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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Mitt Who Are You?....Do You Trust A Man Who Wears Religious Underwear and Who Believes in the White Horse Prophecy?
August 27th, 2012
7:18 pm
All this talk about PLAYING THE RACE CARD is funny.
UNTIL BLACKS AND HISPANICS ARE GIVEN THE SAME RIGHTS
AS OTHERS……..
THEN YES, THE RACE CARD IS BEING PLAYED FROM THE
BOTTOM OF THE DECK.
AND THE RACIST YAHOOS ARE LYING IF THEY SAY THEY
ARE NOT.
BLACK FOLKS KNOW RACISM WHEN WE SEE IT AND HEAR IT.
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:19 pm
Mick, Just because you have drank the socialist koolaid is your ignorance. And one thing you need to know is that this southern boy will debate with anyone anytime, when you decide to call me a name like that will get your fanny kicked!! If you think not then we can find a place and time to meet and discuss it.
Erwin's cat
August 27th, 2012
7:19 pm
Fred – time and temp is fat’s enemy
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
7:20 pm
“Least now I know why the chicken crossed the road… to get away from Doggone/GA and her car with dogs in it!!!!”
You betcha! My favorite though is: to prove to a ‘possum it can be done
F. Sinkwich
August 27th, 2012
7:20 pm
Jay has the DNC message calendar and adheres to it like a bible.
Today is “Mitt is a racist.”
Tomorrow is kinda if, then. He and his miserable comrades in the media are hoping for catastrophe in New Orleans tomorrow so they can then “Katrina” Mitt. Of course any statement remotely critical of O’bozo will be met with criticism of his insensitivity during a time of crisis.
The MSM will cameras everywhere looking for quotes from roof sitters claiming their misfortune is due to the policies Mitt wants to implement.
Predictable as the sun rising in the east tomorrow morning….
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
7:21 pm
Rabbit says:
” Cooper, the world’s oldest person, turned 116 on Sunday — only the eighth person in the world to reach that milestone.” I wonder if she possesses sufficient identification to satisfy he election board that she is eligible to vote after being eligible for 98 years?”
I think that would be “92 years” based on the 19th Amendment ratified in 1920.
That said:
“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Paul
August 27th, 2012
7:22 pm
7:18
Ignorant bigots aren’t taken seriously here, Mitt who are you.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
7:22 pm
USMC:
Herman Cain is there !!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:22 pm
jeff
If you want to find Mick head south. When you hit Cuba turn around and head north a ways.
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
7:22 pm
“And don’t let any one of those trucks overturn and spill their loads all over the highway”
Amen! I haven’t actually happened across one of those…but I’ve seen reports of them. Talk about pandemonium!
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 27th, 2012
7:22 pm
Well, I see NC’s been moved into the toss-up states. It use to be Lean Romney. This calls for pulling out all the stops for Romney. That old boy better mention pickup trucks and trains and mama in his acceptance speech if he don’t want to get ran over in November. And it might not hurt for him to be seen putting a big dip of Skoal in his lip later. If Romney loses NC they might as well bring No. 1 Foxy Lady on here the minute it happens.
Proud to be me
August 27th, 2012
7:24 pm
Shame on those whites who voted for Obama simply to prove they weren’t racist because they have been denigrated for the last 50 years and made to feel ashame of being white and wanted the world to see that a man of color could be elected President in a prodominately white country.
Brosephus™
August 27th, 2012
7:25 pm
I’ve seen the aftermath of overturned chicken trucks several times. I’ve also had the misfortune of driving through an area after a tornado destroyed a few breeding houses. That’s an image that you can’t easily shake.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
7:26 pm
oh goody a personal attack!! I’ve been waiting ALL NIGHT for this! Thanks k71, out of all the jackazzes it took a real dick like you to stick it to ‘em all in the ear!
You seem to be a person on a mission……bla, blah blah……All of that racial stuff ………..blah, blah, blah,……hate most everything conservative, blah blah blah blah……….is right.
No k71 i just hate YOU. Now, if you fall into those categories that you mentioned above, then oh well; no biggie to me. I hate what you stand for and stand behind. Ignorance with a smile. It’s one thing to be ignorant and not know you’re ignorant, i can understand that. But then there are people like YOU who love to lull themselves to sleep in the sty of ignorance and the embrace of apathy. All the while winking and nodding at the sheep who follow your ignorant sayings with glee.
Well, my dear, blah, blah, blah, blah,…….need to put it right as well. We are on opposite ends of the spectrum, Debbie.
Thank God!!
You need help.
k71 — I’m glad you got that off your skinny little boy chest. I’m glad that you’re finally able to say what you’ve been wanting to say for so long. I’m glad you finally came out the closet (so to speak), and let your thinning hair run free!
It must be so hard, k71, living in your mom’s basement, seeing people like Obama get ahead by their own bootstraps, while you can’t even get a date with the ugly girl next door, (or boy — hey I don’t judge). I’m sorry that You’ve let your sad lonely life turn you into the Incredible Shrinking MAn. To paraphrase TBG – “I am embarrassed FOR you.”
BRW
August 27th, 2012
7:26 pm
Look out! jeff’s a tough little red-neck!
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
7:26 pm
“Shame on those whites who voted for Obama simply to prove they weren’t racist”
Shame on those whites who voted against Obama simply because he’s black
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
7:26 pm
I thought, “I wonder if Mitt ever saw that movie.”
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:26 pm
I only voted for the WHITE part of Obama, funny how that worked out though.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:27 pm
Jeffy sure is mad isn’t he? And not really very bright. HE calls Mick name then says it’s Mick that did it. THEN he is gonna go down south and hunt Mick down for an ass whoopin’. Man i love little boy tough guys on the internet that are all fired up with talk radio vitriol and ready to get all tough with it lol.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
7:27 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7ni7zL8qU&feature=related
Erwin's cat
August 27th, 2012
7:28 pm
Okay….what’s the opinion here of Wasserman Schultz?…i’m pretty sure of the rights opinion, but for you others, i’d like to hear
Soothsayer
August 27th, 2012
7:28 pm
Well, this one here goes out to my ol’ buddy, Redneck Convert!
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
7:29 pm
“That’s an image that you can’t easily shake”
I bet not. I once drove past a breeder house that had burned to the ground. Imaging charcoaled chicken on steroids. One of the worst things I’ve ever smelled. I found out later from a friend in the area that the house had recently been rebuilt with insulation that was guaranteed to be fire proof. It wasn’t, and the farmer won a multi-million dollar settlement from the manufacturer.
But I think the worst such wreck I’ve ever heard of, and hope to NEVER witness, was when an 18-wheeler hauling honey bees overturned and the netting over the bees tore loose. You couldn’t pay me enough money to go into THAT!
BRW
August 27th, 2012
7:30 pm
jeffy’s a manly man, and he wants to………………PUMP…….YOU UP!
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:30 pm
Doggone
That possum one is my favorite…
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:31 pm
Erwin’s Cat
I would say just like the majority on both sides of the aisle, she likes to embellish and lie.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:31 pm
Well hell Sooth. Great David Allan Coe. I think he’s actually a converted racist. But I love this song……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4dDHIBVHs
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
7:31 pm
“Shame on those whites who voted for Obama simply to prove they weren’t racist.
Shame on those whites who voted against Obama simply because he’s black”
Shame on those blacks who voted for McCain simply to prove they weren’t racist.
Shame on those blacks who voted against McCain simply because he’s white”.
Did I get that right? This is getting confusing …………………. !
Doggone/GA
August 27th, 2012
7:32 pm
“That possum one is my favorite…”
You can’t tell it to Northerners though…they don’t get it!
Mick
August 27th, 2012
7:32 pm
jeff
Sorry friend but you’ve bought into the propaganda hook, line, and sinker. How is obama a socialist? The healthcare plan was virtually lifted from the republicans and the heritage foundation – fact, are they socialists too? The right’s outright hatred of obama the man, neverless president, is so obvious. Where was the iced tea party when the debt was 11 trillion under the previous guy??? Yeah, that’s what I thought…
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:33 pm
ERWIN’S
“Okay….what’s the opinion here of Wasserman Schultz?…i’m pretty sure of the rights opinion, but for you others, i’d like to hear”
Expletive deleted to the tenth power…
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 27th, 2012
7:33 pm
Anyone remember smelling the old “chicken guts processing plant” on I-85 at the Pendegrass exit ??
Try taking railroad cars in there on a hot August afternoon when they were cooking a batch off !!!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:34 pm
Possum
the other white meat
BRW
August 27th, 2012
7:35 pm
Possum……. The “Critter of the Day” at your local restaurant.
Reality
August 27th, 2012
7:36 pm
I’m independent on politicts but the lies come from both sides JAY. Biden says “they gonna put yall back in chains”. And its ignored by your liberal buddies. O’bama says “that business you are making money on, you didn’t do that by yourself, someone helped you get it started”. You sir like your co-worker Mickiel Luckovich are so damn bias toward your man.you just can’t see their goofy faults. Newspapers and their writers need to comment and report on the NEWS. (PERIOD) Whoever makes a stupid statement.
Orange12
August 27th, 2012
7:36 pm
Looks like we are going to be singing the blues at the gas pumps due to this projected hurricane and refinery mishaps.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:37 pm
A friends family raised chickens up around Auburn Ga.
Has anyone smelled the chicken pit (where they put the dead chickens)
Gag a maggot
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:37 pm
jeff
Butch attack! Tell ya what, this Southern queen’ll be more than glad to tango…jus name date, time, place, seconds and weapons…
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:38 pm
Why should we HAVE an opnion on Wasserman Schultz?
killerj
August 27th, 2012
7:38 pm
…………..?,wait a minute…………,I need a beer…………..?,like how,s that saying go?,Calling the kettle black or something like that……………..Paaaaaaaaaleaaaaaaase!
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:39 pm
BRW I am sick and tired of having racism thrown in my face everytime someone disagrees with Obama. As far as redneck goes, you call someone a name, you deserve to get punched, if thats redneck.. Oh well.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:39 pm
I’ll be your second josef…….. but only if you buy lunch (or make it if it’s good old down home food, Mississippi or Cajun).
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:39 pm
At least Jeff was honest and called himself what he is; a “boy”
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
7:40 pm
then again, I really don’t get this code-word thing…it’s like a conspiracy theory to me
AND you never heard of The Southern Strategy, Willie Horton, or ANYTHING like that before either huh?
Paul: I like to think that’s a fine mission for Jay to be on. You can get away with it, tho, ’cause you’re so darn…. DDR!!!!
Ha! I’ve been barred too you know! One time I called Doom a name so disgusting, so degrading, so repuglican, that he gave me a red card for about a month. That’s why I try to be good on this blog. But sometimes, it’s sooooo hard!
josef: Well, at least he let YOU call them by their blog-given name…he won’t even let me return in kind without charging me with “personal attacks” and “name calling.”
HA! If only you knew! Half the stuff I say gets, “Your comment is in exile”!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:40 pm
josef
tell me the date and time and I will be your second
Mick
August 27th, 2012
7:40 pm
josef
“All I am saying is give peace a chance”, otherwise I’m ready to rumble jersey style
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
7:40 pm
Some Sons of Confederate Veterans stuff:
Last week, Paul Ryan gave an interview in which, defending his position that there should be no excuses for abortion, he referred to rape as a “method of conception.”
Wow, right? Talk about a benign euphemism. Rape — RAPE! — is now a “method of conception.” You know, like love-making, just without the love.
Orange12
August 27th, 2012
7:41 pm
Pink flamingo plumes at 20 paces.
Jack
August 27th, 2012
7:41 pm
Romney’s talking about slackers who work the system; has nothing to do with race. Obama’s snake oil pitch is the real pot stirrer.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:43 pm
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:39 pm
BRW I am sick and tired of having racism thrown in my face everytime someone disagrees with Obama. As far as redneck goes, you call someone a name, you deserve to get punched, if thats redneck.. Oh well.
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So you deserve to be punched in the face for calling Mick an idiot? Does just he get to punch you in the face or do all of us get a swing? Do we get two each since you called two names?
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:06 pm
Race card? Your an idiot…………… I guess I am not surprised that scum like you……….
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Have you always been this intellectually void?
Erwin's cat
August 27th, 2012
7:44 pm
DDR – I’ve heard of a lot of things but buy into very few…..you?
Soothsayer
August 27th, 2012
7:44 pm
How ’bout a little “Country” Charlie Pride?
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:44 pm
I was first second Common. You have to be second second………
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:45 pm
Mick
Just take him crab fishing. The bait will be there with you
St Simons - he-ne-ha
August 27th, 2012
7:46 pm
Once again, and they seem to do this a lot, the
ever-dwindling pool of cons have created their own litlle alternate
universe with their own subculture, their own terms, their own
definitions – led by their leaders, the hate radio industry and
one ‘network’.
What they don’t seem to realize while cocooned in this
isolated world, is that only they think its cute or clever to
turn things around and say to largely just themselves,
‘you’re a racist for noticing my racism’ haha yuk yuk
ol Rush turned that around on you didn’t he? yukyuk
and slap themselves on the back like they did
something clever. Never considering who they’ve insulted,
or made uncomfortable, just trying to live on this earth.
Its a sick fetid dwindling little pool of sewage turds, if you ask me.
Nothin clever about it.
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:46 pm
Sooth
Back at you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrBG3gUV92k
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
7:46 pm
Herman Cain is there !!
Well, that’s ONE!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
7:49 pm
Fred
I blame being second on my slow internet connection in the hotel.
Worst case of suicide ever seen beaten to death with an ostrich feather
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
7:49 pm
Cat: I’ve heard of a lot of things but buy into very few…..you?
Cat I’ve SEEN a lot of things with my own eyes and know them to be true……you?
St. Simons: Its a sick fetid dwindling little pool of sewage turds, if you ask me.
Nothin clever about it.
Word.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:49 pm
TBS: Great minds think a like. I almost played that one too lol. Them damn colored folks, first Charlie steals country and then Jimi steals rock and roll…………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIC_NEfeWMQ&feature=related
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:51 pm
Common; You can serve the lunch lol.
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:51 pm
Mick, 5 trillion in 3 years under Obama. Give him another 4 years and it will go over 20 trill.
Explain why it is propaganda to point out that BHO parents were communist and he spent a hige amount of his young life with people that felt that America was to blame for their problems. Then when he went to college he followed card carrying radical communist. When he say’s he wants to bring fundamentally change to America do you think he was kidding? I suppose you think the movie 2016 was propaganda huh.. These are facts about him and his past and his past friends. You can not truly believe he is not a socialist at the very least.
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:51 pm
D*mn with that many seconds we oughta have a brawl and then some! Wonder who his seconds are? Jeffy is the challenger, though, so he gets to pick the weapon…dog t*rds at 20 paces?
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
Fred
Charlie had some killer tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khrkPtJdHKE&feature=related
Moderate Lin
August 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
TaxPayer
August 27th, 2012
7:05 pm
“Culture makes all the difference,” along with “the hand of providence.
+++
I completely disagree with Romney’s statement that the difference between Israel and the surrounding area are the result of cultural differences. But wouldn’t a racist believe race makes all the difference. After all it is the left who look to Lilly white Europe as the best culture on the earth. Especially, those Scandinavian countries.
Soothsayer
August 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
BOTH: LOVED IT!
Erwin's cat
August 27th, 2012
7:52 pm
DDR – was responding to your post …not chasing a rabbit hole…you?
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
One more Charlie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xaDfO4Fn3c&feature=related
Mama Says
August 27th, 2012
7:53 pm
Jay,
When can we stop all this finger pointing. Double standards abound. The libs sit on their collective hands and all of you acted as if Biden said nothing when he told a majority black crowd they would be put back into chains. Oh sorry my bad Biden was talking about the economy I forgot.
Tell you what libs, one day you are gonna regret all your race baiting. The demographics of this country will soon, if not already, mean that whites are a minority. When that happens you are gonna have to end your excuses as to why the party which claims to have all the answers, for all minorities, really has nothing. Then you will have to actually come up with a policy that works.
To this day you have gotten away with yelling the per verbal race card. Soon you will have to deal with the facts. You will be the party that has overseen the largest increase in social aid in our history. One day blacks and Hispanics will wake up and see that despite 60 years of dedication to your party you have done absolutely nothing for them, and I mean NOTHING.
In general blacks are conservative, church going, God fearing folks. They are generally against gay marriage, civil unions, abortions and hand outs.
The only thing you have holding them to you is family tradition and the card. That will change.
But good luck you do so at your on demise. Who you gonna blame in 2040 ?
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
7:54 pm
Wow, right? Talk about a benign euphemism. Rape — RAPE! — is now a “method of conception.” You know, like love-making, just without the love.
Well, in his defense, since Ryan is really in the closet, ANY sexual contact between him and a woman ALWAYS felt like he was raped by one of them.
He could barely stand their touch…..
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (aka "Knuckle-Dragger")
August 27th, 2012
7:56 pm
Now lets see – “typical white person”, bitter clingers in rural Pennsylvania, a fake southern accent from Joe Biden, “punish our enemies”, and so on and so on. The racists in this race are democrats, pure and simple. I understand the Supreme Leader can not run on his record, it would be a Reaganesque sweep, a la 1984. I hope y’all continue this insane rant, it will lead to an even larger Romney victory in November. Go get ‘em, Jay.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:56 pm
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:51 pm
Mick, 5 trillion in 3 years under Obama.
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Amazing how much it cost when the bills for Bush’s two unpaid for wars and unfunded drug mandate were put on the books. However simple minded folks fail to see that. Folks who can’t think for themselves believe the smoke and mirror lies of talk radio.
Define a socialist and explain how ANY policy Obama has put into place is socialist. Do so in YOUR words, not Rush limbaugh or Ann Coulter’s or some other wacked out liars. Use your own thoughts and examples.
I’ll wait. And while I’m waiting I’ll just pick up this copy of War and Peace that I have and start reading………
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:56 pm
DDR
@ 7:54
WORD!
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:57 pm
Fred, Anytime man. Our country is dying because of the left and it will get ugly then.
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
7:57 pm
jeff
The Democrats no longer control the House if you haven’t heard. How is Obama spending all this money without the Republicans approving appropriation bills?
If you could bestow some of your civics knowledge on us all, it would be much obliged.
I’m not giving Obama a pass because spending has to come down, however I can’t figure out how he is bypassing the House and writing the checks.
Paul
August 27th, 2012
7:57 pm
Orange 12
“Pink flamingo plumes at 20 paces.”
Careful… I’ve got three flamingos in the back garden, metal, works of art. Did I say ‘metal’? They’re deadly.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
7:58 pm
TBS: I’ve always liked him and I’ve always liked this song. What a combo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYVR5YrJe7k
josef
August 27th, 2012
7:59 pm
FRED
Jeffy (et al) wouldn’t recognize a Socialist if one whapped ‘em upside the head…
Mick
August 27th, 2012
7:59 pm
jeff
With all due respect, do you ever challenge all that tripe your self? How do I measure your americanism? I can’t and I’m not even remotely interested and that’s the point…believe everything at your own peril. How’s about this: president of the united states, protected our auto industry, used a stimulus to STOP unemployment from rising, yeah everyone hates 8.3 but it easily could have been 10.3! He has kept us safe, got bin laden, not involved us in any NEW wars. Cut taxes on middle class americans, passed health care that probably will benefit either you or someone in your family. Good husband, father of two girls, he’s about as american as it gets…
They BOTH suck
August 27th, 2012
8:00 pm
Fred
Great choice on the “I’ll Fly Away”
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
8:01 pm
jeff
August 27th, 2012
7:57 pm
Fred, Anytime man. Our country is dying because of the left and it will get ugly then.
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Anytime what? You’ll answer the questions or are you calling me out to fight too. Do I have to wait in line behind Mick and josef or can I go to the front of the line if that’s the case?
Your post didn’t make much sense.
josef
August 27th, 2012
8:01 pm
ORANGE
Recon 0311 2533
August 27th, 2012
8:02 pm
Amazing that Jay hasn’t $hit canned this thread with its absurd accusation and moved on. I guess because everything the Democrats have tried including the most recent Mediscare tactic has failed, so there’s desperation showing up now as they feel the very real possibility for loss in November.
Jay
August 27th, 2012
8:02 pm
“The demographics of this country will soon, if not already, mean that whites are a minority. When that happens you are gonna have to end your excuses as to why the party which claims to have all the answers, for all minorities, really has nothing. Then you will have to actually come up with a policy that works.”
Mama, the funny thing is, I could make the identical argument in reverse. Now maybe I’m right, or maybe you’re right.
Or maybe we’re both right.
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
8:03 pm
Mama – how many black people (not republican OR democrat), said that they were offended by Biden’s words?
Im really sick and tired of people telling me what I should be offended by like I’m a child who can’t think for myself.
Mama: The only thing you have holding them to you is family tradition and the card. That will change
Tradition huh? You obviously don’t know your American History. Blacks predominantly voted Republican since reconstruction until the 60’s — the reason for the change? When MLK went to jail in Selma and not one Republican would stand up for his being unduly targeted and arrested. The only person/people who did were Demorats — The Kennedys. RBJ ordered the Selma authorities to release him or faith the wrath of the federal government. Not one Republican stood up for MLK — every black person saw and understood what that meant. Democrats had been trying to reach out to blacks for years but were rebuffed, When the Kennedys stood up to the Selma police force, blacks, then understood who were their real friends and who were their real enemies.
josef – The weapon of choice? Jeffy is going to fling poo like any good repuglican don’t ya know?
Cat – I DID answer your question. You didnt like the answer?
josef
August 27th, 2012
8:03 pm
Speaking of pink flamingos…one of my neighbors has several…they’re in different stages of flight..really something to see…tasteful…but, well, this IS Buckhead!
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
8:04 pm
LOL @ Del using the term “mediscare.” One of the chief cheerleaders of the Fright wing party of fear that has it’s members cowering under their beds accusing anyone of “scare tactics” is freaking hilarious.
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
8:05 pm
josef
Jeffy (et al) wouldn’t recognize a Socialist if one whapped ‘em upside the head…
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With an ostrich feather or was that a flamingo feather.
Soothsayer
August 27th, 2012
8:05 pm
“5 trillion in 3 years under Obama. Give him another 4 years and it will go over 20 trill.”
jeff: it must be really tough being you. I feel for you man.
If Bush had not cut taxes, if Bush had not started 2 wars, if Bush had not passed a Medicare Part D Big Pharma giveaway, in other words, if he had done none of that, we would:
Not have a deficit and not have any national debt.
I keep posting this and posting this, but always some new Fright-Winger shows up with the same old hackneyed lies.
In fact, that’s what happens here on Bookman’s marginally meaningful blog: the Fright-Wing’s ship of lies wrecks on the shoals of the truth and then break up.
josef
August 27th, 2012
8:07 pm
Uh, one of the things those promoting the “white” minority keep forgetting is that the largest minority, Hispanics, is an artificially created “race” and anyone who doubts that they’re not “turning white” as fast as the Jews, Greeks, Italians, Lebanese and Armenians did the last time we went off on the white’s loosing their majority, ain’t paying close attention…and the South Asians are right in there too…do Jindal and Haley ring a bell? Seriously, this one is rather funny,,,
josef
August 27th, 2012
8:09 pm
Common Sense
A boa if we can get Big Daddy to return it to its rightful owners…thieving Scalaway, he!
Soothsayer
August 27th, 2012
8:09 pm
“Amazing that Jay hasn’t $hit canned this thread with its absurd accusation and moved on.”
Are you kidding? If made the kind of money Bookman makes, I’d shovel shyte all day long with a BIG smile on my face!
DebbieDoRight - The Only Thing Wrong With Capitalism is Capitalists..
August 27th, 2012
8:09 pm
That should be RFK not RBJ — RBJ is my dog! Sorry.
Fred ™
August 27th, 2012
8:11 pm
You have a dog who’s name is just some initials? Where is the number to the SPCA.
Mama Says
August 27th, 2012
8:11 pm
Jay
In reality I think we are both right
Recon 0311 2533
August 27th, 2012
8:12 pm
Fred’s false bravado is hilarious as I’m sure he wakes up in the middle of the night terrified that Limbaugh, Boortz or Hannity might be under his bed. Carry on Fred and keep your diapers clean.
Mick
August 27th, 2012
8:12 pm
Reality? Whose reality?
JKL2
August 27th, 2012
8:13 pm
-Obama was gutting the work requirement in welfare law in order to “shore up his base.”
I keep hearing stories of how the vast majority of welfare recipients are white. Are you accusing Romney of saying “obama is playing the white race card”?
Dems luvs them some racist callin’!
Common Freaking Sense isn't very Common
August 27th, 2012
8:13 pm
So I can claim minority status?
DAMMIT man I’m wasting time working for a living LOL
Jay
August 27th, 2012
8:13 pm
And Recon, why would I be in a hurry to “move on”? If the topic makes you uncomfortable, I’m sorry about that. But it’s accurate nonetheless.