The Way We Were
Aug 31st, 2006 at 11:54 pm by Susie
Ah, Pat. Just when you start to sound reasonable, you turn around and show your true colors:
Pat Buchanan has been a constant presence on cable TV since the release of his book, State of Emergency. Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Buchanan explained that he’s motivated by his desire to keep the country overwhelmingly white.
Buchanan told Alan Colmes: “What I would like is — I’d like the country I grew up in. It was a good country. I lived in Washington, D.C., 400,000 black folks, 400,000 white folks, in a country 89 or 90 percent white. I like that country.â€
You know what, Pat? A lot of us didn’t. In fact, most of the people who didn’t like it were the people who weren’t exactly like you.
He reminds me so much of a certain breed of Irish Catholic bigot in the neighborhood where I grew up. The kind of guy who’d sit on the porch, collecting a fake worker’s comp claim, drinking beer and complaining loudly to anyone who’d listen about all the “coloreds” on welfare.
I remember going to Mass the day after we found out Jackie Kennedy married Ari Onassis, and Monsignor Daly, our pastor, announced from the pulpit he’d “rather live next door to a colored person than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.”
Those people made me angry, and I was glad to leave them behind. But thanks to TV news shows, they still follow me everywhere.
I found this truly amusing. I personally know people who grew up in DC and knew Pat as a teenager and young adult. Basically, he was an asshole then and he’s an asshole now. As a frat boy he used to get his kicks out of picking fights at parties and beating people us. He’s a pretty big guy physically (emotionally and spiritually he’s a retard). In high school he was a notorious bully also. Like I said. Once an asshole, always an asshole.