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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Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 27th, 2012
4:22 pm
OMG, this might be the best Democrat-leaning ploy yet!
GOP Readies Major Porn Crackdown
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/gop-anti-porn-plank-platform_n_1833840.html
mwuahahahahahahahaha. That’ll get the masses to the polls!
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:22 pm
WELCOME
“josef, funny you mention Indiana, which is where I sit as I write this..”
Okay, then, still…why Mississippi and not Indiana…?
Mitt Who Are You?....Do You Trust A Man Who Wears Religious Underwear and Who Believes in the White Horse Prophecy?
August 27th, 2012
4:23 pm
@Jm
August 27th, 2012
4:09 pm
Common Characteristics of a Tea Party member:
1: Less than a HS diploma
2: No marketable working skill sets
3: Having children prior to 18
4: Having children out of wedlock
LinkReport this comment
-that’s incredibly racist
*******************************************************************
The individuals who make up the Tea Party movement are largely conservative
and get their news from Fox; they’re generally old and of low income;
and they’re fairly convinced that their taxes are going to rise in the next few years,
even though they likely won’t.
Fifty-six percent of Tea Party respondents are male;
22 percent are over the age of 65 (compared with just 14 percent who
are between the ages of 18 and 34)
Brosephus™
August 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
Nothin like some good ole fashioned race baitin to get Jay and the kooks all stirred up. Romney and welfare recipients = red meat for the denizens of kook land.
Funny considering that there’s probably more noise against Jay than agreeing with Jay, but I’m sure you’ll stick with what you THINK you see.
saywhat?
August 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
RB from Gwinnett
August 27th, 2012
3:09 pm
Jay, if you want to pretend the “less fortunate” class in this country isn’t voting for liberals who will keep the gravy flowing and the Obama’s of the nation aren’t keeping the gravy flowin in exchange for those votes, you go right ahead. Keep living in fantasy land.
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RB, if you want to pretend the “more fortunate” class in this country isn’t voting for conservatives who will keep the gravy flowing, and the Romney’s of the nation aren’t keeping the gravy flowin in exchange for those votes, you go right ahead. Keep living in fantasy land.
Given that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer (does anybody actually dispute this?), which way would you say the “gravy is flowin”, RB? Who is living in fantasy land?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
August 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
Warning!!!!!
Warning!!!!!
Expect to pay QUADRUPLE the PRICES for yer PORN under President Romney!!!!!!!
Mitt Who Are You?....Do You Trust A Man Who Wears Religious Underwear and Who Believes in the White Horse Prophecy?
August 27th, 2012
4:25 pm
MYTH and MS. ANN Robme says they love shopping at Costco.
Yeah right.
I love shopping at the Dollar Store,
Yeah right.
Don Abernethy
August 27th, 2012
4:25 pm
Here we go again trying to divert attention from the economy,jobs, and the deficit.
Brosephus™
August 27th, 2012
4:26 pm
<i.If after several decades of working there she was STILL making a low enough salary that welfare would be better, that seems to speak to more to the character of those employing her than her own character…I guess they never heard of the concept of a “living wage.”
josef
I didn’t even want to waste the time to point that out. Glad you did. I’m fresh out of dealing with stupid.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 27th, 2012
4:26 pm
Funny considering that there’s probably more noise against Jay than agreeing with Jay…
red meat for the denizens of kook land.
Recon 0311 2533
August 27th, 2012
4:26 pm
“Jay knows deep down how much of a failure Obama has been.”
USMC, Jay might but for many on the hard-left Obama has been doing a great job of downsizing America’s leadership in the world and transforming this country more and more into a socialist state.
Jm
August 27th, 2012
4:27 pm
Josef 4:12
Take your pick
It’s a conundrum isn’t it
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
4:27 pm
“Here we go again ”
blogspot.com is ready when you are
moonbat betty
August 27th, 2012
4:28 pm
Well, that’s IT!
I’m voting for Obama now.
