Can you believe this?

Did anyone else catch a bit of the coverage of Coretta Scott King's funeral? I did. Unfortunately I did not get to see any of the four Presidents in attendance. But I did read up on some of what Carter said.

Jimmy Carter decided to use his speech at the funeral (yes a funeral of a wonderful patriotic woman and true American) to bash President Bush....all while the President was sitting right behind him.

First he says: "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi who are most devastated by Katrina to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans." Not too bad yet, but keep reading.

Then he went on to talk about the apparently illegal wiretapping program. In what could only be taken as a direct attack on Bush's electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists, a program Carter has repeatedly denounced as "illegal." Carter said of Mrs. King and her slain husband, Martin Luther King, "they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance" to which he got a great applause from the mostly African American crowd. Although talking about wiretapping on King, he was clearly alluding to the current terrorist surveillance program. Don't get me wrong, he has every right to say this, but at a funeral? Come on...ridiculous.

Perhaps Carter didn't remember that the wire-tapping was conducted under Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and was originally ordered by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, all Democrats. Interesting.

Even worse than Carter's comments were Rev. Joseph Lowery's, who once was a figure of some note among Dr. King's colleagues. "We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there," he said. "But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor." He got a humongous ovation for his weapons of mass distruction statement. He said this all while the President sat just feet behind.

This was a civil rights event celebrating a civil rights hero. Coretta was responsible for getting Martin Luther King Jr. Day passed as a national holiday (one of only three Americans to have a national holiday named for them).

President Bush sat there with grace, dignity, and class when the democrats had none. He took the criticism when there was no place for it. Just put yourself in Bush's shoes. You're going into an environment that's at least 95% democrat, if not higher. You're being criticized without being given a chance to respond. You just sit there and bite your tongue. That's a true leader ladies and gentlemen.

Democrats and democratic blogs were up in arms crying foul when Bush gave a speech on veteran's day defending the war. Yet the liberals use a funeral, yes A FUNERAL, to push their agenda....once again, ridiculous. Don't look for the liberal blogs to be covering this one.

Newsbusters has a good post about coverage of this on Hardball.

By the way, this is my 100th post!