BUSH: "THATS YOUR FUNERAL"
President Bush will not be attending services for fallen Senator Paul Wellstone (a real populist, as opposed to Bush, a fake populist). He opts to send Cheney, to which the Wellstone family rightly said thanks... but no thanks.
What makes it worse is that Ari Fleischer saw the need to lie to the press, saying there was no precedent for presidents attending senatorial funerals. Nevermind Bill Clinton attending the funeral of Senator John Chaffee, a Republican, several years back.
Granted, in July of 2000, Clinton did not attend the funeral of Senator Coverdell. Of course, he had not one but two significant excuses, the first being that it came right in the middle of the Camp David summitt with Arafat and Barak, and the second being that it came during the G-8 summitt in Okinawa, Japan.
President Bush will not be attending services for fallen Senator Paul Wellstone (a real populist, as opposed to Bush, a fake populist). He opts to send Cheney, to which the Wellstone family rightly said thanks... but no thanks.
What makes it worse is that Ari Fleischer saw the need to lie to the press, saying there was no precedent for presidents attending senatorial funerals. Nevermind Bill Clinton attending the funeral of Senator John Chaffee, a Republican, several years back.
Granted, in July of 2000, Clinton did not attend the funeral of Senator Coverdell. Of course, he had not one but two significant excuses, the first being that it came right in the middle of the Camp David summitt with Arafat and Barak, and the second being that it came during the G-8 summitt in Okinawa, Japan.
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