Bush & king funeral

hatrack (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-08-06 10:03 AM
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55. "Shine the light" on this Bush lie - enjoy!
Once again George Bush is a day late and a dollar short. He was supposed to be giving a Budget Photo-Op today, until he got shamed into appearing at the funeral along with Clinton, Carter, and Bush Sr.. I'm sure he couldn't stand the thought of being upstaged. What will happen to the unused backdrops? Scotty came up with the lamest excuse possible for the change in plans - see the second article below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05bush.html
In a Change of Plans, Bush Says He Will Attend King's Funeral
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: February 5, 2006
CRAWFORD, Tex., Feb. 4 — The White House announced here on Saturday that President Bush would attend the funeral of Coretta Scott King in Atlanta on Tuesday, postponing a scheduled trip to New Hampshire.
White House officials told reporters on Friday that Mr. Bush would be speaking about the federal budget on Tuesday in Manchester, N.H., but on Saturday afternoon the White House sent out an e-mail message saying that Mr. Bush would attend the funeral instead and was switching the New Hampshire trip to Wednesday. The president is also expected to speak at Mrs. King's funeral.
Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, said in an e-mail message on Saturday that the change had been made because "the funeral arrangements were only very recently finalized" and the White House had not been ready to make an announcement until then. Mr. McClellan said "the president and Mrs. Bush are honored to be attending."
But Bishop Eddie Long, who will be officiating at the funeral services at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, said in a telephone interview on Saturday that he had initially heard from the King family that Mr. Bush would not be attending and that he planned to send Mrs. Bush and his father, the former president, instead. Mr. Long said he found out only on Saturday morning that Mr. Bush would be present after all.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0206/299504.html
Scott King's Funeral to Be Tue. in Atlanta
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Thursday February 02, 2006 1:03pm
ATLANTA (AP) - Coretta Scott King's funeral will be held Tuesday at the suburban Atlanta Baptist church where the Kings' youngest child, Bernice, is a minister, according to the funeral director assisting the family with arrangements. Willie A. Watkins, director of the Willie Watkins Funeral Home in Atlanta, said Thursday that the funeral will be held at noon at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, a suburb about 15 miles east of Atlanta.
Emphasis added.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

NYT cover - king 184

DU comment on snoop hearings

PATRICK (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-06-06 11:04 AM
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71. I don't get how
they can argue without the deepest humiliation. First Bush shoves aside all their laws and consent and FISA, tooled especially for a presidency under a separate unequal law, and then they must hold him to account for not availing himself of the approved super powers? In essence they have to sound pathetic no matter what tack they take that avoids centering on abuse of power and contempt of Congress and subverting the law recklessly, needlessly and in perfect textbook example of the most insulting cartoonish fashion WHY there were regulations to begin with. Nixon was the textbook. Hitler was the monster. Bush is the flippant cartoon of an utterly degraded system of law.
Yet the solemn debate. Like those high society dinners when the three stooges disrupt it with pie throwing. Except it isn't funny but mean and the Congressional stuffed shirts just pretend the pie are not in their faces and keep posing.

Sheehan, SOTU, Clinton times

On a thread discussing Sheehan's arrest, freeper tries the "they all do it" argument. Of course, he only highlights the differences:

Pryderi (917 posts) Wed Feb-01-06 09:03 AM
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25. Clinton did the same thing.
In the early days of the Senate's impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in January 1999, a Pennsylvania man named Dave Delp was removed by the Capitol police from the Senate gallery for wearing a t-shirt that said, "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks."
A Pennsylvania school teacher was yanked out of a VIP Senate gallery and briefly detained last week during the impeachment trial for wearing a T-shirt with graphic language dissing President Clinton.
Dave Delp, 42, of Carlisle, Pa., and a friend had just settled into their seats when four Capitol security guards approached them. Delp said at the time that he was ordered to button his coat and follow the guards. Outside the chamber, he was told "several people felt threatened by your shirt."
Even after establishing that Delp was a guest of Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the guards wouldn't let him back in and escorted him to a basement security area, where they questioned and photographed him.

leveymg (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-01-06 09:13 AM
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30. Yes, but he wasn't arrested for "disorderly conduct"
That's the term for "protestor", a crime in the Constitution-free zone that has become anywhere Dubya happens to be.
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-01-06 09:15 AM
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32. Ummm, where does it say the man was arrested and charged?
Cindy was arrested and charged, quite different wouldn't you say?
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DemonFighterLives (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-01-06 09:20 AM
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33. Why don't you stick with the present
and stick with the party. I'm sure the freepers will find this ammo without your help.
Cindy Rocks!
Delp was an assclown.
Glad I could help!
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robbedvoter (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-01-06 09:20 AM
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34. Nice try. VIP, important issue, Santorum, no arrest - good parallel.
Thanks for bringing it up. It dramatizes more your guys' hypocrisy....Also, I don't remember the newspapers howling: "Republicans badly damaged by Delp's display"
But hey, we have our heroes, you have yours. We have our messages, you have yours. Always good to keep perspective.

A google search reveals this a freeper fabrication - which Drudge is now also spreading. No source in the past.