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Analysis: SC gov's disappearance a problem for GOP
By BETH FOUHY – 1 hour ago

NEW YORK (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's mysterious disappearance from his state, topped with misinformation from his staff about where he had gone and what he'd been doing, is the latest sign that Republican governors — once thought to be President Obama's most credible adversaries — haven't quite lived up to their billing.

From Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's cringe-inducing nationally televised response to Obama's first budget address to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's suggestion that his state might secede, GOP governors — including those said to be eyeing a potential 2012 presidential bid — haven't exactly looked like the political grown-ups many party strategists had promised.

And none has had a rockier go of it than the party's best-known governor, Alaska's Sarah Palin. The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee has been dogged by ethics complaints and has engaged in public feuds with David Letterman and with Levi Johnston, the former fiance of Palin's teenage daughter, Bristol, and the father of Bristol's infant son.

Palin, whose vice presidential bid sparked a devoted grass-roots following across the country, has also angered GOP leaders in Washington for poor communication and for canceling appearances at party events and fundraisers.

But the latest high-profile fiasco involves Sanford, the Republican Governors Association chairman whose outspoken effort to refuse part of the federal stimulus money due his state has made him a darling of conservatives and fueled talk that he harbors presidential aspirations.

Sanford planned to return to work Wednesday after a six-day absence from South Carolina, during which time his staff said he'd been hiking along the Appalachian Trail.

That information proved incorrect. Sanford emerged at the Atlanta airport Wednesday morning, telling a reporter for The State newspaper that he had traveled to Argentina instead. Sanford said he had told his staff before leaving that he might go on the U.S. hike.

While Sanford's spokesman called the governor's absence an opportunity for him to unwind after a stressful legislative session, his whereabouts were unknown to his security detail, and even his wife said she didn't know.

So odd was the disappearance that Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, another Republican, publicly complained about Sanford's lack of communication.

The 49-year old Sanford has been a fierce critic of Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package, even going to court to block $700 million South Carolina was to receive. He lost the court battle but boosted his national profile, making him a target of attack from national Democratic operatives — many of whom pounced on Sanford's unusual departure.

"Being a chief executive means being on call all the time, and Gov. Sanford either doesn't get that part of the job or can't handle it," Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, scolded.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...

Good Morning All:
Sanford, whateva, whoeva he did while in Argentina, don't care - should be fired (impeached, recalled, something) for going awol on South Carolina. Let me be gone for a week not telling anybody anything. U KNOW!!!
Hasselback - knew they'd leave her alone. Too easy.
Smackdowns - It surprised me that Keith showed Chuck Todd getting his. Just knew he was a company man but like mentioned above re Milbank, every now and then...
Have a good day.

I know how the Prez must feel, you know my posts here get almost the same response as his letter to the Iranians.....
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/24/us-contacted-irans-ayatollah-before-election

The Washington Times huh?? LMAO

It'll be in the Post in a couple weeks

Okay, I really think I wanna go see the new Alice in Wonderland when it comes out, Tim Burton movies tend to be a little strange, but the visuals in the movie are gonna be SICK, and I do love Johnny Depp. See the pics here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/22/johnny...

I love Tim Burton. He is tremendously creative and has great imagination.

I love Tim Burton too. He's wierd as all get out, but that makes for the BEST movies as far as creativity...love him.

Found this over at Ta-Nehisi Coates in the comments about Sanford:

keith June 24, 2009 11:15 AM
Yeah just saw the most amazing thing ever in the history of ever. Ron Christie, former Bush staffer, who never fails to amaze me in his ability to defend all things GOP...had no defense. He was agreeing with Kofinas, and offered no attemp to play down or justify this weird excursion. All eyes will be on Columbia, 2pm e.t. for the press conference.


When Slave Catcher Christie can't defend you....well......

I saw that and went...huh? Ron Christie isn't defending Sanford?

Oh this is so scandalous Ron won't even touch it. lol

WHuh, Ron Christie couldn't defend his Carolina Master? What's up with this? Something ain't right here.

Oat-oh, Ron must be playin cute for the Governor, tryin to make his "massa" angry.

Ron is waiting for Mark to get home and unpack all his leather straps and whips (from his Argentina trip) so that Governor Sanford can beat his ass till his cross-eyes look straight.

"Please Massa, don't tie me to the Palmetto Tree."

