I am so moved by your posting that I can't really deconstruct enough of the emotional suitcase to comment intellectually; all I can say is that although my mouth fools people into thinking that I am part of the intellectual "creative" class (that's a fucking misnomer if I ever heard one - nothing is less "creative" than thinking about shit), in my heart I know that a community organizer is more likely to put this Humpty-Dumpty country back together than any entitled elitist hack or pol can.
Matthews actually blathered during the snore fest last night that the reason that the votes from Gary, Indiana were so late coming in was because the local political machine was holding them to make a dramatic impact at the last moment. You know those emotional, overdramatic negroes are always pulling something.
LM, I gotta put that up there in the pantheon alongside Steve's "I'm a fighting liberal" post. Begala is a fucking tool whose 15 minutes was long since over. Get off the stage asshole!
100 martinis to you sir.
Yes, we can, you just certainly did. Right on, LM, I love you man.
As one of those so-called "regular people," I must have missed the memo and I decided without the benefit of disingenuous media hack wisdom to back Obama. My bad.
lets preface this by stateign penly that i am latino(honestly don't speak a word of spanish, but I look VERY latino and that is good enough to get me all the negatives of the lable).
There is a core clinton group in this election, and if we peel away the PC talk, and the onion layers of obfuscation we can see that core she is tryign to apeal too.
lets look, Older, caucasion blue coller(yes dammit until a few years back latino was caucasion...same dam group untill 10 years ago or so). Old anglosaxson, or latino...well ask the kids of that group and you will learn the dirty little screate. The cancer rottign at the core of that group is racism, we can't ignore it or think it will go away.
lets own up here folks, how many of our parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents are a little racist. I know mine (from both sides of my family) are... i remember my grandmother(austrian and scotch haritige, her family fought in the revolution) talkign abotu the nice black family next door...and how they where nothing like the tyipical blacks...they where OK. Don't get me started abotu me equadorian relitives...buiggist group of biggots that you will ever meet.
it seems to be a genreational thing, the biggotry is vanishing as folsk get younger, but hillarys demographic is that older group
Anyone know Matthews' or Begala's public email address? This might be a nice link to send them.
We cannot win with egg heads and African-Americans.
Hey, Paul, if you think you cannot win with the Black vote, try winning without it.
Bravo LM for speaking more truth to power.
The punditry really doesn't have a clue. I spoke with my rural, redneck, racist, Nixon/Reagan-loving, Fox News-watching uncle the other night. And he thinks Obama is "the real deal." Said he reminds him of JFK. I almost fell off my chair.
My uncle speaks for many like him when he says "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." For him, Hilary and McCain are two sides of the same old coin. Obama is change. The mess the Bushies have made of things has gotten bad enough at the street level that people will look past their racism and bigotry to vote for change. Or even through it, as my Uncle says, "That boy is smart. We need someone who can fix things."
A change is going to come!
Yeah, that exchange between Donna and Begala was the one I watched on CNN last night. But it's hard to see from LM's transcript how pissed she was when she was talking to him. But she was. :o)
It got very real there on CNN for a bit. :o)
Same old shit about Obama: the Grand Kleagle of the Alabama chapter won't endorse him; how can he win the presidency without that? :o)
Maybe the most profound thing that I heard last night was Brazile perceptively and forcefully making the point that the values for the voters in this election are changing, as we speak, and counting on the bubba vote, with our asses in the bushCo meatgrinder, is not the smartest thing to do.
I think the instant that Obama gets locks on the nomination, he will start to pull away from McCain, if not before, and he will keep pulling all the way to November.
I think you have a ton of Hillary supporters looking at black people the same way as Republicans do in the general.
"Damn we can't make inroads with them, but we can try to suppress and discount them."
Seriously, I don't think they see how condescending they are being. "You see North Carolina isn't a normal state because they have too many black people. And black people only vote for Obama because they are racist and hate white people."
Seriously.
The Clinton campaign fucked up in South Carolina with rich black surrogates like Bob Johnson out there calling Obama a crack dealer in his youth. Really? You had to use rightwing framing of "black crack dealing"? The dirty little secret of this campaign is that Hillary should've been able to pull in about 25-30 percent of the African American vote but didn't because of shit like this.
