I have to wonder: If George W. Bush had not authorized warrantless wiretaps; if he had actively supported civil rights over the years; if his government had effectively responded to a large-scale disaster more than four years after the last one, would there have been such furious denunciation of Mr. Carter's and Reverend Lowery's remarks?
I doubt it. Yet if that's true, it means that many people decried Mr. Carter's and Reverend Lowery's comments not because they were inappropriate but because they made the President squirm.
As one who devoted her life to speaking truth to power, Coretta Scott King would probably have enjoyed the moment.
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