51% of those polled felt Bush would be worthy of four more years
To synthesize two of today’s newslinks, 51% of those polled felt Bush would be worthy of four more years. That would mean that if Gallup’s gallumping polling paradigm reflected true reality (that is, if everything was described as it really existed [yeah, I'm crosseyed too]) the amount of people booing and hissing and shouting reactionary slogans at the hated Bush at Martin Luther King’s gravesite should have been drowned out just slightly by his cheering and ‘attaboying’ devout.
Instead, in Atlanta, he wasn’t even invited to the ceremony, and the crowd of 700-800 resonated with all forms anti-Dubya declarations. This link shows MLK’s widow Coretta Scott King in a lighthearted moment with Dubya in 2002. In January 2003, the last MLK day, she spoke out against the pending Iraq war:
“We commemorate Martin Luther King as a great champion of peace, who warned us that war is a poor chisel for carving out peaceful tomorrows,” Coretta Scott King said during a memorial service at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
It is apparent even back then that Mrs. King was against Bush & Co.’s blatant saber rattling. 2003’s military maneuvers must have only compounded her pacifist assertions. The chairman of the Black Congressional Caucus said not one policy decision made by the Bush administration has mirrored King’s dream, referring to King’s August 1963 speech in at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. He quoted the constitution in expressing his wish of equality. Such beautiful rhetoric simply cannot be paraphrased. I have transcribed the crucial moment in the speech from the lips of the man himself:
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King 1929-1968, R.I.P.