Posted on 11/13/2017 5:37:53 PM PST by Angels27
But for the bomb, the four would be in their 60s, probably grandmothers. Three were 14 and one was 11 in 1963 when the blast killed them in the 16th Street Baptist Church, which is four blocks from the law office of Doug Jones, who then was 9. He was born in May 1954, 13 days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He was 16 when he attended, at this city’s Legion Field, the Alabama Crimson Tide vs. the University of Southern California Trojans football game in which USC’s Sam Cunningham, an African American all-American, led a 42-21 thumping of the home team, thereby (so goes the much-embellished but true-enough story) advancing the integration of the region through its cultural pulse, college football. Roll Tide.
As a second-year law student, Jones cut classes to attend the 1977 trial of one of the church bombers, Robert “Dynamite Bob” Chambliss. In 2001 and 2002, as U.S. attorney, Jones successfully prosecuted two other bombers. Was there resentment about this protracted pursuit of justice? No, he says as he nurses with tea a voice raspy from campaigning, because after 9/11 intervened, punishing domestic terrorism was not controversial. Today, this son of a steelworker stands between Roy Moore — an Elmer Gantry mixing piety and cupidity: He and his family have done well financially running a foundation — and the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions.
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So spake the Never-Trumper fop.
George Will, Cheap Labor Express propagandist emeritus
I am now convinced that the accusations against Judge Moore have NOTHING to do with Judge Moore. The accusations have EVERYTHING to do with Republican Senators facing potential primary opponents for 2018. The sexual allegations are the GOP(e)’s way of saying, “Primary challenger, beware. We will do this to you too!”
there is no such thing as a Republican Party
Well the 100% beta male isn’t talking baseball this time.
If George Will is agin’em I’m afor’um.
His wife told him if he wrote an article trashing a republican, she’d let him watch her take her socks off.
I really used to like Will.
I used to cut his columns from the paper and read them over and over.
That was long ago.
The swamp dwelling reptilians really don’t want Roy Moore in the Senate, do they? I wish I could vote for him.
“I am now convinced that the accusations against Judge Moore have NOTHING to do with Judge Moore. The accusations have EVERYTHING to do with Republican Senators facing potential primary opponents for 2018. The sexual allegations are the GOP(e)’s way of saying, “Primary challenger, beware. We will do this to you too!”
I would say you are spot on. This has the Republicans hand all over it.
In my view, most Republicans are lower than Democrats now.
George Will is a dick.
I was going to say Will can take his bow tie and shove it up his a**, but your Post was much better.
George, stick to comments on your baseball passion and STFU!!! As with all conservatives in DC, they slowly become dunderhead liberals; you have exceeded that you clown.
All the doddering Geriatric Old Plotters, yelling at clouds again.
You don't know how correct you are.
The guy is to the abortion debate what Gosnell is to abortion itself.
George Will is an embarassment. He should retire.
Why hold elections? Just give it to whoever “deserves” to win.
If he was a democrat you could!
My god, if it weren’t for Kasich-like cliché-speak, Georgie Peorgie wouldn’t have anything to say in this column. How soon do pitchers report for spring practice so somebody can send GW to Florida and Arizona to write his usual America’s pastime pablum????
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