In an interesting article in the Irish Examiner Alicia Colon writes that Senator Reid is either the dumbest person in Congress or the laziest ... last week when he condemned the Republicans for being against the Health Care Plan he compared them to those who were against righting the wrongs of slavery ... and she ask, Is Mister Reid not aware than every civil rights achievement in history has been spearheaded by the Republican Party or does he just think most of us outside Washington are dumb?Now I'm a little doubtful of her overall generalizing, but certainly up through the first half of the twentieth century she has a point. Quite an article, if you'd like to read the article you can find it on..
www.irishexaminerusa.com/mt/2009/12/15/the_unbelievable_harry_reid.html
ENJOY. Don't you just love it when our leaders think we, outside Washington, are as dumb as a box of rocks .... they better be careful, Jesus said 'even the rocks will cry out' and when that happens times are not good.
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Harry was just doing a bit of hyperbole--which is done by both sides all the time. As for the Republicans, it's not the same party that advanced what Civil Rights legislation that came in the aftermath of the Civil War.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I feel a bit of kinship with Harry as we've both got an interest in mining history--he published probably the best account of Searchlight--a early 20th Century boom town in Southern Nevada
Hey Sage...
ReplyDeleteNow there's a truly interesting fact about the man I never knew, thanks. It is always a neat thing to hear something positive about anybody; did he have some kind of family connection in Searchlight?
He grew up there; my connections is that I did a year internship in Virginia City, Nevada
ReplyDeleteYou're right, of course. It was the Demo's refusal to support Johnson's Civil Rights initiative which caused my Dad to leave the party in the late sixties, although he did vote for Humphrey. Further, that split in the Dems gave us George Wallace's independent run in 1968, which gave us . . .
ReplyDeleteRichard Nixon!
History can be darned inconvenient. Maybe that's why they don't teach it much, anymore.
Cheers.