This week, a bit of a digression: We'll continue our look at the Age of Reagan next week, but today, we'll follow one of our textbooks off on an astonishing side track that seems mostly to exist because Bob Jones University is located in South Carolina. In its chapter on the Reagan years, our BJU Press text for 11/12th grade,
Interesting that he should mention swimming pools. It was well known at the time that blahs couldn't swim, but I suppose that wouldn't prevent them from looking at white women.
Yeah, that's great BJU that you are proud of your local political hero, but my local political hero beat up your local political hero in 1948 (with votes).
<i>&quot;Most politicians run for the presidency as the culmination of their careers...&quot;</i>
Republicans are fond of politicians who start their political career with a presidential run. Herman Cain, Gary Bauer, Donald Trump, Alan Keyes, Dwight Eisenhower.
Notice it doesn&#039;t say <i>whose </i>heart.
Strom loved blacks almost as much as Jesse Helms loved the gays.
I hate to say this, but we may need more beer.
Or, possibly, Fielding Centre?
<a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ntkC-o52weI" target="_blank">Blasphemy!</a>
No hagiography of Robert Byrd or haven&#039;t we gotten to that yet?
Interesting that he should mention swimming pools. It was well known at the time that blahs couldn&#039;t swim, but I suppose that wouldn&#039;t prevent them from looking at white women.
Pre-Senator Al Franken imitating Strom Thurmond after the news broke about his mixed-race daughter:
&quot;The pecker knows no bigotry.&quot;
So the Dems favored an &quot;anti-lynching&quot; law? No wonder Thurmond was so fired up about states&#039; rights!
Yeah, that&#039;s great BJU that you are proud of your local political hero, but my local political hero beat up your local political hero in 1948 (with votes).
Strom Thurmond: Once you go black, you <i>can</i> go back!
The <strike>pecker</strike> heart wants what the <strike>pecker</strike> heart wants.
Changing just enough to stay in office isn&#039;t heroism; in a conservative it&#039;s called Leadership.
And deceiving those who want to be deceived.
I thought that papal bull was explicitly overridden a couple of centuries after the Fourth Crusade went so hilariously wrong.
<i>&quot;Most politicians run for the presidency as the culmination of their careers...&quot;</i>
Republicans are fond of politicians who start their political career with a presidential run. Herman Cain, Gary Bauer, Donald Trump, Alan Keyes, Dwight Eisenhower.