Yahoo! News - Bush Booed at Martin Luther King Gravesite
ATLANTA (Reuters) - In a sign of the difficulty President Bush (news - web sites) faces as he tries to win black support for his reelection, several hundred protesters loudly booed him on Thursday as he laid a wreath at the grave of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

"Bush go home" and "peace not war" the predominantly black crowd of protesters shouted from behind a barrier of buses, as Bush paid tribute to King on the 75th anniversary of his birth.

U.S. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a Maryland Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, criticized the grave visit as "yet another symbolic gesture that lacks any real substance."

"Every policy decision of the Bush Administration including the war in Iraq, healthcare, jobs, the economy, judicial nominations, housing, the environment, as well as secondary and higher education, has done nothing to strengthen Dr. King's dream," Cummings said.

Even though I would love to see George booed at every public appearance he makes, for some reason this bothered me. I don't know why. Perhaps I feel it was somehow disrespectful to Dr. King, in a way.