Not the right time or place

[JB in so cal]

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. Some black leaders have blamed Bush for the poor federal response, and rapper Kayne West said that Bush "hates" black people.

[mike37]

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. Some black leaders have blamed Bush for the poor federal response, and rapper Kayne West said that Bush "hates" black people.
and they wonder why no one respects them
****em all

[PlyaPlya22]

and they wonder why no one respects them
****em all
:idea:

[JB in so cal]

and they wonder why no one respects them
****em all
Not what this is about!
I'm just sayin' if you're there to pay respects to a woman of such regard, don't use the world stage that way. Friggen' PRESIDENT Carter knows better, too.

[mike37]

:idea:
I'm talking any one that would use and event like that for political BS

[PlyaPlya22]

:rollside: I'm talking any one that would use and event like that for political BS

[OGShocker]

:idea:
I think he was talking about liberals..

[Old Texan]

Jimmy Carter is a nice old man that should stick to building homes for humanity projects.
He was perhaps the worse Pres. in history and "thinks" he is a great all seeing diplomat. In reality he has been little more than a pawn for Castro, Chavez, and any "liberal" dictator opposing our government. He infuriated Clinton with his personal visit to N. Korea that screwed up real negotions with the mini tyrant. Bush does what's best with Jimmy by putting him on ignore
Rev. Lowery is a joke with no touch with reality, no class, and a race baiter. He is the kind of person Dr. King and Mrs. King frowned upon and I'm disappointed he even was allowed to speak.

[X-driver]

The one that got me was, Ted "I'm drunk" Kennedy! He had the audacity to compare the current terrorist domestic spying policy and the fact that the Kings telephone conversations were taped in the 60s by the FBI. To totally different circumstances. And the funny part is, Ted's brother Robert Kennedy, the attorney general at the time approved the wiretaps!
X-
I saw this quote somewhere: "My guns have killed less people then Ted Kennedy's car and his nephew's golfclub!"

[Jbb]

Having 4 Presidents in town.....didnt exactly make for good traffic....