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Posted By ybdogsct 9 months ago in Political NewsRacist Supporters at McCain Rally Talk Openly About ASSASSINATING Barack Obama!
This post is in response to thread started by PC25 entitled "OBAMANOSIS: 'We Are Building A Religion' The Video that has the OBAMA LEMMINGS in a tizzy."
What kind of racist lemmings parrot the bigoted garbage found on anonymous emails and fliers?
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ybdogsct9 months ago
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More videos can be found here: (Do your best not to vomit all over your computers.)
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Some videos are amusing, but this one is particularly disturbing. McCain supporters chanting assassination threats at Barack Obama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvHTCNNrew=related
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ybdogsct9 months ago
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"as they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"
Are the people in the youtube videos imitating you? I didn't know that when I posted the links.
Wow, so you really are a racist, buck-tooth, bible-thumping, gun-toting, cousin-marrying country hick.....
At least, you admit to it.
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pc259 months ago
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Hey YB I have one for you. see what Pastor Manning says about Barack Obama
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if you dare,
Obamanosis it's real, it's dangerous,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTp_atr2G9E&fea...-
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Will13139 months ago
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As a younger man, Manning burglarized homes, mostly on Long Island. He spent about three and a half years in prison in New York and Florida for burglary, robbery, larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, and other charges before his release in 1978. While in prison, he became a devout Christian.[1]
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like many pastors. .. he's just found a LEGAL WAY TO STEAL..
LOTS OF PEOPLE GET RELIGION IN JAIL.. Bush even executed one.. and laughed about it..
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but a question.. how is this guys HATRED any different the Rev Wrights.. oohhh.. ohh.. because he hates the same thing you do... now I get it..-
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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The contention was that because Rev. Wright was a racist, it didn't mean that Obama was a racist. Try to keep up, PC25. Geez! You guys can't even keep track of your own spin anymore!
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If you think Obama was unqualified then what did you think of GW Bush? Many of you are aware that he bankrupted 3 of the companies that he ran before being elected as the President of the US. It really should be no surprise to anyone that he came close to doing it to this country in the 8 years he held office. Talk about unqualified!
Here's the resume of the man the Republicans "elected?" twice. Happy reading!
Accomplishments as president:
*Attacked and took over two countries.
*Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
*Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
* Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
*Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
*First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
*First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
*First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
*After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.
*Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.
*In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
*Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
*Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.
*Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
*Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
*Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.
*Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
*Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
*Cut health care benefits for war veterans.
*Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest the President (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. (http://www.hyperreal.org/~dana/marches/)
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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Aaaaaand...
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*His presidency was the most secretive and un-accountable of any in US history.
*Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (the 'poorest' multi-millionaire, Condoleezza Rice has an Chevron oil tanker named after her).
*Had more states to simultaneously go bankrupt than any president in the history of the United States.
*Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
*Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
*Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
*First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
*First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
*Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
*Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
*Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
*Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
*First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
*All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
*His biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
*Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
*First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
*First president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
*First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
*Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history).
*With a policy of 'dis-engagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.-
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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Deep breath
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*Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
*First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
*Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
*Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
*Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.
*Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months there were no leads and zero suspects.
*In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he has successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
* Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
*In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
Well, maybe this is why you're so concerned with qualifications now. Dare I hope that you've have learned your lesson? Judging by your last pick for a Presidential candidate, I think not!-
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cowboygrandpa9 months ago
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Beeboppin:
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No wonder I feel like I have crapped on over and over by the Bush regime. We have been.
These are the kind of supporters they have. I'm surprised they weren't wearing their white hoods.
Thanks for an excellent list of the low points in the Bush terrorist reign.
Of course there were no high points. Just being at ground level was the highest he ever made it. LOL
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jaern9 months ago
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This is a better interview with Pastor Manning.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/25/01842/2140...-
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Tangent0019 months ago
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Hmmm, yet they can still call Obama on his mis-steps. Go figure.
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jovial9 months ago
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http://media.www.suffolkjournal.net/media/storage/...
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Here's some more proof of Republican racism.
Trent Lott, as a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" — a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters.-
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lovemylibs9 months ago
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Alright, no links this time...
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If you use the googleometer and search "racism in the democratic party" there are 1.35 million hits.
If you search "racism in the republican party" there are 1.23 million hits.
If you search "racism in the democrat party" (no 'ic') you get 1.45 million hits.
I'm just saying...
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jovial9 months ago
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24-Aug-04
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Republican Racism
US Newswire: "Nadia Naffe, who worked as a Field Director in Southwest Florida for the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF)," filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging race discrimination and retaliation on the job. Along with the RPOF, the lawsuit names the RNC and Bush-Cheney '04 as defendants. During 2003-2004 Naffe was the only black Field Director in FlA." She was forced to perform job assignments focused on black organizations, events and issues. Naffe complained to Party officials of this illegal practice, known as "race matching," only to be told she was being "insubordinate" and "not a team player." "After seeking and failing to get assistance from the RNC, Naffe contacted the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...shortly afterwards she was verbally threatened with firing by the RPOF's General Counsel, Robert Sechen." One month later, Naffe was fired on a completely trumped up pretext. -
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jovial9 months ago
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GOP Chooses Racist for TN Race
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09-Aug-04
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"An unabashed racist will represent the Republican party in the November election for a congressional seat after a write-in candidate failed to derail his effort. With 86 percent of the primary vote counted Thursday, write-in candidate Dennis Bertrand had just 1,554 votes compared to 7,671, or 83 percent, for James L. Hart, a believer in the discredited, phony science of eugenics... In November, the GOP candidate will oppose Rep. John Tanner, a Democrat who has represented the northwest Tennessee district for 15 years. Hart, 60, vows if elected to work toward keeping 'less favored races' from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that 'poverty genes' threaten to turn the United States into 'one big Detroit.'" We demand a complete denunciation of Bertrand by Bush, Gillespie, and the rest of the GOP! -
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jovial9 months ago
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Incredible! GOP's Ballenger Blamed Women in Scarves for His Failed Marriage!
