Posts with the tag 'race baiting'
From NRO’s The Corner:
1.If you think Obama’s the most liberal member of the senate you…may be a racist.
2.If you object to Obama raising your payroll, capital gains and estate taxes you…may be a racist.
3.If you’d prefer a president have at least some foreign policy experience you…may be a racist.
4. If you’re in favor of drilling for oil and building nuclear power plants you…may be a racist.
5. If you think “Vero Possemus” is Latin for “Massive Ego” you… may be a racist.
6. If you wonder why Obama was hanging around William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn you…may be a racist.
7. If your pastor is nothing like Rev. Wright or Father Pfleger you… may be a racist.
8.If you don’t want the majority of justices on the Supreme Court to be like Stephen Breyer you…may be a racist.
9. If you’re not impressed with Obama’s 100% NARAL rating you…may be a racist.
10. If you’re not sure whether Obama opposed or supported FISA reauthorization you…may be a racist.
11. If you don’t think America is a “downright mean” country you…may be a racist.
12. If you think Obama should’ve visited wounded troops at Ramstein and Landstuhl you…may be a racist.
13. If you think the surge is working and that’s a good thing you…may be a racist.
14. If you oppose racial preferences in employment, school admissions and contracting you…may be a racist.
15. If you think “we are the change we’ve been waiting for” is a line from a Monty Python skit you…may be a racist.
16. If you prefer that a president have a smidgen of executive experience you…may be a racist.
17. If you’re appalled that Obama voted against treating infants born after an abortion attempt the same medically as other infants born alive you…may be a racist.
18. If you were proud of your country even before Obama’s candidacy you…may be a racist.
20. If you don’t think American troops are just “air raiding villages” you…may be a racist.
21. If your grandmother isn’t a “typical white person” you…may be a racist.
22. If you don’t think rural, working class people are bitter and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” you…may be a racist.
23. If you’re not sure invading Pakistan is a particularly good idea—what with their nuclear weapons and all— you…may be a racist.
24. If you don’t want the president to meet without precondition with the leaders of state sponsors of terror you…may be a racist.
25. If you don’t care how Hollywood or the European elite think you should vote you…may be a racist.
And from myself:
26. If you think calling Obama’s plane “O Force One” is presumptuous you…may be a racist.
27. If you think that giving speeches to hundreds of thousands of Germans is strange thing for a Presidential candidate to do you…may be a racist.
28. If you mention Tony Rezko you…may be a racist.
29. If you mention that Obama is a multi-millionaire member of America’s elite you…may be a racist.
30. If you point out that Obama supporters place his picture next to Che’s picture you…may be a racist.
Add your own in the comments.
Tags: Barack Obama, race baiting, race card
August 6th, 2008
Following Obama’s overseas crash course in foreign policy, the Gallup daily poll showed Obama with a 9-point edge over McCain.
Well, over the past few days, Obama’s 9-point lead has dwindled down to a mere point.
And don’t be surprised if Obama’s race-baiting keeps his numbers moving in the downward direction.
Tags: Barack Obama, Gallup poll, John McCain, race baiting
July 31st, 2008
The general election race-baiting has begun. Obama is charging that Republicans will use his race to “scare voters.”
“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
Perhaps Obama needs to understand that his race is obvious to anyone who sees him or a picture of him. Obama’s comments are not only ridiculous, but they’re insulting. But, I guess to Obama, the Republican Party is just full of “typical white people” like his grandmother. How can Obama make such a claim, which essentially says that he thinks the American people are racist?
I think it’s obvious from his comment that Barack Obama is trying to insulate himself from criticisms by making it appear as if any attack against him is an attack on his race. Obama should be ashamed himself. If there’s anything we learned from the Democratic Primary is that race, gender and class warfare are DNC territory. Another thing we can expect from the Obama campaign, as evidenced by this racist implication he made, is that there will be subtle hints from the Obama campaign that if you don’t vote for Obama then you’re a racist. See, Obama wants this election to be about his race. He’ll wants to guilt voters into voting for him in the same way he claims Republicans wants to scare voters into voting against him. It’ll be a repeat of Deval Patrick’s gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts.
Obama is going to attack, attack, attack John McCain from all angles. Yet, should the McCain campaign release an ad that either (a) shows a picture or video of Barack Obama or (b) mentions his name, the Obama campaign will accuse McCain, or whatever organization puts out any such ads, of attacking his race.
