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Here's a comment I received on the Bush Bashing at a Funeral post.

You've obviously forgot, or never knew, that the King legacy was speakng truth to power. Don't ever forget for a damn moment that if it wasn't for the American left, you'd be living in a country with a state-sponsored religion (xianity). You obviously don't give a damn that the King's were once the subjects of numerous wiretaps and illegal searches. Hell, you're an apologist for government abuse of the 4th Amendment and a poster man-child for historical ignorance. You would have been a cappo in the camps. Yemakh shmoy.

Also heard from The Town Crier that "it was a gutsy move by the revrend and lacking tact by carter. But the truth hurts."

I don't agree that it was "gutsy." I thought it was rude, undignified and inappropriate to bring political hatred to a funeral. I don't think either of the Kings would have been proud to see a sacred and solemn occasion exploited for the purpose of humiliating the President of the United States. That wasn't their style.

From my point of view, it was Dubya who was gutsy. He was polite, dignified and appropriate under the most difficult of circumstances. He's a class act, and he came out of this smelling like a rose.

The truth - as I see it - was that the reverend and the ex-president besmirched the memory of a good lady, and yes, that hurts.

The other comment deserves no response, and the writer will be banned from making any further comments here. --Yael

Comments

[Cynic]

"You obviously don't give a damn that the King's were once the subjects of numerous wiretaps and illegal searches." Does it matter if it was, as I believe, on Bobby Kennedy watch?

[Smooth]

Cynic, you made a good point. The wiretapping on the Kings was executed under the Democratic party. Furthermore, the Republican Party was founded in 1854 on the principle of preventing the spread of slavery, while the Democrat-controlled Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision (1857) declaring blacks non-persons. And when the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery passed Congress in 1865, 100 percent of Republican Congressmen voted for it, but only 23 percent of the Democrats. When the 14th Amendment passed Congress to protect freedmen from state violations of their rights, 94 percent of Republicans and no Democrats voted for it. Southern Democrats created the KKK, however, which was anti-Republican as well as anti-black. Ok, ok, I'm going off on a tangent but, isn't that what the dopes did at Coretta King's funeral? Let's face it, even BJ Clinton was embarassed because he stated that "um, let's remember that there is a person inside that coffin..." What kind of moral behavior can one expect from the Democratic Party when you have John "Liar" Kerry, Shrillary "Lawyer for the Black Panthers" Clinton, and Ted "Chappaquidick" Kennedy acting as their mouthpieces. Clearly, the Democrats are imploding from within.