Is this what the Democratic party has come to?

DarkMinion · February 07, 2006, 08:48 PM

Reduced to disrespecting the memory of a great woman by insulting the president and making political statements at her freaking funeral??

That is just beyond wrong, and it makes me sick.

Bush goes there to speak about her and honor her memory, and in turn he gets insulted in front of a mass of people as the left-wing idiots turn the whole thing into a political statement.

Props to Slick Willy though, he tried to bring order to the nonsense.

MyndFyre · February 07, 2006, 09:18 PM

Que paso? I don't know what was said.

CrAz3D · February 07, 2006, 11:50 PM

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I don't see anything on CNN about protests in Mrs. King's funeral.

I DID, however, find political cartoons:
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2006/01/31/lang/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/analysis/toons/2006/02/03/lang/index.html

Invert · February 08, 2006, 03:01 AM

I was going to post about this but you beat me to it DM. Its mind boggling how low the democratic socialist party is willing to go to promote their liberal socialist ideas and attack on our president. They used this woman's funeral for political gain. Might as well stand up on top of her coffin and burn the American flag.

I think Mr. Ed the horse would make a better senator than Mr. Ed Kennedy but that is a whole other issue.

Also you people should do some research about Coretta Scott King, she is not that great of a woman that everyone is making her out to be, she lived off her husbands work and charged royalties every time his speech was played publicly or his works were used. She made bank off of her dead husband who was the real civil rights activist, not her. She did not do much at all.

But yeah... the democrats fell short of slapping a "Hillary for President in 2008" bumper sticker on her coffin.

CrAz3D · February 08, 2006, 08:14 AM

I doubt she or anyone has ever done as much as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. However, while married to him one would assume she at leasted helped along the way.
I can only imagine how much she made off of Martin Luther King Jr 'merchandise'.

y'all have links to this sstuff?

Arta · February 08, 2006, 08:29 AM

Can someone link to some information about this? I have no idea what you're all talking about.

iago · February 08, 2006, 09:55 AM

I don't really see any debate/potential debate here. This seems to me to a be a "the liberal party sucks" thread, full of hate-filled rhetoric about the democrats. Just keep in mind that, if the situation was reversed, I don't doubt that the conservative party would do the same thing. A politician is a politician.

DarkMinion · February 08, 2006, 10:49 AM

Perhaps I was wrong in making a broad generalization, but what they did was totally wrong and disrespectful on so many levels, and you can't admit that - that's the problem.

QuoteA politician is a politician

I disagree. Bush did nothing of the sort, and neither did Bill Clinton. Clinton actually tried to remind everyone that they were in a house of God and it was not the place for such talk. Very commendable IMO. Something like this would be just as despicable if Republicans had done it.

iago's post is not very informed...I don't hate liberals. I tend to agree with liberals on certain issues. However, taking their hate for Bush to a great woman's funeral is going way too far, and that was my only point. I'm sorry that you see it as hate.

Invert · February 08, 2006, 11:59 AM

Why do I always see someone say this "if the situation was reversed"? This is not the 1st time this was said. You see it's not reversed; it always seems to be this way. Bush did not start bashing the democrats they bashed him.

iago: How come you comment on a situation you know nothing about?

Your ignorance helps no one, read about it 1st: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash8.htm

Grok · February 08, 2006, 03:23 PM

Quote from: Invert on February 08, 2006, 03:01 AMAlso you people should do some research about Coretta Scott King, she is not that great of a woman that everyone is making her out to be, she lived off her husbands work and charged royalties every time his speech was played publicly or his works were used. She made bank off of her dead husband who was the real civil rights activist, not her. She did not do much at all.

Thank you Invert. I was about to say what the hell has she ever done, but you beat me to it. She's no greater than Ghandi's wife, or Churchill's dog. She was just there and maybe or not supported her husband. But as you say, she certainly lived off his work after that.

They should be using the opportunity to honoring Dr. King and replaying his message, and using this focus to do measurements on the progress of his goals for America.

CrAz3D · February 08, 2006, 04:21 PM

I don't think Katrina was about race, it was more about social status & mostly about taking care of themselves.

Everybody who could get out left. White people, black people, EVERYONE was trapped there that stayed. It wasn't an issue of race.

As for wire taps, its been done before and will be done again. Hell, FDR went as far as to lock up (sorta) every Japanese person in the country for national security.
I'd WAY rather have some dude listening in on my phone conversations then be moved to Colorado & stuck in some "community" thing.

Her funeral should've just been "thanks for helping your husband, rest in peace now"

DarkMinion · February 08, 2006, 04:38 PM

Ok, I was just being respectful to Mrs. King anyway. Still, doing that at someone's funeral is a new low.

CrAz3D · February 08, 2006, 04:50 PM

Quote from: DarkMinion on February 08, 2006, 04:38 PM
Ok, I was just being respectful to Mrs. King anyway. Still, doing that at someone's funeral is a new low.

Word.

She seemed like a decent lady from what I saw about her. She wasn't her husband, but undoubtedly she helped him out. "The woman behind the man" kinda thing I'd spect.

Stealth · February 08, 2006, 04:55 PM

This is not the first time the US Democratic Party has used the eulogy stand as a soapbox, nor (I think) will it be the last.

Utterly despicable.

Arta · February 09, 2006, 08:40 AM

Making the (perhaps unfounded) assumption that Mrs King was politically active, and was fighting for civil rights and racial equality:

This doesn't seem that bad to me. You're all assuming that it's bad, but really, the relevant question is: is it what Mrs King would have wanted? Was she an activist? Would she have approved? Was the Order of Service written or approved by her family?

It seems perfectly sensible to me that Mrs King may have wanted the publicity that her funeral generated to be used to further her cause.

You're all laying the blame for being 'dispicable' at the feet of the democratic party, who may or may not have had anything to do with it. What really matters is if she and her family approved of the service, and if they did, then you're all bitching about nothing.

That said, very little information has been provided in this thread, so perhaps I've got the wrong end of the stick.

Finally, this is not Bush-bashing:

Quote"We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there."

That is a statement of fact, not an ad-hominem attack. Stop asserting that any criticism of Bush is Bush-bashing.