Top Dem: Racism to blame for Obama's problems

[ed1066]

They still don't get it...

www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/25/114793/racism-to-blame-for-obamas-problems.html


WASHINGTON — House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on Wednesday blamed most of President Barack Obama's political problems on racism.

Clyburn, who's from South Carolina and is a close ally of the president, offered his views in response to a question about Obama's re-election prospects next year.

"I think they're improving every day," Clyburn said. "I think the president has been a good president, a great commander in chief."

Clyburn, who met his wife at a 1960 court hearing after spending a night in jail for having engaged in a civil rights protest in Orangeburg, S.C., then brought up Obama's race as the first black president.

"You know, I'm 70 years old," he said. "And I can tell you; people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the president's problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin."

Clyburn noted that he himself got hate mail, racist phone calls and offensive faxes on a regular basis. Asked how that relates to the president, Clyburn retorted: "We have the same skin color; that's how it relates to him."

[marshabar1]

;D

removed yet another obama bashing pic ~moon

[Mkitty is pro kitty]

They still don't get it...

So sayeth the poster who couldn't believe Obama is part Irish:

Obama reminds me of "that guy". Everyone knows "that guy", the one who needs to be all things to all people. You know him...when you go to an Irish pub, all the sudden, he's Irish. When you go to a football game, all the sudden, he's a huge fan. When you go to the gym, all the sudden, he's a personal trainer. When you go golfing, all the sudden, he's a pro. We all know "that guy", the douche no one can stand to be around. Barry is "that guy"...

notmsnmoney.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=politics&thread=8723&page=1

You know, 'cause Obama's that guy that went to Ireland, and all of the sudden he's Irish or something. How could someone like Obama be Irish, eh?

Did you get it yet? Or are you one of "those guys"?

Also, you sure like to bring up racial things over and over. Lady Dothprotesttoomuch of the kingdom of Rantia strikes again!

[ed1066]

obama bashing pic removed
~moon

[marshabar1]

Old race card, old and tired race card. Running out of steam. Aside from class it's the only fuel the Democratic Party has though.

[kent]

[/quote]You know, I'm 70 years old," he said. "And I can tell you; people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the president's problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin."

Clyburn noted that he himself got hate mail, racist phone calls and offensive faxes on a regular basis. Asked how that relates to the president, Clyburn retorted: "We have the same skin color; that's how it relates to him." [/quote]

If racism is to blame for Obama's problems, how did he ever get elected in the first place? This race card crap is sickening at a minimum!

[Deleted]

I too am TIRED of the racism card being played all the time, it just gets old. Forty or Fifty years ago it was true, 20 years ago, maybe, but now it's just a cop out. It must be wonderful to go thru life being able to blame every single thing on someone else. (I got a ticket because I'm Indian, I have to pay taxes because I'm Indian, I'm going to jail because I stole something but they would have let me off if I wasn't Indian. It's garbage!

I've said it before & here it is again, President Obama is a socialist & I wouldn't vote for him unless he was running against someone like well I can't think of anyone bad enough but if I could it would probably be a coin toss.

PS: Senator Clyburn is a wonderful example of our elected officials. He doesn't represent the country at all, just the people who elected him (that's another thing wrong with our system). I know that because I was going to point out that what he said was a cop out & you can't email him unless you live in his district. Too bad because he needs to be told a thing or 2 & I'd be happy to do it.

[Opti]

They He still don't doesn't get it...


Senator Clyburn is probably not the only one who doesn't see things
as accurately as he could because he's using the lens of his own experience and projecting that onto others.

He doesn't get it, true, but he's older from SC and may never get to that happy place concerning race. Ho hum. True of several of the TV pundits too.

