Here are some quick general reflections on the presidential race.
Whenever I hear politicians talk about change I think change is what is left in my pocket from my paycheck by the time they get done.
When I hear Sen. Hillary talking about President Johnson passing the Civil Rights act I remember the final Senate vote.
The original House version:
* Democratic Party: 164-96 (64%-39%)
* Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
The Senate version:
* Democratic Party: 46-22 (68%-32%)
* Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
* Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
* Republican Party: 186-35 (80%-20%)
Including in the nea for the Democrats was Al Gore’s father.
The Hillary crying incident doesn’t bother me since if she is elected President I might cry also.
I wish that a half-Black half-Spanish lesbian was elected president. We could get so many firsts out of the way so that people can get back to voting based on a candidates position vice other attributes.
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High-larious, with the added benefit of being true!
Make it a half-Black half-Spanish lesbian republican dwarf, and I am in!
Actually one convincing argument against Hillary is “I don’t want her to be remembered as the first woman president.” We already had to deal with pro-abort Sandra Day O’Conner.
Too true, Jeff! And when I hear her list of accomplishments, all I can think of is Al Gore inventing the internet. Remind me what her vast experience in an executive office is… Oh, that’s right–she was NOT A Tammy Wynette “Stand by Her Man” woman.
Another argument against Hillary–I’m still not over what the Billary team thought were qualified women to appoint–Jocelyn Elders comes to mind. Some of their personnel still haven’t received security clearance as of today.
She can cry all she wants. It may be personal for her, but my opposition to her campaign is personal to me, too. And if she is elected I’ll be needing a doctor’s appointment for counseling and antidepressants for sure.
In Christ’s peace and joy,
Robin
This has been said about change: “You can’t improve without changing, but you can change without improving.” I sense more of the latter in all the noxious gas being spewed lately in the name of “change”.
That appears to be the house vote, not the senate, but the results were similar except that I think the % of democrats voting aye was even lower. Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader, made it happen.
Did you mean Hispanic (or Latina) perchance? Not that I think there has yet been a president of Spanish decent, but I don’t know that folks of European decent are considered members of a minority.
“I don’t know that folks of European decent are considered members of a minority.”
My ancestors all came from Barcelona and Mallorca and, yet, according to the definitions provided in the last US census I would have been considered “Hispanic” same as a Mexican, Puerto Rican, Argentinian, Guatemalan, etc.
Given how many generations people go back to declare their ethnicity, we figured that since at one point in time Spain was part of the Roman Empire we declared ourselves as “Other” and wrote down “Roman-American”