Bush squirms as policies denounced at King funeral

[cal04]

President George Bush led a crowd of 10,000 mourners at yesterday's funeral for Coretta Scott King, one of the icons of the civil rights movement, only to squirm in his seat as one speaker after another invoked Mrs King's spirit to lambast his administration on everything from the Iraq war to the response to last year's Hurricane Katrina.

The lavish occasion, bringing together civil rights veterans, three former presidents, more than a dozen senators, musicians and poets at a megachurch in the suburbs of Atlanta, was both a tribute to the woman who carried on the campaigning legacy of her assassinated husband, Martin Luther King Jr, for almost 40 years and also an opportunity to invoke some of the Kings' passionately outspoken rhetoric.

President Bush called Mrs King, who died 10 days ago at the age of 78, "one of the most admired Americans of our time". Her nearest and dearest pointedly did not return the compliment. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," said Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr King more than 40 years ago, "but Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here." The Rev Lowery issued a searing indictment of the Bush administration's economic priorities. "For war billions more," he said, "but no more for the poor."

Far better received than President Bush was Bill Clinton, who won an enthusiastic ovation as he described how Mrs King might easily have given up the civil rights struggle after her husband's assassination in 1968. Instead, he said, she asked herself "What am I going to do with the rest of my life?"

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article343997.ece

[still_one]

1. amazing how the American MSM media softens this

compared to to international sources

[neuvocat]

2. For the first time in his entire life

Bush has finally told him to his face what a fuckup he is.

[cliss]

8. Trapped like a sewer rat.

Bush really had no choice. If he had refused to go (which is probably what he wanted) it would have been extremely bad form.

Since he had no choice, he went. I'm sure the King family was classy, unlike that trailer trash George and Laura.

We could all learn some things from these dignified people.

[rodeodance]

15. "Clinton, who won an enthusiastic ovation"--this had to have increased

the squirm factor at least 10 fold.

[Cronus Protagonist]

26. If looks could kill... (funny pic)

[Inland]

3. The rarity of Bush and an unscreened crowd. nt

[al bupp]

5. Bingo

I was just explaining this point to my teenage son.

[susu369]

9. Dead center

and it was a joy to watch him being uncomfortable. As the old timers would say, "Bush was so drawn up that you couldn't have driven a ten-penny nail up his ass with a twenty-pound sledge hammer!"

[flordehinojos]

4. bush also exhibited incongruent behavior at times during the C.K. funeral.

(by incongruent behavior i mean incongruent facial expressions, as in looking happy when speakers were making a serious, or painful point about the Kings' lives.)

[Maat]

6. His meds need adjusted! (n/t)

[Jade Fox]

28. He always does that when reality intrudes....

on his fantasy world.

[Mnemosyne]

7. "Led a crowd"! Ha! He was a jackass!

He squirmed like a kid. Everyone else sat with dignity and respect. He flipped through the program.

Always can count on him to be an embarrassment. :banghead:

But how wonderful to hear and see him so gracefully taken to task! :toast: :grouphug:

All the speakers were great, except * and his sire, but I always love to hear Ms. Height speak. We share a birthday! She is an amazing woman with an amazing life.:loveya:

In peace and hope,
V

[Inland]

10. I'm surprised some church lady

didn't jab his shoulder and tell him to sit up straight and fold his hands in his lap. His slouching was body language that I bet every viewer read as a signal that he thought it a waste of his time.

[Mnemosyne]

11. My Grandma would've pinched us on the arm

(second warning, of course)if we had acted like that. It was disrespectful. He did give the appearance that it was a waste of his time, little prick! And that was even before he was taken to task.

At least he got his photo op, that's what really mattered. :sarcasm:

[MissWaverly]

24. for someone who is born again

he shows absolutely no reverence, he sits in church like he is in his livingroom, I'm
surprised that he doesn't bring beer, dips and snacks with him.

[Mnemosyne]

27. You hit it on the

nose MissWaverly! :rofl: Leg over the arm, shaking up and down. Crumbs all over his shirt with dip smeared across his lips, powder under his nose. And his beer stuffed into the side of the cushion. Scratching things. What a slovenly beast!

Just can't bear to call him a pig as they are quite lovely creatures, very smart, no comparison.

The way * and Pickles kept flipping through the programs and whispering while there were speakers was beyond rude. And these are our country's "elite"? Ha! I know pig farmers with far better manners.

