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Boomer with Attitude / News A crude politician from S.C.? I'm shocked!
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM
It’s no big surprise that it was a Congressman from South Carolina who, to use a term popular in that state, “showed his ass” during President Obama’s speech last night. Acting like a drooling, knuckle-dragging brute is a pre-existing condition for many politicians in my lovely home state. Just because yelling at the President during a speech to Congress is considered comparable to farting loudly in church, that doesn’t bother a certain breed of arrogant, white South Carolina politicians. You can look it up. Don’t forget, this is the state that gave us Lee Atwater, the undisputed modern king of vicious political sleaze — heck, he's the guy who trained Karl Rove in gutter tactics. It was S.C. that gave us Strom Thurmond, who once filibustered a civil rights bill for 24 straight hours in order to keep African-Americans “in their rightful place,” i.e., in his bed, if you're a black woman ... And it gave us Preston Brooks, a Congressman who, in 1854, nearly beat anti-slavery U.S. Sen. Charles Sumner to death with a walking stick. So, yelling at a president? Especially when you apologize for it right away? Pfftt — that’s nothing for politicians in our nearby sister state. Apology or no apology, you can bet Wilson's taking a few high-fives from his buddies today.
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