Tim Kaine vs Mike Pence :: The Rumble in The Farmville :: -- Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016 9 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. EST -- Longwood University Farmville, VA -- @appoo started one for the next presidential debate. So I figured I'd start this one for the debate that actually happens next. -- This thread should be short. No, the subtitle doesn't rhyme all that well. -- Two demerits to anyone suggesting it'd be better if Kaine and Pence were the presidential, instead of the vice-presidential, nominees. --
If I didn't know someone who taught at Longwood, I'd think that Farmville was a made up place. But alas, it isn't. Might have been a better place for race to be discussed, though... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/02/AR2008050203435.html In 1959, Prince Edward County shut down its public schools for five years to resist the racial integration ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court. The white children went to a hastily organized private academy that was subsidized by the state government; the black kids were left to fend for themselves. Today, blacks and whites in Prince Edward still live racially isolated lives. The children of well-off white residents attend the private school established in 1959, leaving the predominantly black public schools starved for resources. The high school even has two cheerleading squads: one black, one white. There has been precious little racial healing in Prince Edward because white and black folks avoid discussing what happened there. None of the town fathers ever admitted that the school shutdown was wrong. African Americans deprived of an adequate education continue to seethe with anger, passing it on to their children and grandchildren. And double alas, that is a 2008 article, written amidst the Jeremiah Wright outrage... But it ends on an optimistic note. I'm curious how that is going.
As far as I can see, Pence has a knack for making himself into a knot, especially because the talks a lot about controversial issues. And because he has to defende Drumpf's statements... I really don't have an opinion on Kaine...
I don't know how Pence can prepare for this. He must be tied up in knots trying to defend all the contradictory things Trump says, many of which he disagrees with. Kaine at least agrees with Hillary on most issues.
I think both these guys deserve our utmost respect as they are competing to be compared to a warm bucket of spit!
Just looked it up to verify. Apparently Garner's statement was edited. John Nance Garner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nance_Garner Wikipedia Garner was re-elected to the Seventy-third Congress on November 8, 1932, and on the same day was elected Vice President of the United States. ... He famously described the Vice-Presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss". (For many years, this quote was bowdlerized as "warm spit".)
Toby: {dictating to Will Bailey} The Vice Presidency, being famously once described as not being worth a warm bucket of spit; let's now hock a big loogie for Bob Russell. Not the worst. Not the best. Just what we're stuck with.
Considering Time Kaine was the former Mayor of Richmond, LT Gov of Va, former Virginia Governor and current Senator of Virginia, I'd hope Tim Kaine has heard of FarmVille. And considering what I just typed, I am shocked that this is being held in Tim Kaine's state. I didn't hear the GOP fighting this to get it moved. A quick Google search sees that the place was already set in October 2016...clever.
I stand by that statement 100%. I am just hoping for an actual debate with problems and solutions. Not just blubbering.
I was there in the spring. It's actually not that bad. Pretty good coffeeshop downtown a couple of devent restayrants for its size, plus some college kid hangouts. A few too many statues of Confederate officers for my taste, however.