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Obama Uses Racism,
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President Obama uses racism? (Thank you Ironic Surrealism v3.0
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While President Obama was trying to fire up apathetic voters in Philadelphia last night, he said that Republicans are hoping that “black folks” would be staying home on Election Day.
“What the other side is counting on, what they’re counting on is your gonna staying home, they’re counting on your silence, they’re counting on your amnesia, they’re counting on you’re apathy, they’re counting on young people staying home and union members staying home and black folks staying home,” President Obama told the crowd, as reported by HotAirPundit
HotAirPundit Post. (And my apologizes for not being able to find a real, unbiased news source like I usually do during press time, but check out the video.)
So he’s hoping that Republicans are praying to their god Ronald Reagan that black folks are staying home on Election Day? Boy, that seems a bit racist, isn’t it, even though our president isn’t one? But is our president using the race card and saying that Republicans don’t want black Americans to vote? Is he saying that the GOP are all racists?
That’s quite shockingly offensive, but in the game of politics anything goes. But the president is wrong, however. Republicans aren’t hoping for “amnesia” come Election Day: They want everyone to remember the failed promises of the open and public creation of the health care reform that never happened, among other things.
Obama: GOP Gets Help From Secret Foreign Donations
But the president said a few other things about Republicans, such as how they receive donations from secret foreign sources.
“(Republicans) are being helped along this year by special-interest groups that are spending unlimited amounts ... without ever disclosing who’s behind all these attack ads. You don’t know. It could be the oil industry. It could be the insurance industry. It could even be foreign-owned corporations,” the president said, as reported by CBS News
CBS News Story.
But there is a little problem with the president’s quote: There is no proof whatsoever that Republicans are getting donations from “shadowy foreign donors.” Even The New York Times comes to the defense of the GOP. (Yes, shocking as some might find it.)
“But a closer examination shows that there is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers and campaign finance documents.
In fact, the controversy over the Chamber of Commerce financing may say more about the Washington spin cycle — where an Internet blog posting can be quickly picked up by like-minded groups and become political fodder for the president himself — than it does about the vagaries of campaign finance,” The New York Times reported
New York Times article.
Without any proof whatsoever, do you think maybe President Obama should issue a public apology to Republicans for baselessly attacking them? Nah, that isn’t what politicians normally do.
And you know, when Obama was campaigning for this White House job, he promised us change and how he wasn’t like other politicians.
So far it’s the same old, same old.
One of the reasons I enjoy reading someone a bit further out on the right (your blog) politically is that I agree that the mainstream media often gives Obama a pass on things like this and doesn't report them. If Bush had said something similar about white people, they would have jumped down his throat about it, as they should have. It's disappointing.
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