Your apology will not save you!
Posted on 04/14/2008 2:06:55 PM PDT by pissant
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A Republican House member Monday sent a letter of apology to Sen. Barack Obama, after calling him "boy" and comparing him to a "snake oil salesman" in attacking his national security credentials at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Kentucky.
According to a Lexington Herald-Leader blog item, Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., said Saturday that he had recently participated in a "highly classified, national security simulation" with Obama, and said that exercise showed that Obama can't be trusted to make difficult decisions.
"I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button," Davis said. "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country."
The Obama campaign slammed the comments.
"It's hard to tell what is more outrageous -- Representative Davis' condescending and personal attack, or his absurd and offensive claim that Barack Obama is not prepared to defend America," said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman.
“The candidate whose middle name shall never be mentioned, may also not be referred to as “boy.” Add that to the list of special political no-no’s in this race”
Probably should throw the word “monkey” in there as well.
That leads to the addition of “monkey-boy” to the list ,,,and it goes on and on and on
Kinda like the Democratic primary season!
This includes the word “boy,” or even his own middle name “Hussein.”
Those things not racist or xenophobic are simply “insensitive and mean spirited.”
I’d say it wasn’t absurd at all to question whether Obama would defend this country.
I’m sure that I’ve heard him take the position that he wouldn’t use nuclear weapons in any case.
Well that didn’t take long did it? And of course Obama won’t apologize for anything! I sure wish Repubs would all grow a pair and stop acting so pathetic.
That's not your, or my, determination to make! It's a slur if anyone of color says it is. The rules have changed. Glad we could clear that up. </sarc>
Meanwhile a dhimmirat is still in the Senate after repeatedly saying N*R on television.
Time to separate the men from the young men................
BOY? You don’t say that about an AA person. I learned that when I was young. Slavery and all that.
There are certain words right wingers just can’t say regarding minorities. It’s okay if you’re a wacko liberal, but not if you’re on the right.
You can’t call a black man a boy, but you can call a cracker a boy.
You can’t say a black man likes chicken or watermelon.
You can’t say “those people” when the people happen to be minority, but you can say “typical white person” all day long.
Oh, good grief...Obama is young...The sentence is written to express that specifically....No apology needed...
Oh yeah, he's a gonner for sure.
Your apology will not save you!
Obama has set race relations backwards by 20-30 years.
As one who grew up in the South, I can tell you that “boy” is NOT reserved for blacks.
Frequently, when referring to someone they knew who WASN’T black, people would say “That boy sure can swing a bat” or “He’s a good old boy”.
Another “Southernism” that’s taboo now.
Damn I hate these perpetual “victims”.
It was an *assinine* thing to say. There is no excuse for it.
I find this rather amusing. The gym I belong to is full of white, middle aged, jewish women all who support Obama. Back when all the primaries were going on I can’t tell you how many times I heard them say they had to go home and find out how their “boy” did.
Bullcrap. No more than me saying “your boy Kevin Garnett will choke again in the playoffs”.
While Obama *is* a snake Oil salesman, it is beyond comprehension that he could have not realised this would be taken as a racial slur. What an idiot.
What astounds me is the so called conservatives that buy into such nonsense.
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