There you go. A virtual Wall of Wimps. I included the former Senator Warner as he represented my state, Virginia.
Posted on 07/18/2010 7:36:48 AM PDT by paudio
Miller has a LOT of really outstanding qualifications. He has a Bronze Star, is a West Point graduate, and a businessman. (The beard is a standard Alaskan feature)
I forgot Voinovich. If McCain is defeated in the Arizona primary there is no telling what mischief he will engage in during a lame duck session. He may decide to go out in a blaze of “non partisan” glory!
>>>The Murkowski position today is preposterous. Native Alaskans in her own state, and Indian Tribes for that matter, lived in distinct communities, did not intermarry at significant rates, and typically maintained some kind of local or tribal government since Western contact. Our Constitution contemplated dealing with Indian tribes in the light of that history. Congress regularly dealt with these issues when admitting new states. To establish a new law that would cut up the nation based on race flies in the face of the history of dealing with Native Alaskans and Indian Tribes.<<<
Since I am living right now in an Alaskan Bush village in which a majority of people are Athabascan... yes, the kind of liberal apartheid proposed in Hawaii is disgusting. However, the writer here is absolutely wrong about intermarriage among Alaskan Natives. In fact, every Native family here in our little village has at least one relative who is non-Native. Some of my Native kids have had blonde hair and blue eyes. And I’m not just talking about mixed-race marriages between those of European and Native heritage, either - we have kids with Japanese mothers, Polynesian fathers, Filipinos, African-Americans, the whole gamut.
The fact that every kid from those unions considers themselves to be Native is an interesting sidelight.
It’s also a fact, that at least in this village, those kids who are not Native in any way are treated well. That isn’t true in some villages, where Natives treat outsiders in the same manner Klan treated the sons and daughters of slaves. Without the lynching, of course - yet. Racism is alive and well among many in the Native population, though.
In a way I can see the Hawaiian viewpoint. After all, until the Americans arrived, there was a thriving kingdom on the islands, complete with feudal lords and so on. Here in Alaska, indigenous people were working with Paleolithic tool kits and walking through the landscapes with small family groups, so there is no memory of political influence in the modern sense. The memory of tribal affiliation is strong, however.
And yes, sometimes Lisa is a doofus. You should have seen her father as governor. The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree.
The term is "Local"; meaning anyone who is not white or black. In Hawaii, you can be born in Hawaii of parents, grandparents, great grandparents - born in the islands back all the way to 1790, and not be considered "Native" or "Local". If you are white, you are a "Haole". The relatively few blacks in Hawaii are referred to as "Popolo".
No Caucasian is ever referred to as "Local" or "Hawaiian". (Occasionally "Local haole" may be used to describe members of well established, long time Caucasian families but never "Hawaiian or "Native")
OTOH, if you have brown eyes, dark skin and dark hair, you will be described (And accepted) as "Local": i.e. "The suspect was described as a "Local male"...
...even if you just jumped ship from a Mexican fishing boat.
Just call me "Kimo"
BTW, I lived on Oahu for thirty years. It is an extremely racist society where the annual "Kill haole day" in public schools is well known and white people keep their kids home.
Interestingly, there are relatively few blacks in Hawaii. Amusingly, they sometimes refer to themselves as "Royal Hawaiians".
There you go. A virtual Wall of Wimps. I included the former Senator Warner as he represented my state, Virginia.
I believe she’s up for reelection this year. The big news was that Palin endorsed her primary opponent.
Warner was a prize wasn’t he? Fortunately a few do retire before they are carried out in a casket. Others like Byrd and Strom Thurmond have no where else to go. Orin Hatch is another aging (76) Republican whose spine continues to weaken with each passing year.
Goodness man, fade off into the sunset already.
Amen. When my parents enrolled me into a Catholic elementary school there, the head nun said that I would be called “haole,” relentlessly, and I should just get used to it.
Substitute the racial epithet of your choice in her admonition.
The current US Senate has 27 members aged 70 or more. Another two members will reach age 70 within the next 12 months.
Some people just don’t know when it is time to go.
Wall of Wimps, that’ what we have, and that’s what Republican primary voters seem to want all the time. Orrin G. Hatch should be up there too, but when he was first elected in 1976, he was a roaring conservative. The EMK taught him a few tricks.
From Wikipedia:Although a conservative Republican, Hatch is noted for his willingness to cross party lines to get legislation passed. He notably formed a longstanding legislative partnership with the late Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts.
Hatch was one of the architects and advocates of the expansion of H-1b visas and has generally been an advocate of looser immigration policy, which upsets most members of his delegation in Utah. He also proposed the somewhat controversial DREAM Act, which would grant state-subsidized higher education to illegal immigrants.
Yep, a scumbag.
Yes, but UT’s admired scumbag. And not as bad as Lovable Lindsey of SC
Lisa needs to be chucked.
So do her east coast stepsisters but I don’t have much hope for that.
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