Steele: Obama ‘Was Not Vetted Because The Press Fell In Love With The Black Man Running For Office"

[kpete]

Steele: Obama ‘Was Not Vetted Because The Press Fell In Love With The Black Man Running For The Office’

Apparently unable to learn from egregious mistakes from the recent past, RNC Chairman Michael Steele once again took to the radio airwaves today as a guest host for Bill Bennett. Earlier this week, Steele declared “an end to the era of Republicans looking backward.” This morning, however, Steele revisited the 2008 election to insist that President Obama had never been “vetted” because the press “fell in love with the black man”:

STEELE: The problem that we have with this president is that we don’t know (Obama). He was not vetted, folks. … He was not vetted, because the press fell in love with the black man running for the office. “Oh gee, wouldn’t it be neat to do that? Gee, wouldn’t it make all of our liberal guilt just go away? We can continue to ride around in our limousines and feel so lucky to live in an America with a black president.” Okay that’s wonderful, great scenario, nice backdrop. But what does he stand for? What does he believe? … So we don’t know. We just don’t know.

Steele lamented the “missed opportunity” in “dissecting” Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s influence on Obama, and “the lessons (Obama) learned at his (Wright's) knee.” Listen to it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/steele-obama-race/

[Thrill]

1. This guy is stupid

[onenote]

13. interesting way to reach out to the african american community

Hasn't Steele's 15 minutes ended? Really, the guys a joke. Just not a funny one.

[Raineyb]

26. Steele knows damn well there's no interest in reaching out to the African American community

because he knows damn well what he's saying isn't going to cut it. But it does appeal to a certain racist subset of Republicans.

[Orsino]

56. Not stupid...just desperate.

And all his excuses will accordingly sound pathetic.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. I'm sorry - it sounds way more like Steele becoming GOP chairman than it does Obama becoming POTUS.

Seriously, did anyone in the GOP even talk to him before they voted?

[Cha]

5. They say the repukes attack

their opponents on what they're guilty of..and it works out everytime.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. Ain't that the truth! (nt)

[TankLV]

51. Let's see: Hillary = palin. Check.

Black president = black chair. Check.

I could go on...

[LynnTheDem]

3. Stupidty stupidty stupid.

Steele wasn't vetted coz the republicans just needed a black token. Any black token.

And being republicans, they chose the stupidest of stupidty stupids.


Even the republicans think Steele is stupid.

That's fwightening.

[eShirl]

4. Wait - I get a limousine to ride around in???

Nobody told me that... where's my limousine dammit!

[Saphire]

46. That's only if you donated over 50K...otherwise you get a pony.

[DrToast]

6. Of all the people to call Obama token...

[grantcart]

7. This is the classical definition of 'projection'. lol funny funny funny

[liberal N proud]

8. What?

[ksoze]

9. A wobbly hail mary pass by a black man who was not vetted himself

Steele has nothing to lose as he takes the low road - his future depends on how he comes out of this job - he makes no friends if he succumbs to reality.

[KansDem]

10. Oh, and the "Slack Man" who ran in 2000 was "vetted?"

The US CorpMedia, with GOP complicity, did everything they could to avoid "vetting" GWB.

[BeyondGeography]

12. Rezko, Reverend Wright, rinse lather repeat

Fuck off, Mikey.

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[rvablue]

15. Right, Mike. Hillary just let Obama glide into the nomination. She put up no fight what so ever....

...never challenged him or called him out or looked into every crook and cranny of his past. :sarcasm:


This guy is such a joke.

I'm really starting to believe that in his feeble mind somehow he truly believes that he belongs in the White House instead and he is raging with jealousy.

[snowdays]

27. She made him a better president that is for sure.

[Lord Helmet]

30. lol

she's lucky he gave her a job instead of sending her back to be jr senator for NY with her tail tucked between her legs

:nopity:

[snowdays]

31. good Dems do not demean our SOS as you did.

[Lord Helmet]

32. lol --- good democrats don't misstate reality at Obama's expense

[snowdays]

35. I was talking of your nasty comment about Hillary. But, you are Rovian as

you change the subject.

[Lord Helmet]

41. Rovian? I don't think that word means what you think it means

[StevieM]

54. He's lucky she campaigned so hard for him, instead of walking away like Obama's buddy Bill Bradley

did to Al Gore. She got him a lot of votes--including mine.

Steve

[Number23]

37. So THAT'S your MO!

I have been trying to figure you out. I have seen you slam and trash Obama at every single turn, no matter how stupid your argument was or how crazy it made you look.

But now I see. You're one of those Never Say Never Hillary supporters. The ones they tell tales about to frighten school children in DC. One of those who are still so gobsmacked that Hillary did not win that they have to tear down the one who beat her every chance they get.

Never mind the fact that Obama is actually doing a very good job. Never mind that Hillary is thriving in her role as SoS and that there appears to be genuine harmony between the two of them. You hate him because he beat your girl. And you want the WORLD to know it.

Okay, snowdays. Duly noted. Now will you cut the crap??

[snowdays]

42. get a life and grow up.

[Number23]

43. Damn. A hater and completely unoriginal at it too.

"Get a life"?? How 1970's of you, snowdays. Not that I expected any better.

[TankLV]

52. I agree with snowdays - Grow up...

[firedupdem]

44. How did Hillary make him a better President? What are you

talking about?

