I admit, I’m surprised: Romney campaign stirs the racial pot
I wish I didn’t have to write this, but apparently I do:
In his ambition to become president, Mitt Romney is trotting out the race card, calling upon and reinforcing old resentments and racial stereotypes to generate votes and support.
I had resisted that notion for months, despite evidence otherwise. I had given Romney a lot more credit than that, both as a person of decent instincts and as a leader. I honestly did not think that he would stoop to the likes of a Newt Gingrich, for example, with his description of Obama as “the food-stamp president” pursuing “Kenyan” values.
In addition, I think conservatives often have a valid point about the “race card” being played too quickly, based on too little evidence. I consider it a serious accusation that should only be made reluctantly, and only with sufficient proof to make it stick.
Unfortunately, the accumulating evidence against Romney has grown too powerful to deny.
Some of you perhaps came to this conclusion a while ago. Some of you no doubt reject it altogether and will continue to do so vehemently. That’s fine, because I’m only speaking for myself. And personally, the straw that broke the camel’s back came in a new interview with USA Today in which Romney charged that Obama was gutting the work requirement in welfare law in order to “shore up his base.”
Because as everyone knows, Obama’s true base can be found among those shiftless Americans too lazy to work and eager to collect welfare bucks for doing nothing, right Mitt? (And if you doubt the power of that narrative among an alarmingly large number of Americans, come back in an hour and read the comments that are sure to follow this post).
In hindsight, the claim that Obama was trying to gut the work requirement — and the prominent play that the Romney camp has given the claim — should have been enough to confirm his shameful intentions. In one ad, for example, Romney claims that “Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and you wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check.”
Every independent observer to study the claim has confirmed that it is false. Not just slightly false, totally false. Politifact calls it a pants-on-fire lie. The Washington Post gives it Four Pinocchios. FactCheck.org also concluded the charge is false.
The reality is that several state governments, including Republican administrations in Utah and Nevada, sought flexibility in how to administer the law. That’s a conservative idea, right? Give states flexibility in figuring out how best to do things? When Obama took office, just 29 percent of welfare recipients were actually working or taking job training, so the idea of trying something new seemed attractive.
As Gary Herbert, the Republican governor of Utah, wrote in a letter last month defending the waiver request, “Some of these participation requirements are difficult and costly to verify, while other participation requirements do not lead to meaningful employment outcomes and are overly prescriptive.” Utah has no intention whatsoever of weakening work requirements, Herbert wrote.
But when the administration acceded to such requests, it was immediately accused of wanting to give taxpayer money away to welfare bums.
But again, the falsity of the charge is not what gives it away. What gives it away is the Romney campaign’s insistence on taking a very minor bureaucratic change and trying to elevate it into a major issue in the campaign. There is only one possible explanation for pushing the welfare claim so hard, and for hinting that the change is being implemented to “shore up (Obama’s) base.”
And that is an appeal to racism.
– Jay Bookman
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MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
6:49 am
“Miltonman? any relation to Peking man?”
Marko? any relation to Dorko?
Gotta love libs and playing their elementary games.
man behind the curtain
August 28th, 2012
6:51 am
“Miltonman? any relation to Peking man?”
Nah, Peking man still had some evidence of a brain.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:02 am
Obozo’s “War on Whites”
http://www.barackobama.com/african-americans/
Would love to see Libs like Jay in full meltdown mode if Mittie came out with “Whitie for Mittie” political garbage.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:04 am
““Miltonman? any relation to Peking man?”
Nah, Peking man still had some evidence of a brain.”
Want to compare W2s Einstein??? How about college degrees???? Military Service???
skydog
August 28th, 2012
7:18 am
Here is one for Mitts wife, Mittette.
(Warning, contains “those people” and may not be suitable for Republicans)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_T3XvzPaM
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:18 am
Please sign me up for the Democratic Party Jay. I really, really want to become best friends with Samuel L Jackson. He seems like an “all inclusive” type of guy.