"Please Massa, don't tie me to the Palmetto Tree."

LMBAO! I swear you people are going to get me fired.

I thought yesteday was a riot....today is turning out to be just as much fun! Thanks Sanford! Ya ole durty dawg you!

im sorry i know this is wrong
but i can't watch Ron Christie
i can't look straight at him
it's those eyes

It's not just you. . .

We've had some discussion about this; it's okay. And no, the glasses do NOT help.

"those eyes" and those WORDS coming out of his mouth!

neither can i.

Sanford: Appalachians, Argentina, What's The Difference?
By Zachary Roth - June 24, 2009, 8:50AM
We didn't know the Appalachian Trail went all the way down to Buenos Aires!

AWOL South Carolina guv Mark Sanford resurfaced at the Atlanta airport this morning, and told The State newspaper he hadn't been hiking the trail, as his staff said. Instead, he'd taken a jaunt down to Argentina...

Sanford, in an exclusive interview with The State Media Company, said he decided at the last minute to go to the South American country to recharge after a difficult legislative session in which he battled with lawmakers over how to spend federal stimulus money.
Sanford said he had considered hiking on the Appalachian Trail, an activity he said he has enjoyed since he was a high school student.

"But I said 'no' I wanted to do something exotic," Sanford said "... It's a great city."

...

Sanford said he was alone on the trip. He declined to give any additional details about what he did other than to say he drove along the coastline.


As for that story about the Appalachian:


When asked why his staff said he was on the Appalachian Trail, Sanford replied, "I don't know."

Sanford later said "in fairness to his staff," he had told them he might go hiking on the Appalachian Trial.


The paper reports that after the brief conversation, the guv was "escorted away by an aide."


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/...


-Check out the comments.

We weren't the only ones digging the smackdowns at yesterday's press conference. Check out these pics (complete with LOLZ commentary).

So the Pitney/Huffington Post Iraq Question was Staged!? Me no likey! Didn't like it when the Bushies did it and I don't like it now. Aarrgghh!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

Milbank is claiming that it was staged. Please see the article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffingto...

According to Arianna, it is not true.

Considering this is coming from Dana Milbank who was busted by KO for taking an Obama quote out of context this sounds like sour grapes and a poor attempt at a hit job. Come harder, Dana.

Besides, asking Nico Pitney, who has done excellent work on covering the Iran protest, to attend the presser and ask Obama a question concerning Iran doesn't compare to Bushies telling troops exactly what to say at his news conferences.

Yep, as soon as I saw his byline I knew what was what. Milbank has gotten the side eye from me ever since that incident.

It wasn't staged. The White House knows he has been live blogging and following the situation from day one,and they told him that they may ask him a question at the press conference so be prepared. Think about it, bloggers don't normally get called on. I don't think the WH knew the question that would be asked. This is just the "traditional" media whining because Obama called a blogger.

MSM is threatened by bloggers, and they should be.

Be scurred, be very scurred.

I know my attempts at humor oftern are the way back machine. Some of you should have a meeting and pitch a comedy show for BET or someone. They won't have seen anything like yours since Chappelle.
Enrique's weave ROTFLMBAO

This is disappointing.

Transformers' Jive-Talking Robots Raise Race Issues

LOS ANGELES — "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" introduces some 40 new mechanized characters of all shapes, sizes and even sexes _ but it's a pair of jive-talking 'bots that critics are singling out as more than just harmless comic relief.

Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/transf...

OK, I remember from the first movie that Optimus said they learned to speak by listening to the radio stations.....so these two only listened to hot 107.9 outta Atlanta? Is that it?

*dead and buried- soul doing the electric slide with Jesus*

sorry!! but you know I'm asking a legitimate question!! LOL

Further attempts to depict blacks and POC as "ghetto."

Post-racial my ass.

I was just coming to post this article. I don't even know what to say about it.

i guess they saw how well the 'homeys' doll series did (mexicans in very stereotypical, gang-affiliated clothing, extreme 'cholo/a' hair, makeup, etc.).

ay ay ay...

GNR!!!

LMAO! Thanks for this

Oh dear. Has Hollywood learned nothing after the Jar-Jar Binks fiasco?