[snowdays]

49. I think she challenged him to think through many different

possibilities related to both domestic and foreign issues. A good opponent will do that no matter who that opponent is. And he respects her work and expertise. She is our SOS now and from what I can see they both are working for the good of the US. They seem to have a good relationship. Both set their differences aside and we are better for it.

[Blaze Diem]

16. F Off Loser...

Ignorant F**K

[rocktivity]

17. Rocktivity: Steele Was Not Vetted Because the GOP Fell In Love

With A Black Opponent To A Black Man In Office

:eyes:
rocktivity

[rpannier]

60. Thank you.

I was thinking the same damned thing

[MadBadger]

18. He's parroting the Limbaugh line on McNabb that got him fired from ESPN

[Hanse]

19. Steele's finally doing what he was appointed to do.

Make blatantly racist attacks against Obama on behalf of the white GOP.

[ecstatic]

20. yep. How sad nt

[tekisui]

45. That is it.

That was and is his sole purpose to the repukes. Say stuff the old white guys in the old white guys' club would be filleted for.

[jberryhill]

21. Wright? Is he kidding?

Wow.

Boy, oh boy, if anyone ever hears about Rev. Wright, then Obama will probably not get re-elected.

I'm deeply worried.

[PatSeg]

22. Yeah, gee

I can't recall any coverage on Reverend Wright.

[jberryhill]

23. I Even Heard A Rumor That Obama Isn't White

...if anyone had noticed that, we'd have been sunk for sure.

[PatSeg]

28. Good thing THAT rumor never got any traction!

[jberryhill]

36. Steele might as well have said....

"We should have put more focus and energy into pointing out that his middle name is Hussein."

[PatSeg]

38. He's saving that for next week

He's digging down to the bottom of his bag of tricks.

[NatBurner]

24. ok, this motherfucker has completly lost his rabidass mind

he's said some stupid shit in the past, but this?

damn damn damn © florida evans

[onenote]

25. The repubs strategy is obvious. Stupid, but obvious.

The numbers are clear. McCain captured a clear majority of the white vote in 2008. But Obama not only was the near unanimous choice of African Americans, but captured clear majorities of Latin and Asian voters. The white segment of the electorate is down to around 75% and shrinking. The repubs have two choices -- try to reach out to non-white voters or to try to divide the country by race and pick up an even greater percentage of white voters (or to pit asian and latin voters against black voters). They clearly have chosen the path of divisiveness, although using Michael Steele as their messenger is about as weird a way to go about pitting white,asian and latin voters against black voters as you could think of.

Or maybe their strategy is simply to increase their appeal to really stupid people, in which case they get high marks for choosing Steele as their front man.

[Brewman_Jax]

29. Please, stop it, Mike!

That's funny coming from the party and people that never vetted Bush* (where are those discharge papers, eh?). Looking pathetic isn't helping your cause. :eyes:

[Forkboy]

33. He's rapidly climbing my list of people I love to hear speak.

I can't get enough of this guy. :evilgrin:

[KingFlorez]

34. Is his bitter, racist mouth ever closed?

[Hellataz]

39. Piss Poor assessment, If the Media did fall in love with him they would have vetted him harder

They would have treated him like a celebrity and done everything from hiring paparazzi to digging through his trash. He can't really think that Obama's popularity created LESS interest in finding out all about this man. In this celebrity obsessive culture, people do everything they can to find all the fun little morsal and gossip on the person they idolize, just ask my uber twilight fan friends...lol I bet they know Rob Pattison more then he knows himself. So to say the Media was too blinded by admiration to get the real truth just doesn't fly with me.

[annabanana]

40. And yet HE has had to be buffoonish without all that media help..

Is that what he's complaining about?

That man makes no sense whatsoever.

[Jello Biafra]

47. How do you spell Uncle Tom?....

S-T-E-E-L-E

[BklnDem75]

48. Damn... I wonder what Alan Keyes is thinking

His name never comes up when they bring up this talking point.

[Honeycombe8]

50. What an insulting statement. And false. If that were the case, then it would've been for Jackson

and Sharpton, since they TOO were black men running for office.

A desperate man will say ANYTHING on his way down, in an effort to save himself.

Buh-bye. This time next year, no one will remember ye.

[traxster]

53. Funny, as a big selling point for the republicans to select him was his race.

I didn't believe it at first. I wanted to think they would not be so obvious. But they won't even let the guy have control of the money, so clearly the don't think that he is competent. And, did they know what Steele stood for? Oh, thats why they wigged out when he said he was prochoice, or that he thought Rush was an entertainer. The scenario he posed about President Obama applies more directly to him.

[BobTheSubgenius]

55. "The Press Fell In Love With The Black Man Running For The Office’

Yet....people despise you, Mikey.

[AspenRose]

58. Right....like the press fell in love with Alan Keyes

:rofl:

[firedupdem]

59. lol!!!

:rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

62. This comment for the win!

[ericgtr]

57. LOL.. a little bitter are we there Steele?

Missed opportunity on dissecting Wright? It was on the news 24/7 for half of his fucking campaign, how blind is this asshole?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

61. :eyes:

:eyes:

Steel says he never makes mistakes when he speaks - it's all well thought out....

Just like this shit.

What an idiot he is.