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
WATCH: Chris Matthews Explodes At RNC Chairman..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/chris-matthews-reince-priebus-birth-certificate_n_1832872.html?utm_hp_ref
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
4:29 pm
How’s that drug test requirement for those in search of medicare here in Georgia working out? Is it keeping the meth heads off welfare?
USMC
August 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
Must see for all of you on this blog…
Star Parker: Welfare dependency destroys black families
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqtE-f0yZoA
The sad reality of welfare… I guess this black woman is RACIST… right, Jay???
Or may be Faux News just made this up… LOL!
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
JM
But you didn’t answer the question….
Ahem
August 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
The poor pathetic whacky left and their willing loons.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tampa-republican-conventions-code-pink-vagina-protesters-365541
Jay, where is the outrage against the “racist” leftie protesters? The video shows pink vaginas; male vaginas; tall vaginas; short vaginas; and ugly vaginas, but no black vaginas. Where is the outrage?
Williebkind
August 27th, 2012
4:30 pm
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
I love that!
JohnnyReb
August 27th, 2012
4:32 pm
Well Jay, please allow me to post another “sad” rebuttal. Data from The Heritage Foundation.
Most states average around 40,000 welfare cases per month of which around 600 exit from welfare – what is called employment exits.
Under the new Obama rule, which by the way he has no authority to put in place, such a state would only have to increase the employment exits by 120 to automatically qualify the other 39,000 cases for welfare without them seeking employment.
As the economy improves, the employment exits will increase to a percentage where all applicants will qualify without seeking work. We will be right back to the place that Clinton and Congress specifically wrote a law to avoid.
It does not matter that some Republican Governors asked for a modification. The point is, the law was written to specifically avoid what Obama has done. He’s buying votes. It has nothing to do with race.
You can spin it anyway you wish. He’s wrong and so are you.
Jm
August 27th, 2012
4:32 pm
Josef
Correct
USMC
August 27th, 2012
4:32 pm
“red meat for the denizens of kook land.”-Kamcheck Thug (at least he admits it)
Says the Blog bully who lives on blogs all day and night. LOL!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 27th, 2012
4:33 pm
Star Parker is an American syndicated columnist, Republican politician, social critic, book author, and conservative political activist.
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:33 pm
USMC
Welfare dependency destroys all kinds of families…the question is why do we have this cycle? There are reasons and it’s just as much the fault of the conservative out of touch with reality as it is the Plantation Liberal out of touch with reality…a lot of emotional rhetoric and sound bites with no substance for a plan to get out of the mess…
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:35 pm
Brocephus,
Come on now. The column and issue were stirred up by Jay and man is he doing the gumby stretch on this one. Admit it. Jay was just aching to get his hate on with some good racial animus. As were the kooks. Look at em. They all fired up they are.
bman
August 27th, 2012
4:36 pm
Moonbat .. .. You too ??
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 27th, 2012
4:36 pm
Data from The Heritage Foundation.
There’s your sign.
JohnnyReb
August 27th, 2012
4:38 pm
Watch it, sport. At least it shows I do more than watch FOX.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 27th, 2012
4:38 pm
TM
here
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/18/542121/romney-walfare-waivers-2005/
or here
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=rga%20welfare%20work%20republican%20governors&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFIQFjAA&url=http://www.finance.senate.gov/newsroom/chairman/download/%3Fid%3Dc6a46681-ee81-4a4e-a608-a1eabd1b2f90&ei=YFcEUOerCobs0gHZ_JC0Bw&usg=AFQjCNFmoK5iAj_S31jEQ3W7ofzQ36Z43g
Unless someone forged his signature….or his aides did it (like Ryan and the stimulus requests)
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
4:38 pm
too funny
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway
skipper
August 27th, 2012
4:39 pm
The prez had Eric Holder on the staff, for God’s sake…..that is enough for me to vote against him “FERGITTIN’” the race card (or any others in the deck, for that matter!) I actually wish Holder WERE white, so I would not be branded a racist for disliking him vehemently.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
Finn McCool (The System isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed)
August 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
Warning!!!!!
Warning!!!!!
Expect to pay QUADRUPLE the PRICES for yer PORN under President Romney!!!!!!!
It was pretty pricing at Marriotts under Romney…..
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
“GOP set to OK most pro-gun platform ever” :
Great !
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
hi josef!! Happy Healthy Harmonious Monday to ya!! Monday started off with a bang, and it seems it’s gonna end the same way.
As for your comment, you’re right. But just the fact that that jackazz could even mention it as an “example” of a welfare queen, is just too much ignorance to bear.
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:40 pm
Aw hell. I just realized that I ordered all white meat on my 3 piece chicken lunch at KFC earlier today. Looks like the libs are gonna send me to racial sensitivity training. Seems my palate is an enemy of equal outcomes. I can just hear the poo screaming as foamy froth runs down the sides of his mouth- “What wrong with you Doomy? You don’t like dark meat? Racist!”
JohnnyReb
August 27th, 2012
4:41 pm
It’s OK skipper. Screw political correctness, it’s killing the country. If a person is a sorry ass, they are one regardless of their color.
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:41 pm
skipper
“I actually wish Holder WERE white, so I would not be branded a racist for disliking him vehemently.”
Me, too.
JP
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
“shore up his base” refers to people on welfare, not necessarily blacks. Sounds like it is you who equates welfare=blacks, not Romney.
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
Out of sight, out of mind. Right, cons.
Ahem
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
Maybe we’ve been duped by the host. His last four threads, excluding the non-controversial Armstrong death topic, have only garnered an average of 257 posts. The boss demands better, so expect the next few topics to be really out there.
Welcome to the Occupation
August 27th, 2012
4:42 pm
josef: “Okay, then, still…why Mississippi and not Indiana…?”
Because of this: http://blog.nola.com/news_impact/2008/11/Obama-white-vote-nov09-2008.gif
USMC
August 27th, 2012
4:43 pm
AMEN! Josef@4:33. I concur, Professor Nix. Well said.
But to label Mittens as a RACIST, as Jay does, is absolutely ridiculous and amoral.
But Jay is actually having the last laugh, as we are NOT talking about Obama’s failed record or the ECONOMY and our NATIONAL DEBT. etc.
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
@Thulsa Doom…You must be proud of the entitlements this country has allowed you. Just keep ordering your 3 piece white at ur local KFC and they will keep you out of sensitivity classes.
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
Among the poorest of the poor–single mothers, living below the poverty line with minor children to support 39.7 percent of AFDC clients are Black single mothers and 38.1 percent are White women with children. Food stamp recipients are 37.2 percent Black and 46.2 percent White. Medicaid benefits are paid to 27.5 percent Black recipients compared to 48.5 percent White clients.
Although the numbers show that Whites get the biggest chunk of public aid dollars, welfare critics still charge that Blacks shouldn’t collect 33 percent of welfare benefits when they only make up 12 percent of the general population.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
4:44 pm
Finn – Didn’t you know that there is a moratorium on porn? It’s true! The porn industry has decided to take break for a couple of months. Something about syphillis and old people who still want to perform.
Ahem
August 27th, 2012
4:45 pm
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:41 pm
skipper
“I actually wish Holder WERE white, so I would not be branded a racist for disliking him vehemently.”
Me, too.
Dollars to doughnuts that if he were caucasian he would have been jettisoned long ago. You know it; I know; America knows it; and Obama knows it. Heck, even Jay knows it.
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:45 pm
DDR
Howdy, Love…and a Happy Healthy Harmonious Monday to you, too…
As for your comment on my comment…it makes you wonder just what planet some people are on…
USMC
August 27th, 2012
4:46 pm
“Aw hell. I just realized that I ordered all white meat on my 3 piece chicken lunch at KFC earlier today.”–Thulsa Doom
You’re okay Doomy as long as one of those pieces of white meat was a WING.
(and if you got hot sauce to put on your chicken, as I always do, you get a pass too)
DannyX
August 27th, 2012
4:46 pm
Check out the Republican Governors Association letter Mitt Romney himself signed when he was governor of Massachusetts. Romney and 28 other Republican governors including Rick Perry, Sonny Perdue, and Haley Barbour signed the letter asking for similar waivers to the work requirement.
http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/112/2005_Romney_Letter.pdf
Welcome to the Occupation
August 27th, 2012
4:48 pm
USMC: “But Jay is actually having the last laugh, as we are NOT talking about Obama’s failed record or the ECONOMY and our NATIONAL DEBT”
Failed on the national debt?
Have you ever actually seen a chart or table with the contributions of the various programs to the national debt?
I’ll give you a hint: Republican policies and wars played a CRITICAL role in it.
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:49 pm
“There’s your sign.”
Kamspam-
[ kamspam] Show IPA noun, verb, kamspammed, kamspam·ming.
1.
Trademark . a canned nonsensical response product conveying stupidity- consisting especially of pork formed into a solid block.
2. kamspamming( lowercase ) disruptive liberal gobbledeegook, pointless and mundane messages posted on a blog masquerading as intelligent debate.
verb (used with object)
3. ( lowercase ) to send kamspam to.
verb (used without object)
4.( lowercase ) to send kamspam.
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
4:50 pm
Unlawful race-based hiring practices keep Blacks from getting jobs that pay enough to lift them out of poverty. Until more blue-collar jobs open up to Black workers, Blacks will continue to battle poverty and the freeloader misconception.
Mitt Who Are You?....Do You Trust A Man Who Wears Religious Underwear and Who Believes in the White Horse Prophecy?
August 27th, 2012
4:50 pm
MYTH ROBME HOLDS SPECIAL EVENT FOR HIS MILLIONAIRE AND
BILLIONAIRE DONORS.
EVERYONE ELSE IF YOU ARE NOT RICH
ITS YOUR FAULT.
I BET THE TEA PARTY HAS NOT BEEN INVITED.
THEY ARE TOO PO
willydoit?
August 27th, 2012
4:50 pm
I believe Romney was referring to the white folks on welfare when he said, “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.”
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:50 pm
WELCOME
But, again, why Mississippi? Where is the analysis of other states…I’m not at all arguing the reality of the data/analysis presented, but why Mississippi? In the case of your link, why not Louisiana?
AHEM
I’m not so sure of that if the Caucasian were from that same Cabal as Holder…that man is a back room dirt monger of the J’edgar Hoover mold and is getting by with what he’s getting by with for the same reasons J’edgar did.
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:51 pm
“Among the poorest of the poor–single mothers, living below the poverty line with minor children to support 39.7 percent of AFDC clients are Black single mothers and 38.1 percent are White women with children. Food stamp recipients are 37.2 percent Black and 46.2 percent White. Medicaid benefits are paid to 27.5 percent Black recipients compared to 48.5 percent White clients.”
Lazy ass white folk. Get a job whitey!
Mitt Who Are You?....Do You Trust A Man Who Wears Religious Underwear and Who Believes in the White Horse Prophecy?
August 27th, 2012
4:51 pm
@Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:49 pm
“There’s your sign.”
Kamspam-
[ kamspam] Show IPA noun, verb, kamspammed, kamspam·ming.
1.
Trademark . a canned nonsensical response product conveying stupidity- consisting especially of pork formed into a solid block.
2. kamspamming( lowercase ) disruptive liberal gobbledeegook, pointless and mundane messages posted on a blog masquerading as intelligent debate.
verb (used with object)
3. ( lowercase ) to send kamspam to.
verb (used without object)
4.( lowercase ) to send kamspam.
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Good lord.
Get a life.
td
August 27th, 2012
4:52 pm
Jm
August 27th, 2012
4:09 pm
Common Characteristics of a Tea Party member:
1: Less than a HS diploma
2: No marketable working skill sets
3: Having children prior to 18
4: Having children out of wedlock
LinkReport this comment
-that’s incredibly racis
Read the dam report before you go off accusing someone of being a racist. Some people can not see the facts due to the colored lenses they see their life through.
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/ic2/et/learner/general.html
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
4:53 pm
The sad reality of welfare… I guess this black woman is RACIST… right, Jay???
AGain, I must reiterate for the truly ignorant, that a paid instigator’s thoughts, mean less than nothing to anyone other than the people who pay to read/listen to them.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
August 27th, 2012
4:53 pm
Good lord.
Get a life.
Obsessing about me is his life.
I’m in his head.
Brosephus™
August 27th, 2012
4:54 pm
Admit it. Jay was just aching to get his hate on with some good racial animus. As were the kooks. Look at em. They all fired up they are.
Yep, you kooks (as you call them) are fired up. If there was nothing to do about it, why are y’all so intent on drowning Jay out. Seems that the best defense against something that’s false is to completely ignore it. However, “conservatives” flock to everything Jay writes like those green flies flock to fecal matter.
I’ll state it again, people are going to hear whatever they want to hear. I don’t agree with Jay on the racial issue, but I’m also not one of the kooks who are drooling at the mouth trying to drown out him and those who support that idea.
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:54 pm
USMC
Big Daddy and the Big House on the Liberal Plantation simply cannot conceive of racism in terms other than black and white. It’s the only pot they CAN stir. Like their conservative peers over at Twelve Oaks, they’ve got way too much invested in this dichotomy to ever question it and break with tradition…
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
4:55 pm
LOL..Boy those college correspondence classes are paying dividends today.
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:56 pm
Mitt who are you,
Touched a nerve I see. Look like someone need to follow they own advice they do.
josef
August 27th, 2012
4:57 pm
BROSEPHUS
:I don’t agree with Jay on the racial issue”
Are you saying you’re not a MAJOR historian?
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
4:58 pm
“Seems that the best defense against something that’s false is to completely ignore it”
Bro…I’m sorry, but I disagree with this vehemently. To ignore a falsehood is to give permission to spreadit. The best defense agains something that’s false is to REFUTE IT with the truth.
dave m
August 27th, 2012
4:59 pm
This so sad people,Im from the North and we never had these differences up there like down here….THIS SO CALLED RACE IS TURNING INTO A RACE WAR!!!
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
4:59 pm
Chris Matthews exploded at Reince Priebus on Monday’s “Morning Joe,” tearing into the Republican National Committee chairman and accusing his party of playing the race card.
The MSNBC host was livid over Mitt Romney’s recent birth certificate joke, and false claims that Obama ended work requirements for welfare.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
4:59 pm
Lazy ass white folk. Get a job whitey!
I’m so sick of your race baiting stupidity. Why not take your silly azz to the KKK blog where you belong? If you can’t at least have PRETEND to be a thinking, considerate adult, then go sit at the stooopid table with the men in white sheets.
oh and for the road:
Welfare a white secret
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
4:59 pm
I just don’t know what the hell is wrong with people today. Its like they don’t know nuthin and aint got a damn lick of sense as to what’s going on in the world around them.
This morning the kid next door who cuts my grass came over and I stiffarmed his little ass. Does the kid not freaking know that its football season???
Adults aint no better. Then the mail lady came to my front door. I disguised my coverage by hanging low around the side of the house. Then I came around and blind sided her with a bone jarring sack. I guess she didn’t know its football season either. Her and that 12 year old snot nosed kid must be libruls. Plus she fumbled my package. Hope she’s all right though.
Its football season folks. Doomy stoked. Some men will watch football. Some goobs will watch guys run around in shorts kicking a ball.
saywhat?
August 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
Just when you think that the Republican Party has reached the lowest depths of depravity and hate, somebody goes and adds a little more water to the pool.
bez
August 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
Good article. I believe racism is involved in the GOP campaign — whether Romney believes it or just knows that it will work for all those who hate Obama.
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
5:02 pm
Debbiedoright,
Lighten up and quit taking this stuff so seriously. Gee whiz.
josef
August 27th, 2012
5:03 pm
DAVE
I nominate that one at 4:58 for the pious poof of the day! Jeeeze…we had to move BACK South to escape the targets painted on our butts up there…nope, no sale…
AND MORE OR LESS ON TOPIC
In Big Daddy’s defense, yes he is stirring the plot and playing the race card, BUT he’s not the one who put the ingredients into the pot and he’s not the one who called trumps…jus sayin
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
oh and for the road:
“Welfare a white secret.”
You reverse racist you!!!!
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney doesn’t care what fact-checkers think.
Even in the face of repeated debunkings by journalists, Romney’s presidential campaign has continued to produce new ads falsely claiming that President Barack Obama ended the requirement that people on welfare, formally known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, engage in work.
On Wednesday, the Des Moines Register confronted Romney about his false ads: “Iowans who consider you an honest man are asking why you would keep repeating something that isn’t true,” a reporter said during an interview with the Republican candidate…
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
5:04 pm
“I believe racism is involved in the GOP campaign”
Am I the only one who noticed that Jay did not use “racism” or “racist” or “bigot” or “bigotry” in his piece?
Steve Shamrock
August 27th, 2012
5:05 pm
I wonder if we will be getting a blog from Jay tomorrow or if he and Chris Matthews will still be licking their wounds from today.
Let’s debate the debt or unemployment tomorrow. Good times.
willydoit?
August 27th, 2012
5:06 pm
“Lighten up and quit taking this stuff so seriously. Gee whiz.”
Some of these folks really believe Jay thinks this way…he is just another 1%er having fun with the other 99%
USMC
August 27th, 2012
5:07 pm
“Unlawful race-based hiring practices keep Blacks from getting jobs that pay enough to lift them out of poverty. Until more blue-collar jobs open up to Black workers, Blacks will continue to battle poverty and the freeloader misconception.”
Kind of like AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, right??? LOL!
Charlie B
August 27th, 2012
5:08 pm
Sandra
August 27th, 2012
3:51 pm
May have already been stated but…
And it is exactly people like your brother that Mitt Romney was attempting rile in order to shore up his votes.
td
August 27th, 2012
5:08 pm
A General Profile of the Welfare Population – Urban Institute
90% of welfare parents are single mothers
10% married
36% divorced/widowed/separated
54% never married
Most welfare mothers are in their 20s and 30s
6% under 20 years of age
24% 20-24 years of age
22% 25-29 years of age
35% 30-39 years of age
13% 40 years of age or older
Welfare mothers are distributed among the major ethnic groups
37% White
36% African-American
20% Hispanic
6% Other
Academic levels of welfare recipients cover the full range of educational attainment
16% some college
42% completed high school
42% less than high school
Most welfare recipients have 1 or 2 children
41% 0-1 children
33% 2 children
16% 3 children
10% more than 3 children
Majority of welfare recipients have recent work experience
30% no recent work experience
70% some recent work experience
4.2 years average work experience
43% have worked in past 24 months
Average weeks worked in 24 months is 24 weeks
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/ic2/et/learner/general.html
josef
August 27th, 2012
5:09 pm
DOGGONE
He didn’t have to. Implication is everything.
Brosephus™
August 27th, 2012
5:09 pm
Are you saying you’re not a MAJOR historian?
I am a MINOR historian, of the non-revisionstic kind.
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Doggone
I understand that, and I’d normally agree with that. However, in the case of how the righties here constantly accuse Jay of things, if they really believed it, why even post here? All they do is inflate his post numbers. If I see something on Free Republic that’s a blatant lie, why post on there if I think it’s not gonna change a single mind?
If Jay was as wrong as the righties claim, they would have amassed an eon worth of proof. Yet, they barely even attempt a serious refuatation of his essays. That’s why I think silence in this instance would say far more than anything else. If you have no proof to refute something, then why claim it’s a lie?
td
August 27th, 2012
5:11 pm
“While 58% of TANF recipients claim to have high school diplomas or equivalencies, the remaining 42% report not completing high school. The National Institute for Literacy reports that the average welfare recipient reads on a sixth grade level. (NIL) Additionally, sampled assessments of the population do not support skill equivalencies to self-reported grade levels.”
“In an Urban Institute study of basic skills, almost two-thirds of welfare recipients tested on the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) – a measure with strong indicators to future employment and earnings – scored in the bottom quartile (lowest 25%) of the AFQT distribution. Low skills correlate to low-wage jobs, and therefore to a continued need for income supports. The report notes that women with low skills make the transition to steady employment very slowly, experiencing long periods of unemployment between short periods of low paying, unstable jobs. (Pavetti)”
Same UT study as above
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
5:11 pm
“Am I the only one who noticed that Jay did not use “racism” or “racist” or “bigot” or “bigotry” in his piece?”
I was too busy noticing this- race card, old resentments, racial stereotypes, blah blah blah.
“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.”
“Unfortunately, the accumulating evidence against Romney has grown too powerful to deny.”
Uh huh. Sure it is buddy. Whatevuh you say.
“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?”
Nice job of projecting there Jay.
getalife
August 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
The goal is back to full employment for the American people.
robme lost this argument with “trust me”.
The American people said no.
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
5:12 pm
“He didn’t have to. Implication is everything.”
I don’t think he was even implying any of those.
USMC
August 27th, 2012
5:13 pm
“I admit, I’m surprised: Romney campaign stirs the racial pot”–JAY BOOKMAN
Meanwhile…
Obama gives one-on-one to Glamour
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/obama-gives-oneonone-to-glamour-133304.html
Real Scootter
August 27th, 2012
5:13 pm
Am I the only one who noticed that Jay did not use “racism” or “racist” or “bigot” or “bigotry” in his piece?
Doggone,you might want to reread Jay’s headline. Jus sayin…….
St Simons - he-ne-ha
August 27th, 2012
5:13 pm
just watching from the sideline,
this racist thing is really weird. They tiptoe around it, but it comes
out, its almost ingrained in the way the cons think.
Feigned outrage is a poor defense, but its really all they have.
It will rear its ugly head before Nov – they can’t help themselves.
We have a saying about guilty dogs, but Shakespeare said it as well
‘methinks you do protest too much’
Thulsa Doom
August 27th, 2012
5:14 pm
“WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney doesn’t care what supposed fact-checkers from liberal newspapers think.”
Correction noted.
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
5:15 pm
” If I see something on Free Republic that’s a blatant lie, why post on there if I think it’s not gonna change a single mind? ”
Personally, I think it’s an attention getting ploy. Like toddlers throwing temper tantrums. They post here with their outrageous statements because it will get them the attention they crave.
getalife
August 27th, 2012
5:15 pm
Yes, you cons proved you are racists.
Again.
Old news.
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
5:16 pm
“Doggone,you might want to reread Jay’s headline. Jus sayin”
And where in the headline does any of those words occur?
George Washington Carver
August 27th, 2012
5:17 pm
@USMC..Kind of like AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, right??? LOL!
LOL…not just blacks are overlooked for these jobs, but woman as well.(B & W) Something that you and GOP should know a lot about..
USMC
August 27th, 2012
5:17 pm
“Good article. I believe racism is involved in the GOP campaign — whether Romney believes it or just knows that it will work for all those who hate Obama.”–Bez
It looks like Bez has been listening to too much HATE talk radio and watching Hateful MSNBC hosts like extremists Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann and Lawrence O’Donnell, chris matthews, etc.
getalife
August 27th, 2012
5:18 pm
I am surprised Jay still thinks the cons are credible.
That ship sailed with a birth certificate.
independent thinker
August 27th, 2012
5:18 pm
Mitt after getting booed out of the NAACP convention for ridiculing “Obamacare”- “”"”Those other folks want the free stuff.”"” Then he picks a running mate who gave away trillions of dollars of the free stuff under Bush but now votes against any appropriation from the White house even when nearly identical to his own. Yeah I ‘d like to see Mitt and Anne getting down in the “hood”.