Post by: wmenorr67 on September 17, 2008, 03:28:32 AM
Once again it is the Democrats bringing up the race card.
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IOWA CITY Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius publicly considered the possibility that Sen. Barack Obamas race might be a factor in this years presidential election during an appearance here Tuesday.
Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American? Sebelius asked in response to a question about why the election is so close. That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesnt show up in the polls. And that may be a factor for some people.
The remark, delivered in the governors low key, folksy, out-from-behind-the-podium style, raised a couple chuckles but few eyebrows in the downtown Iowa City crowd, but Republicans took offense and responded in short order.
Governor Sebeliuss remarks in Iowa City today are hurtful and divisive at best, said Republican Party of Iowa Executive Director Caleb Hunter in a press release. With less than 50 days to go, Democrats will continue to try and change the focus away from the issues that will decide this election.
The rest of Sebelius remarks in Iowa City stuck closely to the Obama campaigns talking points.
The bottom line question is, do you think George Bush has been a wonderful president? she told an audience whose questions focused as much on the horse race as on specific issues.
One questioner argued that Obama was under-performing in polls because young voters with cell phones were under-reported, and Sebelius agreed. I have a 24 year old and a 27 year old and theyve never had a land-line since they went to college, she said. So they dont show up in polls. But they need to show up at the polls.
Yet at each turn, Sebelius tried to return the dialogue to bread and butter issues, to the delight of Bob Elliott, a former member of Iowa Citys city council and a leading local supporter of Sen. Joe Biden during the Iowa caucuses.
Lipstick can stay home! Talk about the issues! he shouted, in apparent reference to another governor.
During a brief press availability, Sebelius said she didnt know much about her Alaska colleague. Shes one of our new governors, and Ive met her at a couple of events that all the governors were at, she said of GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But weve really had no personal interaction. The real issue is John McCain vs. Barack Obama, and their policies could not be more different.
Sebelius responded to criticism from Kansas Republicans about her campaign visits, and implied that the campaigning went hand in hand with her job.
I can do a much better job as governor of Kansas, and Chet Culver can do a much better job in Iowa, if we have a partner in the White House instead of an adversary.
Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American? Sebelius asked in response to a question about why the election is so close. That may be a factor. All the code language, all that doesnt show up in the polls. And that may be a factor for some people.
The remark, delivered in the governors low key, folksy, out-from-behind-the-podium style, raised a couple chuckles but few eyebrows in the downtown Iowa City crowd, but Republicans took offense and responded in short order.
Governor Sebeliuss remarks in Iowa City today are hurtful and divisive at best, said Republican Party of Iowa Executive Director Caleb Hunter in a press release. With less than 50 days to go, Democrats will continue to try and change the focus away from the issues that will decide this election.
The rest of Sebelius remarks in Iowa City stuck closely to the Obama campaigns talking points.
The bottom line question is, do you think George Bush has been a wonderful president? she told an audience whose questions focused as much on the horse race as on specific issues.
One questioner argued that Obama was under-performing in polls because young voters with cell phones were under-reported, and Sebelius agreed. I have a 24 year old and a 27 year old and theyve never had a land-line since they went to college, she said. So they dont show up in polls. But they need to show up at the polls.
Yet at each turn, Sebelius tried to return the dialogue to bread and butter issues, to the delight of Bob Elliott, a former member of Iowa Citys city council and a leading local supporter of Sen. Joe Biden during the Iowa caucuses.
Lipstick can stay home! Talk about the issues! he shouted, in apparent reference to another governor.
During a brief press availability, Sebelius said she didnt know much about her Alaska colleague. Shes one of our new governors, and Ive met her at a couple of events that all the governors were at, she said of GOP vice presidential candidate and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But weve really had no personal interaction. The real issue is John McCain vs. Barack Obama, and their policies could not be more different.
Sebelius responded to criticism from Kansas Republicans about her campaign visits, and implied that the campaigning went hand in hand with her job.
