Palin-bashing Associated Press cries “RAAAACISM!”

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 5, 2008 12:45 PM

Putting the “Ass” in “Associated Press,” one of the wire service’s Obama water-carriers attempts to smear Sarah Palin as a racist for spotlighting Barack Obama’s longtime relationships with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers:

Analysis: Palin’s words carry racial tinge

Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?

In a post-Sept. 11 America, terrorists are envisioned as dark-skinned radical Muslims, not the homegrown anarchists of Ayers’ day 40 years ago. With Obama a relative unknown when he began his campaign, the Internet hummed with false e-mails about ties to radical Islam of a foreign-born candidate.

Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.

Most troubling, however, is how allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves McCain’s purpose so well. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.

John McCain occasionally looks back on decisions with regret. He has apologized for opposing a holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr. He has apologized for refusing to call for the removal of a Confederate flag from South Carolina’s Capitol.

When the 2008 campaign is over McCain might regret appeals such as Palin’s perhaps more so if he wins.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, McCain continues to forbid his campaign from going after Obama for his longtime friendship and ideological partnership with Rev. Jeremiah Wright — and refuses to attack Obama on the Fannie/Freddie/CRA debacles because he fears being perceived as a racist.

Earth to McCain: They will see RAAAACISM in whatever you and Palin will say and do from now until Election Day.

Fight or get rolled.

Wake. Up.

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  1. #485638
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:49 pm, Rob said:

    Again, what is your allegation here against Obama? That he’s a Black Panther? An anti-American subvert that’s just waiting to choke out the white man from the inside?

    Yes

  2. #485639
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm, American Elephant said:

    The truth is, if Obama WINS it will be because of racism.

    I agree. I’ve thought that since March…

    Obama Nation:
    Using Racism In Order To Form A More Socialist Union

  3. #485640
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:50 pm, Brian72 said:

    Stanley Kurtz, National Review:

    During this initial year of 1995, Ayers also sat as an ex officio member of the board. The Obama campaign is trying to minimize his cooperation with Ayers by counting the number of board meetings where both sat together. That will not do. For one thing, as long as we’re counting occasions on which Obama and Ayers were together, the Obama campaign omits Obama’s appearances before the Collaborative, when it was co-chaired by Ayers. In 1995, Obama and Ayers also sat together on the board’s Governance Committee, with at least one independently scheduled meeting, and who knows how many others. Ayers and Obama were also part of a group of four instructed to draft the bylaws that would govern CAC. Surely that endeavor would have involved significant interaction between them. Then there’s the question of unrecorded meetings of both the board and the Collaborative. For example, the archives contain an intriguing note indicating that, although a CAC board meeting took place on July 25, 1995, “No minutes were recorded.” Were Ayers and Obama both present at that meeting? More important, what took place there?

    The partnership between Ayers and Obama is about much more than the number of occasions on which the two were recorded together in the same room. As CAC board chair, Obama was essentially authorizing the funding of Ayers’s own educational projects, and the projects of Ayers’s radical allies. And especially in CAC’s first year, Ayers was largely in charge of the process. One of CAC’s own evaluations notes that during 1995, CAC was a “Founder-Led Foundation.” That is, Ayers was not merely an ex officio board member that year, but as the key founder and guiding spirit of CAC, he was effectively running the show.

    The Obama camp denies CAC’s radicalism by pointing to the fact that this foundation was funded by Nixon Ambassador and Reagan friend, Walter Annenberg. Moderates and Republicans often support Annenberg activities, it’s true. Yet the story of modern philanthropy is largely the story of moderate and conservative donors finding their funds “captured” by far more liberal, often radical, beneficiaries. CAC’s story is a classic of the genre. Ayers and Obama guided CAC money to community organizers, like ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and the Developing Communities Project (Part of the Gamaliel Foundation network), groups self-consciously working in the radical tradition of Saul Alinsky. Walter Annenberg’s personal politics don’t change that one iota.

    This doesn’t even touch the radical, neo-communist ideology propping up this project. This is an issue, and they can’t spin out of it.

  4. #485642
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm, nyc123me said:

    I saw that misstressjustice. That’s plain old racism right there. Then again, I’ve sat through entire semesters of classes at college telling me how white people are racist oppressors, yet that’s apparently perfectly ok.
    Go figure.

  5. #485644
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    The truth is, if Obama WINS it will be because of racism.

    Actually, Racism + Massive Fraud. (ACORN)

    I pray for all corruption to be exposed, prosecuted, convicted and prevented.

  6. #485647
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm, changer1701 said:

    How can Wright be off the table? Is McCain nuts? I’d put that nutjob in every single ad now until election day…make Obama defend sitting in those pews for twenty years listening to that garbage.

    And Fannie/Freddie? Ya know, if he’s not going to fight he deserves to lose, bottom line. I so regret sending the campaign money right after the Palin announcement…what did I get for my efforts? Misuse of Palin, more maverick and bipartisan BS, and a candidate who took the weekend off a month before an election and one that refuses to use the ammo at his disposal. I think he’s getting too much advice from Liebs…

  7. #485648
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Earth to McCain: They will see RAAAACISM in whatever you and Palin will say and do from now until Election Day.

    Fight or get rolled.

    Wake. Up.

    That’s just not true. There’s nothing racist about attacking Obama’s policy proposals. They should try it.

    Has Obama played the race card? Yes on occasion. Has the Right played the gender card in regards to Palin? Yes on occasion. Does McCain play the veteran and former POW card? Yes, every chance he gets.
    This is politics, and folks are doing everything they can to get their folks elected.

  8. #485651
    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm, sparky1962 said:

    Anyone who sits in a church with Rev. Wright for 20 years is no Christian in my book. Christ did not preach HATE like the Black Separatists do.

  9. #485653
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm, Digshot said:

    Rob says: Yes

    Rob thinks Obama is running for President so he can stick it to whitey.

    Would anyone argue that that isn’t racism?

