Quotes of the day
posted at 10:40 pm on October 8, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“If McCain’s attacks don’t cross the line, they’re certainly teetering on it.”
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“If Barack were not African-American, they’d be doing this.”
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Black Congressmen Declare Racism In Palin’s Rhetoric
Then it must be so.
carbon_footprint on October 8, 2008 at 10:41 PM
If Barack Obama has not made me puke over his hypocrisy,
it is only a matter of time.
Mr. Joe on October 8, 2008 at 10:41 PM
So let it be written, so let it be done! B.O.
Mr. Joe on October 8, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Any American thats a hyphenated American is not an American first and formost.
AMartinez on October 8, 2008 at 10:43 PM
The “that one” crap is just the latest symptom of the hyper-sensitive race-baiting losers on BO’s side.
jgapinoy on October 8, 2008 at 10:43 PM
That is so gross. Keep it up…you can’t win for losing.
Mommypundit on October 8, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I’m a Dem and a socialist. But none of that matters when I get a chance to keep a good black man down.
McCain/Palin ‘08
JiangxiDad on October 8, 2008 at 10:43 PM
I’ve met Barack Obama and you sir, are no Jenna Jamison.
mylegsareswollen on October 8, 2008 at 10:43 PM
Here’s racism: the only reason the young pup with no accomplishments is leading in the polls is because he’s Black.
If he was White, he’d still be a community agitator.
jgapinoy on October 8, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Let the Dems keep playing the race card.
Let’s see how well that sits with the bitter gun and bible clingers.
thirteen28 on October 8, 2008 at 10:47 PM
If Barack were not African-American, he wouldn’t have gotten out of the primaries. We’d still all be riding the Stop Hillary Express.
Grafted on October 8, 2008 at 10:47 PM
The nuts don’t fall far from the tree.
andycanuck on October 8, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Hey Meeks and Towns, you two are the racist. You are the ones injecting race into this election as a distraction from the issues. You are doing the very thing you are accusing Republicans of. This is also a commie tactic, so not only are you both racist, you are also Communist. Ha… take that.
Maxx on October 8, 2008 at 10:49 PM
i look forward to 2009, when any opposition to socialism is racism.
lorien1973 on October 8, 2008 at 10:49 PM
It appears that under the present standards any time a black man or woman runs for office they must be allowed to win by default. Some kind of democracy the left wants.
johnsteele on October 8, 2008 at 10:50 PM
Go for it, J-Mac. As well to be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb.
ManlyRash on October 8, 2008 at 10:51 PM
THAT should be the quote of the day.
Saltysam on October 8, 2008 at 10:52 PM
I’ve met Barack Obama and you sir, are no
Jenna JamisonTaylor Rain.*awkward pause*
Oh dear…did I type that out loud?
ManlyRash on October 8, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Don’t make me laugh.
The Congressional Black Caucus is a separatist racial group by definition. Pot calling kettle black?? Pun intended.
fred5678 on October 8, 2008 at 10:53 PM
No. If he were white, by now a guy like him would have realized what a disadvantage he was in trying to rise in that milieu, and he’d probably be an embittered conservative by now.
CK MacLeod on October 8, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Why are African Americans not considered racists when they overwhelmingly vote over 95% for Obama?
Yet, Caucasians, Latinos, or Asians who won’t vote for Obama because of his socialist policies is considered racist?
There are African Americans who won’t vote for Obama, but are considered traitors to their race.
I am tired of these double standards and how Obama is using the race card and the democRATS are marginalizing people.
This is going to bite the democRATS in the ass.
jencab on October 8, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Exactly, Grafted. He looks good (to some people, I dont see it at all) and he smiles. And he reads the prompter. He’s a black John Edwards. And because he’s dad is from Kenya and he’s half black and not as outwardly idiotic as Jesse Jackson, he’s more accepted by people who are desperate to show that they aren’t racist by being racist in picking the half black candidate. And then calling others racist because people fail to worship him as they do.
It is obviously quite disgusting. The only reason he’s at this point in his career is because the young Barack Obama used a lawyerly tactic to remove all of his democrat rivals by challenging the petitions over the wishes of the people of illinois and were prevented from voting for anyone else but him in the illinois senate democrat primary, voted present 130 times, and then gave a speech in front of other democrats, faced a loon republican challenger and won the state senate seat from illinois when he waited just over a year to decide to run for president. Based on more hollow speeches and smiling from within his empty suit of vote for me, I’ll bring change.
wise_man on October 8, 2008 at 10:55 PM
LOL. An embittered conservative, like a truly contented liberal, is a contradiction in terms.
