The Liberal Abuse of the Dead
As a political prop first reared it's ugly head at the Wellstone memorial rally in Minnesota during the last election. It was tasteless and crass then. It was beyond exploitive when Cindy Sheehan, cheered by the left, ground her filthy sneakers into her dead son's corpse to promote a political agenda, and no less so now as Rev. Joseph Lowry turned the Coretta Scott King funeral into a Bush bash. This is a disgusting practice, and today's display was even more so coming from a religious leader.
Maybe no one else will say this, but I will. There are cultures in the world that routinely use death and martyrdom as a tool for inciting the masses. The left should be careful what tactics they adopt - it may lead to comparison.
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Jimmy Carter has turned into a very bitter, twisted man in his "retirement."
What the devil is wrong with people today that they feel that scoring political burns is appropriate at ANY funeral?
Whats next...spitting on the grave or maybe dancing on it?
Its pretty bad when state representatives show up at soldiers funerals and add additional heartache to soldiers families but there was no honor paid to Mrs. King by the crap spewed "REV." Lowry or Carter.
I would have said President Carter but his actions here and the not so distant past has lost him any and all respect that I once had for the man.
Its really sad that this happened at the funeral of a woman that spent her life bringing people together.
i had a very nascent thought along these lines..thanks for articulating it for me...there is also the sad similarity based upon constant self-perception as the "victim"