Woman buried with Bush sticker on casket.

[David__77]

Louise R. Kilcullen knew the end was near, so the 86-year-old Alexandria woman, who died last Wednesday, made sure she voted by absentee ballot in the 2004 presidential election (we have it on good authority she cast her vote for President George W. Bush).
"She was kidding around ... in the hospital that she wouldn't be around on November 2, and she wanted to make sure she voted before she died," the Rev. Dennis Kleinmann, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Old Town Alexandria, tells Inside the Beltway.

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We also have it on good authority that Mrs. Kilcullen — a widow and loving mother of four children, seven grand-children and four great-grandchildren — requested that a "Bush-Cheney 2004" bumper sticker be attached to her coffin during her funeral services.
"It did not happen in church," stresses Father Kleinmann, forbidding church and state to merge to such a degree in the hallowed sanctuary of Virginia's oldest Catholic church.
"However," the priest confirms, "when the coffin was pulled from the hearse at the cemetery and carried to the burial space, it did have a Bush bumper sticker on it."
In fact, the amused Father Kleinmann tells us, the bumper sticker was glued to the end of the casket where he stood to recite the burial rites — "staring me in the face," he laughs. "She was buried with the bumper sticker."

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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040720-115822-5115r.htm
(Sorry, this was just too weird to pass up...)

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Love that avatar. ;^)

[DrWeird]

2. The dead are voting...

and they're voting republican!

[bleedingheart]

4. it doesn't seem quite legal for her to be voting...don't you think?

[DoctorWeird]

11. LMAO!

Excellent

[liberalmuse]

14. Hmmm, makes you wonder...

if the Republicans have found a way to install e-voting machines in hell, or maybe they'll just conjure up the dead on November 2.

(I'm not saying this woman went to hell, btw, but jeez., who would want a symbol of something so evil stuck on their coffin?)

[Jo March]

27. Love the Simpsons reference!

That show has some great political jabs in it.

[spanone]

3. I'd be happy to bury all the bush*/cheney stickers.

[Darth_Kitten]

5. Bush was such a good boy.....

raised just right, by his wonderful momma....what they say about the poor man is just so unfair. Bush/Cheney, I'll die proud!! :eyes:

[Fenris]

6. Well, in November, we will make her last wish a reality

We will bury Bush.

[flamingyouth]

7. Aren't you supposed to be alive to vote?

Or did I miss something?:shrug:

[bobbyboucher]

20. Sure wish someone would clarify that.

Didn't read the whole article, did the author even question a dead woman voting early?

[soothsayer]

8. A fitting image for a dying administration

Ashe'!

[joefree1]

9. More signs they're dying off

The last of a feudal society we've been fighting since the civil war is passing away with the night. Sorry, the rapture never came.

This story is so appropriate for this election.


On edit: (in case anyone is wondering) Feudalism: the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture

[bhunt70]

10. it's a funny idea, the bumper sticker... props to this old woman

[dbt]

12. Let the wonderful symbolism expressed by her casket

be a message to the Living: The old Order is passing away.

:freak:
dbt

[NoPasaran]

13. I'm sure she'll get a good reception in Hell. n/t

[Catfight]

15. Bush campaigning to win the vote of the dead, the only people who

think just like him!

[Worst Username Ever]

16. One less bush bumper sticker.

[wishlist]

17. An obituary in N.C. for an elderly lady told everyone to vote against Bush

since that was her fervent wish. Several other obits this past year have mentioned in detail how the deceased person was a loyal or active Democrat. My almost 90 yr old mother-in-law is geared up to get her absentee ballot to vote Democratic and told me that many of her 90'ish nursing home friends have already planned for a bus to take them to the polls to vote for the Dems.

Isn't it too early for absentee ballots to be cast for the November election?

[mindem]

18. That wasn't a bumper sticker

it was a ticket to Hell!!! Bwahahahaha.

[bobbyboucher]

19. Talk about the fast track to hell, hang on granny,

that first drop is a dooozy.

[DaveSZ]

21. "The dead are voting..."

I looked through one of those political contributions websites, and ol Naziloving Prescott Bush gave a contribution to his grandson from the grave if you can believe it!

:wtf:

[AntiCoup2K4]

32. You sure it wasn't his uncle, Prescott Bush Jr. ?

He's not a Nazi lover. Just a "commie sympathizer" who was the head of the US - China Chamber of Commerce.

[TexasSissy]

22. That's sad that she had nothing in her life more important than anelection

No family pics to post on her coffin? No accomplishments to list? Just an election sticker? That is soooooo sad.

[porphyrian]

23. What a sick fucking dead old lady. - n/t

[demnan]

24. Well if you're rich enough to live in Old Alexandria

then perhaps you'll be a Republican although really the area votes highly liberal Democratic.

[HEyHEY]

25. Well, guess she wants the soul-carriers to know she goes to hell

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. Have them place those stickers on all the caskets coming back

from Iraq too. Then they can say "they were buried with a bumper sticker"

[SemperEadem]

28. symbolism at its best... one less Bush voter

Bush's presidency will be following suit in a few months... buried under the Kerry/Edwards landslide.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

29. She must think the worms are "compassionate conservatives"

and won't feast on one of their own.

[West Coast Democrat]

30. She knows she's going to hell....

and she wants to make sure that she has sufficiently brown-nosed in preparation for her arrival.

[DemBones DemBones]

31. Oh, hell, it's in the Washington TIMES.

I refuse to click the link but I sure as hell want to know what this woman was doing voting in JULY. Absentee ballots are filled out early, but only a week or two before the election, so the postal service gets them there on time to be counted.

[AntiCoup2K4]

33. My dead grandma would have voted in 1996 if a Bush had been on the ballot

But she wouldn't have been voting FOR the bastard. Seriously, we got her mail in ballot several months after she passed away. In 1996 I wasn't worried about Clinton winning, so she obstained from voting. If it had been this year, that ballot would be mailed in, and I would have no doubts whatsoever that it would have been what Grandma wanted :)