As for Chris Matthews, his ideal President is some white guy that combines the golden age Hollywood appeal of Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant combined with the fake tough guy like Rudy 9/11 or W in a flight suit. The guy is whacked out in his mind. He thought it was condescending of people to dismiss Fred Thompson, because-get this -he played President in a movie.
In other words, people are idiots and black people only vote Democratic cause they are stupid, and only vote for Obama cause he's black. Therefore they should be dismissed for a group that may vote overwhelmingly on racial lines, but that doesn't matter cause they are white and they need to be "convinced".
This game is tiresome and is one of the many reasons why I wish Clinton dropped out yesterday. But of course these idiots will frame the general of a "war hero versus the closet muslim who secretly hates America".
beautiful LM. simply breathtaking and beautiful.
better than anyone i read currently you are able to distill my own emotions into gorgeous prose.
with medgar evers, with all those brave folks who crossed bridges in selma, braved the fire hoses, fires, bombs, nooses, snipers, dogs and plain old garden variety mindless thugs to force this county into behaving with something approaching simple human decency we have to remember
it wasn't all that long ago, and we haven't come all that far.
it can get even more complex. and this is one place where i really identify with obama. for those of us with a mixture, where do we get to stand or fit in?
here's what my experience has taught me. whenever i am with one group or another what ever is in the majority will identify me as being "the other." i will never be indian enough for some folks, i will never be white enough for some folks.
i've been told i didn't matter for most of my life. i went after that concept with a vengence. the thing is though, that kind of judgement always leaves its mark. no matter how much success i got in the miltary, in the music business, no matter how much money or union seniority i racked up there was always, and still remains to this fucking day a little half breed kid on the rez who didn't fit in and deep in his heart always knew that fitting in was something for other folks.
now i listen to guys like begala and matthews and i'm so glad and proud that i don't fit in. when i'm in a good mood and not tired or cranky i tell them
i'm mixed race, my children are mixed race, their children are mixed race, my great-grandchildren will be mixed race. we are joyfully fucking you idiots into irrelevance.
but, no, i cannot ever forget where medgar evers lay. those stains never wash clean.
What's a black egghead to do? Love your writing LM. The O man is making these crazy bigot brains implode.
Thank you.
(Because neither Matthews nor Begala is worth the paper they're printed on.)
Damn, LM!
Very fucking good!
61 + 8 = a 70 year old female running for president in 2016.
Understand that it is truly NOW or Never for the Boomers. The big bulge has passed through the anaconda and is rapidly approaching the vent.
We the boomers short changed on their entitlement of presidencies. Not really, we had 16 years of boomer presidents. We had another 4 of a boomer Veep in Quayle. 16 years from 46-62 pretty much defines the baby boom years. I wonder if anyone ever did a differential survey of where the boomer's fathers did their TDY. The guys in the pacific, and in CBI did not have a lot of ... companionship. The guys in England and later Europe did have ... companionship.
Ah well good bye boomers, hello whatever it was that came after us, enjoy your hours on the stage. Maybe you will be the first generation to exit with grace and style. Or at least with Grace who is a dynomite lady.
A-men LM.
As someone who grew up in red-neck PA, I'm always somewhat astonished at the boldness of the upperclass bigots (the Clintons, Tweety, etc). They really are quite shameless.
Media elites who are merely updated versions of Bull Connor, I say.
You know that crazy look that teenagers give you when you tell them that CDs did not exist when you were a kid??
I want my 3 y.o. son to give me that look when he gets older and I tell him that people once thought it was impossible for a Black person to be president.
Well done, LM.
Bashing eggheads, college educated people. What's wrong with these idiotic pundits and pols?
We clearly know since the 1930s that anti-intellectualism and hate of bright and educated people is one of the key elements of fascists.
I was so pissed off yesterday, watching msnbc online I heard not once but many times...
"Senator Clinton motivates the white voters, while Obama gets the blacks"
Not Senator Obama, Not Black Voters, Not motivates or inspires or empowers....
Obama gets the blacks. Like scraps from a table... these people make me soooooo angry. And it is time to stop it.
One of the best parts of Senator Obama's speech yesterday was the section about not being divided, sliced and diced, pitted against each other. That is the America I dream of.
That is the America I want to see in my life time.
You could start a drinking game for every time one of these fools says something bigoted and/or stupid but then that's a recipe for alcohol poisoning.
