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Old 06-16-2009, 06:24 PM
 
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If every time some mental midget made the news because they posted a racist comment about Obama on the web, or made a comment in their "hushed circles" that's the only news that would be reported because it happens so often. At least once or twice a week since he has assumed the office they've bashed Michelle for looking like a gorilla and Barack for just being black.

This garbage isn't news. It's petty ignorance.

It is exactly the same kind of garbage as someone posting that when Bush was in office every dumb comment they could find about him being an ex-drunk.

It's not news!
This isn't just some random person. This person works for someone who holds office. it tells you the kind of character of a person who'd hire and keep that kind of person, and the character of a constituency who'd elected someone who'd hire and keep that kind of person.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:25 PM
 
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...because it wasn't racism...

Perhaps you can explain it, but I don't see how two eyeballs is racist at all.'

We have a generation of Liberals that has been trained to look for any trace of racism and destroy the supposed racist... it is a sad time for those proud of their White race, and European ancestry.
Don't worry. Europeans aren't going to go extinct because you can't circulate bad jokes without being called on unprofessional behaviour.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:27 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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Yeah, not news if one of yours does it but OH MY GOD THE SKY IS FALLING if a dem does something, right? Must be nice to live in the land of delusion where everything floats right over your head. "What? Where? Who?"
And vice versa and you also must live in the land of delusion since you only think the right side has this problem, when in fact, the left also has the problem.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:28 PM
 
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This isn't just some random person. This person works for someone who holds office. it tells you the kind of character of a person who'd hire and keep that kind of person, and the character of a constituency who'd elected someone who'd hire and keep that kind of person.
Obama wasn't just some random person when he made his racist "typical white person" comment or his snarky "special olympics" slam on special needs children.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:35 PM
 
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Oh come on a jokes a joke right.
..when it comes from a comedian.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Missouri
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..when it comes from a comedian.
Only a comedian you approve of that is.
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Old 06-16-2009, 06:50 PM
 
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Only a comedian you approve of that is.
No, I expect a comedian to tell jokes because that's what they do. On second thought, you're right. Sending racist pictures to the WRONG people is what GOP staffers in the south do.
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Old 06-16-2009, 07:07 PM
 
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This isn't just some random person. This person works for someone who holds office. it tells you the kind of character of a person who'd hire and keep that kind of person, and the character of a constituency who'd elected someone who'd hire and keep that kind of person.
This is the point that those who agree with the premise of the picture are forgetting.

If the GOP is the party of personal responsibility, then shouldn't it apply to this woman? She has to take her lumps. If the rules of her office say that email can't be used for personal use and has penalities for doing so, she should accept those penalities and move on.
Her excuse of "I sent the list to the wrong people" makes her look even more inept than she already is!

Doing nothing shows that deep down inside this behavior is condoned - which I would think the GOP wouldn't want to do.

Or do they?
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Old 06-16-2009, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Irvine, CA to Keller, TX
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Now, in a second instance of Republicans playing the race card against the Obamas, Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black.

Think Progress » State GOP staffer sends racist image of Obama.
I agree it was in poor taste. She should have just sent out a picture of an empty suit. That would be far more appropriate.
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Old 06-16-2009, 07:43 PM
 
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Now, in a second instance of Republicans playing the race card against the Obamas, Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black.

Think Progress » State GOP staffer sends racist image of Obama.
Blatant RACISM is alive and well in the GOP...

Just more in the continuing saga of evidence that the GOP has lost touch with mainstream America - and have absolutely no chance of being a majority national party for at least a generation - maybe longer.
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