ManlyRash on October 8, 2008 at 10:56 PM
That question will never be asked as long as the current media is in place. They will either squelch it outright, or they will fearfully not ask this else be branded a racist themselves for asking.
wise_man on October 8, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Not trying to sound stupid, what the hell is a latino. As I was raised in Alabama and was White on my DL until 2006.
AMartinez on October 8, 2008 at 10:59 PM
You forgot to mention the key role that Star Trek Voyager’s Seven of Nine played in that race. History is curious.
This will be a Trivia Pursuit, 2012 edition, question.
fred5678 on October 8, 2008 at 10:59 PM
So what? Let em play their race card all they want. They’ve proven it meaningless.
Cried wolf too many times. Empty word.
sloopy on October 8, 2008 at 11:00 PM
The children’s story “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” comes to mind.
Oh, hold on…the word “boy” is in the title.
I’ll just shut up now.
Dorvillian on October 8, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Let’s pull out the 95% white vote for Mccain then.
That will work great for us especially in a 85% white country like this.
We need to stop Obama NOW!
We have to rightfully pin this economic disaster on the dems and FAST!
We can’t have people look at their empty 401k’s and vote Obama..if he wins we’re not talking about a bad president…we’re talking end of the world bad.
Seriously.
SaintOlaf on October 8, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Freaky. Thinking the same thing, at the same time.
Dorvillian on October 8, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Wanna hear racism? Tune in to a black radio talk show, or a BET program.
Star20 on October 8, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Yup, fred5678. Jeri Ryan.
And another trivial pursuit ‘what if’ as well:
When Hillary Clinton decided to run for US senate after leaving the whitehouse, she decided on New York. Not because she lived there, but she wanted to get elected. She didn’t run from Arkansas, where she had lived, or Illnois, where she was born. If she did run for senator from Illinois, Barack Obama would have stayed in the Illinois senate today.
wise_man on October 8, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Anguish
Main Entry: 1an·guish
Pronunciation: \ˈaŋ-gwish\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English angwisshe, from Anglo-French anguisse, angoisse, from Latin angustiae, plural, straits, distress, from angustus narrow; akin to Old English enge narrow — more at anger
Date: 13th century
: extreme pain, distress, or anxiety
synonyms see sorrow
dmann on October 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Or one of several black churches that preach black liberation theology.
wise_man on October 8, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Great minds…
sloopy on October 8, 2008 at 11:04 PM
So go for it! Nothing to lose. BLACK FLAG–NO QUARTER TO THE ENEMY! Just tell the truth.
People know the truth. By confronting this race-card playing, we can shake people loose of the White Liberal Guilt.
Tommygun on October 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Fixed
ronsfi on October 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Not embittered about being a conservative necessarily (though I’m not sure about your claims) – embittered about all the time he wasted as a leftwing community organizer, now watching Barack Obama and cohorts on the rise.
CK MacLeod on October 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM
So go for it! Nothing to lose. BLACK FLAG–NO QUARTER TO THE ENEMY! Just tell the truth.
People know the truth. By confronting this race-card playing, we can shake people loose of the White Liberal Guilt.
Tommygun on October 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM
LoL I’d say most Americans can’t handle the truth.
AMartinez on October 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Political Correctness is a deseise. I’m just not sure if only stupid people catch it, or if it makes people stupid.
Tommy_G on October 8, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Post Turtle
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old farmer, whose hand was caught in a gate while working on his farm, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old cowboy.
Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to be our president.
The old rancher said “Well, ya know, Obama is a ‘Post Turtle’”
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a “Post Turtle” was. The old rancher said,
“When you are driving down a country road and you see a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he explained. Ya know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there and ya just got to wonder what kind of a dumb ass put him up there to begin with!
cryptojunkie on October 8, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Just because the MSM is giving Obama a pass on the facts is no good reason McCain/Palin should. I believe the truth/facts need to be vetted on Obamas past and yes they are relevant. The funny thing is these newly outspoken critics of the republican rhetoric seem to be the same core people who blocked the republican efforts to reign in Fannie/Freddie six years ago!
sonnyspats1 on October 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM
OT: I hit the wrong channel on the remote and found myself staring at Rachel Maddow. Yikes.
Has anyone ever noticed that she looks a lot like adult Fred Savage (Wonder Years, later Working)? Seriously, you never see the two of them at the same place at the same time.
