Paul Begala has ROFL line on Stepanie Miller's Show

[RamboLiberal]

Paraphrasing: Obama's Grandma is voting in heaven and the lines are short cause there are very few Republicans.

Great discussion on it's almost Shakespearean on how she almost saw him to the Promised Land. That winning VA where her daughter's wedding would not have been legal even when Barack was young would be justice and show how far this county has come in a lifetime.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. That's a keeper!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[cliffordu]

2. Call him up and give him a DuZY!!!

[Shardik]

3. LOL! Off to the GREATEST page with this!

Spot on, Paul.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. That's a keeper

LOL!!

[Mabus]

5. My parents got married in Kansas because of miscegenation laws

and two years later, my brother, the first of us ten miscegenated kids was born. ;)

My white Kansas dad met my Arapaho Oklahoma mom in South Carolina when both of them were in service. Dad was a DI on Parris Island and mom a WAC finishing up her service in Georgia. After not finding a lot of places that would allow them to continue their courtship, they gave up and decided to just get married. Mom got an early discharge and they headed to Kansas to get married.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Loving v. Virginia didn't get overturned until 1967

I was still in High School in Northern Virginia that had been integrated for years with mixed dating.
So many thought the law was insane.

Loving v. Virginia

The plaintiffs, Mildred Loving (Dnee Mildred Delores Jeter, a woman of African and Rappahannock Native American descent, 1939 – May 2, 2008 and Richard Perry Loving (a white man, October 29, 1933 – June 1975), were residents of the Commonwealth of Virginia who had been married in June 1958 in the District of Columbia, having left Virginia to evade the Racial Integrity Act, a state law banning marriages between any white person and any non-white person.

Upon their return to Caroline County, Virginia, they were charged with violation of the ban. They were caught sleeping in their bed by a group of police officers who had invaded their home in the hopes of finding them in the act of sex (another crime). In their defense, Ms. Loving had pointed to a marriage certificate on the wall in their bedroom.

That, instead of defending them, became the evidence the police needed for a criminal charge since it showed they had been married in another state. Specifically, they were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia, and Section 20-59, which classified "miscegenation" as a felony punishable by a prison sentence of between one and five years.

On January 6, 1959, the Lovings pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year in prison, with the sentence suspended for 25 years on condition that the couple leave the state of Virginia.


The U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 overturned the convictions in a unanimous decision, dismissing the Commonwealth of Virginia's argument that a law forbidding both white and black persons from marrying persons of another race, and providing identical penalties to white and black violators, could not be construed as racially discriminatory. The court ruled that Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute violated both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.


Despite this Supreme Court ruling, such laws remained on the books, although unenforced, in several states until 2000, when Alabama became the last state to repeal its law against mixed-race marriage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia

[Mabus]

9. Know the case well

I studied it in both Family Law and Con Law. When the ruling was handed down I was 6 and my parents talked to us about it while we were growing up. fwiw, a month before the case was argued I had another brother.

[misanthrope]

10. Interracial marriage ban was on the books in Alabama until 2000...

...when it was overturned by a vote of 58% to 42%. Leading the charge against repealing the ban was a leader of a Confederate heritage group...but remember, "it's heritage, not hate."

Actaully, a movement within the last decade to remove the Alabama constitution's technical enforcement of segregated schools failed, opposed by those who equated the repeal with higher taxes.

[JJ]

13. Heritage of hate, I think

[wildflowergardener]

6. Uh oh

Does that mean she's voting twice? I read she'd already voted absentee.

: )

Meg

[OwnedByFerrets]

7. Gotta Love Begala!!

[Syrinx]

11. he's amusing

But keep in mind he's the same guy that mocked Howard Dean's idea of a fifty-state strategy.

[Orrex]

14. Yeah, Begala's a stopped clock, that's for sure

When he's good, he's very very good. But most of the time he's kind of meh.

[Joe the Liberal]

12. ZING! Lol nt