As with the Paul Wellstone funeral (whom I could respect, but could not agree with a lot of the time), the Dems blasted the oppostion party.... at the funeral.
Again, at the Coretta King Funeral today, the Dems got up and instead of celebrating Coretta's contribution and life, they directed a broadside at point blank range at the President. ANd a former President Carter, was one of those doing the broadsiding.
For the Republicans, please write the senators in the opposition party and let them know (very civily please) that this was low class. A funeral is not the place for politics.
For the Dems, you should really raise hell. This is the real internal cleaning that has to be done. The Republicans are addressing it with the corruption issue, you guys need a message other than "we hate George".
That "strategy" didn't work for the Republicans with the "we hate Bill" message. SO the Republicans got a message (sometimes hazy, yes) but still it is a message other than "we are the other guys".
Let's clean this up! This is a festering toliet, and yes both sides.
Part of me really does agree with you, a funeral is no place for such nonsense...on the other hand, let's be brutally honest here. Bush's prescence there was for political purposes only, his "concern" for the black race was pretty well summed up in his response to Katrina and his mother Babs "this is working out quite well for them....." statement. I believe that the latest polls have 2% (seems almost too low to believe) of blacks support Bush. Bush went there for the media perks, not for any relationshipo he has with the black community.
So the question that must be asked is, if you go to a wake for political purposes, and in response you get a politcal rebuke, is it unwarranted???
Bill Clinton was given a standing ovation, so obviously something he said touched the people there, and was welcome. In my mind, if you have the cajones to essentially crash a funeral, you get what you have coming to you.
I think it's tacky and just plain wrong to play politics at a funeral. A funeral is for the living to say goodbye to the deceased and there should be a proper decorum and respect shown to the deceased. Attending a funeral is showing respect both to the deceased and his/her living relatives and friends. Many people don't like going to funerals because it forces them to think about their own mortality and become uncofortable. Regardless of why any of us may think a person attends a funeral, it is not the place to turn things into some kind of political game. From what I've been reading on this, Bush was gonna get slammed by those who don't like him whether he attended the funeral (he's just being political) or if he didn't (he would have then been insensitive, etc.). This is part of the ugly side of politics where no matter what you do, you're wrong because somebody just doesn't like you. And the single most common excuse given for this tacky behavior is they did it to our guy. Two wrongs don't make a right and somebody at sometime needs to start acting like an adult or this country will never get beyond the junior high school level of politics that it has descended to.
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Bringing politics into her funeral is a slap in the face to both her and her husband! They should all hang thier heads in shame, but they have no shame which was proven at her funeral!
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You'd think even the democrats would learn lessons! This shows how venemously hateful they are.
Hey Alaska, if he didn't show up, democratswould have blasted him for not showing any respect for blacks, and it would be all over the news for months, if not years. And don't forget, Katrina aid came in faster than white Florida Andrew aid came in!
You'd think even the democrats would learn lessons! This shows how venemously hateful they are.
Hey Alaska, if he didn't show up, democratswould have blasted him for not showing any respect for blacks, and it would be all over the news for months, if not years. And don't forget, Katrina aid came in faster than white Florida Andrew aid came in!
Which is exactly my point. He was there for POLITICAL REASONS only! Not for any great love of what Corretta King stood for.
Alaska do you think that Bush looked worse for being there then then Dems did by disgracing her and MLK by turning her funeral into a Bush bashing fest?
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I don't think you hold the democrats responsible for this. This was not a political rally. You blame the individuals who coopted this funeral for political purposes -- pretty low-life behavior if you ask me. If I were a Republican I would thereafter not attend such events when there was a reasonable prospect of similar political bashing. When asked why I disrespected so-and-so by not attending, I would baldly state that I don't intend to attend a political rally staged by the opposition.
Note that I am not a successful politician and in no danger of having to bid fond farewells to my job because the people have elected me to public office. To be a successful politician you just have to smile weakly and disregard the shabby treatment. Maybe the pay back comes when there is a funeral of a Republican dignitary and similar drubbing of Democrats can be delivered, since the Democratic hound dogs have started it.
I found the partisan politicking and belittling of our president to be absolutely disgusting. There is a time and a place for all speech,and what I witnessed yesterday showed exactly how egocentric and out-of-touch so many liberal leaders are today.
Despite some strong disagreements (mostly political) I have with Dr. and Mrs. King, there is no doubt that they were ground-breaking pioneers in the struggle for civil rights (human rights!). To use the sacred memorial of either of them in order to take a shot at anyone, let alone a sitting president, is beyond contempt.
If someone pulled a stunt like that at any of my family members' funerals, they'd be leaving on a stretcher.
I thought Funerals were for the deceased!
