By now almost all the pundits have chimed in about the outrageous behavior of Jimmy Carter and the Rev. Lowrey at the recent funeral of Coretta Scott King.
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I was going to use my column space this week to express my outrage at the most despicable human being and worst president the country has ever known and his blatant use of this funeral to further attack our country and current president.
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But after talking with a dear friend of mine, Earl Brown, I decided to use the space more judiciously. If I said what I really felt about the likes of Jimmy Carter, I would be stooping to the level that Carter bent down to last Tuesday and would offer nothing to honor Mrs. King with today.
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Therefore I will offer a fitting eulogy, which unfortunately even the great orators at the funeral overlooked. To me, it is the most appropriate, given the person being honored.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
– "The Gettysburg Address," Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 1863
Mrs. King, may you rest in peace and in the knowledge that all Americans thank you for your contributions and may God richly bless you in your eternal destiny of service to The KING of Kings.
And go figure, I found no need to attack our president.
As for Jimmy Carter, he needs to retire from public speaking and go back to picking peanuts where he can preach to the nuts 24x7.
