Another Wellstone Moment

Well, I can't say I'm really surprised that the Democrats made another memorial into a disgusting partisan display of Bush-bashing. They never learn, do they? Bush clearly set himself apart as the only one with any class, the only one to restrict his remarks to the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King. You know, that's what you're supposed to do at memorials. Then came the Leftiest. From Clinton to Carter and all in between, they had to get their digs in. What do weapons of mass destruction and Hurricane Katrina have to do with honoring Mrs. King? The bottom line is, it didn't matter who was laying in that casket. They were there for themselves and their Party. That's the real shame.

JASmius adds: Jimmy Carter brought up wire-tapping of Dr. King (while Ted Kennedy was sitting in the audience, no less) and the Katrina urban legends. Al Sharpton and the Sinister Minister were their revolting selves. And Bill Clinton ended up talking about himself far more than he did Mrs. King. But "Reverend" Joseph Lowry was, IMHO, the most despicable (h/t RCP):

"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.

"But Coretta knew, and we know," Lowery continued, "That there are weapons of misdirection right down here," he said, nodding his head toward the row of presidents past and present. "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor!" The crowd again cheered wildly.

There you go. Another Wellstone moment. I guess you could say that death has become a favorite political vehicle for the far Left because whenever a prominent liberal figure passes away, upper-tier Republicans are required by protocol to attend and pay their respects, and become captive targets for vituperative, ghoulish lefty boorishness. It certainly was a no-win situation for Dubya. As the sitting President, he couldn't not go to Coretta Scott King's funeral, and being the man of faith and class that he is, I'm sure he never contemplated skipping the occasion. But he also was well aware that he was going into a den of the political enemy, and their denizens were going to make the most of this opportunity to hoot and jeer at him in a setting in which he could not defend himself, even if he was inclined to do so.

Perhaps the saddest part is that if Martin Luther King were alive today, he'd probably sound just like the "Reverend" Lowry. But I can't help wondering what the Dr. King of 1963 would have had to say about his followers turning his wife's funeral into a vicious political rally aimed at a fellow brother in Christ who showed his wife far more respect in his remarks than they did in theirs.