If she hadn’t had MS, she would have probably been on the Supreme Court, which I would have loved.
Andante, a lot of them, like Lady Bird Johnson, run things, they just don’t let it be generally known. If you listen to the LBJ tapes, there is not doubt who actually was in charge in that family.
I get a feeling, Fallenmonk, that we only hear from the ones that are so fed up, they refuse to play by the “rules” and run things in the background.
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]]>Young girls these days are low looking up to the Lindsay Lohan ilk. How sad.
]]>No one on either judiciary committee is even worthy of being her apprentice, much less replace her. It’s not that they are so pitiful, it’s that they don’t have the ability to command attention that Barbara Jordan had. When she condemned something you expected lightning bolts and the earth to open. You know that that’s what the Old Testament prophets sounded like just before the “smiting” started.
]]>I am proud to say that, whatever else I have suffered in the way of representation since those days, Barbara Jordan was my Representative for several years, including the year of that speech. “I shall not look upon [her] like again.”
Who is today’s Barbara Jordan? Who can fill her role this time around?
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