You fascists wouldn't know class if it hit you in the face. Think about the dirty little lies that Karl Rove made up about John McCain during the 2004 election.

To all the idiot leftists above - I said Mrs. King was generally an apolitical figure, but what I was speaking of was in reference to activism around this current war and administration. I don't ever recall (and I'm sure you libs will correct me if I'm wrong) Coretta ever going out there stumping with Slick Willy, calling the President a Nazi, Terrorist, disgracing soldiers, or generally embarassing herself. She was a lady of grace, and should have been respected as such - not used for a policital platform.

Mike: Give me some evidence of how the Iraq war was "unwarranted"? Be prepared to bring facts, because there are several of us in this post alone that can take you to task - not with venom, but with facts ourselves.

Go ahead, make our days..

One last question... do you truly believe that the insurgents wouldn't exist if we weren't in Iraq? Let me know your answer to that. I think I know your answer already, so I already have another question for after that.

Anxiously awaiting...

Ms. U

P.S. You said "he could not have expected more."? Yes he could, because he's a man of great decorum. He was also invited to attend, and I promise you if he would NOT have attended, he would have been skewered by the left for not doing so. So, he is in a lose-lose situation either way with the lunacy of the left.

Now do you see why he refuses to meet with the NAACP anymore? They have been co-opted by the left fringe groups, and all of them have lost touch with reality. They have no clue, and they don't even realize they're losing the base they think they have.

And, to Lewis: Attending a Memorial Service to a great American pioneer has nothing to do with political correctness - it has to do with respect and remembrance of those who have passed. The Democrats are so blinded by their hatred of Bush, they'll take any camera and microphone that anyone will stick in their face, and make another political campaign speech regardless of the occasion, the audience, or the intended reason for the gathering.

The dems have long lost any sense of class.

Mike, "he could not have expected more." ??

That says more about the "black population" than Pres. Bush. YOU said, "black population", I think its liberals.

A funeral is an occasion to celebrate the accomplishments and beliefs held by the deceased.

For Carter to have mentioned the wrongdoing perpetrated against the Kings is hardly out of line.

Moreover, Rev. Lowerey was not wrong to point out that the invasion of Iraq was unwarranted, that funds could be better used at home nor that we have a lot of work left to do to continue the King legacy.

With only a 2% approval rating among the black population, Bush was treated cordially if not warmly. He could have not expected more.

Marcia, She did champion on after her husband's death. She was an activist. But I have to agree with you! I'm not sure it warranted all that. However, we live in a very PC time. I think it's really that simple.

No Republicans don't do things like speaking out at funerals. They are politically correct.
Oh, wait a miunute, I thought republicans were politically incorrect? Most white republicans could care less about either of the Kings, so therefore they know nothing of her/their life and what they fought for.
By the way Jimmy Carter mentioned the Kings being wiretapped during the 1960s, he made no mention FISA/NSA. But lets not confuse conservatives with the facts.

What did Mrs. King do to warrant a six-hour funeral that featured heads of state and prominant howling left wingers?
Did she marry Martin Luther King?

There were many "great ladies"in my little town. I went to their quiet,moving, dignified, thirty-minute funerals.

Marcia Rice

Republicans just don't do things like that. Democrats are so blinded by themselves that they don't even recognize how classless it is.

I hate to say it, but the Democratic party is becoming the geeky party of LOSERS. Acutally, it felt good to say it. The truth is good!

Do you have any idea how Expose the Left gets the video up? I have a DVD recorder and am having trouble making it happen.

This was disgraceful, a political stab at Pres. Bush at a FUNERAL honoring such a wonderful lady. To do it with Pres. Bush and our First Lady Laura sitting right behind them, and listening to all the rhetoric about WMDs, etc...it's just disgusting! They all made me sick.

You say that Coretta Scott King was apolitical, but this is simply not true - The Kings were non-violent protestors for social change (Marches on Washington? Coretta's March on Washington 6 days after MLK died? Coretta's King Foundation?), political protestors, anti-war activists (MLK's Beyond Vietnam speech?) - what *content* from today's memorial was not fitting? Given their legacy of calling America to action on these *specific* issues, why would a call to action not be appropriate? But I won't characterize their positions - I'll quote from speeches:

Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream was not just that one day his children would "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.""...

From that march on Washington speech (the "I have a dream speech"), MLK didn't just say that he wished that all men would not be judged by the color of their skin - he spoke against discrimination and unequal opportunity:

"One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned... But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."

Towards the end of the speech, (in the "I have a dream portion") he also says:

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of the creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"

and toward the end...

"I have a dream that one day "every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together."

Four years later, in his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, MLK spoke about both non-violence (in terms of his opposition to the Vietnam war) and it's affect on social programs (especially on young black men who were being drafted for the war). He spoke about multiple reasons he was against the war, but tied the spending to the war to reductions in social programs that were targeted to help the poor (he noted that the poor were disproportionally affected by the war: "It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We are taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia or East Harlem... I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.").

MLK gave another reason for protesting the Vietnam war - he would argue for non-violence when campaigning for civil rights / social change... "But they asked, and rightly so, "What about Vietnam?" They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted...For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."

When Lowery and MLK formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, their motto was: "To save the soul of America".

MLK said that he felt that to ignore the war was to risk the soul of America.

MLK said that "I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth...The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just...A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just.""

MLK spoke about a call to a fellowship of man, our loving one's neighbor (and this was in the time of the Vietnam war): "This call for worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind...This Hindu-Muslim-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: "Let us love on another, for love is God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love...If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us." Let us hope that his spirit will become the order of the day."

Issues about discrimination, opportunities for the poor or people of color, war and non-violent approaches to social change, etc. - these are the legacies of MLK AND Coretta Scott King. To mischaracterize them is unfortunate.

A true memorial is to remember their legacy.

Thanks, Shirley & MC... I find this morally reprehensible. After giving this post some more thought, I re-titled it "I Went to a Funeral Today and a DNC Convention Broke Out."

What a joke.

Thanks to both of you for your input, and visit often!

Ms. U

Amazing, but I thought all the same things in almost the same order that you did. Its getting to where I have to take these things in smaller and smaller doses. Blood pressure you know. G.B. Senior epitimized the class of the Bush family. I just dont know how the President could sit there and smile but my hat is off to him. I hope he knows how many people realize that he is probably the best president in American history. I see where it comes from..

Thank the Lord for a wonderful and classy first family and his dad. Too bad the dems have no class and they displayed that fact today. Our president is trying to protect their sorry hides and they do not deserve him!