Hillary is campaigning behind the Magnolia Curtain in Mississippi.

[TacticalPeek]

She's coming to the Jefferson Jackson Hamer Day Dinner tomorrow night in Canton, Mississippi.

And Bill will be in Hattiesburg, Meridian and Tupelo Friday.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3211485&mesg_id=3211485

Obama has no scheduled appearances as of now. We'll see if he comes here to defend.







http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/hamer.html

[ProudToBeLiberal]

1. Sorry to sound stupid, but what's the magnolia curtain?

btw, we're learning about Fannie Lou Hamer the the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in the 1964 democratic convention.

[TacticalPeek]

2. It's a term used by James Silver in his book, The Closed Society

back in the sixties to describe the cut-off nature of Mississippi society, like the Iron Curtain.

It's not near so bad now, of course, so my tounge was in the general area of my cheek.

http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Society-James-Wesley-Silver/dp/0151181764

[VolcanoJen]

3. I will always adore this Simmie Knox portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker

The day after Ohio, I'm actually relieved that the hurricane has left our state. Looking forward to hearing reports on the ground from Mississippi.

[usregimechange]

4. Count on it. Jackson, I would bet

[Maddy McCall]

10. He has a campaign office open on State Street in Jackson.

I'm sure he'll visit.

[Maddy McCall]

5. I was invited to this dinner a couple months ago....I declined...

because I have a standing engagement every Thursday. Had I known that Hillary was to speak, I'd certainly have planned on attending.

:cry:

Oh...and K/R!

[Hoof Hearted]

8. Oh Maddy. I'm sorry. You must be very dissapointed. I would be.

Of course, everyone wants to go now. No chance you could still get in?

[Maddy McCall]

9. I would have to make arrangements...

for my class, and it's too late to do that--to get the word out to students--and to shop for the clothes I'd need.

:cry:

[Cha]

6. Of course, Obama will be in Mississippi..

and "defend" what?

[TacticalPeek]

15. His spokesman says that he won't be here for the Jefferson Jackson Hamer dinner.

As of last night, no Obama appearances are scheduled here in the state.

A spokesman for Obama said he will not attend the state Democratic Party's 26th Annual Jefferson Jackson Hamer Day Dinner Thursday in Canton.

He and Sen. Clinton were both invited to attend.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS/80305019/1001

Maybe he should climb down from his high horse and actually show up.

[Maddy McCall]

7. Thank you for posting that photo of Fannie Lou Hamer.

I doubt many DUers know who she is...I hope they read up on her!

[ProudToBeLiberal]

12. Lyndon Johnson was so afraid of her oratory skills

that he called a press conference when she was talking in front of the credentials committee at the 1964 democratic convention so he could take the tv cameras off of her. However, the media outlets replayed the Hamer's speech in full in the evening :P.

[peoli]

11. Preview of speech...

YES WE WILL!
READY ON DAY ONE!
WHOS GONNA ANSWER THAT CALL AT 3AM
REZKO
CANADA
GONNA WORK FOR YOU
I CARE ABOUT POOR PEOPLE
JOHN MCAIN AND I ARE READY
WORDS DONT MATTER!
35 YEARS!

THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!

[BringBigDogBack]

14. ...

:rofl:

[powergirl]

13. Will she insult the state of Mississippi again?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

Lott Waits for Clinton's Apology and Gets One

By Mary Ann Akers And Paul Kane
Thursday, October 25, 2007; Page A23

It's a good thing she apologized, because Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was fixin' to give Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) a piece of his mind.

Lott was on the cusp of issuing a serious condemnation of the Democratic presidential front-runner for insulting the Magnolia State this week when his phone rang.

"To her credit, she called me and apologized," Lott told On the Hill.

Clinton chose wisely to make the quick apology after insulting Mississippians with a comment she made in an interview with Iowa's most important political reporter, the Des Moines Register's David Yepsen. Clinton was quoted expressing complete "shock" at learning that Iowa and Mississippi were the only states that have never elected a female governor or a female member of either chamber of Congress.

"How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi?" she asked, implying the Hawkeye State is above such distinction. "That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."

Lott was furious when aides notified him of the put-down. He said he wanted to sound off right away but instead paused and waited to read the entire context of her remarks, something he said he has learned to do the hard way because of his own various guffaw-inducing statements over the years. (Those include not just his praise of the 1948 Dixiecrat presidential candidate Strom Thurmond, but also his comments after Clinton won her Senate race in 2000 that "maybe lightning will strike" her and she would die before getting sworn into the chamber.) "I understand that we sometimes say what we don't always mean to say," Lott said.

Still, he is a little disturbed that Clinton views Mississippi as politically sexist. He noted that the last two lieutenant governors have been women and that the first female jurist was recently appointed to the state's U.S. District Court.

Plus, Lott added, who is Clinton to talk? "Having lived in Arkansas, which is something of a whipping boy, too, she knows better than that," Lott said.

[rodeodance]

16. nah--Hillary learns from her mistakes.

[TacticalPeek]

17. I guess you feel comfortable being on Trent Lott's side of that dispute?

Being a native Mississippian, I can tell you that all Hillary spoke was the truth. Iowa should be ashamed to share a distinction with Mississippi of having never elected a woman to Congress. The implication of your post is that you are on Trent Lott's side, proud to keep women down.

Not the company I would pick, thanks.