Comments on: Terry McCarpetbagger? http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/ Firedoglake weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: shell http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1607521 shell Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:04:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1607521 <p>Terry obviously has very poor reading comprehension. Or maybe he just doesn’t read. But some friend of his should send him a memo: 2008 is about CHANGE. You dumb freak, didn’t you GET it when Hillary was beaten, a lot because she was running like it was 2000. Yes, several years ago, it WAS common for those who had campaigned for years to be pushed aside when a D.C. insider decided s/he just HAD to have that post. No more. You want something? EARN it. Don’t think that you can get a seat just because you are the Great Terry McAuliffe.</p> Terry obviously has very poor reading comprehension. Or maybe he just doesn’t read. But some friend of his should send him a memo: 2008 is about CHANGE. You dumb freak, didn’t you GET it when Hillary was beaten, a lot because she was running like it was 2000. Yes, several years ago, it WAS common for those who had campaigned for years to be pushed aside when a D.C. insider decided s/he just HAD to have that post. No more. You want something? EARN it. Don’t think that you can get a seat just because you are the Great Terry McAuliffe.

]]> By: RickinSF http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606342 RickinSF Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606342 <p>I remember Checchi, what a phony!</p> <p>I also recall telling my wife that, after the elections (which he lost) we’ll never heard of him again. And I didn’t until you mentioned him in your post.</p> <p>How’s that for dedication to public service?</p> I remember Checchi, what a phony!

I also recall telling my wife that, after the elections (which he lost) we’ll never heard of him again. And I didn’t until you mentioned him in your post.

How’s that for dedication to public service?

]]> By: BTJ46 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606223 BTJ46 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:34:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606223 <p>I don’t like McAuliffe either, but <em>please</em> stop perpetuating the historical slander of Reconstruction by referring to people as ‘carpetbaggers’ and ’scalawags’. Read Foner or DuBois on Reconstruction. There is enormous ignorance of that history, but I think any serious reader will be amazed at the accomplishments of Freedmen and Northern supporters during the period from 1865 to the compromise of 1876: the first free, universal public education in the country, an early ‘war on poverty’. The supporters who can South during that period included former abolitionists and others who had made great sacrifices in the war for emancipation. The compromise of 1876 marked the final turning of the Republican party of Lincoln to support for big business, and military suppression of labor strikes in the North and Indian uprising in the Dakotas and elsewhere.<br /> DuBois writes that when the compromise withdrew the Union troops protecting the Reconstruction government, the southern white working class and yeoman farmers were faced with a historic choice between progress and the Klan.<br /> Let’s revisit that history and hope that a better choice is made this time.</p> I don’t like McAuliffe either, but please stop perpetuating the historical slander of Reconstruction by referring to people as ‘carpetbaggers’ and ’scalawags’. Read Foner or DuBois on Reconstruction. There is enormous ignorance of that history, but I think any serious reader will be amazed at the accomplishments of Freedmen and Northern supporters during the period from 1865 to the compromise of 1876: the first free, universal public education in the country, an early ‘war on poverty’. The supporters who can South during that period included former abolitionists and others who had made great sacrifices in the war for emancipation. The compromise of 1876 marked the final turning of the Republican party of Lincoln to support for big business, and military suppression of labor strikes in the North and Indian uprising in the Dakotas and elsewhere.
DuBois writes that when the compromise withdrew the Union troops protecting the Reconstruction government, the southern white working class and yeoman farmers were faced with a historic choice between progress and the Klan.
Let’s revisit that history and hope that a better choice is made this time.

]]> By: sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606082 sunshine Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:48:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606082 <p>Yes, she knew the baby was Down syndrome during pregnancy.</p> <blockquote><p>Gov. Sarah Palin was back at work today, holding a meeting on the natural gas pipeline three days after giving birth to her fifth child.</p> <p>Palin and her husband, Todd, showed the baby, Trig Paxson Van Palin, to a few reporters and talked about the sooner-than-expected delivery. </p> <p>Trig arrived about a month early and has Down syndrome, the governor confirmed. Testing during early pregnancy revealed the condition. Palin said she was sad at first but they now feel blessed that God chose them. The couple has lots of family support, she said.</p></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/382560.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/382560.html</a></p> Yes, she knew the baby was Down syndrome during pregnancy.

Gov. Sarah Palin was back at work today, holding a meeting on the natural gas pipeline three days after giving birth to her fifth child.

Palin and her husband, Todd, showed the baby, Trig Paxson Van Palin, to a few reporters and talked about the sooner-than-expected delivery.

Trig arrived about a month early and has Down syndrome, the governor confirmed. Testing during early pregnancy revealed the condition. Palin said she was sad at first but they now feel blessed that God chose them. The couple has lots of family support, she said.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/382560.html

]]> By: Teddy Partridge http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606063 Teddy Partridge Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:41:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606063 <p>Run, Terry, run. </p> <p>If for no other reason than to put paid to your political career, such as it is. Time to go back to earning a real living, Terry. Or go live on an island somewhere.</p> <p>Sorry, Virginia, but you may have to do the dirty deed for us. Nothing would please me more than to see Terry McAnus come in third in a Virginia primary, as I am sure he would.</p> <p>Can you say Harris Miller? I thought you could.</p> Run, Terry, run.

If for no other reason than to put paid to your political career, such as it is. Time to go back to earning a real living, Terry. Or go live on an island somewhere.

Sorry, Virginia, but you may have to do the dirty deed for us. Nothing would please me more than to see Terry McAnus come in third in a Virginia primary, as I am sure he would.

Can you say Harris Miller? I thought you could.

]]> By: sunshine http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606060 sunshine Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:39:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606060 <p>Because of her anti choice stance on abortion we can and should discuss it.</p> Because of her anti choice stance on abortion we can and should discuss it.

]]> By: Badwater http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606042 Badwater Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:33:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606042 <p>But, but, but her running mate was a POW…</p> But, but, but her running mate was a POW…

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606038 demi Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:32:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606038 <p>Oh, sorry, you were just “wondering”. Ha!</p> Oh, sorry, you were just “wondering”. Ha!

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606035 demi Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:31:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606035 <p>First of all, why do you care and secondly, it’s happens. Some people still get some. OMG. I just think it’s interesting to read some of the way out comments here.</p> First of all, why do you care and secondly, it’s happens. Some people still get some. OMG. I just think it’s interesting to read some of the way out comments here.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606022 cinnamonape Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:26:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/29/terry-mccarpetbagger/#comment-1606022 <p>I’m wondering…she is 44. That’s a bit on the high end of one’s normal reproductive life. Did she use a fertility clinic?</p> I’m wondering…she is 44. That’s a bit on the high end of one’s normal reproductive life. Did she use a fertility clinic?

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