31 Dec

“Let them eat surimi!” [Reader Post]

It’s all so weird. It’s all so unseemly. Multi-millionaires begging for $3 and selling themselves off in raffles.

The email Michelle Obama sent to me:

This holiday has felt a bit like one last long, deep breath before we plunge into 2012.

This time next year, I don’t want us to have any regrets. I want to be able to say we rose to the task, and got it done. We’ve all got some work to do right now.

Over the next 11 months we’ve got an organization to grow, voters to register, and people to get fired up.

I hope you’ll close out this year by donating $3 or more now to help make sure we’re ready for the next one:

https://donate.barackobama.com/No-Regrets

Thank you so much, and happy new year,

Michelle

P.S. — Also, when you donate today, you are automatically entered for a chance to be one of three supporters to have dinner with Barack and me.

She vacations in Hawaii each year at a cost of $4 million, takes her own jets to vacation destinations all at taxpayer expense, wears $500 Lanvin sneakers to help the poor, $2000 Mexican tablecloths on vacation, and she wants us to to rise to the task and send her $3 so she won’t have any regrets.

Barack sent me this email:

It’s not all that often that Michelle and I get to host a casual meal with friends.

That’s one of the reasons we’re both excited about the upcoming dinner with three supporters and your guests.

It’s the first one we’ve ever done like this together, and we’d love to have you and whoever you choose to join us.

Chip in $3 or whatever you can today — and you’ll automatically be entered to be one of our dinner guests.

I enjoy these dinners not just because they’re a way to connect with supporters across the country.

They also say a lot about what kind of campaign we’re running.

We don’t take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs — never have and never will. Instead, we believe in the kind of politics that gives everyone a seat at the table — so we’re literally offering these seats at dinner to folks who are willing to step forward and be a part of it.

There are just a few days left to add your name for a chance to be one of our guests at the next dinner, and help build this campaign before 2012 finally arrives.

Make a donation of $3 or whatever you can today — and automatically enter to be there:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Me-and-Michelle

Thanks,

Barack

As soon as he was done saddling us with a trillion dollar failed stimulus, Barack Obama sucked down a meal of $100 per serving Wagyu beef.

When he got to Hawaii, Obama headed right for Morimoto’s. There are countless sushi restaurants in Hawaii but few as tony as Morimoto’s, where the Oyster Foie Gras runs $22 per piece.

Then he ate at Alan Wong’s, another exclusive locale, and it’s estimated that he spent at least $260, or 13 weeks’ worth of middle class tax cuts.

The Obama’s, who deny themselves nothing in the face of a poor economy (“Middle Class Warriors” as Keith Koffler describes them), the Obama’s, who eat the best food at the best at the best restaurants at our expense, invite YOU to send $3 so you can share a “casual meal” with them.

Waygu beef and martinis for them, beer and pizza for their supporters.

That’s as good a metaphor for this Presidency as it gets.

A couple of days ago Mitt Romney compared Barack Obama to Marie Antoinette:

“When the president’s characterization of our economy was, ‘It could be worse,’ it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: ‘Let them eat cake,’ ” Romney told The Huffington Post in an interview Thursday.

With the Obamas dining on the finest food, enjoying the best vacations, not letting Presidentin’ get in the way of his 91 rounds of golf, Romney’s got a point.

It’s good to be Queen.

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56 Responses to “Let them eat surimi!” [Reader Post]

  1. Common Sense says: 1

    I could be surprised in 2012 but I can not see how much more disgusting one President and his privileged family could get. I only have one wish for 2012 and that is to have this, one of America’s absolute worst ever (sorry Jimmy Peanut Head but move over), President be voted out of work!!

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  2. MataHarley says: 2

    drj, don’t you find it ironic that the $3 a day for this election year is approximately the same amount that Obama wants to “give back” with the payroll tax cut extension for the year?

    So with one hand he giveth.. so to speak. And on the other hand, asks for it back, and into his own political pockets?

    LOL

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  3. Rides A Pale Horse says: 3

    Our suspicions confirmed.

    They’re both nothing more than cheap three dollar whores.

    Still too much.

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  4. Wow!!! That does it right there! I am entering that contest for sure! To be in the same room, to breathe the same air, to gaze upon their beauty, their grace, and to listen to in awe and revered silence as both of them speak words of wisdom to us as we all eat and share our food together! And all for three bucks? That is a no brainer dude! The press will be all over us wanting to know what we felt, what we thought, what we ate, and how did we contain our excitement. Then we will all make a tour of the TV shows as we relate with laughter and tears our one in a lifetime experience. Oh man! This is better than Christmas!

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  5. DrJohn says: 5

    @MataHarley: That, Mata, is exactly what I think. Obama is funding his re-election with pre-tax dollars.

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  6. UpChuck.Liberals says: 6

    @Rides A Pale Horse: Please, “cheap 3 dollar third world whores”. After all they are ‘The One’ and ‘The Other One’. Show some respect to the working girls here.