I can do a much better job as governor of Kansas, and Chet Culver can do a much better job in Iowa, if we have a partner in the White House instead of an adversary.
I am so glad I got out of Kansas.
Post by: HankB on September 17, 2008, 05:22:45 AM
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All the code language, all that doesnt show up in the polls.
"Code language" indeed . . . When a liberal/Democrat starts talking about "code language" it just means they can't find something their opponent actually said to attack, so they make something up, ascribe it to their opponent, and attack that instead.
The latest I've heard is that "community organizer" is "code" for "the N-word."
These people are losing it, they really are . . . panic has set in.
Post by: MicroBalrog on September 17, 2008, 05:36:11 AM
Post by: agricola on September 17, 2008, 05:41:24 AM
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All the code language, all that doesnt show up in the polls.
"Code language" indeed . . . When a liberal/Democrat starts talking about "code language" it just means they can't find something their opponent actually said to attack, so they make something up, ascribe it to their opponent, and attack that instead.
The latest I've heard is that "community organizer" is "code" for "the N-word."
These people are losing it, they really are . . . panic has set in.
Yes, but lets all thank God that noone in this election campaign has actually said something as offensive as, say, a joke that combines part of one candidates' convention speech and an unflattering animal. Then we would be in serious trouble.
Post by: Standing Wolf on September 17, 2008, 05:48:05 AM
Post by: Silver Bullet on September 17, 2008, 05:24:32 PM
Post by: Monkeyleg on September 17, 2008, 06:12:09 PM
She really is a latecomer to the campaign, isn't she? His race is the only thing that's gotten him this far. If a white male with such thin credentials would have run in the primary, he would have finished about five points lower than Dennis Kucinich.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 17, 2008, 06:16:52 PM
Feh.
Can you imagine the outcry if someone had the nerve to call him half white? Or even just white? Nobody bats an eye when someone calls him black. But he's just as much white, so why not call him a white man?
Does anyone really care what color he is? I mean, aside form him being red?
Post by: grampster on September 17, 2008, 06:22:54 PM
Post by: Bruce H on September 17, 2008, 07:00:06 PM
Post by: longeyes on September 17, 2008, 08:40:00 PM
I think Obama is best understood as a white man trying, too hard, to be black.
Post by: Intune on September 18, 2008, 04:42:16 AM
"The Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't even celebrate that sh*t 'cause I'm black G*d dam*t. Obama '08! Obama '08 and all that sh*t."
So Michelle is finally proud to be an American and Josh Howard still isn't.
It doesn't have squat to do with race Sebelius. It is about love for country. Or, conversely, lack thereof.
Post by: longeyes on September 18, 2008, 07:38:38 AM
Over in socialist paradise Sweden, with its suffocating bureaucratic welfare state and lunatic immigration policies, there's been a growing resurgence of a very unlikely group: the Hell's Angels. Yeah.
Unreason breeds unreason.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 18, 2008, 07:45:47 AM
Are they all blond and tall? Can you picture a big, mean, angry biker gang dude named Sven?
Do they meet in the sauna to plan their dastardly biker gang crimes?
Post by: roo_ster on September 18, 2008, 07:50:26 AM
Swedish Hells Angels? Are they all blond and tall?
Can you picture a big, mean, angry biker gang dude named Sven?
Do they meet in the sauna to plan their dastardly biker gang crimes?
Are they all blond and tall? Can you picture a big, mean, angry biker gang dude named Sven?
Do they meet in the sauna to plan their dastardly biker gang crimes?
More importantly, do they have cycle-towed saunas to take with them as they scour the highways & by-ways for trouble?
Post by: longeyes on September 18, 2008, 08:43:04 AM
I am not endorsing the phenomenon. I am telling you what is brewing. This is what happens when you have feckless socialist regimes that look the other way when immigrant gang-rapes become a daily affair.