  10. #485654
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm, Brian72 said:

    More from NRO:

    The fact that Ayers and other tenured radicals hold power at our universities is in no way negated by the presence of Republican appointees on university boards of trustees. Ayers’s radicalism is undeniable. He remains unapologetic for his bombings of the 1960s. Even now, he refuses to rule out violence as a resort. His education writings are deeply politicized and filled with exhortations to “resist” America’s racist and oppressive social system. In 2006 — along with his wife and fellow former-terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones — Ayers released, Sing A Battle Song, a collection of intensely radical writings from the Weather Underground. Ayers makes it clear in that book that, while he is embarrassed by some of the Weather Underground’s rhetoric, he still adheres to the same ideas. Beyond its strictly historical interest, Ayers and his co-editors make a point of hoping that their old writings would be “of use to new generations of militant activists and organizers.” By directing CAC funds to groups like ACORN and the Developing Communities Project of the Gamaliel Foundation, Ayers was supporting just such militant activists and organizers.

    Obama cannot deal with this straight up. He must use the race card. He has no defense, except to change the subject.

    Sarah Palin can go straight at Main Street voters with this realtionship, and I really hope she brings in the educational ideas behind this project, that will be a killer in middle America. She sort of did indirectly yesterday, with the statement “not my kids, not your kids”.

    Keep it up, expand in detail, and invite voters to imagine what their kids education would be like under this kind of philosophy.

  11. #485656
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm, dj said:

    Again, what is your allegation here against Obama? That he’s a Black Panther? An anti-American subvert that’s just waiting to choke out the white man from the inside? Put it together. I mean, make an assertion.

    The assertion is that someone who sat in a Black Liberation Theology “church” for 20 years must believe what they spew. That would be liberation based on Marxism, per its tenets and founder.
    If you know about it and it doesn’t affect your opinion of your messiah BO, then there is no hope for you, and if you don’t know about it and are unwilling to educate yourself, then there is also no hope for you. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people just like you, and that is sad for this nation.
    And to think that this is only ONE of BO’s insane associations, and it still doesn’t bother his minions is sickening.

    http://www.acton.org/commentary/443_marxist_roots_of_black_liberation_theology.php

    http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=c19d4d91-618e-40d3-a5d9-c07d7a87a5ba

  12. #485657
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm, Rob said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:00 pm, Digshot said:
    Rob says: Yes
    Rob thinks Obama is running for President so he can stick it to whitey.

    Would anyone argue that that isn’t racism?

    RACIST RACIST RACIST!

  13. #485658
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm, mistressjustice said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm, nyc123me said:

    I saw that misstressjustice. That’s plain old racism right there. Then again, I’ve sat through entire semesters of classes at college telling me how white people are racist oppressors, yet that’s apparently perfectly ok.
    Go figure.

    Have you sat through a grade school class where a white candidate was called a honky or cracker by the teacher?

    Some of you folks like to spew how only the blacks are racists or only liberals are racists. People like MM continue to ignore any and all racism from rightwingers. I just find it interesting and very telling.

  14. #485659
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:04 pm, nbarry said:

    Whenever Obama and his media shills resort to the race card, it’s a sure sign that they have something to hide. It reminds me of a common saying among lawyers: if the law is against you, pound the evidence; if the evidence is against you, pound the law; and if both the law and the evidence are against you, pound the table.

  15. #485662
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm, mistressjustice said:

    MJ, you seem pretty level headed in your posts on MM’s blog. Can you tell me why BO’s associations with Ayers, Wright, Rezko, et al, don’t bother you? Do you think he has the judgment to be CIC, and if so, why? What do you think about the Obama “truth squads” and youth movements (like the creepy song and the militant groups pledging their devotion)? Does this not at all strike you as eerily similar to the rise of past dictators?

  16. #485665
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:08 pm, havok said:

    I fear that when people like OneMonkeysUncle get in charge the amount of punishment to all who dared not bow to them will be extreme.

  17. #485666
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm, Rob said:

    I just saw on the news that the taxing black hole says his health care plan will cost $65,000,000 a YEAR!!!

    SIXTY-FIVE BILLION A YEAR!!!

    Now who is going to pay that? You got a list of blacks and Mexicans that are going to pay that??? Nope, didn’t think so.

    Redistribution of wealth.

  18. #485667
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:09 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Meanwhile, back in the real world, McCain continues to forbid his campaign from going after Obama for his longtime friendship and ideological partnership with Rev. Jeremiah Wright — and refuses to attack Obama on the Fannie/Freddie/CRA debacles because he fears being perceived as a racist.

    Again I wonder if that fool McCain wants to be President or merely have the honor of running. His campaign states he want to be above partisanship. Then why did the fool run for the Republican nomination? Hell, he already has the Reconquista vote-sorry that is going to BroBama. McCain should have palled up with his twin Ralph Nader and run on the DingBat platform. The Associated Press lied? That is what they do for a generation or more now. If McCain can’t stand up to the White Guilt Cult how is he going to stand up to terrorist, Russia, Iran and other thugs?
    The fighter pilot is gone and has been replaced by a Beltway Boy. President Bush ll wanted to be above partisanship- what good did it do him or the country?

    America First
    America Alone
    America Come Home
    MARs: Middle American Radical

  19. #485668
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm, Rob said:

    $65,000,000,000

    Too damn many zeros to keep track of!

  20. #485670
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm, mistressjustice said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm, dj said:

    I’ve said it before and I say it again:
    If Obama gets sunk because of Rev. Wright, it’s his own fault. He never should have gone to that church, or embraced that man. I think he did it strictly for political reasons, but he has to deal with the consequences.

    However, if Obama gets elected president DESPITE AYERS AND DESPITE WRIGHT, IT PROVES THAT MOST REALLY DON’T FIND THEM RELEVANT. IT WOULD PROVE THAT THEY’D RATHER HAVE THIS YOUNG FELLA IN EVEN THOUGH HE HAS THOSE PAST CONNECTIONS AND LACKS EXPERIENCE. AN OBAMA VICTORY WILL SAY A LOT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE BUSH YEARS. AT SOME POINT FOLKS WILL HAVE TO OWN AND ACCEPT THAT IF AMERICA ELECTS OBAMA.

