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Breakfast Scramble (Thursday)

DavidL's Breakfast Scramble
Crying Clyburn, James Clyburn is hearing voices, yet again, from Michael O’Brien, Hill [1]:

Clyburn said that Palin didn’t grasp why such rhetoric was so troubling, regardless of the motivations of the alleged shooter. The No. 3 House Democrat referenced the civil rights era and said that some of the shrill rhetoric in modern politics is reminiscent of that time.

“I have some experiences that maybe she does not have,” he said. “When I see and hear things today that are reminiscent of that period of time, I am very, very concerned about it, because I know what it led to back then, and I know what it can lead to again.”

Grasp this Jimmy, nobody called you nigger that fateful day you walked through the tea party crowd to vote for Obama Care.   The experience Clyburn has that Palin does not, is telling outright lies on the public stage.

Rising Cain? From Christian Boone, Atlanta Journal-Constitution [2]:

Atlanta businessman and conservative activist Herman Cain announced Wednesday he was launching a presidential exploratory committee, bringing him one step closer to a bid for the GOP nomination in 2012.

“We are now going to test the waters for voter support and financial support,” Cain told Fox News’ Mario Cavuto Wednesday afternoon

KKK sinking, the death throes of the former Kennedy Congressional Klan, from Robert Kennedy, Jr, Puffinogton Post [3]:

The Dallas, Texas, airwaves were particularly radioactive; preachers and political leaders and local businessmen spewed extremist vitriol on the city’s radio and TV stations, inflaming the passions of the city’s legions of unhinged fanatics. There was something about the city — a rage or craziness, that, whether sensible or not, seemed to have set the stage for Jack’s murder. The Voice of America, half an hour after the assassination, described Dallas as “the center of extreme right wing.” The Texas town was such a seething cauldron of right-wing depravity that historian William Manchester portrayed it as recalling the final days of the Weimar Republic. “Mad things happened,” reported Manchester. “Huge billboards screamed ‘Impeach Earl Warren.'” Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas. Fanatical young matrons swayed in public to the chant “Stevenson’s going to die — his heart will stop stop stop and he will burn burn burn!” The mercantile elite that ruled the city carefully cultivated the seeds of hate. Radical-right broadsides were distributed in public schools; the Kennedy name was booed in classrooms; junior executives who refused to attend radical seminars were blackballed and fired. Manchester continued

What ever was, or was not, on the Dallas, Texas airwaves in November 1963 did not kill President John F.  Kennedy.     A bullet from a communist sympathizer, named Lee Harvey Oswald did.    I’d say t that Bobby Jr. forget, but when you learn your history at the Kennedy family dinner table,  you probably never knew in the first place.