The two Bushes shake heads when told the truth.

I'm surprised one didn't cover his mouth and the other his ears. But they did shake their heads as they were called out on their war mongering ways:

 

Four U.S. presidents joined more than 10,000 mourners Tuesday in saying goodbye to Coretta Scott King, praised by President Bush as "one of the most admired Americans of our time."

 

"I've come today to offer the sympathy of our entire nation at the passing of a woman who worked to make our nation whole," President Bush told King's four children and the crowd that filled New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for the funeral of the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own," Bush said. "Having loved a leader, she became a leader, and when she spoke, Americans listened closely."

 

Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin stressed that King spoke out, not just against racism, but about "the senselessness of war and the solutions for poverty."

 

"She sang for liberation, she sang for those who had no earthly reason to sing a song," with a voice that was heard "from the tintop roofs of Soweto to the bomb shelters of Baghdad," Franklin said.

 

Former President Carter echoed that theme of a peaceful struggle for justice in a service that grew increasing political as other leaders questioned what the Bush administration was doing to continue the Kings' dream.

 

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., spoke directly to the current administration's foreign and domestic policies.

 

"Our marvelous presidents and governors come to mourn and praise ... but in the morning will words become deeds that meet need?" Lowery asked.

 

"For war, billions more, but no more for the poor," he said, in a take-off of a lyric from Stevie Wonder's song "A Time to Love," which drew a roaring standing ovation. The comments drew head shakes from Bush and his father as they sat behind the pulpit.

 

Coretta Scott King, who carried on her husband's dream of equality for nearly 40 years after his death, died Jan. 30 at the age of 78 after battling ovarian cancer and the effects of a stroke.

 

The Kings' youngest child, Bernice, a minister at the megachurch, was to give the eulogy. She was 5 when her father was assassinated in 1968 and is perhaps best remembered for the photographs of her lying in her black-veiled mother's lap during her father's funeral.

 

Former Presidents Clinton and Bush, poet Maya Angelou and the Kings' children were also among the more than three dozen speakers during the funeral.

 

"I don't want us to forget that there's a woman in there, not a symbol," Clinton said, standing behind King's flower-covered casket. "A real woman who lived and breathed and got angry and got hurt and had dreams and disappointments."

 

Angelou spoke of King as a sister with whom she shared her pain and laughter.

 

"Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history," Angelou said.

 

"I mean to say I want to see a better world. I mean to say I want to see some peace somewhere," she said to roaring applause.

I shook my head too... Not because they spoke out against the war, but because they politicised the funeral of another person to further their own agenda!

 

It was a fucking outrage!

 

everyone that use the death of that poor woman to draw media attention to their fucking cause should be caned on pay per view for being dispicable politicians...

 

They are criticising BUSH ?! I didn't see him turning a funeral into a fucking political pulpit! He got up there, said some kind things, most of which she didn't deserve, and HE FUCKING GOT OUT! That's it!

 

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I am embarassed to share the same fucking postal system with these fucks@!

First of all, like you said, anyone who uses a fuckin FUNERAL to further their own agenda should rot in hell...i'm talking to you Middle America, with you funeral picketing asses.

That was as close to a muslim funeral as I ever witnessed. No respect for the dead. I get visuals of democrats talking to their stuffed bears, just to get heard.

And fuck all of you for politicising a funeral.

 

I get visuals of democrats talking to their stuffed bears, just to get heard.

 

I get visuals of you getting shafted by a polar bear. Doesn't mean it happens.

 

I am embarassed to share the same fucking postal system with these fucks

 

Get over it. You are stuck with them whatever course you plot.

 

First of all, like you said, anyone who uses a fuckin FUNERAL to further their own agenda should rot in hell

 

Your erstwhile prez used the remembrance day speech to further his political agenda. I would call that a breach of protocol that exceeds this one.

 

Your erstwhile prez used the remembrance day speech to further his political agenda. I would call that a breach of protocol that exceeds this one.

 

and fuck him too... it's a funeral, not a debate..

and fuck him too... it's a funeral, not a debate..

 

The rememberance day speech is also not a debate. So fuck him ten times and sideways. And fuck you for too.