Issues will decide this election… Not Obama’s desire to play the race card at every turn. Obama’s desire to raise taxes, have tea and toast with terrorists organizations, socialize healthcare. Issues alone will guide voters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama in November.
UPDATE: A real example of using race to scare voters.
Tags: Barack Obama, race baiting, race card, race/gender politics, racism
June 22nd, 2008
Interesting bit from Politico:
In the past, Obama has made racial issues, and his own precedent-shattering status, a minor note in his message. But Obama said Monday he recognizes that there is no way he is going to become the Democratic nominee without a forthright statement about the role of race in American life.
“I think it would have been naive for me to think I could run and end up with quasi-front-runner status in a presidential election as potentially the first African-American president, that issues [of] race wouldn’t come up, any more than Sen. Clinton could expect that gender issues might not come up,” Obama told interviewer Gwen Ifill on PBS’s “NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.”
Well, Senator, it wouldn’t have come up had you not, for 20 years, blithely attended the sermons of a foaming-at-the-mouth race-baiter. This is being hoist upon your own petard - you, and the rest of the Democratic leadership, have played this nonsensical, hateful and dishonest race game for the past 30 years, and now you’re caught up in it. Here you are, Senator, with an even money shot (at this point) of becoming the next President of the United States, and yet you still don’t seem to understand that a preacher who claims that America is a racist nation which keeps the black man down is someone who is entirely divorced from reality - or is a nasty bigot using hate to keep a captive audience ponying up.
Have you no sense, Senator? Or, lacking that, at least a sense of shame? For crying out loud, look at yourself! You are the mixed-race son of a foreigner and this nation held nothing back from you. There was no door which failed to open, no opportunity which failed to present itself to you - you are vastly wealthier than the wildest dreams of your cousins in Africa, as well as your cousins in Kansas. You have the brass ring at your finger tips…and yet you listened to bilge about how America is a racist nation, and you made no objection - you never said, “how dare you, sir, slander this nation which has afforded me so much.”
No one expected you to say of your nation that it is the perfect monster that ne’er lived, but the very facts of your own life give lie to the notion that America is a racist nation, or that a black man is to be held down on account of his skin color, or that only black men who truckle to white America are permitted to get ahead. How could you, sir, take so much and then sit there while someone spit on your mother country?
UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: So what did you think of Obama’s big speech today? I’ve heard clips, and read the speech in its entirety, and was unsatisfied. I found it interesting that while he previously denied being present during Wright’s anti-American sermons, today he admitted he had. He said we should look beyond race, but spent the majority of the speech playing up racial divides, and he still couldn’t bring himself to truly separate himself from Wright’s rhetoric. In attempting to distance himself from Wright’s rhetoric, Obama said that Wright’s word were “divisive at a time when we need unity.” Well, I found that Obama’s speech proved that Obama is not the person to bring about unity. In fact, Obama seemed to argue that Wright’s comments were somewhat justifiable when he said “The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect.” No sale. This was a speech so clearly designed to save his candidacy from fallout, but did next to nothing to address the real issue, and won’t help him.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: Linda Chavez correctly points out that afrocentrism is central to Obama’s problem.
Tags: anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, race baiting, racism
March 18th, 2008
Geraldine Ferarro had to resign from the Hillary campaign for saying “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” For this comment, she’s been called a racist. Was there really anything racist about it? No. Of course not. It all comes back to the ultimate truth that Barack Obama is a media star and has avoided a lot of scrutiny because of his race. Hillary has gone from presumed frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to fighting for survival because while the media has treated her far more severely than Barack Obama.
I’ve watched the two of them debate a number of times, and it was ridiculously apparent that she was getting tougher treatment. She can’t even attack Obama without accusations of racial insensitivity being raised. To bring up Obama’s past cocaine use is apparently racist. To mention his middle name is xenophobic and racist. To show his picture in an attack is racist. Barack Obama has become virtually untouchable in this campaign because his race has been used as a shield to protect him scrutiny.
Ferraro may have not chosen the best words to make her point — certain in defending herself she seems to be digging herself further into an whole — but there was nothing racist about what she was saying. Keith Olbermann equating her words with that of David Duke actually quite proves Ferraro’s point.
I’m sorry, but Geraldine Ferraro’s comments are far less offensive than the rhetoric of Barack Obama’s pastor and spiritual mentor, Jeremiah Wright:
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But, I’m sure I’ll be called a racist for daring to talk about this.
UPDATE: More from Michael Graham.
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Jeremiah Wright, race baiting, racism
March 13th, 2008
