Jesse Helms Love Fest

[LaWood]

Of course our own ex guv. Huckabuck had to lead the chorus. I'm glad this is from another source cause in 2-3 years someone would think I made this stuff up.

"Yesterday, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee appeared on Fox News’s Hannity and Colmes to talk about Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) lack of “convictions.” Huckabee held up the late conservative senator Jesse Helms as an example of someone Obama should aspire to be:

HUCKABEE: Well, Americans have consistently rejected the George McGoverns and the Michael Dukakises, the people who clearly and unapologetically are out there on the left — the Walter Mondales who said, I’m going to raise your taxes.

Jesse Helms CONvictions included:

Helms once called Martin Luther King, Jr. a “sex pervert” and a “Communist” and staged a filibuster against making his birthday a federal holiday. He fought against funding AIDS research because he said the disease resulted from “unnatural” and “disgusting” homosexual behavior. He also waged vicious campaigns exploiting racial tensions. One ad he helped create demagogued, “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories?”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/08/huc ... lms-obama/

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Some people see things the way they are and ask why. Some people see things the way they could be and ask why not. Some people see things they want them to be and swear they're true.