it was clinton making the comment to kennedy. and if it wasnt racist, ted kennedy sure thought it was. so much so that he told hillary to take a hike. probably followed by a comment likeAnyone care to explain why the second link about Ted Kennedy makes him a racist? It sounds to me like he was saying Obama would've been a "coffee-fetcher" because of his short time in politics, not because he was black.
Taking that comment as racist seems very out-of-context.
i'm sad to here you say that though you were one of the coolest people on here - but sence im black i guss we cant be cool - oh well, my lose -moving on , are you one of these mexican that try to pass for white ,prolly dont even know spanish, this is very sad blaks and latinos have so much in commen , its crazy how the media puts us againest each other whats happeing in cali is sad we could be so much stronger as 1 nation, blacks whites and latinos the ones in real control of it all sets back a laughs because they say to themselfes there all just niggers anywayI strongly dislike all black people.
I think he was being sarcastic but if he wasn't hopefully he opens his mind instead of being ignorant. If not well, I feel sorry for ya. I love the stereotypes! They are so ridiculous. lol!i'm sad to here you say that though you were one of the coolest people on here - but sence im black i guss we cant be cool - oh well, my lose -moving on , are you one of these mexican that try to pass for white ,prolly dont even know spanish, this is very sad blaks and latinos have so much in commen , its crazy how the media puts us againest each other whats happeing in cali is sad we could be so much stronger as 1 nation, blacks whites and latinos the ones in real control of it all sets back a laughs because they say to themselfes there all just niggers anyway
No, the reason there is no liberal outrage against Reid's quote is because of context. Even the conservative republicans know there is no substance to the outrage. It is merely an attempt to smear Reid in the midst of a contentious race in Nevada. If you're going to speak about an issue, shouldn't you at least understand the dynamics of the politics? You actually believe the rhetoric? This is the problem with our society - an ignorant electorate.I worked in state government a long time and I saw far more racism among the dem admins that the republicans. The attitude of the dems was that they had the blacks paid off so they could go ahead and call them niggers. That's exactly what we are seeing here too. And you know what? They are right. We are seeing no black groups or leaders speaking out on Reid. Why? Because they are convinced their bread is better buttered on the democrat side. Forget principles.
trent lot was removed from his position, the exact same position reid has. and he was removed by republicans. in other words, he didnt meet OUR standards. sure your side would of bitched like a 7 year old school girl till they did remove him but he was removed.Or it could just be that Obama was a junior senator when he started his campaign and would have actually been someone that did the shit work for the president and other senior senators, and clinton was making that point very badly.
But yeah he was a jackass that acted like his toy got broken when Obama started to win over his wife.
And Reid is obviously not a racist, and that is why his apology got accepted. He is just an old dude and used really backwards language.
I love that the republicans are all over this though.
Accepting Reids apology is hypocritical and you are right to point it out, but you fail to see that making it into such a big deal when you bitched already about it being bs for anybody to bring it up about your guys is just as hypocritical.
ignoring the facts again ?trent lot was removed from his position, the exact same position reid has. and he was removed by republicans. in other words, he didnt meet OUR standards. sure your side would of bitched like a 7 year old school girl till they did remove him but he was removed.
and he apologized profusely and in writing and obama still said he had to go.
also, check out what he actually said. you have to make an end around argument to even make a racial insinuation about his comments. he said nothing about blacks. he gave a dying old man a compliment on his birthday, period.
amazing you guys, amazing that you can say this stupid shit with a straiht face. there is very clearly a double standard. not even arguable. if you made the argument in a courtroom the judge would hold you in contempt.
yes, he was removed from his post. he didnt resign at that time. notice he didnt say it in the contecxt of segrgationist. you add those remarks what he exactly said was "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. Were proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either"ignoring the facts again ?
1) Trent Lot wasn't removed. He didn't even resign from the Senate. He did resign as Republican Leader of the Senate. He resigned from the Senate 5 years later and became a lobbyist.
2) Trent Lots comments regarding Strom Thurman were blatantly racist. Strom Therman was running a seggregationist platform in 1950. Lot said ""When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. Were proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either."
If it appears to you that the liberal side of this issue is "running an end around" it is simply because you ignore the facts, as usual.
Well if it wasn't a racist remark, why did he resign the Senate leadership?yes, he was removed from his post. he didnt resign at that time. notice he didnt say it in the contecxt of segrgationist. you add those remarks what he exactly said was "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. Were proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either"
you have to add the part about seggregation. he could have been talking abut anything.
reid called bamster a negro. bill clinton said he would be getting us coffee and he meant it racially. he isnt denying it and kennedy took it that way.
also someone made the comment about how od reid is, bologny, he is one year older than trent lot but looks a hundred years older.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100109/ap_on_el_se/us_obama_reid
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Teddys_anger.html
BLAHAHHAHHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH
yes conservatives are racist huh? these fucking libs are a joke. the kind, compasionate, humanitarians they are.....racists fucks is what they are.
hey i got an idea harry and bill, why dont we build big tall buildings to house the "negros"? that way they think they will be livin large but it will actually be kinda like prison....we all know they end up there anyway. oh wait, you guys already thought of that.....
libs should be very proud of these racists fucks.
Hahah, that's exactly what I thought...Well these comments were made in 2008 and we are just now hearing about it?
I think this is all a big ploy to hurt him going into his election cycle.
BTW what is a "Negro Dialect?"
The man went to Harvard for Christ sake.
What did he expect him to be like?
Like after the swearing in he would dump out half his 40oz for his "Homies?"
I will say this IMO the liberals are the group that tends to treat others as seperate groups.
Poor-Rich, White-Black, And so forth.
We should concintrate on what makes us the same.
Not fixate on what makes us diffrent.
Doesn't the senate majority leader have a staff? I would think he would have assistants and the like. These congress types should maybe run the shit they plan on saying by an intern or something first. It's painfully obvious that some of these people are out of touch with reality and need someone who has lived in the real world for more than a day to tell them what is ok to say and what isn't. I would think that common sense would dictate what we say but we are talking about politicians here.Hahah, that's exactly what I thought...
What is a negro dialect ... who thinks that way? Who thinks that way out loud? Then Reid implies that Obama can turn it on and off. I think someone in the press corp should ask for a brief demonstration, I sure would!
So there is a universal "code" dialect, that's what he's saying....
How does he still have his job? He's probably going to lose it next cycle, but why wait?
He's supposed to be the majority leader ... so he represents the Democratic party in the Senate. So this is what they think???
Either way, i want to thank him for clarifying things for us all
NEGRO IS BACK IN!!! NEXT IS THE FRO!!! Whoopi Goldberg says it's A-OK!!!!
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!! That is fucking priceless!Hate isn't a necessary ingredient of racism. Racism is just any race consciousness that you don't like.
race based preferences = good
race based rejection = bad
Trent Lott does it = bad
Harry Reid does it = good
If there weren't so much money and power at stake in the diversity-industrial complex, we would be a couple generations beyond where we are in genuine racial harmony.