Obama Opponents = Racist
Oh, it’s on Page One of the Obama playbook. The NYT Magazine ran “The Mellowing of Bill Clinton” a few months ago:
And the man once called the “first black president” remains deeply wounded by allegations that he made racially insensitive remarks during the campaign, like dismissing Obama’s South Carolina win by comparing it with Jesse Jackson’s victories there in the 1980s.
“None of them ever really took seriously the race rap,” he told me. “They knew it was politics. I had one minister in Texas in the general election come up and put his arm around me.” This was an Obama supporter. “And he came up, threw his arm around me and said, ‘You’ve got to forgive us for that race deal.’ He said, ‘That was out of line.’ But he said, ‘You know, we wanted to win real bad.’ And I said, ‘I got no problem with that.’ I said it’s fine; it’s O.K. And we laughed about it and we went on.”
Well, Bill laughed, I guess, but it was Hillary who took it in the pantsuit.
I was a little surprised the elites and mainstream media didn’t pick up on this, but the answer’s obvious now—they intended to use the same slimy tactic again, this time at the real enemy, the right. If they pulled it on Bill Clinton, what chance do the rest of us have?
No doubt some people are serious in calling Obama’s opponents racist, like that unfortunate puddinhead Jimmy Carter, but for the rest, it’s all just part of the game.
That weapon has to be saved and used rarely. After awhile yelling “racist” wears out.
I commented on same in my own blog, but in watching the state-run news tonight (NBC) just to see their coverage of ACORN, they ran a story with the basic premise that those who oppose Obama are racists. For proof of their assertion, NBC then interviewed…drumroll…Bill Cosby.
Then, NBC showed data on the percentage of “whites” that voted for Obama during the 2008 election.
The figures NBC utilized/displayed were limited to…drumroll…Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. What message is being sent, hmmm?
Then, NBC added that, overall, 43% of “whites” voted for Obama, presumably leading one to the conclusion that the remaining 57% of “whites” must be racist.
NBC failed to address the issue of roughly 96% of “blacks” having voted for Obama – leading one to ponder whether those 4% of “blacks” are racist against their own and whether the 96% are racist against whites.
Oh yes, and Jimmy Carter thinks opposition to The One is a product of racism as well.
Then it *must* be true.
And to that vile excuse of a man Jimmy Carter, I only have this to say to him: Run Away!
The race card won’t play on this issue. They’ve made a huge mistake. Most Americans will see right through that move for what it is – desperation.
Come on, now. Say what’s on your mind:
http://open.salon.com/blog/mortimer_hayden_smyth/2009/09/14/the_word_that_lurks_beneath
As Lyndon Johnson predicted, passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 lost the South to the Democratic Party. The godfather of the present day Republican Party is a Democrat: George Corley Wallace.
And MYOB, this proves precisely what about the quality of Obama’s policies?
An argument for your opponent’s sordid past (if it is, of course, true) is not evidence for the wisdom of your allies in the future.
BTW, how does Jimmy Carter know that people are racists? I could, for example, figure out if certain people are racists from what they say, do, publish, etc. But how does one issue such a judgment about thousands from one’s armchair without actually knowing more about these folks? In fact, we have a name for those sorts of judgments, prejudice, racism’s cousin. Just goes to show you that Jimmy Carter–born and bread in the racist south–can’t shake those old habits of mind even when he’s decrying racism.
I did not realize James O’Keefe, who is doing the ACORN exposes, did the Planned Parenthood undercover tape when he said he wanted to donate money so they could abort more black babies.
And before the left decries racism, the point of that investigation was to expose the craveness of Planned Parenthood, not to actually promote the abortion of any babies.
Of course Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood, was all for cleaning up “the race” and getting rid of undesirable Jews, Eastern and Southern Europeans, and Negros. Ironic she is a hero of the left.
Here are some Margaret Sanger classics:
– Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255
Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith
Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in
Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth
Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
– Margaret Sanger. Speech quoted in Birth Control: What It Is, How It
Works, What It Will Do. The Proceedings of the First American Birth
Control Conference . Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, November 11-
12, 1921. Published by the Birth Control Review , Gothic Press, pages 172
and 174.
Maybe the left can focus some of its racially sensitive ire on Planned Parenthood. Don’t hold your breath on that.
NBCABCJIMMYCCBSDEMOCRATS: blah blah blah…RACISM…blah blah blah
American Public: Yaaawn….
Its funny, if MYOB really knew much about the south as it is today, a huge chunk is comprised of post 1970s refugees from the North. So that “sordid past,” even if true, would not apply to them anyway.