Oldtex, I don't get why you can't email this guy. Is it you can't email him or he or his web page promises all email not from the district will not be read?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

obama bashing pic removed AGAIN
~moon

[b2r]

Obama Budget Receives Zero Votes in Senate



www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CEQQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnation.foxnews.com%2Fpresident-obama%2F2011%2F05%2F26%2Fobama-budget-receives-zero-votes-senate&ei=TJjeTZmxO-TjiAKzwrHqCg&usg=AFQjCNF3YC-sygw2Wc7kgBi1_cDpgIBT-g

97-0

97 racist in the Senate?

[Deleted]

So-- if WE are racist, how come the liberal media is giving very little play to Herman Cain, who is very high on the list of possibles for Repubs??? Are they discounting the conservative black man? Why? They hate West, too. Why??? Are they too conservative, or too BLACK conservative to take seriously? Seems Repubs take them both seriously..

[marshabar1]

May 26, 2011 13:29:08 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

So-- if WE are racist, how come the liberal media is giving very little play to Herman Cain, who is very high on the list of possibles for Repubs??? Are they discounting the conservative black man? Why? They hate West, too. Why??? Are they too conservative, or too BLACK conservative to take seriously? Seems Repubs take them both seriously..

Republicans can't really be black. Mutually exclusive don't you know...

[Deleted]

I really love watching both Cain and West videos-- seeing the huge crowds of white folks applauding, waving their flags, cheering.. puts the lie to rest, doesn't it? Not good press for MSM, though.. they can't say... "look, no black people in that crowd"... when the speaker is black. So they just skip it.

[hello fromWarsaw]

Racist, ignorant, sorely misled, or what combination? After the Booosh/Raygunist disasters and the Kenyan?muslm/Marxist talk, what IS the answer? I know, another tax cut for the megarich, let corps run wild, and bomb Ayrabs...
There IS no racism! RRIIGGHHTTT! You've been outed...70% agree...

[cme1201]

Warsaw,

I like to introduce you too someone who I believe you have a lot in common with.

Warsaw meet hammer, hammer meet Warsaw.

[hello fromWarsaw]

Palin/Ryan 2012!

[deziloooooo]

Nice! [/quote]
No not really ed, nice, anything but, and not all the reason for his problems I grant you that.

The chair he sits in , the office he spends his time in, the office he holds, POTUS, attracks problems, a lot of them and criticism, but to ignore completly and to dismiss out of hand, hell , you have had a few here admit it, their problems with him and for one to dismiss it completly as you are doing , and of course not insinuating you fit this category in any ways.

But for many who do dismiss it out of hand only shows them to bigger idiots then most think they are.

Of course I am referring to those others ed, not you. IMHO.



sorry dezi but i removed that picture.. same as i've removed it from several other posts because people don't seem to get that it's not funny.
~moon

[moon/Laura]

Nice! [/quote]

removed quoted bashing pic ~moon

[marshabar1]

Which picture was that? Did I use a photoshopped photo? Sorry.

[moon/Laura]

it was that stupid 'race card'.. it's not funny.

i'm tired of all the promoting of hatred..

[Deleted]

Oldtex, I don't get why you can't email this guy. Is it you can't email him or he or his web page promises all email not from the district will not be read?

Optimist4Life if you click on contact on his website & takes you to the next page. That one tells you that he is happy to be contacted by anyone from his district (or some such). Then you have to put in your zip code (SC zip code) to go to the email page. I don't remember what the zip is there ( I was stationed there for 5 year long ago) & figure that my email would be worthless to him not being a SC voter.

[Deleted]

Booosh/Raygunist

Bush was ok. I LOVED Reagan! I would vote for either of them again. Heck, I might do just that so that they have have it on the TV. I'm sure that it will go nationwide (that someone voted for someone not running). I would just hope that Warsaw saw it when he was eating.

[Deleted]

We can't bash politicians on a political message board?

[Deleted]

How about MANY personal slurs and name calling in the last few days-- which IS against the COC, has most likely not been reported because we deal with our own issues in our own ways-- like ignoring and moving on. Guess we need to start reporting, kids.