  21. #485673
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm, nyc123me said:

    Sorry mistressjustice, I didn’t go to grade school or high school in this country. My point though is that the link you gave is, in my opinion, an extreme example of one racist person, on one day. That of course does not make it ok. However, anti-white racist crap goes on day after day, week after week. Maybe they don’t use the word ‘cracker’ or ‘honky’, but that doesn’t make it ok. The guy you linked to was immediately taken out of teaching and is being dealt with, the professors I’ve heard are praised for their racist diatribes, because it is pro-black. I don’t think either is acceptable – both are racist.

  22. #485674
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:12 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    Some of you folks like to spew how only the blacks are racists or only liberals are racists. People like MM continue to ignore any and all racism from rightwingers. I just find it interesting and very telling.

    If you see MJ dying in the street needing your help to survive just step over her. She wouldn’t do it for you.

  23. #485675
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    MJ really makes no point and holds no water on this board. She’s a joke and most boring.

  24. #485680
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:17 pm, cicerokid said:

    “Rob thinks Obama is running for President so he can stick it to whitey.”

    Based on what Obummer learned from uncle wrights 20 years of mentoring, I am going to agree with that statement.

  25. #485681
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, geokstr said:

    Screw them. I’ve had it up to here with phony “racism” charges. The media has helped them push the atrocious notion that if you are white and even hesitant about Obama, you are racist – period. Obama already has 95% of the black vote anyway.

    But the McCain compaign keeps dancing around Obama’s real vulnerability – his intense association with “community organizing”. Note how quickly the press jumped on that as “racist” after Palin’s first speech. Now apparently McCain won’t use that phrase anymore.

    “Community Organizing” was pretty much invented by Saul Alinsky, an avowed communist rabble rouser in the 1960’s, with the stated purpose of bringing down this country from within. Push every grievance possible, by whatever means necessary. Lie, cheat, distort, manipulate, intimidate, threaten, play on the good will of the American people until you bankrupted them. (Gee, sounds like a certain democrat campaign.) He had disdain for mere “liberals” because they were wusses who wouldn’t be nearly aggressive enough.

    He dedicated the first edition of his book, “Rules for Radicals” to LUCIFER (Satan) for crying out loud. And Obama used it as the textbook for his classes to train more good little radicals for ACORN.

    Alinsky wasn’t very successful at getting the typical white worker to go for his communist BS. However, groups like the Black Panthers and the National Welfare Rights Organization adopted his tactics enthusiastically.

    Tom Wolfe wrote a book about it in 1970 called “Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers”, where Black Panther types would intimidate and threaten government bureaucrats until they got bushelbaskets of money.

    From that humble beginning, ACORN and other “community organizing” groups were born, directly resulting in the Community Re-investment Act, eventually leading directly to the current meltdown in the financial markets over loans made to people who should never have had them. With a hefty assist from Mr. Obama himself, who was the attorney representing ACORN in the landmark case that led to the 1995 revisions to the CRA that expanded the role of Freddie and Fannie in buying riskier loans.

    If criticizing communists and “community organizers” is perceived as racist, so be it. If we are not allowed to look at all the real causes of the current crisis, even if it casts a negative light on minorities, or communists, or even white lying radicals, too damn bad. If we don’t, it will make it as difficult to find real solutions as it would be to make our airports safe from Muslims terrorists by randomly strip-searching 6 year old Swedish girls, Catholic nuns, and 90 year olds in wheelchairs.

    Oh, wait…

    These are two extremely important articles detailed all of this, documented to the hilt. Please read them and send them to everyone you know, if it isn’t already too late.

    http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

  26. #485682
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Well, you really didn’t answer why it doesn’t bother you (and not just Wright, by the way), which is what I asked.
    Because there really is no logical answer.

  27. #485683
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, Digshot said:

    The assertion is that someone who sat in a Black Liberation Theology “church” for 20 years must believe what they spew.

    Well that’s a silly assertion. Is Wright’s whole congregation as similarly affected as Obama is? For that matter, if anyone attends any church for X amount of time, does that mean they’re just mindless automatons that can only possibly believe exactly what their preachers believes? Certainly there are black doctors and black teachers and black police officers and black soldiers that have attended Wright’s church for a number of years, are they to be distrusted as racist, anti-American Communists? Should they be automatically disqualified from public service because of Rev. Wright?

    That would be liberation based on Marxism, per its tenets and founder.
    If you know about it and it doesn’t affect your opinion of your messiah BO, then there is no hope for you, and if you don’t know about it and are unwilling to educate yourself, then there is also no hope for you. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people just like you, and that is sad for this nation.
    And to think that this is only ONE of BO’s insane associations, and it still doesn’t bother his minions is sickening.

    As an atheist, I find there to be much more objectionable and dangerous religiosity emanating from the right than from Barack Obama’s church.

  28. #485684
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:19 pm, jegjr said:

    Alright, that’s it! I must be a racist. Doggone it! I was trying sooo hard not to be.

  29. #485686
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, Digshot said:

    Based on what Obummer learned from uncle wrights 20 years of mentoring, I am going to agree with that statement.

    How can you purport to know what someone has learned from somebody else? Can you see into Obama’s mind?

  30. #485687
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, Brian72 said:

    Again, more from Stanley Kurtz at NRO:

    The Obama campaign notes that during the CAC years, achievement test scores improved markedly in the Chicago public schools. That’s true, but deeply misleading. The real source of improvement was the leadership of accountability-oriented Chicago Public School (CPS) CEO, Paul Vallas, who began to reform CPS in 1995, the year of CAC’s founding. Vallas established clear standards, began high-stakes testing, ended social promotion, forced thousands of students to attend summer school to advance a grade, and put failing schools on probation. That’s what pushed up Chicago test scores. CAC’s own final evaluation carefully compared students at schools with Annenberg projects and schools without. According to CAC’s own report: “There were no statistically significant differences in student achievement between Annenberg schools and demographically similar non-Annenberg schools. This indicates that there was no Annenberg effect on achievement.” It also indicates that Annenberg failed, not because it’s altogether impossible to improve urban schools, but because CAC’s heavily politicized community-organizer partners weren’t any good at doing so.

