Let's Travel Back in Time: How Idiot Son Celebrated King Holiday 3 Yrs Ago

[journalist3072]

You might be wondering how George W. Bush spent the King Holiday 2 years ago.

He celebrated it by announcing his Administration's opposition to the University of Michigan affirmative action program, calling it a quota system.

It amazes me how he can go out here and say wonderful words about Dr. King, and then bastardize Dr. King's legacy by his actions and policies.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/15/bush.affirmativeaction/

[ReadTomPaine]

1. That's nothing compared to his lynching joke re: MLK in 2002. Quote:

"THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you all very much for coming. Mrs. King, thanks for this beautiful portrait. I can't wait to hang it. (Laughter.)"

Charming.

Originally posted in this similar thread earlier today:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=154350&mesg_id=154350

[journalist3072]

2. ROFL!!

[ReadTomPaine]

3. I find it more hateful than amusing, myself. n/t

[journalist3072]

5. But in his defense...I think you have to look at the intention there

I honestly don't think it was his intention to say a cruel joke. I doubt he even had lynching in mind when he said it.

I just think he doesn't know what to say out of his mouth half the time, obviously.

[insane_cratic_gal]

6. Ya I agree it's a Bushism

I got a whole book full I leave out for my conservative guests. They never can believe he said such things.

What can I say .. he's an idiot.

[ReadTomPaine]

7. Wrong. He knew exactly what he was saying.

The context of his nasty smirk, his pause for the laughter as well as the reactions around him by those present, make it all too clear that he was taking a swipe at MLK and his legacy.

Given his record of hateful, nasty remarks and actions, why on earth would you give someone like Bush any benefit of the doubt? How many times does he have to prove he's a monster?

[Pool Hall Ace]

4. What a nasty little shithead.

I hate that laugh, too.

[Eric J in MN]

8. I'm as anti-Bush as the next DU-er, but I really don't believe that

Bush was making a joke about lynching.

MLK wasn't hanged. MLK wasn't primarily an activist against lynching.

When people get a painting, they hang the painting.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Sorry - see the vid.. It was a clear swipe at MLK's legacy.

People there were mortified while he chuckled and shifted his eyes about to see the reactions of the crowd. This was no accident or gaffe. It was a naked display of contempt, and it's nothing new. Both he and Cheney do things like this all the time.