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Scott Hutchinson 08-17-2012 09:42 AM
Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
http://townhall.com/columnists/bensh...iro/page/full/

Jermyn Davidson 08-17-2012 09:48 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
I can't get your link to load in my browser.

Scott Hutchinson 08-17-2012 09:51 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/14421

deacon blues 08-17-2012 09:52 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
JD, here tis

Quote:
Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate has utterly unhinged the Obama campaign. Last week they were happily jabbering about Romney's record at Bain Capital, implying that he had killed a man's wife, stating that he was a tax cheat and blaming him for outsourcing jobs. This week they're stuck defending Barack Obama's $700 billion cuts to Medicare and spending addiction.

That leaves the Democrats with one solution: get ugly.

Joe Biden led off the festivities in Virginia this week, where he informed the population of 49-percent-black Danville that "he said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules -- unchain Wall Street. They gonna put y'all back in chains." That last line is a direct transcription -- Biden lapsed into a heavy southern accent, clearly making a slavery reference. According to the Obama campaign, then, Romney's Wall Street plans are the same as placing Americans in chains. If that isn't insulting to black Americans, nothing will be.

But the Obama campaign wasn't done. The same day Biden unleashed his inner race-baiter, the Obama campaign's Julianna Smoot send out a mass email accusing Ryan of "making a pilgrimage" to Las Vegas to "kiss the ring" of Jewish mega donor Sheldon Adelson. This was an obvious attempt to drive a wedge between Ryan and blue-collar Catholics by invoking anti-Semitic imagery; the implication is that Ryan, instead of making a pilgrimage to Rome to kiss the ring of the Pope, was heading to Vegas to kiss the ring of a wealthy Jew. Ryan, the email implied, was a Judas willing to sacrifice religion for money in the Sodom and Gomorrah of Vegas.

This isn't just nasty campaigning. It's vile campaigning.

It wasn't surprising, of course -- not after the Obama campaign seemingly worked hand-in-glove with a super PAC to release an ad accusing Romney of murdering Joe Soptic's wife of cancer after Bain Capital fired Soptic and Soptic lost his health insurance. It wasn't surprising after the vulgarities that seem to spout daily from the Obama headquarters; their emails suggest that they must win the "........" election and their staffers call Obamacare opponents "mother---ers." No hope and change to be found here -- just vulgarity and racism.

Just because the Obama campaign is running a disgusting campaign doesn't mean it will hurt them. Negative campaigns remain extraordinarily effective. But it won't work against the revitalized Romney-Ryan ticket. Ryan is simply too likeable -- 50 percent of Americans like him, as opposed to 32 percent who don't -- and he is highly intelligent and scrupulously honest. That means he'll be tough to categorize with the left's three favorite anti-conservative insults: stupid (Palin), corrupt (Nixon) and mean (Bush). Ryan isn't extreme; he's praised by people like ... Barack Obama and Erskine Bowles.

The question that remains for the American public is whether they can be polarized by the divide-and-conquer rhetoric of the Obama campaign. If Obama can't convince Americans that Romney-Ryan will destroy America, he'll have to destroy America himself to ensure re-election by separating Americans by race, sexuality and religion. That's precisely what he's doing.

Jermyn Davidson 08-17-2012 10:01 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
The Democrat Party doesn't hold a corner on fear-mongering!

On the contrary, the GOP's entire campaign against Obama is based on fear.

Biden wasn't being racist, he was trying to make a point-- but I don't know if I really agree with his point or not.

bbyrd009 08-17-2012 10:56 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
You guys see the vid that the O
is apparently trying real hard to suppress?
Got it pulled from Hannity and Colmes?

Admits to being a Muslim?

Truthseeker 08-17-2012 11:24 AM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson (Post 1182586)
The Democrat Party doesn't hold a corner on fear-mongering!

On the contrary, the GOP's entire campaign against Obama is based on fear.

Biden wasn't being racist, he was trying to make a point-- but I don't know if I really agree with his point or not.
Playing the race card is a most if you want the black vote.

aegsm76 08-17-2012 12:22 PM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson (Post 1182586)
The Democrat Party doesn't hold a corner on fear-mongering!

On the contrary, the GOP's entire campaign against Obama is based on fear.

Biden wasn't being racist, he was trying to make a point-- but I don't know if I really agree with his point or not.
JD - your constant defense of BHO is amazing and frightening.
As I have stated before, I have several friends/acquaintances who support BHO.
I cannot have a logical discussion of the issues with most of them.
They want to throw stones/names/accusations at anyone who opposes BHO.
You seem to be moving to the same mindset.

You are correct that Biden was not being racist, however the message was that Romney/Ryan ARE racist.

It is incredulous that you would defend this.
Or even think about defending this.

Your statement that the GOP's entire campaign is based on fear is ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
The campaign is based on a totally different view of life.
BHO believes that we exist for government.
We believe that government exists for us.

Jermyn Davidson 08-17-2012 02:17 PM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by aegsm76 (Post 1182636)
JD - your constant defense of BHO is amazing and frightening.
As I have stated before, I have several friends/acquaintances who support BHO.
I cannot have a logical discussion of the issues with most of them.
They want to throw stones/names/accusations at anyone who opposes BHO.
You seem to be moving to the same mindset.

You are correct that Biden was not being racist, however the message was that Romney/Ryan ARE racist.

It is incredulous that you would defend this.
Or even think about defending this.

Your statement that the GOP's entire campaign is based on fear is ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
The campaign is based on a totally different view of life.
BHO believes that we exist for government.
We believe that government exists for us.
Do you REALLY want me to dig up ALL of the baseless fear mongering of our GOP over the last 4 years?


Biden is an idiot and the people who would think that Romney/Ryan are racist would think that about the average Republican politician, because that is how they view Republicans in general. The people who feed off of the crud that Spiden spewed are people who, if they voted, would vote for the Democrat regardless.

Jermyn Davidson 08-17-2012 02:19 PM
Re: Obama Campaign Gets Racist.
 
Where was the conservative outrage when Gingrich and Santorum used race-baiting tactics?

This doesn't excuse Biden, but believe you me the GOP pulled the race card months earlier.


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