    The Chicago Annenberg Challenge stands as Barack Obama’s most important executive experience to date. By its own account, CAC was a largely a failure. And a series of critical evaluations point to reasons for that failure, including a poor strategy, to which the foundation over-committed in 1995, and over-reliance on community organizers with insufficient education expertise. The failure of CAC thus raises entirely legitimate questions, both about Obama’s competence, his alliances with radical community organizers, and about Ayers’s continuing influence over CAC and its board, headed by Obama. Above all, by continuing to fund Ayers’s personal projects, and those of his political-educational allies, Obama was lending moral and material support to Ayers’s profoundly radical efforts. Ayers’s terrorist history aside, that makes the Ayers-Obama relationship a perfectly legitimate issue in this campaign.

    They wanted the university-style “America is your capitalist slavemaster” type of education brought to elementary, junior high, and high school. People in flyover country are not going to like that at all. That’s who Sarah talks to, naturally and with ease. She’s got cred on education, and most people aren’t even aware of that yet.

    It’s up to her to do this for all of us. The media will have to talk about what she says. She’s a newsmaker, and they put her in that position themselves, hoping she would embarrass McCain. Now here’s hoping the media whores pay for what they have done.

  31. #485688
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, mistressjustice said:

    MJ, you seem pretty level headed in your posts on MM’s blog. Can you tell me why BO’s associations with Ayers, Wright, Rezko, et al, don’t bother you? Do you think he has the judgment to be CIC, and if so, why? What do you think about the Obama “truth squads” and youth movements (like the creepy song and the militant groups pledging their devotion)? Does this not at all strike you as eerily similar to the rise of past dictators?

    Thanks.
    Ayers: I don’t think Obama supports his views of wanting to attack the country. I think he hooked up with him to make political connections in Chicago.

    Wright: I think Obama joined the church to make political connections in Chicago.

    What do you think about the Obama “truth squads”

    As long as they aren’t breaking the law, I’m 100% in support of them. I wish John Kerry had them.

    like the creepy song and the militant groups pledging their devotion)?

    He inspires people. America could use a leader who inspires people. As long as nobody is breaking the law, I don’t see any problems.

    Does this not at all strike you as eerily similar to the rise of past dictators?

    It also reminds me of past devotion to the Kennedys or Reagan. America wouldn’t allow a dictatorship to happen. I think it is beyond paranoid and unrealistic to suggest otherwise.IMHO.

  32. #485689
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:18 pm, Digshot said:

    Well that’s a silly assertion. Is Wright’s whole congregation as similarly affected as Obama is?

    Perhaps (actually, probably or else why would they be there), but they are not running for President.

    As an atheist, I find there to be much more objectionable and dangerous religiosity emanating from the right than from Barack Obama’s church.

    I’m an atheist too, and completely disagree with you. You obviously haven’t read about Black Liberation Theology.

  33. #485690
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pm, tuffy said:

    Maybe McCain is a racist. Does choosing one’s tactics in order to avoid being called a racist make one a racist? It is a course of action determined by race.

    Since it would appear Palin is not bogged down by this course, she’s not racist.

    Taking the AP seriously is like getting your news from Jon Stewart. Hmm, come to think of it, the AP might be worse.

  34. #485691
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pm, CoffeeGuzzler said:

    Think about this for a minute. There are people in some of the big cities that will vote for bho not because they want him as POTUS but because they are afraid NOT to vote for him. If he loses it will be like the L.A. riots all over America especially in the bigger cities. These people fear the consequences of him losing.

  35. #485693
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:25 pm, dj said:

    It also reminds me of past devotion to the Kennedys or Reagan. America wouldn’t allow a dictatorship to happen. I think it is beyond paranoid and unrealistic to suggest otherwise

    Thank you for responding.

    I think a lot of people in Germany, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea felt the same way you do now. Apparently people who do not learn from history really ARE doomed to repeat it. How sad.

  36. #485694
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Rob re: “I am no longer going to worry about it I am going to move forward voting for what will help ME, my family, the conservative movement, and the hell with the rest …

    Sir, although we have disagreed in the past, you have touched on what is probably the most effective technique for disarming the left… conviction.

    Once a person stops caring what their enemies think about them eg; “racist” then the word loses it’s power… poof! the libs have no weapon! Tyrants to beggars, in the blink of an eye!

    On the other hand, singling out Blacks & Mexicans is of course not a wise move… in fact it may be considered racist. So maybe you don’t want to bring smoke to the site, I mean it’s just what the left wants, to brand the opposition as hate mongers… eww, bad for business.

  37. #485698
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm, Brian72 said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Ayers: I don’t think Obama supports his views of wanting to attack the country. I think he hooked up with him to make political connections in Chicago.

    Wright: I think Obama joined the church to make political connections in Chicago.

    Well, you just admitted that Obama is willing to use racist and anti-American ideological movements for his own gain in a cynical ploy for power for himself.

    If he did not believe this crap what was he doing there at all?

    If you read anything I’ve posted from NRO, Obama does share a philosophy of public education with the radical anti-American leftist Bill Ayers. Setting aside the fact that Ayers IS a confirmed, unrepentant terrorist, this education project is very troubling, and THEY WORKED TOGETHER TOWARD THE SAME GOALS FOR CHILDREN.

    He does share beliefs with that scumbag Ayers, and he wants those beliefs taught in public schools. That does not bother you at all? It sure as hell bothers me, and I bet lots of other Americans, too.

    Let people know what’s up with this, Sarah. You are our only hope.

  38. #485699
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pm, cicerokid said:

    Digshot said: “How can you purport to know what someone has learned from somebody else? Can you see into Obama’s mind?”

    20 years?
    a) he liked what he had become a part of, that is, learned.
    or
    b) he is a piss-poor study!!

    Can i see into obama’s mind? Yes. I see his mind having absorbed the teachings of his church and mentor. Either he is a student of his pastors teachings for 20 years, or he is a fake. Neither scenario is very palatable.

    I and my family sat in church. When the pastor repeated doctrine that I did not want my children to learn, WE LEFT.

  39. #485702
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Digshot said:

    Perhaps (actually, probably or else why would they be there), but they are not running for President.

    Again, that’s silly. Just because you hear something doesn’t mean you agree with it. And I listed the occupations I listed because they have a public service component. Should white people be worried about bringing their kids to a black pediatrician that attended Wright’s church? Should white soldiers serving in Iraq worry about whether or not the black soldiers in their unit went to Wright’s church? Wouldn’t that be consistent with your argument?

