How desperately does Haley Barbour want to be president?

:rofl:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47470.html

Haley Barbour: Build civil rights museum



By GABRIEL BELTRONE & JUANA SUMMERS | 1/11/11 10:52 PM EST Updated: 1/12/11 7:23 AM EST

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour wants state lawmakers to help him build a Civil Rights museum in downtown Jackson, as he attempts to move past rhetorical slip-ups that have landed him in hot water when he talks about issues of race . Barbour, a two-term governor and potential GOP presidential candidate, made the appeal during his final state of the state address Tuesday evening, just a few weeks after he found himself on the defensive for comments that seemed to minimize the racial strife of southern segregation and the civil rights movement.

“The civil rights struggle is an important part of our history, and millions of people are interested in learning more about it,” Barbour said Tuesday, in an address that was mostly dedicated to defining and defending the legacy of his administration. “People from around the world would flock to see the museum and learn about the movement.” he said. “I urge you to move this museum forward as an appropriate way to do justice to the Civil Rights Movement and to stand as a monument of remembrance and reconciliation.”

Barbour said now is a good time to move forward on the museum project because this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s opening salvos. The museum project was first proposed in 2007, but stalled over location and funding issues. During an interview with The Weekly Standard late last year, Barbour recalled the civil rights era as not being “that bad,” and credited white Citizens Councils in his hometown of Yazoo City for helping ease the process of school integration. Outcry was fierce against what many saw as a rose-colored interpretation of the country’s racial history and especially of the Citizens Councils, which Barbour later called “totally indefensible.”

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What an enormous tool.

Infuckingcredible.

Haley Barbour began desperately to back and fill to produce a "legacy".

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

will "whitewash" old Haley. (No pun intended)

:)

The most formiddable candidate they have right now is Huckabee. Romney and/or Giuliani would also be tough.

I don't see the U.S. electorate choosing Caribou Barbie, Boss Hogg, or Newt Gingrich.

one for whites and one for "coloreds".

Hmmm? You can run, but you can't hide.

As a Mississippian I say,

HEAVEN FORBID A PRESIDENT BARBOUR! What a boob. What a big, fat racist slob. Get him out of the public eye as soon as possible. In the Clarion-Ledger the other day someone suggested he defeat Thad Cochran because Cochran is such great Mississippi earmarker. For God's sake, that's what keeps getting the great earmarker re-elected My mother taught Thad in fifth grade and he was still fighting the Civil War back then. Someday I hope to get out of this terrible state. Strangers in stores come up to me and start deriding Obama, as though by being white I'm naturally a white racist, too.