The law firm handling an investigation into Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page that included a blackface photo said Wednesday that it was unable to determine whether the governor appeared in the picture.
The law firm of McGuireWoods conducted the probe on behalf of Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), reaching out to 1984 yearbook staffers and alums of the school and releasing a 32-page report.
The report said no one interviewed could say whether the photo appeared on the page in error – and that no one could say definitely whether Northam was in the picture.
A sad, pathetic and smarmy defense that included moonwalking and a Michael Jackson costume has thus far been enough for Northam to keep his job.
But really, what was the basis for this report? To vindicate Northam, and give EVMS a chance to prove that they are now completely woke?
The only one who knows the identities of the gentlemen in the picture is the Governor himself. If facial recognition can’t prove it is Northam in blackface, he’s probably the one under the hood.
C’mon, man.
And the alleged rapist remains as Lt. Governor!
So much for the Democrats “walking the walk!”
What hogwash!
Keeping on Jusin Fairfax simply reinforces the idea in the minds of the American people that when it comes to women, for Democrats like Justin Fairfax, they are merely playtoys for his sexual gratification.
And one has to wonder how much hush money was paid to those women by “fixers” to buy their silence because they sure did disappear from the scene real quick.
Did the people of Virginia buy them off with state funds?
Or did a Democrat fixer like Michael Cohen pay them off with his own money to be reimbursed later on?
Anyway, in the Democrat party, it is quite apparent from this Fairfax case that misogynism still rules.
Used to be “it’s good to be king”
Now?
“It’s good to be a (D).”
I am the last man on earth to defend our governor and the policies/ideas he puts forth for The Commonwealth. I’m disgusted by some things he proposes, but that is his right and his job. This blackface and KKK costumes for a party stuff ? I’d defend him ’til the day I die. I really think chastising him for this is a bunch of politically driven, race baiting, political crapola. I really don’t care if he is either character in this photo. It means nothing. Nothing UNLESS the people in the photo were participating in a KKK rally, or another of like kind. There has been no indication that they were. I think there are very few people on The Shore, or anywhere in this country, who have not dressed up in costume for any and all kinds of silly reasons. I’m a 6′ tall and 250 lb. guy. I once had 3 women dress me up, and make up my face and give me a shoulder length blond wig, Pink chiffon floor length gown and some sort of shoulder wrap to go to a Halloween party, My old friends I grew up with couldn’t recognize me. IT DIDN’T MAKE ME WANT TO BE A DRAG QUEEN ! That, despite what those of you that disagree with me are sarcastically thinking. If you dressed up as Capt. Kirk that didn’t mean you wanted to be on that starship. If you dressed up as Babe Ruth you weren’t being The Babe. I can’t even fathom where any of this concept even came from. Be nice please. Don’t go looking for things to be angry over please. But please do tell Ralph his abortion ideas are disgusting and an embarrassment to us all.
After serving in a combat zone as an Army physician , Ralph Northam spent his life in the service of sick children.
His position on women’s rights with respect to dealing with pregnancy is reasonable and ethical .
Northam, as though he were discussing the weather, talks about what to do with a child AFTER being born:
“The consent of obviously the mother, with consent of the physician, multiple physicians by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities or there may be a fetus that’s not viable.
So in this particular example (when the child is in the process of being born) if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
His reaction to the enormous backlash generated by his comment?
“I have devoted my life to caring for children and any insinuation otherwise is shameful and disgusting.”
He is shocked that there are people out there who find his casual acceptance of infanticide to be uncaring towards children.
His stance on abortion is not ethical and his refusal to accept that many people vehemently disagree with his position is not reasonable.
Or, just another Tuesday for a Liberal.
If “Toss it over there and we’ll chat about whether or not to keep it alive” is your idea of reasonable and ethical, remind me to never, ever let you into a family members hospital room alone.
The left has long been deranged, but now they have moved over into outright ghoul territory.
Have they no shame? None at all?
Nope, not a whit.
You Sir, have lost your mind.
It has nothing to do with a women’s rights…..it has everything to do with the rights of an unborn child.
Funny how the people that support killing babies, are already born.
With respect to how divided we are right now as a people, this thanks to the successful efforts of Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democrat Party along with the Democratic Socialists to divide us for partisan political gain, this is how United States Senator from Massachusetts Daniel Webster saw the beginning years of this nation up until the end of the War of 1812, or “Jemmy Madison’s War” in a speech to the Senate on January 27, 1830, to wit:
“Difficult and agitating questions, embarrassing to Government, and dividing public opinion, sprung out of the new state of our foreign relations, and were succeeded by others, and yet again by others, equally embarrassing, and equally exciting division and discord, through the long series of twenty years; till they finally issued in the war with England (War of 1812),”
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And here we are today, and it don’t look much different to me, anyway, at least with respect to difficult and agitating questions, embarrassing to Government, and dividing public opinion, having sprung out of the state of our foreign relations, embarrassing the nation and us as a people, and equally exciting division and discord.
