Yes, I know it wasn’t possible. Again, he’s saying “Those people didn’t have the same tools you do.”
This OP said he said something about civil rights that he doesn’t appear to have said. That’s the extent of my defending Christie. My defense does not extend to his bigotry and cowardice. I am only saying his mentioning of the civil rights activists isn’t the insult the OP took it as.
Arguing with me about Christie’s stance on gay rights will not actually get you anywhere since I don’t agree with Christie (and probably do agree with you).
The greatest atrocity in the history of mankind! What is the point of having a manager in this mode? The lineup cycles through without change, and pitchers never risk getting the ball thrown at their head! Nothing has been worse for the game since the Blacksox scandal.
Anyway, that’s the best I can muster on the subject. It doesn’t bother me that much, and actually the only way I could have been a professional ball player was as a designated hitter. But still, based on principle, it’s a bad thing.
The point is, if they had the same tools, and put it to a referendum, the Civil Rights Movement would have gotten nowhere, because all of the needed changes would have been voted down handily by the bigoted populace of the time. While I’m sure they would have been happy to get their rights without unrest, the reality is that they wouldn’t have gotten them at all if they had put their rights up for public vote, I don’t believe for a second that folks would have accepted THAT particular tradeoff.
God I love the cognitive dissonance of election years. One of the news channels was just showing a woman talking about how she’s voting for Newt Gingrich because of his Christian values. By Christian values Newt’s wife (the Third Lady of Newt, currently seeking to be the nation’s First Aging-Cum-Guzzling-Gutter-Whore*) his current wife would be taken out and stoned to death, and while I admit that in her particular case I wouldn’t shed a tear, OT Law is still not a door that I want to legally open.
You start to wonder, are people like this woman and other vocal Newt=Bible-values people really that fucking retarded or do they think the people listening to them are? At least with Santorum you know that however hypocritical he may or may not be he makes up for by being fucking nuts, but not all Christian conservatives can be, can they?
*Sorry, that’s unfair- she can’t help the Aging part so you can take that one off
I see what you’re saying, but by making the comparison, isn’t he also essentially setting up his side as the equivalent of the anti-civil rights people? Why would anyone in their right mind evoke that imagery? “Yes, I’m oppressing peoples’ rights, just like we did pre-1965. If you don’t like it, hold a referendum!”
I’m nominally republican and I know he is retarded. The worst governor we have had in my memory. And that’s saying a lot. He has a lot of sheep fooled though.