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  7. UpChuck.Liberals says: 7

    @Gary G. Swenchonis: “how did you feel eating with the President?” “”I had to contain my gag reflex, I though I was going to be sick” insert pause “I can only stand so much BS in my diet”

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  8. Liberalmadd says: 8

    You cons are just jealous of the best president ever in the USA! And all this griping about Him and the first family is unseemly!! Worrying about carbon footprints and making a good impression is for the little people!!! And He can play golf all He wants, He’s earned it with His great foreign policy victories!!!!

    !!!!!

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  9. Rides A Pale Horse says: 9

    @UpChuck.Liberals:

    Hmmmph!

    YOU were the one who inserted “third world” into my assessment of the Terrible Two!

    You apologize to the third worlders and I, on the other hand…..

    Extend my deepest apologies to the working girls HERE.

    Take THAT sir!

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  10. MataHarley says: 10

    Meremortal/Liberalmadd… seems to me you’ve been around here enough to know the FA house rules… pick a single handle and stick with it. No sock puppets welcomed.

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  11. UpChuck. Liberal
    apology accepted

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  12. David Brickner says: 12

    May he golf in a thunderstorm tomorrow………….

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  13. Smorgasbord says: 13

    Our American Legion post prepared turkey dinner with all of the trimmings ON THANKSGIVING DAY for free to anyone who wanted to come. They could donate if they wanted to, but they didn’t have to. With the economy the way it is, it was the most the post has ever had. I would rather have a meal with anyone in this group than THE ONE and THE OTHER ONE who would be looking down on me all through the meal. I was glad to do my small part in helping with the meal.

    Let’s not forget that THE OTHER ONE wasn’t proud to be an American until her husband was president.

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  14. Smorgasbord says: 14

    @Rides A Pale Horse: 3

    They’re both nothing more than cheap three dollar whores.

    I’ve never used one, but I am guessing I would get more satisfaction out of the cheap three dollar hore than I would out of a meal with THE ONE and THE OTHER ONE.

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  15. rockybutte says: 15

    How would you refer to Barack and Michelle if they were white? As three dollar whores? I don’t think so.

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  16. rockybutte says: 16

    By the way, I heard that W aspirated a pretzel covered with Belugian caviar the other day.

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  17. Rides A Pale Horse says: 17

    @rockybutte:

    It doesn’t matter WHAT color they are. If they acted the way these two do, they would STILL be nothing more than three dollar whores.

    Besides, one of them IS half white. But both halves act like a three dollar whore.

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  18. Rides A Pale Horse says: 18

    That being said……..

    Happy New Year “Acers”! From the gang at DBKP

    http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/23.jpg

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  19. rockybutte says: 19

    Pale Horse

    Thank you for articulating the unseemly racist position of most FAers, who usually try to pretend they’re not racists.

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  20. Rides A Pale Horse says: 20

    @rockybutte:

    Since I don’t really post here that often, I don’t recognize your S/N and don’t know how long you’ve been hanging around F.A. but I have been around long enough to know that the folks here don’t see race as an issue. They see the actions and behavior of ALL races and call them on it.

    Coming in here and disparaging “most FAers” as racists tells me that YOU, sir, are the racist. You see everyones color and project that on to others that only speak the truth, no matter what their race.

    I submit that you are nothing but a troll and will treat you as such by ignoring any further comment you make.

    That said, Happy New Year and I pray that the racist scales fall from your eyes.

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  21. David Brickner says: 21

    I just was hoping that the Prez have an en lightning day on the golf course for the benefit of the rest of us….. he needs something……. and we really don’t need him

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  22. DrJohn says: 22

    @rockybutte: You’re going to have to do better than that. FA is manned by many rhetoric-hardened individuals seeing through the nonsensical charges of racism. Racism has become the last refuge of the desperately vapid.

    I have something else for you to read here and here.

    Your Journolista media poodle mind tricks won’t work on us.

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  23. THE SOOTHSAYER says: 23

    I plan to join P.E.T.A. on this one, with a $100 per pound wagyu beef presidential onslaught it is the moment to stand and deliver in protection of the wagyu cow. There needs to be mooing stone memorials built by compassionate taxpayers all across America commerating the greed and slaughter of these poor unfortunate hiefers who die only to please and delight the very privileged few dining on sterling silver dinner flatware carving away at wagyu steak.
    “”"”"”"”"”"”"” PROTECT WAGYU COWS NOW “”"”"”"”"”"”"”

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  24. THE SOOTHSAYER says: 24

    @rockybutte:
    “heard” is commonly known as “hearsay” not allowed in any court since the Tudors so the pretzel with caviar story inadmissable.

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  25. THE SOOTHSAYER says: 25

    I get it, there’s George Washington on the one dollar bill and Thomas Jefferson on the two dollar bill so there can be Barry O’BasketCase face on the three dollar bill. With inflation going through the roof people will need three dollar bills just to purchase a loaf of bread, a quart of milk or a can of chicken soup.

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  26. UpChuck.Liberals says: 26

    @Liberalmadd: Thanks for the post. I needed a good laugh, it’s the best I’ve had all year.

