Poor wittle President Thin-skin –
Meanwhile:
Liberals Rail Against Clint Eastwood’s “Racist” Empty Chair Skit; But Not Piers Morgan’s?
This is too precious.
Breaking News!!!! Clint is yelling racist slurs at the chair.
#RNC
— Samantha Gibbs (@LiberalChick89) August 31, 2012Eastwood Chair Rant so racist white man manipulating mouth of black man like puppet getting him to say swear words
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) August 31, 2012OUCH! good i missed it RT
@mikeelk: Eastwood chair rant was RACIST, white man putting dirty words into mouth of black man like a puppet
— Liza Sabater (@blogdiva) August 31, 2012Eastwood chair rant was RACIST, white man putting dirty words into mouth of black man like a puppet
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) August 31, 20126 retweets from moron followers.
“It was like Amos & Andy meets Waiting for Godot.” –
@meeshellchen on racism of#eastwooding
— Mike Elk (@MikeElk) August 31, 2012Ok, the Godot thing is clever.
Romney trying to take away grants hell now Obama need to sit in the chair for another term Romney seem racist
— Jα’Mεяiα(@_iRunThisShxt) August 31, 2012
If you haven’t seen it here is the whole raaaaaaaaacist speech
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsfCteQxCE[/youtube]
@another vet:
Let’s not forget the migration of blacks in the 30’s when FDR was president. Most of them were from rural areas, many affected by the Dust Bowl, who migrated north to hopefully find work in major cities. But they were used as pawns by the FDR administration, an administration of patronage, and many blacks who were given jobs by the FDR administration’s many agencies found that the only way they could obtain those jobs were to register to vote as Democrats. In some places, their wages saw a deduction for a contribution to the Democrat Party, a deduction they did not agree to, and they were required to work in their free time to canvas votes. It was pretty much an unwritten rule: you want a job? Simple. Register as a Democrat.
I find it odd that so many claim that the Southern Democrats, when they did not agree with the Republican push for the Civil Rights Act, jumped the aisle to become Republicans, who they disagreed with vehemently. Yeah, that’s what most people do, right? Find someone you don’t agree with and join them in their endeavors?
@retire05:
I gather that Jefferson was a deist from various sources. The authoritative source I’ll offer today is Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., who before he passed away in 2008.
Qualification?
Avery Dulles was born in Auburn, New York, the son of future U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (for whom Washington Dulles International Airport is named) and Janet Pomeroy Avery Dulles. His uncle was Director of Central Intelligence Allen Welsh Dulles. Both his great-grandfather John W. Foster and great-uncle Robert Lansing also served as U.S. Secretary of State.
Avery Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974 and that of The Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988. He was a visiting professor at: The Gregorian University (Rome), Weston School of Theology, Union Theological Seminary (New York), Princeton Theological Seminary, Virginia Theological Seminary, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Boston College, Campion Hall, Oxford, the University of Notre Dame, the Catholic University at Leuven, Yale University, and St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie. He was the author of over 700 articles on theological topics, as well as twenty-two books. In 1994, he was a signer of the document Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
Past President of both the Catholic Theological Society of America and the American Theological Society and Professor Emeritus at The Catholic University of America, Cardinal Dulles served on the International Theological Commission and as a member of the United States Lutheran/Roman Catholic Dialogue. He was also a consultant to the Committee on Doctrine of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Over his life, his awards included Phi Beta Kappa, the Croix de Guerre, the Cardinal Spellman Award for distinguished achievement in theology, the Boston College Presidential Bicentennial Award, the Christus Magister Medal from the University of Portland (Oregon), the Religious Education Forum Award from the National Catholic Educational Association, America magazine’s Campion Award, the F. Sadlier Dinger Award for contributions to the catechetical ministry of the Church, the Cardinal Gibbons Award from The Catholic University of America, the John Carroll Society Medal, the Jerome Award from the Roman Catholic Library Association of America, Fordham Founders Award, Gaudium Award from the Breukelein Institute, and thirty-three honorary doctorates.
Lieutenant Dulles in the US Navy was awarded the French Croix de guerre for his service during WWII..
I’ll quote extensively form The Deist Minimum, by Cardinal Dulles
@retire05: Those were the blacks I was largely referring to. They, along with recent immigrants, urbanites, and white Southerners who still viewed the Republican Party negatively as the party of Lincoln, made up FDR’s New Deal coalition. If you were to look at the historical map of the electoral college what you would find is that the South voted heavily for such “Republican conservatives” as FDR and Harry Truman. In Eisenhower’s trouncing of Stevenson in 1956, the only part of the country that “liberal democrat” Ike lost was in the South. With regards to Goldwater in 1964, they seem to always ignore the fact the reason he opposed the Civil Rights Act was because of Constitutional issues and not racial issues.
