25 Latino groups hit Sessions for racial attacks.
25 Latino groups hit Sessions for racial attacks.
Last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) claimed that Judge Sotomayor may not be fit for the Supreme Court because she served on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (now known as “LatinoJustice PRLDEF”), a highly regarded civil rights organization. On Monday, a group of 25 leading Latino organizations, including the Hispanic National Bar Association, the National Council of La Raza, and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, sent a letter to Sessions slamming his questionable attacks on LatinoJustice PRLDEF:
LatinoJustice PRLDEF is a strong and vibrant institution and its work serves not only the Latino community, but the nation as a whole because it advances the basic American principles of equal opportunity and equal access to justice for all in our society. While we each have the right to disagree on specific issues, LatinoJustice PRLDEF’s body of work deserves our respect and yours. Attacks on Latino advocacy and civil rights organizations are not new – we have seen figures in the media mischaracterize and slander our good works, using provocative terms that fan the flames of ethnic animosity. We expect and are entitled to better from a sitting member of the United States Senate.
Sadly, however, Sessions has a long history of these kinds of attacks. Indeed, his own nomination to the federal bench was rejected by the Senate in 1986 because of Sessions’ record of bringing racially-motivated prosecutions, belittling African-American attorneys, and describing the NAACP as an “un-American” and “Communist-inspired” organization that “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” Twenty-three years later, Sessions hasn’t changed one bit.
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….and the GOP think’s they are going to win the Latino vote in 2010 and 2012?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:01 pmexpect better? please!
this terrible little man started disliking the Klan only after some of them had the gall to smoke some pot.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pmten bucks say tub-o-lard limpballs and o’lielly will be ginning up the masses about “reverse discrimination” against white men over this and sit back with their thumbs up their arses when hate crimes against latinos explode.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:04 pmLet Sessions keep running his racist yap. It only serves to further alienate the intelligent independent voters. They are fleeing the repiggie party, holding their noses because of the stink.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:04 pmMmmm, what’s the connection between all these attacks and white, aged, racist Republic Fascist Party Members?
Oh, how could I have missed it…they are white, aged, racist Republic Fascist Party Members.
So simple, I’m surprised I didn’t see it before.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:09 pmI’ve had sex with the man in the picture – but he didn’t tell me he was a Senator! I’m going to get my daddy’s lawyer and sue!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:11 pmHas Jefferson Davis Sessions accused Sotomayor of being an illegal immigrant yet?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:14 pmSay what you will, but Sessions is locking down that white ignorant racist vote with each and every word he speaks!
PEACE
July 8th, 2009 at 6:17 pmIs Texas Harboring Torture Decider? By Ray McGovern
July 8th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Young Republican Says:
“I’ve had sex with the man in the picture – but he didn’t tell me he was a Senator! I’m going to get my daddy’s lawyer and sue!”
had you recently suffered a blow to the head at the time?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:19 pmtp pounds away at the wedge……….”We are the party of unity!” obama
Really? Fooled me!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:24 pmSessions won’t give a crap that these groups are going after him. What he will say is that THEY are being the racists for going after him because he’s PASTY WHITE!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:24 pmI’m with ranus69. I’ll be more than willing to be an activist blogger and shine a flashlight on the racist GOP at every opportunity. They may win a battle here and there with their racism choices but the war will be won with the hispanic voting demographics in 2010/2012. The GOP has forgotten that they need to earn our vote.
The US does not look like the white and old and vapid floor of the GOP convention every 4 years.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:25 pmI’m surprised this joker doesn’t wear a Klan or Confederate Army uniform to the senate.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:27 pmcorrection: the US does not look like the white and old and vapid floor of the GOP convention every 4 years nor FOX’s limp’n tea bagg’n parties.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:28 pmThe Republican Party has stooped to a new low embracing this raciest attitude. Sessions is a disgrace to America and our basic principles.
Sessions, the poster boy of the New Republican Raciest Party.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pmWhites only, we insist.
hmmmmmm, who wouldathunk this clown represent alabama?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:34 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Really? Fooled me!
I’m sure you’re used to that.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:34 pmSessions is a disgrace to America and our basic principles.
According to someone like you who defends the enemy and rooted against the USA when Bush was president? Ok, then………
July 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pmJeffy boy is pure, evil, racist pondscum. Alabama sucks and he is the Hoover vacuum cleaner behind that sucking noise.