So The View is about to start, I wonder if they'll actually ask elisabeth hesselbeck about the plagiarism charge against her. Especially since she was the most vocal person on that set when it came to alleged plagiarism by President Obama during the campaign (when he actually had PERMISSION from Deval Patrick) and Biden for his one slip up a few years ago. Somehow I doubt anyone on that stage will really take her to task for being a hypocrite. And her thing was a BOOK not a speech.

They won't touch it.

Don't hold your breath, girl. Don't hold your breath.....

i somehow doubt that will happen. then they'd have to venture into her repetition of republican talking points which she passes off as her very own 'opinion'.

they'll probably rush to her defense.

They just let her say the claims are without merit and are being dealt with, no discussion at all. SMH. And they let "her" bring it up instead of Whoopi bringing it up as she usually starts the hot topic discussions. What a cop out.

From what I've read, the case against Hasselbeck is SOLID AS A ROCK. The little examples of plagerism that the media has gotten a hold of ain't nuttin. She's in trouble, trouble!

ridiculous. i sorta miss rosie. she could be loud and obnoxious at times, but she wasn't afraid of disney!

Listening to Stephanie Miller and she said that she dares them to play.....ready ready hit it! As he walks out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrx5Ve7y0xM

Or Karyn White dares them to play.....''Secret Rendezvous''

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/Sec...


*snicker*

The Rich Corinthian Leather in the lobby must be the give away.

You are so wrong! LOL!

I love Buenos Aires. Went there 5 years ago and that place is a non-stop party. I could barely keep up, when I came home I needed another vacation to recover from that one (LOL).

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hubba Hubba!

AH SOOKEY, SOOKEY, NOW!!!

BOW CHICKA WOW WOW!

ROFLMAO

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 23, 1973, when the Supreme Court struck down state criminal abortion laws in Roe v. Wade, President Richard M. Nixon made no public statement. But privately, newly released tapes reveal, he expressed ambivalence.

Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster “permissiveness,” and said that “it breaks the family.” But he also saw a need for abortion in some cases, such as interracial pregnancies. “There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white,” he told an aide, before adding: “Or a rape.”

Just as interesting is the revelation that then California Governor, Ronald Reagan approved of the now infamous Saturday Night Massacre, cheer leading all the way. No wonder the GOP of today love him so much:

Nine months later, after Nixon precipitated the resignations of two top Justice Department officials and forced the firing of the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate affair, Ronald Reagan, who was then the governor of California and would later be president, told the White House that he heartily approved.

Reagan told the White House that the action — which would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre” — was “probably the best thing that ever happened — none of them belong where they were,” according to a Nixon aide’s notes of the private conversation. Read on...

http://crooksandliars.com/
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CNN contributor Bill Bennett must feel vindicated. Who knew Richard Nixon was such a racist? /snark

Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"
September 28, 2005 3:18 pm ET



http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200509280006

ARGENTINA?!?!?!?! WTF?!?!?

Something in the milk aint clean!

WAIT...Sanford was in ARGENTINA?

Is that what you're telling me?

Mama said this is why you shouldn't LIE, because you always gotta come up with another LIE to cover the previous LIE.

LMAO

Hey, now!
He was hiking...or so his staff said.

I'm pissed!
He could have gone to Myrtle Beach...the Grand Strand...the Grand Canyon...

BUT NOOOOO!

He goes to one of them there foreign countries!

Wonder what Kookie Roberts will say about that?

Cookie Roberts can't say a damn thing. She's too busy catching the vapors.

Yes yes.....oh what a tangled web we weave, when alas, we try to deceive.


and if that weave is attached to somebody named Enrique.......

That's it! I'm taking your keyboard right now, young lady!

according to TPM:

Just so we're clear, Gov. Sanford and his staff didn't announce that he had been in Argentina for the week. A reporter from The State newspaper got a tip that Sanford would be arriving on a flight into Atlanta this morning from Argentina and basically caught him. Once the reporter saw him coming off a plane from the antipodes he really didn't have much choice but to admit where he'd been.

Well......the staff meeting today in the Governor's office is sure to be a doozy!!

That's what he said?

Lies, lies & more lies!

LOL! The staff really screwed it up when they tried to cover for him with the "hiking" story....bless their hearts! They didn't know......they had no idea.

Aren't they famous for transsexuals down there. . . ?

Umm hmm. Tons of them.

Let me find out Sanford is getting his RuPaul on.

