of when PRESIDENT OBAMA and Speaker John Boehner were good buds - perhaps just sharing a smoke, but still..............

retirement. It was well done and they both had fun..

he can't be a racist - Hmmmmmmmmm!

What I have come to believe is that people may have hard racial feelings toward a stranger of another race, but not a relative that is at least half that other race (in the case of most African Americans, if they have a child with a person that is white (<90%), the child will likely be mostly White (<50%) because most AA that descended from slaves are already mixed). I think Meadows sees his nieces and nephews at family functions and they are not others, they are family, so his harder racial feelings get set aside.

or ethnicity their perceptions may begin to change. The change may be incremental and not a complete reversal, but this is why it's important to note that prejudices can go away when people who live, work, befriend the "others" begin to see that most humans are more alike on a very basic level than they are different.

"It's stupid to hate people for the color of their skin, when if you spend just five minutes talking to them, you'll find plenty of valid reasons to hate them."

Racism viewed through the eyes of a misanthrope.

He was once a passionate, outspoken (of course, it's Dennis Miller) advocate for liberals and liberal policy. His views were always tinted with wry humor and more than a little cynicism, but he once made no bones about the fact that it's conservatives who are the bad guys.

He did a hard-turn to the right after 9/11, and never came back. I shouldn't have been surprised by that; my dad did the same thing, although I was relieved to learn before he died in 2009 that he had cast his last Presidential vote ever for Barack Obama.

... to protect him... Much like Nichole Wallace had when she found out Russians were involved with electing Red Don
Miller never came back around

“Very few people know this, BUT I have blah blah”

Why few people? And why use the word BUT instead of the word THAT?

campaigning for segregation and other racist policy.

A really odd pair!

I heard accounts that he was always there with a shoulder for Ted to lean on when needed. Bizzarre given that they were polar opposites politically.

when Kennedy died.

Yeah, couldn't have been more opposite in every way.

When I saw Orrin Hatch praising Trump as the "greatest president", all I could think is "What would Ted say?" I probably said out loud to the TV screen at the time!

Hatch got Teddy to join AA.

...Meadows is a pos.

He’s wise and good

...that Cummings went out of his way at the end of the hearing to say Meadows is "one of his best friends".

This gesture lends weight to Meadows' so-called point---(I paraphrase)--'Cohen is lying about Trump's racism 'cuz look, he hired this here Black Woman"---and by extension so did Cohen lie about many things. It helps paint Cohen as a liar when he said Trump is a cheat, a con and ---a racist. We all know he is!

Meadows, as I understand it is an ardent Trump supporter. I don't understand friendships like this--given that Trump is a demonstrated racist and if Meadows supports him.....that's a problem. I might also see the humanity in him but would never ever be his "best friend" nor undercut a Black Woman who called him out.

They view their counterparts across the aisle as basically decent human beings with differences in opinion. That may have been the case in the past, but not any longer. The GOP actively works against representative government. They believe & have pushed policies that prove this belief, that only some people deserve to vote - mostly white, rich people. The dems need to see the GOP as the enemy & not just colleagues with a different opinion. This is a fight for a government of, by, & for the People.

They've given us plenty of evidence that they want to select their own voters and will do what it takes to gain and keep power.

when she was commenting, so I don't understand why he took it so personally unless----. Also, why did he have to mention that so few people know he has a racially mixed family?

I wonder how the situation would have finished up with a GOP chairperson. Thank you, Mr. Cummings!

He's not a good man.

From Meadows to know the woman should have never apologized. He just proved what a jerk he is, but so was the woman who allowed herself to be used.

Sorry,for me wrong is who ever commits the wrong.

he is.