A Chill Wind

I don't ever want to hear about the Bush Adminstration silencing it's critics.

It's embarrassingly stupid. Especially in light of this.

The outspoken Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, ripped into President Bush during his short speech, ostensibly about the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.

"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war. She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now that there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," Lowery said.

The mostly black crowd applauded, then rose to its feet and cheered in a two-minute-long standing ovation.

A closed-circuit television in the mega-church outside Atlanta showed the president smiling uncomfortably.

Not to be outdone, former President Jimmy Carter got two punches in.

Former President Jimmy Carter later swung at Bush as well, not once but twice. As he talked about the Kings, he said: "It was difficult for them then personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated as they became the target of secret government wiretaps." The crowd cheered as Bush, under fire for a secret wiretapping program he ordered after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, again smiled weakly.

First was the political spectacle that was known as Paul Wellstone's Memorial, Ron Reagan Jr at his father's funeral, and now Coretta Scott Kings. For the liberal left in this country, everything is political. Funerals be damned, as long as we can get a shot in.

Politics Posted by AlexC at February 7, 2006 4:11 PM