It would perhaps be easier for Barack Obama to appoint Southerners to his cabinet if, when he appointed Southerners, they didn’t stop counting as Southerners because they said “soda” once.
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No one could have foreseen that places which fly the Confederate flag would be left out in the cold when a black man is elected president.
I like the STOP ABORTION ON DEMAND ad right below this post.
My question: are we stopping it on demand, or is the abortion on demand being stopped? Because I rather enjoy the idea of pausing an abortion mid-procedure to go answer the phone or get snacks, or even rewinding to the best parts.
See, I’ve been reading it like, “Stop! Abortion on demand!”. As in, “Hey,you! Check out this amazing sale we’re having on abortions!”.
Forget the Southerners, how many Butteocks are there in Obama’s cabinet? Zero. Those of us from Butte are incensed!
Wow… that’s quite a story. The republican right is being asked to reach out to those on “the far left”—that is to say, centrists (neither they nor the actual near or far left would see them as leftists, and both would take it as something of an insult)—
—and unsurprisingly is responding with their well-known characteristic humility and grace.
Ron Kirk is from Dallas, but I guess he doesn’t count because he’s black.
Real True Southerners come from, where exactly?
I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. I say “y’all.” If me made me Undersecretary of Perennial Floral Agriculture or Overseer of our Strategic Equine Reserves or something, am I a “Southern” appointment?
Most of the country thinks of Missouri as Southern. It was a slave state (well, everything except St. Louis.)
I say Missouri, not Missuruh, that might make a difference.
of course, it’s a moving goalposts series of bullshit, since saying “the guy from texas and the former first lady of Arkansas don’t count because we don’t want them to” means appointing Strom Thurmond wouldn’t count because he’s a representitive of Necrotic-Americans, which is reflective of the current south.
“No one could have foreseen that places which fly the Confederate flag would be left out in the cold when a black man is elected president.”
WIN!
What they mean is southerners who are appointed becuase they’re southern, rather than because Obama thinks they’re the best people for the job. After all, if a black man won’t commit himself to tokenism for shiftless whites, what’s the country coming to?
Well, good riddance. We don’t need people advising our president who refer to carbonated beverages as “pop” or “Coke” even when it’s not a Coca-Cola product. First they give the wrong name for a drink, next thing you know we have another soda war on our hands!
“Strom Thurmond wouldn’t count because he’s a representitive of Necrotic-Americans
I think that they prefer to be called “vitaly-chalanged americans”
texas is BORDERLINE south? oh el oh el. i was misled all these years…where the hell do i live, then???
oh and sarah, pop, seriously? are you 80? it’s coke, whatever it is. ;p
Maybe “Stop abortion on demand” means “allow it at random, perhaps by lottery.”
As for Southerners not getting enough attention, boo freakin’ hoo. The South has been over-represented in government for more than a century. Let ‘em cool their heels for a few years.
Saying Clinton isn’t southern is laughable. She lived in Arkansas for *decades*. It’s like saying I’m not southern because I’ve been going to law school in Indiana, after spending the first 24 years of my life in Arkansas.
Maybe it’s some form of the the one-drop rule. One year living outside the south, and you’re a damn yankee.
Minnesotans say “pop,” too, and it is hardly a bastion of the South.
What I don’t get is why other regions of the country, especially if so narrowly defined, don’t get to insist on representation as much as the South. After all, not having a southerner on the presidential/VP ticket is apparently a huge slight and big risk, and the Democrats only got away with it this year because of the composition of the Republican ticket. (By “getting away with it” I mean it not causing a lasting storm in the media. I don’t think it’s that McCain’s pick wasn’t a southerner that was the fatal flaw in his campaign.) Who speaks for the Pacific Northwest, etc.?
Fuck this shit. I am so damn happy my President doesn’t drawl anymore.
You Southerners LOST. You are LOSERS. You fucked the country up and got your asses handed to you. You don’t get to sit at the big table “just because” anymore. LOSERS. Losing means you don’t get to dictate the terms or get all upset b/c YOU LOST and no one’s rewarding you anyway.
And just imagine that. A Yankee candidate puts more fellow Yankees in his cabinet and keeps his previous Yankee advisers on instead of just turning them in for drawling yes-(wo)men.
Notorious PAT won the thread early on, though.
Caren, chill the fuck out, okay? There’s the assholes and there’s everybody else. Don’t let your justifiable rage with the assholes mislead you into treating everybody else like an asshole, too—I know it’s hard with those addled damyankee brains, but do please try, won’t you?
Besides which, Bush ain’t Southern. Texas is a whole ‘nother thing.
Hello! Anyone care to remember that Delaware is, according to culture and US Census data, a southern state? So, actually, of all the major candidates for Prez and VP in 2008 the only southerner involved… won!
Besides which, Bush ain’t Southern. Texas is a whole ‘nother thing.
And Connecticut is even more of another thing.
West Texas, where Bush is from, is not southern. It’s Southwestern. If he was from Houston, you could make an argument. But Midland? No. That’s like calling New Mexico “southern”.
Believe it or not, the GOP has never nominated an actual Southerner for President, ever.
“Southerners need not apply,” said Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. “It’s hard to believe that there wasn’t anybody qualified for something from the South.”
No, it’s not. The majority of white southerners have supported Republicans for years, and before that, racist Democrats. Ipso facto, the majority of white southerners are dumber than a box of rocks, including Rep. Kingston.
FWIW, I’m from Michigan, currently living in Columbus, Ohio, and as far as I’m concerned the “The South” starts just south of Toledo. The “Deep South” is anything south of Dayton.
So from my perspective (obviously the only one that counts), Obama has plenty of southerners in his administration.
We don’t need people advising our president who refer to carbonated beverages as “pop” or “Coke” even when it’s not a Coca-Cola product.
Hate to break it to you, but I’m sure our new president says “pop.” It’s a Midwest thing.
stop counting as Southerners because they said “soda” once.
Oh, good—I relinquished my Southern status years ago and didn’t even notice it. Although being a Democrat probably took care of that as well.
Southerners can kiss my booty! The Westerners are the REAL Southerners!
To be clear, west Texas is where G.W. Bush claims to be from. He spent most of his years between 0 and 25 in the northeast at the Bush Compound in Maine, at prep school, and then Yale. (There is a famous picture of the Bush ‘residence’ in Houston: a vacant lot with a chain across the front.) Then he came down to Midland, wasted a shitload of other people’s money drilling dry holes before going on to a stint as front-office figurehead for a terrible baseball team, losing in a bid for a seat in the House of Representatives before finally succeeding at his run for governor by being a) Republican and male and b) implying at every opportunity that Ann Richards (who is still fucking missed) was a big fat dyke. His claim to being from Texas is as spurious as Cheney’s was to being from Wyoming.
I dunno, Jesse, I think we really really need to listen to what people like Jack Kingston have to say. If he tells the AP that Obama is an anti-Southern bigot, he’s probably right—after all, he was right about Obama refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance and about Michelle not having any pride in her country. I hope the Associated Press continues to rely on Kingston for objective coverage of the Obama Administration’s many failures.