Our first Black President is going to have some tough 'splainin' to do for remarks made to the late Senator Kennedy during a phone conversation seeking the Senator's endorsement during the rough and tumble Dem primary in 2008. Apparently, Bill Clinton told the Senator that "...a few years ago, this guy would be getting us coffee...", which so incensed the Senator that he went on to make the Obama endorsement.
Now of course, these remarks had NOTHING TO DO with the fact that the would-be President Obama had virtually NO EXPERIENCE doing anything Presidential (or worthwhile for that matter). They had nothing to do with drawing a comparison between Bill's wife (generally thought to be well-prepared to be President) and the youthful, inexperienced Obama. No--how silly of you to think that. They are of course, racist remarks, and that's the way they'll be treated.
H/T The Daily Caller
UPDATE: Looks like Mark Steyn beat me to the "First Black President" reference.
I disagree with President Clinton. Though he is clean and articulate with no Negro accent, Obowma isn't even qualified to work at Starbucks.
ReplyDeleteLet's review shall we?
ReplyDelete"There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time..."
Senator Robert Byrd 3/4/01
Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman.
"If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house" as well as referring to Jews as "diamond merchants." Rev. Al Sharpton August 1991.
It took me about 30 seconds to come up with these quotes. My, my, it seems we have racists in the Democratic Party.
Deny, deny, deny...dead men tell no tales, nor do they provide source confirmation.
ReplyDelete"Bill's wife (generally thought to be well-prepared to be President)"
ReplyDeleteI am SOOOOO out of step with the "general" population. Perhaps in contrast to our current President, I might be able to put my big toe in the ring of the "general" population, but otherwise, I've never seen it.
It's really easy to slander a pol today. All you have to do is repeat a remark that was passed down from a conversation that allegedly happened between a dead senator and a former president et voila! Who are you going to believe? The dead senator, the anonymous source, the former president or the “journalists” that a peddling a gossipy book trashing every body from the Palins, McCains, Edwards and Clintons? And who comes out smelling like a rose?
ReplyDeleteI'm with you CW...while I'd love to see Daddy-pants-are-down pillaried, this one rings hollow. Not every criticism is racist. In truth, the Reid thing's not really that bad either.
ReplyDeleteWhen political consultants commented that Jerry Kilgore's southwest VA accent wouldn't play well in NoVA and that his urbane look (some argued effete) wouldn't play too well with the good ole boys, they weren't making disparaging remarks about either NoVA or good ole boys...they were trying to package the campaign to win. Talking about candidate attributes in frank terms is not racist. I think Harry Reid is a ginormous turd floating in the punchbowl that is the US Senate, but the GOP ought to just pass on this controversy...makes em look petty.
The bigger issue is the double standard, but this is nothing new. Meanwhile, poll after poll suggest the country's upset about spending and jobs...Joe Sixpack doesn't care if these guys are having orgies with goats as long as they get spending under control. The GOP needs to stay on point with the issues of the day and not get distracted by the intramural antics of the Dems.
John S - Speaking of orgies with goats, I've got a good goat joke. But since I can't really share that here, how's the duck hunting been for you? We're iced in up here but if you can get to a blind and break a hole in the ice, it's been pretty darned productive.
ReplyDeleteIt's all over folks. Move along. Nothing to see here. Racism Declaration Official, Eric Holder, has declared it was not racist.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/11/us/politics/AP-US-Reid-Holder.html
Would be interesting to rewind a couple days and release an identical quote by any conservative official...especially Dick Cheney. Of course, that would so significantly change history (or the future, depending on where you were at the time) that it might upset the universe.
Holder. Reid. The whole bunch. Where's my nausea medicine?
Mudge. Same here...found a dining room table size spot of open water the other day and had somewhere north of 200 mallards pile in right before legal time. E-mail me beyondbibbstore@gmail.com and I'll send you some pics.
ReplyDeleteKeep buying all the ammo you can get your hands on....
Such amusing Democratic hypocrisy when comparing the degree of offence they all display at Trent Lott's comment versus Harry Reid's and Bill Clinton’s.
ReplyDeleteHypocrisy in the degree of offense? Obama supporter Reid privately talking about racism existing in America to the point where a black candidate without an dialect is more electable with a lighter skin tone vs. Trott, with a long history of ties to segregationalist groups, publicly lamenting that we hadn't elected an openly racist segregationalist as a solution for today's problems.
ReplyDeleteI see quite a difference there. You really think it's the same thing? Discussing racism isn't racist.
The GOP has gotten so frantic over being "shut out" of deliberations on the Hill that we are nipping around the edges at less significant stuff. Yes, all this is indicative of a bigger problem, that being the double standard employed by the Left with the collusion of the MSM, but my point is that the GOP needs to win the war, and they seem bent at this point on skirmishing on the flanks.
ReplyDeleteIf the braying masses on the Left clamor over comments a Republican makes and the GOP leadership says, "Whoa, wait a minute. This is overreaction," then they look like petty whiny-babies when a Dem says something stupid and they take the same tack as the Left. I'm not suggesting they're wrong to object; just that they need to pick their battles, so make the point and forge on.
I guess my feeling is that Reid's a jerk; everyone knows he's a jerk; he's hanging himself with Obamacare and Stimulus II and Cap and Trade. The GOP needs to give him plenty of rope to hang himself and keep focused on the ball, which is utilizing the overwhelming groundswell of opposition in this country to cut some Dems from the herd to kill the Obama/Reid/Pelosi legislative momentum and gain as many seats as possible this Fall.