Do Obama fans always play the race card unnecessarily?

I saw a video on a friend's FB page. The video trashed people who, like me, sometimes complain that the GOP is too often racist. Especially its Tea-bag wing. My friend didn't make the clip, he just supported it. So I said to myself, "If he might think this way, then the wingnuts are truly over the edge." I realise that people (including myself) sometimes do throw the baby out with the bath water. The GOP used to be a normal party, sometimes a noble one, but it hasn't been so in quite a while. It is the party of Abraham Lincoln, after all. Of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and a few other good presidents. But today it is the party of

  • Ronald Reagan ("Trees cause more pollution than automobiles."),
  • George Bush the father ("I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.")
  • Dan Quayle ("It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."),
  • George Bush the son (Wiped his hand on Clinton's shirt after shaking a Haitian's hand: Here's the video),
  • Dick Cheney, as well as folks such as
  • John McCain (McCain as a young congressman in 1983 voted against a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  • Sarah Palin ("But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies."),
  • Mitt Romney ("I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there."),
  • Michelle Bachmann ("...the Lord says, 'Be submissive wives; you are to be submissive to your husbands."),
  • Christine O�Donnell ("One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn't know it. I mean, there's little blood there and stuff like that. �We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar."),
  • Rick Perry ("I don't think the federal government has a role in your children's education." �Rick Perry, at a campaign stop in Iowa, August 15, 2011), 
  • Newt Gingrich ("Go get a job after you take a bath." �Newt Gingrich, speaking in November 2011 about Occupy Wall Street protesters),
  • Rick Santorum ("President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob ... Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image." �Rick Santorum, speaking to a Tea Party group in Michigan (February 2012)),

  • Rush Limbaugh (To an African-American female caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."),
  • Bill O'Reilly (During an interview for Stuff magazine (November 2002), O'Reilly opined that "the most unattractive women in the world are probably in the Muslim countries."),
  • Sean Hannity (Hannity defended Don Imus for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos," typically by changing the subject and lodging verbal attacks against black men such as Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.)
  • Loy Mauch ("If slavery were so God-awful, why didn't Jesus or Paul condemn it, why was it in the Constitution and why wasn't there a war before 1861?"),
  • Jon Hubbard ("... the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth."),
  • Charles Fuqua ("Abortion, failing to use the death penalty, Socialism, graduated income tax, and our entire economic system is in violation of God's law."),
  • Jason Thompson ("We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago � or Kenya."),
  • The Koch brothers (Billionaire Koch brothers send 45,000 employees letter telling them to vote for Romney: Here's the link),
  • Glenn Beck ("When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.")
    •  
    The list goes on. I dare anyone to come up with what Democrats have said that is as wacky, or almost as wacky. Or just wacky. Tell me something that Democrats or humanists said about the GOP's racism, that was actually not racist, something that was "playing the race card", or that was against humanity or a part of it. Is it any wonder that people complain about racism and idiocy in the GOP and the Tea-bag movement? All the elements are combined: racism, anti-gay feelings, religious extremism, xenophobia, you name it. I bet I am forgetting a handful (Please put a link in the comments section if you think of something I have forgotten, something that either the GOP side or the Dem side has said, that belongs to the list in this post).

    Images and videos:
    Barack Hussein Obama


    Comments

    Post a Comment

    Popular posts from this blog

    Military Hospital Rawalpindi

    The Military Hospital Rawalpindi is the biggest clinic of the Pakistan Armed Forces, being one of the medical clinics in the Pakistan Army with an ISO accreditation, situated in the city of Rawalpindi. Before freedom in 1947 it was known as the British Indian Military Hospital Rawalpindi. Its commandant/CEO is a serving Major General of Army Medical Corps. It has one agent commandant with the position of brigadier and two partner commandants (executives) with the position of Colonel. Its family wing is taken care of by a Lady Medical Officer with the position of brigadier. It is a partnered emergency clinic of the Army Medical College and Armed Forces Post Graduate Medical Institute, Rawalpindi. It is likewise a showing foundation for medical attendants and paramedics.  https://youtu.be/OXTdENF9tDU https://vimeo.com/496410200 https://www.veoh.com/users/guitalreviews https://josecohen181.wistia.com/medias/ldn3pkd0xd https://www.flickr.com/people/guitalreviewscom/ https://www.tumblr.com/
    Read more

    Happy birthday, Dennis! - earn

    Image
    Dennis Vincent Brutus (born November 28, 1924, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a South African poet. A graduate of the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand, Brutus was formerly on the faculty of the University of Denver and Northwestern University. Dennis Brutus was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He worked to get South Africa suspended from the Olympics; this eventually lead to the country's expulsion from the games in 1970. He joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department organisation (Anti-CAD), a group that organised against the Coloured Affairs Department which was an attempt by the government to institutionalise divisions between blacks and coloureds. The Anti-CAD was affiliated to the Trotskyist Fourth International in South Africa. He was arrested in 1963 and jailed for 18 months on Robben Island. https://ello.co/faqk24   https://torgi.gov.ru/forum/user/profile/1085532.page   https://www.behance.net/gsgsga
    Read more

    The acacia trees, a poem by Derek Walcott

    Image
    I You used to be able to drive (though I don't) across the wide, pool-sheeted pasture below the house to the hot, empty beach and park in the starved shade of the acacias that print those tiny yellow flowers (blank, printless beaches are part of my trade); then there were men with tapes and theodolites who measured the wild, uneven ground. I watched the doomed acres where yet another luxury hotel will be built with ordinary people fenced out. The new makers of our history profit without guilt and are, in fact, prophets of a policy that will make the island a mall, and the breakers grin like waiters, like taxi drivers, these new plantations by the sea; a slavery without chains, with no blood spilt� just chain-link fences and signs, the new degradations. I felt such freedom writing under the acacias. II Bossman, if you look in those bush there, you'll find a whole set of passport, wallet, I.D., credit card, that is no use to them, is money on their mind and is not every time you&
    Read more