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Bush, Clinton & Wallace at a BarBQ in 1983
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Hadn't realized the camera had been invented yet.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)After he got shot and spent the rest of his life in a wheel chair. So this photo isn't about hanging out with a racist.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)to mark the spot where he stood in front of the Univ. doors and said his famous thing about segregation now and forever.
I have seen that podium.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Including Clinton ---let's globalize, everyone will be in high tech, outsource outsource outsource, woo-hoo, economic boom.
Really, fuck him, he sold us out, helped kill unions, he is sitting with his dinosaur (I hope) friends in that pic.
Bucky
(53,953 posts)Clinton was a rookie governor, Wallace had just regained his old job in part by embracing civil rights as an issue, and Bush was the sitting Vice President. Regardless of differences on policies, back then government professionals talked to each other and were able to put work ahead of political posturing.
Let's not superimpose our own modern values of 24 hour hatred and scorn on the behaviors of people from the distant past. If we can forgive Lincoln for being slow to the come to the side of Abolitionism, certainly we can forgive Clinton for drinking a Diet Pepsi when there's a perfectly good Mountain Dew sitting right there in front of him.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Y'all don't get to the same table by accident.
Ya dance with those what brung ya!
If only Clinton's legacy could argue in his favor, but NAFTA, outsourcing, etc., just bring him closer to the source of our current despair.
Guilt by association? No, guilt by his deeds.
Hillary, too. Possibly worse.
xiamiam
(4,906 posts)after the curtain is pulled back, its hard to see it otherwise
Suich
(10,642 posts)Thanks for posting!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)The picture with Reagan was weird too. .
MFM008
(19,803 posts)liberalla
(9,227 posts)Thanks!
a kennedy
(29,618 posts)thanks for posting these, wow.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)clarice
(5,504 posts)IcyPeas
(21,842 posts)I've never seen any of these before. thanks.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)he looks much like the gun toting racisits we see today.
Power hungry brutality never seems to go out of style.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)It was thoroughly enjoyable!!!!!
malaise
(268,725 posts)Thanks
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Now I've seen everything!