Hey, if Markie ends up having time on his hands maybe he could be a contestant on next season's Drag Race.

NEW RNC TV AD "Bipartisan"
To air today

RNC Counters ABC: Seeking to present a bit of counter-programming to ABC's health care town hall to be broadcast from the White House tonight, the Republican National Committee will launch a one-day television ad asking for more fair and balanced coverage. "Today a national TV network turns its airwaves over to President Obama's pitch for government-run health care," says the ad's narrator. "Shouldn't this be a bipartisan discussion?" The ad goes on to insist that Obama's push for a so-called "public" option amounts to "putting government bureaucrats in charges...instead of patients and their doctors" and asks viewers to tell Obama to "work with Republicans...and to stop rushing into another government takeover." RNC officials would not disclose how much was being spent on the single-day buy but one source familiar with the buy described it as "small".

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyGFKA_PSw

Umm, dumbasses, OBAMA is the President. And the thing is, people trust the INSURANCE COMPANIES more than the Republicans when it comes to health care. So they just wasted a lot of money.

BUSTED 'LIGHT UP MY LIFE' COMPOSER GAVE GALS HIS OSCAR PROMISE: 'THIS COULD BE YOU,' THEN TERRORIZED & RAPED - COPS
By LORENA MONGELLI, JAMIE SCHRAM and LUKAS I. ALPERT

June 24, 2009

The Oscar-winning composer of the schmaltzy hit "You Light Up My Life" raped 11 young women he lured to his apartment with Craigslist ads promising to turn them into stars, authorities charged yesterday.

Joseph Brooks, 71 -- who traded on his fame from the 1977 Academy Award for Best Song -- convinced his victims to take off their clothes on his personal casting couch, and when they needed an extra push, pulled out his Oscar and put it in their hands, police said.

"This could be you. This could be you holding the Oscar. I could make you a star," NYPD Lt. Adam Lamboy of the Manhattan Special Victims Squad quoted Brooks as saying.

Authorities said he had his 42-year-old female personal assistant, Shawni Lucier, from Washington state, help him choose his victims.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06242009/news/regio...

Citigroup Plans to Raise Salaries by as Much as 50% (Update1)

June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc., the U.S. bank that got $45 billion of government funds, will raise base salaries by as much as 50 percent to help compensate for a reduction in annual bonuses, a person familiar with the plan said.

The biggest increases will go to investment bankers and traders, said the person who declined to be identified. Workers in consumer banking, credit cards, legal and risk management will see smaller salary adjustments. The New York-based company also plans to award stock options to try to keep employees after Citigroup’s market value plummeted 84 percent in the past year.
Citigroup joins Morgan Stanley and UBS AG in boosting salaries for executives and employees. Morgan Stanley said last month it will increase base pay for many of the New York-based firm’s top executives and double the pay of Chief Financial Officer Colm Kelleher.

“Citi continues to examine ways to ensure its employee compensation practices are competitive in this very challenging market environment,” Citigroup spokesman Stephen Cohen said yesterday, declining further comment. “Any salary adjustments are not intended to increase total annual compensation, rather to adjust the balance between fixed and variable compensation.”
The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression has so far led to more than $1.45 trillion in writedowns and credit losses and almost 325,000 job cuts across the worldwide financial industry. Senior management at companies, including Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, lost their bonuses last year.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...

I see this as okay if they are not getting bonuses. The salaries for most finance people are really low compared to other jobs because they really on the end of the year bonus for cash to live on. I'm not going to get upset...yet.

Khamenei vows no retreat on Iran election result
Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:39am EDT
By Zahra Hosseinian and Hossein Jaseb

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday that a disputed election result would stand, despite street protests that Iranian officials say Britain and the United States have incited.
(EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran.)
"I had insisted and will insist on implementing the law on the election issue," Khamenei said. "Neither the establishment nor the nation will yield to pressure at any cost."

Now that police and religious militia have regained apparent control of the streets after the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's hardline leadership is blaming the discontent on foreign powers.
"Britain, America and the Zionist regime (Israel) were behind the recent unrest in Tehran," Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran was weighing whether to downgrade ties with Britain after each country expelled two diplomats this week. He also announced he had "no plans" to attend a G8 meeting in Italy this week on Afghanistan.
His remarks, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama said he was "appalled and outraged" by the clampdown in Iran, provided more evidence of rising tension with the West.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5...

