Thursday, August 27, 2009
U.S. Representative. Lynn Jenkins, a Republican from Kansas, told a recent gathering in northeast Kansas that the Republican Party is looking for a “great white hope” to help stop the political agenda of the Democratic party and President Barack Obama. Apparently Jenkins was unaware that The Great White Hope was a play/film that focused on racism, looking at how segregation and prejudice affected human behavior.
Was this a simple slip of the tongue, or proof that subtle racism still exists today, even among our political leaders?
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in an auto accident in which Edward Kennedy was the driver of the vehicle. Kopechne was a former campaign worker for Kennedy’s older brother, Robert F. Kennedy. On 18 July 1969, Kopechne attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, a short ferry ride off the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. E dward Kennedy and Kopechne left the party together later that night in Kennedy’s Oldsmobile Delmont 88. A short time later, their car plunged off the Dike Bridge into a pond, where it overturned. Kopechne died in the car.
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I guess in the end you get what you pay for. I am not sure that we would be in a better place with McCain, but I think few people would have expected so little Change out of Obama at this point. To most, it is just more of the same.
