Haley Barbour’s been a jerk his whole life.

Barbour knows exactly who he’s playing to. We live in a right-wing media induced era of one-upmanship (or one-downmanship) in stupidity and craziness, a race to the bottom in rhetoric designed to be completely devoid of intelligence, integrity or sensitivity.
This is what we crave in our leaders, because it’s what we are programmed to crave by an oligarchy who know that a leaderless population are easy to dominate and strip of its assets.
Any leader emerging to prominence who does not fit that description is first vilified, then co-opted.
Having all the money in the world makes it easy to get things done, but also makes all the money in the world seem like not enough.

Haley Barbour will never be president.  Making statements like he has
guarantees they’ll define his campaign; he’ll be turned into a freak show.

Barbour hopes that if he can revise the history of the south, people won’t hold
it against him, especially Mississippi.  If he wants to debate it, there are plenty
of historians who would be glad to share their research with him.

Even the Clintons indulged in racial innuendos until they got caught.  Hillary
Clinton’s “as far as I know,” is the same thing as “well, that’s what he’s said.” 
Scare people, make them doubt Obama’s heritage, his religion, his loyalties.

As a firm progressive, I am no longer an Obama enthusiast.  He knows
progressives have abandoned him, but thinks that if he centers enough, he’ll
get get independents and enough progressives who just couldn’t tolerate
another Bush.  Perhaps.  But people have been pretty battered these past few
years; I don’t think they’ll tolerate much more.

At age 63 and having met numerous people in and from different parts of this nation I regret to have to say that with few exceptions white, “conservative”, evangelical protestants are for the most part white supremacists and intolerant of any group or culture unlike their own. Of course, as in all things, some are more virulent or demonstrative in their prejudices than others but if one scratches the surface, a true red, white, and blue bigot will appear! This tendency supercedes political party or geographic region although the tendency is ridiculously pervasive in what continues to exist as the confederacy!

As a politician, Governor Haley Barbour might want to pander to the many Neo-Confederates and white separatists who comprise a sizeable constituency, especially among Republicans, in his state, but this does not mean he isn’t a racist himself. We cannot reasonably expect any present Republican politician to be so bold as to denounce a white supremacist war criminal,as white supremacist war criminals are the models of highest aspiration among white Southerners. The kind of leadership needed to guide Neo-Confederates away from hate and ignorance does not exist among Republicans.

When the upper class holds all the resources and money, and the middle class has to work to earn money to eat and pay the bills issued by the opper class, there has to be an under class to take care of the middle class kids while their parents work.
  In the case of the post-war South, this was the situation.  Result?  Many white middle class kids grew up to school age loving the black underclass men and particularly women who took care of them kindly and lovingly, and the little black kids they played with while their parents worked.
  Those little white kids grew up with conflicted but unacknowledged feelings:  They observed from daily experience that the people they loved who took care of them, they felt closer to than their parents, but their parents didn’t love these black “servants”—didn’t treat them equally, didn’t cross “the color line”, Furthermore, if asked, the white adults refused to admit any line existed. The truth was largely unspoken.
  These kids, now grown up, are the majority of the Southern adult population.  Their heads are full of un-asked and un-answered questions.  Emotional confusion reigns unacknowledged and misunderstood.
The North makes enough mistakes to entitle it to be blamed.
  Psychiatrists for Social Responsibility have their work cut out for them—after they get through with
closing Guantanamo, reforming the prison system, and
keeping an eye on Bradley Manning’s solitary confinement. Correct me if I’m wrong.

As someone who has traveled through the south extensively in the past 30 years, I can tell everyone that there is no reason to re-right the history books of Dixie, for they never changed. For many honkeys in the deep south and southwest, The civil war was a draw, the voting rights act was just northern agression, and the KKK is a social club like the masons or kiwanis. Barry being elected prez was for them the biggest “I told you so” coming true. One of those “uppity northern blacks” gettin’ all high and mighty with that college learnin’ and thinkin’ their better than us.

With that said, Haley stands a good chance in this repug field, because as far as dixie is concerned, there are only 2 republican candidates, Barbour and the pin-head Huckabee. Just remember, no other current repug will play in the south. Palin, let’s face it, in the south if its gots boobs, it aint gots brains (besides, ain’t no woman gonna tell me what to do) Pawlenty? carpetbagger. And poor Mitt Romney. They wouldn’t vote for him even if he wasn’t a member of that devil worshipping religion. Folks, it’s these sort of delicate sensabilities and grasp of social issues that gave us eight years of W.

Jebus! I am glad I am only 47! I may just live long enough to see the begining of the new dark ages.

The enter South fought for secession, yet only 22% of the whites in the south
owned slaves.  To label all of the south as slave owners is just as dishonest as
disregarding the free blacks that owned slaves and the white slaves that also
existed.  Slavery was and always will be a fact in our history.  Haley did not
indicate that it did not exist and probably should have limited his recollections to
his own history.

It absolutely is a game, Eugene. A cynical interchangeability of truth and falsehood. An imperialist end that always justifies the means. The Republicans are channeling Goebbels when the hammer the media with outrageous assertions and conspicuous lies, news cycle upon news cycle. People hear it so often, it becomes truth for too many. These modern conservatives believe deeply in the stupidity of Americans. They are betting the bank on this. It is likewise clear why they subvert education at every turn. It’s their modus operandi, after all. Some decades ago, in the sixties, too many blue-collar types and minorities got to go to college. Look what trouble that caused. Clinton! Planned Parenthood! Can’t let that happen again. The neo-con dream to take over the world. Mercy. People like Barbour don’t need political office-they need therapy.

Well the unhidden bigotry is not an exposure just a given coming from Mississippi! (actually spelled it without looking it up)

Now if I had only know before hand Obama was going to shuck what he touted during the campaign, though I knew he was a war hawk, one action before he became president which seemed a clear indicator should have been his dumping of Reverend Right plus the way he did it should have been a clear indicator of Obamas moldy irk. Now indicator of this Moron from Mississippi is clearly a given!

I can see it now, the transition from the birther, half black president who is clearly a Muslim to a racist KKK supporter, (Evangelical?) .....Nice! What ever happened to Palin, I prefer witch craft, I love the choices!

Though I prefer being sold down the river by someone who I know is going to do it, Obama has turned out a disappointment, maybe I will vote for the Mississippi moron, at least I know where I will be going before hand.