Posted on 11/06/2014 4:24:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Former Obama White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, now a political commentator for CNN, casually admitted that, yes, his party uses race to convince minorities that Republicans seek to oppress them.
Before the midterm election, Carney said: "Republicans are going to pick up seats in the Senate and the House, and they may win control of the Senate. So (Democrats) need to mobilize their base voters, and that is especially true of minority voters."
Carney also admitted that the use of the race card is cynical: "Equating support for stand-your-ground law ... doesn't mean you supported the action that took Trayvon Martin's life. So that's the kind of, you know, rough ad -- similar to the one we saw from the Republican. I think we've come to expect that, and hopefully a lot of voters ... kind of tune it out."
Carney claims both sides use race to gin up their base. But when Republicans do it, he insists, they do so out of racism. Consider this exchange with Bill Kristol, the conservative publisher of the Weekly Standard. Carney claims that the Republicans' push for voter ID is motivated by the racist Republican desire to suppress the black vote:
Kristol: I voted in Virginia last Saturday. Since I was going to be in New York next week, I voted early absentee in person, and I had to show my driver's license. Do you think that's really a problem?
Carney: You know what the statistics say. You know who is most affected by the requirements, essentially poll tax-type requirements.
Kristol: Poll tax? Showing an identification is like charging people a fine, a tax?
Carney: Bill, you know that the fraud isn't substantial and real. You know it doesn't have a significant impact, because it's so minimal, on election results and you know what the motivation is behind it. You know it.
Kristol: I just totally disagree. But that's OK.
Carney: No, you don't.
So here we have two white guys -- three counting host Jake Tapper -- discussing black-white relations. White Democrat accuses white Republican of being racist against blacks. White Republican denies it. White Democrat says: Oh, yes, you are, and you can deny it all you want. But you are a bigot unless and until I say otherwise. White Republican meekly denies the charge. The subject is changed. Let's move on.
Conservative commentator Ben Stein recently called out Obama and the Democrats on their vulgar use of the race card: "What the White House is doing is trying to racialize all politics, and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy. And that's just a complete lie. ... The President is the most racist president there has ever been in America. He is purposely trying to use race to divide Americans." Memo to RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Stein has just shown how to counter the race card -- with facts.
How pathetic is Obama's use of it? When running for president in 2008 -- and to prove he wasn't at all like the Reverend Al Sharpton, Obama refused to even appear with the race-hustling flamethrower. Today, they are BFF's.
Six years in, the Obama administration cannot brag about growth. This recovery is the nation's worst in 80 years, arguably ever. Dems cannot talk about declining black poverty because the rate is about where it was when Obama took office. Black Inner-city teenage unemployment exceeds 50 percent in some cities.
A black 82-year-old grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, recently called C-SPAN to explain why this time she "voted straight Republican": "I have noticed ... what the Democratic Party has done to my people. Unemployment is high in the black community -- we are double with unemployment -- than it is anywhere else. ... And I'm not talking about the people that need help -- because with so many people getting help that doesn't need help, it prevents the people that really need help from getting it. ... I hear my people calling in all the time saying that every time you say something against the ideology of President Obama, that you're doing it because he is black. We need to stop that foolishness. This man is destroying this country, and it's what he intended to do. He said he was going to transform America, and that's what he's doing."
More alarming for Democrats, it's not just 82-year-old black grannies who are reconsidering their allegiance to the Party. Young black people, the "hope and change" voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama, have also been mugged by the reality of uncommonly high unemployment and underemployment. They see that government, even when led by a young, progressive, empathetic black President, will not solve their problems. Among black 18- to 29-year-olds, nearly one-third of them now self-describe as political "independents."
After Tuesday's election, Democrats better order some new race cards. The deck is getting thin.
Jay, it is the racism of the Democrats that keeps Blacks enslaved to the government give away programs. They destroy personal motivation and the family structure necessary to be self-sufficient.
If Republicans are racist, why is there a brilliant hispanic Bush on the political horizon or a Mitch asian wife ?
Why is there a brain surgeon raised up from the black hell of Detroit serving up a conservative message?
I’m offended by Carney just being
Time to get new race cards. The Dems just played “52 Pick-up” with the last deck.
The Democrat party is full of totalitarian wanabees who would imitate Khmer Rouge flunkies in a minute if they had absolute power.
The only reason why they turned into the monstrosity they are is because they’re supported by totalitarian wanabees in the electorate who think they’re worthy of getting rid of their fellow citizens who don’t agree with them.
It’s kind of like metastatic cancer flowing out from planted cells, running roughshod over healthy ones.
(In other words, the Democrat party is nothing but government of the scu&bags, by the scu&bags and for the scu&bags.)
IMHO
FR did a little unofficial survey a while back asking how many of us had races other than white in our families.
There were quite a few,including me.
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Right, Jay.
Now go play on the freeway. You don’t matter anymore.
This is the black man who helps keep you enslaved American black people.
Also remember he hates both races, he loves only himself as a narcissist does.
Damned right, the dems are the true racists, especially with the vitriol leveled at Tim Scott and Mia Love after they won Tuesday.
Liberals are going to be afflicted with Lost Election Derangement Syndrome (LEDS) for quite some time. They’re going to be even more rabid than before. It’s better not to touch them... they’ll have quite a propensity to bite.
Obola.s MOLE is GONE!!
liberals are seeing what will happen if “white guilt” becomes less of a factor.
sooner or later racial fear mongering will fall on deaf ears.
FU Jay.
Jim Crow laws was set up by Democrats
Nathan Hale founder of KKK Democrat
FDR first Supreme Court Nomination Hugo Black proud member of the KKK
Robert Byrd Senate Majority leader also member of KKK
Ike was the first President to integrate Schools.
Senate Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Bills , pass by a higher percentage of GOP than Democrats
I could go on and on
Plan Parenthood setup to kill black babies
I remember that photo. Hilarious - especially so that no one noticed that it might be a “problem” when the photo was published!
If I can be expected to have a permit and a background check to exercise my 2nd amendment rights, producing an ID to exercise ones voting rights is not onerous.
Add me, one SIL from Japan, another from the Philippines and two biracial nieces.
Beckel said something similar last night. These bytes need to be preserved and aired at every election against ANY politician who uses the race card tactic. The voters need to be educated that they are only pawns to win elections—not for their greater good.
Who is the asian woman standing with McConnell? His wife?
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