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The America That Makes John Boehner Nostalgic 1

Dick Polman looks back at the America John Boehner wants back. A nugget:

Boehner was born in 1949. In the America he grew up in, southern blacks got arrested or beaten if they tried to share a luncheonette counter with whites. If they tried to eat at Lester Maddox’s restaurant in Atlanta, he brandished an axe handle and chased them into the street. Up in New York City, jazz great Miles Davis was beaten on the street with a blackjack by a city cop who saw him escorting a white woman to a taxicab. I am proud that America today is a place where such human rights abuses would be unthinkable.

Read the whole thing and ask yourself, do you want that country back?

I don’t.

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  1. Leila Panik

    August 25, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    The GOP are unappreciative of Obama administration’s goodwill. They are now acting like Gangs On Parole. The Obama administration is the best thing that had happen to the GOP. He saved their rear-ends from total extinction. After GW, the GOP was in a disarray and were begging to be rescued from the disastrous eight years of their party. Obama showed them how to walk, talk, and act civil again. Now, the GOP is biting the hands that resuscitate and fed them back to live….!

     
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