Harry Reid: Linking Obama to Franklin Raines is racist
posted at 3:15 pm on October 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
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We’ve been down this road before, haven’t we? Except last time, the race-baiting was being done by some random columnist and this time it’s … the Senate majority leader. Note how exquisitely casually it’s done, too. So commonplace is this sort of rhetoric among Democrats that it’s apt to bubble up even in the course of otherwise cheerful conversation.
His claim that there’s no connection between Obama and Raines except their skin color? A lie, of course. Click the image to listen.
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Your fearless Senate Leader, freaking criminal…
stlpatriot on October 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Black people are so well off these days they now hire white guys to do their racial complaining. What a country! How do you get into that line of work?
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Now that everything is racist we can stop worrying that the accusation means anything.
iconoclast on October 9, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Liar
Vashta.Nerada on October 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
That dimwit Tumulty must have a tingle going up her leg.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2008 at 3:19 PM
Look at that pic. Didn’t Dickens write something about this guy?
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM
I guess he is about as right about that as he was about how we had lost the Iraq War.
Star20 on October 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Hey, Harry, you know what time it is??
It’s STFU time.
cntrlfrk on October 9, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Harry: You’re a racist.
Vashta.Nerada on October 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Of course it is. If showing Obama in the same commercial as Brittany Spears and Paris Hilton is racist, surely this is.
Welcome to our new reality.
crazy_legs on October 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Harry Reid is a Racist.
Wade on October 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Barney Fwanks fluff boy. No wonder he always looks like he just sucked a lemon.
Hening on October 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM
It’s going to be a long four years if The One ascends to the Oval Office.
Slublog on October 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM
My plea to the citizens of Nevada:
Please, please, please vote this joker out of office.
Oink on October 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM
You are right. It is meaningless today because os overuse.
Wade on October 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Harry is a Democrat and HE will have unbridled power with Obama in the white house.
VOTE NO
originalpechanga on October 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM
No, he’s just a desperately stupid man.
Oink on October 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM
Harry is becoming more and more typical of the Extremist Left Wing. Not only is he stupid, but he’s also certifiably insane.
Good for you Harry! Keep talking. Maybe one Republican can make hay of it and get re-elected. Otherwise, the blowout in Nov is on. I think we go 61-39 in the Senate. Yippee!!
Communism here we come!
Why would republican’s even show up to vote in the Senate then?
JP1986UM on October 9, 2008 at 3:23 PM
I was going to have a granite altar built in the house but the depression came and I had to put it off.
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Term limits are racist.
Jim Treacher on October 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM
I’ll comment the only two words I ever comment about this man:
Mental Disorder
Brat on October 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM
How many forks does this snake’s tongue have???
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Everytime a liberal throws out the race card, they should be called the racist for injecting this. Instead the interviewer backed up and went on defense…learn to attack when this is made, call them a racist. Reid is the one that pulled that out of thin air, he is the one who knew which was black and which was white, he obviously has the “race score card” and should have been attacked for that.
right2bright on October 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Yeah, don’t you remember? Eight to ten at least. :|
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Senator Senile.
oakpack on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Black? How about they are both corrupt douchebags?
Grafted on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
and linking McCain to Bush is also racist.
YellowDawg on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
dealing the race card from the bottom of the deck.
Expected by liberals. Does anyone really believe this nonsense any longer? A racist comparison would be Obama and Kwame Kilpatrick (oops, guess not). OK, how about Obama and Rev Wright (oops, again).
iconoclast on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Tomorrow Harry Reid decries the Jackson 5 “Grouping black people together is racist!”
Spirit of 1776 on October 9, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Smearing Rush Limbaugh and trying to have him fired is racist.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM
A Tale of Two Faces?
YellowDawg on October 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM
I have to agree with Reid; the closest tie between Raines and Obama is that they both happen to be African-American.
philnewkirk on October 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM
One of these things doesn’t belong here….
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:26 PM
And linking Obama and Reid is toolist, AP. Tsk, tsk.
Pasalubong on October 9, 2008 at 3:27 PM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
You funny guy, make extra special pie for you!
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Well linking Harry Reid to the caucasian race may be racist too. I am sure many Mormans believe linking Harry Reid to the LDS Church is biased.
Mr. Joe on October 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Uh, yeah. If you ignore the money. And the advise.
Obama, “I met Raines in 1995, when we were, uh, neighbors.”
Spirit of 1776 on October 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM
Why would black people let a white guy steal this line, overuse it, and spoil it for everybody else?
