House holds moment of silence for Jackson
Published: June 26, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Report: White House undecided on statement
The US House of Representatives held a moment of silence to remember Michael Jackson following remarks by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
“I come to the floor today on behalf of a generation to thank God for letting us live in his generation and era,” Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill, told the House.
“A young man has left earth, but now resides in the stars,” said Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif. “We pay tribute to the culture that he has left behind, his legacy.”
According to a published report, the White House is still mulling on whether or not to release a statement.
CBS News’ Mark Stoller reports,
The White House hasn’t yet decided whether Presiden Obama should issue a statement on the death of Michael Jackson.
He was a world-renowned superstar, but there are parts of his life that hardly merit words of tribute from an American President.
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In 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter faced a similar dilemma after the death of Elvis Presley. The White House switchboard was reported to have been inundated with phone calls urging Mr. Carter to declare a national day of mourning for Presley.
The president eventually issued a carefully-written statement, declaring that Presley was ‘unique and irreplaceable’ and his music ‘permanently changed the face of American popular culture.’
Knoller reports that Obama might “take a page from Jimmy Carter’s playbook.”
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Meanwhile, a cancer ridden woman whose health insurer dumped her and her two children are found dead of starvation in a Washington DC alley. Upon hearing the news, a Representative said: “Who the fuck cares?”
A tragic life and a tragic death, all to soon. On another note: Yesterday there were scheduled demonstrations in several U.S. cities to protest the current administration’s unwillingness to hold the previous administration accountable for war crimes. I have yet to find any media coverage of these events. Did Obama not say, “No one is above the law?”
OH BROTHER ……..
In another related story ….The entire HOUSE was then taken to Lunch and given a Monetary Guarantee from the PHARMACEUTICAL (merchants of addictive Poison) Lobbyists to help with all their re-elections in 16 months as long as they don’t REALLY change anything with the USA’s THIRD WORLD corrupt health care system .
No moment of silence for Farrah or Ed or any of the GI’s killed in Iraq or Afghanistan but by God, be sure to take a moment for a child molester, give me a friggin break….
He was acquited of those charges, and lets face it, when you invade someone elses country with the intent to kill, you deserve to be killed by the people living in that country. The fucking troops all get their well deserved moment of fucking moment of silence. The troops have eliminated hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians since January of 1991, their moment of silence trumps that of their murderers.
Speaking of child molesters, the U.S. military is chock full of them. Some of them have even been convicted of things like raping and murdering little girls. I know this Nam vet that raped a 12 year old after murdering her parents. Moment of silence, lol.
Don’t get me wrong, I really could give a shit about a pop star, but fuck the troops. Thanks!
I respect your opinion, but a blanket statement like “fuck the troops” is a pretty narrow generalization. It’s tantamount to calling all Americans cowboys,or……any other simple generalizations most people make. As for some posters calling MJ a child molester, how do you know? Were you there? Were you molested personally by him? Do you personally know someone who was molested by him?
All that aside, I think it was respectful for the house to do that. I just wish they would do that everyday for the troops who have died, for the civilians slaughtered, for the victims of Katrina, for the disembowelling of the Constitution, for the death of the economy. And while they’re at it how about taking care of “We The People”?
How about forcing Rove, Bolton and Harriet Meyer to honour the soepenas issued by the house? How about finding the balls to stand up to Bushco and their enablers for war crimes and 911?
RIP AMERICA,MJ, Farrah Fawcett,Ed McMahon.Sky Saxon (The Seeds) and Barry Beckett.
peace……….
I would adore having 5, no 10 minutes alone with you and there wouldn’t be the slightest bit of love happening between us asshole.
This makes them the same as Jackson, i.e. child molesters.