There is more to her of course but this tenet she adheres to and lives by is what puts her head and shoulders above all the others.
Posted on 09/26/2009 10:20:10 AM PDT by Son House
“I think President Obama addressed that directly and said that he didn’t feel that was the case,” Pawlenty said
His comments came when asked about former President Jimmy Carter's and former Vice President Walter Mondale's arguments that Obama’s race is a factor in the animus against him.
"I don't like saying it," Mondale told the online news outlet Politico Thursday. "I don't want to pick a person, say, he's a racist, but I do think the way they're piling on Obama, the harshness, you kind of feel it.”
“I think people that are guilty of that kind of personal attack against Obama have been influenced to a major degree by a belief that he should not be president because he happens to be African-American,” Carter said at a town hall meeting.
“I believe that President Carter and former Vice President Mondale are entitled to their opinions but I think the president himself is disclaiming that theory,” said Pawlenty, a Republican who has rejected many of the policies Obama has supported.
The governor was also asked this morning about Minnesota mayors’ effort to get gubernatorial candidates to address state aids to local governments.
Pawlenty, who has overseen cuts in local aids as governor, today said that the local aid system is a broken and abused system that needs scrutiny.
“We’ve got what some have called a municipal welfare system in Minnesota … I think when the economy shrinks this much when you have local government leaders who think they aren’t going to get their money reduced or think they don’t have to tighten their belts they’ve got their head in the sands and we should have the debate. I think we should have the debate around whether this program is really functioning the way it should,” the governor said.
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I clarified to him that disagreeing with Obama on policy is not racist.
Then to put the icing on the cake, I agreed with him saying that Obama says there are many ways Government can cuts spending, but, added that Obama hasn't implemented any. He couldn't take the truth, and walked away before I could provide the example of the Omnibus Spending Bill...
Only a racist thinks pure political disagreement is racist.
He couldn’t take the truth, and walked away before I could
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Isn’t that the way it goes?
Glad to see the RINO not wasting any time reaching that decision.
Got focus groups?
BUCHANAN TO OBAMA By Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans.. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants.. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude???
Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids.? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 'S fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
We are a Christian Nation even if Mr. Obama says we are not.
There are some racists who participate in this debate, and unfortunately, the liberal media focuses on them. The vast bulk of the people involved in this debate, though, simply do not want Obama or any politician running their lives.
While all who are racist probaby DO oppose Obama...All who oppose Obama are NOT racist.
While Wally Mondale was VP he spoke at the commencement program at my graduation. I showed him the proper respect and did not attend, instead taking the time to move my motley student furniture out of an apartment located near the football stadium where he was speaking. I recall carrying a large piece of furniture with a friend, pausing outside to negotiate a turn into a moving truck and hearing Mondale’s fragmented voice echoing from the PA system at the stadium, a few blacks away. I laughed.
make that “blocks”
>> that started out from him that all white Americans who disagree with Obama are racist.
Of course, you could have simply accused him of being intolerant, race baiting demagogue.
There is more to her of course but this tenet she adheres to and lives by is what puts her head and shoulders above all the others.
Many people in MN would disagree with Pawlenty on that. They do think criticism of Obama is racist.
Support of Obama is racist.
Seriously. What does “historic election” mean?
Even if you are of the Left, what has he done that you support? Not closing Gitmo? Not winning Afghanistan? Failing to pass Cap & Tax?
The support for him is the not-so-soft bigotry of low expectations.
"It's not the color of his skin that I hate; it's the color of his COMMIE RED agenda."
Yeah Sarah!
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Sounds like you po’d that racist, but good.
I suspect more racists support 0bama than oppose him, myself.
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