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM
adviseadviceSpirit of 1776 on October 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Harry (vindictive “Mr. Rogers”) Reid beat McCain to it. Let’s go ahead and make Raines the Willie Horton of 2008, but add Jim Johnson, Frank, Dodd, Pelosi, and Reid for diversity–call ‘em the “Hole in the Head Gang” or “The Keystone Kops of Capitol Finance.”
BuckeyeSam on October 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
The word that comes to mind when I think of Harry Reid and Barack Obama is jerk and off.
Mr. Joe on October 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Pathetic. In the old days people would grab their pitchforks and string Reid and Pelosi up. They are the most conniving, shameless, despicable liars, and the poster children for why we don’t trust politicians.
marklmail on October 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
JiangxiDad, you are on fire today! Had to clean my monitor twice on this thread alone!
As a former democrat, the only racists I know are democrats.
If the Odumbone did not want to be linked to Raines, he should not have taken advice from Raines. Or money from him as well!
calguyintexas on October 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Linking racists to Harry Reid is offensive to racists
thedudesblog on October 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM
you sure the quote wasn’t
Obama, “I met Raines in 1995, ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNND when we were, uh, neighbors.”
YellowDawg on October 9, 2008 at 3:30 PM
In the new days, Harry Reid eats our souls.
Seriously. Have you seen the cover pic with him and Pelosi? He’s like Grim hovering over her shoulder, “I HAVE COME FOR YOUR SOUL!!”
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:31 PM
Hawwy Weid is wetawded. Pewiod.
Akzed on October 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Harry Reid is friends with Sheets Bird, so therefore he must be racist.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
This is now the OFFICAIL DEMOCRAT TALKING POINT. You oppose Obama, you are a racist
ConservativePartyNow on October 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Well, maybe also that Fannie Mae–the GSE that paid off Raines millions even after evidence of accounting fraud–was a major donor to Obama? How about being an advisor to Obama? How about Obama and the rest of the Dems running interference for the looting of FannieMae/FreddieMacm, which Obama stood aside for.
Yeah, sure. It is only because the two have a similar skin shade….moron
iconoclast on October 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Or, and I’m just throwing out ideas here, the fact that the Washington Post reported:
And:
But, yeah, it’s they’re skin color. That’s the ticket.
amerpundit on October 9, 2008 at 3:32 PM
I can’t print what I want to about this.
WisCon on October 9, 2008 at 3:33 PM
I have to agree. philnewkirk is an idiot troll.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Why doesn’t Obama hire white people?
racist.
YellowDawg on October 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Other than those campaign donations from Fannie Mae, you mean? Ooops, Chris Dodd is white. Ooops again,..the CBB was a major booster of Fannie, so race isn’t involved.:)
a capella on October 9, 2008 at 3:34 PM
When did they say whites were going to no longer be a majority? 2020?
*steeples fingers Burns-style* Eeeeeeeeeeexcellent.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:35 PM
Just think of him as Harry Reid in effigy……
iconoclast on October 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM
These guys are not even worth listening to. At least in the old days the politician had some snap — these guys seem brain dead. My 13 year old daughter after watching Reid speak the other day asked me if is was really that “slow” – pc for stupid. I did not have a good answer..
jimwesty on October 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Why does he underpay his female campaign staff compared to his male campaign staff?
Sexist.
a capella on October 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Hey, yeah, you’re on to something, yellowdawg.
HornetSting on October 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM
I fear scorn, so let me be the first to say “God I hate us Whiteys.” :|
Patrick S on October 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM
McCain really needs to stand up and talk about this as well.
No sane person in American thinks this is rational. That any opposition to Democrats is racism.
McCain has these final weeks thoughts lined up. He just needs to hammer them all home.
lorien1973 on October 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
People will continue to throw out the race card (regardless of whether they are legitimately using it or not) until it stops working.
I think we are mostly in agreement that they’ve used it so often in regards to so many random things that it has no meaning anymore….BUT, people keep reacting. It still immediately puts people on the defensive.
We’ve got to learn to not let the term distract us before they’ll stop using it as a weapon. As it sits right now, they could say, “Look at you. You’re wearing a pink shirt. You’re a racist.” and most of us will start arguing about how we aren’t racist.
All Harry Reid has done today is effectively changed the discussion from whether or not there is a connection between Raines and Obama to whether or not we’re racists.
JadeNYU on October 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I can’t print what I want to about this.
