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| Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey' |
| 2008-06-13 |
| Democrat Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that Michelle Obama never used the word "whitey" in a speech from the church pulpit as he launched a Web site to debunk rumors about himself and his wife. The rumor that Michelle Obama railed against "whitey" in a diatribe at Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ has circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The rumor included claims of a videotape of the speech that would be used to bring down Obama's candidacy this fall. "No such tape exists," the campaign responds on the site. "Michelle Obama has not spoken from the pulpit at Trinity and has not used that word." The site is a response to the realities of a brave new world, where information travels 24 hours a day on blogs and voters are increasingly turning to the Internet for information. It's a particular problem for Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics who is still unknown to many voters and has been the target of persistent misinformation campaigns online. In another sign of the campaign moving into the general election race, the Democratic National Committee's spokeswoman said Thursday its political and field operations are relocating to Chicago, where Obama's campaign is based. While other departments will remain in Washington, it's an effort to streamline the campaign and party efforts in one strategy instead of the overlapping efforts of past presidential elections. E-mails about Obama rank No. 2 on the list of "Hottest Urban Legends" on snopes.com, an Internet rumor-debunking site, behind e-mail greeting cards that could expose computers to viruses. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #25 no Sgt Hulka comebacks?? "lighten up, Francis" Ima disappointed |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-13 21:11 |
| #24 other than white trash or trailer trash or cracker or the like... most words for a Caucasian in US English are fairly benign.... Now for others it is possible to rapidly turn even Rantburg into a PC-Correct haven.... Subsets based on occupation still have interesting effects.... I remember as a child teasing the cowboys in the next town over (we were an edge of cowboy country) about being GOAT-ROPERS! That used to just drive them right over the edge (if they were drunk enough) to maybe get them kicked out of that saloon so you could move in on their wimmin.... (strategy always being important and at 14 or 15 having people notice others when you were in a bar) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-06-13 20:18 |
| #23 Come on, I expect better of the 'Burg. You guys want to tell me you never heard of an October Surprise? IF there is a tape, that's when it will come out. |
| Posted by: Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-06-13 18:51 |
| #22 you know... If there was a tape (and I don't think there is) this would be the perfect time to release it. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-06-13 14:33 |
| #21 Frank G: I'm ok with honkey, whitey, cracker, and just about anything but don't call me "Francis", or I'll kill ya And don't call me Shirley ... |
| Posted by: Mizzou Mafia 2008-06-13 14:11 |
| #20 Not only that but also managing to cast themselves as the 'victim' of the mean, evil, republicans. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2008-06-13 13:55 |
| #19 What the Dems are doing is to release reports of phoney tapes, statements, etc, supposedly by Obama or his wife. They are flooding the media with false reports so that any real ones are lost in the noise. |
| Posted by: Steve 2008-06-13 13:50 |
| #18 All sorts of interesting terms I didn't know before -- but then, I've lived a very sheltered life. ;-) Since the video never showed up, I assume it never existed. There's enough reality in that hate-filled church the Obamas belonged to for two decades to judge how they both think, without worrying about a single speech that may or may not have occurred. All that lawyerly precision about a single term in a single speech in a single location doesn't change the weekly sermons, the Sunday School lessons, and the mildly vicious certainty of natural superiority over those of a different skin colour or religion that pervades the Obama's lives. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-13 13:37 |
| #17 Hell, if Cindy McCain called somebody a cracker, I'd laugh my ass off. Oh, the other thing? Look, if crackers had spent the better part of a century getting strung up everytime they looked at Michelle Obama's great-grandma cross-eyed, her talking trash about "Whitey" would be a lot more serious. As it is? Pfft. And don't imagine that I'm some sort of Obamolator, here. As far as I'm concerned, he's just another race-baiting Democratic descendant of slave-owning border-ruffian trash. I voted in Operation Chaos in Pennsylvania for the she-Nixon. It's just hard to get excited about "Whitey". |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-06-13 13:17 |