Jay
August 28th, 2012
7:21 am
Yeah, Milton, he’s a little much. Let’s put him and Hank Jr in a room, shall we?
ken
August 28th, 2012
7:31 am
I am a Republican. Bought my car from a Hank Aaron Dealership. No hate in me. But because I am a conservative that make me a racist. Shame on some people. Shame on people that brand others without knowing what is in their hearts.
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2012
7:34 am
“But because I am a conservative that make me a racist”
Knowing yourself is the first step to enlightment. Congratulations on being able to admit your racism. Now you can start working on getting rid of that horrible attitude towards other people. I widh you safe passage on your journey.
Aquagirl
August 28th, 2012
7:38 am
Bought my car from a Hank Aaron Dealership. No hate in me.
Just when you thought nobody would top “some of my best friends are black!”
You can’t make this stuff up.
skydog
August 28th, 2012
7:39 am
In the `50s me and all my friends down in Albany were raised by maids during working hours.
Our parents never considered that the maids may be an influence on their kids. Kids are not smart at this young age and maids are inherently dumb.
That plan backfired.
Thomas Heyward Jr
August 28th, 2012
7:40 am
General Motors is halting, for a month, the manufacture of its well-known Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric car.
.
lol
skydog
August 28th, 2012
7:41 am
ken, We ain`t branding you, but the birds of a feather rule kicks in.
ken
August 28th, 2012
7:42 am
Dog, Due to just getting up, my words didn’t come out right. I should have said that , Because I am a conservative, people brand me as a racist. Not a thought in my mind is racist. Now to my coffee. Have a good day.
skydog
August 28th, 2012
7:43 am
Dang Thomas, Got trader? Nothing like pulling against the home team.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:44 am
Remind us what party George Wallace was aligned with? Georgia’s own Herman Talmadge could take up some serious racial hate and was a (D).
Doggone/GA
August 28th, 2012
7:44 am
“I should have said that , Because I am a conservative, people brand me as a racist”
Too late to back it out now. You’ve said you are a racist. You own it.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:46 am
Libs – the “all inclusive party” as long as you are not a white male, evil rich, a Christian, a redneck, etc.
Skip
August 28th, 2012
7:48 am
My wife used to work for Hank, thought he was out of the car business? Had dinner with him once, seemed like a nice guy.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:49 am
““I should have said that , Because I am a conservative, people brand me as a racist”
Too late to back it out now. You’ve said you are a racist. You own it”
The people who live in the 57 states that constitute the USA agree with you.
Lord Help Us
August 28th, 2012
7:50 am
Milt, got any teleprompter jokes?
Frederick Douglass
August 28th, 2012
7:51 am
ken, Hank Aaron owns those dealerships like Uncle Ben owns the rice company that he shills for.
Mick
August 28th, 2012
7:53 am
The 57 state thing again? Kind of matches the IQ of those who keep flogging it…
skydog
August 28th, 2012
7:53 am
Milty,
Do you think most of us don`t know the bigots in Ga switched Ds for Rs in the 60s?
I still have a can of Barry Goldwaters AU H2O drink that was a campaign give away. Some of us don`t have to look this stuff up Milt, we lived through it.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:53 am
“My wife used to work for Hank, thought he was out of the car business? Had dinner with him once, seemed like a nice guy.”
I believe he sold them all but one – the Honda or Toyota one he kept. He owns (or did) a boat load of fast food restaurants.
Tundra Dude
August 28th, 2012
7:53 am
Bought my car from a Hank Aaron Dealership. No hate in me.
Just when you thought nobody would top “some of my best friends are black!”
There were zero blacks in Nawth Wiscy, where I was raised, but I did eat in the same restaurant with a black person once…..Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
7:55 am
“The 57 state thing again? Kind of matches the IQ of those who keep flogging it…”
If my IQ is 57 pal, that is 3x yours.
bob
August 28th, 2012
7:56 am
Romney will put y’all back in chains !
