Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images States rights has been a GOP rallying cry in Mississippi for decades.
With vaccine appointments left unfilled, experts are worried that no more residents will get the vaccine.
A fear of government intervention has crippled the state s COVID response and vaccination efforts.
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi and is a visiting professor of Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
When Ronald Reagan opened his 1980 general election campaign at Mississippi s Neshoba County Fair, he proclaimed, I believe in states rights … And I believe that we ve distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended in the Constitution to that federal establishment.
i do not mean this in a partisan sense. the power of incumbency, crawl knows what it is like to have that power behind the a in terms of what you can do. the way the electoral map looks in terms of what romney has, if iran may somehow does not get there, or if something goes wrong, a could really go wrong. i do not see that happening with the president. a lot of the avenues they have been through already. that is a very big deal. i think romney may have a great team. they have not been 3 general election yet. they could stumble. something could go wrong. i think we can have this. but it all falls back in place, it starts to look like a blowout the other way. wow. i think we have concluded that we will have a close election one way or another. i want to thank my panelists for their wonderful contribution. [applause] in particular, i want to thank all of you for coming to kick off our event series. we hope to see at another event soon. thank you so much for coming. [applause]
fundamental difference in terms of how people interpret fairness. this is how we view what the president is doing and is fighting for fairness. if he puts it in that context, it does not give him an opening. this is correct for what democrats have to do. it is going to be interesting to say if romney could go back to this various issue. he tends to fall into ascribing motives. way inhe back. good morning. wayne paladino. as he reminded us at the very beginning of a presentation, ideology and platform is important and may make the difference. my question relates to the third party. i do not know if rick santorum is the embodiment of that. ron paul. how do you see that whole dynamic affecting the future of the race? santorum is a non factor. the people that are supporting him are in the process of getting energized into the network. the ron paul thing was a different deal. this is about the most unstable political coalition i have ever seen. it only exists briefly and is at
leaders for the nato summit. we will begin this morning to talk about an issue which came about with the president s comments this week with regard to the marriage and whether it is a flip-flop or an evolving point of view. there are a number of related stories on this. our discussion with you begins like this. is there a romney doctrine? david sanders coming up with a new book when mint romney was still trying to maneuver the challenges, he made a declaration about afghanistan that lady fraction of his foreign policy to shake their heads. and then there is this in the chicago tribune, looking at his use back in the 1990 s. barack obama responded to a gay magazine issue survey saying if he favored a marriage. he initially said he supported civil unions, but he had not gone so far to say that he supported gay marriage. and now he has come out in support of gay marriage. this is a way to set up our questionnaire and our discussion with your issue of involving vs flip-flop
in his weekly radio address, president obama urged congress to work on passing his to do list on five initiatives, adding just threw in sourcing, mortgage assistance, small business tax credit, clean energy manufacturing, and veterans job assistance. rep kristi noem focused on college graduates and the job market. the last few years have been difficult on this country. after the worst recession in our lifetime, it will take longer than any of us would like for the economy to recover. but there are plenty of steps which can take to speed up the recovery. there things you can do right now to the crate jobs and restore some of the financial security that so many families of loss. the other side is not so optimistic. they think so we can do is cut taxes, especially for the wealthiest americans, and go back to letting banks and corporations write their own role again. that is their plan. but i think that they are wrong. we tried that for nearly a decadent it did not work out.