Normally, I would not get involved in a debate like this, but you have insulted a friend here on FR...I can attest that OWF is a real person(LOL) and her son served in Iraq at the same time my hubby was there...in fact through FR they met at Ft Campbell while waiting to be deployed....they linked up again in Balad and spent an hour and a half talking........but, I guess we could both be lying.....you'll just never know..
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Man, this thread turned into an egg toss.
I believe President Bush deserves great credit and the highest applause for not falling into a Democratic trap. It took huge amounts of self control for him to be above all that. If he had said anything in response, the media would have bleated like sheep that he used the somber occasion to attack his political enemies. You would have practically seen cabs and buses driving by screaming these headlines: "Bush, not Hillary is mean," and "President a Christian? Not with these remarks." He did the right thing.
Now a question. Who lies in state next? Jesse Jackson? We have become such a bunch of sheep and lemmings that we fear speaking up about many issues for fear of being called a racist. That has to end. We've been cowtowing to angry people for more than 40 years now. And there is no pacifying large groups of black Americans who are accustomed to the welfare state and can put up the "racist" defense at any time to stop debate. Many of them now want reparations for slavery. There is no end to the words or nuances that can trigger the "racism" accusation. We all walk around on eggshells because of it.
Segregation was a sick practice not worthy of America. It had to end. We ended it. But now we have to stop honoring this secular religious worship of the Civil Rights Movement. We saw at this funeral what Lowery and others stand for: reverse racism and angry, selfish, socialism.
Otherwise get ready to say amen at Jesse's funeral.