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08-17-2012, 02:41 PM   #1
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pot calling the kettle.. something ;)

couldn't have said it better myself..
Romney continues to whine this time it?s about Touré - National economic policy | Examiner.com


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That said, Touré spoke the truth. Given the fact that so many white people, including active supporters of Romney, privately and sometimes publically use the “n” word to describe the President of the United States every day, Romney’s outrage is ridiculous.

Let’s just put the campaign into perspective. Romney supporters go on TV regularly and make comments about the President’s “drug use” as a youth. Romney’s chief surrogate former Governor Sununu, said on national TV two weeks ago that Obama “never had a job because he was too busy snorting cocaine or smoking something.”

Republican Party leaders, Congressmen, Federal Judges and other officeholders have sent out racist E-mails about the President. One such e-mail depicts the President’s family tree as a family of apes with the caption “That’s why there is no birth certificate.” Where is Romney’s outrage over that?

Republicans use dog whistle code words all the time when referring to the President, and that includes Mitt himself. Those code words describe the President, or his views, “foreign, un-American, European, socialist, and not of this country.” Romney surrogates said that Obama could not appreciate the special relationship between the U.S and Britain because he didn’t “share our Angle-Saxon heritage.”

Republicans often bring up “Kenya” in reference to the President. Not a day goes by that some elected Republican does not make a speech either implying that Obama is not a citizen, or out right stating that he is not. Romney’s BFF Donald Trump still says Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery. Congressman Coffman said Obama was not American.

Why do the Romney campaign, its supporters, and Republican politicians resort to these tactics? It is simple, they rile up the later-day KKK type white voters and Tea Party activists.

Romney continues to run negative ads that are absolutely not truthful misrepresenting the President on welfare, war on religion, and other issues. Romney cried alligator tears last week over an ad by an Obama friendly PAC about a former steelworker’s wife dying of cancer after Bain closed the plant down.

Romney can dish it out but he can’t take it. He is outraged that Joe Biden said the Wall Street wanted to put “you all back in chains” saying that it was racist. They are over the top with rage over Touré.

In response to complaints from Newt Gingrich about the negative attacks Romney was airing in the primary against Gingrich, Romney said “no one likes a whiner.” He is right.

Perhaps it is time for Mitt to stop whining and man up. He is finding out that in politics, two can play the bully game.


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Yes it is absurd for the Republicans to criticise Biden's comment (which I did think was very ill advised but not in the 'hate-speechey' way the Republicans are crudely projecting onto it).

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Republicans use dog whistle code words all the time when referring to the President, and that includes Mitt himself. Those code words describe the President, or his views, “foreign, un-American, European, socialist, and not of this country.” Romney surrogates said that Obama could not appreciate the special relationship between the U.S and Britain because he didn’t “share our Angle-Saxon heritage.”
This is strange. For one thing, why should he 'share Angle(sic)-Saxon heritage? America sits out between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Not somewhere just east of Croydon. Why should 'Angle-Saxon heritage' be a pre-requisite (and what on earth is it supposed to mean anyway - a value system? A culture? An ancestral heritage?) If you look at Obama's geneology, there's a diverse but predominantly British/English heritage on his mother's side. His mother and her parents are undoubtedly the greatest influences on him, growing up.
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Yes it is absurd for the Republicans to criticise Biden's comment (which I did think was very ill advised but not in the 'hate-speechey' way the Republicans are crudely projecting onto it).



This is strange. For one thing, why should he 'share Angle(sic)-Saxon heritage? America sits out between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Not somewhere just east of Croydon. Why should 'Angle-Saxon heritage' be a pre-requisite (and what on earth is it supposed to mean anyway - a value system? A culture? An ancestral heritage?) If you look at Obama's geneology, there's a diverse but predominantly British/English heritage on his mother's side. His mother and her parents are undoubtedly the greatest influences on him, growing up.

It's just the thinly-veiled racism showing its head. From the sound of what you say, Obama's probably got more 'Anglo-Saxon heritage' in him than *I* likely do, whatever claiming that WASPs have some special understanding of foreign relations is supposed to mean in the first place from a man who offended the whole city of London the last time he got off a plane there.
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Anglo-Saxon heritage is actually a dubious concept, when you look at British genealogy. You don't have to go back many generations before Celtic, Saxon, Danish, Norman etc lines become entangled, and the original ancient Briton lineage is still supposedly very much in the mix too. Talking in terms of 'shared Anglo Saxon heritage' as a prerequisite is indeed racist, I wouldn't even say thinly veiled. Any British politician saying that would be torn apart by the press.

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