Obama accepts Reid apology for racial remark

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Of course. It's not a racist comment when a liberal makes such a comment. Instead, he is just showing the depth of his understanding of the realities in America.

Rush Limbaugh disagrees with Obama and he's called a racist.

Imagine if Rush said "The US would be “ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama – a 'light-skinned' African American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.’ ”

[nowhereman 1]

Yes, some groups can be expected to vote a certain way depending on their race.

Obama wasn't elected due to being black? Ok, then what made him that much more qualifed than the other candidates to be president? He wasn't part of good ole network of Democrats that backpedaled on their Iraq War votes so they voted for a fresh face vs. some old guy. That was level of voting in 2008 so now we are stuck with a training wheels president who never voted on a war no one cares about anymore.

The bulk of elected officials in America historically were white so its no mystery they made up all the presidents prior to Obama. No president was elected based on being white as their were no white no major non-white to elect as an alternative. It's unlikely the bulk of voters will base their votes in 2012 on race as the Obama novelty factor will have worn wafer thin by then and he'll have to defend his record. He's screwed.

Obama got elected because he's charismatic, his campaign was exceptionally well run & people were sick of Bush. Sure if he looked & talked like Kanye West he wouldn't be electable but then again if McCain looked & talked like a redneck he wouldn't have been electable either. Reid's comment did have some truth to it but nonetheless the way he said it was clumsy & well just kinda dumb.

[nowhereman 1]

Democrats that make stupid statements should be praised by Republicans and kept in place as long as possible in the hopes they will continue to run their mouths. Thank you Harry Reid. Give that man a microphone...please!

Republicans & Democrats make stupid statements on a consistent basis, so like a football game with penalties on both sides they tend to cancel each other out.

[Danno 1,228]

Looks like the Republican party think only whitey exists. Asians elect people too, so do people from all over the world who became citizens.

"whitey" does anyone even use that term any more?

Kinda reminds me of this Black Comedian I heard do a bit about how White people don't really have any good slur-words for their race and how unfair it is.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I think Barrack should be serving us all coffee

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Kinda reminds me of this Black Comedian I heard do a bit about how White people don't really have any good slur-words for their race and how unfair it is.

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Edited January 12, 2010 by Sofiyya

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Of course if a Republican had used this out dated term, THEN, WE WOULD HAVE A STORY!

Where does this ####### come from?

Its a total fallacy.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Rod Blagojevich realizes he's not really Blacker than Obama.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Bill Clinton not really the first Black US president.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Here is Gene's evaluation of humans. Depending on ones color, he will then evaluate economic status. Then, depending on the clothes they wear he will then apply what he has been taught of said person.

After which, he will then apply an appropriate amount of sympathy. Depending on the teachings of someone else. After the proper amount of sympathy has been applied he will then apply a very good dose of political correctness. At which point he is totally lost and settles for the safe route which is " you racist"

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Racist Democrats vs. Colorblind Republicans

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent."

-Senator Joe Biden

Mahatma Gandhi "ran a gas station down in Saint Louis."

-Senator Hillary Clinton

Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve's #### while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him."

-- Roger Clinton, the President's brother on audiotape

"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."

-- Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?"

-- Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Mike Wallace, CBS News. Source: Newsmax

Black on Black

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."

-- Harry Belafonte

"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." -- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

(On Clarence Thomas) "A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom." -- Spike Lee

"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black."

-- California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage

Comments From The Past

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

-- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.

"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities."

-- Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

"These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means."

-- Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House"

(On New York) "K*ketown." -- Harry Truman in a personal letter

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a *** from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America."

-Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess

"There’s some people who’ve gone over the state and said, ‘Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.’ Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You’re either for it or you’re against it. There’s not any middle ground as I know of." -- Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)

On Jews

"You f*cking Jew b@stard." -- Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." -- Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' -- Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

"Jews — that's J-E-W-S." -- Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002

On Whites

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health."

-- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

(I) "will not let the white boys win in this election."

-- Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager on the 2000 election

"The old white boys got taken fair and square." -- San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." -- Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001

"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning." -- Jocelyn Elders

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York

"There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there." -- USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux

"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." -- Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in "Democrats Do the Dumbest Things

"The white race is the cancer of human history." -- Susan Sontag

"Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong." -- Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP

Source: http://hiphoprepublican.com/2006/08/top-ra...-quotes_30.html

[Sofiyya 1,687]

NYT, April 16, 2004

Dodd Says He Regrets 'Poor Choice Of Words' <---- Democrat catch phrase

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Correction Appended

Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut has apologized for remarks he made praising Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia as a leader for any time, even the Civil War, despite Mr. Byrd's past membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to derail the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Mr. Dodd, in comments Wednesday to The Associated Press and The Hartford Courant, said he had not carefully chosen his remarks, which came in a bipartisan tribute on April 1 to Mr. Byrd, a fellow Democrat, on the casting of his 17,000th vote in the Senate.

When senator after senator -- including Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican majority leader -- praised Mr. Byrd as a national treasure, Mr. Dodd said, ''I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment.''

He added: ''He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation. He would have been right at the great moments of international threat we faced in the 20th century.''

Mr. Dodd, 59, who is serving his fourth term, told The A.P. on Wednesday that ''if in any way, in my referencing the Civil War, I offended anyone, I apologize.''

Mr. Dodd said he was trying to say Mr. Byrd was a good senator and had not thought of his membership in the Klan or his stance on the 1964 Civil Rights bill.

Mr. Dodd's office did not make him available for an interview yesterday but released this statement: ''Senator Dodd has enormous respect for the African-American community and that is why yesterday he apologized both privately and publicly for his poor choice of words. His apology was heartfelt and there is really nothing more to add.''

Mr. Byrd, 86, has said he joined the Klan in 1942, when he was 24 years old, and resigned the next year. He has called his association with the group a mistake and has said his opposition to the civil rights bill was one of his biggest regrets in his 45-year Senate career.

A spokesman for Mr. Byrd said the senator had no comment on the matter.

''They are friends and will remain friends for many years to come,'' said Tom Gavin, the spokesman.

Conservative commentators have seized on Mr. Dodd's remarks in the last two weeks, putting pressure on the senator to offer a response. In news releases, on radio and television programs and on the Internet, some commentators compared Mr. Dodd's Civil War comments to those of Senator Trent Lott, who lost his position as majority leader in 2002 after making what many considered racially insensitive remarks at a party celebrating former Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday.

Mr. Lott, a Republican from Mississippi, said the country would have been better off if Mr. Thurmond, a South Carolina Republican who campaigned on a segregationist platform, had won the presidency in 1948. Mr. Thurmond died last June 26.

Project 21, a coalition of African-American conservatives, called on Mr. Dodd to resign. The group had also urged Mr. Lott to step down from his leadership post.

David W. Almasi, the director of Project 21, said Mr. Dodd's apology was a step in the right direction ''but not something he would have accepted from Trent Lott.''

But there were no signs that Democratic or Republican leaders see the same parallel, as they have been quiet on the matter in the two weeks since Mr. Dodd made the statements. Civil rights leaders in Washington and Connecticut also have not criticized Mr. Dodd, who has called several of them to explain his remarks.

Hilary Shelton, the N.A.A.C.P.'s chief lobbyist in Washington, said Mr. Dodd had called him to apologize ''but I didn't think it was necessary quite frankly.'' He said Mr. Byrd and Mr. Dodd have consistently supported the group's goals, while Mr. Lott and Mr. Thurmond had not.

Correction: April 20, 2004, Tuesday An article on Friday about a controversy over remarks by Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut praising Senator Robert Byrd, a onetime opponent of civil rights, referred incorrectly to the 1948 presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond, who was at the center of a similar controversy in 2002 that cost Senator Trent Lott his post as majority leader. Mr. Thurmond was the candidate of the States' Rights Party in 1948; he was not yet a Republican.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Sofiyya

[Danno 1,228]

Where does this ####### come from?

Its a total fallacy.

That you would even question this speaks volumes.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

That you would even question this speaks volumes.

Danny, he went shoppin for solar panels.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That you would even question this speaks volumes.

That you would make the statement in the first place speaks volumes about how much you like cliches.