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  27. Nan G says: 27

    @THE SOOTHSAYER:
    Where do YOU live?
    A loaf of bread here is between $4 and $6 for anything other than that white or ”wheat” awful crud that uses so much vinegar to activate the yeast for quick baking that people get stomach aches just from eating it.).
    (I make my own – no vinegar – for ~$2 a loaf)

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  28. UpChuck.Liberals says: 28

    Personally I don’t care what someone eats as long as it isn’t a truely endangered species. I do care what they eat when its on my dime and my big dining out experience is a fast food Chinese/Vietnamese/Mexican place which is all we can afford with our medical insurance tripling thanks to the ‘affordable’ health care act, our electrical rates jumping 40%, car fuel up, food prices going straight up. Barry is a true peoples president. As long as the people are the Left Rich.

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  29. UpChuck.Liberals says: 29

    @Rides A Pale Horse: I was merely suggesting an edit to more IMHO correctly identify the topic of this discussion. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

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  30. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL HERE AT FA,
    keep them coming, and we will get to 2012 november HARMONIOUSLY TOGETHER without any open wounds
    and blood spills.

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  31. Disenchanted says: 31

    @rockybutte:

    come on that race baiting is so old. I wouldn’t care if he was pink with purple stripes IF he was a good president – but he is not. He wants to force marxism on me, he wants to tax me until oblivion and force my children and their children to incur debt before their time, wants to allow the military to arrest me without due process if they believe I am a terrorist (and according to big sis’ explanation, I am), wants me to work my ass off and give it to people who can work but don’t want to, and give my hard earned tax monies to illegals who BTW get more benefits than my family ever can. He wants to take away the freedoms that most people take for granted and replace them with his marxist dictator style of leadership, which if he got his way he would take over our property (as in these dictatorships the government OWNS everything), dictate where and when we work and what we are allowed to earn etc. etc. I could go on but if you just sit down and read about hitler, chavez, castro, stalin, mussolini, bill ayers, rev wright and the like you will find the way of life he wants for you and I. So again cut the crap. people are sick of you race baiters.

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  32. Smorgasbord says: 32

    @THE SOOTHSAYER: #25
    Obama already has his image on an appropriate currency: The Food Stamp!

    http://thefreshxpress.com/2010/09/tea-party-put-obama’s-photo-on-a-food-stamp/

    There are more people on Food Stamps than ever before.

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  33. rockybutte says: 33

    @Disenchanted,

    Bless you. You have encapsulated in buzz words most of the (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity…, etc.) con concepts about the president: marxism, illegals, hitler, chavez, castro, stalin, bill ayers, rev wright (how did you miss that he was born in Kenya and raised a Muslim?). You’ve paid attention to your masters and regurgitated their mantras. You’re a good student of the misinformed and a lackey of the power elites. But, you’re not alone.

    @…Pale horse (Pale, huh?)

    You’re right. I am a racist. Every white person in this country was raised a racist. I’ve tried to expunge my racist feelings, but have not been entirely successful, although I’m close. I’ve been reading FA comments for years at the advice of Wordsmith, who is not white. I’m sure that most white people I encounter are racist. I know for certain that conservatives are even more likely to be very racist even though they fervently deny being racist.

    Conservatives were comfortable with segregation and Jim Crow, or, to be more accurate, even if they were troubled by segregation and Jim Crow they were not troubled enough to do anything about them. Liberals did something about them and forced the reluctant federal government to do something about them, thereby allowing conservatives to champion “states rights” (aka don’t interfere with the states attempts to keep the “coloreds” in their place).

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  34. rockybutte says: 34

    @ Smorgasbord.

    You do realize that the US government no longer issues food coupons…right? They issue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards (SNAP, like a debit card, without presidential photos).

    The Tea Party newsletter put Obama’s photo on a faux food coupon. It’s not real.

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  35. Smorgasbord says: 35

    @rockybutte: #34
    I know it’s not real. I also know that the Obama $1,000,000 bill is fake.

    http://www.amazon.com/BILLS-Barack-Obama-Collectible-Million-Dollar/dp/B001LBUU3O

    I even have an Obama $1,000,000,000 bill.

    I had forgotten that the government had gone to debit cards for the recipients. They did that with the victims of Katrina and found they were spending them on luxury items.

    You might want to tell the news media there are no more food “stamps”. Many headlines read something like, “More people on food stamps than ever.”

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  36. DrJohn says: 36

    @rockybutte: Give a liberal enough time and he will make a fool of himself.

    bill ayers: Ayers admitted holding a fund raiser for Obama as was asserted by the right. Watch as Robert Gibbs bald face lies to Sissy Matthews

    rev wright?

    Seriously? Which part was something other than true? Did you miss Wright being thrown under the bus by Obama? Did you miss Obama claiming he never heard anything Wright said during the 20 years he attended Trinity?

    You really need to visit somewhere other than HuffPo for your news.

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  37. DrJohn says: 37

    @rockybutte:

    You’re right. I am a racist. Every white person in this country was raised a racist.

    Racism is a characteristic far more common on the left than on the right. democrats are contemptuous of black conservatives. Seldom does one hear such racial invective as is spewed by the left against the likes of Allan West and Clarence Thomas.

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  38. Wordsmith says: 38

    @rockybutte ##33:

    @…Pale horse (Pale, huh?)

    Probably biblical…not racial. ;)

    You’re right. I am a racist. Every white person in this country was raised a racist.