WisCon on October 9, 2008 at 3:33 PM
Sure ya can WisCon! You’re among friends. Just edit your self. Here, let me show you.
Sen Reid, you are a *%#@!) slime-covered #$($% @#).
Try it! You’ll feel better!!
Agent of the Cross on October 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I’m Asian, stop excluding us whitey.
racist.
YellowDawg on October 9, 2008 at 3:38 PM
CBB should be BCC.
a capella on October 9, 2008 at 3:39 PM
I heard this clip on Rush today, so I’ll pass. There’s just so much of the sound of fingernails on a blackboard that the brain can handle in one day.
Nichevo on October 9, 2008 at 3:39 PM
But Hairy, nobody knows what to do!
drjohn on October 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM
As pasty and dry as Harry is, I’d expect the chalkline to be around him. Can you imagine what you will find a hundred years ago in Pelosi’s grave. Plastic is not biodegradable….
HornetSting on October 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Is THIS racist, Senator???
fred5678 on October 9, 2008 at 3:41 PM
Maybe it is time for the Phoenix to rise from the ashes.
bill30097 on October 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM
WARNING: The DNC has found that doing anything, anytime, anywhere, is racist.
Robert Byrd could not be reached for comment. He is still in mourning on the Senate floor giving Teddy’s eulogy.
An unnamed source says the Senator took a handkerchef out of his pocket to blow his nose and found it was leaky b/c he mistakenly lined up the eye slits on his handkerchef to blow his nose. When he unfolded it, he gave a small chuckle and was quoted as saying,”Huh, We sure have alot of confessing to do about our pasts dont we old buddy?”
TheHat on October 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM
This is what I’ve been saying. This is exactly how Obama will rule as a de-facto dictator. You critisize and/or oppose, you are a racist. The MSM will be all too happy to paint the opposition with a broad brush. And what they don’t shut up, the Fairness Doctrine will take care of. Free speech in name only.
I only hope that people WAKE THE BLEEP UP!!!
crazy_legs on October 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Thanks for giving me another reason to loathe you, Harry.
The really funny one they’re pushing this week is that Palin’s use of “hockey moms” and “Joe six-pack” is racist. I saw a clip yesterday of some dimbulb from the Congressional Black Caucus yammering about how most (or maybe she said many) people couldn’t relate to those terms; therefore, Palin was racist for using them.
I hope they keep pushing on this theme. Now that we are seeing professional sports players introducing Governor Palin at rallies, maybe the campaign could get Kevin Weekes to introduce her. He could be holding a six-pack.
Y-not on October 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM
I was eating lunch >_< NO PELOSI THOUGHTS DURING LUNCH
*retches*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM
From The New York Times, No Less(!)
NYT (December 18, 2004)
The directors of Fannie Mae, the big mortgage finance company, will meet Sunday to consider the fate of two senior executives who signed off on financial statements that violated accounting rules, people close to the company said Friday.
The two (Fannie Mae) executives, Franklin D. Raines, the chairman and chief executive, and J. Timothy Howard, the chief financial officer, certified financial statements that the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday ordered to be restated because of significant violations in accounting rules over their treatment of derivatives and prepaid loans.
Fannie Mae said in November that a restatement would force it to recognize $9 billion in losses over the last three and a half years, wiping out more than a third of its profits over that period. Regulators could also force the company to raise its capital levels by billions of dollars, either by selling some of the mortgages it holds in its portfolio or through a securities offering.
Q. Isn’t this the same Franklin Raines who was/is Obama’s financial adviser for the campaign? Didn’t this dude walk away with ab’t $100 million when he left Fannie MAe?
alwyr on October 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM
2050, according to Census Bureau projections–if recent trends in immigration and birthrates among racial groups continue as they have been.
Slowing immigration–legal and illegal–slows that ‘arrival date’, as does any increased birthrate among Whites
Meanwhile, how does a member of a 1/8 minority get this close to the Presidency in a ‘racist’ nation? And how does a wimpy little turd like Reid get to be Senate Majority Leader in any nation?
Janos Hunyadi on October 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Choking on my gum here laughing so hard….gracias, Asian Friend.
Patrick S on October 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Well, we’ve got hate crime statutes now. Just wait until Dear Leader Obamassiah is in office — then any criticism will in fact be a crime, because it is racist. And with messy, corrupt and divisive elections out of the way, it’ll be a nice 40 years ahead of us.
rbj on October 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Bah, I’ll be in my 60s by then…
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Are some of OJ’s lawyers from the Dream Team working for Obama now?
alwaysright43 on October 9, 2008 at 3:45 PM
I think Harry was a botched abortion. When he was born they sucked the brain out of his head ….. and he lived.
fogw on October 9, 2008 at 3:46 PM
No Harry, you are the racist, its you that is injecting race into this election not the Republicans. You are a racist commie Harry!!
Maxx on October 9, 2008 at 3:47 PM
It’s time we all accept that anything that is not unadulterated adoration of Obama is clearly racist. If the RNC would do a better job of distributing it’s official racist decoder rings, it would be obvious to everyone. Unfortunately, the only people that seem to have these rings are Democrats.
Damiano on October 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM
He looks like the farmer from Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic.” More apt description is American “Goniff.” Look that up in your Yiddish/English dictionaries, folks.
J.J. Sefton on October 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Dow down 560. Thanks Frankie, Barry, Harry, Chrissy, Barney, Pelosi, Maxine, et.al.
PappaMac on October 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Whew, that pic of Reid really inspires confidence in him, doesn’t it? Add his insipid voice and you damn near have John Wayne.
Bishop on October 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Sorry, Grue, Didn’t mean to ruin your lunch. May I offer you some Acorn soup with a side of Weatherman ‘nail bomb’ bread?
HornetSting on October 9, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Johnnie Cochran is dead, so he won’t be on staff. But he’s still eligible to vote according to ACORN records.
In 10 different states.
JammieWearingFool on October 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
…aside from being one of the most slimy people to ever wriggle his way into the leadership of national politics since Herman Goering became minister without portfolio in the dying Weimar government, Harry Reid is fiddling along with his collectivist party.
Awash in white guilt, any criticism of a black man is racist…any holding of any black man to account is racist…any finding of fault with any black man is racist…and, ironically, even noticing that a black man is black is racist….
…unless, as a “progressive”, you are noticing his blackness in order to deliver another load of undeserved goodies…after all, doesn’t the Constitution lead off with “promote the national defence and provide the general welfare”?
We’ve gone in this country from “you’re automatically guilty because you’re black” to “you’re automatically innocent because you’re black”, and I frankly don’t see the difference between the two. Neither bespeaks justice, as defined by a person getting what he or she deserves…not as a people, but as a person.
…but the Democrats, being collectivist totalitarians, don’t see things in individualist terms. They prefer the “nation as a beehive” model…where all bees are equal…and expert bees make the rules….
Puritan1648 on October 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
PS to our trolls: You can put down your thesauruses and pop psychology books and take off your tinfoil hats… you won’t be needing them. McCain does not need to use nuanced allusions to race to expose Obama’s true character. There is plenty of footage available of Obama’s good friend and spiritual mentor, Reverend Wright, if he chooses to use it. Any sane person — of any color — would have walked out of that guy’s church years ago. Instead, Obama has the guy baptize his kids.
Y-not on October 9, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Was just about to say, PappaMac, that a thread on the sell-off wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Down-volume last I checked was more than 20x up-volume. Very capitulatory, even on the Day of Atonement.
Well, now we have Barack Delano Roosevelt to tell us… nothing (after you cancel out the lies).
CK MacLeod on October 9, 2008 at 3:53 PM
We need an ad that makes a laughingstock out of the “racist” claims, just like the “Celebrity” ads mocked the worship of Obama. That was a game-changer.
justincase on October 9, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Damiano on October 9, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Who needs a ring? Just shut yer damn mouth and get back to the rice paddies. Big Brother will tell you what to say and when to say it.
Bishop on October 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Skin color is the only thing Raines and Obama have in common? Not so, Harry. They also have these things in common:
*** They’re both Democrats.
*** They’re both multi-millionaires.
*** They’re both liars.
*** They’re both working to get Obama in the White House so that they can continue the fleecing of American taxpayers.
AZCoyote on October 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM
That is a good idea! Make Obambi play the race card, not just his surrogates. McCain going after Obama on his despicable associates and organizations won’t alienate any conservatives, won’t change any lefty minds (nothing will do that), and won’t offend any real independents. Win-Win for McCain.
iconoclast on October 9, 2008 at 3:54 PM
And a fagele.
JiangxiDad on October 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM
OK, OK, getting with the program here… Today’s sell-off was totally racist!
CK MacLeod on October 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM
And for your musical accompaniment to Big Brother Obarfy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kAILmmzJdg
Bishop on October 9, 2008 at 3:58 PM
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