Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is considering a run for President of the United States under the Republican Party banner. “I have started thinking about it,” Barbour says. If he is to be the Republicans’ standard bearer in a campaign and the nation’s leader in office, it’s worth thinking about the values he’d bring along with him.
Those values include closing down mental hospitals and slashing public libraries. Libraries, explains Haley Barbour, are “outside the core function of government.”
In Mississippi that may be true; but consider how that’s worked out for the state. Is Mississippi’s poor commitment to libraries and literacy really a model we want to apply to the country as a whole? Do Haley Barbour’s values belong at the White House?
“How that’s worked out for the state…”
What Jim is referring to here that Mississippi has some of the most poorly educated people in all of the United States of America.
If you’re going to be good at something terrible, be the best.
I have only this to share: if Barbour runs for president, I would not recommend voting for him.
America is fast becoming a third world nation with a HUGE disparity between the haves (the top 10% to be generous)and the have nots (all the rest of us “wage slaves” – those of us still lucky enough to be currently employed, the working poor, and the poverty stricken) including a different set of “laws” for the rich (like this: http://www.alternet.org/story/148964/a_different_legal_system_for_the_rich%3A_imagine_getting_off_easy_for_hit-and-run_because_you_run_a_hedge_fund) and the on-going prison nation we’re becoming (TSA on down).
I believe that Barbour would be a great presidentail candidate. Barbour understands that the government doesn’t need to be so large and powerful. He is very talented, smart ,and much better than obama.