Posted on 04/09/2008 5:00:22 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk
Obama advance: 'Get me more white people' POLITICO Ben Smith
From the account in Carnegie Mellon's paper, the Tartan, of a Michelle Obama event in Pittsburgh: While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obamas event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartans correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, Get me more white people, we need more white people. To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, Were moving you, sorry. Its going to look so pretty, though.
I didnt know they would say, We need a white person here, said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didnt know it would be so outright. I'm not sure there's any real reason for outrage here; every campaign, at least implicitly, includes race in the staging of events like this -- even a campaign whose supporters chant "race doesn't matter." But they don't usually get caught doing it this explicitly. And (if you didn't pick it up from the bowling) it does give you a sense of the community Obama's trying to reach in Pennsylvania: whitefolks.
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Typical event coordinator.
Typical black campaign workers.
I need more white people, too.
Can you possibly immagine the bru-ha-ha that would ensue if a McCain advance team had said: “get me more black people”?
I’m stunned at the lack of reporting on Obama campaign by the suck-up media; even if they love/admire/swoom over him, they are destroying their reputations by the “reporting”. Of course, for most of us here their reputations weren’t worth spit anyway, but even the left has got to be scratching their heads over their inability to speak “truth to power”.
MSM is disgraceful; B Hussein and his team are sickening.
oh joy another “blacksploitation” movie.
Undercover brother
I’m going to get you sucka
Soul Plane
I am surprised she was not saying we need more “crackers”
Funny movie. Probably will be banned by President BO
You forgot Blackula
What, is he shooting a porno?
Another proud Michelle moment.
Isn’t this perhaps a reaction to the report that Mrs. Hussein Obama will only speak to black gatherings, rumor or not.?
As a former bowler and reasonable athlete who carried close to a 200 average, I was appalled at the lack of coordination from B Hussien. I think the wuss shot a 37. My son was 5 and he bowled better than that without gutter guards.
OsamaBama is not a tough guy...he's a physical and mental wuss. McCain isn't to some of our standards but he's a tough guy and definitely not a wuss...I'll take that if it's all we have to work with.
I had not heard that rumor.
We need a tough man to run this country and McCain is a tough man compared to sissy “Barry” obuma the wuss.
Obuma would have gotten his ass whipped at my high school for GP.
Just The Facts,
NSNR
I’m surprised she didn’t ask for mo’ honkies!
Gee, now Obama’s bunch want to court us white folk. Gee, guess he forgot what his former “pastor” said about us “whities”, how we are responsible for every evil done since Adam and Eve. We “whities” are wanted really bad when its votes they want, otherwise, we’re to be blamed for everything and are supposed to feel guilty forever.
Sorry, Obama and Michelle, this “typical white person” has seen the mask slip and seen/heard what you really think of “whitey”. So much for “unity” and being the candidate for “all Americans”.
One of the best movies of all time!
...and the song stylings on this Sooooul Plane flight will be Garret Morris reprising his role of SNL’s “Black Prisoner Trying out for Prison Tallent Contest”
(/s)
The sad part is the drive by media has eyes but can not see how OBVIOUS their racism is to percieve.
Well, isn’t that S P E C I A L!
Oh, Michelle will just be so fine in the White House. Kind of like Thereza Heinz-K. A real class act.
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