As I said before,
Every time he asks Sotomayor a question, during her hearings, she should answer, “Let’s discuss your KKK background and your qualifications to be here today asking me questions of any kind.”
July 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pmSenator Cardin was on C-Span Washington Journal this morning when two callers, republicans, definitively declared more than once that La Raza was a racist organization of which Sotomayor was a member.
NOT ONCE did Senator Cardin rebut the caller’s stated “fact” that La Raza is a racist organization. Not once.
(Granted, maybe a third person called in after I stopped watching it, said La Raza was a racist organization, and he rebutted that, but the two calls I heard, he did not) Shame on him.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
tp pounds away at the wedge……….”We are the party of unity!” obama
Really? Fooled me!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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did those mean bullies give you a wedgie?
poor baby.
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July 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm“Let’s discuss your KKK background
The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.
An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.
The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book “Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White,” which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:38 pmThe rePublicans might as well wrap it up and put it in the dumpster. They’ve gone from being the party of Lincoln to the party of racist trash – with a very valuable assist from the Right (dis)Honorable Jeff Sessions. Go, GOP, go (please go – away).
July 8th, 2009 at 6:39 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
“According to someone like you who defends the enemy and rooted against the USA when Bush was president? Ok, then………”
prove it. otherwise, shut the hell up/
July 8th, 2009 at 6:39 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Sessions is a disgrace to America and our basic principles.
According to someone like you who defends the enemy and rooted against the USA when Bush was president? Ok, then………
July 8th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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you are good friend to the senator.
god bless you.
:) :) :)
July 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pmBozo The clown Says:
Try the google…..
July 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pm****
is that your pencil?
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 6:40 pmRepublicans Love Facts,
July 8th, 2009 at 6:42 pmgreat source, jackass. from the “about us” page over at wallbuilders:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/ABTOverview.asp
…
rlf,
you forgot the link!
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did somebody move your soap?
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 6:43 pmThe repiggie party is full of former southern democrats who jumped over to the repiggie ranks after sensing that whole “white grievance” crap for which they are now well known.
The repiggies are not even remotely close to the Party of Lincoln anymore.
They are a male-dominated whites-only club. Older white women are allowed in only with their approval. Please notice how many of these aging “defenders of traditional marriage” discard their older wives for much younger and nubile models, quite often younger than their own children.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:43 pmBozo The a$$clown Says:
Attack messenger much?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:43 pmPuerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund ?
Yeah, sounds pretty despicable alright.
Almost as bad as Obama being a community organizer.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:44 pmRepublicans Love Facts,
when the message they are presenting lacks any kind of academic credentials and is a self-proported evangelical history site.
by the way, you plan on proving your claims or are you going to keep running yer mouth like a little beyotch>?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pm…
hmmm,
dave barton, not too bright
according to wikipedia…
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what up with that rlf?
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pmhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58295
Do you far left loons ever tire of being dead wrong?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
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Sessions is a disgrace to America and our basic principles.
According to someone like you who defends the enemy and rooted against the USA when Bush was president? Ok, then………
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Republicans Love Facts’
July 8th, 2009 at 6:46 pmI will beg do differ with you my man. You Republicans never understood who the enemy was. Just look at the track record.
Why would I ever root for a buffoon you called Bush?
I have some self respect you know.
according to wikipedia…
Nuff said…..
July 8th, 2009 at 6:46 pmAnd the Republicans wonder why African-Americans and Hispanics don’t feel comfortable in the GOP’s “big tent”. Ha!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:46 pmThe WallBuilders are phucking idiots…and any a$$hole who believes them is an idiot too!!!! Pure morons to the core!!!
July 8th, 2009 at 6:47 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
according to wikipedia…
Nuff said…..
oh no, there’s more:
In the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, the nation of Israel rallied together in a grassroots movement to help rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and thus restore stability, safety, and a promising future to that great city. We have chosen this historical concept of “rebuilding the walls” to represent allegorically the call for citizen involvement in rebuilding our nation’s foundations. As Psalm 11:3 reminds us, “If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?”
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rlf,
check out psalm 11:3,
it’ll blow your mind!
