IF LAURA INGRAHAM WRITES A FOLLOW-UP BOOK, IT SHOULD BE TITLED, SHUT UP AND MOURN!Thaat would be:
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Posted on 02/08/2006 6:46:10 AM PST by Quilla
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IF LAURA INGRAHAM WRITES A FOLLOW-UP BOOK, IT SHOULD BE TITLED, SHUT UP AND MOURN!Thaat would be:
I would be surprised if LESTER would have anything to do with Jimmah. He did have his standards.
Lester is the bugabear of the liberals, but he actually was a pretty decent guy. He grew up as a very poor (that's nothing-to-eat poor, in the days before much public assistance) white on the fringes of urban Atlanta. He was a child of his time and place, so he was a segregationist, but what people forget is that like most poor southerners he lived in a factually integrated community. So while his theories were reprehensible, his practice was another story. A not uncommon situation in the South.
Oddly enough, he was the first governor of Georgia to appoint blacks to statewide office -- none of the vaunted liberal governors before him EVER did that. He said regardless of segregation they were citizens too and deserved a voice in government. And his office door was always open -- any citizen, black or white, could walk in and talk to him about their troubles. And he would fix whatever he could -- he would literally pick up the phone himself and send somebody out.
He and I shared a doctor, and we used to run into each other in the waiting room. I had some long and friendly conversations with him, and my read on him is that he was an essentially decent fellow who tried to do right. One telling point is that all his employees at the Pickrick, black and white, adored him. (He and one of his kitchen workers started a country band called The Governor and the Dishwasher. It really was a hoot. They stank though.) You can tell a lot about a man from how he treats his employees.
Carter is another matter altogether -- in fact, kind of the opposite. He talks a good game (at least if you're a liberal), but he's a mean, petty, vindictive person and from what I hear he is hell to work for.
WELLSTONE: "The Left does not understand the meaning of R.I.P."
I can't wait for Jimmy Carter to die. Imagine what that spectacle will look and sound like:
1. Democrats thinking he was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
2. Republicans failing to point out what a loser Carter was.
What can be expected when they invite religious pretenders plus political creeps and retards to speak at the service?
Personally, I think Coretta herself would have approved this self-aggrandizing program riddled with left-wing political advertising.
The Kings by-and-large are not and never were an Ozzie and Harriet squeaky-clean family.
Leni
You never heard of him before yesterday, right? Don't worry about it; Bush Sr. handled Lowery beautifully in his gracious remarks at the funeral.
Carter & Lowery handled the crowd like Jerry Springer, stoking their blind, ignorant anger... and the saps responded accordingly. Rapist42 treated it like stand-up at The Appolo... with a dummy called Hillary on his knee.
The Democrat party... the party of the vast, un-educated un-washed.
The contrast was amazing, wasn't it? Whatever you think of Bill politically, you have to admit he was a
"natural" up there. Hillary...... not so much.
I saw it, and he did not shake hands with anyone. It didn't present itself. It's not like Bush was holding his hand out and Carter snubbed him.
When Lowery finished speaking, Bush was on his feet and shook hands with him immediately, which was very gracious.
Thanks Linda, and a belated welcome to Free Republic.
Everyone in the combined Presidential party left long before the service was over, and a prearranged interval allowed them to do so. Laura didn't stalk off the stage. :)
"Lester Maddox was never Lt. Gov. He ran against Peter Zack Geer in '62 and lost (hey, I was there!)"
Care to refresh your memory?
From - http://www.racematters.org/lestermaddox.htm
"In 1970, after serving four years as governor, Mr. Maddox was elected lieutenant governor because state law precluded him from succeeding himself. The governor he served under was Jimmy Carter, one of his political enemies. After Mr. Maddox left the statehouse, he remained active in politics. He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1974 and for president in 1976, the candidate of the American Independent Party."
"I was unaware that Lester Maddox was Jimmy Carter's Lt. Governor in Georgia."
Don't take that as a sign of alignment. Georgia is one of several states where the Governor and Lieutenant Governor run independently of each other, not as a ticket. In some states, the two winners are sometimes from different parties and work against each other for the whole administration. Maddox had beaten Carter for the governorship in 1966; Carter won the rematch in 1970 and Maddox independently ran for Lt. Gov. and won.
Thank you. After the first month or so I felt welcome; a recent "join" date seems to arouse a lot of suspicion around here; you're a "furriner" for quite awhile.
No, it's not that simple. If people that don't know the first thing about acceptable behavior think their behavior is OK, then it is? What kind of rationale is that? The President accepted an invitation to represent the nation and show it's respect at this ceremony. The people that choose the occasion to take cheap political shots at the president and disrespect him and the nation like that are despicable and their actions showed more about them than anyone else.
What would you think if the President was attending a funeral outside the country and they treated him like that? Would that be OK if it was OK with the people doing it?
If you took their IQ's and squared them, the value would get smaller ...
Laura left when President Bush left in fact he had to wait for her a bit to as she was talking to one of the women on the stage on her way out.
Unlike the Veep and President, in GA they're elected separately. We have a Republican gov. and a Democrat lt. gov. right now.
I'm not surprised that Lester and Jimmah didn't get along, though. Must have been awful working for him.
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