Democrats shamed themselves again yesterday, using the occasion of Coretta Scott-King's funeral as an opportunity to ambush President Bush.
Former (and worst in U.S. history) President Jimmy Carter:
"The efforts of Martin and Coretta have changed America, they were not appreciated even at the highest level of government. It was difficult for them personally -- with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretapping, other surveillance..."
Gotta get that illegal wiretapping thing in there, eh Jimmah? Funny though, seeing as Robert F. Kennedy, the Attorney General at the time and brother of that fat, bloated drunk Sen. Ted Kennedy, who also happened to be in attendance, was the one who authorized those wiretaps on MLK. Go figure.
Jimmah continues:
"This commemorative ceremony this morning and this afternoon is not only to acknowledge the great contributions of Coretta and Martin, but to remind us that the struggle for equal rights is not over. We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi..."
That's nice, Jimmah. Let's evoke Katrina racism again.
Carter's spent the last 25 years trying to revise how history will perceive that abortion that was his Presidency.
And then, to paraphrase the good Rev. Joseph Lowery:
"We know no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CORETTA KING'S FUNERAL?!!! JESUS CHRIST!) but down here there are "weapons of misdirection" (Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean. I suppose he's alluding to the allegedly dynamited levees.)
These assholes stood directly in front of President and Mrs. Bush and spewed this crap. Were it me I would have gotten up and walked out. Of course, had he done that, or not attended at all he would have been called insensitive, disrespectful and probably racist. It was a no-win situation for him.
And all this on the heels of Rosa Parks' funeral service which also turned into a political tirade. The Democrat Party has deteriorated into a cesspool of lies, personal attacks and slander. Democrats everywhere should be ashamed and thoroughly disgusted with their party.
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Actually, Lowery has a distinguished reputation as a civil rights champion, but that doesn't excuse his using the occasion of Coretta King's funeral to attack the President. Disgraceful.
AMBUSH??? That muthafucka refuses to be questioned by anyone who hasn't taken a loyalty oath. He has instituted free speech zones where protestors are quarantined in some space where they can do no harm.
Corretta and certainly Martin would have approved. Martin would have demanded it!
Six: I'm not upset by this. This is what nearly all of the civil rights lions have become. If Corretta was at Lowery's funeral, she would have applauded these kinds of comments coming from Jesse and Sharpton. When Lowery and the others die, this is exactly the kinds of comments that they want made by their surviving comrades.
They are true believers. They deeply and completely believe that racism of 1956 remains an enormous and formidable foe, and they consider themselves to be couragious and heroic in 2006 for saying so, especially in front of a president whom they absolutely consider to be a racist conspirator running a massive international multi-industrial cabal that is enslaving the entire world, and whom they would have lambasted even more harshly had he not attended.
This behavior has probably backfired on the 20% or so of black folks who have already voting republican, or are in the process of doing so. These people are reading facts for themselves, and they know that there was not an ounce of racism involved with Katrina, etc., etc. These old civil rights warriors, who once really were brave and accurate, simply can't help themselves, and these are the types of funerals that they want for themselves.
This conduct is attracting them no more supporters, while it contributes to the slow -- but steady and descernable -- erosion of the monolithic black voting block that endorses the entire liberal punchlist.
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That muthafucka refuses to be questioned by anyone who hasn't taken a loyalty oath. He has instituted free speech zones where protestors are quarantined in some space where they can do no harm.
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I agree with Nadir here. Since Bush is advocating democracy around the world, he should himself embrace free speach more than he does.
Paul, your comments about racism are completely out of place here. And your continued trumpeting of these views are as convincing to me as a sign that says "Fuck Bush" is to you. Give it a rest.
Wy does the right hate Carter so much, again? He jacked up military spending dramatically, he unleashed a Fed chairman who waged one of the most brutal wars on inflation ever, he poured arms and US military training into Afghanistan --bolstering the power and zeal of a young Osama bin Laden--as a bulwark against the Soviets. What do you guys want?
So he put on a sweater and offended the oil companies. Will you never forgive him?
And by the way, of course it's proper to mention government spying at a King's funeral. Ever heard of J Edgar Hoover and the pack of goons he sent after MLK for 15-20 years? Or is that seedy business to be sucked down the memory hole?
Oh, and by the way, did you hear Bush knew about the levees breaking the same night that it happened--after publicly stating over and over that he and the federal gov't were taken surprise by this news?
While on the topic of why the right should learn to love Jimmy Carter: He also began funding the contras soon after the Sandinistas took over in Nicaragua.
In a sense, take away the high-flown "Morning in America" jargon, and Saint Reagan was just Jimmy Lite. Or Dark.
Tom: I agree that the right's hatred of Carter seems odd. We rightists hate Carter's big spending, high taxing, and price controlling... but Nixon was doing all that. The rightists hate Kennedy, but he was mostly a low taxer (a tax-cutter, actually), and a free market commie hater. I don't think that he imposed any price controls.
But Nixon did. Nixon even started Affirmative Action (though most AA opponents, including me, believe that there should have been AA at that time). I do not understand why the New Republican movement (low taxes, small govt) got so popular during the Carter administration, whereas in the previous years it failed. Somehow today we rightists identify Carter with big gov, high tax rates, and price controls.
Carter did install a fed guy who attacked inflation (caused, of course, by price controls and big govt spending), but I don't think that Carter wanted the dude to attack inflation; and the rightists like Volker for what he did.
The rightists also hate Carter for the Iranian hostage situation. I don't think that any rightists at the time would have done anything different there than Carter did, and it sure looks to me like candidate Reagan cut a deal with the Iranians.
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