I remember when Jon Stewart destroyed Begala and that other pissant Tucker Carlson by doing nothing more than pointing out the blatantly freaking obvious that their crap was hurting the discourse and did nothing good.
I kind of think Obama's campaign is doing the same thing. Simply exposing folks for the wastes of space they are.
Tweety is part of the Boomer BS Machine (MSM division), as is Begala (DLC branch office). The thing to understand about the Boomer BS Machine is that, even though it's run by "people who have college or advanced degrees" (you know, like Tweety and Begala), their liveliehoods are based on manipulating those who "don't count."
So most of the time, when they're doing their jobs, they have to pretend they're not the elites. But when the cameras go off in NYC, the Beltway, or L.A.? Noble “Joe Six Pack” suddenly becomes the "stupid redneck loser." The beloved "Heartland" reverts to being "flyover country." Instead of singing paens to the politician who can bowl or sit down for a cold one or wear a lapel pin, they laugh at the absurdity of an idiot electorate. Off-camera.
Race? Look around the offices where Tweety and Begala work, and the answer is in front of your eyes. Lots of politically correct talk-the-talk about identity politics from these Boomers, but very little walk-the-walk.
To meet me, you wouldn't doubt for a moment I'm a member of the American elite, from my pasty skin to my advanced degree to the way I speak, etc., etc. But I don't pretend to be anything else, because I opted out of the Boomer BS Machine that I was expected to join a long time ago. And the funny thing is, once you do that, it becomes a lot easier to connect with people who aren't the elite, and see them as more than just pawns in a big game.
Great piece, LM.
Not trying to re-ignite the Gen Wars that ate up a thread a while back, but CK, you do realize that Obama was born in 1961, right? Which by my math makes him a Boomer, too, even if you place the cutoff at three years earlier than the most commonly cited year of 1965.
All that to the side, that was a masterly exhibition of how to rip a fatuous jerk a new one, LM.
"Experts" like Begala are the worst thing that ever happened to the party. The snotty, scornful and dismissive crap that dribbled out of his smug slash of a piehole is vintage "Republican Lite" (which after almost 30 years of these Lords of Misrule has a bouquet like Sterno and skunk whiz).
That Clinton chooses to surround herself with his ilk doesn't reflect well on either her judgement or her grasp of how much the battleground has changed since the early 90s.
I'm usually a lurker here but I gotta say that is an absolutely outstanding post.
I was not blessed to know Mr. Gilliard (though we went to the same high school) but I am sure he is beaming with pride right now.
Great piece LM, another one that will be read years from now. The nation is going down the tubes, but as long as these asshats maintain their perks, then all is still OK with them. They are living in as much a bubble as Bush.
People do need to be reminded..
Smashing piece, LM. Thank you from the heart.
Sadly, yes, we do need to be shown where Medgar lay, and we need to be reminded of why he laid there.
Baltogeek! What? You want to see me shitfaced drunk in three minutes?
:o)
For some reason, after guests had left, we turned on CNN last night to see what was what. We were very struck by the continual emphasis on Obama winning 'African American' strongholds, as if he can do nothing else. Me and the wife were a bit miffed.......... especially as we happily voted for him here in Minnesota, and we're definitely not African American. This racial 'angle' is getting grotesque.
LM, obviously the Vicodin haze is gone, because that was sharp!
I am so FUCKING sick of this "elite" trope!! They talk as if Obama were an eighteenth century French comte being carried around by peasants in a sedan chair. Elite does not mean hereditary aristocracy, it means the best we've got, by whatever standard you're measuring. They act as if electing the best person we've got available were somehow disreputable. Isn't the US Senate the most elite group in the country? At least Obama got where he is through hard work, intelligence and character, not by being born into a rich and powerful family (all the Bushes) or by marrying well (McCain, Hillary).
Grr. Excuse me, I gotta go take my blood pressure.
P.S. Prof fate, yes, you are correct that Obama is technically a boomer. But speaking as one myself, boomer is at least as much an attitude and a worldview as it is an age range. Obama's worldview is definitely post-boomer.
LM: I am in awe. Long time lurker, but long time admirer. Thank you.
Barack is a member of Generation Jones; and we're a wee bit different from the true Boomers.
Oh, and brilliant, as ever, LM.
tanbark I thought you were shitfaced drunk all the time. 
