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still_one

(92,489 posts)
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 09:45 PM Mar 2013

Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South. Hmm, didnt't they have the same issue with the civil

rights act?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/30/obamacare-block_n_2985587.html

"ATLANTA — As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states."

What is the matter with the South? When will the time come when they step into this century instead of living into the past.

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Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South. Hmm, didnt't they have the same issue with the civil (Original Post) still_one Mar 2013 OP
evidently it is better to get sick and die than go along with a black president nt msongs Mar 2013 #1
Yes they had problems and still have problems dealing with AFA being passed under a Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #2
I think so, because this was very close to the republican plan used in Mass, and against Hillary's still_one Mar 2013 #3
The south is a solid block against progress in general. nt geek tragedy Mar 2013 #4
because for all of Gen lee's posturing DonCoquixote Mar 2013 #5

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Yes they had problems and still have problems dealing with AFA being passed under a
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:12 PM
Mar 2013

Black president, if Bush would have gotten it passed hell nor high water would not have stopped those yelling so loud today. Probably those yelling the loudest are on Medicare or getting close to that time but it is mostly about Obama. I look to the next decade sensible people will wonder why it took so long to get this accomplished.

still_one

(92,489 posts)
3. I think so, because this was very close to the republican plan used in Mass, and against Hillary's
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:21 PM
Mar 2013

plan. This is due to racism period


DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
5. because for all of Gen lee's posturing
Sat Mar 30, 2013, 10:37 PM
Mar 2013

The Confederacy did nto stop fighting in 1865. I seriously won der if "malice toward none, charity for all" was Lincoln's great mistake, as all it did was enable the KKK to become the de facto CSA.

If ther CSA ever happens again, this time, hang the equivalent of Jeffdavis and Robert E Lee.

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