"Are we supposed to not notice that these are the tribunes of a party that rose to power on the filthy waves of racial demagoguery. I don’t remember hearing their voices or the voices of their intellectual heroes when the Republican Party, as part of its Southern strategy, aggressively courted the bigots who fled the Democratic Party because the Democrats had become insufficiently hostile to blacks.
Where were the howls of outrage at this strategy that was articulated by Lee Atwater as follows: “By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff.”

Never a peep did you hear.
Where were the right-wing protests when Ronald Reagan went out of his way to kick off his general election campaign in 1980 with a salute to states’ rights in, of all places, Philadelphia, Miss., not far from the site where three young civil rights workers had been snatched and murdered by real-life, rabid, blood-thirsty racists?"

Indeed - for all this supposed concern about "reverse racism" - where were these hypocrites when anti-racism heroes stood up to firehoses and attack dogs?

You GO girl!

Rush Limbaugh suggesting that Sotomayer is a racist is like a tidal wave suggesting there might be too much moisture in a glass of water.

Please read this when you have a chance.

Check it if you want. Not looking for an argument. If anything, it fills in a lot of historical points that can be checked. I'm not suggesting that our pasts are what we are today. But when accusations start flying because of whatever happened before we were born, facts work better than feelings, unless the historians were biased. God help us.

Thanks for the link Clip.

It is a good thing I can still type and make my thoughts be known with this stupid case of laryngitis that I have.

I quite intend to go to work this morning and do a few things (yeah right) and then whisper "bye, bye" after I perform a little tough love. All the while I shall be thinking this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knetbVx5A-Q