Mark Sanford was in South America

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/24131...

A mystery has turned into a fiasco for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who now says he was in South America — not on the Appalachian Trail, as his staff had said on the record in official statements when his whereabouts became the subject of global news coverage.


“I don’t know how this thing got blown out of proportion,” the governor told The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C., after he landed at the Atlanta airport Wednesday morning.


Sanford, a conservative Republican who had a promising future in national politics, is now not only the butt of jokes but has serious questions to answer about his stewardship of his state’s safety.


Other state officials say he made no arrangements for executive decisions in his absence, such as mobilizing the National Guard in case of catastrophe or advocating for the state with Washington if an emergency struck the coast.


Journalists covering the story had nearly universal doubts about the narrative put out by his office. The trail on the governor went cold at the Atlanta airport, which is not a logical place to go to start hiking the Appalachian Trail.


The State said in a story posted around 8:30 a.m. that Sanford had arrived Wednesday morning at Atlanta’s Hartsville-Jackson International Airport after what he says was a seven-day visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Gee, I wonder who paid for this tryst...um...trip (darn fingers).
The money from the tryst...um...trip could have been used to pay down debt.
Fiscal conservative, my ass.
Maybe Sanford went to Buenos Aires looking for some stimulus. ;-)

LMAO!

Calling GreenLady...... To the "bad chair" Admiral!

He was just trying to stimulate the economy of Argentina.

So he was gone for 7 days?? I thought it was since last Thursday.....oh my what a tangled web we weave.....

I want to know when the republicans will start calling him an elitist and complaining because he went out of the country to recharge like they did when Obama went to HAWAII last year. He couldn't find anywhere "exotic" in the U.S.?

Cuz Obama should have gone to Myrtle Beach instead of leaving the country for an exotic locale like Hawai'i, ya know. Why couldn't Sanford have driven down Rt. 17 if he wanted to "drive down a coast?"

If Obama crosses the Potomac to go to the ice cream store with his kids, the MSM and Republicans have a fit, I'm sure all of them will be quiet on this Sanford scandal.

Am I only one that thinks something is really off about the man disappearing like that?

There is no amount of perfume that could cover up the stench of this. Who goes overseas for 7 days without telling your wife? Twice she indicated she didn't know where he was. If nothing else, he needs to get his home life together. And they were floating his name for 2012....haha. This story will help to raise his national profile in a way he probably regrets.

womanistmusing,

if you were the only one, then this story wouldn't have LEGS.

a married man
with children
DISAPPEARING AROUND FATHER'S DAY
where NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE HELL HE IS?

no, you're not the only one who believes something is OFF.

Nope! This whole thinks reeks of bs. A married man, with small children, just up and leaving the country, during Father's Day weekend and his wife doesn't know anything about it? Then his staffers are blatantly lying about his whereabouts? He needs to explain himself and resign. STAT!

Wouldn't you love to be in the staff meeting this morning? LMAO! The yelling and blaming that's going on right now should be hilarious!

"And who the hell came up with hiking in Appalachia when its Buck Nekkit Hiking Day weekend!!!!!!"

"Well that's better than he's in Argentina with Antwan!!"

"Well F you!"

"Well F you back!!"

LOL

*dead*

You're so bad!

NOT ANTWAN!

*dead*

I think his wife didn't care where the hell he was as long as he wasn't up in her face.

My scenario is he came home pissy because he got forced to accept the stimulus.

Took it out on her. She got fed up for the last time and threw him out.

So he's the Governor of SC, and he got thrown out on his ass. He figures he'll show her. He'll pretend like he's going one place but he's really going somewhere else. And when the TV reports that he's missing, his wife will get on TV and express concern.

Except she gets on TV with a "I don't give a damn about that possum looking MOFO" attitude.

Now he looks even more stupid trying to cruise back into town with the "I'on know why errybody makin' a big deal out of this" attitude.

I don't think he took off to have a sensual seduction, I think his wife threw him out of the house because he got an attitude with her for the LAST time or she found out about some escapade he was having.

The stimulus he had to take. ROTFLMBAO

But why the hell all the way to Argentina? That's the part that makes it way more odd than just a fight....Argentina? Dude, you couldn't go to the Bahamas? Puerto Rico? The Virgin Islands...ya went to Argentina?