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July 8th, 2009 at 6:48 pmdixie blood,
July 8th, 2009 at 6:49 pmnotice how “the wallbuilders” founder david barton mentions he was in education for eight years but fails to mention what he taught. ten bucks says it was gym not history.
dixie blood Says
ad hominem much?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:50 pmRepublicans Love Factsprovide a reliable source beyotch then we’ll talk.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:51 pmpeace out.
In 1979 Duke ran as a Democrat for the 10th district seat in the Louisiana State
July 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58295
Do you far left loons ever tire of being dead wrong?
July 8th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
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this is getting better,
you remembered the link
to joe farah and world net daily.
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uh oh,
it’s dave barton again.
what else ya got?
:) :) :)
July 8th, 2009 at 6:54 pmInteresting democrat facts…..
After The Civil Rights Act was passed Democrat President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their overwhelming support.
The Republican Party was formed by anti-slavery activists to combat the pro-slavery Democrats
The Ku Klux Klan was formed by radical Democrats who opposed equality for blacks.
In 1935 Democrats defeated an Anti-Lynching Bill supported and put forward by Republicans.
The 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the “Klanbake convention”, a minority of delegates attempted to condemn the presence of the Klan but was rebuked by the Klan supporting Democrat Majority.
On April 20, 1871 the Republican Congress enacted the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-Affiliated terrorist groups.
Ronald Reagan, a Republican, made history on November 2, 1983 by signing into law Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a National Holiday. This is the first and only Federal Holiday that recognizes a Black American.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:55 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
In 1979 Duke ran as a Democrat for the 10th district seat in the Louisiana State
July 8th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
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and lost.
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jeff sessions ran for the senate and won.
as a republican.
:|
July 8th, 2009 at 6:55 pminteresting facts…
July 8th, 2009 at 6:57 pmfrom wallbuilders.com bwwhahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahah
Looks to me like rLf’s David Barton is Faux-Historian in Chief to the American Taliban; that latter bunch is the Christer pack o’loons that want to bring “Biblical Law” to the fore in America, just as the Taliban and other Salafists want to impose Sharia law throughout Dar-al-Islam.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pmDuring the Civil Rights movement the Dixie-crats that were members of the KKK switched parties. They became Republicans. This was called the “Southern Strategy” and it realized as “White Flight.”
The Civil Rights movement purged the Democratic Party of it’s KKK southern members. They joined the other side.
Since that time the racists and KKK memebers in this country are mostly RePugniScums with a strong anti-Catholic, anti-Jew bent.
Jeffy Sessions da T’ird is one of them.
July 8th, 2009 at 6:58 pm…
hmm, no link.
wait i got one for you.
:)
do steal from everybody
or just your friends?
:)
…
July 8th, 2009 at 6:59 pmjeff sessions ran for the senate and won.
When did Sessions run the KKK?
July 8th, 2009 at 7:00 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
jeff sessions ran for the senate and won.
When did Sessions run the KKK?
July 8th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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if it walks like a duck…
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 7:01 pm…
how ya coming with that psalm?
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 7:02 pm…
so rlf,
have you decided whether
you want to sh|t or go blind?
:+>
…
July 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pmif it walks like a duc
How’s that boot leather?
July 8th, 2009 at 7:03 pmRepublicans Love Facts,
July 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pmc’mon sweetcheeks provide us with some more of yer favorite links. i can use another good laugh at your expense.
Jeffy da T’ird doesn’t run the KKK.
He does their laundry and irons their sheets.
He takes their cash and votes racist all the way.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:05 pmWould it be safe to say jc has left the building to be replaced by cap quack?
July 8th, 2009 at 7:08 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Would it be safe to say jc has left the building to be replaced by cap quack?
July 8th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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nope.
you’re screwed.
:)
July 8th, 2009 at 7:17 pmSessions gets away with these type of attacks because his state does not have a large Hispanic population and the people of Alabama tolerate, maybe even support, his racist attitudes. The voters in Alabama put him in office and that speaks loudly about their attitudes. Sessions is a bitter white male who was denied a federal judgeship because of his racism. He will continue doing what he wants until the people in Alabama and the Republican party have had enough. At this time, change is quite remote.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:25 pmRepublicans Love Facts,
The bottom line with you and the Republican Party is a “Blackman in the Whitehouse” and he is a Democrat! Go ahead and say the “N” word, your dying to say it.
You can pontificate all night but you and the Republican Party are a spewing a line of racism.