    Please explain this. ‘Cause by the only criteria I can possibly imagine, blacks must be “raised a racist” as well as every other group in this country (and outside of it).

    I’m really curious to know how you are arriving at this. If it’s out of sarcasm then I failed to notice (I have not read the comments that come before yours- just happened to see your comment highlighted as a recent comment on the front page).

    I’ve tried to expunge my racist feelings, but have not been entirely successful, although I’m close.

    Now there’s a headscratcher….

    White guilt? Pfft! Let it go, man.

    For some reason, this makes me think of the following from Miracle on 34th Street:

    KRIS: Oh? What’s the matter?

    ALFRED: Nothing. Nothing.

    KRIS: Something is wrong. What is it?

    ALFRED: Well, remember I was telling you…how I like to play Santa at the “Y” on Christmas…and give out packages to the young kids? I was telling that to Mr. Sawyer, see… and he says that’s very bad.

    KRIS: Sawyer. You mean, uh…

    ALFRED: That’s the one. He’s a psychologist.

    KRIS: Ohh, that’s a debatable point…Why is it bad, does he say?

    ALFRED: He says guys who dress like Santa Claus, see…and give presents away…do it because when they was young…they must have did something bad…and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good…to make up for it. It’s what he calls a guilt complex.

    KRIS: How old are you, Alfred?

    ALFRED: Seventeen.

    KRIS: Seventeen. Doesn’t seem you’ve had time to be guilty of anything…except overeating.

    ALFRED: It’s nothing to laugh about. It’s pretty serious, he says.

    KRIS: It’s a lot of rubbish, Alfred. Don’t listen.

    ALFRED: Oh, he knows what he’s talking about. He’s been studying that stuff for a long time.

    KRIS: Well, what’s the basis of this guilt complex…you’re supposed to have? Does he say that?

    ALFRED: Well, he ain’t found out yet. It’s probably way down inside of me someplace, see? Maybe something that happened when I was a baby, he says. It takes time, but he’ll do it, he says.

    KRIS: You mean you’re going to him again?

    ALFRED: Sure. I go every day after lunch. Oh, he don’t soak me nothin’. He’s doing it for free ’cause I’m an interesting case.

    KRIS: Yes. What else has he found wrong with you, Alfred? Anything else?

    ALFRED: No. Oh, just that I hate my father. I didn’t know it, but he says I do.

    KRIS: And he sees you every day?

    ALFRED: Yeah. I say anything that comes into my head.

    KRIS: Excuse me, Alfred. A few things have just come into my head…and I’m going to say them.

    Just replace you with Alfred and Sawyer with, say, Howard Zinn; and Kris Kringle with FA :D

    I’ve been reading FA comments for years at the advice of Wordsmith, who is not white.

    I’m a twinkie! :p

    rockybutte used to comment on my blog and was civil toward me in our disagreements. But since he liked to debate and argue so much and my blogging habits were on the decline, I figured he’d get fed a lot more attention and troll-bait from folks smarter than I if he came here where he’d have a lot more conservatives to play with and who would indulge him.

    You’re welcome, folks!

    I’m sure that most white people I encounter are racist.

    That comment just floors me!

    Whereabouts do you live?

    I grew up a military brat and have lived all over the country. I’ve been in the LA area for over 20 yrs. I’ve experienced racism firsthand. But I witness and experience it very little it. Imo, America is not a racist country. Racism will always exist (and race profiteers like Al Sharpton and the Democratic Party will always want to keep the issue alive)

    I know for certain that conservatives are even more likely to be very racist even though they fervently deny being racist.

    I say it’s mostly just the opposite.

    Liberal do-gooders wanting to relive the supposed glory days of the 60s good fight want to perpetuate the notion that they are fighting the good fight (lgbt as a civil rights issue).

    Conservatives were comfortable with segregation and Jim Crow, or, to be more accurate, even if they were troubled by segregation and Jim Crow they were not troubled enough to do anything about them. Liberals did something about them and forced the reluctant federal government to do something about them, thereby allowing conservatives to champion “states rights” (aka don’t interfere with the states attempts to keep the “coloreds” in their place).

    The 60s were over four decades ago. Quit living in the past. If you can’t see the difference between then and now, then the Sawyer of the Democratic Party has scrubbed your brain well.

    How on earth are blacks being “held back” today in 21st century America? Majority Americans voted a (half) black president into office for goodness sake! Herman Cain was favored much more strongly over a lily-white Mitt Romney but the sexual impropriety allegations derailed the Cain train. I suppose the tea partiers only supported Cain out of white guilt, huh?

    If we talk in terms of party, which party- Democratic or Republican- has a stronger history of racism against blacks? Here’s my hint:

    The Republican Party was formed in 1854 specifically to oppose the Democrats, and for more than 150 years, they have done everything they could to block the Democrat agenda. In their abuses of power, they have even used threats and military violence to thwart the Democrat Party’s attempts to make this a progressive country. As you read the following Republican atrocities that span three centuries, imagine if you will, what a far different nation the United States would be had not the Republicans been around to block the Democrats’ efforts.

    March 20, 1854
    Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon, Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party

    May 30, 1854
    Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’ Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents unite to form the Republican Party

    June 16, 1854
    Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery to unite in the Republican Party

    July 6, 1854
    First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson, Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

    February 11, 1856
    Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in President Lincoln’s Cabinet

    February 22, 1856
    First national meeting of the Republican Party, in Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

    March 27, 1856
    First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington, DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies

    May 22, 1856
    For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover

    March 6, 1857
    Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”

    June 26, 1857
    Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is “cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks

    October 13, 1858
    During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee

    October 25, 1858
    U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation Proclamation

    June 4, 1860
    Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery

    April 7, 1862
    President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for suppression of slave trade

    April 16, 1862
    President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no

    July 2, 1862
    U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act, establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as George Washington Carver

    July 17, 1862
    Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”

    August 19, 1862
    Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation

    August 25, 1862
    President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of African-American soldiers in U.S. Army

    September 22, 1862
    Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation

    January 1, 1863
    Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’ Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect

    February 9, 1864
    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over 100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for constitutional amendment to ban slavery

    June 15, 1864
    Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War

    June 28, 1864
    Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts

    October 29, 1864
    African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”

    January 31, 1865
    13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition

    March 3, 1865
    Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves

    April 8, 1865
    13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition

    June 19, 1865
    On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the Emancipation Proclamation

    November 22, 1865
    Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination

    December 6, 1865
    Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is ratified

    February 5, 1866
    U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves

    April 9, 1866
    Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law

    April 19, 1866
    Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican Party’s abolition of slavery

    May 10, 1866
    U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no

    June 8, 1866
    U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans [Senate] vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no [96% of GOP House members also-ws]

    July 16, 1866
    Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from “black codes” denying their rights

    July 28, 1866
    Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen

    July 30, 1866
    Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than 150

    January 8, 1867
    Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.

    July 19, 1867
    Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans

    March 30, 1868
    Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”

    May 20, 1868
    Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris – attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors

    September 3, 1868
    25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican Congress

    September 12, 1868
    Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress

    September 28, 1868
    Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300 African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican newspaper editor

    October 7, 1868
    Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”

    October 22, 1868
    While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan

    November 3, 1868
    Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation

    December 10, 1869
    Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office

    February 3, 1870
    After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race

    May 19, 1870
    African-American John Langston, law professor and future Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies

    May 31, 1870
    President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights

    June 22, 1870
    Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South

    September 6, 1870
    Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell

    February 28, 1871
    Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters

    March 22, 1871
    Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina

    April 20, 1871
    Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans

    October 10, 1871
    Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands

    October 18, 1871
    After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan

    November 18, 1872
    Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”

    January 17, 1874
    Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government

    September 14, 1874
    Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed

    March 1, 1875
    Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition

    September 20, 1876
    Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL) tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a Democrat… I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever existed”

    January 10, 1878
    U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919

    July 14, 1884
    Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted against the 13th Amendment banning slavery

    August 30, 1890
    Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for land-grant colleges in the South

    June 7, 1892
    In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women – Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in an official capacity, as alternate delegates

    February 8, 1894
    Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote

    December 11, 1895
    African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise African-Americans

    May 18, 1896
    Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision, declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens”

    December 31, 1898
    Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools

    May 24, 1900
    Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising African-Americans

    January 15, 1901
    Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans

    October 16, 1901
    President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

    May 29, 1902
    Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%

    February 12, 1909
    On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP

    June 18, 1912
    African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions

    August 1, 1916
    Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and Chief Justice

    May 21, 1919
    Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no

    April 18, 1920
    Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov. Jacob Preus

    August 18, 1920
    Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures

    January 26, 1922
    House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster

    June 2, 1924
    Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans

    October 3, 1924
    Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention

    December 8, 1924
    Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in favor of “separate but equal”

    June 12, 1929
    First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country

    August 17, 1937
    Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation

    June 24, 1940
    Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it

    October 20, 1942
    60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto, calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries

    April 3, 1944
    U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s “whites only” primary election system

    February 18, 1946
    Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools

    July 11, 1952
    Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity” of Democrats in racial matters

    September 30, 1953
    Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education

    December 8, 1953
    Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education

    May 17, 1954
    Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA) and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education

    [GOP President Dwight Eisenhower's Justice Department argued for Topeka, Kansas's black school children. Democrat John W. Davis, who lost a presidential bid to incumbent Republican Calvin Coolidge in 1924, defended "separate but equal" classrooms.]

    November 25, 1955
    Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel

    March 12, 1956
    Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation

    June 5, 1956
    Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law

    October 19, 1956
    On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows: “American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”

    November 6, 1956
    African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President

    September 9, 1957
    President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act

    September 24, 1957
    Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools

    June 23, 1958
    President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights

    February 4, 1959
    President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many Democrats

    May 6, 1960
    President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats

    July 27, 1960
    At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in platform

    May 2, 1963
    Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights

    June 1, 1963
    Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate University of Alabama

    September 29, 1963
    Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School

    June 9, 1964
    Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate

    June 10, 1964
    Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.

