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Sinking, Obama plays the race card
Flopping Aces ^ | 01-20-14 | DrJohn
Posted on 1/20/2014 1:52:24 PM by Starman417
obama race card
You had to know this was coming. Obama has been flailing around for all of 2013 in what has been called the worst year of his Presidency. As he sinks in the polls, Obama whips out the race card and he is no stranger to this.
Ralph Nader accused Obama of that in 2008.
"He wants to appeal to white guilt. You appeal to white guilt not by coming on as black is beautiful, black is powerful. Basically, he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up."
Obama did it in 2008:
?Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,? Mr. McCain?s campaign
?Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,? Mr. McCain?s campaign manager, Rick Davis, charged in a statement with which Mr. McCain later said he agreed. ?It?s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.?
In leveling the charge, Mr. Davis was referring to comments that Mr. Obama made Wednesday in Missouri when he reacted to the increasingly negative tone and negative advertisements from the McCain campaign, including one that likens Mr. Obama?s celebrity status to that of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
?So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they?re going to try to do is make you scared of me,? Mr. Obama said in Springfield, Mo., echoing earlier remarks. ?You know, he?s not patriotic enough. He?s got a funny name. You know, he doesn?t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He?s risky. That?s essentially the argument they?re making.?
Even Bill Clinton felt it.
He did it at a fund raiser in 2012:
Everything we fought for during the last election is at stake in this election. The very core of what this country stands for is on the line ? the basic promise that no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, this is a place where you could make it if you try. The notion that we?re all in this together, that we look out for one another ? that?s at stake in this election. Don?t take my word for it. Watch some of these debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.
The phrase ?no matter what you look like? is a clear reference to race. Obama is indicating that if he loses the election, opportunity for those who are a certain color or ethnicity will be denied. He completes the thought by pointing to the debates in New Hampshire, associating the Republican candidates with the possibility of racial or ethnic discrimination.
Also from 2012:
CNSNews.com reports that Obama said,
"While speaking in Cincinnati on Monday [September 17], Obama said, "The only thing they [Republicans] can do is keep trying to bluff their way through until November, and hope that you won't call them on it. But understand Cincinnati, look, I want to work with them to reduce the deficit. I've said if the Republicans need more love, if they want me to walk the dog or wash their car, I'm happy to do it."
This language is reminiscent of a reported conversation between Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy back before the 2008 election as recalled in the September 10, 2012 edition of The New Yorker magazine.
"Bill Clinton's attacks hurt Hillary as much as they did Obama. The [New York] Times denounced Clinton's fairy-tale comment as a "bizarre and rambling attack" and as exemplifying a campaign that was "perilously close to injecting racial tension" into the conversation. At a press conference in South Carolina the morning after Obama won the state, Bill Clinton seemed to dismiss the victory as a fluke of local demography. "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88," he said. "Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here." Tim Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags." Clinton's role in the campaign rattled Obama. He told ABC News in an interview that Clinton "has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling."
2013:
Watching President Barack Obama play the race card late last week in the matter of the Zimmerman trial reminded me that the guy from Chicago has truly amazing powers.
He stood in the White House briefing room, and through the magic of his own silky rhetoric and skill with metaphor, he was able animate the body of a slain African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin.
Obama pronounced the killing as racially motivated, though he didn't use the words. He didn't have to, such is his prowess. It was so smooth that few noticed. He put the killing in a racial context, and that was enough.
"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me, 35 years ago," Obama told reporters at the White House on Friday, addressing last weekend's acquittal of Martin's shooter, George Zimmerman.
Could Obama have been Trayvon Martin 35 years ago?
Perhaps. If so, then any of us could have been Trayvon Martin. And I could have been Trayvon Martin. Racial motives weren't established at trial. And reportedly, the FBI still hasn't found racial motives in George Zimmerman, who is Hispanic.
Race was established by the president of the United States, and by other political and media actors. It's a cynical business, about money and power, about keeping divisions between American tribes. There are the black tribes that see Martin in the context of the old civil rights struggles and leverage, and white tribes that see Martin being used to pummel them with racial guilt.
And now that the USS Obama is taking on water the race card comes out once again as the life preserver:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
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ray how is business
I think you got to admit your getting more work
economy starting to steam ahead.
glad mitt is home drinking a mint jubilee and not running the country
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Delta Air Lines? $2.7 billion profit for 2013 was not just a record for the company, but also a record for all airlines, according to a key industry publication.