‘The only one who knows the identities of the gentlemen in the picture is the Governor himself. If facial recognition can’t prove it is Northam in blackface, he’s probably the one under the hood.’
There is someone else that knows……..God know.
Democrats are a sick bunch. There is no way they could call themselves Christians.
The New York Times
“Obama Returns to Campaign Trail to Rally Black Voters”
By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns
19 October 2017
DUMFRIES, Va. – President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail on Thursday for the first time since leaving office, trying to rally black voters behind candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey amid warnings that they may not come out in force on an Election Day that is just three weeks away.
Mr. Obama’s appearances on behalf of Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Ralph S. Northam, in Richmond and the financier Philip D. Murphy in Newark – two white candidates in predominantly black cities – come as Democrats struggle to inspire African-Americans to vote this year.
In Virginia, Mr. Northam has targeted black voters in the final weeks of the race, frequenting black churches and campaigning with Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, in addition to Mr. Obama.
But Mr. Northam’s overtures have been met with mixed results.
Mr. Northam seems well prepared to engage black residents.
He attended integrated schools as a child on Virginia’s eastern shore and often worships at a black church when back home.
He won African-American voters decisively in the Democratic primary this year, and has put opposition to Mr. Trump at the center of his message.
But Mr. Northam has also been uncertain about how to handle calls to remove Confederate statues in the state after the bloodshed in Charlottesville this summer, seemingly torn between not wanting to offend whites in this history-drenched state and not wanting to get crosswise with his African-American base.
After initially saying he would be “a vocal advocate” for taking down the monuments, Mr. Northam, facing an onslaught of ads from his Republican opponent over the issue, said last week that he was “not going to meddle” with localities over the issue.
Some in the party wish Mr. Northam would more aggressively trumpet the candidacy of Justin Fairfax, 38, a lawyer and the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor who could be the first black candidate elected statewide since 1989.
And a growing chorus of black activists and strategists say the party’s church-focused appeals are not reaching younger African-Americans.
Instead, they say, Mr. Northam needs to talk directly about sensitive issues like policing and criminal justice for blacks under 40 to turn out.
NPR
“‘Our Democracy Is At Stake,’ Obama Says Of Virginia Race For Governor”
October 19, 2017·11:03 PM ET
Jessica Taylor
Former President Obama returned to the campaign trail for the first time since leaving office Thursday campaigning for the Democratic candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
He put the Virginia race, where he was campaigning for Ralph Northam, in the starkest terms.
“We need you to take this seriously, because our democracy is at stake,” Obama told a crowd of 7,500 at a packed convention center, “and it’s at stake right here in Virginia.”
“Folks don’t feel good right now about what they see,” Obama said.
“They don’t feel as if our public life reflects our best.”
“Instead of our politics reflecting our values, we’ve got politics infecting our communities.”
“Instead of looking for ways to work together and get things done in a practical way, we’ve got folks who are deliberately trying to make folks angry, to demonize folks who have different ideas to get the base all riled up because it provides a short-term tactical advantage.”
Obama cast the upcoming race in terms of choosing between progress and more division.
The former president accused Gillespie of using fear and painted him as a Trump-style Republican, alluding to his ads that have run warning of the dangers of MS13 gang and illegal immigration.
“Ralph’s opponent is playing from that same old playbook,” Obama said, warning that “if you scare enough voters, you might just score enough votes to win an election.”
He called such tactics “cynical” and “corrosive.”
In the wake of violence earlier this year in Charlottesville between white nationalists and counter protesters, Obama also waded into the debate over whether to keep Confederate statues that pepper the former Confederate capital.
The first black president, whose father was Kenyan but whose mother was white, noted the irony that he could trace his ancestry to Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, who was probably “spinning in his grave!”
Obama said any idea Northam was trying to “erase Virginia’s history” by backing the removal of Confederate monuments as a “distraction.”
But the biggest warning note Obama sounded was one against complacency.
Democrats are worried about African-American turnout and hope the former president can spur voters to the polls.
Some Democratic operatives worry Northam is underwhelming as a candidate, and Obama tried to testify to Northam’s credentials.
He noted that he’s a pediatric neurologist and an Army doctor, who didn’t see wounded warriors “as Democrats or Republicans” when he was treating them.
“At a time when so many of us can be so cynical about government and public service, to have somebody step up who you can trust and who just wants to do right by the people of Virginia, that’s worth something,” the former president said.