Talk about class

[Tiger in Spain 0]

No place better than a funeral to conduct your underhanded sneak attacks.

KING FUNERAL TURNS POLITICAL: BUSH BASHED BY FORMER PRESIDENT, REVEREND

Tue Feb 07 2006 15:49:48 ET

Today's memorial service for civil rights activist Coretta Scott King -- billed as a "celebration" of her life -- turned suddenly political as one former president took a swipe at the current president, who was also lashed by an outspoken black pastor!

The outspoken Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ripped into President Bush during his short speech, ostensibly about the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war. 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," Lowery said.

The mostly black crowd applauded, then rose to its feet and cheered in a two-minute-long standing ovation.

A closed-circuit television in the mega-church outside Atlanta showed the president smiling uncomfortably.

"But Coretta knew, and we know," Lowery continued, "That there are weapons of misdirection right down here," he said, nodding his head toward the row of presidents past and present. "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!" The crowd again cheered wildly.

Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps." The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, again smiled weakly.

Later, Carter said Hurricane Katrina showed that all are not yet equal in America.

"This commerative cermony this morning, this afternoon, is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that 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," Carter said, the rest of his sentence drowned out by loud applause. "Those who were most devastated by [Hurricane] Katrina know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans. It is our responsibility to continue their crusade."

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[TrueBlue72 0]

I don't understand why Bush even went to that spectacle. He has no support or friends there. The segment of the black community represented by the Kings and their ilk are opposed to anything and everything that Bush tries to do. If they aren't against it before he proposes it, they are opposed as soon as he brings it up. Why give them the opportunity to bash him with him in the room? He should have simply chosen not to attend and let them all have fun without the presence of the leader of the free world.

[WarTim 3,457]

Kuddos to The President for attending and attempting to honor a good woman.

The fact that the libbies used a FUNERAL to pitch a hissy fit only serves to remind the Nation WHO they are and WHAT they stand for.

[saniflush 0]

I think the part I enjoyed most was when President Carter talked about the wire taps that the Kings had to endure......For those of you not keeping score at home it was the Kennedy's who had them tapped. Their own Democrat "FRIENDS".

[AUChizad 0]

I think the part I enjoyed most was when President Carter talked about the wire taps that the Kings had to endure......For those of you not keeping score at home it was the Kennedy's who had them tapped.  Their own Democrat "FRIENDS".

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Truth. This makes me so angry. The Kennedy's ordered the wire tap on MLK. Bush ordered wire taps on known terrorists communicating with Al-Qaeda operatives from within the US.

Yet somehow, they managed to slip that into "context" to bash Bush.

The thing that irks me the most is that he gets criticized and tounge lashed when he didn't go to some NAACP event a while back, but when he goes to something like this, he gets tounge-lashed at a public event in person!

[MDM4AU 336]

Kuddos to The President for attending and attempting to honor a good woman.

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Too bad President Lyndon Johnson (D) failed to show the same honor to her husband.