LexiGirl75 said:
I disagree and am totally offended by this statement and I don't care if you don't care if it does offend me. But, how could you say that this is what he gets for pandering (if this means catering) to blacks by attending the funeral?
Some of us want to get along with other races on this earth. And YOU do not know if all of the blacks at that funeral felt that way. I mean, I can make an equally ignorant and unfair statement about whites being at the funeral, but I seriously don't feel that way, so I won't.
Is it possible to think that some whites and dare I say republicans smiled inside when that statement was said about Bush, weapons and war?
The only thing I agree with is that her funeral and any funeral is an inappropriate place to plug your views on something that could be saved for another time.
I commend both Bush's for attending simply because how Democrats and Republicans don't see eye to eye. While you were thinking W. was a fool, I was thinking it is so nice to see Clinton and Bush (dem. and rep.) together.
I don't get into the black/white thing on the boards too much because I am not interested in harboring on the separation by skin color. But I do see where every time something goes down it's quick to be a black/white thing or Dem/Rep thing. When the hecht are we all going to get along, oh wait, probably when there is no one left.
She can say that if you watched the entire service Bush spoke only of the life and accomplishments of Dr. and Mrs. King, during which he received polite applause and a standing ovation at the end. However, when the leftists in the crowd came out, and started attacking Bush, they got numerous standing ovations.
Bush gets criticized by these same people if he doesn't come, then they attack him when they do come. I think of the old saying of how "I remember the first time I kissed a girl, and the first time I got punched in the mouth, and I needed either to happen twice to let me know which I liked and which I didn't." You can't fault someone for extending a hand, then bite him when he does, and expect him to ever come back. The purpose of the funeral was to honor the deceased, not to make political attacks. The Dems used the Wellstone funeral to directly insult and attack Republicans in attendence, and they did the same thing today.
And don't bother tossing out the
about how both sides are equally guilty. I don't remember any Republican at Nixon's or Reagan's funerals using the occasion to attack Democrats, nor did any Democrats try to use those occasions to attack Republicans, because both knew that in a heavilly Republican grouping that would not have been tolerated. They would have been booed off the stage, not given a standing ovation There's only one side that's commiting these dispicable acts and it's the Democrats.
