So is the Democratic Party full of creepy old racists? That’s what the evidence points to. Already creepy Harry Reid apparently approved of Barack Obama because he’s “light-skinned” and doesn’t speak “Negro dialect”; you know, he’s not one of “those” black people. In the Democrats’ minds, there are certain groups of minorities who the Democrats think should just be thankful they have Democrats giving lip-service to them, but they shouldn’t ever try to lead. It seems pretty condescending, but it is how Democrats have firmed up their base for some time now.
Of course, the Democrats have all rallied behind Harry Reid because without condescending racism, there really isn’t a Democratic Party. Obama even defended Reid, saying, “I know exactly what black people Reid was talking about, and we certainly would never run one of them as a candidate for president. Senator Byrd would have a heart attack.” And Nancy Pelosi added, “This controversy is ridiculous. And, frankly, I think Obama is too dark-skinned, but whatcha gonna do.” The DNC also stated that their black members were okay with it, “though it’s hard to know exactly what they’re saying with their slang and the loud rap music they’re always playing.”
According to Ted Kennedy (who murdered a woman), Bill Clinton also apparently said about Obama: “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.” I’ll give Clinton the benefit of the doubt, though, and assume he was talking about Obama’s inexperience and not his race. And no one he’s raped ever mentioned him saying anything racist.
Murders, rapists, and racists — the Democratic leadership could use some work. But the Republicans tend to allow a lot of spending on pork, and that’s bad too.
Even before the civil war these facts existed Abraham Lincoln was………….wait for it……………. a Republican and abolitionist. The Republican party was the party of Abolition (for you trolls out there than means they were against slavery) The Democratic Party, especially in the south was the party of slavery. Fact.
Over the years the Democratic party opposed civil rights and any other way in which minorities were truly equal. Much better to continue to enslave the masses by making them dependent on the government gruel. So in reality many minorities are still slaves, they simply refuse to accept it and all of the whining, crying and screeching will not make it different. The Democratic party owns them, lock, stock and affirmative action.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. B. Franklin (never truer than today)
The Democratic party has a long history of racism from slavery, to the eugenics movement, to the civil rights movement, to being the official party of the KKK, to welfare, to affirmative action. I can’t think of a single time the left has been on the correct side of any racial issue. They have tried their best to keep minorities poor and uneducated despite all the hard work from those on the right to promote equal opportunity to all.
Of course, everything you list above, Frank, goes into the history books as being caused by the Right Wing.
somehow someway the liberals will say Hairball Reids comments are all Bush’s fault…..
seanmahair, you are so right. I have personally witnessed this with my work in several street ministries. Democrats are the modern plantation owners. They just want to extrand the slaves to be all citizens under their thumb.
Feb. 2007 on Obama’s appeal: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean that’s a storybook, man.”……..Joe the Vice President, now not the only dumbass in, Washington DC.
President Obummer may be light skinned without a dialect, but Harry Reid has a crunchy milk chocolate outer layer with a creamy, nougat center.
“Murders, rapists, and racists — the Democratic leadership could use some work.”
Not so fast….
1. With all the social spending they propose, wouldn’t it be funny if they it turned out that they were all tax cheats? What’s that? They are? (looking at you Geitner, Rangel and Dashel)
2. Or, with all the social spending they propose, wouldn’t it be funny if they don’t’s actually make personal contributions to charities? (i.e., Kerry & Gore)
3. Or with all the recent mortgage fraud, wouldn’t it be funny if Dems actually go sweetheart mortgage deals to look the other way on regulation. (cough, cough – Dodd, Conrad, and cough cough, OBAMA!!)
4. Or wouldn’t it be ironic if they selected a known plagerist to be VP, and were then surprised by his stupidity.
5. Or wouldn’t it be odd if the OMB director had a child out of wedlock, and the press completely ignored it?
No, these – and other – transgressions are not all Bush’s fault. We should also blame Channey, Haliburton and Sarah Palin.
Ain’t nothing racier..er…racister….more racistlike…than an old, wrinkly Democrat. Except maybe a newier, coiffed, twitterin’, slick commie Democrat.
Don’t worry…the network newsies are gonna be all over this story…..
Actually, Reid praised obama because he didn’t use a “Negro dialect”… “except when he wants to”. That last part is omitted from most of the outrage about this issue. In fact, Reid is saying that he admires Obama’s ability to “fake” an African-American appearance and dialect in order to con them into voting for him. The core of the Democrats’ political strategy since the 1930’s has been conning various identity and ethnic groups into thinking that the Democrats “care” about their grievances, so it’s not surprising that Reid would admire Obama’s ability to do this.