Not sure why Argentina, but during the Myrtle Beach wildfires they discovered his ass was in England or Europe instead of monitoring the fires in SC like he was supposed to be.

He probably didn't want to run into Bill Clinton.

WHY DID YOU REMIND ME OF THIS!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/b...

Hell...maybe he DID wanna run into ole Slick Willie! LOL

We passed the "off" ramp oh....about Friday evening. We are straight headed into "biggest scandal of the year" interstate right about now. LOL

*dead*

No, you're not the only one. I mean really... the excuses he's coming up with doesn't make any sense. And it keeps changing.

Maybe he went to Buenos Aires to get rid of those bags under his eyes?

...maybe he got teabagged.

Maybe. Hopefully he doesn't turn up in one of those Dateline specials when they find American men who leave the country to have sex with children. I'm not saying that's what he was doing, but still it's pretty damn random to just decide to go to South America.

Was Chris Hanson in Buenos Aires while Mark Sanford was down there ?

If so...uh-oh!

I smell Rush Limpballs all over this; i.e, leaving country to have sex with teenage boys.

Morning joke was a trip today.Tweety smackdown Mika and Joe telling them to stop pussyfooting around with their tired arguments against National Health care.Gov.Sandford was in Argentina.What he was doing in Buenos Aries only he knows but stay tune.That is all. Oh by the way John McCain and his poodle Lindsey Graham are still idiots.

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7OpPYl-SRI

Chris Matthews is too funny.

Joe was irritated because Chris pounded his ass.

LOL@ poodle Lindsey Graham.

Yeah dj,

The governor claims he was in Argentina. MSNBC quoted him as always wanting to do something "exotic"! Hmmmmm....:)

More like he wanted to do someONE exotic. Can't wait to see whether his Argentinian bootay was of the male or female variety.

Or both.

Or both!

Great minds think alike :-)

HA!

LMAO!

Yup Parker. Exotic is the word!

We see you, Governor! You AIN'T hiding nothing. :)

Yep, we see him. The southern white cracka going for some Latin flava, huh?

Most Argentinians are white, though.

Spanish and Italian.

Yes, European. I don't think Sanford was going there to get his Latino Groove on though.

Yes, dark Europeans.

I don't think so. I think he may have been getting his groove on, and it could have been with a random person down there who was dark, but I don't think he has a craving for dark meat.

More like a craving for man meat.
Heh..
I'm going to the bad chair now.

I've still got the FLOTUS speech at the Nat'l Conference on Volunteering & Service posted at my blog:

http://actsoffaithinloveandlife.blogspot.com/20...

Good Morning JJP. Let's keep it poppin'.

Today's Conversation: The Fight For Justice Is An Inconvenient One At Best

http://tinyurl.com/komvkh

I felt a lot of affirmation in your post. I have been thinking a lot with Grace Lee Boggs lately because I believe she is a prophetic voice and she says, "to develop your ideas to meet the crisis that you're faced with, takes time." Myles Horton of Highlander said you have to keep the fire of justice passion burning just strong enough for the long haul --- not let it flame up so much that it burns out in the process.

I think we have love ourselves so much that we become the kind of people whose love and enthusiasm (and strategic large rage) is infectious to everyone we meet. We have to become "cool" to ourselves first and then hopefully to others (ok that may be a long haul personal goal. the teenagers in my program think i am anything but cool)!?! We have to live and love our lives fiercely and set the highest goals for ourselves and remember to live them while clinging to whatever pockets of hope where we can find joy in the present.

I was watching Bill Russell on the Daily Show last night and I know he was a great athlete, but I also know of the impact that he had on Boston social justice organizing. And as I watched him, I had that feeling that I do with Grace, with Myles, with Mel King (who I work with) --- a feeling of awe and longing to be part of whatever it is that they are/were doing, a feeling of "I want to be like them someday." Not their fame, but their ability to inspire and impact people. And I am old enough (50) to know that I actually do live into becoming like the people I admire. . . so I am careful about who I admire!

There's something about how a person's life builds an arc between one's ancestors and the intellectual/spiritual company that one chooses to keep that is astonishing and gratifying over time. Random thoughts but I had them after reading your post. thank you.

Good Morning.Your Wednesday jam.Enjoy
Kimara lovelace - Misery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjVZa1jNbuM