    I’m an atheist too, and completely disagree with you. You obviously haven’t read about Black Liberation Theology.

    I have, and the fundamentalist evangelicalism that’s been ushered in with George Bush is much worse.

  40. #485703
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    AN OBAMA VICTORY WILL SAY A LOT ABOUT THE STATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT THE BUSH YEARS.

    Enough with the CAPS. You’re wrong.

    An Obama victory will just reinforce my fears of how stupid the majority of Americans really are.

  41. #485704
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm, happyscrapper said:

    because the thought that you people EXIST, let alone might vote, or worse, live within 500 miles of me, is deeply sickening.)

    Over the top, monkey…over the top! You need to calm down and go back to your rubber room now.

  42. #485705
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm, Brian72 said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Digshot said:

    I have, and the fundamentalist evangelicalism that’s been ushered in with George Bush is much worse.

    G..DAMN AMERICA. IT’S IN THE BIBLE! J. Wright.

    You are wrong. Thanks for playing.

  43. #485707
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm, Digshot said:

    Digshot said: “How can you purport to know what someone has learned from somebody else? Can you see into Obama’s mind?”

    20 years?
    a) he liked what he had become a part of, that is, learned.
    or
    b) he is a piss-poor study!!

    Can i see into obama’s mind? Yes. I see his mind having absorbed the teachings of his church and mentor. Either he is a student of his pastors teachings for 20 years, or he is a fake. Neither scenario is very palatable.

    Why can’t you like some of the things that are taught, and not like the rest? That’s how Obama has explained it. That’s not a plausible scenario, in your view? One can only absolutely agree with someone about everything, or someone is faking? That doesn’t make sense.

    I and my family sat in church. When the pastor repeated doctrine that I did not want my children to learn, WE LEFT.

    Who cares?

  44. #485708
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, happyscrapper said:

    …difficult for them accept criticism from anyone inside or outside their sphincter of thought.

    Right_On…Good one!That was funny!!

  45. #485709
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Well, you just admitted that Obama is willing to use racist and anti-American ideological movements for his own gain in a cynical ploy for power for himself.

    These are Chicago guys, and Obama affiliated himself with the leftwingers in Chicago with the most stroke. The guy had amibition and used people to get into power. However, nothing else in Obama’ life, or legislative track record suggests to me that he’s ant-white or hates America. Actually, I think that the opposite is true.
    As far as his views on education are concerned, the man isn’t the “Wizard of Oz” He has to get bipartisan support for all of his policy goals if he’s president. He will only have so much power.

  46. #485710
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:45 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 2:59 pm, sparky1962 said:

    Anyone who sits in a church with Rev. Wright for 20 years is no Christian in my book. Christ did not preach HATE like the Black Separatists do.

    In my opinion, it appears that…

    When Obama says “I am a Christian”, it doesn’t mean the same thing to him as that same statement means to you and me.

    Obama said (with a very angry look in his eyes):

    Whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?
    Whould it be James Dobson’s or Al Sharpton’s?

    Watch the video: (Part 1 and Part 3 are also worth watching)
    It’s The Theology, Stupid – Part 2

    You and I believe, and are willing to confess with our mouth, “Jesus is Lord”. I doubt Obama would confess those three simple words, even though his salvation depends on it. (Matthew 10:32-33, Romans 10:9, 1 Corinthians 12:3)

    McCain won’t press this issue, because he is a poser himself, and wouldn’t be willing to say those three simple words.

    Neither would Biden.

    The only one who would be willing to say those three words is Sarah Palin.

    “Black Liberation Theology” is Malcolm X’s Black Muslim thought process, combined with Marxism, all wrapped up in a Christian façade.
    Wolves in sheeps clothing (Matthew 7:15).

  47. #485711
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:46 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Digshot said:
    Again, that’s silly. Just because you hear something doesn’t mean you agree with it. And I listed the occupations I listed because they have a public service component. Should white people be worried about bringing their kids to a black pediatrician that attended Wright’s church? Should white soldiers serving in Iraq worry about whether or not the black soldiers in their unit went to Wright’s church? Wouldn’t that be consistent with your argument?

    YES. And just because you say it’s silly over and over again doesn’t make it so. This attempt at minimizing my assertion by calling me silly is a typical liberal tactic. Since you are a liberal, you are therefore OBVIOUSLY so much wiser than us silly hicks in the conservative camp. Sure.

    I have, and the fundamentalist evangelicalism that’s been ushered in with George Bush is much worse.

    Obviously, your values differ greatly from mine.

  48. #485712
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, Digshot said:

    G..DAMN AMERICA. IT’S IN THE BIBLE! J. Wright.

    You are wrong. Thanks for playing.

    You people throw out ‘God Damn America,’ and then sit there with a smug look on your face, like it’s just totally self-evident that it’s the most outrageous thing anyone could ever say. It’s not.

  49. #485713
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, right_on said:

    The Democrats have pushed continually for affordable mortgages for less fortunate Americans.

    Who, exactly, do the Democrats consider “less fortunate?”

    The poor?

    Who make up the majority of this class of Americans?

    If this class is made up of minorities, then isn’t the push for no qualification mortgages in fact, racist? Or, do they get around the rasist label by claiming “any American” could qualify for a “no qualification” mortgage?

    Any thoughts?

  50. #485714
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Ayers’s summation of the Weatherman philosophy: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents. That’s where it’s really at.”

    Bombing buildings, even in response to a war that you don’t like, is terrorism.

    And by the way, Fat Jolly Penguin…why isn’t Ayers in prison for treason? Does anyone have an answer for that? Did he ever serve time? Why not?

  51. #485715
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm, mistressjustice said:

    or legislative track record

    He has a track record? What did he accomplish other than voting present quite often?

  52. #485716
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    “Black Liberation Theology” is racist.

    The “Liberation Theology” I believe applies to all people, regardless of skin color.

  53. #485717
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:50 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    If anyone here wants to throw racism around try this:
    Do some web searches
    Blacks killed by whites
    Blacks killed by blacks
    Whites killed by blacks

    You could start at the Department of Justice, but there are others.

    Of course the White Guilt Cult and Professional Victims claim just mentioning these numbers is racism as is using the term White Guilt Cult but I really do not care. My defense of family and self trumps their feeling. Sorry BroBama and DOUGLASS K. DANIEL of the Associated Press. To prove YOU Mr. Daniel are not a racist come to Phoenix and hang around 16st and Jackson some night. Or you could try Gilbert Rd and Broadway in Mesa in front of the Farmacia.

    Come now DOUGLASS K. DANIEL of the Associated Press don’t let your alligator mouth over rule your grasshopper butt. Funcione con al cobarde, funcione.

    America First
    America Alone
    America Come Home
    MARs: Middle American Radical

  54. #485718
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:51 pm, Rob said:

    On the other hand, singling out Blacks & Mexicans is of course not a wise move…

    I will concede you that point. However, last week when I drove three miles down a main street near my home I saw hundreds of people, run down buildings, signs in Spanish, yet couldn’t spot ONE white person… I am starting to get defensive.

  55. #485719
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm, njrazd said:

    Screw Palin leaving the ticket.

    Tell McCain to get the hell out!

    Where’s Mitt?? He was the first choice for conservatives anyway.

  56. #485720
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm, njrazd said:

    I voted for Mitt in the primary. :(

  57. #485721
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, Digshot said:

    YES. And just because you say it’s silly over and over again doesn’t make it so. This attempt at minimizing my assertion by calling me silly is a typical liberal tactic. Since you are a liberal, you are therefore OBVIOUSLY so much wiser than us silly hicks in the conservative camp. Sure.

    I’m not just saying it’s silly, I’m explaining to you why it’s silly. If I stood around saying you were silly and that was it, I’d agree with you. But I explained why I said it, so I don’t know what your problem is.

    And just to clarify, are you actually saying that a black doctor shouldn’t work on a white patient if that doctor went to Wright’s church?

    Obviously, your values differ greatly from mine.

    Definitely.

  58. #485723
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, Digshot said:

    You people throw out ‘God D-mn America,’ and then sit there with a smug look on your face, like it’s just totally self-evident that it’s the most outrageous thing anyone could ever say. It’s not.

    Digshot, the point is that it is totally self-evident that Rev. Wright, Louis F@rr@kh@n, and the other ministers of “Black Liberation Theology” are actively promoting the destruction of America. That is what’s outrageous. They, and Barack Obama, are actively working to fulfill Malcolm X’s vision:

    You will never get real freedom and recognition between black and white people in this country without destroying the country, without destroying the present politcal system, without destroying the present economic system, without rewriting the entire constitution. It will be a complete destruction of everything that America supposedly stands for.

    –Malcolm X

  59. #485724
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:56 pm, Brian72 said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm, Digshot said:

    You people throw out ‘God Damn America,’ and then sit there with a smug look on your face, like it’s just totally self-evident that it’s the most outrageous thing anyone could ever say. It’s not.

    Well, sir, what would be more outrageous than that to you?

    God Bless America?

    That’s a telling comment by you. Most Americans hear that from a pulpit, and they are out the door, never to return.

    Obama’s political ambitions meant more to him than his family’s spirituality, including his daughters, who were baptized by J. Wright personally, as well as his marriage ceremony conducted personally by J. Wright.

    Either he really believes that Marxist, racist garbage, or he cynically used this church to further his own ambitions. Either way, OBAMA IS A FRAUD!

  60. #485725
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm, mistressjustice said:

    Enough with the CAPS. You’re wrong.

    An Obama victory will just reinforce my fears of how stupid the majority of Americans really are

    .

    LOL. I USE CAPS WHEN I’M FEELING LAZY, OR WANT TO SAY SOMETHING LOUDLY. IT’S JUST A BLOG.

    An Obama victory will just reinforce my fears of how stupid the majority of Americans really are.

    That’s a very cynical and unAmerican statement. Do you think rightwingers or Bush bear ANY responsibility for an Obama victory? Seriously? The majoriy of Americans aren’t stupid. People watch, read, and are capable of making informed decisions. They’re able to ask themselves if the were better off during the Clinton years or the Bush years. People are able to ask themselves if this country was in better shape during the Clinton years or during the Bush years.
    If people vote McCain in, I don’t think they’re all stupid. I just think they agreed with his policies, or trusted his leadership more. If you think everyone who disagrees with BAL is stupid, I don’t know what to say other than,

    whatever

    .

    LAZY I KNOW, but I can only say “whatever” to that mentality.

  61. #485726
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:58 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:38 pm, Digshot said:

    Just because you hear something doesn’t mean you agree with it

    I know you gave me this reason, but it doesn’t hold water in this case. The fact the BO sat there for 20 years implies that he must have agreed with that theology, or why would he have listened to it for so long? If he didn’t agree with it, then he is way too stupid to run this country, if he wasn’t smart enough to go find a church more in line with his belief system.

    Are you kidding me with this already?

  62. #485727
    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:58 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    mistressjustice said:

    MJ should be disbarred, that’s if she’s even a lawyer to begin with.

  63. #485728
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm, dj said:

    Seriously, for all you supporters of BO who make excuses for his associations, lack of a record, and Black Liberation Theology, and try to paint a rosy picture of this dangerous empty suit, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. It’s very Hopey Changey!! It will solve all of your problems!! Really!

  64. #485729
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:00 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    People like MJ should be put out on the street. If you’re going to argue with a violent piece of trash thug like MJ you’re wasting your breath.

  65. #485730
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:02 pm, cicerokid said:

    Digshot said: “Who cares?”

    My family. Those who seek wisdom from me. The same applies to brrrak hussein. What part of the black liberation theology teachig did obummer not like? He has been quiet on that issue.

    20 years.

  66. #485731
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:04 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    I love how Wright hates white people but yet lives in a million dollar home within a lily white neighborhood. I love it. The ultimate race-baiter. I almost like the guy.

  67. #485733
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm, njrazd said:

    Screw Palin leaving the ticket.

    Tell McCain to get the hell out!

    Where’s Mitt?? He was the first choice for conservatives anyway.

    I agree with telling McCain to leave the ticket.