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04-Dec-03
Republican Racism
"The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in response to an October 2003 Charlotte Observer newspaper article in which Rep. Cass Ballenger (R-NC) claimed the stress of living near CAIR in Washington, D.C., caused the breakup of his marriage. Ballenger said that proximity to CAIR 'bugged the hell' out of his wife. He said his wife also objected to women 'wearing hoods' [traditional Muslim scarves] going in and out of CAIR's Capitol Hill headquarters. CAIR is seeking $2 million in compensatory and punitive damages, together with costs and attorney's fees. " Can you believe these rightwingnuts? Limbaugh blames liberals for his drug addiction, Janklow blames his murderous driving habits on diabetes. Now Ballenger blames women in scarves for his divorce. Pathetic!! -
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jovial9 months ago
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No Joke! Kissing a Hispanic Girl Gets Rep a Spot at GOP Hispanic Conference
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09-Nov-03
Republican Racism
DNC blog: "Republicans are insulting the intelligence of Hispanic voters by saying they deserve to be part of the GOP Hispanic Conference because they kissed Hispanic girls: [from the National Journal] 'GOP efforts to reach out to Hispanic voters took an odd turn when House Republicans this week introduced their new Congressional Hispanic Conference. Several of the conference's members aren't themselves Latino and struggled to make the Hispanic connection. Rep. Chris Cannon of Utah volunteered that, as a fifth-grader, he got his first kiss from a Hispanic girl who was two years older. Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona hopped on the Love Boat by describing how he fell in love with - and married - a Filipino lady who speaks Portuguese.' How about creating jobs for the parents of Hispanic boys and girls or providing them with affordable and quality health care? That is what our Democratic members that make up the Congressional Hispanic Caucus work on, day in and day out."-
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fiftynine9 months ago
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lolol...""Republicans are insulting the intelligence of Hispanic voters by saying they deserve to be part of the GOP Hispanic Conference because they kissed Hispanic girls:"
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They are an insulting bunch i agree...I guess i could be a REAL republican..I not only kissed a hispanic girl,i married her and have two beautiful sons with..been together eighteen years in April...Damn !!! By their reasoning that should get me a seat at rush's table....lolol
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jovial9 months ago
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Once Again, GOP Used Racism to Divide Electorate
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06-Nov-03
Republican Racism
"They had all the ingredients to become Mississippi's first black politicians elected to a statewide office since Reconstruction: strong resumes, party backing and money to lure voters. But state Sen. Barbara Blackmon, a lieutenant governor candidate, and Gary Anderson, a candidate for state treasurer, both lost Tuesday, and some observers say their skin color factored into the outcome. Rickey Cole, chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, said the GOP's tactics in this election season harked back to "Nixon's Southern Republican strategy to make subtle winks and nods to white racism in the South." Both Blackmon and Anderson are Democrats. Blackmon got just 37% of the vote against Republican Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck, who got 61%... [ Haley] Barbour often wore the state flag lapel pin. In stump speeches, Barbour and Tuck told cheering crowds that they supported the state flag, which voters chose to keep in 2001 over the protests of blacks and whites who found it offensive." -
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jovial9 months ago
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Conyers and Nadler Call for Investigation into Scrubbed DOJ Diversity Report
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05-Nov-03
Republican Racism
"Dear Mr. Inspector General: We are writing to ask that the U.S. Department of Justice's OIG investigate the Department's conduct in delaying the release of and making redactions to a report on diversity in the Department's attorney workforce... We were extremely alarmed to learn that the Department of Justice had not only delayed release of this important report by more than one year, but opted to redact more than half of its pages, including the summary section. It is our understanding that the Department elected to redact such critical findings as 'the department does face significant diversity issues' and 'minorities are significantly more likely than whites to cite stereotyping, harassment, and racial tensions as characteristics of the work climate.' In our view, it is outrageous that the very agency that is charged with rooting out discrimination would make it so difficult for the public to scrutinize its own civil rights record." -
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jovial9 months ago
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Republicans Rally Behind Cubin's Racist Remarks - Where is the Outrage?
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11-Apr-03
Republican Racism
PentaPost opines, "Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY), has out-Lotted Mr. Lott. Mrs. Cubin's remarks came not in a birthday tribute to a centenarian but on the floor of the House of Representatives, in the midst of a serious debate on a gun measure... And unlike in the case of Mr. Lott, Mrs. Cubin's remarks seem to have provoked barely a word of protest from her Republican colleagues... To argue analogously that the amendment would have kept dealers from selling guns in the black community is true only if you subscribe to a worldview in which 'African American' equals 'presumptive drug user.' Yet more astonishing than Mrs. Cubin's obtuseness was that when the full House considered whether to have Mrs. Cubin's words 'taken down' as offensive... it voted in her favor, 227 to 195. Not a single Republican lawmaker voted against the remarks. Afterward, not a word of criticism from House Republican leaders. " -
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jovial9 months ago
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'Message to America from the Racist Republican Regime: Happy Martin Luther '****' Day'
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17-Jan-03
Republican Racism
"As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Republicans will talk like they have supported King's vision of a colorblind society and African-American rights all along, when their records and actions speak otherwise. That's just more of the Republican con job. Republican racism goes much deeper than Sen. Lott. There's Sen. Jefferson Sessions of Alabama, who once called a black assistant U.S. attorney 'boy' and a white civil rights attorney a 'disgrace to his race.' There's Sen. George Allen of Virginia, who displays a Confederate flag in his living room. There's Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who was a member of the all-white Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville, Tenn., before running for the Senate in 1994. There's Rep. Cass Ballenger of North Carolina who recently told a newspaper reporter he had 'segregationist' feelings and called former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, an African-American Democrat from Georgia, a 'bitch.'" The list goes on and on, writes Jackson Thoreau. -
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jovial9 months ago
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Racist Bush Sends Flowers to Neo-Confederates Celebrating Jefferson Davis
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20-Jan-03
Republican Racism
Time reports, "Last Memorial Day, for the second year in a row, Bush's White House sent a floral wreath to the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Six days later, as the United Daughters of the Confederacy celebrated Jefferson Davis' birthday there, Washington chapter president Vicki Heilig offered a 'word of gratitude to George W. Bush' for 'honoring' the Old South's dead. Bush has quietly reinstated a tradition dating back to Woodrow Wilson that his father had halted in 1990... One of the organizations connected to the ceremony is the Sons of Confederate Veterans, whose 'Chief Aide-de-Camp' is Richard T. Hines, a politically active lobbyist from South Carolina. In that state's brutal 2000 Republican primary, Hines reportedly helped finance tens of thousands of letters blasting Bush rival John McCain for failing to support the flying of the Confederate flag over the state capitol. Hines declined to comment." -
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jovial9 months ago
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Racist E-mail is Linked to Powerful Bush Ally Paul Weyrich
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06-Jan-03
Republican Racism
California Republican Vice Chair Bill Back is in deep doodoo over his 1999 e-mail of an article that blamed Reconstruction - not slavery - for America's legacy of racism. Joe Conason asks why Bush won't repudiate Back and the article by William Lind. "It's likely that Rove and Bush don't want to annoy William Lind's patron, the powerful far-right figure Paul Weyrich, who often made life miserable for the White House during the first Bush regime. Lind operates the Center for Cultural Conservatism, a subsidiary of Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, where he fantasizes about burning feminists at the stake and concocts theories about the Marxist Jews who have infected American culture... Last summer, Lind appeared at a Washington conference of Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis." Where is the outrage??? -
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jovial9 months ago
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Racist Campaigns for California GOP Chair
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05-Jan-03
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NY Daily News reports, "A candidate for chairman of the California state Republican Party issued an apology yesterday after it was reported he once sent party members an article claiming the country might be better off if the South had won the Civil War. Bill Back, vice chairman of the California GOP, circulated the article in a party newsletter in 1999 that was E-mailed to about 500 people. The article, by conservative commentator William Lind, said, 'Given how bad things have gotten in the old U.S.A., it's not hard to believe that history might have taken a better turn. 'The real damage to race relations in the South came not from slavery, but from Reconstruction, which would not have occurred if the South had won,' added Lind... Back, who's locked in a two-man race for next month's election to lead the state party, told the Sacramento Bee and the Contra Costa Times that he couldn't remember why he included the piece." 'Cuz he's a Republican racist, that's why! -
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jovial9 months ago
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And finally,
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Bill Clinton Denounces the GOP's Racist 'Southern Strategy'
19-Dec-02
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CNN reports, "Former President Clinton said Wednesday it is 'pretty hypocritical' of Republicans to criticize...Trent Lott for stating publicly what he said the GOP does 'on the back roads every day.' 'How do they think they got a majority in the South anyway?' Clinton told CNN outside a business luncheon he was attending. 'I think what they are really upset about is that he made public their strategy.' He added: 'They try to suppress black voting, they ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina, and from top to bottom the Republicans supported it.' Clinton's comments were strongly refuted by a Republican spokesman, who called on the former president to 'check his facts.'" We did - and they are COMPLETELY accurate. It's time for the Republican Party to be held accountable for four decades of pandering to white racists, which began in 1968 with Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy."
