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Jeff Sessions's Chequered Past
The Guardian ^ | 5/5/09 | Sarah Wildman

Posted on 05/05/2009 4:49:59 PM PDT by steve-b

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To: Bryan24

I’ve only traveled through Alabama, yet I consider him mine too. ;>)

If we only had more like him.


41 posted on 05/05/2009 5:37:16 PM PDT by Gator113 (Temporally out of order.....)
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To: steve-b
I wonder if this worthless piece of Eurotrash has ever written a single disparaging word about the Anything-But-Honorable Robert C Byrd of West Virginia.

No....I didn't think so.

42 posted on 05/05/2009 5:37:54 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Christian+Veteran=Terrorist)
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To: steve-b

I stand with Sessions.


43 posted on 05/05/2009 5:39:02 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (control the teleprompter, control the world)
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To: steve-b

The EXTREME LEFT is scared. So, they resort to their usual vile tactics: character assasination.


44 posted on 05/05/2009 5:40:18 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: steve-b
This piece is nothing but trashing one of the most honorable and decent men we have in Congress.

If the entire Congress were like Jeff Sessions, this country wouldn't be in the mess it's in.

God Bless and Keep Jeff Sessiions safe.

sw

45 posted on 05/05/2009 5:47:12 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: goodnesswins

Exactly right.

First you isolate the target.

You know the drill.


46 posted on 05/05/2009 5:51:41 PM PDT by WayneM (Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.)
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To: steve-b

Sessions is one of the best in the senate, if not the best.


47 posted on 05/05/2009 5:56:27 PM PDT by blam
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To: steve-b

Ping for later.


48 posted on 05/05/2009 6:13:42 PM PDT by defconw (You can't reason someone out of a position they were never reasoned into to begin with.)
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To: steve-b

The Guardian’s a good old Red newspaper. Not to be taken seriously in any way, shape, or form, unless you like the old Pravda.


49 posted on 05/05/2009 6:17:49 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: steve-b
But by the 1980s that had started to change. Through the massive get-out-the-vote efforts of three leaders – including a former aid to Martin Luther King – black voter turnout began to creep toward 80%, and a handful of black legislators were elected. That's where Sessions stepped in, charging three voting rights organisers with voter fraud. All three were quickly acquitted. Sessions's choice to focus on their efforts looked a lot less like good governance and a lot more like voter intimidation.

Sarah Wildman and her cohorts at The Guardian should stick to writing about things they actually know something about.

At the time, I lived in one of those ten "Black Belt" counties, about 50 miles from Marion.

By then, the blacks had a hammerlock on every county's politics -- mayors, commissioners, sheriffs, county clerks, tax assessors, state reps and senators. I'm not complaining, mind you, blacks amounted to 85% of the population, so they had a right to run the deal.

But I do complain about the incredible corruption and incompetence that infested every one of these local governments. Blessedly, our county and town were reasonably clean -- but there were towns within the county with unbelievable corruption. Blacks stealing from other blacks.

As such things go, the crooked blacks conspired to maintain their power over the honest blacks (and whites). They used any and every trick. Voter fraud was a popular way of prevailing in elections.

The Marion 3 were a popular topic of conversation down at the truck stop. The blacks knew who was involved personally. And they were openly convinced of their guilt.

As I recall, Sessions tried the case in Marion. That was his mistake.

This is a bullshit hit piece. Sessions is drawing their fire solely because he's a conservative.

50 posted on 05/05/2009 6:38:18 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: WashingtonSource

NO...they are NOT necessarily scared....they are, however Marxists/Fascists....following Alinsky....


51 posted on 05/05/2009 6:46:42 PM PDT by goodnesswins (WE have a REPUBLIC.....IF we can KEEP IT!!!)
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To: steve-b

Remember kids, anytime you hear us called racists, it’s because the left can’t gun you down in the street like they did in the good old days of Uncle Joe and Mao.

It’s the only tool the butcherous mafia thugs have right now.


52 posted on 05/05/2009 7:01:49 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (No prisoners. No mercy. 2010 awaits.....)
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To: steve-b

Sarah Wildman

Currently a senior correspondent for the American Prospect magazine, Sarah is a frequent contributor to the Guardian (UK) and the New York Times.

Sarah was on staff at the New Republic magazine from 1999 to 2003, and was the Washington correspondent for the Advocate magazine from 2004-2005.

54 posted on 05/05/2009 7:08:59 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: steve-b

Sarah Wildman

First among first ladies
Nov 7 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Devoted, smart and forcefully clear about her role, Michelle Obama could be the most successful first lady in decades

Not quite ready for change
Nov 5 2008:
Sarah Wildman: While Americans opened their minds to elect Barack Obama, they also voted to restrict the rights of gay people in many states

The Sarah Palin effect
Nov 5 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Obama wins: John McCain’s attempt to win over women voters didn’t work. The Alaska governor was a drag on the Republican ticket

Mother knows best
Nov 1 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Two ballot initiatives put the rights of the unborn above the rights of expectant women – including those with wanted pregnancies

When right is wrong
Oct 17 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Instead of reaching out to independent voters, John McCain continues to pander to the Republicans’ conservative base

The Bush sex ed doctrine
Oct 8 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Even in its final months, the Bush administration is working hard to deny women around the world access to contraception

Will the real Sarah Palin please stand up?
Oct 4 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Palin is being marketed as an American everywoman, but she doesn’t have a clue about what women actually want or need

Not a nation of Wasillas
Sep 4 2008:
Sarah Wildman: In contrast to Barack Obama’s call for unity, Sarah Palin’s narrow vision of America doesn’t accept the complex, diverse reality

American pride and privilege
Aug 29 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Last night, Barack Obama reignited that uniquely American sense of unified purpose and shared responsibility

The normalcy of Michelle Obama
Aug 26 2008:
Sarah Wildman: Michelle Obama succeeded in placing her story within a unified vision for America that transcends racial and sexual politics


55 posted on 05/05/2009 7:12:48 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: steve-b

Anyone find it odd that a British paper writes about this? There’s also on the other side all of the Obama stories which are negative which come out in the UK press. I guess this is for “balance.” For a party that has the all three branches AND the world press by and large, they sure do try hard. I wonder if Specter dialed them up?


56 posted on 05/05/2009 11:12:07 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama/Bush rules: http://www.hhs.gov/pandemicflu/plan/pdf/HHSPandemicInfluenzaPlan.pdf)
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To: Luigi Vasellini
Racist past??? Robert Byrd immediately came to mind

Yes, but there is justice in this world. Two of his daughters married Muslims.

57 posted on 05/06/2009 6:28:22 AM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: steve-b

This race crap is just that...crap!

When equal racial concerns are shown about all the race groups that abound in our country today than lets talk otherwise all I hear is blah, blah, blah...More hypocritical BS that can be put where the sun don’t shine.


58 posted on 05/06/2009 6:34:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: packrat35
>>>Corker is from TN, not OK, and is actually very RINOish, just not on that issue.<<<

I defer to your probable accuracy. However, he was brilliant on the auto-bailout issue. Understood the auto companies finances better than any other Senator on the committee as well as the implications of the bailout on their longterm viability. He had Waggoner of GM stuttering. Dodd kept interrupting to praise Corker in an effort to silence him. Laughable.

Hopefully Corker is salvagible - he is bright!!

59 posted on 05/06/2009 11:51:06 AM PDT by HardStarboard ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
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