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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 08:49 PM
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DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible'
Posted: April 11th, 2010 06:03 PM ET

Gov. Haley Barbour's comments 'portrayed a Republican mindset that is not only out of touch with this century, but the last one as well,' a spokesman for the DNC said Sunday.

Washington (CNN) – With the nation’s first African-American president occupying the Oval Office, the South’s Confederate history is ensnaring a second Republican governor in as many weeks in a controversy over how the nation ought to remember the institution of slavery.

Trying to defend a fellow Southern Republican governor, Mississippi’s Haley Barbour drew fire from the Democratic National Committee, which issued a statement Sunday after an interview with Barbour aired on CNN’s State of the Union.

Earlier: Concern of slavery omission 'doesn't amount to diddly,' says Barbour

“I don’t know what you would say about slavery,” Barbour told CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley, “but anybody who thinks that slavery is a bad thing – I think goes without saying.”

Barbour was explaining his belief that Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell had not made a mistake in omitting any mention of slavery from a recent proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month in his state.

Responding to allegations that McDonnell’s omission was insensitive, Barbour said, “To me, it's a sort of feeling that it's a nit. That it is not significant, that it's not a – it's trying to make a big deal out of something doesn't amount to diddly.”

The DNC slammed Barbour for the remarks.

"Governor Barbour defended the indefensible this morning and in doing so portrayed a Republican mindset that is not only out of touch with this century, but the last one as well,” DNC national press secretary Hari Sevugan said in a written statement. “To say that the systematic condemnation of millions to bondage and generation upon generation to servitude is ‘not significant,’ or that the tearing apart of families and the selling of human beings as cattle ‘doesn't amount to diddly’ is outrageous for any public official to say, let alone a man Republicans have placed in a position of leadership.”

Sevugan added, “These comments are unacceptable and should be universally condemned in the strongest terms. A failure to do so will send a strong message to all Americans that Republicans endorse Governor Barbour's sentiments and are content not only to be left behind in another century, but that they deserve to be a small regional party in the permanent minority “

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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/11/dnc-barbour-defended-the-indefensible/?fbid=B63NQ7tPGZw
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jenmito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 09:03 PM
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1. K&R. I saw that this morning. I couldn't believe it. CNN is replaying the clip over and over. n/t
Edited on Sun Apr-11-10 09:06 PM by jenmito
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 12:28 AM
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7. jiust the sound of his voice makes me puke.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 09:06 PM
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2. As DUer "saltpoint" said earlier today....
Edited on Sun Apr-11-10 09:08 PM by eleny
"Barbour is not a man with a modern mind."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8130573&mesg_id=8130587

and P.S. - I knew his "nit" characterization was going to hit the fan like a loose poop.
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 09:49 PM
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3. Dems really need to learn how to talk in sound bites.
Not that I want them to, but it's the only way these responses will stick with the current media and media absorbtion situation in this country.

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OhioBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 09:55 PM
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4. I've been saying the same thing...
I hate that type of talk.... but they really do need to learn how to do it better. Most people don't read a press release... they need to hear a short point made over and over again for it it stick it seems.
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political_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 11:01 PM
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5. Another example of why the RNC is the Pro-Slavery and Pro-Bigot Party.
Haley Barbour has a long record of being as vile and disgusting as he wants to be. It's no secret he's a racist. And over the years, his comments never seem to fail in highlighting what virulent racism is like. It's like he channels Bull Connor he's so puerile.

Am I surprised that they would play Barbour's comments repeatedly? Hell no. And because there are people running the media who don't even grasp the gravity of Barbour's comments, we have to relive this type of debasement over and over.

That is why I sincerely hope that there is that one breaking point in the DNC when the epiphany comes that they cannot stand bending down and being kicked in the rear by the RNC anymore. After they get into that corner, they will come out swinging. And hope that swinging manages to hit a few targets. :grr:
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 11:07 PM
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6. fuck him
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:38 PM
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15. +1. nt
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nealmhughes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:02 AM
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8. And I thought people like Haley were supposed to be jolly.
Nothing worse than a fat meanie.
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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 12:22 PM
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9. GOP: But our party's chairman is black, so we good.
Next thing you know they'll say Amos and Andy was "empowering" for black Americans.
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Metric System Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:08 PM
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10. Is he running in 2012?
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peaches2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:18 PM
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12. Yes, he's running
And he has to keep up the myth that Southern politicians just love all mankind and never mean to hurt blacks in any way. He talks like he mentally and physically has a mouthful of cotton. Makes me sick. I am sick to death of all these southern politicians, but they have power way beyond what they should and we just let them get away with this crap.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:14 PM
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11. Mississippi's declaration of secession:
A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union



In the momentous step, which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.



Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product, which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.



That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.

The hostility to this institution commenced before the adoption of the Constitution, and was manifested in the well-known Ordinance of 1787, in regard to the Northwestern Territory.

The feeling increased, until, in 1819-20, it deprived the South of more than half the vast territory acquired from France.

The same hostility dismembered Texas and seized upon all the territory acquired from Mexico.
It has grown until it denies the right of property in slaves, and refuses protection to that right on the high seas, in the Territories, and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction.

It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion.

It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.

It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in the Union, and has utterly broken the compact, which our fathers pledged their faith to maintain.

It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.

It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice.

It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery exists.

It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better.

It has invaded a State, and invested with the honors of martyrdom the wretch whose purpose was to apply flames to our dwellings, and the weapons of destruction to our lives.

It has broken every compact into which it has entered for our security.

It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our social system.

It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause.

It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of living together in friendship and brotherhood.

Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England.

Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the alternative of separation; and for the reasons here stated, we resolve to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the justice of our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it.

http://www.civil-war.net/pages/mississippi_declaration.asp

I kinda see why Haley would want to sweep that slavery thing under the rug. What an asshole.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:22 PM
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13. Ouch.
That'll leave a mark.

:rofl:
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:35 PM
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14. And you know what? That was NOT taught to me when I was
in school there as a kid. Oh, no. You wouldn't believe the bullshit that I WAS taught. Some babble about how the North was jealous of the South's prosperity. I kid you not.
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Lord Helmet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 01:46 PM
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16. The MSM is aiding and abetting this double-talk coming from the pro-confederates.
They go to great lengths to smooth over (reads tuck in their hoods) the implications of invoking the good ol' boy deep south.
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