Willis
August 28th, 2012
7:57 am
Suprising? Shouldn’t be. The Republicans have shown themselves quite willing to use every weapon in their arsenal of garbage in the effort to defeat Obama. The truth doesn’t matter but the American people, in the end, will stand by the President.
JamVet
August 28th, 2012
7:59 am
Libs – the “all inclusive party”…
You mean the Democrats?
Who have a 30% black representation? And who have a ton of Latinos, Asian-Americans, Jews and other minorities, along with highly educated, very wealthy white Americans, Catholics and Protestants?
Or do you mean the All White GOP with its 2% black membership?
And my post this morning is apparently very bad news for our gossipping, Stepford Wife, ex-Marine numerologist.
Why does he hate free speech so much?
LOL…
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
8:00 am
“Do you think most of us don`t know the bigots in Ga switched Ds for Rs in the 60s?”
…and now you have replaced them with the likes of Cynthia McKinney, John Eaves, Shirley Franklin, John Lewis, Andrew Young, etc. but you clowns think that these idiots cannot be racists????
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2006/11/06/franklin_lewis_young_on_fulton.html
skydog
August 28th, 2012
8:00 am
bob-”Romney will put y’all back in chains !”
Better chains than that funky underwear.
bob
August 28th, 2012
8:00 am
Skydog, such a revisionist, if those bigots all switched to the repub party in the 60’s why did dems keep total control of GA politics until 2002 ? Only one national senator switched to repub so your 60’s line is quite wrong.
Mick
August 28th, 2012
8:01 am
milt
It’s always nice to read an attempt at a putdown by a clueless cliche monger, kee working it…
MeMe
August 28th, 2012
8:03 am
Seeming how Romney’s ad writer is the same guy that put out the “Willie Horton” video … nuff said!
Tundra Dude
August 28th, 2012
8:04 am
“The 57 state thing again?
Think I can explain it. He’d just come from a foreign policy briefing and was given the Hit List:
(snipped)
As retired General Wesley Clark writes in “Winning Modern Wars,” US foreign policy over the last 20 years has focused on regime change in seven countries:
Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan. All seven, except Syria, are oil rich countries targeted owing to their refusal to privatize their oil resources for the benefit of Anglo American oil companies.
Wilbur
August 28th, 2012
8:05 am
Obama and his surrogates have been busy for months sharpening divisions, creating wedges to divide and causes to make new classes of victims to motivate their base. Obama has been the most divisive president in history and his campaign has cynically played the race card all over and over again. The media has turned a blind eye.
But the American people have not.
Now Bookman and the media have orders from their masters to try to make the republicans somehow guilty too. Bookman, like the rest of the loyal lapdogs is writing his editorial on demand, parroting what the campaign needs him to say. It’s pathetic that so called journalists have decided to support the most partisan, most divisive administration in the history of our republic.
Paul
August 28th, 2012
8:05 am
Blog’s reading like Republican convention-goers who spent opening day, and night, and the next morning glued to their seats at the bar…
That, and our resident attention hound desperately needs a hug.
Aquagirl
August 28th, 2012
8:05 am
I once ate at Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, even though I had to drive 30 miles from my lily-white exurb. I am a obviously a friend to the colored folk.
Gale
August 28th, 2012
8:05 am
Since this is still active, I’ll toss in a couple cents. I think of myself as pretty non-biased racially. I grew up in a very white community in the 50-60’s. I was oblivious to the freedom marches in the South. I was oblivious to segregation. I now work in a very mixed race and ethnic environment. I do think many of my black coworkers have different values from mine, but I strongly suspect it is a North/South thing and has nothing at all to do with race. Am I still oblivious to reality?
Paul
August 28th, 2012
8:06 am
“parroting what the campaign needs him to say.”
Wilbur, did you have an original thought in that entire post?
JamVet
August 28th, 2012
8:09 am
Obama has been the most divisive president in history…
Hysterical.
