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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (151425)1/8/2009 4:25:47 PM
From: Brumar894 Recommendations  Respond to of 173976
 
Bobby Rush says you're a scumbag just covering up for racism:

Rush, a Chicago Democrat, called the Senate "the last bastion of plantation politics."

"We are just faced with a hard-headed room of people in the Senate who want to keep an African-American out of the Senate," Rush said.
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Reid urged Blagojevich to appoint either Illinois Veterans Affairs chief Tammy Duckworth or Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.
huffingtonpost.com


Harry Reid would have seated Madigan or Duckworth if they'd been nominated. They are both white. Reid has also said Jesse Jackson and Valerie Jarrett were unacceptable.

What do you call it when white nominees are acceptable but black ones aren't?