If Bush hadn't attended, he would have been criticized for not doing so. This worked out for him best -- he came across as the classy person he really is, and the Democrats came across as the hateful racists that they really are. This funeral was nothing more than another Paul Wellstone memorial political rally, and it will have the same result -- public anger at the vulgar displays of hatred.
Perhaps you're right on that point.
I still don't think she rated a Presidential presence or a position in the White House.
And again, I think tax free status should be jerked from any minister, priest, rabbi or imam who uses his pulpit for political purposes.