Beth Chapman couldn't pass up a chance to get close to Sarah Palin ... she traveled to Georgia to campaign with Alaska's half governor on behalf of a Georgia gubernatorial candidate.
Obama vs. the Congressional Black Caucus
(mooncat)
This is from Chris Cilizza, so you have to take it with a grain of salt, but it isn't surprising that the CBC and Barack Obama sometimes come at things from very different points of view. He isn't the president of any part of America, he's gone to great pains to be the president of all of America.
Sources familiar with the relationship between Obama and the CBC point to three major causes of tension: a generational divide, a lack of relationships and pure politics.
They give Repub. Robert Bentley a 2 out of 5 on the truth scale for his claims regarding illegal immigrants and health benefits.
Democrat Ron Sparks' claim that gambling will stabilize the Medicaid budget in Alabama just as it has done in Mississippi earned 3 out of 5 on the truth scale.
Pat Byington's article on 100 Days of the BP Oil Spill for the Montgomery Advertiser. What will happen to the Gulf when the national media moves on to the next big thing?
...and it had to be somebody from Alabama
(piggieheart)
Somebody had to say this. When Hitler took power, no one wanted to think that the Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jewish people, was possible. I'm saying that you have to recognize and name tyranny when you see it.
Congressional candidate Rick Barber. Republican from Alabama.
"I think we should just...go back to what our Founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It's pretty simple." -- Sarah Palin
As discussion on the nomination began, [Florida Councilman Don] Redman called [Parvez] Ahmed, who is Muslim, to the podium and asked him to "say a prayer to your God."
The comment elicited an audible, negative reaction from the audience and Ahmed refused to comply, saying it had no relevance to his nomination to the commission. At the same time, Chief Deputy General Counsel Cindy Laquidara rushed to the podium to reign in Redman, asking to speak with him privately before he continued.
Instead, Redman changed his approach, asking Ahmed if he was offended by Redman's opening prayer, in which he referenced Jesus. Ahmed again questioned the relevance of the question, but he said Christian prayers did not bother him. "People do have the right to pray according to their faith and according to their beliefs," he said.
Redman wasn't convinced. He insisted that Ahmed, despite his answer, would be offended by prayers to Jesus and that is why he shouldn't serve on Human Rights Commission.
Yes, Councilman Redman, you are clearly a great paragon of religious tolerance and acceptance, unlike Mr. Ahmed here. [eyeroll] Since your grasp of irony seems to be tenuous at best (to put it politely), allow me to explain: the only one here offended by someone's religion or prayers is you—the very person making that accusation against someone. And with that, my hypocrisy meter exploded. You owe me a new one. Are you even aware of the fact that you both essentially worship the same Abrahamic God?
In any case, Bravo to Mr. Ahmed. He handled this in a very classy and dignified manner with patience and tact. In the process, he very effectively demonstrated that Don Redman here lacks such class and grace because he acts like a raving xenophobic bigot. Good show.
Bishop E.W. Jackson on gays: "You aren't oppressed, so shut up and get back in your place, you filthy abominations!"
(shykid)
I can't decide if this is more homophobic or racist, really:
Homosexuals have no history of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching or being legally defined as 2/3 of a person. I have known people who have been delivered from homosexuality. I have never known anyone to be delivered from being black. The Democrat Party's commitment to abortion, homosexuality and moral relativism is an affront to the values of the black Christian community. It is a 'Coalition of the godless.' Black Christians do not belong in a 'coalition of the godless,' and should not vote for those who are.
Wait, what? So giving gays equal rights is OK if they are sufficiently persecuted first ? If black people could be "delivered" from their blackness, they should change? Do you realize what you're saying, buddy?
"It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter for diddly." -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, on criticism of Confederate History Month proclamation for not mentioning slavery. Sure, slavery's no big deal. Unless you happen to have been Black in the American South.
"It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter for diddly." -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, on criticism of Confederate History Month proclamation for not mentioning slavery
Yeah, what's the big deal about slavery ? Unless you were Black in the Confederacy?
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