Presidents Join Mourners at Coretta King's Funeral
Four U.S. presidents, senators and celebrities joined thousands of mourners Tuesday who filled the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King's daughter Bernice is a minister, to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King, the "first lady of the civil rights movement."
Why President George W. Bush was allowed on the podium is a mystery, considering the Republican Party's blatant racism and anti-Civil Rights record over the past 40 years.
Bush certainly appeared uncomfortable on the stage, especially when Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin took a shot at the U.S. government's policy surrounding the war in Iraq and compared it to another unwinnable war in Vietnam, a war opposed by Martin Luther King Jr.