What is going on here is the revising of history, first in an attempt to make it seem like racism only exists in the South (i.e. the area most associated with conservatives) and that the North (i.e. the area along with the Left Coast, most associated with liberals) is very tolerant and open-minded. It begins with the false notion that the CW was nobly fought solely to end slavery which is easily proven to be B.S. From there, it evolves to equate the Republican Party with racism and slavery, which is the real goal. Living in Illinois, I know plenty of dems who are hard core racists and plenty of dems who claim to be against racism yet live in affluent, all white neighborhoods. Very revealing. It seems as though they are all for being against racism, they just don’t want to live in the same neighborhood as blacks.
@Richard Wheeler:
Nah, I haven’t forgotten the Senate. Not at all. Like I said…I already know all of the answers. Lol
The calculation should be based on total number of years served 1964-2012 (including 2012 since we’re already eight months in). You’re gonna want to include 2012 in order to boost the Rep numbers. Trust me.
If I were a betting man, I’d be all in right now.
@Aye:
Aye, I’m in. I’ll see your bet and call. Let’s see who has the better hand.
@another vet:
You will never hear a liberal mention the worst race riot in the history of our nation because it didn’t happen in the South. It happened on the East Coast.
In 1863 blacks had fled the South and headed north. Many of them went to New York City because the city was large and they assumed it would provide them work. Lincoln had installed the draft, and the NY union workers resented the union busting black who were willing to work for less. Riots broke out, with white union workers attacking the newly arrived blacks. 100 people died in the New York Draft riot, and historians like to brush it off as opposition to Lincoln’s draft proclaimation, but it had more to do with white objecting to the union busting blacks. When it came to equality and wanting the slaves freed, there was no “Welcome to New York” sign hung out.
Chicago was another site of a violent race riot that lasted five days. Can’t talk about that one, either. You see, in order to continue to put the boot on the neck of the South, like the government still does with Section V of the Voter Act, the myth that the South is still racist must be perpetrated.
I was in Mississippi for almost two years after Katrina. I was amazed at how Mississippi doesn’t live up to the way it is sterotyped. Blacks represent a large portion of the population, seeing a black married to a white is common place, blacks and whites seem to live in the same areas, be they upper end or slums.
But in order to keep their bank accounts fat, people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrahkan have to continue to pretend that racism is rampant still. Otherwise, they would be out of a job.
@retire05:
More from Avery Cardinal Dullis about Thomas Jefferson.
@Mike O’Malley:
The opinions of Cardinal Dulles were the opinions of just ONE man. So what? I can give you chapter and verse of those who disagreed with his opinion on the religious faith of Thomas Jefferson. The fact of the matter is that Jefferson, himself, in his own writings, declares that he was a Christian. End of story.
Now, much has been made of the Jefferson Bible although the secret to it lies in your own quotes:
“Jefferson undertook to retrieve the true teachings of Jesus. Especially in matters of morals.
Jefferson was not trying to prove any Biblical claims of the miracles of Jesus, but rather wanted to show that the moral standards as taught by Jesus Christ were superior to all others. Jefferson states, in his own letters, that his creation of a book of quotes by Jesus “is a paradigma of his doctrines.” Those who are trying to use the Jefferson Bible as an example of Jeffson’s 18th century Deism, are trying to compare apples and oranges. Classic (not modern) Deists did not believe in Divine Intervention; Jefferson did. If a miracle is not Divine intervention, then pray tell, exactly what is it?
Those who argue that others, such as John Adams, were also influence by Deism, are full of it, including Cardinal Dulles. Adams was a hard core Christian who accepted the New Testament as pure truth. Franklin also wrote to Paine regarding Paine’s disdain for religious faith, chastising Paine for that view in a way only Benjamin Franklin could do; with great diplomacy.
Now, perhaps you thought that be referencing Avery Cardinal Dulles, you would impress my opinion. You did not. Cardinal Dulles allowed one great sin to enter his life; ambition. He petitioned the Vatican to absolve him from his ordination oath as a Jesuit to allow him to reach a lofty title in the Church hiarchy. His petition was granted simply due to his advanced years, permitting him to go from lowly priest to elevated Cardinal.
So you accept the writings of Avery Cardinal Dulles, and I will base my evaluation of Jefferson’s Christianity on Jefferson’s own words.
