Maybe it's the Chantix, and maybe it's the sleep dep that comes at the end of every quarter, but this is wretched beyond digusting:
"Former president George H.W. Bush sobbed as he spoke of how much the minister meant to him, calling Graham 'a spiritual gift to all of us'. Bush noted that the preacher had comforted four generations of the president's family, including the current President Bush, who sent Graham a handwritten note last week.
Former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton recalled how Graham helped bring blacks and whites together in the South through his insistence that his crusades be racially integrated."
Well, before we starting getting all misty for the misunderstood Billy Graham, let us not forget that an insistance on integrated crusades cannot and should not be construed as anything other than ostensible desegregationist: Just below the surface, however, we have another anti semitic wingnut, dressed up in his sunday best.
So Clinton and Carter showed up to honor this piece of shit, a man who said at Nixon's funeral that Tricky Dick "respected the Office of the President". Evidentally, in Mr. Graham's estimation, respect in shown through carpet bombing, wire taps, and obstruction of justice.
So it goes that public officials piss away their credibility.
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