The dip switch settings dictated to those who buy into the Boomer BS Machine (as distinct from those who own it) are as follows:
Camera Off - Snob
Camera On - Reverse snob
Think Hyacinth Bucket with conditioned multiple personality disorder.
p.s. the racists that bug me the most are those clueless bastards who think they are not racist. the most annoying part is that they expect us to believe them when they say i'm not racist
hint: if you find yourself having to explain that more than once or twice a decade, you're probably racist.
"For some reason, after guests had left, we turned on CNN last night to see what was what."
That was your first mistake: tuning into a medium that treats "elite eggheads" like yourself with open hostility, and approaches its presumed audience with condescending contempt.
"We were very struck by the continual emphasis on Obama winning 'African American' strongholds, as if he can do nothing else."
The contempt dictates that they choose a simple and moronic narrative ("black guy vs white woman") and stick with it no matter what. It's similar to the evergreen "elitist liberal vs. reg'lar guy conservative" line they've been pounding for the last 25 years, and will continue to work even if the ghost of Harry Truman returns to capture the 2008 Democratic nomination.
That's the measure of their unstated hatred for their audience: college-educated urban professionals pandering to the laziest strain of American anti-intellectualism in exchange for the illusion of power. The more authoritarian the news outlet is, the more extreme that pathology becomes (see Fox).
With the exception of Olbermann and "The Daily Show" (and NY1 when I lived in NYC) I haven't watched an American TV news show from start to finish in years. But then, I'm not a masochist who gets off having his intelligence insulted on a nightly basis.
tanbark I thought you were shitfaced drunk all the time.
baltogeek
Only when he is making wild and crazy predictions balto'.
Droppin' science as usual LoLo.
Mildred Loving (June 22, 1939 — May 2, 2008 ).
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lov...ing_v._Virginia
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961, son of Barack Obama, Sr., of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas).
This post wins.
One of the fastest growing motivators for Americans to vote for BHO?
For the sweet joy of watching all these 2nd-rate hacks' sullen drooping faces while they rattle off the boilerplate about "a historic turning-point in US history" while trying not to cry.
Also to see how soon the Tweetys, Stephanopolouses & Begalas wind up trying to find a new job - only to discover that EVERYONE knows just how harsh their stink is, because it's been wafting through their living-rooms for years now, & it just won't sell well enough anymore to land them another gig. Hey, guys, there's always lots of available airtime down at the Home Shopping Network ...
Suggest your read this for a different perspective:
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/?p=913
lectric lady:
If Barack Obama and his supporters become the new Democratic party, then the Democratic party will no longer be the party of women’s rights. There will still be women in the party, naturally, but basic respect for women as citizens will be a dead letter. It will be the party of John Roberts and anti-choicers and the most virulent outbreak of public misogyny I’ve ever seen.
I notice the author has a lot of bile, but she gives no fact-checkable examples or citations as the basis for her rant.
Put it on the table. If LM can lay out the explicit instances of racism expressed toward Obama and non-white voters by the media, all Hillary supporters can do exactly the same about the sexism.
It's not like folks in the blogosphere never called BS on sexism towards Hillary during the campaign.
And I have to add that I find it mysterious that the linked author tosses out that quote above as if there is no such thing as a Black woman.
This is why identity politics is a dead-end for both voters and politicians, IMHO. I find the linked author to be objectifying women with the same settled conviction as any man's-man of the 1950s, but with a different focus -- We're Victims and You're All Oppressors! End of story, for that gal. There is no higher purpose, no further goal, no Greater Good for her Country on her radar.
Everyone has a right to rant, vent, question, dissent, criticize -- but to refuse to participate in the work that must be done??
Speaking from my post-menopausal ovaries, I don't consider that woman a heroine. I consider her a snob.
Obama is an incredibly weak candidate and has NO chance. For the third time, remember my words. Too bad....
Bye for now robots ;-/
Sean, you're a moron, bye for now.
Maybe Sean is a spambot. The post has about that much perception of things that are actually happening.
No. I'm sober as a judge. :o)
Hillary'll win W.Va. And gain 5 delegates, maybe. And she'll prolly take Kentucky, and pick up a few more, and we'll get the "Now I'm rolling" bullshit all over again, but the superdelegates will keep moving to Obama, and the party honchos will be less and less tolerant of her dragging the party, and the election, to the right, and they will, increasingly and publicly, start telling her how the hog ate the cabbage.
