Posted on 08/25/2008 3:46:37 PM PDT by STARWISE
The chief of Illinois’ National Organization for Women chapter today called on Barack Obama’s “political godfather” to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for calling an African-American Hillary Clinton delegate an “Uncle Tom.”
“That was a pretty horrible comment,” said Illinois NOW president Bonnie Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, who issued the demand for Senate President Emil Jones’ resignation.
Feminists who make up the Illinois Clinton delegate contingent at the Democratic National Convention were outraged to learn of today’s exclusive Chicago Sun-Times report about Clinton delegate Delmarie Cobb’s accusation that Jones directed the racially loaded slur at her.
The flap comes at a particularly sensitive time for the Obama campaign, which is slumping in national polls and has struggled to bring Clinton delegates across the country into the fold.
“I’ve never heard anything as awful or as sexist or as racist as to call her that for supporting Hillary,” said Clinton delegate Gay Bruhn, another NOW member in Illinois who called for a public apology from Jones.
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(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
August 25, 2008
Barack Obama said this afternoon that he was not familiar with allegations that his political mentor, state Senate President Emil Jones, called a Hillary Clinton delegate an 'Uncle Tom.' But Obama said the nation has no time for such racial divisions.
"We don't have time for that kind of stuff," