May 15, 201610 yr ^ I don't care who you are; that's funny right there. Today's Republican Party ain't your the party of Lincoln; or even your granddaddy's Republican Party. "There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late." - Hubert Humphrey, at the 1948 Democratic National Convention Neither party was 100 on board with civil rights even back 70 years ago. There are idiots in the world regardless of politicsl affiliation. I dont think it's fair to say one is any better than the other at this point. " if I would have said 60 years ago a man should be treated equally by his merit and not by his skin with no special privilege I would have been labeled a progressive liberal, 30 years ago a conservative, today a racist?"
May 15, 201610 yr ^ I don't care who you are; that's funny right there. Today's Republican Party ain't your the party of Lincoln; or even your granddaddy's Republican Party. "There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late." - Hubert Humphrey, at the 1948 Democratic National Convention The same could be said of this Democratic Party. In 1960 Kennedy wanted to put a man on the moon, in 2016 Obama wants to put men in the ladies room.
May 15, 201610 yr ^ I don't care who you are; that's funny right there. Today's Republican Party ain't your the party of Lincoln; or even your granddaddy's Republican Party. "There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late." - Hubert Humphrey, at the 1948 Democratic National Convention This is even funnier. Guess you forgot about the southern Democrats? George Wallace ring a bell?
May 15, 201610 yr This is even funnier. Guess you forgot about the southern Democrats? George Wallace ring a bell? This paints a nice picture. Trying to rewrite history? Democratic Party's Racist History | National Review Online
May 15, 201610 yr Just some information for people instead of fingerpointing and talking points. Let's start a different thread.
May 15, 201610 yr This is even funnier. Guess you forgot about the southern Democrats? George Wallace ring a bell? And Strom Thurmond. Dixiecrats.
May 16, 201610 yr Author "The right-wing ideologues who have championed outsourcing, offshoring, and union-busting, who have celebrated the same changes that have condemned American workers to lives of financial instability, piously lament the decline of family stability that has followed those economic changes. - Harold Meyerson, March 2007
May 16, 201610 yr "The right-wing ideologues who have championed outsourcing, offshoring, and union-busting, who have celebrated the same changes that have condemned American workers to lives of financial instability, piously lament the decline of family stability that has followed those economic changes. - Harold Meyerson, March 2007 "Right wing ideologies" and obviously not "corrupt business practices." K
May 17, 201610 yr Author "Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted - when we tolerate what we know to be wrong - when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened - when we fail to speak out - we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice." Robert Kennedy, 1968
May 18, 201610 yr Author "Here is the real political story, the one most politicians won't even acknowledge: the reality of the anonymous, disquieting daily struggle of ordinary people...searching for dignity and fairness against long odds in a cruel market world." - Bill Moyers, January 2007
May 19, 201610 yr Author "Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation for such a method is love." - Martin Luther King, Jr., December 1964
May 20, 201610 yr Author "Those who call themselves defenders of marriage...as only a union between man and woman...imply that anything different demeans marriage. But that's like saying that giving women the right to vote demeaned men's vote or that extending freedom to blacks demeaned the freedom of whites." - Pierre Tristam, November 2013
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