these d@mn "churches" get away with tax-free status when they continue to use their pulpits as political sounding boards???!!!
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The only class act at King's funeral was President Bush.
"Former President Jimmy Carter went beyond the pale of presidential civility with his thinly veiled swipe at President Bush...."
This was the most disgusting occurrence at the "funeral" IMO. Jimmy Carter, the sorriest President this nation had in the 20th Century, dared to take a swipe at a sitting, war-time President. Jimmy Carter wouldn't make a decent scab on George W. Bush's ass.
If anyone would like to send an e-mail or make a phone call to express your disgust to Jimmy Carter's staff you might try this.
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
441 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, Georgia 30307-1498
Telephone: 404-865-7100
Fax: 404-865-7102
Email: carter.library@nara.gov
I'm sending an e-mail right now and then I will make a phone call. Someone like Rush, Sean or O'Reilly needs to head up a national campaign for people to express their disgust at a sorry, loser, former President would taking a swipe at a sitting, war-time President. I'd be willing to travel to Atlanta to protest outside the Jimmy Carter Library.
I am struck that by attacking Bush for the war in Iraq and surveilling the terrorists to protect his constituency, the American people, Lowery and Carter might as well have suggested the Kings not have jeopardized themselves, family and associates by leading the civil rights struggle to advance the interests of their constituency, African Americans. Leadership is about taking risk to achieve your ends. Bush has it; the Kings had it. Lowery and Carter? I think not.
The only CLASS evident at Coretta Scott King's funeral was by her four children, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Laura Bush.
Considering that liberals haven't a clue about class in the first place, they probably think the affair had class.
I worked with a French guy once who thought he had the utmost in class, yet, he would sit in his office and snort his snot all day long. It sounded gross and he always smelled, but he thought he was a class act.