So Bush, in Atlanta for a $2 million fundraiser, commits a "drive-by wreathing", at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s tomb.

Considering how much his regime has done to demolish our Constitution, how much he's obliterated the civil rights of American citizens, how his regime has renegged on its pledge to introduce legislation to end racial profiling, how many more middle class Americans (a large percentage of which have dark skin) his economic policies have plunged into poverty...it's exceedingly cynical and a damned insult to the memory of Dr. King.

Now, before you Bush apologists complain that he'd be damned if he did and damned if he didn't, let me ask you...do you honestly (and I mean honestly) expect people to believe that he would have turned up at Dr. King's tomb if he hadn't been in town to raise money for his re-election? Especially considering he hasn't bothered to visit Dr. King's tomb the three previous years of his presidency.

And, I'm just guessing that, by stopping off at Dr. King's tomb, he can charge that fundraising trip to the American taxpayers, and the Republican party won't have to foot the bill for it.

Oh, and there were protesters there booing Bush and chanting at him to leave, that he wasn't welcome there. Not surprisingly--but in yet another kick in the balls to the memory of Dr. King--those protesters were shunted off into what is disgustingly called a "free-speech zone", where the president wouldn't have to see/hear them.

Here's the story in the UK's Guardian. Interestingly enough, there seems to be little coverage of it here on the "big" US news sites.