If Bush snickers once more I may throw up.

God ! he is a no class act !

I wish I was able to watch.

Everyone should be watching. It would do their hearts good.

George Bush is gettin' a substantial whuppin' and having to sit there and take it.

Teddy Kennedy got a huge standing ovation twice. Which Bush did not get ..

And the last speaker Rev Lowry took a direct shot at Bush and the war and the lies. And everyone was on their feet applauding and cheering.

This isn't a solemn funeral . Its a celebration of Mrs King's life. It's had me in tears more than just once or twice.

You ain't kidding. Bush is getting bitchslapped.

Even though he's sitting there with his fake smile, you can still see the pettiness underneath. Did you see how his jaw twitched when Clinton walked to the podium and the crowd was roaring? It was killing him -- I really think Bush thinks he's better than Clinton and it galls him that he's so popular.

Bill Clinton was superb. I wish Hillary had half his empathy.

Her opportunism in being at that podium with BC was not attractive. It telegraphed that she was using this opportunity to have BC endorse her before a huge audience. Today isn't about Hillary Clinton.
He spoke beautifully as he always does and brought things back to the focus of the day but he also used it for HC. I found that in very poor taste. Politically shrewd perhaps. Classy? No.

The others made points which attacked Bush but they were only speaking as Mrs King might have herself. The Clinton puppet show was strictly self promoting.

I saw that. It was most delightful!

Guess the word came down ... they stopped carrying it on MSNBC here shortly after the Clintons.

Rove and Mehlman must have been having a stroke.. WMD, wiretapping, Katrina, lies, they hit all the bases anyway before the powers that be sent out their edict.

King eulogists jab Bush at funeral

LITHONIA, Georgia (Reuters) - Speakers took a rare opportunity to criticize U.S. President George W. Bush's policies to his face at the funeral on Tuesday of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Civil-rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter cited Mrs. King's legacy as a leader in her own right and advocate of nonviolence as they launched barbs over the Iraq war, government social policies and Bush's domestic eavesdropping program.

Bush sat watching the long service before an audience of 10,000 including politicians, civil rights leaders and entertainers at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, and a national cable television audience.

Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King helped found in 1957, gave a playful reading of a poem in eulogy of Mrs. King.

"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war / She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," he said.

"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there / 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."

The mourners gave a standing ovation. Bush's reaction could not be seen on the television coverage, but after Lowery finished speaking, the president shook his hand and laughed.

Mrs. King, seen by many as the "first lady" of the American civil rights movement, died last week in a Mexican alternative health clinic at the age of 78, after complications from ovarian cancer and a recent stroke and heart attack.

Bush, speaking before his critics, said, "By going forward with a strong and forgiving heart, Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own."

With Washington debating the legality of Bush's domestic eavesdropping on Americans suspected of al Qaeda ties, Carter also drew applause with pointed comments on federal efforts to spy on the Kings.

"It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated, and they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance," he said.

Speaking later, Bush's father, former President George Bush, broke any tension by recalling his own meetings as president with Lowery and gave a score: "Lowery 21, Bush 3, it wasn't a fair fight."

Former President Bill Clinton, a favorite among mainstream civil rights leaders, was able to offer a teasing hint of the possible presidential candidacy of his wife, New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Brilliant.

I disagree with this, respectfully.

Why shouldn't she have?

It's always about the clinton's.

And Kerry lost 9 percent of the black vote that Gore won in 2000.
That 9 percent would have won the election

Martin Luther King Jr. would be livid that Bush was giving a speech at his wife's funeral. And Bush couldn't even pronounce Rosa Parks name, could he?

I missed it too, but I've heard about the simpleton's behavior

here's a Crooks and Liars video of the Reverend

http://www.crooksandliars.com/