    I disagree about Mitt, because Values Voters don’t trust any of the four candidates who refused to attend the Values Voter Debate. All four of them played a major role in making McCain the nominee. Mitt should have stayed in the race…if he hadn’t quit and released his delegates to McCain, then Romney and Huckabee together could have kept McCain from reaching 1191 and it would have gone to a brokered convention. Instead, Mitt tried to hand the nomination to McCain on a silver platter and tried to force Huckabee to quit before McCain got to 1191.

    Pair Palin with one of the ones who did care enough about Values Voters to show up for the debate, like Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Alan Keyes, Sam Brownback, or Duncan Hunter.

  68. #485735
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, sandyb said:

    Can you see into Obama’s mind?

    Yep. It’s dark and musty in there, lots of cobwebs and a couple mice in the corners. If you listen closely, you can hear the ever-so-faint droning of him asking: “What do I do next, Harry?” “What do I do next, Nancy?” “What do I do next, Jeremiah?”

    In short, the inside of Obamma’s mind is a dismal place.

  69. #485736
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    Looks like Kimbo Slice got his face handed to him by a (as Wright would put it) garlic-nosed Italian. Lol.

  70. #485737
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Obama is 1/2 white. So, are the blacks who oppose him racist against whites?

  71. #485738
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:10 pm, sandyb said:

    Goldwater Knight said:
    I love how Wright hates white people but yet lives in a million dollar home within a lily white neighborhood.

    Don’t forget he got there by telling his congregation to forgo “middleclassedness” all the while using the collection plate to pay for his million dollar home, tax-free, I might add…Talk about suckers!

  72. #485739
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, Digshot said:

    And just to clarify, are you actually saying that a black doctor shouldn’t work on a white patient if that doctor went to Wright’s church?

    I didn’t say that. I responded to your initial question of whether a white person would have cause to worry in such a situation, and I think that such a worry is not unfounded. And again, a doctor is not President of the free world, a fact you choose to ignore. Until BO’s health care disaster is implemented, we can still decide what doctors we see.

    What is pathetic is that prior to BO’s introduction to the USA, I would never have thought about such things. I had no idea how hated I am by people who subscribe to such a theology, simply because I happen to be white. I certainly harbored no hatred toward anyone because they were not. Now I know, so excuse me if I am a bit troubled by such a significant revelation. Yeah, he’s a real uniter.

  73. #485740
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:12 pm, geokstr said:

    “…the fundamentalist evangelicalism that’s been ushered in with George Bush is much worse.”

    What an absolutely stupid thing to say.

    Here are a few quotes from the founder of Black Liberation Theology, James Cone, from Wikipedia, so I am thinking these are far from the worst in his writings.

    “All white men are responsible for white oppression.”

    “Whether the American system is beyond redemption we will have to wait and see. But we can be certain that black patience has run out, and unless white America responds positively to the theory and activity of Black Power, then a bloody, protracted civil war is inevitable.”

    “The revolution which Black Theology advocates … [means] confronting white racists and saying: ‘If it’s a fight you want, I am prepared to oblige you.’ This is what the black revolution means.”

    “Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will.”

    I have already seen threats from black columnists and others that if Obama does not win, there will be race riots. We also heard after the videos of Rev Wright that this is not uncommon language to hear in most black churches.

    This country is in a lot of trouble in that case. I for one am not willing to continue being called a racist for nothing.

  74. #485741
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm, Brian72 said:

    To all here on either side, to yourself a favor and Google Dr. James Cone.

    He is a racist, Marxist, anti-American charlatan who hates EVERYTHING about America, and our system of Government.

    The Trinity UCC website was updated early this year. Before that, Cone’s book was singled out as required reading for Trinity parishioners who wished to more thoroughly understand the church’s theology and mission. That highlighting was removed. Jason Byassee, of The Christian Century Magazine, wrote this about Cone and Trinity in May, 2007:

    “There is no denying, however, that a strand of radical black political theology influences Trinity [UCC]. James Cone, the pioneer of black liberation theology, is a much-admired figure at Trinity. Cone told me that when he’s asked where his theology is institutionally embodied, he always mentions Trinity. Cone’s groundbreaking 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power announced: “The time has come for white America to be silent and listen to black people. . . . All white men are responsible for white oppression. . . . Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the devil.’. . . Any advice from whites to blacks on how to deal with white oppression is automatically under suspicion as a clever device to further enslavement.” Contending that the structures of a still-racist society need to be dismantled, Cone is impatient with claims that the race situation in America has improved. In a 2004 essay he wrote, “Black suffering is getting worse, not better. . . . White supremacy is so clever and evasive that we can hardly name it. It claims not to exist, even though black people are dying daily from its poison” (in Living Stones in the Household of God).”

    That’s from The American Thinker.

    This is racism, pure and simple. It makes me sick.

    How the hell did a potential President of the United States, Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, sit in that ideological CESSPOOL for TWENTY YEARS, with his WIFE and DAUGHTERS, and expect Americans to just hand him the keys to our country?

    Frustrating, to say the least.

    This crap is indefensible, and you all know it. Crucially, so does OBAMA.

  75. #485744
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:15 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    James Cone explains more about “Black Liberation Theology” in the video I linked earlier (repeated here). James Cone is the one speaking after Malcolm X and Barack Hussein Obama.

  76. #485745
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm, dj said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:14 pm, Brian72 said:

    How the hell did a potential President of the United States, Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces, sit in that ideological CESSPOOL for TWENTY YEARS, with his WIFE and DAUGHTERS, and expect Americans to just hand him the keys to our country?

    BDS and the media cover-up. If the media devoted one iota of honest coverage to BO this would be a McCain landslide of epic proportions. Sickening.

  77. #485746
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm, happyscrapper said:

    If you see MJ dying in the street needing your help to survive just step over her. She wouldn’t do it for you.

    Is MJ the one who said that??? Wow, I remember reading that comment and it made me sick. MJ should be ignored until she goes away. She is a very evil, sick person.

  78. #485747
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:18 pm, cicerokid said:

    “I for one am not willing to continue being called a racist for nothing.”

    Correct, geokstr. I married a little brown woman myself.

  79. #485748
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s Talking Points have been scrubbed from Trinity UCC’s site, but I captured them here.