Slate I'll go one on one with you with theses stories anytime. I have mounds of stories to back me up and I withheld a lot more. Republicans have appealed to the Southern states and that's why they became Red states. The Leftover, southern Democrats, will vote Republican as was seen in the last election. So as far as i'm concerned they are only Democrat in name. They are actually Republicans.-
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slate9 months ago
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First we are bitter-gun-clinging-God-clinging-racist-rednecks, now we are crackers.
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At least according to John Baer at the Philadelphia Daily News. Click here for his opinion column reasoning that the “CrackerFactor Effect” is why McCain continues to campaign in PA despite sagging polls numbers.
You really have to wonder how the people of Pennsylvania feel about all of the negative adjectives being thrown their way in this election - especially Democrats that vote for John McCain. It is their “traitorous” vote for McCain that everyone is targeting with less than flattering descriptives for their vote.
NOTE: Calling Pennsylvanians CRACKERS! is even worse than just calling them RACISTS! This has totally escalated into a whole new realm of ridiculous. Ordinary scantily clad hunks are just not enough to combat RACIST! name calling on this level. No, we need to bring out the jocks to handle this one. Hockey jocks. With great big sticks. With an “st”. Sticks. Which is totally “code” for “penis”. Since kooks love finding “code” in everything.
Toss in the 'typical white Woman'
Bill Clinton: Will respect Jewish holidays, then 'hustle up ... cracker vote' in Florida
In an interview with CNN's Larry King airing tonight, Bill Clinton offered a slightly unusual reason for postponing his campaigning for Obama: The Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which he's not known to observe.
"When [the Clinton Global Initiative] is over, and after the Jewish holidays, which follow close on it, I intend to go to Florida, to Ohio, to northeast Pennsylvania, and to Nevada at a minimum," he said. "I may do events in Arkansas depending on what the Democratic Party does down there. And I've agreed to do some fundraising for them in California and New York."
"Are you kind of feeling Jewish that you're waiting until after the Jewish holidays?" King asked, according to a CNN transcript.
"No. But I think it would be -- if we're trying to win in Florida, it may be that," Clinton began, before discussing his real Florida target: "You know, they think that because of who I am and where my politic[al] base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the 'cracker vote' there."
"But Senator Obama also has a big stake in doing well in the Jewish community in Florida, where Hillary did very well and where I did very well. And I just think respecting the holidays is a good thing to do," he said. -
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jovial9 months ago
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Ok, let's continue...
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Here's some advice for Republicans eager to attract more African-American supporters: don't stop with Trent Lott. Blacks won't take their commitment to expanding the party seriously until they admit that the GOP's wrongheadedness about race goes way beyond Lott and infects their entire party. The sad truth is that many Republican leaders remain in a massive state of denial about the party's four-decade-long addiction to race-baiting. They won't make any headway with blacks by bashing Lott if they persist in giving Ronald Reagan a pass for his racial policies.
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The same could be said, of course, about such Republican heroes as, Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon or George Bush the elder, all of whom used coded racial messages to lure disaffected blue collar and Southern white voters away from the Democrats. Yet it's with Reagan, who set a standard for exploiting white anger and resentment rarely seen since George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, that the Republican's selective memory about its race-baiting habit really stands out.
Space doesn't permit a complete list of the Gipper's signals to angry white folks that Republicans prefer to ignore, so two incidents in which Lott was deeply involved will have to suffice. As a young congressman, Lott was among those who urged Reagan to deliver his first major campaign speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence. It was a ringing declaration of his support for "states' rights" — a code word for resistance to black advances clearly understood by white Southern voters. -
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jovial9 months ago
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Then there was Reagan's attempt, once he reached the White House in 1981, to reverse a long-standing policy of denying tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial discrimination and grant an exemption to Bob Jones University. Lott's conservative critics, quite rightly, made a big fuss about his filing of a brief arguing that BJU should get the exemption despite its racist ban on interracial dating. But true to their pattern of white-washing Reagan's record on race, not one of Lott's conservative critics said a mumblin' word about the Gipper's deep personal involvement. They don't care to recall that when Lott suggested that Reagan's regime take BJU's side in a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, Reagan responded, "We ought to do it." Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court in a resounding 8-to-1 decision ruled that Reagan was dead wrong and reinstated the IRS's power to deny BJU's exemption.
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Republican leaders and their apologists tend to go into a frenzy of denial when members of the liberal media cabal bring up these inconvenient facts. It's that lack of candor, of course, that presents the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush's commendable and long overdue campaign to persuade more African-Americans to defect from the Democrats to the Republicans. It's doomed to fail until the GOP fesses up its past addiction to race-baiting, and makes a sincere attempt to kick the habit.
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jovial9 months ago
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Blatant Republican Racism
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I have covered many amazingly disgusting examples of Republican racism and anti-Semitism over the years.
Not too long ago there was an idiot bar owner in Cobb Co. Georgia who made T-shirts with a picture of Curious George (registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) eating a banana with the caption "Obama '08." When confronted by some uppity civil rights groups the bar owner insisted he wasn't racist. From a Daily Kos article because the original newspaper article keeps crashing Firefox:
The T-shirts are being peddled by Marietta bar owner Mike Norman at his Mulligan's Bar and Grill in Cobb County. They show a picture of Curious Georgie peeling a banana, with the words "Obama '08" underneath.
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Norman acknowledged the imagery's Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American as a monkey.
Of course this fool got slapped down by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for copyright infringement and generally being an a racist idiot:
Rick Blake, a spokesman for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns Curious George, said Wednesday that the company didn't authorize the use of the character's image, but hasn't been in touch with anybody selling or manufacturing the shirts.
"We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents," Blake said. "We're monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action."
Now we have another example of stupid, racist Republican "humor." The ill-named American Values and Focus on the Family Action Forum (a group which seems unAmerican and displays terrible values) sells "Obama Waffles" with several racial stereotypes. From this article:
Obama is portrayed with popping eyes and big, thick lips as he stares at a plate of waffles and smiles broadly.
Placing Obama in Arab-like headdress recalls the false rumor that he is a follower of Islam, though he is actually a Christian.
On the back of the box, Obama is depicted in stereotypical Mexican dress, including a sombrero, above a recipe for "Open Border Fiesta Waffles" that says it can serve "4 or more illegal aliens." The recipe includes a tip: "While waiting for these zesty treats to invade your home, why not learn a foreign language?" -
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jovial9 months ago
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Wow, insulting blacks, Muslims and Hispanics all in one shot. I guess the Republican Party has abandoned all attempts to reach out to the true diversity of America. I guess they have embraced intolerance wholeheartedly. What is with Republicans? How can they think this kind of adolescent racism is okay? This is a forum attended by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney and they are engaging in blatant racism.
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And speaking of Republican Racism, here's an article from an Arizona blog that is apropos: McCain and the Race Card - The Corporate Media's Role. And let's remember McCain opposed the Martin Luther King, jr. holiday. For those who want to read more about Republican racism, I've discussed it here (from before Obama won the primary), and it is covered in Drew Westin's book The Political Brain with some pretty nasty examples.
