Mississippi Gov. Barbour Backs McDonnell on 'Confederate History' Declaration

[TomCADem]

Source: Fox News

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Sunday defended fellow Gov. Bob McDonnell for his decision to declare April "Confederate History Month" in Virginia without initially acknowledging the legacy of slavery, saying the controversy "doesn't amount to diddly."

The Virginia governor took heat for his declaration from a slew of top officials, including President Obama and former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder -- the first black elected governor and a grandson of slaves.

Under pressure, McDonnell on Wednesday apologized, acknowledging a "major omission" and adding in a paragraph condemning slavery. That helped ease the tension over the matter, but Barbour said Sunday that McDonnell did not do anything wrong in the first place.

"I don't know what you would say about slavery, but anybody that thinks that you have to explain to people that slavery is a bad thing, I think that goes without saying," he told CNN's "State of the Union."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/11/mississippi-gov-barbour-backs-mcdonnell-confederate-history-declaration/

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Wow, it is pretty easy for Barbour to say that our Nation's history of slavery goes without saying. Amazing.

[saltpoint]

1. There's been a discernible uptick in media coverage on Barbour these

past couple weeks.

I hope Haley lives to regret his support of McDonnell.

[wordpix]

19. I hope so--didn't he get big fed money to rebuild his beach house lost in Katrina?

Meanwhile, just folks got trailers with formaldehyde and are still trying to rebuild.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002303.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a3O8w8_QJ6KU

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/000528.php

Lots of stuff on the net about Barbour's ethics lapses but can't find anything about his beachfront home. Somehow that's gone from the public domain? :eyes: :shrug:

[bigwoolymammoth]

20. Here is the real story......

You cannot find anything on Barbour's beachfront home because such a home never existed in the first place. Barbour is from the of hills Yazoo County, which is 250 or so miles from the Gulf coast, in North Central Mississippi.

You are thinking of Senator Trent Lott. His home is Pascagoula was destroyed. I can find no evidence that he got large sums of Federal money to rebuild it though. I suppose this could have been elimated from the public domain though....

[MadMaddie]

2. That is the Republican way....it's convenient to forget

this country was literally built on the backs of slaves, indentured European servants and the anhilation of indian tribes.

[LaPera]

10. The republican way is to divide & conquer - Encouraging "you against them" that it's OK to hate...

"They" are different than you, fight "them" we've got to get "them" out of office, telling the morons, it's alright to use force or to kill them, they are (insert any label here) Nazi's, Marxist, Fascist, Socialist, subhuman....

The republicans (who are the money behind the tea party, only the teabaggers are just too fucking dumb to know it) republicans like Palin, Bachmann, Beck, the pigman Limbaugh tell the the fools that the darkies are taking over "your" country and your jobs...giving a free rides to minorities with your taxes...take "your country back...yes, it's all right to kill them, its the right thing to do for you and your family and for all America, your just being a good "patriot"!

And these hateful, uneducated, uninformed, ignorant, stupid fucking racist repeat the same bullshit they hear everyday on their hate radio and Fox news and they eat it up like ignorant pigs eating slop, they can't get enough of it and then they feel tough and go buy more guns...infantile mentality of these simpletons.

These are the true fucking idiots supporting the same fucks, the corporations and republicans who eat them each day for breakfast and laugh...these are truly the lowest most gullible dumb fucks alive....yet the greedy lying republicans tell them that they are better than everyone else, more patriotic than everyone else, they just feed their simple-minded egos and these idiots believe it and go out to feed the hate, kill and prove it...

[MadMaddie]

17. Yep they are idiots! I wonder when or if they rwill ever ealize that they

have been the "whores" of the Repug party? Or do they enjoy it because they just too stupid to catch on?

[autorank]

3. How about a new state - Northern Virginia

I'm there. It's ridiculous to be lumped in with idiots like McDonnell. He meant what he said
initially. As to Barbour, we can always expect the very worst from him. k*r

[LuvNewcastle]

4. If I were in trouble politically,

Haley Barbour is just about the last person I'd want coming to my rescue. McDonnell just needs to take his lumps and shut up until this all blows over. This is like the Imperial Wizard coming out to defend the Grand Dragon.

[grantcart]

5. It was stunning watching him on CNN

They have no awareness of how this is playing outside the South.

They are happy being a regional party as long as their individual seat is protrected.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

6. So embarassed McDonnell is the governor of the Commonwealth where I live.

[nealmhughes]

14. The same goes in much of The South.

Here in Huntsville, AL area, we are all frankly stunned at all the upswing of teabaggery, Dr. Quisling as our Democratic Congressman no wait, he's a Republican now, like Dick Shelby! They make the South look like semi-literate ill-mannered ingrates for all the New Deal did for us. To hell with them, and their little dogs, Shelby, Sessions, Demint, and the Saxby Chambliss and all their spawn.

This region has been trying its hardest to build a biracial nation only to have it dashed by assholes like Haley and his ilk. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurman are alive and well and living somewhere between Alexandria and Houston.

[boppers]

18. "no awareness of how this is playing outside the South."

Indeed. Many of the stereotypes about the South stem from repeated incidents much like this...

Having lived in Atlanta for a year, my first-hand experience was that acting like a racist shitbag was still a socially acceptable behavior, and nobody even blinked at it. Shocked the hell out of me.

[pattmarty]

7. He's just a fat-assed, double chined, redneck motherfucker.

[RedCloud]

8. We need a Union Victory Parade down his Main Street!

[liberation]

9. Why is it that the same people who love to wrap themselves in the flag of patriotism

are the same ones who can't wait to be able to celebrate secession out in the open?

[cliffordu]

11. MAn, I just love it when these racist shits out themselves.

[rurallib]

12. A case of the pot calling the kettle white

[baldguy]

13. The Holocaust was overblown. Pol Pot was an enthusiastic Boy Scout.

The Trail Of Tears the was just a happy-go-lucky hike in the woods, and was done for the Cherokee's & Seminole's own good.


And legacy of slavery doesn't amount to diddly.

[hay rick]

15. Racist to the rescue!

Most Republican governors don't see a compelling need to chime in on this tawdry tale, but Haley can't resist publicly identifying himself with the most racist elements of the Republican Party. National ambition?

[Joe Bacon]

16. It fits right in with the Republic Party mainstream

This is what happens when 2/3 of your stream flows from the South.

[MurrayDelph]

21. All I can say

is it's mighty white of him.