Jefferson has been an interest of mine for a number of years and I have been in contact with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation for answers to my questions about Jefferson. Why the interest? Because Jefferson advocated one thing and lived his life totally different. He advocated against slavery, yet held slaves not giving them their freedom upon his death; he advocated fiscal responsibility, yet died deeply in debt; he advocated strict Constitutionalism yet bent the rules once he became President; he would smear others for their personal lives, yet refused to adress his own. He paid a journalist to smear John Adams only to have that same journalist turn on his once he held the office of President.
But Jefferson, IMHO, was no more important than John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, or any of the other “framers.” And held less importance than did George Washington.
The debate on Thomas Jefferson has been going on for almost 200 years, it will not end anytime soon.
Aye and Mike 1964-2012 Deep South Sens. and Govs. Could take awhile.
First blush All 5 current Govs. are Republican. 9 of 10 current Senators are Republican. The Deep South is Solid Republican.
As South moved from solid Dem. prior to 64 to it’s current solid Republican, many Conservative Dems. (blue dogs) were elected to Senate seats—–politics are local.The populace of these states voted Republican for Potus and often Conservative Dem. for their Senators and Governors.
@Richard Wheeler:
Actually, no, it didn’t take very long at all.
Let’s recap your original claim:
Now the reality:
For the Deep South States (AL, GA, LA, MS, SC) 1964 thru 2012 the total number of Gubernatorial years in office by party:
For the Deep South States (AL, GA, LA, MS, SC) 1964 thru 2012 the total number of years in the US Senate by party:
Hmmmm….doesn’t look like the Deep South has been “short on Dem.Govs. and Senators” after all, eh?
Feel free to double check my mathematical calculations below. All of the source material is linked along with the per state breakdowns.
Aye You can thank those Conservative Blue Dog Dems. After Landrieu gets beat in her next go we may not have a single Dem. Senator or Governor in The Cotton States for a long time.
You wanna know how many times in the 12 Pres elections 64-08 these 5 states voted Dem??
12 elections times 5 states= 60 contests Repubs 48 Dems 8 Wallace 4 in 68. Only in native Georgian Jimmy Carter’s 1976 win did this bloc vote Dem.
None have voted for a Dem. since Ga. for Clinton in 92—20 YEARS 24-1
Since 80 38 Repub.-2 Dem.
Except for Carter in 1976 and Segegationist Wallace in 68 Solid South has been solid Repub. for POTUS. All 5 will be in Romney’s column in 2012
@Aye: @Richard Wheeler:
Advantage Aye, I’d say…
And Carter played no small part in the loss of the Democratic south by the Democratic Party. Carter ran as a principled integrationist and a conservative Christian in the 1976 presidential election. During the campaign and early in Carter’s administration there was much talk in the DNC and MSM about what it meant for Carter to be a “Born Again” Christian. The DNC and MSM marketed Carter to be a “Born Again” Christian. This was part of the DNC’s strategy for locking up the South for the Democratic Party for a generation.
So the old deep South elected an integrationist in 1976, but an integrationist they felt comfortable with. Someone they viewed as a Conservative Christian (like George W. Bush). Someone they could trust. Then the Carter Administration directed the radicals in the IRS and DoJ to begin attacking the Christian religious organizations in the South. The popular reaction to that betrayal by the Carter Administration was the emergence of the Evangelical Religious Right which the DNC and Democratic party core hates and reviles to this day.
That is the reason the South has swung further behind the Republican Party.
@Richard Wheeler: @Aye:
Today the Progressive-Left pimps a self-serving narrative to discredit its conservative opposition as “white” racist segregationists, while some four decades ago the Progressive-Left and the Democratic Party was confident it would retained the South as part of the traditional Democratic electoral base notwithstanding in roads into the South by its hated Richard Nixon in the 1968 and 1972. In 1976 the Progressive-Left had confidence in it’s flag bearer, “Born-Again” Jimmy Carter, someone who would give non-progressive white voters in the New South a token Cracker leader to buy into while the Progressive-Left continued to implement its agenda. Thereafter the Carter Administration directed the radicals in the IRS and DoJ to begin attacking the Christian religious organizations in the South. The popular reaction to that betrayal by the Carter Administration was the emergence of the Evangelical Religious Right which the DNC and Democratic party core hates and reviles to this day.
It was the aggressive anti-Christian bigotry of the white progressive activists in the Carter Whitehouse, DoJ and the IRS that drove the South further behind into the camp of the Republican Party.