BuckeyeSam on October 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Yeah, pea-brain. He is not one of us. He’s a stinking, leftist, who hangs out with TERRORISTS who would like nothing better than to see this country fail economically, since they couldn’t destroy us with their homemade bombs. Which doesn’t put him too far off our Islamic terrorist enemies.
bloggless on October 8, 2008 at 11:11 PM
I’ve always like Harold Ford Jr. If the rest of the Democrat Party were more like the DLC, the country would be a lot better off.
BadgerHawk on October 8, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Yes, yes. But she is a massive improvement over that Olberman fellow. He looks as much a woman, as Maddow looks a man. It’s a regular Pat fest over there.
bloggless on October 8, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Is this guy one of the Congressman that blocked the enhanced regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
d1carter on October 8, 2008 at 11:14 PM
They could change their station ID fro MSNBC to PATDNC
wise_man on October 8, 2008 at 11:16 PM
If everyone would take the time to look up the meaning of racist and bigot, there would be a lot less use of the one for the other.
Here, I’ll help:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bigot
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/racist
belad on October 8, 2008 at 11:18 PM
That would be the same Gregory Meeks who proclaimed in that 2004 hearing on Fannie Mae’s book-cooking that he was “pissed off” about the “lynching” of Frank Raines. Padon me if I decline to take character lessons from that scumbag.
rockmom on October 8, 2008 at 11:27 PM
The reality is that race is the only reason Obama is on the Democratic ticket. If he was a white guy with the same level of experience and qualifications he wouldn’t have even made it to the Democratic primaries.
Dreadnought223 on October 8, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Sick and tired of the MSM is a monster crap. Don’t like the MSM? Then don’t support them. Even if you don’t WATCH them you are sending them your bucks with every cable subscription payment.
What? That means you have to do without and you can’t take it? Well at least admit you are part of the problem then.
Limerick on October 8, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Setting Yourself Up For Failure 101
SouthernGent on October 8, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Obama- lying his way into History.
World-historical Weasel.
He’s not black, he’s transparent.
profitsbeard on October 8, 2008 at 11:49 PM
Does watching fancast count?
jerrytbg on October 8, 2008 at 11:57 PM
The country is flat broke thanks to hustlers like him, and as if that’s not enough, we’re flat broke racists. I don’t think this is going to fly with the American people.
Buy Danish on October 9, 2008 at 12:00 AM
We have to go on judging people by the content of their character, and hoping the liberals will eventually learn to do the same. Sadly, it’s taking an awfully long time for them to get unstuck from the past, but they have made it to the 60’s.
NellE on October 9, 2008 at 12:02 AM
It’s official now. You are a racist if you oppose Obama. At least according to the dems
ConservativePartyNow on October 9, 2008 at 12:02 AM
I don’t know why Obama doesn’t think like most Americans. Could it be race? Doubtful. But he doesn’t see America as I do nor as most other Americans. I’ll let others try to figure out why. For me it is enough to know it is true.
petunia on October 9, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Let’s face it:
Obama is the affirmative action candidate (D-ACORN)
Captain America on October 9, 2008 at 12:05 AM
The race card apparently isn’t working any more, so they are going to up the ante. Any speech criticizing The One is now an incitement to violence.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275167.php
I’m actually stunned. I didn’t think they could get any more frightening, but for some reason, this just freaks me out.
funky chicken on October 9, 2008 at 12:07 AM
2008 will also be the year race-baiting died…..I’m done with that label. Throw it around all you want you stinkin’ criminal politicians.
ex-Democrat on October 9, 2008 at 12:08 AM
Everybody SING!
I’m a racist
He’s a racist
She’s a racist
We’re all racists
Wouldn’t you like to be a racist, too?
I’m a racist
He’s a racist
She’s a racist
If you oppose Obama, you’re a racist, too!
Be a racist, vote against leftists.
Be a racist, vote against leftists….
The Monster on October 9, 2008 at 12:09 AM
If the Dems are so confident right now as the MSM would have us believe, why are they are pulling these desperate racial attacks on conservatives?
It was depressing the last couple of weeks, but it seems the momentum has shifted towards McCain and Palin, just as there was last minute momentum towards Clinton in the primaries.
Gabe on October 9, 2008 at 12:16 AM
I like the fact that they’re going racial.
Vote for me you racist! Ain’t gonna cut it for the general election. That crap works on Dhimmicrats but not on the rest of us.
Mojave Mark on October 9, 2008 at 12:19 AM
The next time some liberal slimbag complains about Oslime-a’s guilt by association, they need to be asked if that charitable organization was the ONLY one available to him.
Oslime-a certainly could have refused the chairmanship and sought to serve with decent people instead of an unrepentant terrorist.
Why has no one used this retort?
Am I missing something?
csdeven on October 9, 2008 at 12:20 AM
This racism charge is almost as overused as Hannity’s, “Your a Great American”.
MB4 on October 9, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Nite all.
Remember the response to surrender:
NUTZ!
Limerick on October 9, 2008 at 12:35 AM
OK, am I overreacting to this? It just seems to be such a sinister ploy to silence any criticism of the horrible pattern of Obama’s adult choices in the friends and associates he chooses:
funky chicken on October 9, 2008 at 12:36 AM
oh plesae, just stop ‘fugging’ around and after the ash hole, darm this political sheets piss me off. sheet or get off the pot, damn.
foxone on October 9, 2008 at 12:46 AM
All McCain has to do is meet the charge of racism straight-forwardly and be on the offense about it. And he needs to do it without the anger that the baseless charge automatically brings. (That’s why it’s so effective.)
Something like: “Is that going to be your response every time you or one of your policies is criticized? Because you know and I know that crying ‘racism’ about everything is merely a handy tactic to deflect criticism.” Then Mc Cain can flash that little evil white man grin of his. ;-)
Seriously, he needs to man-up about this. The Race Card is going to be played anyway, so why not use it to make Obama look too weak to be president?
baldilocks on October 9, 2008 at 12:51 AM
Bah…the only reason their playing the race card so hard now is because their afraid that McCain has found Barry’s weak spot. I say keep twisting his arm with Ayres until he squeals like the bitch that he is. Either way it provides the Dems with a ready made excuse if they lose “the only reason we lost is because America is an inherently racist nation”.
Dreadnought223 on October 9, 2008 at 1:11 AM
The dirty little secret is he is not black, but arab. Why do so few know of this fact?
Patriot33 on October 9, 2008 at 1:22 AM
He’s going to be called a racist no matter whether he criticizes Obama on these valid character issues or not. So he might as well forcefully criticize him.
The fact that people are so quick to use the Race Card proves they have no legitimate reply to the criticism. The more they squeal, the closer to home it gets.
Everybody knew the racism card was going to be played the minute he won the nomination. They knew it, and we knew it. I don’t think anyone on either side is surprised.
Tom Blogical on October 9, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Because it’s false.
baldilocks on October 9, 2008 at 1:38 AM
It occurs to me that all this accusing could make racism popular again. If we all get accused when not guilty why should we even try to be fair when there is true unfairness? I don’t think this strategy gets them what they think it does.
petunia on October 9, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Speaking of racism…. or outright lying.
Why hasn’t anyone mentioned The One’s debate points that The One called for regulation on Fanny and Freddy? To which we know he didn’t.
Kini on October 9, 2008 at 2:18 AM
By the way, would someone write a piece entitled “Obama and his leftist media pals wage a negative campaign against McCain/Palin?” Or some such. The idea that McCain is going negative on Obama is laughable, considering the fact that we haven’t been able to convince him to do so (yet). But the Obama surrogates have tried to absolutely destroy Palin with the most ridiculous articles I’ve ever seen in my life.
Connie on October 9, 2008 at 2:25 AM
Hey, it’s not like he called him “that Hussein one.”
Ronnie on October 9, 2008 at 2:25 AM
C’mon people. These angry politicians have a right to be angry. Have you ever watched a hockey game? Did you notice that the puck is BLACK? It’s a game with a bunch of white people smacking a black think around and forcing it into a cage.
HOCKEY IS RACIST!
cannonball on October 9, 2008 at 3:44 AM
A fair piece by Martin, although it’s too bad he can’t bring himself to admit where the strongest boost of the racist meme originates, i.e. the Obama campaign itself.
It’s nothing new, really — the race card has been driving our educational, social and economic policies for years, twisting and mutating civil rights to achieve the ultimate goal of income redistribution. The terms “poor” and “low-income” have become euphemisms for minorities. The left uses them to push their agenda, making sure they stay poor, angry, militant and blameful of everyone but themselves. And the right capitulates, shrinking from the threat of being labeled “racist.”
And now it’s brought us to the brink of economic disaster, since the absurd idea that “poor people” are entitled to buy houses they can’t afford metastasized to wholesale greed, irresponsibility and outright theft from DC to Wall Street to Main Street. But no one, except perhaps Palin, briefly, dares to mention the idea of “personal responsibility” among buyers.
A whole lot of people need to “man up,” and find some political courage, Baldilocks, before there’s any improvement — until then, it looks like we’ll be passing through some very painful times, with a very dim light at the end of the tunnel.