If it's a matter of pride for her to NOT get out until the last primary, it's going to cost her (and Bill) in clout, affection, and MONEY.
Will it matter to her?
Developing.
:o)
Good ol' “hit n' run” Seannie.
See ya', punkass.
How many slugs (average) do you suppose are in the weekly roll o' pennies he gets paid for his once-every-seven-days verbal turds?
I don't mind the idea of Generation Jones, but I HATE HATE HATE the name.
"Boom" is cool.
"X" is cool.
"Jones" is the second most common family name in the English language.
Hence, it cannot be cool.
I would like to bind the nincompoop who thought up that name for my generation and make him listen to Shatner records until his ears bleed and his brain turns to Jell-O. :P
As to that link—
It's a personal bias with me, but I automatically start thinking “blind, dead-ender shill” when a blogger starts in with “Obamabot”/“Obamaton”, or “Hitlery”/“Shrillary”.
It's a 3 a.m., leftiover dishwater-weak way to start a “here are the deep, serious reasons why I feel how I feel” post.
But, I read it. And then I got hung up on the line about “the most virulent outbreak of public misogyny I’ve ever seen.”
I was a kid, but even I remember the naked woman-hate evidenced by newscasters and pundits and legislators during the time of the Equal Rights Amendment's painful slog through Congress. That was the launchpad for the evil and giddily traitorous Phyllis Schlafly. The open, ridiculing contempt for women like Bella Abzug and her peers is still kind off bone-chilling when I recall it.
While Sebator Clinton has caught some serious sexist shit—especially from Chris Matthews, and I excoriated him for that shit here—I don't think it's comparable to what those trailblazing predecessors faced. It was a raw and nasty time. History on it doesn't do the time's atmosphere justice.
That link is a righteous rant, albeit light on sourcing and specifics and heavy on the bile and heat. That's fine and dandy, but the “what if”/“imagine if” game is one anyone can play to try and make a point.
“Hey, if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bitchin' locomotive.”
The point of my post wasn't “what if”. It was “what happened 24 hours ago” with transcripted support and a bit of historical flavoring added in for context. I will say this...that linked post has a perspective. Maybe a valid one. But a bit hyperbolic and way too heavy on the verrrrry sour grapes I think.
It is what it is. This post is what it is. They speak for themselves.
It's May 8th Sean so six more months until you vanish from here forever.
The race baiting that goes on in the corporate media is one thing, but once you figure out that everyone getting camera time is pulling down six figures(and more) it all starts to make sense.
The working poor don't exist on TV. IF they do get camera time it is at the behest of a kindly celebrity journalist. And celebrity journalists aren't normal and hardly ever are willing to bite the hand that feeds them.
Thank you LM.
That reclusive leftist is a fucking moron.
I mean, how can you come with "In North Carolina he was down to his core constituency, who are now the only people who can be counted on to vote for him: African-Americans and the college crowd." and at the same time accuse Obama supporters of being sexist? When you just made the most blatant racist comment you could do this side of the Klan?
Sean,
When you get back to Troll Central for penny payment, can you ask if we can have Bloomie back? He did at least make points, even if they were ridiculous. Or maybe Paula Jones. He/She was a laugh also.
Peasant Sean is getting a little, shall we say, concerned.
And lectric lady, that article is mighty light on supporting evidence strong enough to justify staying home on election day. Lots of speculation and Boomer-style identity-politics whining, though. It's a perspective, but not a particularly impressive one.
I'll acknowledge that I've seen very isolated instances of anti-Hillary misogyny and anti-Obama racism on various blogs (more of the latter on this one). I've also seen them more frequently in the MSM, as this post indicates (Tweety has been particularly bad on both counts). Moving the the campaigns, however, I've seen a lot more racism by Hillary surrogates (e.g. WVWV's robocalls on Hillary's behalf in NC, or the e-mails containing dog-whistle attacks) than I have misogyny. from Obama surrogates (I honestly can't think of one)
There's a reason for this. Racist and misogynist attacks are the option for candidates who can't hit their opponents on real errors (like, say, voting for Kyl-Lieberman or hiring Mark Penn). Obama didn't made enough policy mistakes and campaign gaffes, Hillary saw the lead she was "entitled to" dwindling, and she got desperate. And that desperation has buried her to the point of irrelevance. It would be nice to have a woman as President, but not this woman.
