“There’s no better person to do that than a doctor."
( head hits desk )
Nor should he.
Okay… Northam, you just lost me. I was fighting for you here hard at the keyboard, but that… I’m sorry, that level of cluelessness…
I suspect there’s going to be much, much more of this, but this right here is just unacceptable. It’s exactly the kind of thing I would expect PP or any Republican to say, to try to minimize slavery.
His wearing blackface is becoming more and more understandable with each passing day.
There’s some confusion surrounding this, but he should have watched his words.
That’s a line without distinction. Now of all times he should be hyper aware of what is coming out of his mouth, and the fact that he doesn’t seem to see a problem with that is a problem.
You know, I saw the poll with 58 support from black Virginians, and for me that’s it, mouth shut. I’m not interested in being more offended on a group’s behalf than they are themselves, that’s just silly. Don’t think he should go, great. But damn, I have to say, in my own humblest of opinions words are not this guy’s friends. He just seems to find nothing but clumsy, graceless, WTF answers to any question you ask. “Indentured servants?” Really?
I was aware of that evolution in the way slavery worked but as I understand it what we think of as the European model of indentured servitude had the minor distinction of being voluntary.
Word.
“Right now, Virginia needs someone that can heal,” he told CBS “This Morning” co-host Gayle King.
“Elsewhere, white legislators from across Virginia hastily collected copies of their own high-school and college yearbooks, for an impromptu gathering held in the parking lot of the General Assembly.”
Wittgenstein covered this.
philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday
Which is to say that reasoning fails when our thinking relies on words that are used outside their proper contexts. And now Northam offers up a textbook example of the problem.
I assume Northam was a medical professional? And so his argument is that his medical training has uniquely prepared him to reconcile political divisions because he’s chosen the word “heal” instead of the word “reconcile”?
I guess if I said that we need to “explode” our political frame, that would suddenly mean that this political moment was tailor-made for General George S Patton?
Or if I said that VA faces a difficult challenge “navigating” racial tensions that have resurfaced, then I guess we need Ferdinand Magellan for governor?
This Northam guy seems like a real schmuck and dimwit.
Maybe Virginia needs someone who can at least do no harm. Just saying.
We need to architect a better tomorrow.
My thought exactly: Physician heal thyself.
What next, referring to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression or the Lost Cause?
#Hippocratic PWN
FATALITY
Northam is DOA
Paging Governor Frank Lloyd Wright
Apparently Northam’s great-great grandparents arrived on the same cruise ship from Africa that Ben Carson’s were on…
Yeah, keep thinking that to yourself, Ralph, as the “indentured servants” rise up and carry you to the scaffold.