Opinion of Oldiesfreak1854

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Neutral. He seems like a nice guy with no idea what he's talking about.

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"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.''--Bill Bennett, Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan

''You start out in 1954 by saying, 'n, n, n.' By 1968 you can't say 'n' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'n, n.'''--Lee Atwater, deputy and political director of the Reagan '84 campaign, campaign manager for Bush '88, and RNC chairman. You can listen to him say it yourself here.

"I believe in states' rights.... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment."--Ronald Reagan, in Philadelphia, MS

Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the VRA of 1965, a national holiday for MLK, scrapping the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools practicing racial discrimination, and vetoed the imposition of sanctions on apartheid South Africa. And how about this?

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"I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.''--Bill Bennett, Secretary of Education under Ronald Reagan

''You start out in 1954 by saying, 'n, n, n.' By 1968 you can't say 'n' -- that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me -- because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'n, n.'''--Lee Atwater, deputy and political director of the Reagan '84 campaign, campaign manager for Bush '88, and RNC chairman. You can listen to him say it yourself here.

"I believe in states' rights.... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment."--Ronald Reagan, in Philadelphia, MS

Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the VRA of 1965, a national holiday for MLK, scrapping the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools practicing racial discrimination, and vetoed the imposition of sanctions on apartheid South Africa. And how about this?

Reagan originally supported the 1964 CRA, stating that it "should be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."  If he opposed any of those laws, it was because of concerns about the constitutionality, not race.  MLK's family also opposed a national holiday for him, too.  That's hardly evidence of racism. 

Where in the Constitution does it expressly deny Congress the power to not give money to racist institutions like Bob Jones University? Regardless, you're avoiding Atwater.

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If it's another article from Pat Buchanan, please spare us.

Actually it's a poorly-formatted Scribd upload by one Glen Moore, who the Internet says is a jazz bassist from Portland, as uploaded by the ever-reputable "whentheycome666".

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Here's a new pearl of wisdom:

OK, OK, he said "very unlikely"...

His "most likely scenario" map was pretty bad too.

And the reason the Republicans don't pick up Arkansas is because we need Democrats with Southern accents in the Senate to make sure the true racism of the Democrats is revealed.