Politicize a Dead Woman

Politicise a dead woman who breathed the political process? Baloney. Also, bologna.

Stale baloney, too.

I think

A: this is the type of thing Coretta would have liked and approved of.

B: The people who made the statements actually knew her personally...something bush damn sure can't say....

C: bush and bushco have dug their own graves(metaphorically, I don't need any black helicopters at my house) as far as being left wide open for whatever nasty remarks they find themselves on the receiving end of. No difference between this and the fact that the right never misses any opportunity to slam a Clinton.

Damned uppity blacks, gettin' political and forgettin' their places and speakin' out against the white folks runnin' the plantation and causin' trouble again.

Someone contact Simon Legree.

Quickly!

yes, she was known to be totally un-politically.

The bear et. al. gave already the right comments.

So did you, Walter. We're on a roll here!

The woman wasn't "turning in her grave", she was dancing in it.

Again, Boortz sums up my thoughts nicely

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BOORISH, IGNORANT BEHAVIOR

Was it a funeral? Or was it a political rally? Sadly, both. No .. I didn't watch it. It's hard to watch television when you're under general anesthesia. But I did manage to listen to some sound clips and watch a bit of video [view Lowery and presidents] yesterday evening. It looks like there were some old leftist warhorses at the Coretta Scott King funeral yesterday who were determined to use the occasion to get in some shots against President Bush. In today's politics, that wasn't surprising. You do remember the Paul Wellstone funeral in Minnesota, don't you? The 2002 memorial service turned into a full-fledged campaign rally for Walter Mondale who was running against Republican Norm Colman for Wellstone's seat. Republicans at this memorial service, Trent Lott, for instance, were booed by the crowd. Some pundits believe that this memorial-service-turned-political-rally had much to do with the Democrats miserable performance in the 2002 mid-term elections.

This repugnant behavior was to be expected out of Joseph Lowery. He chose the occasion of the funeral of the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. to announce that we found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Never mind that Lowery is wrong. He's often wrong. For Lowery, the race baiting and liberal dogma always comes before fact and logic. He didn't measure up as President of King's SCLC, and he didn't measure up to the task of being a gentleman and honoring Coretta Scott King yesterday.

Then there was Jimmy Carter. Some people refer to Carter as "America's best ex-president." Well, if you want to consider his empowerment of people like Kim Jong Ill and Hugo Chavez as good for America, then you may have a point. If measuring the worth of a former president consists of measuring his affection for the world's dictators, then Carter is indeed one of the best. Carter used the occasion of this funeral to take a jab at bush over the NSA wiretaps. Carter has declared them to be illegal. Now he's a judge and a legal scholar. Carter brought up the fact that the FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King. He didn't mention that this happened under Democratic administrations. He also failed to mention that it was under a Democratic institution that tapes of those wiretaps, tapes purportedly showing instances of MLK's infidelities, were surreptitiously sent to his wife.

President Bush knew that this would happen when he went to the funeral. He knew that Democrats and liberals would use an overwhelmingly friendly audience to take their shots. He showed great dignity in sitting there and taking it all in stride. Bush stood tall, Lowery and Carter stooped low.

This, then, seems to be the new standard for funerals and memorial services for liberal icons. The TV cameras will be there. Millions will be watching, and emotions will be raw. What a great time to get in some political digs! Both Joseph Lowery and Jimmy Carter should be ashamed. Sadly, they don't have the class to understand that.

Boortz is merely interested in stirring up the masses for money... works too, obviously.

So you didn't watch it like him as well.

Isn't this really all about common decency and what is appropriate behavior at a funeral? I thought it was but I'm seeing it's becoming more than that.

Wasn't her funeral supposed to be about HER? Not about politics? Not about the war? Not about wire taps? I don't think Mrs. King's funeral was the appropriate venue for these issues.

It was about her and people who ACTUALLY KNEW her well interjected, based on their acquaintance with and personal knowledge of her, a few statements about how she would feel if she were here and how she did feel when alive.

Now the bushco right or wrong crowd are whining like little girls. Boo hoo.

I don't think you've ask Mrs King about her opinion, correct?

Walter,

I really don't think comments about how Hilary might be a future president, or comments about wire tapes or the war, etc., were necessary. I, of course, do not know the intent behind these comments. I just found a few of the comments to be insensitive to the occasion.

I'm guessing that just because her life was all about politics, some member of her family should have just spoken about the great cookies she baked.

that would be at a republican woman's funeral oh excuse me a republican LITTLE woman's funeral....

You see, my experiences re funerals are only with Catholic and Evangelical (Protestant) church funerals and non-church related ones in Europe.

And nearly every time, you'll find someone who didn't like that funeral. But it has been never the one in the tomb or her/his relatives/friends who did so ... and who ordered the funeral.

Walter,

Guess that's the difference, I've never been to a funeral where I can remember anyone actually saying they didn't like the funeral (not that anyone likes funerals). I haven't been to all that many, mind you. The last one I attended was my father's in 1988.

I'm from the old school. You just don't discuss certain things at certain events. Things change.