    [According to Congressional Quarterly, only 61% of Democrats in the House of Representatives supported the act, while 80% of Republicans voted in favor. In the Senate, 69% of Democrats and 82% of Republicans voted in favor. Among the Democratic senators who voted against the legislation were J. William Fulbright (Bill Clinton's mentor), who was a racist- pg 82, Do-Gooders, Mona Charen]

    *[Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) opposed this bill the very year he became the GOP's presidential standard-bearer. However, Goldwater supported the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts and called for integrating Arizona's National Guard two years before Truman desegregated the military. Goldwater feared the 1964 Act would limit freedom of association in the private sector, a controversial but principled libertarian objection rooted in the First Amendment rather than racial hatred.]

    Goldwater was also a founding (lifelong) member of the Arizona chapter for the NAACP.

    June 20, 1964
    The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper, praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act

    March 7, 1965
    Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL

    March 21, 1965
    Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat Governor George Wallace

    August 4, 1965
    Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose

    August 6, 1965
    Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor

    July 8, 1970
    In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits

    September 17, 1971
    Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he had defended Klansmen for racial murders

    February 19, 1976
    President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII

    September 15, 1981
    President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs

    June 29, 1982
    President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act

    August 10, 1988
    President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR

    November 21, 1991
    President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation

    August 20, 1996
    Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes law

    April 26, 1999
    Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI) awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is transmitted to President

    January 25, 2001
    U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school choice to be “Educational Emancipation”

    March 19, 2003
    Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference

    May 23, 2003
    U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish National Museum of African American History and Culture

    February 26, 2004
    Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX) condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a bunch of white men…you all look alike to me”

    National Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed for a 25 year extension by President George W. Bush on July 27, 2006.


    Shattering glass ceilings
    :

    Until 1935, every black federal legislator was Republican. America’s first black U.S. Representative, South Carolina’s Joseph Rainey, and our first black senator, Mississippi’s Hiram Revels, both reached Capitol Hill in 1870. On December 9, 1872, Louisiana Republican Pinckney Benton Stewart “P.B.S.” Pinchback became America’s first black governor.

    August 8, 1878: GOP supply-siders may hate to admit it, but America’s first black Collector of Internal Revenue was former U.S. Rep. James Rapier (R., Ala.).

    October 16, 1901: GOP President Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House as its first black dinner guest Republican educator Booker T. Washington. The pro-Democrat Richmond Times newspaper warned that consequently, “White women may receive attentions from Negro men.” As Toni Marshall wrote in the November 9, 1995, Washington Times, when Roosevelt sought reelection in 1904, Democrats produced a button that showed their presidential nominee, Alton Parker, beside a white couple while Roosevelt posed with a white bride and black groom. The button read: “The Choice Is Yours.”

    GOP presidents Gerald Ford in 1975 and Ronald Reagan in 1982 promoted Daniel James and Roscoe Robinson to become, respectively, the Air Force’s and Army’s first black four-star generals.

    November 2, 1983: President Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday, the first such honor for a black American.

    President Reagan named Colin Powell America’s first black national-security adviser while GOP President George W. Bush appointed him our first black secretary of state.

    President G.W. Bush named Condoleezza Rice America’s first black female NSC chief, then our second (consecutive) black secretary of State. Just last month, one-time Klansman Robert Byrd and other Senate Democrats stalled Rice’s confirmation for a week. Amid unanimous GOP support, 12 Democrats and Vermont Independent James Jeffords opposed Rice — the most “No” votes for a State designee since 14 senators frowned on Henry Clay in 1825.

    “The first Republican I knew was my father, and he is still the Republican I most admire,” Rice has said. “He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”

    The real question that matters is, “which party is more racist today: Democrats or Republicans?”

    Demcrats are fixated on race. They see the color of people’s skin all the time and obsess over it.

    Republicans keep trying to move beyond it, wishing to make race an irrelevant and obsolete issue. To live MLK’s dream of seeing the content of character rather than the color of skin.

    Democrats see skin. They can’t see past it.

    But Democrats have to continually bring up differences, celebrating multiculturalism, diversity, and magnify all those things that separate and divide.

    @DrJohn:

    You really need to visit somewhere other than HuffPo for your news.

    Well….he does come here. :p

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  39. Hard Right says: 39

    Yes the dems/left obssess over race, but another factor is the divide and conquer technique. The English used it to control large parts of the world despite being heavily outnumbered.

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  40. Aqua says: 40

    @ THE SOOTHSAYER:
    Wagyu isn’t that expensive. You can get a 9 lb brisket for about $100 to $175, which is pretty reasonable. And if you know how to cook a brisket, there is just no comparison. You’re looking at spending maybe $30 to $50 more than Prime. Please don’t protest the Wagyu.

    And where is Rich? How ’bout them Noles?!?!?!?!

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  41. ROCKYBUTTE
    read all WORDSMITH EXCEPTIONAL ENLIGHTEN AND BRIGHTEST HISTORICAL ANSWER,
    APOLOGIZE HERE AT FA, OR YOU WILL BE LOOKED AT A DUM DEMOCRAT AND CORRUPT TO THE BONE FOR COMING HERE AND ACCUSE US ALL OF RACIST;you are repeating the racist card of OBAMA DEMOCRATS, like a dog who always shit on the floor every place he goes
    AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT EVERY MAN THAT LOVE SLAVERY ,BETTER THAN FREEDOM ,
    IS A DEMOCRAT. thank you to WORDSMITH.
    THAT OUGHT TO ROCK YOUR BUTT hey ROCKYBUTTE?
    that tell me when 2012 electiom will change leader, there will be a great healing joy for the black AMERICANS,
    AND there will be no more race card used allowed
    in the WHITE HOUSE.
    THANK GOD

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  42. MataHarley says: 42

    Dang… talking about “buzz words” blanket mentality…. I’d say that @rockbutt managed to convey all the hatred pent up in so many on the left in just a few paragraphs.

    Ya know, Wordsmith, when you take out the garbage to get rid of it (rockbutt on your own blog), you should haul it out to the curb for disposal. Not throw it into your neighbor’s bin (sending him here to FA…). LOL

    Considering his history of comments here, we’ve not enjoyed any debate of substance. Just another leftist parrot. We already have our quota of those, ya know….

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  43. Wordsmith says: 43

    @MataHarley:

    Ya know, Wordsmith, when you take out the garbage to get rid of it (rockbutt on your own blog), you should haul it out to the curb for disposal. Not throw it into your neighbor’s bin (sending him here to FA…). LOL

    Well, sometimes recycling is less harsh and costly on the environment. :D

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  44. drjohn says: 44

    @Wordsmith:

    @DrJohn:

    You really need to visit somewhere other than HuffPo for your news.

    Well….he does come here. :p

    True.

    If only he’d come here to learn instead of coming here to show how little he really knows.

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  45. drjohn says: 45

    @ilovebeeswarzone:

    THAT OUGHT TO ROCK YOUR BUTT hey ROCKYBUTTE?

    LMAO

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  46. Smorgasbord says: 46

    @drjohn: #44
    Anyone who comes here (FA) learns something good, whether they want to or not.

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  47. SMORGASBORD
    HI,
    YES , we learn a lot of good from you too.
    HAPPY NEW YEAR

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  48. 3D says: 48

    Hey Rocky…try some ointment that’s 16-20% zinc on that rash. You might be happier then.

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  49. Richard Wheeler says: 49

    Aqua #40 Belated Congrats to the Noles. Anybody who doesn’t think college football is the GREATEST sport in the world has had his /her head in a bunker the last couple of days. WOW

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  50. C Andrew Scott says: 50

    thanks for forwarding the donation request. i just donated $100.

    haters gonna hate.

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  51. rockybutte says: 51

    Word,
    You advise me to forget the “sixties”. I remember the sixties.

    Prior to the sixties a citizen could be arrested for speaking against government policies in public. Mario Salvo at the U of Cal, among others, helped confront that wrong.

    The “Ban the Bomb” movement helped keep the possibility of nuclear annihilation in the public’s eye.

    The “Freedom Riders” performed a radical act: ride public transportation while black from one southern city to another. Despite humiliation and intimidation, the first group from Memphis was allowed by Bull Conner to proceed from Birmingham to Montgomery under escort. In Montgomery the riders had the crap beaten out of them by rednecks with lawmen standing by.

    The “sit-in” at the lunch counter of the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth also had a radical agenda: African-Americans sat at the segregated lunch counter and ordered coffee. They were refused service. Still, the sit-in continued daily for some time, and, after a sharp decline in business, all customers were allowed to be served.

    Three young men were killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan because they were trying to help African-Americans carry out their radical agenda: register to vote. Ronald Reagan gave his post-convention speech in Neshoba County in August of 1980 and promised, with a wink and a nod, that, if elected president, he would ensure that the federal government would recognize states rights over outside influences.

    In March of 1965 thousands of people marching for voting rights were attacked by lawmen in Selma, Alabama. Some were shot and killed, all were tear-gassed. Many were beaten with bullwhips and rubber hoses covered with barbed wire. Over 4000 US Army soldiers, Alabama National Guardsmen, US Marshals and FBI agents eventually escorted them to their destination: the Alabama statehouse in Montgomery.

    Later that year LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act, which, along with 1964′s Civil Rights Act, set the legal framework for minorities to attempt to exercise their legal rights.

    So yes, Word, the sixties matter. A lot happened in that decade. It’s curious that you dismiss the 1960s yet reach back to the 1830s to advance your argument.

    One of the gimmicks that conservatives use in proving that liberals are racist and conservatives are not is the tracing of African-American liberation back to Lincoln, the first Republican president. Incidentally, his campaign called not for the abolition of slavery, but the prohibition of slavery in states yet to be admitted to the union. Slave owners feared this would result in slavery “dying on the vine”, and thus was formed the CSA.

    The term Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to 1964 (the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964). During this time, all local and state officeholders in the South were Democrats, as were federal politicians the region sent to Washington, D.C.. The virtual non-existence of the Republican Party in the region meant that a candidate’s victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. (Wikipedia)

    When the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 conservative southerners left the Democratic party in droves. In the first presidential election after the act passed Barry Goldwater, a Republican, won only six states: Arizona (his home state), and the five “deep south” states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina).

    After Nixon’s “southern strategy” (convince conservative southerners that the Republican Party was more in line with their views on race and limited government) took hold, virtually all southern conservatives became Republicans, and they were followed, in time by practically all of the conservatives throughout the land.

