You know it as the funeral of Coretta Scott King. President Bush was pilloried by a black minister spouting the usual divisive hate-speak that has become the hallmark of the Democratic party. Then he was harpooned by the man arguably the worst president in our nation's history, peanut farmer Jimmy JJ Carter. Breaking all precedent regarding the criticism of a sitting president by a former president for the umpteenth time, Carter turned a funeral into a political stump as he ripped GW. You would think a man who was as pathetic as Carter as a leader would have sought a quiet retirement. I've always referred to him as the 'father of modern Islamic terrorism" because it was he who helped transform Iran into a fundamentalist terrorist hotbed and put the Ayotollah in power. Here's the actual account of the travesty.... 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. Developing...
No surprise. Our worst president is now our worst ex-president. He's the man who made the Democratic Party what it is today... I loved his reference to the government wiretapping of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempt to compare it with what President Bush has been doing. Let's keep the facts straight: the wiretaps on Martin Luther King were requested by Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and approved by both Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...the SAME liberal Democrats who gave us the war in Vietnam. President Bush, on the other hand, is accused of approving warrantless wiretaps on known foreign terrorists, who are calling from outside the United States, to known terrorists here in the states... That's some comparison. Let me get this right: the current position of the Democratic Party is that if Osama bin Laden calls in a nuclear strike on Chicago from his hide-out in Pakistan to his henchmen at a Detroit mosque, Mr. Bush is supposed to wake up a judge and get permission to wiretap before he can, "preserve, protect and defend" the United States of America? How in holy hell do the lib/Dems ever expect to win elections in this country with nonsense like that? The 2006 off-year elections haven't even begun and they've already lost... .......................JO'Co
Bush was damned no matter what he did. I he had chosen not to go to the funeral it would have been painted as a slap in the face of every black american. So he goes and they slap him in the face, I'm sure he knew what was comming. Terry
I wish I could find a larger image of this, because from the first lady's expression she looks like she's ready to give Lowery a taste of the back of her hand. It was a tough spot to be in, and from what I've read the Bushes handled it well. Rick
And.. <t>Instead of the media rippings these bottom feeders like Carter and the Clintons they give them the usual "pass."</t>
:lol: One Washington wag recently declared that "Jimmy Carter had a wishbone where his backbone should be..." ...........JO'Co
Perhaps we should use Carter diplomacy in stopping Iran's nuclear development. First we rig it so that Iran wins the right to host the Olympics. Then we threaten to boycott the olympics unless they stop their nuclear program. Yep, that's how Carter actually thought that he could get the Soviets out of Afghanastan. First of all the Russians must have doubled up laughing. (they couldn't have cared less and the only ones who were really damaged by the boycott were the American athletes who lost their dreams to compete for Olympic medals.) Second, the Afghan campaign was one of the big reasons for the breakup of the Soviet Union. It destroyed their feeling of invincibility, demoralized their army and drained their meager treasury. We aided the Mujadahine in killing Russians just as the Soviets had aided the Viet Cong and North Viatnamese kill our GIs. Carter's biggest problem however was that his cronies were incompetent. Every president employs those he knows. Hell Kennedy had a brother in his cabinet. While some like Reagan had talented cronies, Carter had a bunch of Georgia rubes screwing up everything from foreign policy to the economy.