To quote Drew Westen's book, The Political Brain:
Since the mid-1960's, the party of Lincoln has desecrated his memory. Republicans have opposed every effort to extend equal rights to anyone who isn't white. They have played the race card in every presidential election they have won since 1968. As long as Democrats don't turn racism into a character issue, Republicans will continue to use it as an instrument of political persuasion.
Remember Trent Lott's glowing, gushing, loving speech about Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential run. Remember, that Trent Lott was the LEADER of the Republican Senate, yet he said that had Strom Thurmond won the presidency in 1948, America wouldn't have the problems it has today.
What was the focus of Thurmond's run for presidency? His central platform was segregation, upholding the "right" of, in his words, "Southern People" to keep "*******" out of "our theaters...swimming pools...homes and...churches." Trent Lott in 2002 was praising one of the most blatantly racist campaigns for president in the 20th century. (Note: remeber that Thurmond was a "Dixiecrat" who left the Democratic Party BECAUSE of the Democratic fight for Civil Rights, finding the Republican Party more accepting of his racism).
Then in 2006 there were two very instructive Senate races: Virginia and Tennessee. In Virginia, the Republican incumbent used a racial slur against a dark-skinned American and it blew up in his face. He lost. Democrats hit him hard for his open racism, and we now have Senator Jim Webb of Virginia instead of the racist Republican incumbent. -
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In Tennessee, racist Republican candidate Corker and the Republican Party ran an ad that implied his oponent, Henry Ford, jr. (a black) was having sex with white women. In it, they use the phrase, "Harold Ford...He's just not right."
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A phrase that sounds suspiciously like "Harold Ford...He's just not white." And the truth is, neurologically our brains will interpret that phrase to mean "white." The pairing of the sex with white women, and the "he's just not white" line was clearly trying to play on the racism many voters might have deep down.
This ad, by the way, was crafted by Karl Rove.
And let's not forget the fact that Republicans claim Jews don't matter because they only make up 2% of the population. Then there is their blatant anti-Muslim stand. Then there have been countless racist remarks by Rep. Ed Butcher (R-MT) denigrating Native Americans.
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The link didn't work. So I tried dropping the =related at the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USvHTCNNrew
The link works.
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Are you negging this because you are in favor of Obama being killed ????
Or do you just hate that people don't agree with your views ????
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fiftynine9 months ago
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ybdogsct and CBG..
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Sorry..i couldn't watch the entire thing..i can't believe that i gave up six years of my life and a good part of my sanity (at the time).for pukes like that,not to mention 58,000 of my brothers,Many that were black and just as brave as any white soldier...They do not deserve protection,they deserve to have their punk azzes whipped repeatedly.
I ended a forty five year friendship over the same -hi-..And i am proud that i did,not only for myself but for the message it sent to my sons...
These right wing idiots on here are mostly the same and that is why they are constantly putting down Obama,not because of policy's or what he has done (he has only been in office a frigg'n month) it is because of the color of his skin.That crap has to go..we can not tolerate that type of racism any longer..
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I've been in a few tussles over the years because of crap like that.
Backhanded one of my daughters when she was 12 for saying the "N" word. Told her that language was not acceptable in my home, nor in my presence. She tearfully told me her friends had used it. I said they are not your friends anymore.
She knew better,some of my friends who came over to hang out in the garage with me were black, some hispanic,some white, some asians... The point being she knew I looked at a mans behavior not skin color.
An idiot is an idiot regardless of the color of their skin. Just look at the video !!!!
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Jeboba9 months ago
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Something sure has eaten away the brain cells of the Republicans and those that support them! The scariest part of all this is that Limbaugh keeps these nutbags stirred up. One of these days one of them is going to act out and kill somebody...egged on by Limbaugh, FAUX, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, etc. These hate spewing bastards along with their shrew Ann Coulter are DANGEROUS and somehow need to be marginalized! SPONSORS... what price is your support of them worth? Hmmmm? Cut 'em off now!
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cushi9 months ago
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No doubt there are some democrats who are racist also, There's always a few in any organization. Percentage wise, though, I have NO doubt that of the two political parties, the Republican Party owns the patent on racist membership.
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Well if he was. He is to stupid to vote, just like the rest of the garbage in that video.
If you don't like Obamas policies, that is fine. But to say you want to bomb him ???
Yeah, the GOP. The "Get Out Party" Well get out now. We don't need your stupidity. Come back when you have learned to do something good for America and its' people.-
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tanglang9 months ago
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" Come back when you have learned to do something good for America and its' people"
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Like the civil rights act? Freeing the slaves?
Neither of these were good for the country at all right? Seriously, stop hating half the country because of their political beliefs. It makes you look like a tool.-
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I don't hate half the country. I hate the lunacy of the politics they hold. But I don't hate them.
tang, you know as well as I do that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Well that is what the GOP has been saying since Nixon was in office. They continue to get bad results with their policies because they are foolish.
Now ya se why I say come back when ya have something good for Americans ???
The civil rights act was enacted under Pres. Johnson.
Lincoln freed the slaves, but it took another 100 years for them to become acknowledged as having equal rights. And I'll tell ya who did a lot of good work on that. Mrs. Roosevelt. Were it not for her a lot of the things that happened after WWII wouldn't have happened.
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fiftynine9 months ago
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"Jeboba - What did you think of the Democrat in the video? I thought he clearly portrayed racism. He was not a Republican, but a Democrat."
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Well Ed,
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"Jeboba, you are responding exactly as planned."
LMAO!!! After 8 years of Bush, and 6 years of a republican congress, anyone can see that incompetence and an inability to plan was the M.O. for these, and I guess you, assclowns.
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antibrainwasher9 months ago
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I got me some guns, I got me a job at the walmart, I got me some flannel shirts, I got me a sister/wife, I got me a membership at an all white megachurch, I got the baby jesus on my side, I got me a fresh pack of marlboroughs, some jack daniels, some ditch weed, my kids got some coolaide in theys baby bottles, now all I need is my white robe with a pointy white sheet hat and some wooden crosses and gasoline.
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Long live caribu barbie, dAnn coulter, druggy gaybaugh, faux noise....and baby jesus bless the billionaires I vote for, may they continue to rape the country and take all the money.-
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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Actually Edward that was a fairly accurate description. I've recently moved to an area where the general populace acts just like that. A friend of mine was invited to join the KKK while he was delivering packages. They meet on Wednesdays at the Elks Club before bingo starts. He declined the invitation to Bingo and to become a member of the KKK.
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It's more of an observation than a stereotype.
*The people in my new town are gun owners by majority.
*WalMart is the areas largest employer.
*They all claim to attend Mass twice a week, and my only problem with that is the confusion and hypocrisy over the word of God.
*Incest has been such a problem here that a local Doctor moved out of the area. He no longer had the stomach for treating little girls and boys who were raped by drunken family members.
*The majority of the citizens here smoke.
*Mothers notoriously neglect their children. I see so many grimy kids here that I wonder if there is running water anywhere but my house. Those children are rarely eating healthy snacks. So, Koolaid in a bottle isn't a stretch.
*While purchasing booze in the county that I live in is illegal, it is nothing to the citizens here to cross the state line and purchase it. There is also a TON of crystal meth in this area.
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gamahuche9 months ago
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Bee! Why the heck did you move there!
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I hope you've got some human company about, 6ft 8 and a couple of hundred pounds whose a good shot with a bow-and-arrow if you're eschewing firearms..