And now the final desperation move: "women won't vote for Obama because of this outrage!" Well, no, a few feminists (v1.0 Boomers and nostalgia buffs) won't vote for Obama because of a gut feeling they have that all the legitimate criticism of Hillary's policy choices and losing campaign style was in fact a secret anti-woman plot. A fringe element of, ummm, "bitter" 70s remanents staying home in the general election won't do much damage, so go for it.
"I would like to bind the nincompoop who thought up that name for my generation and make him listen to Shatner records until his ears bleed and his brain turns to Jell-O. :P"
Good one, IBW. I couldn't think of a more appropriate punishment for the hipster doofus who came up with the "Jones" label.
One thing's for sure, Obama isn't embracing the Boomer BS Machine as eagerly as his opponent is.
Can't front.
I too, HATE the “Generation Jones” appelleation.
I'm a “boomer” (born mid-'63) until a better name is focus-grouped and settled upon.
Potential alternate monikers:
Generation “A” (As in Apollo and the Space program)
Generation “U” (As in upheaval, which is what the mid 60's were all about)
Generation “Cronkite” or “Cronkite Babies” (Guess who in honor of)
Or even “Beatle Boomers”.
I wish people would stop labeling age groups altogether. People do it to sell Viagra and Game Boys, those odious "energy drinks," and retirement homes. Nobody else should have any excuse. We're all people here.
LM,
Kudos to you and your post!!! As a footsoldier from the Lunch-Counter sit-ins in 1960, as well as a lover of History, you brought me back to the time and place where a bunch of strong-willed, God fearing, and determined college kids in NC decided to fight back in the only way we were afforded.
At that time in America, MOST college students were FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! We lived mostly in dorms on campus, far removed from the repercussions our families and friends would suffer, if we had attempted this in our home towns.
At that time, there was SAFETY IN NUMBERS, Bull Connor's tactics were not in play at this moment in time, (but that didn't take long to be utilized) But the sheer horror of violence that erupted afterwards, just opened the Pandora's Box that has just been moved from the visible to the ignored, thus the stupidity of others not like me, trying to tell me that "all is well, move on, there's nothing to see here!!"
Whenever someone tries to tell me that "You People ought to stop complaining, you got the Civil Rights Act, or that racism is dead," I simply ask:"How long have YOU lived in MY skin??" If you haven't lived it, you can't imagine it, try to explain WHY Medgar, Emmet, Martin, Malcom......HAD TO DIE!!! Try to explain to the uncounted families that had to live out the rest of their lives as the historical backdrop of Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit"!!!
Gotta go, I hardly ever post, but you did me proud, and for what it's worth, keep writin' 'n I'll keep readin'
Be Blessed
Amen, brother.
(from a pale homo white boy who never in his wildest dreams thought the New Reconstruction following the Civil Rights movement would ever be so successful.)
Strike "wildest dreams" and insert "worst nightmares" and remind me that one must proofread, proofread, and proofread.
revdr,
And thank you for posting.
My mind is spinning right now, only because I'm imagining how GILLY would have written that same story.
Just think about it.
LM, you did a FABU job on this and I'm glad to see that you're on the mend...
LM-- An interesting thing about your writing. I know it is yours before I get to the end of the post because you are just so...so...freaking eloquent. "Piss-pot punditry"....I love it!
On a more serious note, I am old enough to remember the fight for voting rights because my parents followed all of that. I have never believed that ovaries, testicles, religion or skin color should dictate my choices at the ballot box. As a white, middle-aged, female boomer I chose Obama based on his rational leadership and --dare I say it?--brilliance. How DID that work out for America when voters voted for the guy they "wanted to have a beer with?" Huh? And finally, in response to an earlier commentary, when there was a big media flap about 18 months ago over someone using the N-word, my daughter had to ask what that meant. It's a start...isn't it? That our kids don't understand what that is all about???? My kids also cannot believe that is was as recently as when I was a kid that their aunt & uncle could not have been legally married in some states. So let's keep working hard to bring understanding and intelligence to the discussion...we've made progress but much remains to be done--obviously. Love your writing, LM...ALWAYS.
Amen.
Oh and I've not always agreed with Donna Brazile in the past, but she hit this out of the park, seriously. Seems to me she showed tremendous restraint by not smacking Paul upside the head.
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