Lemme guess, the second hour of Lush Rimjob’s show yesterday?
Paul
August 28th, 2012
8:10 am
Gale
Sounds as if you recognize that not all attitudinal differences in this great melting pot of ours is race-based.
I’d just say as with most things, it may not be an ‘either-or’ situation (all North/South thing OR nothing to do with race).
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:11 am
“In his ambition to become president, Mitt Romney is trotting out the race card, calling upon and reinforcing old resentments and racial stereotypes to generate votes and support.”
It is the only possible way for Governor Romney to win.
He does not want us to really talk about his Bain experience as a vulture capitalist or his term as Governor where he presided over
the state 47th in job creation.
He stands to win ONLY if he can get every racist slimeball to crawl out from under a rock to the voting booth. What’s that…20-25% of the population?
While every Republican is not a racist, I no longer know any racist who is not one.
These people are the GOP base, we’ve seen them at Tea Party rallys with signs representing the President as a monkey, we see them on the intertoobs with posts of a hanging Obama labeled ROPE not hope….we see
it in the subtle and not so subtle rantings here on this blog.
These are your people….
And they are a disease in our society.
phdroberts
August 28th, 2012
8:12 am
We are unable to live in a world where there is so much for everybody. We tend to try and be above those who don’t have it or poor. Normally, we always say blacks and have pictures sent accross the TV or media anyway they can. racism in all forms hurt’s all of us no matter who we are. I am sure President Obama have taken so many hits and he will endure more of them but he takes it well. Romney don’t have the rights to create, start, talk or even have it mentioned that he is far better than President Obama, Ryan will break and bring Romney down….it will come over a dispute for something Ryan will do and not openly say. Then is the dressing of both of them, unprofessionally and they both look like streets thugs….in every way and none of us can discount their appearences. I think being a human being living here in America has gotten the best of our people because we have not tried to live together among one and other, rather, we try to be apart. I seen this in my own people; living where the whites does; dressing, talking, and even trying to emulate them. So none of us can talk, nor can other races, we all will sink together because what is under my foot you have the same. All of the material things we have……..it will not matter in the end. The buck stop with our elected leaders who put up a front and then can’t back up what they say……true with this 2012 2013 President election coming to surface!
OBIWAN
August 28th, 2012
8:14 am
I am so glad the democrats never lie… oh wait that is a lie….. I am so glad our president has never lied to the public…. Oh waits that is a lie… The issue here is that they are all liars only the loser liberals don’t believe that a democrat would lie, right Jay….. What a joke!
Tundra Dude
August 28th, 2012
8:15 am
I once ate at Gladys Knight’s Chicken and Waffles, even though I had to drive 30 miles from my lily-white exurb. I am a obviously a friend to the colored folk.
Great! Imo, if you drive that far, you’re more than just a friend, you’re an activist.
As a lusty merchant mariner, do I get points for not discriminating against blacks in African ports….??
MiltonMan
August 28th, 2012
8:15 am
The OJC made a pledge to not endorse any political candidates back in 2009. Jay likes to “skirt” this pledge.
OBIWAN
August 28th, 2012
8:16 am
I am so glad that the democrats are far above using the race card, right Jay? What a lie that is!
Mick
August 28th, 2012
8:16 am
obi
Actually, this is the lying season for one and all brought to you by our brilliant supreme court 5-4, full speed ahead…
Gale
August 28th, 2012
8:16 am
Good point, Paul. We are all many-faceted.
JamVet
August 28th, 2012
8:18 am
Mitt Romney and Rand Paul are among the innumerable stealth racists in government.
They justify their abhorrent racially targeted statements by cloaking them in terms of fiscal policy.
Thus their code words – “entitlement society”, “poor work ethic”, “food stamp president, etc.
But occassionally their poisoned racial animus lips out as when Ricky Santorum said he meant “blah people” — when the world heard him say “black people” — as he spoke about parasitic Americans who get better lives by taking “somebody else’s money.
