Its now official. I’m a racist. No less than a former president of the United States has declared that if I oppose the takeover of 17% of our economy under the guise of health care reform, I hate black people.
According to President Carter, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s objection to a ‘misstatement’ in President Obama’s speech to Congress last week was an act “based on racism” and rooted in fears of a black president. And a Rasmussen survey shows that fully 12% of Americans agree with him.
The old media has chimed in, with the left’s favorite columnist, Maureen Dowd, going a step further. Rep. Joe Wilson said, “You lie’ to Obama. But Maureen Dowd heard, “You lie, boy.” Boy being one of the many politically incorrect words the left has decided is an indicator of racism. Point made. Case closed.
Another columnist, E. Danielle Egan, has joined the growing chorus. In the Philadelphia Enquirer, Egan blithely dismissed the app. 2 million protesters who turned out last weekend to protest Obama’s policies, writing them off as illegitimate. Â “So I have decided it’s time that what I’ve been watching be called what I believe it is: racism.” She continues, “The level of rage being expressed is different and out of sync with what we know from the past.” I guess she was visiting Atlantis during the Bush years, or something.
And just in case anyone has missed the point, ABC has devoted a full story to the racist motives of the Obama protesters.
So there. The media and political elite have spoken. Any opposition to Obama means the protester is a bad person. A person unable to see beyond the color of his skin. A racist. (Isn’t that called profiling?)
Conveniently for these elites, they have also decided that responding to ignorant racists is quite beneath them. Being a racist is bad, therefore there is absolutely no need to respond to the underlying complaint. Whew.
This is the ultimate free pass. It almost makes me wish I had been born black. Then I could make any claims I want, without any facts to back them up, and still maintain the moral high ground. I could blame every bad decision I ever made on racism and, best of all, put my opponents in the impossible situation of trying to prove a negative.
I would gain membership in the ever growing class of ‘victims’, which automatically grants me immunity from the normal rules of civilized behavior.
The fact that Joe Wilson was quite correct in branding Obama a liar is not the point. By diverting the issue to racial animus, Obama’s ‘misstatement’ is conveniently overlooked. This is called a win-win situation.
Wilson’s audacity in branding Obama a liar has caused a national firestorm. The left is in high dudgeon, quickly spinning the truth of Wilson’s (admittedly disrespectful) assertion into a condemnation of his integrity, topping it off with the unprecedented act of issuing a formal rebuke from the House. Bad boy! (Can I say that?)
Not mentioned in this national brou haha is Sen Reid’s Dec 15, 2004 statement, where he called called President Bush a liar. “President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.”
I guess its OK to call white guys liars. Even when they can’t come up with any specific lie. Its just something everyone knows. Bush lied. Strangely enough, I’ve never been taken up on my challenge to pay $100.00 to anyone who can cite a specific lie that Bush told. I digress.
Also not included in the conversation the left is successfully controlling, is President Obama’s statement last week branding Kanye West a jackass. But, hey, West is black…this is starting to get confusing.
I’m in awe of the left. Though they have admitted not knowing the details of the 1,000 plus pages of the Obama health care ‘reform’, they have managed to divine what is in my heart. And the hearts of millions of others. And it’s called racism.
Despite having elected a black president, the left would have us believe that the millions of whites who voted for Obama still hate black people. They would have us believe that, even though we can’t see it, racism is still a dominant force in America. Its just evolved into the silent ‘institutional’ kind of racism that no one can quantify. But its still there. I guess we just have to take their word for it. If we dare question their premise, we’re racists. Game, set and match.
Sooo, we’re supposed to take seriously a woman who hears words that were never said?
When will folks dismiss Carter as the old anti-Semite that he truly is and ignore him?
He is the best Pal of every tin pot despot and terror sponsoring state on the globe.
Calling out any elected official for bad policy is the right of every American. Tossing out the race card does not make bad policy correct. It just alienates those that have valid questions or a valid argument. The name calling does not enhance any argument and Carter’s comments just reinforce my already low opinion of him. I recall the Carter years as a very dark time for America.
I think it’s kind of neat that the all powerful, conversation stopping, “Racist!” Silver Bullet has slowly, but surely eroded and de-evolved due to its consistent, carpet bombing over-use into what today is no more than a Popcorn Fart!
I fully expect support for the Dems/left will dwindle while this last=gasp tactic is in play. I also predict Obama’s popularity numbers to trip, stumble and fall after his mini-marathon of Sunday talk shows.
Just sayin’.
Jack.
Since Jimmy Carter is an old time segregationist, I think you come out even.
Yea,that’s a real hoot coming from Jimmah Cawtah…considering that he didn’t have enough hair on his itty bitty racist pee pee to put a single black in his cabinet during the entire time he was trying to be President.
Color me Racist as well. If it means I will stand up to a regime in the making then I will gladly get a T-Shirt with RACIST emblazoned on the front of it. I can hear my friends now, so you finally decided to call out the white man.
The PANIC button for Democrats is labeled RACIST CARD. When Democrats are losing an argument or don’t have a leg to stand on, they use their Panic, I mean RACIST CARD, button. Democrats feel strongly that the majority of people believe that to defeat a Black president one has to first put him in office and then remove him.
It’s very telling that the same kinds of political remarks that are made against Obama’s lies are also made against other left-leaning radicals that share the same socialistic and extremist views that Obama holds — even though they are white.
Now that the Obamacare “reforms” are dead or dying, radical democrats want to shift the discussion to Racism in the hopes that it would matter, but it won’t.
American voters are keeping close tabs on the issues and incidents of late, Van Jones, Obama’s lies, ACORN’s repugnance, trashing our allies Poland and Czechoslovakia, and other recent news on how bad and inexperienced Obama and his policies really are.
It may surprise many to remember or learn that the religious “training” that Obama received for twenty years from sitting in his church pew listening to the radical extremist Rev. Jeremiah Wright was self-described Afro-Centric enculturation. Who are the racists?
Bigotry is OK with HuffPo MSNBS and Madcow.
http://heyitsjustablogman.blogspot.com/2009/09/most-anti-christian-hate-monger-ever.html
Don’t know if this is an overall thing or what, but I have talked to serveral people who are Obama supporters, and they are digging in their heels even harder. Can’t reason with them. Hope they are in the minority (number wise) and aren’t like all those who pushed for his presidency. They are really stubborn over this whole thing. It is almost like they have been brainwashed and are walking zombies. Before Obama, they were normal, intelligent, rational thinking adults. What in the name of heaven is going on here?
Madalyn
It is incorrect to say that America has an African-American as head of state without somewhere indicating that the head of state is Black (Negroid race)(actually mixed or Mulatto) as opposed to being white (Afrikaans of Dutch/German origins).
Mulatto (from Spanish mulato – young mule)
–noun
1. the offspring of one white parent and one black parent. (Note: Obama is the offspring of one white and one black parent.)
2. a person whose ancestry is a mixture of Negro and Caucasian.
Read article:
Newsweek’s Kelley: Protests Against Obama Are Because He’s Black
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/19/newsweeks-kelley-protests-against-obama-are-because-hes-black