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RedstateLib9 months ago
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I have lived in the rural south for 15 years and no one has ever invited me to join the KKK. Must be that I don't put out that vibe that would make someone think I would be one of them. Of course I have been invited to join the "I hate rural poor people from the south club". Some people just can't help it they must have an enemy, blacks, gays, hispanics, poor southern people. What I find interesting is the haters all have one thing in common, they all have a sense of their own elevated status over those they hate. As a liberal and the Grandchild of a poor white sharecropper from the south I am more appalled at he hate spewed at those with less opportunity by those on the left, after all I would expect from those on the right. Liberals they just don't make them like they used to. I bet Bobby Kennedy is rolling over in his grave.
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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I can assure you that my friend does NOT put out a vibe that would attract the KKK. I can also assure you that I don't hate the rural people from the south.
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I was merely pointing out that the comment made above was not really a stereotype. Many of the people around here do act like that. I take it in stride, smile, nod, and try to keep to myself. Also, I should point out that not all rural communities are like the one that I live in, and as long as one sticks to certain topics of conversation, the people are quite agreeable and amusing.-
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RedstateLib9 months ago
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My point is don't paint them all with a broad brush. I know a guy who would fit the stereotype you describe. He wanted to marry an AA woman. His mother was well respected in the community they lived in. She stood up to the racist she openly took on anyone who attacked her son and his fiance, because he had the right to marry whoever he wanted. They did not get married, because she could not stand up to those in the AA community who did not want her to marry a white man. It goes both ways. I wish it didn't. I wish we could all get past this stupid ****. Obama was not my guy, It was not because of his race. I really believe Hillary would have been a better President. That did not happen and I can live with it. I want Obama to succeed. I want the best for everyone in this country. I just want us all to start working for what is good for the country. If someone is not willing to do that then screw them, move on and leave them behind
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Shadowolf9 months ago
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Good point RSL...people are above all INDIVIDULES...(I know I blew the spelling...)But when enough people CHOOSE to endorse injustice,lack of accountability,blind partisanship,corporate "Citizenship",etc.;then this country is in trouble.
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EDWARDIII9 months ago
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The steriotype democrat is so unimaginative she really believes that the old descriptions of Okies from Muskogi still represent a major force. The democrats have become the conservatives really, clinging to old deamonds like South American Catholics throwing stones at immages of Judas. Meanwhile the republicans have become liberal in their quest for freedom from government intervention. Never bother yourselves with the fact that a majority of republicans are pro-choice and pro-environment. I guess it's just too much to think you might part with name-calling and mean-minded smear tactics.
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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If you would have read on, you would have noticed that I said:
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Bee"Also, I should point out that not all rural communities are like the one that I live in, and as long as one sticks to certain topics of conversation, the people are quite agreeable and amusing." -
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EDWARDIII9 months ago
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What was the name of that singer who made the song about McCain during the election-- the song about how McCain should end up in a wheel chair? He was Obama's favorite performer as I recall.
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In contrast John McCain blasted a talk radio host for saying over-the-top things about Obama, yet the media insists on eveluating republicans, conservatives and McCain supporters on a few lunatics.
We live in an editocracy where the media eliets play king-makers. Their current favorite can do no harm, while the opposition is made up of devils and deviants. Sheep-like, the American people gobble everything they are fed.-
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Progressive9 months ago
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Charitable is not a word that comes to mind when discussing Limbaugh:
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Progressive9 months ago
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I'm not aware of his record with regard to charity, but everyone knows Professor Ayers was never among Obama's "circle of friends" and Rev. Wright has done far more charitable work in his lifetime than Limbaugh has even thought about.
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Why would you be bringing up Rev. Wright or Bill Ayers in this context, EDWARDIII?
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You're talking comparisons, but how do they relate to the topic? You could just as well have trotted out Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph as examples of Rush's audience in this context.
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fiftynine9 months ago
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"He is no more radical than Obama. Compared with the president's circle of friends he is downright charitable"
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That was a joke ..right? When Obama starts meeting his drug dealer next to dumpsters i'll give that comment some validity until then...charitable ? lolol-
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slate9 months ago
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Getting addicted to the pain pills people take because they have 'pain' is a very common thing and something people don't just decide to do. If they hadn't had the injury to cause them the pain , most likely those people (including Rush) would never have become addicted to those drugs that were first prescribed by their physicians.
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fiftynine9 months ago
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"Getting addicted to the pain pills people take because they have 'pain' is a very common thing ......"
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Get friggin real slate and quit defending the idiot...When you have multiple prescriptions,drug deals on the streets and are in possesion of what?....something like thirty thousand pills..give me a break..that isn't to treat pain..that is to feed an addiction.
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slate9 months ago
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In Fact, those that know about most addictive things, you can't tell they are addicted until they don't have what they are addicted to. The lack of those drugs in their system in what makes the signs appear, unless they are stoned to the point of being disabled by those drugs of choice.
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Like the 'functioning' alcoholic or heroin usuer for instance.-
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fiftynine9 months ago
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"So that means watching my friends die from drugs means I can't relate as much as you? "....Thats exactly what i mean slate..I watched many of my friends and past associates die also...but people like me were also there in their lives,using with them and killing ourselves right along with them...the only difference between myself and those that died was friggin luck and you presume to even have an inkling of what thats like..you are so full of yourself...you don't have a f---king clue....So for you to say you can relate..What an azz.
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slate9 months ago
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LOL whatever Dude. You saying that I can't relate because I wasn't weak enough to become an addict myself as my friends died from their addiction is like saying others can't relate to the plight of the poor if you never had to dumpster dive for food. ,
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fiftynine9 months ago
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Was you ever in combat slate? If you weren't then playing a video game doesn't mean you can relate..and again you are wrong.
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Weak...i guess you could say that about me and the reason i became addicted to alcohol and coke and pills and.....I guess rush and bush's addictions are different ...lol
Go live under a bridge,in a tent in florida,or a junk car in a cornfield for a couple of years..hang out with some nice homeless people,call them your friends,and eat whatever you can for a while slatey then when you've done that while still maintaining your sickness..then come tell me how you can relate....in the meantime putz,go play Call of Duty and tell me how you can relate to being a combat vet..go ahead now..you have some catching up to do.!!-
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slate9 months ago
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You really have the type of personality that thinks only the things that you've done has significance and others can't possibly 'relate'.
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Combat? LOL I wondered when you'd pull that one out. My Father, Father in law and my uncles fought in Europe and the Pacific, and they never once felt the need to use their war experiences to try and bolster their argument, and or demean others because they didn't have to go through it. But then again, those MEN weren't self serving types that thought they were the only ones that could comprehend what life is like.
No, I never was in Combat, but I ran the streets in NE Houston, I’ve seen people’s life fade from their eyes more than a few times from being shot, stabbed or from drugs. But of course, since I didn’t actually die I can’t relate to them being dead, nor can I relate to what it’s like to see someone go from a healthy bodied individual and see them waste away until they die from drugs, nor can I relate to what gang violence can do as I saw the firemen wash the blood off the sidewalks.
What’s this Call of Duty thing a game? PSSSTTT I don’t play video games hot shot, nor do I play warrior in my mind from decades past, neither did the MEN in my family that stormed the beaches in Europe and the Pacific, who taught me by their example not to whine about their service to their country and all the hardships they had to face. These MEN would never consider someone else unable to about the ills of war or addiction without having to live through it. First off seeing it first hand is enough of a reference point.
