Reply #2: I once said on DU that I would probably never call anyone a "douchebag"

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Well, I was wrong.

Bentley is a douchebag.

Blame me, or the evil influence of Jon Stewart for me saying it aloud, but Governor Doctor Bentley is a douchebag.

On his first full day in office, he got our state ridiculed on national television, for something he said on his first partial day in office.

Great start, douchebag!

And it's in the great and grand Alabama tradition of trashing and marginalizing minorities of one kind or another.

Way to go, douchebag!

Regarding MLK, he said:

I appreciate what he has done for not only the African-American community but for the white community, because he helped everything to change, even though he had to give his life for it.

What a douchebag! King didn't "give" his life. It was taken from him by people that had been influenced by this kind of ignorant rhetoric.

Bentley then said he would work to help Alabamians whether they live in Wilcox County, where many poor blacks live, or Mountain Brook, where many upper-income whites live.

Mountain Brook is actually a wealthier area than Beverly Hills, California. I'm sure they want and need that government help just as much as the huddled masses in Wilcox and Greene counties, two of the poorest counties in America. Government must be "flat" and, and in some sick and twisted sense, "fair," after all.

What a douchebag!

Sorry for using the word "douchebag."