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| 2013-10-16 |
| [UK Daily Mail]'Joe the "Outrage" among some possibly. In an article posted to his website on Thursday, Joe Wurzelbacher assured readers that wanting a 'white Republican president doesn't make you a racist, it just makes you American.' The operative word his is not white, it is actually 'president' and leader as opposed to dictator. The controversial post contended that '[i]n the pre-black president era, criticizing the president was simply the American thing to do. An exercise of one's First Amendment right. Criticism had nothing to do with color, because there had never been a black president.' The The conservative activist also brought Mexicans into his argument, saying 'many deranged Mexicans' who fight for immigration rights 'are not called racist.' The scathing post has triggered a social media The race card? Not again ! However Wurzelbacher has hit back, saying he did not author the piece but merely copied an article written Kevin Jackson and posted to theblacksphere.net on October 9. According to his profile, Jackson 'believes that empowerment comes when you know who you are and what you stand for. On Saturday night, Wurzelbacher, 39, wrote on his Facebook page: 'Let no chance to find a boogey man in a non-racist's closet go by without first taking time to blame a white guy for repeating something a black guy said...about a black guy.' Wurzelbacher, Wurzelbacher, Wurzelbacher....sounds Confederate to me. Joe the Plumber gained national prominence when he asked then presidential candidate, Barack Obama, a question about his tax plan in 2008. Obama's response included the statement, 'when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.' The revealing ten word communist manifesto to which apparently many paid little attention. Obama's response was seized upon by conservative media, as well as by Obama's rival, Republican nominee Senator John McCain, as an indication that Obama was interested in the redistribution of wealth, and had a socialist view of the economy. He [the Champ] said it, right there on teevee. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 "NPR . . . stated that EVERY measure Obama has pushed has 'HURT' blacks. I hope they're listening." If you mean you hope blacks are listening to NPR, I doubt it, RJ. Except the black upper middle class "elites" who listen (NPR is the soporofic of choice for the upper middle class "elites" - who aren't hurting - of any color). I doubt regular black people spend a lot of time listening to NPR, any more than regular white people do. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-10-16 22:06 |
| #8 NPR said that. Wow! Tavis Smiley also said this. Bob Gibbs said Obamacare rollout has been a failure. For some reason, there are too many people who are vested in keeping "O" in power for whatever reason. He is clearly incompetent but has gotten a pass on everything that he has screwed up. Had this been a white Republican Prez, there would have been a loud cry for impeachment long ago. This is clearly a failed Presidency but there is no momentum for impeachment--maybe liberal white guilt and fear of a black backlash? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-16 20:10 |
| #7 I was listening to NPR, they stated that EVERY measure Obama has pushed has 'HURT' blacks. I hope they're listening. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-10-16 19:19 |
| #6 ACtually, I see his point, and he was being deliberately provocative. Nobody is perfect, so everyone can be improved by criticism. However, if you are a reverse racist/feminist, then any criticism is regarded as invalid if it is directed at a black/mexican/woman. The point of playing the race card is to divert attention away from the validity of the criticism. Given this, the only person who people can feel safe to constructively criticize, and thus actually improve the situation, would be to elect a white male as president. The problem. The REAL problem, is that ALL FORMS OF RACISM, forward AND reverse, are evil. Like everything else they undertake, Leftist liberals and leftist democrats believe themselves above natural and moral law, and thus believe that they can "do evil that good may come." |
| Posted by: Ptah 2013-10-16 11:58 |
| #5 Tavis Smiley has already said Obama has set back the blacks by five years...so if a screaming lib like Smiley (who is Black) says that, we can add an exponential value to the set back...I'm thinking we are on the verge of 1953 again. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-10-16 11:00 |
| #4 Headline is funny. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-16 10:50 |
| #3 IF we survive this schmuck he's going to be recognized as setting back race relations by about fifty years in this country. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-10-16 10:50 |
| #2 Let me summarize: affirmative action and constitutional democracy don't mix. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-10-16 10:26 |
| #1 Of course he is being accused of racism with a headline like that. Whatever point he had is flushed when you bring race into it in a way that if not racist is so easily construed as so. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2013-10-16 10:25 |