As I said, Unreason breeds Unreason.
And, yes, it will happen here.
Post by: Manedwolf on September 18, 2008, 09:09:43 AM
Swedish Hells Angels? Are they all blond and tall?
Can you picture a big, mean, angry biker gang dude named Sven?
Do they meet in the sauna to plan their dastardly biker gang crimes?
Are they all blond and tall? Can you picture a big, mean, angry biker gang dude named Sven?
Do they meet in the sauna to plan their dastardly biker gang crimes?
Brock Samson.
Post by: The Annoyed Man on September 18, 2008, 09:21:21 AM
Mock on.
I am not endorsing the phenomenon. I am telling you what is brewing. This is what happens when you have feckless socialist regimes that look the other way when immigrant gang-rapes become a daily affair.
As I said, Unreason breeds Unreason.
And, yes, it will happen here.
It almost sounds as if you've been over here, because you speak the Truth?.I am not endorsing the phenomenon. I am telling you what is brewing. This is what happens when you have feckless socialist regimes that look the other way when immigrant gang-rapes become a daily affair.
As I said, Unreason breeds Unreason.
And, yes, it will happen here.
Last case, while not a rape was only a week or so back. 20+ guys, all of them immigrant of course, attacking 1 single Swedish girl, kicking her in the head. Most newspapers didn't find this very newsworthy for some reason, probably because the both the victim and the criminals had the wrong skin color. Had it been whites attacking a non-white, they would've been hauled in approximetly 45 minutes after it happened. Fortunatly there are still some among us who have Viking blood and Amanita spiced mead running through their veins, so they went after the enrichers. Suffered some injuries for it, but they got the respect of Odin only knows how many people. The guestbook for their hockey club was overrun by praise and well-wishes and promises of support.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 18, 2008, 09:42:56 AM
Mock on.
I am not endorsing the phenomenon. I am telling you what is brewing. This is what happens when you have feckless socialist regimes that look the other way when immigrant gang-rapes become a daily affair.
As I said, Unreason breeds Unreason.
And, yes, it will happen here.
Sorry. I wasn't trying to mock you. I just find the thought of a Swedish Hell's Angel to be highly amusing.
I am not endorsing the phenomenon. I am telling you what is brewing. This is what happens when you have feckless socialist regimes that look the other way when immigrant gang-rapes become a daily affair.
As I said, Unreason breeds Unreason.
And, yes, it will happen here.
Post by: roo_ster on September 18, 2008, 10:09:17 AM
Sorry. I wasn't trying to mock you. I just find the thought of a Swedish Hell's Angle to be highly amusing.
Acute or obtuse?
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 18, 2008, 05:01:14 PM
Sorry. I wasn't trying to mock you. I just find the thought of a Swedish Hell's Angle to be highly amusing.
Acute or obtuse?
Post by: ArfinGreebly on September 18, 2008, 05:35:56 PM
You know, that thing you get when two lines intersect?
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 18, 2008, 05:42:01 PM
Post by: agricola on September 18, 2008, 09:46:50 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30479
McCain and his friend Rush, from the campaign that claims its not completely dishonest.
Post by: S_O_Laban on September 19, 2008, 02:55:02 AM
I'd have expected no less than racism from an anti-Second Amendment bigot.
Exactly
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 19, 2008, 08:36:11 AM
Obama manages to avoid the use of code language, by using the Spanish language with which to pass on this message:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30479
McCain and his friend Rush, from the campaign that claims its not completely dishonest.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30479
McCain and his friend Rush, from the campaign that claims its not completely dishonest.
With quotations taken so completely out of context, it's really quite ironic. The Rush Limbaugh quotation, "shut up or go home," was actually his take on Mexican immigration laws.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 19, 2008, 08:39:36 AM
I was completely wrong. Nothing is too low for our left-wing.
Post by: MrRezister on September 19, 2008, 08:47:06 AM