[marshabar1]

United States History of Racism Against Blacks

The Republican Party was formed in 1854 specifically to oppose the Democrats, and for more than 150 years, they have done everything they could to block the Democrat agenda. In their abuses of power, they have even used threats and military violence to thwart the Democratic Party’s attempts to make this a progressive country. As you read the following Republican atrocities that span three centuries, imagine if you will, what a far different nation the United States would be had not the Republicans been around to block the Democrats’ efforts.

March 20, 1854 Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party

May 30, 1854 Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party

June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party

July 6, 1854 First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

February 11, 1856 Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet

February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

May 22, 1856 For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover

March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

October 13, 1858 During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee

October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation

June 4, 1860 Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery

April 7, 1862 President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade

April 16, 1862 President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no

July 2, 1862 U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver

July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”

August 19, 1862 Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation

August 25, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army

[marshabar1]

oops! link: nodnc.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=401


History continues up to present day.

Without a coalition of the disaffected or disadvantaged, the democrats would have nothing to sell to the voters. And it is far easier to pander to that group than sell the idea of self-reliance and the sheer effort to compete in a world where the rules favor the wealthy, powerful and well-connected.

If one desires proof of this assertion, just consider the municipalities and states that are currently governed by progressive democrats – or on occasion by the progressive RINO (Republican In Name Only) like Mitt Romney, Mike Bloomberg, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others of similar ilk.

With all of the billions of dollars pumped into aid programs, why do we still have decaying, crime-ridden inner cities with little or no employment prospects?

Could it be that the money is being siphoned off by politicians and being given to certain politically-connected special interests?

Could it be that the political powers-that-be will go out of their way to resist a large “big box” store -- like Wal-Mart which would bring hundreds of jobs into the area -- because they do not support union labor?

Could it be that the needs of the inner city community are being sacrificed for political expediency? As demonstrated by legal Black citizens being displaced from their homes and potential employment by illegal aliens because the progressive Democratic Party believes Hispanics to be the wave of the future? And, of course, the chance to enlarge the membership roles of their largest contributor, the socialist unions?

Where are all of the community leaders who are willing to stand up and tell the simple truth: that their constituents are pawns in a high-stakes game of political chicken – where a win by the party is a win for the party’s ruling elite and those who provided campaign funds and voter support?

www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2011/05/racism-a-product-being-sold-by-the-democratic-party.html

[moon/Laura]

May 26, 2011 18:22:51 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

How about MANY personal slurs and name calling in the last few days-- which IS against the COC, has most likely not been reported because we deal with our own issues in our own ways-- like ignoring and moving on. Guess we need to start reporting, kids.

yes

[pappyjohn99]

Jeez moon, this is your house, but isn't it a little much to remove Obama on toast?

[Politically_Incorrect12]

May 26, 2011 15:34:14 GMT -5 deziloooooo said:

Nice!

No not really ed, nice, anything but, and not all the reason for his problems I grant you that.

The chair he sits in , the office he spends his time in, the office he holds, POTUS, attracks problems, a lot of them and criticism, but to ignore completly and to dismiss out of hand, hell , you have had a few here admit it, their problems with him and for one to dismiss it completly as you are doing , and of course not insinuating you fit this category in any ways.

But for many who do dismiss it out of hand only shows them to bigger idiots then most think they are.

Of course I am referring to those others ed, not you. IMHO.



sorry dezi but i removed that picture.. same as i've removed it from several other posts because people don't seem to get that it's not funny.
~moon

So every time we have a white President, does the political disagreements come from racism? By your logic, since for some people the disagreement could be related to it, it is an issue. So if we have a women President, the disagreement will be because of gender? Who are the real racist saying that people can't disagree with the President without automatically attributing issues due to race? What is that called when you treat somebody different based on gender or skin color? People blaming racism for a large portion of disagreement with the President are racist since they believe he should be treated differently than every other past and future President.

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..............tru dat.............