I don’t care how you dress this pig, a pig is a pig.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:36 pmThe country will remember this pig!
Go ahead and say the “N” word, your dying to say it
;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
July 8th, 2009 at 7:41 pmThe GOP is the party of white supremists and Ku Klux Klan hate groups. Sessions has been thought to be part of that ring for many years.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
According to someone like you who defends the enemy and rooted against the USA when Bush was president?
Nobody here is defending Republicans. And we were all rooting for the USA to survive Bush’s attempts to destroy it. I believe it’s you who are the enemy.
.
Republicans Love Facts Says:
The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans…
Once upon a time, the Democratic party was pro-discrimination and the Republican party was against it. But we shed our racist elements, passed civil rights and have been defending equality since the 1960’s. In response, you went after the racist vote with the “Southern Strategy” and now it’s all you have left. Why did you switch to the dark side? Reminding us of your party’s fall from common decency isn’t making it look any better.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pmRLF actually wants to defend the indefensible. He is the type of person that belongs in a prison for inciting violence against minorities.
RLF, Americans have decided you and your fellow fascists are not to be trusted, ever again.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:45 pmSessions is a criminal. His anti-black and anti-Hispanic rhetoric cannot be tolerated.
America does not need this type of representative, therefore I belive it is in the best interest of the United States if Sessions were to resign.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:50 pmSen. PENDEJO
July 8th, 2009 at 7:51 pmHe was too “libural” for the RePugniScums and lost to a RePugniScum racist.
What’s your point you stupid a$$ moron?
July 8th, 2009 at 8:18 pmRepublicans Love Facts,
I heard a term the other day, “Principled Republican”.
I believe it is safe to say this is a contradiction of terms.
Republicans Loves Facts, another contradiction of terms.
You and the Republicans have something in common.
Reagan did not bring the old southern Democrats under the Republican tent.
Go back 20 years to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The major push in civil rights in the 60s caused major defections of southern Democratic leaders’ to the Republican Party.
The Republican Party has been wooing them ever since. The blatant racism is no big surprise, it been there all along.
You see my dear friend, Republicans Love Facts; the Republicans have pandered to the pig for a long time.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:08 pmAnd now the pig is “showing real bad”
Racist bigotry is crap, pure and simple. It comes in all shapes and sizes, oozes out from behind many masks. It doesn’t come with a political party label attached (well, not until recently it didn’t) — guilt is widespread, a product of ignorance being carefully taught.
Twenty-some years ago, when my daughter was five years old and in kindergarten, she wrote something I still view as a profound example of pure rationality, unstained by culture. In her own words (transcribed from the handwritten piece of paper, still in my possession):
[sic]:
I hav a drem that we all kood love 1 onother. I have a drem that we can de sistd’s and botr’s that wen the sun shins dow on the world that ther de pes on rth in evry plas for evry 1 of evry ras.”
For the Republicans who might happen to read the above, I graciously offer the following spell-checked version (not that will make a lot of difference to the bulk of them, but in the interest of … well, you know):
“I have a dream that we all could love one another;
I have a dream that we can be sisters and brothers,
That when the sun shines down on the world that there be
Peace on Earth in every place
For every one of every race.”
By Sarah, age five.
Words to live by. So ok, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, you’re a lot older than age five, at least chronogically (based on your pic of course). Where did you leave your mind?
July 8th, 2009 at 9:12 pmSo it seems many who’ve commented on this post and many already know that Sessions is a racist. Why doesn’t just someone just say so publicly? The truth will set us all free.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:27 pmWhy does RLF wallow in shit? Everyone can see Republicans attract shit. It’s over.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:30 pmrepublicans hate facts;
It had just occurred to me that the ugliest elements of the Democratic Party were pandered to by the Republicans for years. These elements are now the only core the Republican Party has left. They are pushing everyone else out.
The Republican Party is now what the Democrats threw out.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:20 pmThank God there are groups like this strong enough to show what racists these hateful bigots like Sessions are.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:23 amIm convinced that when you see a politician with an (R) next to his/her name that it not only means republican but also racist.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:43 amRepublicans Love Facts posted:
“In 1979 Duke ran as a Democrat for the 10th district seat in the Louisiana State…”
LOL… Tell the whole story. Don’t leave anything out. A simple glance at the David Duke Wiki would have helped you avoid this grave error.