    Some commented that liberals are racist because liberals opposed Cain, Clarence Thomas and Alan West. Liberals opposed those men because they’re conservative. I oppose Alan Keyes and Michael Steele, too. In fact, I oppose all conservatives.

    I realize that it serves your purpose to brand liberals as racists. As I have mentioned before, I am a racist. Everyone is a racist to a degree. What we should be doing is helping each other become aware of our racial blind spots.

    Please stop spewing hate of Latinos and Muslims, Flopping Acers. It doesn’t become you.

    I won’t bother you again.

    As my old dean at the Boston College School of LIBERAL Arts says: “Bye-bye”.

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  52. @rockybutte: Dude, I remember the sixties as well. I remember fighting for my country while liberal wachos like you paraded around in you pajamas and demonstrated about anything and everything under the sun. Of course you where un willing to anything meaningful except demonstrate your ignorance to the real world. And now your flower power children continue this nonsense with the OWS movement and wanting everything for free and not willing to work for it. I am a racist as well and hate your kind because your lazy and unwilling to live in the real world. Grow up!!

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  53. Richard Wheeler says: 53

    Common sense #52 says “I am a racist”. Rockybutte says he is a racist. Honesty at F.A.
    Racism exists and can’t be swept under the mat.

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  54. Rockybutte
    you say you are racist, yes you are a liberal along the democrats spouting names
    like let them go to hell, or the TEA PARTY IS MADE OF TERRORISTS, ya that is not good for racist to say it,
    where does the racist card come from, well everybody know now, not from here, and it will be fix on NOVEMBER 2012, NO MORE CLASS WARFARE, NO MORE HATEMONGERS IN THE WHITE HOUSE, it will be fix once and for all; YOU should have mentioned that WORDSMITH was relating to GOVERNMENT PARTY NOT INDIVIDUALS CIVILIANS, shame on you

    STOP YOUR RACIST TONGUE TO MOVE, BECAUSE IT WILL
    STICK IN YOUR MOUTH, NOT OUT AND YOU WILL SWALLOW IT

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  55. THE SOOTHSAYER says: 55

    As my dean at the College (now university) of Saint Thomas would put it “that is a lot of pedantic rant full of lumps”. Perhaps getting a bit more down to earth away from the leafy confines of Chestnut Hill if we resided in a “racist” community; such as, pitching tent in Roxbury or black neighborhood project Dorchester. Better still, get a set of keys to a Valerie Jarrett tenement flat where Barry O’BingoGame did his stint as “community organizer”. This week’s Chicago (born and lived there) count is 15 shot on the southside just a Par-4 away from the High-IQ digs of Hyde Park. Academe is something along the lines of the Globe Theater where all the students had been to Denmark or walked Arden Field. (hint: Shakespeare had never been to Copenhagan or Greese) For me, after living is several areas east of the Mississippi it is Harlem my favorite, everything you have heard or read about Harlem are racist main street media Oprah Winfrey-Al Sharpton lies.

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  56. Wordsmith says: 56

    @rockybutte #51:

    Word,
    You advise me to forget the “sixties”.

    Here’s what wordsmith typed in Comment #38:

    The 60s were over four decades ago. Quit living in the past. If you can’t see the difference between then and now,

    Care to re-comprehend?

    Some commented that liberals are racist because liberals opposed Cain, Clarence Thomas and Alan West. Liberals opposed those men because they’re conservative. I oppose Alan Keyes and Michael Steele, too. In fact, I oppose all conservatives.

    And yet if conservatives oppose President Obama, it must be because we are racists, right? Not because we actually are opposed to his policies?

    When Bill and Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and many other liberal Democrats are villified fairly or unfairly, is that out of racism? Why should Obama be treated with a kid glove pass? Because he’s black? Pffft! He’s being treated equally, with the same fervent political partisan rancor that everyone on his side of the political aisle gets treated with.

    I realize that it serves your purpose to brand liberals as racists.

    No, it serves your side to constantly slander the Republican Party as the party of racists.

    Neither side is pure on race and it has nothing to do with political leanings. There are racists in both camps. But you remain stuck in time, fighting battles from the 60s that have been mostly won, and romanticizing notions that Democrats were the sole good guys and distorting the political record. My blockquote listing the Republican record and Democrat shortfalls on race issues doesn’t tell the full story either. It is partisan. But you fail to see the partisan slant in the picture you choose to paint. Wake up.

    As I have mentioned before, I am a racist. Everyone is a racist to a degree. What we should be doing is helping each other become aware of our racial blind spots.

    You’re welcome!

    So you acknowledge the blind spot I am trying to point out to you now?

    Please stop spewing hate of Latinos and Muslims, Flopping Acers. It doesn’t become you.

    I agree, where it applies. When will you acknowledge that most conservatives such as myself do not hate Latinos and Muslims? That your side spins the issues and makes it about race.

    I won’t bother you again.

    You don’t bother me, rockybutte.

    I enjoy those like yourself willing to read what conservatives have to say, even when you might be failing to grasp what we are saying.

    I guess I keep holding out hopes that one day you might at least understand the conservative point of view without spinning it through your liberal-lens filter in order to make sense of it to fit your distorted worldview of the conservative mind.

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