There should be at least a couple good jokes in that for you, IMAO.
I think this is what Harry Reid wanted to say.
The only thing missing from creepy Reid’s statement is…” and if we run him instead of that c*^t Hillary, we can call anyone who opposes him a “racist”. That was obviously the plan all along and the only reason all the democrats aren’t mad is they all thought exactly the same damn thing, the “vice president” said basically the same thing and look where he is. If this is the stuff that gets out, just imagine what they say when nobody is listening.
Seems very ironic, in the new “post-racial” utopia, there are 2 stories about the word negro in the same week.
I vote Deafdog ‘Comment-of-the Day’ winner.
Cousin Pookie only responds to the Negro dialect.
Regarding tbone1128’s SNL reference to Light-skinned Blacks are smarter than Dark-skinned Blacks: The Science! is settled. Al Gore said so.
I guess a “coffee summit” with Barry, Bill, Harry, & the ghost of Ted is in the offing?
Maybe this is the real reason Duh One needs a teleprompter and uses the word “uh” 400 times in every sentence, he’s just trying to think of the correct “white word” so that all us rednecks will understand him. The reality is, he talks jive better than most rappers but hides it because he knew he’d never get elected.
First Jive Dude: Shiiiiit, maaaaan. That honky muf’ be messin’ mah old lady… got to be runnin’ cold upside down his head, you know?
Second Jive Dude: Hey home’, I can dig it. Know ain’t gonna lay no mo’ big rap up on you, man!
First Jive Dude: I say hey, sky… subba say I wan’ see…
Second Jive Dude: Uh-huh.
First Jive Dude: …pray to J I did the same ol’ same ol’!
Second Jive Dude: Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, man!
First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say: see a broad to get dat booty yak ’em…
First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: …leg ‘er down a smack ’em yak ’em!
First Jive Dude: COL’ got to be! Y’know? Shiiiiit.
NO_MO_BAMA I couldn’t understand a thing you wrote except ‘shiiiiit’ which I know means ‘golly’ in Ebonics.
VIVA LA RAZA ! VIVA LA RAZA! VIVA LA RAZA!
I wanna be a hyphenated AMERICAN TOOOOOOOO.
Gumlegs over at DarwinCentral has a clever parody of this: http://forum.darwincentral.org/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=32521
There was a post or a link right here on IMAO.us awhile back about Jimmy Carter’s racist maneuvers in the 1970 Georgia gubernatorial race. Let’s not forget to add him to the Racist Democrats Trading Card set.
I’m more confused than ever. My first recollection was the term Negro. The NAACP wanted to be called colored people. Then it was Afro-American. Sometime later they became black just long enough for me to get used to it. Now it seems the term is drifting back to African-American. (a problem when you consider Obama actually is an African-American and most blacks aren’t) And now, we are back to Negro?
Can we get some clarification here? I was seeing a move toward “people of color”, which is little clumsy and seems not all that much different than colored people. Are Negroes just those who are light skinned and can speak standard English and Ebonics?
For heavens sake pick something and stay with it! Can we get badges or something?
Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy…how deze hee-yar Democratic fokes lubs dem sum High Yaller negroes, huh?
Dems, ‘specially de whitefoke, almos’ seem like deys lub to go back to de time o’ da 1850s an’ 1860s when dey could call a spade a spade…er “negro” an’ have him bring dem dey coffee (or mint julep) as de white massa Dems be sitten ‘pon da verandah in dey rokkin chay-uh.
Sho’ ’nuff, de Dem whitefokes gots hearts big as all de plantation fo de negro man an missus…givin’ a negro all dat well-fayuh an food stampin’.
Miz Clinton dun sed she “don’ feel no ways tired”…Massa Gore dun sed “tha glory ub de Lawd gon’ be ree-veeld”…de way dey be talkin’ to a negro, sho’ ’nuff, dey DO care!
Makes a body wanna rush off ta join up an’ be a Dem like dey be, huh?
Ya’ll are a bunch of nitwits.
He said “Kneegrow” dialect, not “negro.” This is seldom used but, slight variation of the Nevada 1 dialect (http://web.ku.edu/~idea/northamerica/usa/nevada/nevada.htm) spoken by the Kneegrow Indian tribe near Elko.
True story.
What Reid said was an accurate description of the candidate, not a racial slur, but if it makes him look stupider, it’ll do until something better comes along.
If he’d said it while the cameras were rolling, we’d have all heard about it long ago.
Since it only exists as a quote in a new book, I’m surprised Harry didn’t just deny saying it and accuse the authors of lying.
The episode illustrates a long-standing principle:
If you apologize only after you get caught, you’re not really sorry.