OMG...Buchanan asks Eugene Robinson "What was wrong with the fifties?"

[Atman]

Robinson has class, so he kind of laughed, and said "We'll, you can ask my parents. They didn't think the fifties were so great." Great comeback to the old racist prick.

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[eShirl]

1. Pat is losing what little he had left

upstairs

[lunatica]

2. Nothing if you think equal rights are absurd and needless

I'm sure Buchanan remembers the 50s fondly when everyone was in their righteous role as an underling to his gender and race.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. Segregation,

women as second-class citizens, domestic violence and incest de regueur, birth control illegal in many states, yeah, the 50's were just super duper!

[MineralMan]

4. Well, I liked the tax rates for the wealthy in the 50s.

We could bring those back and balance the budget very quickly.

[marmar]

5. You have to remember, Pat thinks these were the wonder years:

http://negroartist.com/civil%20rights%20imagery/images/Black%20civil%20rights%20demonstrators%20attacked%20by%20police%20water%20hose_%20Birmingham,%20Alabama%20May%201963_jpg.jpg

[raccoon]

6. What was wrong with the 50's? No air conditioning when you're living in an area hot as Hades.

Seriously, what a dumbass Buchanan is...

Not only domestic violence, but alcoholic parents driving all over creation with their spouse and/or kids in the car. If you don't believe me talk to some older people who had alcoholic parents.

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. or an alcoholic husband

who beat the crap out of you because of his sexual inadequacy, and got a wink and a nod for it while he soaked up the grocery money

[Auggie]

7. McCarthyism

:grr:

[BeyondGeography]

8. He keeps forgetting to include "for white people?"

[n2doc]

15. More like "For White, rich men"

The 50's weren't so good for women, or the poor in general.

[w8liftinglady]

17. that's what I was going to say...and heaven forbid you were Gay!

[LeftinOH]

9. The 1950s was exactly like 'Happy Days', wasn't it?

:sarcasm:

[izquierdista]

10. OK, we've got Pat on board

Any more of you Repubs ready to raise the top tax rate back up to 91%?

[Buzz Clik]

11. It was an Ozzie and Harriet world. Life was grand.

[Atman]

12. Racism, 91% tax rate, McCarthyism...let's not forget highest teen pregnancy rate...

...and coat hanger abortions. Anything else you can think of that made the fifties "great?"

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[spooky3]

14. Oppressive sex discrimination on the job

The list goes on and on...

[raccoon]

22. Lots of shotgun weddings. nt

[Enrique]

13. 1950's or 1850's? n/t

[n2doc]

16. Good point n/t

[progressoid]

19. Sadly, there are millions more just like her out there.

[randr]

20. Say what you will of the fifties

I was a time that the country was recovering from a terrible depression, the ecological damage of the dust bowl, a major war fought on two fronts, not to mention all the social issues boiling under the surface.
What the country did at that time is what is important to remember.
Low interest loans to veterans.
College grants to qualified students.
Investments in American infrastructure that fueled the economy.
The emergence of an American Ideal that life would be better for future generations
FDR's social programs kick in and elderly Americans can live in dignity.
For the first time in history a growth of a middle class that began to question the inequities of racial and sexual status.
Out of all this came the people and power to make changes that we take for granted today.
I for one would love to see a world more like the fifties for my grand children to grow up in.
I remember it as a time that people grew to love and respect one another and gathered the strength to challenge the problems we faced with a creative spirit.

[Kind of Blue]

21. Pat knows exactly what he's saying.

Earlier he was talking about how Palin is the voice for the group of Americans who are left behind nowadays. :nopity: