She’s eye candy and as vapid and useless as the Faux babes
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Exactly. That’s why Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley are rushing to return all the contributions they got from the Conservative Citizens Council right now.
Oh wait…
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if they stray, punish bigots and racists without actively driving wedges between the races.
Huh? That makes absolutely zero sense. As, of course does your reference to the president’s party as the establisher of Jim Crow laws. Why exactly did Strom Thurmond change parties? Oh, right…
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Of course she did. What did anyone expect, Obama knew the minute he said that that it would be the headline of the day, Good for him. Fuck these pricks and I sure hope this isn’t going to be the story of the day but I am sure it will be because it will garner lots of clicks. Even stupid MSNBC is taking a poll on it. Give me a fucking break, please
The country is on fire with record breaking heat - California is already battling fire fires while suffering a drought, even Alaska is battling forest fires. There are so many more serious issues going on in this country than faux outrage over Obama’s use of the N word,
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oh the outrage started when ya got to 4 …with them there always looking out for something to be outraged about even if it’s the sane way of looking at a situation
Word, Mr. President.
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Does Puppies ever make any sense.
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Ah yes, the Robert Byrd trope…the old standby of the “I have no hope of supporting my historic argument so I’m going to toss out the name of the Dem Dixiecrat who stayed Dem and hope nobody notices my lazy ass retort”.
Thanks for completing my racist bingo card.
(BTW, I notice how none of you lazy folk ever bother to mention Byrd’s very public renunciations of his historical stances on race and civil rights…because it doesn’t fit YOUR narrative)
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Actually only Godwin, Thurmond and Helms switched to the Republican Party, all the others including Byrd rejoined the Democratic Party. Also, Robert Byrd led the Democrat filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Have a great day, Sir Ma’am.
What a fantastic interview. I listen to WTF religiously and was floored this morning to see the title of the newly posted episode. The President was on point! I am grateful and proud to live in this time and have him as our president. The system is not perfect, but it is not so flawed as to prevent someone of great character and conviction from inhabiting the “highest office” even if it is something like “middle management” (thanks Marc for that gem) sometimes. I don’t know if we’ll see another man or woman of such character in the office again anytime soon. I’m really excited about what he can do AFTER he leaves office. Clearly this interview is a part of that trajectory.
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Again, no mention of any others, only Byrd, but you move the goalposts as soon as we point that out…And no mention of Byrd’s renunciation.
It’s as lazy an argument as black-on-black crime stats. I wish you people would get some new material.
I’ll also point out I’m a woman, so you’re wrong again. LOL
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Oh, Christ, Puppies, there’s a reason the solid South switched from solidly Democratic to solidly Republican – liberals didn’t make up the idea of the GOP’s Southern strategy. Others here have pointed out plenty of facts relating to everyone from Atwater to Reagan and beyond to refute your pathetic attempt to deny reality. I can only add that I have no doubt that at least on some level you’re quite well aware that you’re full of it.
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Too late.
A little lower-key than I would favor, but spot on nonetheless.
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Everyone who is finger-wagging or clutching pearls at President Obama using a “bad word” is making his point perfectly.
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I suppose, if you consider Ronald Clark O’Bryan’s Pixy Stix candy.
Not a brain cell shared among them, let alone a conscience.
So true. A large number of whites (progressives included), want to throw that word out - thinking they’re been edgy or provocative. MSNBC and those repetitive parrots can’t help themselves, since the MSM continues to descend into abject stupidity.
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Some of the politicians, like Wallace and Byrd, changed their views and stayed with the Democrats. But by the mid 80s, the white voters had almost all switched to the Republicans.
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Our troll sounds like a fan of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
One of President Bush’s surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party’s reprehensible, decades-long
Southern strategy.
The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They were insulting. The G.O.P.'s Southern strategy, racist at its core, still lives.
“Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the
other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization,” said Mr. Mehlman. “I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.”
…The Southern strategy meant much, much more than some members of the G.O.P. simply giving up on African-American votes. Put into play by Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon in the mid- to late 1960’s, it fed like a starving beast on the resentment of whites who were scornful of blacks and furious about the demise of segregation and other civil rights advances. The idea was to snatch the white racist vote away from the Democratic Party, which had committed such unpardonable sins as enacting the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts and enforcing desegregation statutes.
The important thing to keep in mind was how deliberate and pernicious the strategy was. Last month a jury in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted an 80-year-old man, Edgar Ray Killen, of manslaughter in the slaying of three civil rights workers – Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney – in the summer of 1964. It was a crime that made much of the nation tremble, and revolted anyone with a true sense of justice.
So what did Ronald Reagan do in his first run for the presidency, 16 years after the murder, in the summer of 1980? He chose the site of the murders, Philadelphia, Miss., as the perfect place to send an important symbolic message. Mr. Reagan kicked off his general election campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, an annual gathering that was famous for its diatribes by segregationist politicians. His message: “I believe in states’ rights.”
Mr. Reagan’s running mate was George H.W. Bush, who, in his own run for president in 1988, thought it was a good idea to exploit racial fears with the notorious Willie Horton ads about a black prisoner who raped a white woman. Mr. Bush’s campaign manager, Lee Atwater, said at the time that the Horton case was a “values issue, particularly in the South – and if we hammer at these over and over, we are going to win.”
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“It’s not enough just to feel bad,” he said about the attack. “There are actions that could be taken to make events like this less likely. One of those actions we could take would be to enhance some basic common-sense gun safety laws.”
That angry…man frightens me. I’d better go buy more guns.
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