Republicans And The "race Card"

[repub123]

The Republicans are playing the “race card” now because that is all they have left. Right-wing talk radio, Fox News, Kenneth Blackwell, and the McCain-Palin campaign have all been accusing the activist group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), of “voter fraud” and even playing a role in the subprime mortgage crisis. They have lumped Obama in with ACORN even though he never worked for the organization, and because ACORN is heavily identified with African-American urban communities the Rightwing is trying to tarnish ACORN’s current voter registration activities as being somehow “unfair” to white Republicans and use that charge to smear Obama. The allegations have been proven false but they remind me of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, glorifying the history of the Ku Klux Klan. In the film there are scenes of black “freedmen” in the Reconstruction South stuffing ballot boxes to rig elections against the white majority. The KKK bursts on the scene to render “justice” for the white victims of what today Rush Limbaugh would call “voter fraud.” It is noteworthy how little the tropes of racism have changed in America in the past hundred years.

The near total collapse of the financial system and the subsequent panic selling on Wall Street have repudiated everything for which the Republican Party stood for the last 30 years: Neo-cons wishing to use American military power to assert dominance and spread “democracy?” Forget it — We don’t have the money to do that anymore. War hawks who want U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until “victory” is attained? Forget about it — We don’t have $4 billion a month to throw at Iraq. Tax cutters and deregulators who promise that if we just strip away government our “ownership society” will efficiently distribute the bounty because that’s what markets do — Are you telling us a bad joke!?

The economic crisis upended the McCain campaign. In desperation, McCain has chosen to go negative 100 percent of the time. He sent forth his evangelical VPILF to hurl McCarthyite smears and race-baiting attacks at the African-American candidate. And she has done so in a way that only a person from a lily-white noncontiguous state could do.

But McCain’s is a failed “strategy.” The Bush Administration’s reckless disregard for governance has finally precipitated the humungous crisis many of us believed was lurking beneath the surface for many years now. He ran the United States in a manner akin to that of a tin-pot dictator in a banana republic. We are fortunate that the timing of the great financial collapse allows us to hold a referendum on the miserable years of misrule under George Walker Bush. “No” or “Si.”

Let the voting begin!

[soggyfeet]

You are right the innercity and poor do deserve more votes than the rest of the nation. So we need to leave ACORN and let them continue their valiant effort to stuff ballot boxes for the Democratic canidates. ARE YOU KIDDING? The investigation has nothing to do with race. When you have a orginazationn regestering names like Mickey Mouse, and pressureing people to register more than once is highly uneithacal. Its not voter fraud YET, its registration fraud. This orginazation is a discrace and a burdon on society. No matter what your political view is the law is one person one vote. Its not like business where you can buy other stockholders votes which is what Acorn seems to be doing. I dont see anything wrong with going around and getting these people registered and going to pick them up on election day if they need a ride. The problem is when you pick them up and take them to vote at four different voteing places.

Who are you? Did you just sign yet for this forum to throw bombs like this or are you a regular member that started another name out of cowardness. The people that post on this forum are here to talk about fishing and we are talking politics on the side. I dont belive that with a screne name like yours you will be talking much fishing.

We might have our first political spammer

[twosets]

The Dems are the ones who are so interested in race.

From the NY Post

A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.

“Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they’ll give me a dollar to sign up,” said Freddie Johnson, 19, who filled out 72 separate voter-registration cards over an 18-month period at the behest of the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“The ACORN people are everywhere, looking to sign people up. I tell them I am already registered. The girl said, ‘You are?’ I say, ‘Yup,’ and then they say, ‘Can you just sign up again?’ ” he said.

[twosets]

Words of the great uniter

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

'As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides,' Obama said. 'There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression. And the anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all. It should be swapped for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it.'

'I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial.' - Barack Obama.

[sparkleminnow]

ACORN stealing Ohio election

[Phil Lilley]

Everyone should be concerned about voter fraud. It underminds our whole democratic system.

Yes, McCain is trying to make hay out of it. And yes it may backfire.

But gosh, I'd think diehard Dems would want a fair fight and should be screaming just as loud as Rep's on this one, even on this board.

[jdmidwest]

Vote early, vote often!

I sure hope we don't have a replay of the botched attempt by the Democrats to instill Gore in 2000.

[Chief Grey Bear]

I would Phil but, you are obviously blind to what we have to deal with.

It appears to me as if repub123 is one heck of a fisherman. One cast and look how many he has hooked already.

Biting pretty good today huh repub123. Where does one get some of that stink bait you are using?

[sparkleminnow]

I would Phil but, you are obviously blind to what we have to deal with.

It appears to me as if repub123 is one heck of a fisherman. One cast and look how many he has hooked already.

Biting pretty good today huh repub123. Where does one get some of that stink bait you are using?

Bait, huh? Sorry, looked more like a typical cookie-cutter rant on the Democrat Underground blogs, or the Huffington Post. My bad!

[bigredbirdfan]

The Republicans are playing the “race card” now because that is all they have left. Right-wing talk radio, Fox News, Kenneth Blackwell, and the McCain-Palin campaign have all been accusing the activist group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), of “voter fraud” and even playing a role in the subprime mortgage crisis. They have lumped Obama in with ACORN even though he never worked for the organization, and because ACORN is heavily identified with African-American urban communities the Rightwing is trying to tarnish ACORN’s current voter registration activities as being somehow “unfair” to white Republicans and use that charge to smear Obama. The allegations have been proven false but they remind me of D. W. Griffith’s 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, glorifying the history of the Ku Klux Klan. In the film there are scenes of black “freedmen” in the Reconstruction South stuffing ballot boxes to rig elections against the white majority. The KKK bursts on the scene to render “justice” for the white victims of what today Rush Limbaugh would call “voter fraud.” It is noteworthy how little the tropes of racism have changed in America in the past hundred years.

The near total collapse of the financial system and the subsequent panic selling on Wall Street have repudiated everything for which the Republican Party stood for the last 30 years: Neo-cons wishing to use American military power to assert dominance and spread “democracy?” Forget it — We don’t have the money to do that anymore. War hawks who want U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until “victory” is attained? Forget about it — We don’t have $4 billion a month to throw at Iraq. Tax cutters and deregulators who promise that if we just strip away government our “ownership society” will efficiently distribute the bounty because that’s what markets do — Are you telling us a bad joke!?

The economic crisis upended the McCain campaign. In desperation, McCain has chosen to go negative 100 percent of the time. He sent forth his evangelical VPILF to hurl McCarthyite smears and race-baiting attacks at the African-American candidate. And she has done so in a way that only a person from a lily-white noncontiguous state could do.

But McCain’s is a failed “strategy.” The Bush Administration’s reckless disregard for governance has finally precipitated the humungous crisis many of us believed was lurking beneath the surface for many years now. He ran the United States in a manner akin to that of a tin-pot dictator in a banana republic. We are fortunate that the timing of the great financial collapse allows us to hold a referendum on the miserable years of misrule under George Walker Bush. “No” or “Si.”

Let the voting begin!

Do tell what left wing outlet you picked up this crap from. Can you even watch TV? This ACORN mess is everywhere and one of Obamas only acomplishments is helping them obtain funding.

Also you picked this as your first post on a primarialy outdoors forum. Come On.