Or when Nut Gangrene declared that black people should demand jobs instead of food stamps. And he has proposed having poor students work as janitors in their high schools. Regardless of how they were intended, poor people and minorities sense that with those comments Gingrich is winking — some call it “dog whistling” — at certain white audiences by intimating that black people are lazy, happy to live off the government and lacking any intellect.
Updated, politically correct Klansmen…
Aquagirl
August 28th, 2012
8:22 am
As a lusty merchant mariner, do I get points for not discriminating against blacks in African ports….??
No, donating your good genes to the inferior races earns you points in the White Man’s Burden category instead.
point of no return
August 28th, 2012
8:24 am
MiltonMan someone on this blog once said “You is kind. You is Smart. You is important”
Pat yourself on the back because you are project the image of a a narcissist without a heart!
point of no return
August 28th, 2012
8:26 am
Pat yourself on the back because you are project the image of a a narcissist without a heart!
_____should be
because you project the image of a a narcissist without a heart!
skydog
August 28th, 2012
8:28 am
Hey tennesseered,
Jerry wrote a song just for you. That`s Garcia, not Clower.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxgRYeO34O4
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:28 am
Need evidence?
see
tenneseered
August 28th, 2012
8:19 am
***Don't Mess With Texas***
August 28th, 2012
8:30 am
Anytime that a sitting judge can make public comments about taking up arms, you best believe that he has caused a lot of harm to minorities that have entered his courtroom.
Texas official warns of Obama civil war
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Lubbock-judge-warns-of-Obama-civil-war-3807672.php
Cosby
August 28th, 2012
8:30 am
Give me a break….Obama and crew have been using the “Race” card from the get go. Obama promotes class warefare – tax those evil rich guye – mostly white – to Biden putting everyone back in chains….to pushing granny off the cliff….gee Jay, if you are going to pick a topic to slam Mitt, pick something else besides race and class warfare – a signature of Barry “Obama” Soetoro….in the meantime, unemployment is historically high, gas is more than double than when Obama to over, more and more folks are on food stamps, trillions have been spent with no appreciable job increases but only those friendly with Barry getting rich, and lets throw a little “Race” into the equation – the afro-american unemployment rate is in double digits..gee he is really helping his own..but wait..he is not black..but bi-racial…gee…time to take a look at where this country is going and get some new leadership including new members of congress..but lets race bait Jay..no better than Biden and his put you back in chanis attitude.
TaxPayer
August 28th, 2012
8:31 am
Come on Jay. You know Mitt needs the votes of more than just the self-proclaimed non-racist conservative Sons of Confederate Veterans that post here regularly. He needs the rest of the Republican base too so he has to pander to them.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:33 am
Need more evidence?
Cosby
August 28th, 2012
8:30 am
***Don't Mess With Texas***
August 28th, 2012
8:33 am
Cosby
August 28th, 2012
8:30 am
Black people have been struggling for years…This is nothing new!
kayaker 71
August 28th, 2012
8:34 am
“I hate white people….. all of them!!!” “You want freedom, you gonna have to kill some crackers!! You gonna have to kill some their babies”.
Some Black Panther thug,
Philadelphia, July 2012
Thomas Heyward Jr
August 28th, 2012
8:35 am
All races would be better off………………………………without Washington.
philosopher
August 28th, 2012
8:36 am
The human brain’s ability to twist lies and ignorance into statements that seem to support the ignorance and bias they choose to live by is absolutely astonishing.
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:36 am
I admit, I’m surprised: Jay Bookman stirs the racial pot.
Romney, on the other hand, did no such thing.
gm
August 28th, 2012
8:37 am
This is obvious, Mitt is trying to paint the President as welfare to blacks, but what about the millions of whites who are on welfare? here are no blacks in Iowa, Mont, Wy, those people are receiving welfare.
What is amazing is how some conservative poor , middle class whites believe a rich white millionare who dont give a dam about middle class whites, the man wants to give you a vocher for medicaid, after years of taking this out your check.
Obama mistake was believing in white America and trying to save these people, he should have let bin ladin attack the right one more time, he should have let the auto industry fail so more middle class whites would be unemployed, he should have let the teachers, firemen, police officers all lose their jobs.
President Obama did not learn what most blacks know, that whites dont respect you unless you are entertaining them on the sports field, and they have no loyalty toward the President unless he is white.
skydog
August 28th, 2012
8:37 am
Some Black Panther thug,
Philadelphia, July 2012
He had an army of like 4.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
August 28th, 2012
8:37 am
Enter your comments here
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
August 28th, 2012
8:38 am
Whoops…Had a brain burp…
***Don't Mess With Texas***
August 28th, 2012
8:38 am
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:36 am
The racial tide never left. It only grew higher once Barack Obama became president.
Paul
August 28th, 2012
8:39 am
Peadawg
“Romney, on the other hand, did no such thing.”
Because? (Insert supporting points here).
Peter
August 28th, 2012
8:39 am
The real gutting is what Romney did to American Businesses as a Raider for profit.
Tundra Dude
August 28th, 2012
8:40 am
As a lusty merchant mariner, do I get points for not discriminating against blacks in African ports….??
No, donating your good genes to the inferior races earns you points in the White Man’s Burden category instead.
partypooper….
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:40 am
It is sort of ironic that Governor Romney says President Obama
is making changes to welfare to “shore up his base”…when in reality
the majority of welfare goes to white folks.
So President Obama is shoring up……Mitt’s base.
St Simons - he-ne-ha
August 28th, 2012
8:41 am
No matter how many times the fat drug addict on the raydio says it,
we are not racists for noticing your racism, cons.
Racism is one of the most uncivilized behaviors.
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:42 am
“Because? (Insert supporting points here).”
I laid out my points yesterday. IMO when Romney said “shore up his base”, he was talking about the poor/middle class in general. Jay and others need a parachute to make the leap they’re making.
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:43 am
“when in reality
the majority of welfare”
goes to the poor/middle class. Why bring race into this, Granny?
tenneseered
August 28th, 2012
8:44 am
Granny Gorilla, er, Godzilla:
Why don’t you take a crack at this paragraph?
You live in Atlanta. Do you ever shop at West End Mall; Greenbriar? Would you consider doing so? Would you feel safe there? If you do shop there, and you drive an old Impala or Caprice, do not leave it unattended in the parking lot if you want it to be there when you return. Ooops! Did I say something racist? No! I am only speaking truth. Perhaps you have worshipped at the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam on Fayetteville Road? Did you enjoy the message? Did you feel comfortable with the message and the experience? Your car is probably safe there.
JamVet
August 28th, 2012
8:44 am
red, I ge tit.
You are terrified of black people. And your mindless stereotypes – that you foolishly call truth – about them stealing your Chevy while you shop at the mall confirms that you are a good southern Republican.
Here is the truth, red. You make up the “truth’ to justify your obvious racial paranoia…
gtt
August 28th, 2012
8:45 am
And personally, the straw that broke the camel’s back came in a new interview with USA Today in which Romney charged that Obama was gutting the work requirement in welfare law in order to “shore up his base.”
What an illogical leap off a cliff. I admit, I’m surprised.
Jay
August 28th, 2012
8:47 am
Tenneseered, quit spamming or be banned.
And sheets!
Ronin
August 28th, 2012
8:47 am
While I’m no fan of Romney, frankly, he should be able to play the race card all day long. The Rev. Jackson and Al “the pinhead” Sharpton play it ALL day long, yet no one takes them to task. With all the gaffes by Joe Biden (they’re going to put you back in chains), Romney is a saint by comparison.
