I have to admit, I'm somewhat surprised at how much the GOP is playing the race card to bring down

[Tony_FLADEM]

Obama.

I expected the usual - character assassination and Obama is a socialist.

The fact that they are hyping this phony voter intimidation issue in Pennsylvania shows they will do just about anything to win. This was a heavily Democratic precinct. If they were trying to stop McCain voters, they would have gone to a precinct known to vote Republican.

I guess there is no line they will not go beyond in order to attain political power.

[lob1]

1. A line hasn't been drawn that the pubs won't cross.

[wiggs]

13. That's right...beginning with Rove in Texas. They are willing to go as low

as needed...lies, exaggerations, fear, hate, polarization are in the playbood. Because the ends justify the means.

Big difference between dems and gop and it puts us at a clear disadvantage but one that we should be proud of. It means that dem leaders have to work EXTRA hard to get our message out and call the gop on their BS...which we have been terrible at the last 10 years.

[msongs]

2. meanwhile biden says he and obama don't think the baggers are racist lol

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/18/tea-party-not-a-racist-organization-biden-says/

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. That's Biden being cute...

...every time he refuses to buy the claim, he repeats the claim.

Try "No, I don't think you're too fat..." with your beloved. The first three times, it's affirmation -- the fourth time, you sleep on the fold-out. Yet you said nothing wrong.

[babylonsister]

5. How should they have reacted? Fan the flames some more? lol

That makes sense. :eyes:

[CakeGrrl]

6. Maybe you don't notice that the MSM is waiting for an excuse

to call out Obama for playing "the race card" the second they have the chance.

If you think they'd get a fair shake by going out with guns blazing charging racism against the GOP, you're being naive.

[malaise]

8. He said there are racist elements

among the baggers

[blondeatlast]

10. He's calling attention to the idea while saying it isn't so. Very sly move on his part. nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

3. I give them a lot of credit.

...in a pool of when the first major GOP playa publicly busts out the n-word, I had November of '09. That's a good six months ago.

[Orsino]

7. They're playing the race card to rally the bigots for November.

Obama, like racism itself, is a convenient carrying handle.

[Ozymanithrax]

9. In this, the GOP's philosophy of leadership is to find an angry mob...

and run in front of it.

The do this because their more coded racism to keep this demographic active failed in 2006 and 2008.

The demographic they are appealing to has become immune to code words and want red meat racism.

[Hawkowl]

11. Why is this a surprise?

The rethuglicans are nothing if not predictable. They are still locked in to race baiting as much as when Bush I used Willie Horton.

If the Dems were smart, they'd just flat out call not only the Tea Party racist, but the mainstream republicans as well. I would not let Obama do this himself, but through surrogates such as Biden, Senators etc. Brand the Rethuglicans for the racists they are and let them back pedal if they can.

Why? Because in the very near future, the majority of voters in this country will not be white. I would assert that the majority of voters in this country already are strongly anti-racist and would turn out to vote to punish known racists--if only the dems would demand it.

[Bitwit1234]

12. I bet there are plenty of real voter intimidation out there and

they were all republican.

[SoCalDem]

14. Scary black man in White House...run away, run away.

they are free to do it, because they can then "claim" that all presidents have been criticized..

and they are making the most they can from it..:(

SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sep04-09 02:00 PM

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Scary black man in White House...run away, run away.

The nut-cases are doing now, what they could not manage to do in '08....and they are doing it with the aid & comfort of the same media who shut them down last year.

What a difference a year makes.

They were unsuccessful last year because "their" candidate was un-electable, and the press did not want to waste precious time on a bunch of whiny racists. They did show the most outrageous of the bunch who shouted "Kill him" or "Traitor" at Palin rallies, but the coverage was about "free speech" and little more.

Another reason they were unsuccessful last year, was the fact that Hillary Clinton stayed in the race for such a long time, that many of the most racist of the GOP base were torn between two longstanding "hates", and probably waited too long to gin up much rabble-rousing.

There was a time when they tipped their hand though, by suddenly masking their Clinton-hate, and crossing over to actually vote for her (Texas primaries & beyond).. Does anyone really think they all-of-a-sudden "liked" her? and would vote for her over their party-chosen-hack?.. This was when they realized that a black man just might win this thing.

Given a choice between Hillary and "the black guy", they would choose Hillary.. They already hated her, and had a quiverful of arrows just for her, but would need more time to craft a barrage designed especially for a black man... they had to be careful with this attack, or they would be once again be called out on their racism. Republican racism is best left just under the surface..like a stealthy submarine, cruising unnoticed by the masses.

These are the same people who overlooked every blunder that GW made..that was a daily event, for at least 8 long years.

They were willing to suspend disbelief, as he failed to deliver on almost everything he promised them.

They willingly "gave him" their husbands, daughters, fathers, sons, grandsons, etc. to go off and fight in two wars, one a meaningless war for profiteering contractors and friends-of-Bush, the other a hastily exited, poorly executed one in Afghanistan. They were willing to trade their flesh & blood loved ones, for a few lines of text in a paper and a folded flag.

They cooed and clucked as he vacationed his way through two terms, claiming that he "needed his rest", and wasn't he quite a manly figure...with that cowboy hat & that chainsaw.

They looked the other way as he proffered yearly budgets without money for either war, and as he added bloated, yet unfunded spending legislation onto their back (and onto the backs of their progeny).

The editorialists they claim as their own, gleefully climbed aboard the war-bus, and told them all how important and necessary these two wars were, and how the cost was nothing to worry about now, because "it had to be done".

AND THEN THE BLACK GUY WON!

After the initial shock, and the obligatory pats on their own backs for "electing the first black man to be president" (even though 99% of them did not vote for him), they set out to undermine him, even if it meant destroying their party in the process. The ends justify the means.

They cannot attack his intellect..or his stage presence..or his ability to communicate....but he IS still black.

No matter how hard it is to clean up the messes left by "their guy", or how necessary it is to HAVE the mess cleaned up.....for all of us, they are still willing to do everything they can to undermine him.

The only effective tool left to them is FEAR. They have to make him scary, questionable, controversial.

Media is only too happy to comply. they were on their best-behavior last year, because they too, were worried about just how to cover the first black man running for the highest office in the country. After 8 long years of bumbling, stumbling, & stammering, they were happy to finally have a literate, composed and intellectual to cover, and they went all in. But that was then, and this is now.

They could not attack Barack, the black man..but as president, they are unfettered now, and anything goes, so they are happy to report on all the nonsensical birthers, deathers, teabaggers, town-brawlers, gun-toters..

Media coverage, to these people is like water to fish.. It's what they need, in order to exist and to prosper.

So now we are where we are.

The black man is going to scare the children.. :scared:
The black man wants us all to have health care :scared:
The black man is trying to clean up the messes left to us by 30 years of neglect :scared:
His wife wears SHORTS :scared:
His daughter wears a "Peace" shirt :scared:


How dare he!

[damntexdem]

15. Hey, there's the history of the Southern Strategy, and it turned out well for them.

So they'll be as racist as they think necessary to "win."