  80. #485750
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:22 pm, happyscrapper said:

    Digshot said…”As an atheist…”

    That statement says a lot. As a Christian, your atheism deeply offends me. As do your liberal rants. Please stop hijacking this thread and go back to kos.

  81. #485753
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm, desertdweller said:

    note to AP: Ayers is white. So was McVeigh, and Adam Gadahn, etc..

    The only racism here is the AP, associating terrorism with race.

  82. #485754
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:27 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    If the media devoted one iota of honest coverage to BO this would be a McCain landslide of epic proportions.

    Have you seen the latest AOL Straw Poll?
    It shows McCain/Palin winning 61% of the popular vote, and all 50 states (Obama-Biden only winning DC’s 3 electoral college votes).

    I trust that poll more than any biased MSM poll.

    I believe the only way Obama can win is with MASSIVE FRAUD. And ACORN is committing MASSIVE FRAUD, so in order to prevent Obama from stealing the election, please pray daily for all corruption to be exposed, prosecuted, convicted, and prevented.

  83. #485755
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:32 pm, xblade said:

    Meanwhile, back in the real world, McCain continues to forbid his campaign from going after Obama for his longtime friendship and ideological partnership with Rev. Jeremiah Wright — and refuses to attack Obama on the Fannie/Freddie/CRA debacles because he fears being perceived as a racist.

    Then, frankly, the only thing left to discuss is how bad McCain will lose in November.

  84. #485756
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:33 pm, Micheleeroo said:

    Yessirreeee, racism under every rock.

    And because there will always be people who stand ready to falsely accuse others of racism so long as it shuts down discussion of the real problem (in this case–close associations with unrepentant terrorist Ayers), just put your head down and push against the wind and do what you have to do.

    It is NOT racist to point out problems with Fannie/Freddie. The Left’s attempt to paint properly pointing out problems with Fannie as racist led us to this point. Do not let people’s stupidity keep you from doing what’s right.

    Here is a damning example of how democrats tried to turn away accusations that Fannie Mae was heading for trouble:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs&feature=related

  85. #485759
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:37 pm, happyscrapper said:

    LOL. I USE CAPS WHEN I’M FEELING LAZY, OR WANT TO SAY SOMETHING LOUDLY. IT’S JUST A BLOG.

    Mistressjustice…I have respect for Michelle Malkin and her blog and my fellow bloggers. Apparently you don’t.

  86. #485761
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Digshot, re: Should white soldiers serving in Iraq worry about whether or not the black soldiers in their unit went to Wright’s church?

    Well there was that one nice (black muslim)fellow who tossed grenades into his CO’s tent… oh but wait he didn’t go to Obama’s “church”… he went to Obama’s primary school. Sorry, my inherent racism tends to make me paranoid.

    The reality is, I have TRD, aka truth realization disorder my white europian background make me susceptible to it… I used to be ashamed, but now that I pay 90% of my wages to get free health care, I am on the road to recovery! Obama be praised!

    You can’t imagine the guilt I feel knowing that I used to look at people that were different than me & assuming that they did not have my best interests at heart… I used to get upset when they cut in front of me in line at the supermarket and threw their EBT card on the counter! How stupid of me! oh the shame, I didn’t realize that their shrimp spoiled so quickly & my canned tuna could last for years…

    Thank Obama, that I have found Biden! I can’t wait to find a job, so I can get a second one… the shame that I feel knowing that these poor children will fall asleep with only a 50 inch plasma to keep them warm & with only 9 small McNuggets between them & oblivion.

    Please, for the sake of the children, (not your stupid children) If you are white, or have a job or both & your only interest is to survive, go to your local clinic & say I have TRD! & I need help! (you will get priority service).

    Remember, white is a disease, but it can be treated!

  87. #485762
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:42 pm, Brian72 said:

    You guys are all correct about this Fannie/Freddie stuff. Racism is going to thrown at you no matter what you say. Go ahead and tie Obama to this socialized housing program, that we all have to pay for now. Nobody voted this in, it just crept up on us. Obama is right in the middle of it.

    Also, like I said earlier, Ayers and his educational ideas should be debated openly, and right now. This is where Sarah can really stick it to Obama. Compare her All American PTA mom views on education, with the ONLY EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE Obama has, the Annenberg Challenge.

    Sarah can do this like nobody else can. She is the way to expose what these leftists are trying to do to OUR CHILDREN.

    If the real thing don’t do the trick
    you better make up something quick
    you’re gonna burn, burn, burn, burn to the wick

    Barracuda!

  88. #485763
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:43 pm, ajmontana said:

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  89. #485767
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:45 pm, Brian72 said:

    Alright folks, this has been fun as usual. I’m going to go to Buffalo Wild Wings, have a few beers and some food with friends, and watch the Dallas Cowboys beat up on the Cincinatti Bengals.

    Keep sticking it to the libs, and cheers!

    God Bless America!

  90. #485769
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:45 pm, Brian72 said:
    Alright folks, this has been fun as usual. I’m going to go to Buffalo Wild Wings, have a few beers and some food with friends, and watch the Dallas Cowboys beat up on the Cincinatti Bengals.

    Off topic, but my daughter was a nanny for the children of the CEO of Buffalo Wild Wings while she was attending college. After college, she was in thier Marketing Dept. for 5 years. I ate a lot of Buffalo Wild Wings during that time, as she had discount. Yummm!!!

  91. #485770
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm, rplatt said:

    The “AP” is an obnoxious, toxic organization with a perverted sense of logic. They are incapable of credible retort so they resort to the age old tactic of screaming racism. Fortunately, it doesn’t work with anyone but the left wing kooks.

  92. #485772
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:56 pm, Ricco said:

    So she’s a racist against her husband who is Aleut?

  93. #485773
    On October 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm, Goldwater Knight said:

    I used to get upset when they cut in front of me in line at the supermarket and threw their EBT card on the counter!

    I remember when the affirmative action blacks from the city used to cut you in line at a state school I briefly attended. My friend from Long Island made a gun sign with his hand and pointed it at the guys forehead and said, “Don’t cut me I’m in a hurry.” Lol. The black dude didn’t know what to do.

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