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Tue 7 Feb, 2006 03:22 pm
Is greeted by her husband, and driven to their heavenly mansion by their personal man servant Lester Maddox.
Now that's heaven. :wink:
I just watched her funeral on nbc live.
>sigh<
when the historical women die, they die in groups..
I was working inside a woman's home today. She was gone, but her radio talked on. She had it set on KSEV, a hardcore conservative station, Houston home of Rush Limbaugh. The guy talking was castigating the Democrats who showed at Coretta's funeral. He said Clinton was out of line, mentioning the other presidential figures present and then hinting his wife was a president to be.
After that, he spoke of Jimmy Carter as being totally without class for refusing to shake GW Bush's hand.
I heard it said thet Bush visibly winced when one black speaker denounced the Iraq war and said that the Republicans are taking everything, leaving nothing to the poor.
Anyway, I didn't get to see any of it.
I watched mere seconds on Dys and Diane's excellent tv. (I'm still not outta their hair).
I am so shallow. I was looking at Bill Clinton's hair.
When I was first listening to him, his hair was sort of youngish brownblondgrey. It seemed, as his presidential aspirations jumped, to get nifty steely all of a sudden. Now am I seeing white?
Heck, my aunt's and my uncle's hair was white before thirty, probably weird as hell for them. Still, Clinton duo hair has had an aspect of interest for me.
This diversion into my odd interests has not been intended as a knock on Clintons or others who play with hair color - possibly the opposite. But that was what I saw/heard in two minutes.
Shallow, she's so shallow...
Not Hillary, I meant myself.
On Coretta, I hardly knew her, which I hope to remedy with some google attempts on recent articles.
Bill Clinton was easily the most popular speaker there.
edgarblythe wrote:I was working inside a woman's home today. She was gone, but her radio talked on. She had it set on KSEV, a hardcore conservative station, Houston home of Rush Limbaugh. The guy talking was castigating the Democrats who showed at Coretta's funeral. He said Clinton was out of line, mentioning the other presidential figures present and then hinting his wife was a president to be.
After that, he spoke of Jimmy Carter as being totally without class for refusing to shake GW Bush's hand.
I heard it said thet Bush visibly winced when one black speaker denounced the Iraq war and said that the Republicans are taking everything, leaving nothing to the poor.
Anyway, I didn't get to see any of it.
I heard portions of this. The left should be ashamed. It was disgraceful affront to the legacy of the King family.
We all have our viewpoints on this. I believe Coretta would have approved.
Momma Angel wrote:edgar,
Thanx for telling about that. It's a sad thing, isn't it? Using a woman's funeral for one's own personal agenda? I am beginning to think that even the most common sense decencies are disappearing. At the woman's funeral? Such a shame. 
I guess Christians don't do that with Jesus?
My riff on my view of Bill's hair on the two minutes I watched aside, I'd be surprised the left has anything to be ashamed of except for understandable loss of energy.
What was the disgraceful afront?
Politics, as usual. Bush had no business being there, after the way he's dealt with these people, but he needed a good headline.
I'm sorry, but I just do not believe a funeral is the appropriate forum for political ranting, and to do so, shows indeed how we are losing ground as a civilized society. Good manners still matter, whether we agree with someone's views or not. No doubt Coretta would have agreed with the sentiments expressed, but as I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, I think even she might be embarassed by the rude, ugly tone of what went on in Atlanta today.
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