Posted on 07/15/2015 5:43:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It should be obvious by now that Republican candidates for public office are uneasy talking about race, ethnicity and gender. But even by that standard, Jeb Bush and Donald Trump plummeted to some pretty disturbing new lows this week.
Mr. Bush, the former governor of Florida, told an audience in Iowa on Tuesday that voters ought to forget about tiny little things like “race and ethnicity and income.” And he attacked two people who he said were trying to scare and divide Americans – Mr. Trump and, incredibly, President Obama.
“There are people that prey on people’s fears and angst as well,” Mr. Bush said. “Whether it’s Donald Trump or Barack Obama, their rhetoric of divisiveness is wrong.”
Give Mr. Bush his point about Donald Trump. His continuing racist rants about Mexico are offensive. His claim on “Morning Joe” today that Hispanics will vote for him because he employs a lot of them was beyond laughable.
“The Hispanics love me,” Mr. Trump said at one point – a phrase that Charles Blow pointed out in an Op-Ed column in 2011 is the worst kind of phony racial pandering. Charles recalled Lauryn Hill’s memorable line that “men who lack conscience will even lie to themselves.”
(Excerpt) Read more at takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com ...
an ATTACK on Obama? well Not EXACTLY
the NYT makes Revrunt Sharpton look like he has a brain!
Ah, the Times are making things up again. Geez, can’t we just quit quoting them here?
Go NY Times! Kick Jebbie’s behind!
I bet that’s not even “shopped”.
And Rudolph Hess thought Adolph Hitler was a reasonable man.
I refuse to click on the link. No surprises from a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party.
For a fellow without a receding hairline, he has quite a large forehead.
Is that correlated with brain size and intelligence?
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Jeb Bush is beyond incomprehensible and is becoming more and more irrelevant. He needs to go away.
Incredible only to Neanderthal morons such as those at the New York Times, who cannot think but only grunt.
Wow, the left is REALLY TRYING to prop up Bush. They are wasting their time. They need to check in with Karl Rove, who has now moved to Rubio...although Rubio is also hurting - so Scott Walker.
The left is not doing their cause any good by trying to prop up someone who is SO PATHETIC that even Karl Rove’s $100M can’t pump any life into. They really need to check in with our party bosses before wasting copy on such a FUTILE effort.
Gangbangers
They are going to make sure no conservative is in the top three.
Certainly not in Jeb’s case!
The NYT must be on LSD if they think Obama is not scaring and dividing Americans!
Quoting Lauryn Hill lyrics?
Has she paid her taxes yet?
voters ought to forget about tiny little things like “race and ethnicity and income.”
¡Yeb! also wants voters to forget about the value of their citizenship, the rule of law and national sovereignty.
Mr. Obama has harsher rhetoric for Republicans, conservatives, and TEA Party patriots than he does for Communists or Islamonazis.
He puts the weight of the Federal government on his political opposition in this country (with IRS harassment, FBI harassment, EPA harassment, closing car dealerships that gave to the 'wrong' party...)
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