Next time you brag about how only you can tell if someone is an addict as you wanted to claim you know a political opponent is still using (which started this), try and consider that people don’t have to be addicts to know what one looks like or how they act. You may be an ‘expert’ in that field but you are far from the only person to know what the signs of drug addiction are.
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slate9 months ago
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BTW you said
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(Lots of experience of watching addicts tells me he is using..maybe i'm wrong)
So you admit that Lots of experience of watching addicts is a way to know if someone may be using?
(maybe i'm wrong)
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fiftynine9 months ago
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"No, I never was in Combat, but I ran the streets in NE Houston,"...so that means you can relate huh ?lolol...
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Wrong again slate..twist it any way you like but fortuanately you will never know what it's like and for that i am glad...but for you to even suggest that you know what it's like is one big stretch..you don't ,and like i said fortunately you never will..by the way brainiac i never mentioned my own service did i? See how you twist things,all in defense of a big mouthed nasty racist addict...You are a funny man.Not real bright,but funny.-
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slate9 months ago
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Then why bring up combat at all and tell me to play video games?
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Your hatred is way more vile than anything I've seen or heard from Rush.
If it's true that you are an addict then I'd think you'd have compassion for a brother in pain instead of using something you have in 'common' as a way to attack the man. That sounds a bit twisted to me.
And only IF you've NEVER said one racist thing I'd not go down the he's 'racist' smug talk. I wonder what things you called the Viets while you were killing them or things you've said about other races in your life? How can you possibly talk about racism or 'relate' to what that term means,,,,, and can you tell what a racist looks like?
Someone that doesn't have the wit to generate enough power to fire up a lightning bug's azz shouldn't call others 'not real bright'.
This is my last comment on the topic Otis
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lovemylibs9 months ago
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Beau - I will answer this question because you asked it. ybdogsct uses the word "neoconitis" which, on Propeller anyway, is used to describe Republicans of any kind on a daily basis. Maybe I was a little jumpy but I would also correctly and audaciously argue that the headline should at least be changed to "neoconitis and liberalleftyism ... ... ... ".
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jovial9 months ago
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Sounds to me like it hit home with you. To think that everyone on this thread considers all Republicans to be neocons is going off the deep end. It's really not the fault of the Republican party that some racist elements are attracted to it. It's up to the party to strongly make the distinctions. Sometimes that comes across being rather blurry.
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Racism does hit home with me, jovial. I have experienced it in my life. I have seen racists that I thought were friends, show their true "colors" when the opportunity presented itself. These people were not political. They were racists. Plain and simple. Racism transcends party affiliation. I'm sorry I was unsuccessful in getting this point across.
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jovial9 months ago
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So have I. Yes, I agree racism goes across party lines. Racism is non-partisan, but my experience today shows me that kind of racism I experienced has a higher propensity to be displayed by the Republican party than the Democrat one.
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Shadowolf9 months ago
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Actually,Lovey; as I've pointed out before:NeoConArtists do NOT represent true Conservatives...they simply hijacked the Conservative platform to give themselves a patina of respectability...I've good friends who are Conservative,we agree on some points disagree on others...and a few issues we avoid by mutual agreement...
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NeoConArtists are the inflexible who are incapable of discourse...anyone who DARES to disagree is attacked.
I never make the mistake of lumping them all together.
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E#3 spews:
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"We live in an editocracy where the media eliets play king-makers. Their current favorite can do no harm, while the opposition is made up of devils and deviants. Sheep-like, the American people gobble everything they are fed."
Exactly right, E the third, and here is who owns the media you watch every night to fill your empty head:
News Corp: owner the right wing Rupurt Murdock, Australian Tabloid king, owner WSJ, Weekly Standard, Faux Noise, and hundreds of tabloids from Austrailia to England. Extreamist right wing, inventor of distorted point of view journalism, that weak minded idiots like E the 3 eat for breakfast as a substitute for thinking.
NBC-General electric, conservative 100% for profit multi board controlled corporate structure.
CBS-Westinghouse, conservative 100% for profit multi conservative board controlled corporate struture.
ABC/Disney-owned by a cartel in Israel, president Eisner, made 360 million dollars in 1999 as a salary.
Clear channel, ultra conservative right wing, pays druggy Gaybaugh 40 million a year to fill the minds of racist hate mongering idiots with their delusions.
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You've posted this before. You do know that NBC and it's affiliates are far from conservative right? I've watched MSNBC before, they constantly mock and brainwash people that conservatism is bad and how horrible these past 8 years were. Look at all the mentioning of it by dems and libs. The board members may be conservative, but Immelt is a liberal. And Immelt must buy the board off to keep his job considering the company has lost over 300 billion dollars and counting. Do you think all corporate america is conservative? How about Freddie and Fannie? Or The New York Times, which might have to file bankruptcy this year?
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Look at the things the media has said over the past few years-- the exagerations and the character assasinations contrasted with the kiss-arse worship of the chairman and tell me that the media is conservative. Murdock's influence is a lone dissenting voice. Further, his comentators are honest about their role, and do not try to pretend they are objective journalists.
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"Murdock's influence is a lone dissenting voice."
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Congrats!
I hereby enter your comment for the propeller demented logic award for 2009.
Someone who owns media which reaches perhaps a billion people either dirtectly or in derived commentary constitutes a lone dissenting voice?
Wouldn't you like to also nominate Hitler posthumorously for the Hall of Fame in this category?
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Beeboppin719 months ago
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White Power? Sadly these people have no party affiliation, no self esteem, no morals, sound judgment escapes them, reasoning lost. What you have here is simply a frenzy of hate.
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jovial9 months ago
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They're very careful to not directly affiliate themselves, because of the damage it does to candidates. You bet your bottom dollar though, when they vote 100% of the time the candidate will be white, and 99% of the time he will be a Republican.
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Hey Jake!
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It was actually 2 minute hate. Thanks for the correction. It has been awhile since I read it too.
Two Minute Hate: A daily ritual. Everyone assembles in front of the telescreen at eleven hundred for a two-minute program that shows Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, and marching enemy soldiers. This is a highly emotional moment and it is impossible even for Winston to avoid joining in: 'A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.' (Part 1, Chapter 1, pg. 16) At the end of Two Minute Hate, Big Brother's face appears, inspiring everyone with relief and is followed by the three Party slogans.
If you want to review the book, you can go here:
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/
It's also a great site for other books!
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Jaydee409 months ago
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As long as Americans fight each other nothing will ever happen to the real villains, look to see just who makes money from all this discord. Some names keep coming up but nothing is ever done, why is that?
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History suggests that assasins are most often mentally ill and their victims are celebs who are loved. Take for example the Roosevelts (both), Lincoln, Lennon, Lenin, Reagan, Ghandi and so on. Obama is the most adored man in the country and I hope they protect the hell out of him. I hope someone besides me sees the pattern and they guard him to the max.
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aceofspades19 months ago
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EDWARD the third - had this to say -- " By the way, has anyone you love ever had sperm drip from their lips?"
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jovial9 months ago
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Most of the names we see everyday here representing the conservatism are the epitome of what represented in these videos. I won't name them but we all know who they are. They will viciously attack this story, because they don't want the truth known. Like cockroaches they live in the filth and shy away from the light. What's really shocking is that some of these people that attack Obama are people of color themselves. Yet they join with those that hate Obama based solely on his race. Go figure.
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slate9 months ago
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We usually attack these types of falsehoods because they are false Jovial. The usual stereotypes that all conservatives are untrue and spreading those falsehoods in an attempt to demean all conservative ideas is typical and is as bigoted as anyone that would hate anyone merely because of the color of their skin.
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jovial9 months ago
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The question is do a lot of racists exist in your party? How has your party tried to distinguish yourselves from them and correct the frequent discrepancies that exist, and why do they act as though it's a non-problem. As I said before. David Duke a republican, watermelon, black house, and dead monkey cartoons. Barack the magic negro endorsed by a candidate for head of the RNC. And now a bunch of conservatives telling me that they don't see a connection. You guys have got to be out of your minds!
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jovial9 months ago
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W R O N G! JJ may have criticized him, but he didn't join a party that has known ties to people who are racist against people of color. In a matter of fact, one of the visuals that brought the most anger from the FOX NEWS crew, was at the the Chicago celebration when Obama got elected and the tears were streaming down Jackson's face. They so wanted to dig a divide between people of color using Jackson's reamrks about Obama. It didn't work.
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lovemylibs9 months ago
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Jesse Jackson is a Democrat, jovial. As a percentage, more Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats. Jesse Jackson was born before 1964 so there is no doubt that he joined "a party that has known ties to people who are racist against people of color."
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jovial9 months ago
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Don't try that! After the civil rights act those Democrats switched parties. The leftovers that didn't switch are the so called "southern Democrats" They still exist and one of them was probably the guy in the video. Did you know that before civil rights the Democrat party was the party of the KKK? Did you know the Republican party was the one pushing for the ACLU? What caused the major switch in the 60's was the Civil Rights Act. Droves of black people crossed over to the Democrat party and droves of White southern Democrats left the party and switched to Republican. The Republican party of today is the old dixiecrat government of yesterday.
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No, they didn't switch parties, the dems changed their own rhetoric.
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jovial9 months ago
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Read this. It's too lengthy for me to go through a whole history lesson with you guys.
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Please post another link.. That one didn't work. I found a preview of it and read some of it, it describes the history of the party but not the switch. Both parties have had their share of difficulty throughout time. It's just that conservatism seems to be older the liberalism.
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slate9 months ago
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A Republican freed the slaves BTW.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20th Century – the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders 9066 and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-handedly led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his point. Expressing about his position on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated “I don’t care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous.”
Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant president.” Byrnes was Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism himself. -
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Hugo Black: A former Democrat Senator from Alabama and liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by FDR, Hugo Black had a lengthy history of hate group activism. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's and gained his legal fame defending Klansmen under prosecution for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black provided legal representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of several Klan members acquited Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan audience "I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel." In the Senate Black became a stauch supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a solid opponent of civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an anti-lynching measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs and was a key participant in FDR's court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed Black, a loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation of Black's nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused a public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black's Klan past, though this claim was dubious at best. Black's first Senate election, which occurred with Klan support, had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black's Klan affiliations were a well known part of his political background and recieved heavy coverage in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the court, Black became a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of supporting racism by authoring the opinion in favor of FDR's Japanese internment program in the infamous Korematsu ruling.
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Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV: Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and rose to the rank of “Kleagle,” an official Klan membership recruiter. Byrd once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in "promoting traditional American values" (Source). Byrd's choice of words speak volumes about his bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and the racist "values" it promotes are anything but American. One of the earliest criticisms of Byrd's Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for Congress. Byrd responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while noting that "(d)uring the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have ended his ties with the hate group.
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slate9 months ago
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In a letter to the Klan leadership (Source) dated 3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." Byrd continued his racist diatribe "It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union" and followed with a request for assistance from the hate group's leadership in "rebuilding the Klan in the realm" of West Virginia.
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Byrd's racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he wrote on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated his racist rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that he would never fight in an integrated armed services noting "(r)ather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds" (Source).
Byrd's racist opinions have shown their ugly face in his behavior in the Senate. Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, according to the United States Senate's own website, filibustered the legislation to the bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to the act before a coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14 hour and 13 minute filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure (Source). Throughout the 1960's, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to civil rights in the U.S. Senate. Byrd’s racist history drew attention recently when he went on national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one of the most vicious racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national television. Byrd uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely ignored by the mainstream media and the self appointed "civil rights" leadership. Whereas a similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator would assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd's remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such bigoted remarks. -
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jovial9 months ago
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Byrd, notice the dates, he's an old southern Democrat. Again notice the state. It's another RED state senator. Remember during the primary Obama lost to Hillary in that state. It was a big race issue. Those Democrats in name only voted for McCain when Obama won. So they flipped to Republican. You can have them.
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Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He rose out of the Democrat Party's segregationist wing in the 1960's as governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings personally led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state.
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Dan Rather: Rather, the well known television anchor for CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air, refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him cover the Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies. It is widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several past incidents (see here and here) the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has recieved condemnation by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!
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Cragg Hines: Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is often the case with those who differ in opinion with him. Ironically, Hines, a columnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive, is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem to object to himself for his own bigotted language in the same article. Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has expressed in numerous editorial columns.
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Al Sharpton: Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination, has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs. During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven (source).
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Representative Dick Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during his early years as a congressman. Newsmax.com further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.
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Andrew Cuomo: Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. Cuomo later dropped out of the race for governor
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Lee P. Brown: Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic, retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election. When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word "Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted by his campaign will take years to heal.
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Mary Frances Berry: Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.
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Billy McKinney: Former Democrat State Representative Billy McKinney of Georgia, who is also the father of former Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney of the same state. During his daughter's failed 2002 reelection bid, McKinney appeared on television where he blamed his daughter's difficulties on a Jewish conspiracy. McKinney unleashed a string of anti-semitic sentiments, stating "This is all about the Jews" and spelling out "J-E-W-S." McKinney lost his own seat in a runoff a few weeks later.
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The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.
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jovial9 months ago
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David Duke....Republican.
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Claims from Republican and conservative rags about Obama being "uppity".
Mass mailings and cartoons originating from Republicans about watermelon in the black house and other racially tinged jokes.
Then a party endorsed CD parading as a christmas gift that was a racially motivated song about "Barack the magic negro". Add all this up, and an ugly picture emerges. One that shows that racism is not totally rejected within the Republican party.-
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I agree, that behavior is despicable.
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Have you seen these past quotes from Vice President Biden (a Democrat, btw)???
""You cannot go into a Dunkin' Donuts or a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent."
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jovial9 months ago
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What's more is that the places where this racism is more outwardly accepted is from the southern states. Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. Coincidentally those states have the strongest concentration of Republicans (RED states).
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jovial9 months ago
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True. Read my post above. When Johnson passed the civil rights act they all left and became Republicans. They were so angry about Civil rights being passed they abandoned the Democrat party. Blacks joined in droves further alienating more southern white Democrats causing more to become Republican. There are a few Southern Democrats left, but it's not the old Democrat party of the early 1900's that used the KKK as their political muscle.
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LBJ??? Was his heart in the right place? You be the judge...
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"President Truman's civil rights program "is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill."
--Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948
"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
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jovial9 months ago
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In this case i judge the man by his actions. You can judge him by his words. He got 'er done. He passed the Civil rights act. He promised to carry on Kennedy's legacy after he was assasinated and he did. I really didn't expect a conservative like yourself to like what he did. I did expect you to question his motives.