So, go ahead and stir the political pot Jay. It’s intellect vs. emotion in November and I believe that common sense will prevail vs. the hope and change mantra. For in fact things have changed, for the worse.
kayaker 71
August 28th, 2012
8:49 am
“White people are potential humans…. they haven’t evolved yet.”
“The white man is our mortal enemy and we cannot accept him.”
Louis Farrakhan
Butch Cassidy (I)
August 28th, 2012
8:50 am
kayaker 71 – ““I hate white people….. all of them!!!” “You want freedom, you gonna have to kill some crackers!! You gonna have to kill some their babies”.
“Black people were better off back in the 1920’s than they are today”
kayaker 71 July 2012
HDB
August 28th, 2012
8:50 am
What people here are failung to realize….the GOP’s “Southern Strategy” was designed to marginalize black people nationally….and the deviser of that “Strategy” came out and SAID it in the late 60’s!! Kevin Phillips basically said that “….as a Republican, black people have no place in his party.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46979738/ns/msnbc-up_with_chris_hayes/#48793926
***Don't Mess With Texas***
August 28th, 2012
8:50 am
kayaker 71
August 28th, 2012
8:49 am
What color are you and where are you from?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:51 am
tenneseered
August 28th, 2012
8:41 am
Take a crack at that paragraph?
Ok it appears to be the frightened ravings of a huge coward.
Be brave little buckaroo…..
point of no return
August 28th, 2012
8:53 am
kayaker 71
August 28th, 2012
8:49 am
What COUNTY do you live in?
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:53 am
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:43 am
“when in reality
the majority of welfare”
goes to the poor/middle class. Why bring race into this, Granny?
.
.
You’re so appealing when you are naive. Like a fluffy little kitten with great big eyes.
Race is part of it.
Fidlin1
August 28th, 2012
8:54 am
Well Jay, the white guilt ploy isn’t going to fly in this election. Obama has a record he can’t run on and the race card is laughable.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 28th, 2012
8:56 am
Ronin
umpteenth time plus 2
Biden – chains
Santorum-shackles
West-Democratic plantation
you say tomato
Peadawg
August 28th, 2012
8:57 am
“Race is part of it.”
Only to people like you and Jay. Sad.
TaxPayer
August 28th, 2012
9:00 am
As I recall McCain got about half the white vote as did Obama in 2008, 48 to 52% or something like that. Further, Obama got a good percentage of the educated white and young white vote. McCain got many of the poor white votes. Obama got nearly all the black votes. So, making a statement about there being more whites on welfare and therefore Romney was not referring to minorities when talking about Obama’s welfare recipient base, or other such claims, is a fallacy.
Mike
August 28th, 2012
9:31 am
“The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.”-Proverbs 29:7
gm
August 28th, 2012
9:46 am
White educated males, will vote for Obama because they realize the importance of moving America to the 21st century, when you have Mitt who will cut pell grants, they will come out like 2008.
Poor undecated whites will never vote for Obama even if he had unemployment rate at 0, look at Mich, Obama saved over million of these poor middle class white auto workers jobs and he is tied with the man who said let them go bankrupt, had this been Clinton or Bush poor whites would have been on their knees kissing their rear ends.
It does not matter if Obama has family values, morales, bigot white men backed Clinton and Newt this says it all about the character of of most white males”””
PewtieNewtie
August 28th, 2012
10:09 am
Now, if Romney will stay away from trying to appeal to White Southerners with any references to Uncle Remus’ “Tar Baby Story.”
Ronin
August 28th, 2012
10:11 am
Granny, I don’t really care for any of them. They’re all party mouthpieces.
The country would be better off if the party system was abolished. Not gonna happen.
I would vote for Wanda Sykes ALL DAY long before either of these two guys.
tenneseered
August 28th, 2012
10:11 am
Sorry about the spamming. I was unsuccessfully trying to edit. I am new at this game. Awaiting moderation.
Steve
August 28th, 2012
10:35 am
Romney made no racists remarks. The only mention of race in the article is mentioned by Jay.
Weak sauce there Jay!