Posted on 07/13/2015 7:38:57 PM PDT by oblomov
UNLIKE previous Alabama governors, Robert J. Bentley is not a fount of oratory. Nor is he a champion of “kinder and gentler.” His dyspeptic refusal to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion, in a state where more than one million of 4.8 million residents depend on the program, betokens a stunning indifference to the Hippocratic oath. (The governor is a dermatologist.) Yet Mr. Bentley recently took a page from the Obama playbook and used a surprise executive order to remove four Confederate flags from the Alabama Capitol grounds, not far from the very spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy.
On the morning of June 24, Mr. Bentley had the flags, and the poles they flew on, removed before either the public or the state’s famously retrograde legislators had time to protest. George C. Wallace — who placed the flag on the Capitol dome in 1963 as a sign of contempt for a visiting integrationist, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — himself never did a better job of bumfuzzling the lawmakers. In South Carolina, where nine congregants were murdered at a historic black church in Charleston, the flag didn’t come down until Friday, following action by its Legislature.
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It is going well for the left. How often do the commies lose at anything that matters? We’ve kept our guns, that’s it.
Odd, he didn’t mention Wallace was a Democrat............
Seems like the left is desperate to divide northern and southern republicans (conservatives).
Dream world of the South? HAH...there is no bigger echo chamber dream world than NYC....
This leftie is the one who is living in a dream world, he thinks it is still 1962.
Southerners can use a tip out of the Russian playbook for handling both Napoleon and the Nazis—let the Leftists push as far as they like, while laying waste to the ground behind them. Then, spring the trap.
Howell Raines is an embarrassment to the state of Alabama.
Funny, he doesn’t seem to mention the TOTAL WIPEOUT of Democrats in the South last year.
You can now count the number of white elected Democrats on one hand...all the rest are minority, and even Hispanics in the South are VOTING REPUBLICAN at near 50% levels.
But he’s gaga about the Confederate Flag...big surprise.
Raines is a guilt-ridden, self-loathing white southerner and native of B’ham. Went to Alabama universities and ended up editor of the NY Times for a few years.
The sort of southerner who hates his origins and revels in belittling and defaming the South and seeks approval from the leftist, Yankee, self-annointed elite.
The sort of southerner who hates his origins and revels in belittling and defaming the South and seeks approval from the leftist, Yankee, self-annointed elite.
Adding to the biography, Raines resigned from the Times in disgrace after it was revealed that he had hired -- and protected -- the liar, Jayson Blair, a black reporter.
That’s funny. I’ve heard the left say terms of the surrender were to give up your weapons and flags. Now, they’ve gone after the flags, now surrender your guns. hahahahahahaahahahahahahaha
I don’t care at all for Howell Raines or Robert J. Bentley.
It features the portrait of a former slave owner.
BUAIDH NO BAS!
Good one! "Retreat" strategically.
That's how Russia defeated Hitler in WWII.
a stunning indifference to the Hippocratic oath.
How does that oath factor into the Times views on abortion?
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