| #16 While were at it, who cares about "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." |
| Posted by: Ununter Trotsky3132 2008-06-13 13:16 |
| #15 Seriously, who gets excited by such milquetoast epithets as 'whitey'? What's she going to call us next, "Mr. Charlie"? "Honkey"? "Buckrah"? Hell, I use "cracker" about my trashier neighbors on a daily basis. If Cindy McCain used similar racially charged words would you be equally unfazed? Besides, who cares what words she used, the point is that Obama and his wife have for years been associated with the black separatist movement. Yet their true-believers are still stupid enough buy their "unity" snake-oil tonics. Funny thing is, the same people excusing Obama and Co's blatant racism could see the problem when David Duke ran but are suddenly blind to the implications for Obama. Fools. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-06-13 12:47 |
| #14 I tend to get bored with all the childishness surrounding the use of a few "bad words", but then I remember that that's the PC folks game. It is very important to them to keep thrmselves pristine clean(can't use white here - ya know) while pelting their enemies with muddy prose. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-13 11:43 |
| #13 No, what she said were the letters "YT" together, see, it just sounds like "whitey". Though "YT" is black text code for "whitey" or "the man" or "cracker" - she never actually said "YT". See, it's all in the semantics, now you dumb plebs get back to worrying about your guns and religion and hatin' on all the non-YT skinned folk... |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-06-13 10:59 |
| #12 How about "honkey"? "Cracker"? "Ofay"?... |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-06-13 10:48 |
| #11 According to demographics and geography the proper word for those out here would be "tornado bait". |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-06-13 10:44 |
| #10 http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y25/mluphoup/OFAYOBAMA.jpg |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-06-13 09:13 |
| #9 OK. Maybe there has been some runaway rhetoric. Just the facts? This fact?: BHO in "Dreams of My Father": "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race." Let me say it again: Obama is the biggest ambulance chaser in US history; he wants US private wealth transferred from the productive to the non-productive class. As President, he would suck the lifeblood out of US industry. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-06-13 09:02 |
| #8 I'm ok with honkey, whitey, cracker, and just about anything but don't call me "Francis", or I'll kill ya |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-13 08:42 |
| #7 Seriously, who gets excited by such milquetoast epithets as 'whitey'? What's she going to call us next, "Mr. Charlie"? "Honkey"? "Buckrah"? Hell, I use "cracker" about my trashier neighbors on a daily basis. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-06-13 08:26 |
| #6 Does it look like the GOP is holding back? Yes! It helps a campaign when a candidate attacks third parties, or other interests. Why? Because the GOP can sit back and watch the Dem hang himself. I would predict that Obama will be in a hole by the end of June. At that time Sen. McCain should be able to pick up some big money. I forsee some Karl Rove attack-early-and-often tactics. They must have some good stuff on BHO. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-06-13 07:06 |
| #5 "Crackas" yes, but not "Whitey" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-13 06:56 |
| #4 There was a video to be shown, but it never showed up. Ask Rush. |
| Posted by: Ununter Trotsky3132 2008-06-13 06:48 |
| #3 Ah, Joe, but Europeans did NOT control slavery, North African Muslims did. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-06-13 06:11 |
| #2 Key words being: FROM THE CHURCH PULPIT. No one here is saying she didn't say "whitey". No one is saying she didn't say whitey "during a speech at Trinity". They are just saying she didn't say it at Trinity in a speech from the pulpit. Oh - and Obama didn't come forward to say this, his CAMPAIGN did... you know... just in case.... there actually actually is some audio or video. |
| Posted by: Sninert Black9312 2008-06-13 04:20 |
| #1 I myself don't remember MICHELLE ever using the specific term/word "WHITEY", NOT IN MY PRESENCE ANYWAY AND AFAIK NOT BEFORE ANYBODY ELSE EITHER. Then again, my experience wid Michelle was limited to begin with + many years ago. The Michelle I remember is a very intellectual speaker-debater and can get very emotional and intensive in her descriptions. "WHITES" + "WHITE PEOPLE" + "WHITE/EUROPEAN CONTROLLED SLAVERY ["GLASS CEILINGS"] OF BLACKS", ETC. among other differens ethnic, IS ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY, but IMO doesn't harm her or Barack's campaign in any way. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-06-13 01:41 |