Nichevo on October 9, 2008 at 4:30 AM
Two things.
One, Dems in my area are on this “one heart beat away” kick and that MCcain wont live through a term due to his age and him coming over frail etc.
Two, I am thinking as time goes on Obama is losing ground, but is he losing it fast enough? Things like voter fraud are scary to normal caring folks, but the blood suckers of the country don’t give a damn and are just sorry they got caught, and while waving a white flag on it with one hand, are cracking the seal on another box of fake ballots with the other.
I am not seeing enough on the networks. The liberal media is locking down on conservative coverage just becasue they are in the position to do it. The undecided and independents are the key here and I’m sure its obvious we need to be doing more to gain votes there. As I say, time is of the essence.
johnnyU on October 9, 2008 at 4:43 AM
They vote 90% Democrat anyway. So at most you can say 5% of blacks are voting solely based on race.
crr6 on October 9, 2008 at 6:00 AM
Once again, baldilocks, you have gotten to the crux of the matter succinctly. It is offensive to me to see the questioning of a candidate’s past associations conflated with racism, but it is a given in this election, so why not make the most of it? Highlight the deflection, and then hammer home the obvious dishonesty and weakness inherent in this tactic and question what about his past makes the Dem’s so defensive.
hillbillyjim on October 9, 2008 at 6:45 AM
I believe that Senator McCain harbors no ill feelings towards Senator Obama related to his race. I do believe that Senator McCain believes (as I do) that Senator Obama is unfit to serve in the Senate, let alone be President of the United States. It appears to me that his behavior towards Senator Obama is clear distaste and a strong personal dislike.
CC
CapedConservative on October 9, 2008 at 6:55 AM
I will not be voting for Obama for the same reason I did not vote for Kerry.
Pansy ass little socialist.
This kind of whining from the One is not exactly manly now is it? It would seem to me that if he was so far ahead it would not be necessary for Obama to be so defensive and whiny.
Oh yeah, he will unify the country all right.
Terrye on October 9, 2008 at 7:11 AM
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. I’m a racist if I question Barack Hussein Obamas association with ACORN, I’m a racist if I question Barack Hussein Obamas motives, I’m a racist if I question Barack Hussein Obamas lack of experience, I’m a racist if I question Barack Hussein Obamas lack of support of America’s Heroes, I’m a racist if I don’t vote for the most unqualified person to run for POTUS in my lifetime, and I’m a racist if I mention his full name.
Hot damn! I Want To Be A Racist! Do I have to sign up to officially be a rascist?
DannoJyd on October 9, 2008 at 7:22 AM
We knew that one would play the race card. What else do you do when you’re not like all of the other Presidents, save Carter.
Basilsbest on October 9, 2008 at 8:12 AM
Even when it seems we’re going to hell in a hand basket,
I can always count on Hot Air commentators to make me laugh. Thanks for the biting sarc and the endless humor.
Best around.
right wing chicky on October 9, 2008 at 8:12 AM
I’ve got to think the DLC and the Blue Dogs realize their own situation is going to be pretty complicated the next few years. Quite a tightrope they’re on.
Al From will no doubt rush to embrace Obama as a New Democrat, since he does that to anyone popular anyway, no matter their brand of Democrat politics.
DrSteve on October 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM
If Obama were white he would’ve gotten fewer votes than Biden in the primaries. In fact, you could’ve crammed all his supporters into Katie’s restaurant.
Basilsbest on October 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM
That would make me a lifelong bigot, as I have always had an absolute in tolerance for anything that is not right and proper.
OldEnglish on October 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM
intolerance – not the vulgar Latin version. ::sigh:;
OldEnglish on October 9, 2008 at 8:25 AM
These people should read the story of the little boy who cried wolf.
The more the left cries “Racism!” the more that word loses its impact. Eventually, people will just ignore the term when there is a real issue of racism.
Troy Rasmussen on October 9, 2008 at 8:59 AM
Speaking of racism, at Arizona State admissions preferences favor blacks over whites is 1,115 to 1 at ASU and 250 to 1 at UofA.
Buy Danish on October 9, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Hopefully the burst into Hawaii’s records will shed some light on Mr. B.O.’s past.
How can anyone possibly vote for someone we know nothing about and who is so secretive? Oh and give him the keys to our nukes? uh… I don’t think so.
Mr. B.O., the more I see of him, looks to me to be a suit with a mouth with a tape player in the pocket saying the same shallow crap every time he talks.
johnnyU on October 9, 2008 at 9:52 AM
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