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By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
Feb. 9, 2006 President George W. Bush ordered the nation’s flag be flown at half-staff to mourn the death of decency, civility, and class among the speakers at the Coretta Scott King funeral. At a funeral, for heaven’s sake, a man of the cloth took the opportunity to insult the president who was sitting behind him on the stage. Reverend Lowery: what a jerk. Jimmy Carter, the worst president in memory and the worst ex-president in memory took the opportunity to again break the ex-president’s code of gentlemanly conduct which says that ex-presidents retire gracefully off the stage and shut up and avoid riticizing the actions of the current president. Jimmy has missed his opportunity to retire gracefully off the stage. What a jerk. There is nothing anyone can say about Teddy Kennedy that hasn’t been said. Jerk is too kind a word. The gall of that man to comment on the wiretapping of Martin Luther King, using the incident to cast aspersions at George W. Bush, when it was his brothers John and Bobby Kennedy who ordered and authorized the wiretaps of MLK, an American citizen inside the USA and with no connection to national security. In the relevant words of James Taranto, “Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.” But what can one expect of a man insensitive enough or amnesic enough to name his dog Splash. Apparently he cannot recall the sound of an automobile driving off the Chappaquiddick Bridge, or he just wants to rub Martha’s Vineyard salt water in the Kopechne family’s old wound. What a jerk. The King daughter, the final speaker, did a pretty good job, and she’s certainly learned the orator’s tricks of pacing and voice modulation, but was it proper for her to annoint herself as the successor to the King throne? Isn’t that for history to decide? Maybe that was a bit jerky behavior. I’ll reserve judgment. Bill and Hillary did their little self-aggrandizing bobble-head doll routine. Pretty forgettable otherwise. Even George H. W. Bush, though certainly justified in taking some umbrage at the nasty digs the speakers flung at his son, should have refrained from making a comment about the Rev. Lowery’s “keeping his day job,” as he wasn’t much of a poet. That was a little bit jerky, too. Pretty much the only person who came across as a decent man, respectful of the occasion, was George W. Bush, who gave a short, complimentary speech about Mrs. King and sat down, showing respect for Mrs. King and for the occasion. That show needed a little class. Thanks, George W. ------------ About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre. Email: brooks15@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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