In peace and hope,
V

[MissWaverly]

33. I wish one of the fundies would call him out

I can't believe they tolerate his boorish behavior.

[Mnemosyne]

34. But MissWaverly, he talks to God! They are

cult followers and would never question anything he does. Remember how Koresch in Waco was sleeping with teenage girls? None of his followers seemed to mind at all. They probably volunteered their daughters.

Mindless sheep. Lambs to the slaughter.

And innocents suffer for their mindless devotion. :grr:

In peace and hope,
Still,:hug:
V

[MissWaverly]

35. How can Bush insight such Hero worship

Is beyond me, how can they think he's on a highway to heaven when they saw what happened
to the victims of Katrina. What part of compassionate christian applied to that situation.
Those people are still living w/o even the debri cleared and the remaining bodies recovered.

[yurbud]

17. the bright side: almost any president will look dignified after him

if we are allowed another one.

[Mnemosyne]

31. These guys look more dignified than* will

ever look! And they are much smarter too!



V

[sarcasmo]

12. Kick and Nom for putting Dictator 43 in his place like MRS King

Would have wanted to. View a nice six minute speech from Rev. Lowery at crooks and liars.

[rodeodance]

13. ~~~simple pleasures are the best~~

[rodeodance]

14. nominate for a SWEET day!

[rodeodance]

16. umm...maybe Jr just needed some Preparation H?

[kayice]

18. HaHa! I was just thinking of that jingle too....

"oh, I should have used Preparation H!" or "gotta go, gotta go"..... :hurts:

[Rocknrule]

37. That's what he's gonna call the invasion of Iran

"You're right, Preparation H does sound good...on the hole"

I'm surprised he didn't call Iraq the Allen Parson's Project

[girl gone mad]

19. Clinton spoke from the heart.

Bush was just reading words from a paper.

[happydreams]

20. Bushboy started to go into the fetal position as he

sat with his wife behind Rev. Lowery speaking. Is Bush regressing into infantilism?

[usregimechange]

21. Damn I was hoping it was a video.

[lostnfound]

22. I actually would wish for nothing more than a huge change of heart for W

If only it were possible for the experience to be life-changing for him, were he a braver man, capable of opening his heart to the powerful hunger for peace and justice that was present in that room and in those voices.

No one on the planet, perhaps, could have a bigger impact. Of course, the powers-that-be would ensure that it lasted no longer than 5 minutes.

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. Of course this is in the international press. One quibble though.

I'd hardly call what George did "leading a crowd." Squirming in his seat in the midst of a hostile crowd would be a more apt description.

[mcscajun]

25. George Bush SAT in a crowd of 10,000 mourners, desperately

looking for an exit, scanning the program to see "How much longer?" and wishing he was anywhere else. There were leaders there; he wasn't one of them.

I'd say those six hours of him having to hear the unvarnished, uncensored, and unfiltered truth (six hours! you gotta love it) were the most important six hours in America of all the hours since just after 9/11. If his blinders aren't off even a little today, he's twice the sociopath we've thought him all this time.

[Gronk Groks]

29. You got to be kidding...

...frat boy does not think he has a problem, he thinks the rest of the world does.

I would hate to be the handler that had to ride in the car when he left the church.
That would of qualified as Cruel and Unusual Punishment.

[mcscajun]

30. Then your bet comes down on "Twice the sociopath" Done.

:)

[Gronk Groks]

32. Agreed. Sociopath with no chance of Redemption.

:evilgrin:

[Name removed]

36. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[classysassy]

38. Too much bushaide

dirty water without sugar. FU

[acmavm]

39. Well, you can be embarrassed for yourself now. Calling what these

honorable people cowardly when all they said about the AWOL Coward pResident who lets black people die and wants to starve out the elderly or kill them by screwing with their ability to get their meds was the truth. Or to steal the social security money people like myself have paid in for decades. The jackal has no defense. He truly is a disgrace to the memories of any loyal and true American who stands and fights for equality and good clean government.

Or hell, just plain being a lying whacko murdering son-of-a-bitch. And I do mean the literally.

[Brewman_Jax]

40. Both were so enjoying the atmosphere--NOT

Sr. and Jr. get to sit among the people that they've hated, scapecoated, ignored, and forgotten. There's no better irony! :rofl: