Racist who don't know they are (or do they?)

[pab]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:12pm

The link below is of Robert Novak saying, "Obama’s A ‘Strong’ Candidate Because He’s ‘Clean’ And ‘Not A Stereotype African-American’".

Like a few people who post on this board and call Obama Osama or who continue to bring his supposed attending of a Madrassa (which has been proven to be wrong on a number of occasions by various media outlets) I believe in a lot of cases they think they are being cute or funny and have no idea how racist their comments are.
Novak on Obama

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:16pm

They actually used the word 'articulate'?

(rolls eyes)

[blueroses]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:30pm

Maybe he ate at Sylvia's with Bill O'Reilly! Remember this?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007

[misschung]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:34pm

all God's children love hominy, hominy...

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:40pm

the phrase Osama/Obama was coined by Uncle Teddy Kennedy.

[pab]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 3:43pm

And that makes it okay?

[javero]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 5:34pm

Like I wrote before, folks have become weary of the political dynasties comprised of establishment partisans like those with the surname Kennedy, Bush, Dole and Clinton. There's a reason MD's former Lt. Gov Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lost her bid for the MD governor's office a few years back despite her good record by Dem standards.

This is one Democrat who welcomes the populist movement ushered in by Obama and Huckabee mainly because the electorate is rejecting the mandates of the ruling class from both sides often delivered by their mouthpieces, i.e. network & cable news outlets and talkradio. This is grassroots politics on display. If Obama eeks out a victory in NH and McCain cleans Romney's clock with Huck coming in a respectable 3rd place the revolution will officially be underway.

The electorate is not beholden to the status quo or past practice. The biographer of a certain candidate on the Dem side pointed out that the 35 years of experience that she keeps tossing about were spent mainly working as a highly paid corporate attorney, stay-at-home wife, unsuccessful health care reform czarina during her husband's presidency and senator whose voting record is not very progressive upon close inspection.

The nerve of upstarts Obama & Huckabee to take on the party oligarchs.

Updated On: 1/6/08 at 05:34 PM

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 5:52pm

It's true, people often think that the racist things they are saying are funny. When is it ever really funny though? Poltically speaking or not.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 6:04pm

i will continue to say whatever i want, whenever i want, however i want for as long as i want. i'm merely pointing out the fact of how barrack (don't call me saddam) hussein obama (not to be confused with osama) will be attacked. if you think the swift boaters were vile, heinous liars who perverted the politcal process, i'd suggest you stock up on valium and tums, friend-o, because al qaeda's candidate is in for a smearing of epic proportion that goes lower and dirtier than any political campaign in history. or at least that's how it will be told to those who have no sense of history.

Updated On: 1/6/08 at 06:04 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 6:39pm

javero,

Didn’t you post that you were not going to post in any more political threads?

I guess no one really means what they say any more.

[javero]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 6:56pm

Theatrediva -- u r somewhat correct in that I wrote that I would avoid the political threads until after the NH primaries.

I simply couldn't resist the temptation when a Clinton biographer on Fox News this morning made some very startling revelations about the exaggerated claims of her 35-year tenure as an agent of "change". I was slow to warm to Obama but once I got one whiff of Clinton's sense of "entitlement" I was forced to shift my alliances. There's simply too many sour grapes being hurled by the Clinton machine which don't paint her in the most flattering light.

Neither she nor Obama has served a single day as President to date, not even by the process of marital osmosis, so I'm not convinced that her being a charter member of the Dem Power Club merits the party nomination by default.

Updated On: 1/6/08 at 06:56 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 7:01pm

My other-in-law is a racist, but doesn't realize it. Everyone else in the family points out her racist remarks, but she is in denial.

[pab]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 7:11pm

Theatrediva, if Javero had actually commented on the topic of the thread I would understand but his rant had nothing to with the topic being discussed. Therefore, it stands to reason that one only need start a thread that has ANYTHING to do with politics and given a short amount of time he will be there.

[javero]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 7:33pm

PAB,

HD gave me the perfect segue by pointing out that my party's icon Ted Kennedy coined "Osama/Obama". In some ways, Obama's candidacy puts my party on trial. Since you and others are obviously tired of my political commentary which you label as "ranting" I'll power down this pc for the rest of the day. But know this...if the Clintonphiles resume the boo hoo politics after the NH primaries I'm going into overdrive.

I'm still shaking my head at the need of so many so-called progressives to squelch free speech.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 9:57pm

I'm a bit confused. Maybe I missed something but it seems like every time Javero expresses a pro-Obama sentiment (while being reasonably critical of Hillary) this person gets attacked. Is there any particular reason for this?

By the time the primaries are over and we get to the real race, I believe people will be well informed on Obama. Of course there will be a contingency of ignorant people out there who are easily swayed by buzz words and phrases like "Osama-Obama" but, judging from his much publicized popularity with independents and republicans, many others are thinking critically for themselves.

Anybody read Mitt Romney's statement the other day about Obama being nice and articulate?

"Therefore, it stands to reason that one only need start a thread that has ANYTHING to do with politics and given a short amount of time he will be there. "

I believe the same can be said of you, Pab, or Jkv, or papalovesmambo, or a number of other posters...

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 10:02pm

i like to think of myself as shoeless joe in the sense that if you post it, i will come. wow in retrospect i really ought to re-consider that sentence. eh, too late.

[roquat]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 10:50pm

It will be extremely difficult to launch a Swift-Boat-style attack on Obama without his attackers looking racist. It's nice to know, however, that Republicans seem so confident that racism (overt or covert) will carry this election for them. How inspiring.

[pab]

Posted: 1/6/08 at 10:56pm

It would only take the Republican candidate some intelligence to attack the opposing candidate on their record and not on race. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. I used Republican and intelligence in the same sentence. My bad. Never mind.

[Izzie2]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 12:34am

.....why do I even bother coming into these threads?

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[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 3:59am

"if you think the swift boaters were vile, heinous liars who perverted the politcal process, i'd suggest you stock up on valium and tums, friend-o, because al qaeda's candidate is in for a smearing of epic proportion that goes lower and dirtier than any political campaign in history."

That is so sad but true. I mean, it's already started. My friend was telling me about two people he overheard at work the other day talking about the election.

One of them stated that she liked Obama. But the other person quickly pointed out that she had heard:

1) Obama went to the same school as members of al'Qaeda
2) Obama was sworn in on the Koran, not the Bible
3) Obama is distantly related to Saddam Hussein, hence his middle name
4) Obama refuses to put his hand on his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance

So it looks like the smear campaign is already underway. And it's disgusting. And proves that some people are morons and will believe anything.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 7:09am

it won't be the candidate who's doing the attacking. it'll be a 527 or a pac not even remotely connected to the candidate. i realize that some people here would rather deal with politics as they'd like them to be in that never-never-land of peace and happiness where people of all nations get along and only the greedy capitalists and war-mongering conservatives are imprisoned where they cannot harm your beautiful utopian paradise. i'll continue to address politics as they actually are, thanks.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 12:25pm

"I'm still shaking my head at the need of so many so-called progressives to squelch free speech."

I wasn't squelching anything. I just asked a question.


"Anybody read Mitt Romney's statement the other day about Obama being nice and articulate? "

Uh... yea. My first post on this thread says just that. But I guess you missed it. It was the second post on the thread, and I know how some people like to jump in without reading the thread first.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 1:58pm

Um, you mentioned nothing about Mitt Romney.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 2:02pm

Whoops.

Same thing though.

Who uses the word articulate whe describing an A/A?

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 2:19am

A racist :P