The Atlanta-based carrier?s results announced Tuesday were the highest net profit in airline history, according to Airline Weekly, which confirmed the fact in its financial archives. The publication?s records cover the world?s publicly-traded airlines and other carriers that publish audited financial statements.
According to Airline Weekly, the previous record was German carrier Lufthansa?s 2007 profit of $2.6 billion, or $1.8 billion excluding special items. By either measure, Delta?s annual profit of $2.7 billion excluding special items beat the previous industry record ? reinforcing Delta?s recovery since it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection nearly seven years ago.
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Glenn Beck admitted Tuesday that he has some major regrets about his time at Fox News.
?I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language,? Beck said during an interview with Megyn Kelly. ?I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it's not who we are.?
He continued, ?I didn?t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of more in it together and now I look back and realize, if we could've talked about the uniting principles instead of just the problems, I think I would look back more fondly.?
Beck left the network after two and a half years in June 2011 to start his own media company. His tenure was full of controversial moments, from accusing President Obama of being a "racist" to gutting a fish that he compared to the mainstream media on air.
He has made similar remarks about his time at Fox News before, telling the AP last year that he wishes he had used less divisive language.
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the sooner Hannity , Savage, and fat ass Russ L admit to the same as Beck
the world and America may have a chance
?I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language,? Beck said during an interview with Megyn Kelly. ?I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it's not who we are.?
He continued, ?I didn?t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of more in it together and now I look back and realize, if we could've talked about the uniting principles instead of just the problems, I think I would look back more fondly.?
Beck left the network after two and a half years in June 2011 to start his own media company. His tenure was full of controversial moments, from accusing President Obama of being a "racist" to gutting a fish that he compared to the mainstream media on air.
He has made similar remarks about his time at Fox News before, telling the AP last year that he wishes he had used less divisive language.
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the sooner Hannity , Savage, and fat ass Russ L admit to the same as Beck
the world and America may have a chance
Wife Should 'Voluntarily Submit' To Their Husbands
A Republican congressman published a memoir last month in which he expresses his belief that "the wife is to submit to the husband," The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), a Vietnam veteran, explains in his book that families, like the military command, need a leadership structure in which every person has a role. He says the wife's role, according to the Bible, is to be obedient to her husband.
"The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice," he writes. "The husband?s part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else."
Pearce goes on to write that the wife should have a say in important family decisions and that her submission does mean the husband should have "authoritarian control" or be considered superior.
"The wife?s submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband," he writes.
While Pearce is not a particularly well-known congressman or a leader in the Republican Party, the memoir is another bump in the road for the GOP as it tries to rebrand its image among women.
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hedge agrees with this but wishs it were true for him
what is wrong with these ppl
Ronnie suffers from white guilt
white power !
A Republican congressman published a memoir last month in which he expresses his belief that "the wife is to submit to the husband," The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), a Vietnam veteran, explains in his book that families, like the military command, need a leadership structure in which every person has a role. He says the wife's role, according to the Bible, is to be obedient to her husband.
"The wife is to voluntarily submit, just as the husband is to lovingly lead and sacrifice," he writes. "The husband?s part is to show up during the times of deep stress, take the leadership role and be accountable for the outcome, blaming no one else."
Pearce goes on to write that the wife should have a say in important family decisions and that her submission does mean the husband should have "authoritarian control" or be considered superior.
"The wife?s submission is not a matter of superior versus inferior; rather, it is self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord and of love for her husband," he writes.
While Pearce is not a particularly well-known congressman or a leader in the Republican Party, the memoir is another bump in the road for the GOP as it tries to rebrand its image among women.
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hedge agrees with this but wishs it were true for him
what is wrong with these ppl
Ronnie suffers from white guilt
white power !
Ronnie
in all honesty you have to admit that the GOP hates woman in power.
The big problem is woman in America know it and are going to make the tea party pay big time.
this alone is going to allow Hillary to win the next election hands down.
yeh where did that get her
President Cheney used to talk to her and make her cry
she was shuffled out of conversations
and made to feel like shoe shit
yeh tell me again how the GOP respected her so much
http://www.infowars.com/five-years-of-obama-death-drones-has-snuffed-out-2400-lives/
Five Years Of Obama Death Drones Has Snuffed Out 2400 Lives
Eight times more strikes, six times more deaths than under Bush
Five Years Of Obama Death Drones Has Snuffed Out 2400 Lives
Eight times more strikes, six times more deaths than under Bush
