Discussion: Politico Headline: 'Has Obama Set Loose A New Willie Horton?'

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we should just lock up everyone who’s not white. You can’t be too careful when it comes to preventing crime.

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And they’re all asking: “Where da white women at?” That about right?

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So apparently Politico is more than willing to help the GOP smear Obama if it results in a greater number of clicks. Keep up the good “journalism” Politico!

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So Politico basically published a Willie Horton campaign ad attacking Obama and the Dems and called it a “news” article?

I am shocked I tell you…shocked…

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then who will cut our yards, clean our toilets, and where cute little tuxedos and serve the high society folks at this weekend’s governors’s ball?

Let’s not get too crazy with it!

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Ann Coulter wishes…

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‘Has Obama Set Loose A New Willie Horton?’

Nope. But Politico has happily dived headfirst into the fear- and race-mongering kiddie-pool.

jw1

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Indeed. The only real question is whether they peed in the pool or had already peed their pants prior to the dive.

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The BLAcks WILL Be released AND WILL sMOKE crack and MAKE crack baBIEs AND DO alL THE Crime. THIS IS WILLie HOrtON TIMEs 6000 Without the rape and MURdER PArt.

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that’s where prison labor comes in. And it’s very cheap! No need to follow federal wage laws! It’s a win-win-win!

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Wait … Politico wrote an over the top, negative slam piece about the Democrats that was not only self-contradictory but patently untrue?

Color me shocked.

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I hope people aren’t expecting better from Politico…

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A lot of Republicans support prison reform. Not for humanitarian reasons, but for financial reasons. It cost over $50,000 dollars to house one prisoner for one year, times tens of thousands nonviolent drug offenders Do the math, the cost of is astounding.

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This is a scare tactic? Weird. According to Milf-gifs.com white women DREAM of this kind of stuff.

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Send your pointed commentary to the POLITICO hack who wrote the piece: swheaton@politico.com

•••• Lest we forget (though everybody seems to), even Ronald Reagan’s years as CA governor had a convict-release program similar to the one under Dukakis in MA. And similar criminal recidivism happened in CA. But the Democrats didn’t do to Reagan what the Republicans did to Dukakis. Once again POLITICO falls for IOKIYAR. •••••

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Does Politico skip the middleman and print directly onto parakeet poop?

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not enough Republicans support prison reform, the vast majority are law-and-order absolutists. Bleeding heart liberals and dirty fucking hippies have been warning for DECADES about the costs of “lock em all up forever”. Arizona now has its second governor in a row who is completely in bed with private prisons on the one hand, and defunding public education on the other hand. It is as if neighboring states got together to handicap Arizona in the competition for good-paying middle class jobs.

It is truly appalling to listen to any so-called patriot bleating about freedom and liberty when the US incarcerates more of its citizens per capita than any other nation on Earth.

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The “Willie Horton” ad I’d like to see would be the one featuring the open carry assassin from Colorado Springs, with the tag line: “did your Congressman vote to let nuts like him walk the streets?”

Or words to that effect…

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President Obama does a thing. Outrage ensues on the Right. In other words, today is a day.

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