See, in 1979, Duke did not win his bid for the LA Senate seat; he was second with 26.6% percent of the vote. Yet, in 1989, running as a Republican, Duke won the election for a LA. House seat then followed that up by RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN for LA’s U.S. Senate seat in 1990. He lost to the Democrat but still received 60% of the White vote.
In 1991, Duke RAN AS A REPUBLICAN for LA Governor. He lost but received 38.8% of the vote (you know, more votes than he did as a Democrat) and, according to him, 55% of his “constituency” — White voters.
In 1992, your boogie-man, David Duke RAN AS A REPUBLICAN candidate for president. In 1996, Duke, again, RAN AS A REPUBLICAN for the LA U.S. Senate seat.
So exactly what did you think you were accomplishing? The better question is: which party’s platform in the past 50 years is more in line with the David Duke’s of the world?
Simple answer: when it comes to racialized issues of crime (Willie Horton?), welfare (Reagan’s “Welfare Queens”), affirmative action, “illegal” immigration, etc. it’s clear the today’s Republican party is the next door neighbor, if not kissing cousins, to White Nationalists like David Duke (Pat Buchanan anyone?). That doesn’t make the Democrats, past or present, anything close to saints when it comes to race/racism (they ain’t) but it does highlight the hilarity of a Republican supporter/sympathizer trying to play the ‘Whose The Better White Party?’ game.
Funny how Republicans and those on the right will be quick to denounce the Lincoln era as the distant past when it comes to reparations for slavery but conveniently want to make Lincoln-the-racist-repatriationist an ever-present example of the party’s stance of racial equality.
Anyway, back to the tongue KISSING COUSINS thing…
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/preserving-the-white-christian-male-power-structure/
No wonder why McCain choose Sarah “Real Americans” Palin as a running mate. And since I’ve referenced a Fox News personality (Fox=Republican/Libertarian/Racist broadcasting network), one more for the road:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/17/gibson-white-babies/
Like I said, tongue KISSING COUSINS…
July 9th, 2009 at 12:48 amWhen I look at sessions picture up top it looks like hes saying STOP I will not answer any questions for you unless your a fat balding white man who is a republican. Typical repug racist.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:58 am.
Ooooh, The NEW G(no)P…
… And their shrinking minority.
Yep, that’s the way to Win Friends and Influence People, there Jeff. Study it…
http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html
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July 9th, 2009 at 1:40 amRepublicans continue to mess around like this at their own peril. Amazing that if they planned action to alienate Hispanics, it could not be better than their present behavior which will alienate Hispanics,that group of loyal Americans. The larger problem for Republicans is their tendency toward racism that demands that they misrepresent Sotomayor’s every statement. But they will not win this round. This SC nominee is particularly well qualified for the position of Supreme Court Justice. Thousands of fair minded people will lay it on the line for her. Further racism they introduce into this discussion will make them the pariah of our country. Besides, their racism is directly responsible for me changing my party affiliation and I am sure I am not alone. More and more, I am just disgusted with hate filled Republicans who have the idea it is their way or get lost. We have enough like-minded people to make them eat any hate fulled words and we intend to organize to make it happen. Republicans can just kiss us goodbye if they continue on this racist rant.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:29 amThat’s my man! Clearly not representing my point of view again.
Yes, unfortunately I am one of his constituents.
And Republicans Love Facts: I have a fact for you – It’s the 21st century now. The democratic and Republican parties have completely flipped on their support for minorities and disdain of organizations and groups who are racist.
I live in the south. I can see why the south went Republican after the Democrats supported and pushed civil rights in the 1960’s.
Gosh, I wish the people of this state would make both Sessions and Shelby (my other Senator who boasts ignorance) dry up and blow away.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:34 amI would just ignore Republicans Love Facts. The name itself is a great example of an oxymoron.
July 9th, 2009 at 11:13 amSen. Sessions, is a LITTLE MAN WITH A LITTLE MIND.
He will never, change that racist way. When he is down in Hail, he still will have that “RACIST” attitude. It’s in his DNA.
July 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pmHey did you guys see Barry ogling that tight little white ass in that G8 group photo. Shades of Bill..I love being progressive.
July 9th, 2009 at 10:53 pmThanks
July 10th, 2009 at 7:03 am