LONG BEACH, Ind. - Like many towns across America, the exclusive lakefront community where Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. grew up during the racially turbulent 1960s and '70s once banned the sale of homes to nonwhites and Jews.
Know this, the left is seeking any and everything they can to discredit this nominee. In fact, they are frantically grasping at air to get anything possible to use as a weak and feeble excuse to stall and eventually block the vote. Dig, dig. Pry, pry.
But so far, nothing is what they have found.
Yet, anytime something that could possibly be mildly construed as negative, it gets written about as if this guy has been out knocking off gas stations, taking bribes, or some other such thing.
One word sums it all up. Desperation. And that, it is.
Criticizing someone because he was fortunate to live in an upscale community is bad enough. Criticizing him because of something the grown-ups that lived in that community may have done, is worse yet. Assigning responsibility to a 15 year old teen for living there, is absolutely ridiculous. How many of you were allowed to decide where you lived, when you were fifteen?
Just three miles from the nearly all-white community of Long Beach, two days of looting and vandalism erupted when Roberts was 15, barely intruding on the Mayberry-like community that was largely insulated from the racial strife of that era.
Maybe we can do a case study of the community Ted Kennedy lived in when he was fifteen. I wonder, just how many African-Americans and how many Jews lived there, then?
2 comments:
Good point about Teddy's teenage community. Let's see...Maybe an African-American maid or butler?
I highly doubt that any Jew were present, however, because Old Joe hated Jews. He lost his chance politically when he supported Nazism and FDR had to cut him off.
But that's irrelevent AOW.
Teddy has fought for the poor, the minorities, and the severely disadvantaged. (Between drunken binges to kill the pain of both his, and his father's past sins.)
;)
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