Coretta Scott King: Funerals Are Like Awesome, Dude!

Is there anything better than a country where free speech allows you to smack down the President at a funeral, no less, for a civil rights icon? That is like, so totally cool! Maybe we can, like bring cream pies and really have fun at the next funeral! Funerals are the best place ever to play politics and be superficial. Coretta Scott King would be soooooo proud. Dr. King would be even prouder, yo!

This blogger defends Ms. Scott-King's eulogies by former Prez Jimmy and others blasting the war and bad stuff by Bush as what she would want. is that true? If it is, why even invite the Prez? Surely, she wouldn't want the black-hatin' oppression-lovin' whitey there, right? Why the farce?

Conversely, it seems that those who loathe Bush can't even imagine that he would be happy for equal rights for all people black or white. They seem convinced that his desire for freedom for all is a cynical one. They can't imagine that he would mourn the loss of a black person, never mind a black civil rights leader.

Do liberals really believe all this or is it a major case of transference?

As I walked down the hall of my kids school today and read all the paragraphs about Dr. King and saw the drawings, too, and thought grateful thoughts for his vision and leadership and dreams, and then looked at the flag at half-mast for the woman who carried on this vision, I was happy to be an American. I guess that's why it makes me so angry that liberals just can't believe it and can't put their anger aside for one minute to have a loving, pure tribute to someone so deserving.

Update: I guess this is what bugs me: by spanking Bush's tushie, they made the day about him instead of about Ms. King! Why can't they see that? IT IS ABOUT HER WORK AND SACRIFICE. It is about a positive. Leave the other stuff for every day rants--not HER rememberence. Oy!