Dude, you totally do. You fucking suck. I really mean that. Thanks so much for making the rest of the white folk in America (and/or at least Virginia/Mississippi) look like similar douchebags:
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) might have gotten the exactly the help he didn't need from a friend this morning, as Republican Governors Association chairman Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) defended him for issuing a proclamation in honor of Confederate History Month that did not include reference to slavery.
On CNN's "State of the Union," Barbour said people already know slavery was a bad thing and that the outcry over McDonnell's proclamation amounted to making "a big deal out of something that doesn't amount to diddly."
Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah, because that's what I was thinkin', too! Slavery doesn't need to be decried! Just our reaction to it, but, honestly! It was seriously a fucking party!
Argh.
I mean hell, Guv. Does your supreme idiocy extend to your entire state, or just a fraction of it? I'd like to believe the former and not the latter, but geez - all you peeps in the South keep electing complete jerkoffs. What the hell are the rest of us supposed to think?!
Throw us a bone, South. Please. PLEASE! We truly need it.
Why is it that all the older, racist, white men in these political positions insanely piss me off? Is it the age? I don't know. Is it the gender? I don't know? Is it the priviledged race, and the skewed, racist views therein?
Probably. Honestly, I'd take bets that this is the case.
Talk about assholic (from the WaPo link above):
UPDATE 3:14 p.m.: Tucker Martin, McDonnell spokesman, sent a statement by email that generally praises Barbour without specifically addressing this morning's comments. "Governor Haley Barbour is a tremendous leader for Mississippi. Governing Magazine named him Governor of the year in 2006 for good reason. He has led his state's recovery from Hurricane Katrina, focused on economic development and job creation, reformed the public education system and put Mississippi at the forefront of alternative energy research and development. We thank him for his leadership and service to the state and country," Martin said.
Oh, like I even have to guess what this disgusting white man did to "earn" that title. (Re: not much. Except breathe. And be a Bush crony. And be generally uncaring/hurtful/etc.) The proof is, sadly, in the pudding:
Consider the Gulf Coast housing crisis, one of the key issues that has kept nearly half the population of New Orleans from returning to the city since Katrina. More than 75 percent of the housing damage from the storm was in Louisiana, but Mississippi has received 70 percent of the funds through FEMA's Alternative Housing Pilot Program. Of the $388 million available, FEMA gave a Mississippi program offering upgraded trailers more than $275 million. Meanwhile, the agency awarded Louisiana's "Katrina Cottage" program, which features more permanent modular homes for storm victims, a mere $75 million.
Well. I suppose Barbour wouldn't be the first one to fuck over Mother Nature's storm victims in order to protect his own citizens from travesty themselves, right?
Oh, wait. (Thankfully, Mother Nature has absolutely nothing to do with this one:)
During the campaign a controversy arose when Barbour chose to speak at the Blackhawk Rally, a fundraiser for the Blackhawk "council school" in Blackhawk, Mississippi. Such "council schools", also referred to in Mississippi lexicon as "academies", were established by the White Citizens' Council movement in reaction to the demands for racial integration by the American Civil Rights movement. The Blackhawk rally was hosted by the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). A photograph of Barbour with CCC members appeared on the CCC webpage, and some commentators and pundits demanded that Barbour ask for his picture to be removed from the site, but Barbour refused. Barbour stated that "Once you start down the slippery slope of saying,'That person can't be for me,' then where do you stop?... I don't care who has my picture. My picture's in the public domain." Barbour's Democratic opponent, Governor Musgrove, declined to be critical, stating that he had also attended Blackhawk rallies in the past, and would have done so that year except for a scheduling conflict.
Geez, y'all make Mississippians look like fucking saints here! Both the Democrats and the Republicans were going to attend the Blackhawk rallies!
OH YAY! LET'S ALL JUMP UP AND DOWN!
Not!
Further Barbour lobbying insanity (shocker, I know! and from the above Wiki):
Barbour's taxation policies have undergone scrutiny. The "Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids" insinuated that Barbour's lobbying-era affinity with the tobacco industry may also explain his 2006 proposal to dismantle Mississippi's controversial youth-tobacco-prevention program, called The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi. The Partnership is a private, non-profit group which receives $20 million annually and is led by former Attorney General Mike Moore. Moore created the organization when he, representing the State of Mississippi, settled a multi-billion dollar suit with the tobacco industry. According to the suit, the funds were to offset the extra costs incurred by Medicaid while dealing with smoking related illnesses. Opponents have consistently claimed that Moore uses the organization to further his political ambitions.
Oo, fun! I am incensed with Mississippi love and want to move to that state IMMEDIATELY! And I certainly know that I want my daughter to both light up ASAP and develop cancer ASAP, so KICKASS! LET'S BOOGIE, MOORE!
There are many, many ways in which Governor Barbour displays his antipathy towards other human beings, but now's not the time. In order for me to tell you more about them, I'd legitimately have to take-on robotic circutry and non-emotional responses.
I'll let you know when (if ever) I achieve such a state of non-intelligent orgasm. Or idiocy.
Or both.
Shouldn't be too long now, honestly. Considering that I've read about Governor Haley Barbour for the better part of an hour, I expect that my cerebrum will turn from solid to liquid form at any moment now.
Just waiting presently ...
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How much do you think it would cost to form a colonization on Mars and/or the Moon? A coupla billion each?
This shouldn't be that hard, honestly.
Where's Soros?!