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Democratic Candidate for Lt. Gov. Caught on Video Refusing to Shake Republican Opponent’s Hand
The Blaze ^ | November 4, 2013 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 11/04/2013 12:19:53 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Virginia Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Ralph Northam is drawing criticism after appearing to refuse to shake the hand of Republican opponent E.W. Jackson on Thursday.

“I was happy to have an opportunity last night to sit with my opponent and Les Smith at NewsChannel 3 to discuss the issues in this race,” Jackson said in an email to supporters Friday. “But I was disappointed when, after he focused so much on what divides us, Ralph Northam refused to even shake my hand.”

After the debate concluded on WTKR, Jackson can be seen extending his hand to Northram. The Democratic candidate, staring straight ahead, appears to ignore it.

Jackson then taps Northram on the leg with his open hand, in one final attempt to shake his hand. His opponent can be seen on video continuing to ignore his efforts......

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ewjackson; ralphnortham; snub; va2013; varace
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1 posted on 11/04/2013 12:19:54 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

F’n racis’.


2 posted on 11/04/2013 12:21:33 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Likely ‘rat KKK too.


3 posted on 11/04/2013 12:21:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

What do you expect from the party that help create the Klan and gave us Jim Crow.


4 posted on 11/04/2013 12:25:28 PM PST by Trueblackman (As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

HE MUST BE RACIST!!!


5 posted on 11/04/2013 12:26:16 PM PST by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Jackson just tried to violate Northam's space!
/demtard
6 posted on 11/04/2013 12:28:22 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

it’s OK...
Racism is perfectly acceptable if Done-While-Democrat.
Just ask anyone in the mainstream media about this.


7 posted on 11/04/2013 12:30:01 PM PST by tcrlaf (Well, it is what the Sheeple voted for....)
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To: tcrlaf; All

.......”A tea party favorite and self-described “Second Amendment-supporting Christian right-to-life home-school dad,” Cuccinelli has built a political career on a foundation of strident social conservatism. Proclaiming “homosexuality is wrong,” supporting abstinence-only sex education and devoting himself to abortion restrictions as a matter of faith and law, Cuccinelli has been eager to use political office to advance an ideological agenda.

As attorney general he sued to stop the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s fuel-efficiency standards, backed the controversial Arizona illegal immigration law and issued a legal opinion that sexual orientation should not be included in nondiscrimination statutes for the University of Virginia.

His extreme play-to-the-base conservative reputation was only accelerated by the selection at the state convention of E.W. Jackson as his running mate for lieutenant governor. He’s an African-American evangelical pastor with a knack for saying things such as the following: Democrats are “anti-Christian, anti-Bible, anti-family, anti-life and anti-God”; “Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did,” and “Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities. He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective.”.......

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/opinion/avlon-virginia-cuccinelli/index.html?hpt=hp_t4


8 posted on 11/04/2013 12:39:17 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So.....ya see folks...when I refer to Democrats starting with POTUS Barak Hussein Obama as low life....ya now know exactly what I mean!!! LOL!!!


9 posted on 11/04/2013 12:39:24 PM PST by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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10 posted on 11/04/2013 12:44:42 PM PST by DoctorBulldog (I can't be a racist because, I can't stand Biden and Pelosi, either!)
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That should be today’s TV ad. Play it in every black neighborhood. terry McAuliffe is running with a racist.


11 posted on 11/04/2013 12:52:15 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Not to worry. Blacks in VA will vote for Northam @ 95-5.


12 posted on 11/04/2013 12:58:32 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I can’t cast aspersions on others. I wouldn’t shake the Marxist in Chief’s hand, or Dingy Harry’s hand, or...God forbid...Nancy Pelosi’s hand.


13 posted on 11/04/2013 1:01:57 PM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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Pelosi cooties. YUK!


14 posted on 11/04/2013 1:12:24 PM PST by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

E.W. was a total class act in that exchenge. I wonder what his odds are?


15 posted on 11/04/2013 1:17:03 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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“......The GOP’s idea of a good defense is the protective crouch. Candidates fend off reporters by ceding moral ground and trying to appear harmless. The well-fed establishment consultants tell them that this will attract the elusive “independent” voters. It doesn’t. It just depresses the GOP base, as it did in 2008 and 2012. The exception might be in a union-heavy, Democratic state, such as New Jersey. The danger is that GOP strategists may draw the wrong lessons for the rest of the country if Gov. Chris Christie wins big in his re-election race on Tuesday.

The defensive crouch — which Mr. Christie often admirably avoids, but to which he reverts on social issues — has been the GOP default for so long that many Republicans were scandalized by Sen. Ted Cruz. During his marathon floor speech for defunding Obamacare, the Texas senator incinerated the handful of Democrats who tried to trap him. We are so accustomed to Republicans putting the car in reverse that it was bracing to see Mr. Cruz instead put the pedal to the metal and run over his opponents, in gentlemanly fashion, with inconvenient truths.

Until very late in the Virginia governor’s campaign, Ken Cuccinelli seemed to be following the strategy that doomed John McCain and Mitt Romney, among others, which is allowing the false charge of extremism to go largely unchallenged.

Mr. Cuccinelli is a principled conservative and an effective attorney general respected by many of his peers across the country. The steady stream of “extremist” attack ads from his opponent, Terry McAuliffe, however, may well persuade enough Virginians that Mr. Cuccinelli is “dangerous.” Who, though, are the real extremists?......

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/3/knight-the-real-extremists/


17 posted on 11/04/2013 1:23:09 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Northam is a complete dip...stick. Arrogant, self-righteous, rude, you get the pic.


18 posted on 11/04/2013 1:24:31 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: Paladin2

Just like all Rats, he detests any black who leaves the plantation.


19 posted on 11/04/2013 1:35:27 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

A white Rat who won’t shake a black man’s hand or a Black Republican. Da homeboys are going to be confused as who to vote for now.


20 posted on 11/04/2013 1:37:42 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the.tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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