As Long As I’m On Politics…
Just a comment on Virginia. We now have Bob McDonnell as governor who’s celebrating the Confederacy for the whole month of April (one day wouldn’t do!) while trying to avoid the messy issue that the Confederacy was formed to fight FOR slavery. What strange worldview and mindset is this guy from when he thinks this sort of racist behavior is appropriate?
Either he’s very ignorant of a key part of our country’s and our state’s history, or he’s a racist and liar. In either case he’s not fit to be govenor.
And then there’s the Virginia Attorney General. He’s planning to sue the US government about health care reform. Health care reform is supported by the majority of Americans in poll after poll. The Virginia demographics are reasonably representative of the country and it’s reasonable to assume that the national polls on health care reform are mirrored in the state. So Ken Cuccinelli is subverting the will of the people that he represents in suing the federal government.
Cuccinelli and McDonnell are also using the state government to rescind and rollback protections for gays. That’s what they started with when they got into office.
So in a few short years Virginia has gone from an up and coming cosmopolitan state to a racist southern holdout fighting against it’s own best interests.