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jovial9 months ago
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I acquiesced to that point long ago. The main point is that racists are finding opportunities in the Republican party of TODAY. Republicans are falling way short on condemning these infiltrators. I don't know why you keep trying to deflect that fact.
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The main reason anyone gets involved in anything political is to push their own agenda, so one party is no different than another. What really amazes me is why the US maintains only a two party system? In any other country when a governing party screws up as bad as the last Republican did they would have been fighting for survival and not to win the next election. In many case it has been the demise of the very party itself. Ask yourselves as Americans why your so willing to overlook wrong doing by you very own government?
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I have said numerous times that both parties have racists among them. Both parties, jovial. Two parties, two havens for racists, so to speak. To combat racism it will not do much good to condemn and then root out the scourge from one party if the other party will still openly accept them. I know you are trying to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party as having less racism. But, it is present to a larger degree in both parties than either of us would like to admit. I mean, the quotes from our current Vice President should tell you something.
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That is a great development - I was several years ago, I got lost, stopped in a gas station where a tanker was filling the tank, and asked how I could get back to the freeway.
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This is the most hilarious over the top and screamingly funny stuff I've seen in a long while. I sat here and laughed until tears were coming out of my eyes. It's the comments I'm talkin about, so this is what you liberal, progressive, democrats do at your circle jerks. Mystery solved, thanks for the laugh, dogbreath.
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The viciousness expressed by the mainstream left--not the fringe but the main stream-- gives us a preview of the mindless anger that will be unleashed if an attempt is made on Obama.
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The fact that he is loved increases the chance he will be a target. Look at the Lennon shooting. Some crazy from Denver went all the way to new york just to pop him, only because he was so adored. As a Smithian conservative I want Obama to live to see his policies fail and be voted out of office to build substandard homes as a hobby to keep himself busy in reitement. Let's hope the secret service is taking every imaginable precaution.-
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jovial9 months ago
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Why's it so important to you that I agree with you? That's your insecurity to deal with. I am not here for your gratification. You will remain on my list of shame along with Keyes, Steele for all the obvious reasons that i stated so far in this post.
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CHAM9 months ago
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Thanks Ybdog for a great post. I have been wondering how an avid supporter of the Republican Party can trash anyone? I used to be a Republican, even voted for Bush the first time.
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But after what I have witnessed over the last eight years, there is no way I could associate myself with such a vile Party that would support the most corrupt, immoral, unethical, murderous, Julius Caesar wannabe ever to have led this nation.
And lead it he did. Right into the gutter.
And people choose him over Obama. And I say that being almost as anti Democrat as I now am Anti Republican.
We can punish the Republican party for enabling their miscreant. You can do it just like I'm going to do it, and if enough will join in, we can give the Republicans the ultimate punishment. To help the demise of the Republican Party I will never vote for a Republican Candidate again - ever.-
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EDWARDIII9 months ago
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I never voted for George Bush (Gore first time, wrote in McCain as a protest second time.) even though I am registered republican. Now we have a president that I almost hate and I'm even more angry with the democratic party, but I would not say I will never vote for a democrat ever again. What you are doing in your statement is to tell the democrats that they can be as corrupt as they want, but you will never vote against them. Ba-ram-eue. Sheep be true.
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Jaydee409 months ago
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Good point Edward, "What you are doing in your statement is to tell the democrats that they can be as corrupt as they want, but you will never vote against them"
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But there again is the trapping of a two party system don't you agree? At least in Baseball you get three strikes but it would seem in politics after two strikes there is no real option.-
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EDWARDIII9 months ago
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Thanks for a chance to converse rationally. That I know of, you have never resorted obscenety or name calling.
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The 2-party phenomenon is a curious thing about US politics and the more I look at it the more I see the divide as Freudian. Democrat = id + ego and Republican = superego (terms used in strict Freudian sense). Id-ruled types do not organize political parties. They follow, and that is my guess at why we have a two-party system.
But a huge mass of citizens distrusts the parties and votes across lines and decides elections. Therefore parties are immeterial-- formalites, ghosts, illusions. Would more parties--more ghosts-- contribute to the discussion?
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Jaydee409 months ago
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But with a party system we can only pick from people who are pre-chosen by those who control the almighty dollar. Thats not likely to give the Masses a voice in government is it. Are americans blind enough to think they actually elect a president? Think about it for a moment, the wealthy elite gave the American Public the option of Obama or McCain, Party was irrelevant was it not as who ever is elected is sure to toe the party,
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(and by that I mean financial supporter of the party) line.
I complained about Bush as much as anyone but if his action were not making money for those who put him in power he never would have stayed in office, the first blunder, and there were many, he would have been out. I can't for the life of me understand why Americans don't see the complete failure of their political system? People seem more interested in what the lunatic fringe is chanting than about real issues and the fact that American agencies were breaking domestic and international laws. Americans are so wrapped up fighting over democrat or republican they can't see that at the helm of both parties are the same ilk of person bent on using people for their own gains. " Ramble turned off"-
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EDWARDIII9 months ago
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You've made an excelent point, and made me realize that though the election may be non-partizan in the way I described the primaries are not. I'm not sure what can be done about it though. I'm not sure we are not headed for a one-party system. There are seem to be a lot of people out there who would go for making it illegeal to be a Republican.
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Perhaps it would help to allow dual membership. If I could belong to the Republlican party and the Zero-Population-Growth party at the same time I'd jump at it.-
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CHAM9 months ago
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What was it I said that makes you think I am for a One Party System? I have been calling for the demise of the Republicans, but usually ( I didn't say it this time ) , I point out that there are 135 parties currently in the United States. And the total membership of the Independent Parties exceeds the combined total of both the Republicans and the Democrats.
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What I have been calling for is a Coalition of Independent Parties to replace the Republicans and if the Democrats under Obama don't become a representative of the people, I will call for their demise also and formation of another Party.
There are many options the people have and what I propose is just one. But the beauty of it is - no one can stop a majority of the people shunning a Party. If a majority of the people agree, then the Republican Party is deader than a rock. And I say good riddance. The GOP almost destroyed the United States over the last eight years. I for one, will never give them another chance.-
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Jaydee409 months ago
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CHAM, just because there are other parties and independents does not mean they are viable options, the fact remains the US only has TWO options to form a government, Republican and Democrat. Now while I agree after showing what the Rep party supported the last two terms they should never have the privilege to run any candidate for public office again but that will not happen and as Edward rightly said would give the Dem's Cart Blanch to do as they want in the future.
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The truth is that money runs the show and not Independent or small party can compete, one option to fight this would be to implement a spending and contribution cap on campaigns and elections which would lessen the "buying" of elected people. As I have said the current US electoral system fails to represent the American people and has for years, it simple put sucks.-
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CHAM9 months ago
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Jaydee. Thanks for your reply. The Terrible Two we have at this moment are not our only options. Unless we all roll over play dead and maybe crawl under a rock.
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What I propose is one sure way to get rid of a Party. Once that is done we would only have one to do away with. And we could get rid of the second the same way.
I would vote for Ron Paul ( A Republican - but not as a Republican Candidate ). The Party is the problem, not the individuals. Same thing for the Democrats. It is the Party that is the corrupter.
What continues to enable the Two is Party Loyalty. Vote for them even when you know they are evil, and justify your vote by saying that you are afraid that the other might be worse.
If I have a choice between something I know is evil, and something I am afraid might turn out to be evil, why would I choose the first ?
I have better sense than that.
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