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You are a disgrace.

No, he's not. I'm not much for navel gazing about America being racist, I still think that, while there may have been some thoughtful concern over this transtaction, there was an element of "Arabs, no way." I think we need to take a look at that and think about it and see what we want to do about it.

Let me suggest to you that racism runs the other way. We have thousands of American troops in Arab and Muslim countries, dying and taking casualties, to liberate and protect them. I've visited many of them. Don't tell me 70% of the American people are racist because they oppose this deal. We are the most giving society on the face of the earth. This talking point is WRONG. You think about it, and those of you who employ. Good night.

I still think that, while there may have been some thoughtful concern over this transtaction, there was an element of "Arabs, no way."

It was much more likely an element of "Muslims, no way." Islam is not a race.

Recently the left has discovered how to manipulate the sheeple through the age-old psychological tactic of generating irrational fears about "outsiders." This is not racism. It is a tactic that assigns some imaginary threat to the "outsiders," and you can cause enough panic to make people do anything to protect themselves from the boogieman. Such tactics have stirred communities to hang "witches" and burn Protestants for heresy as seen when Queen Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary") in her five year reign of terror burned 274 poor souls. This is an old tactic. Isn't it ironic that this same old tactic is being used by the Islamo Facists against those "outsiders" the infidels?

I am certain that Chucky Schumer had planned the entire strategy early on, perhaps in September, when the DP World began its negotiations with Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Schumer knew that the secrecy of the proceedings helped him have the advantage of surprise when the trap was sprung; easily luring conservatives who are so easily taken in by patriotic isolationist thinking.

Now we are learning that Schumer was planning a two-prong strategy: use conservatives to bash President Bush and push DP World out of the deal so that Eller and Co could pick up a few US leases at bargain barrel prices.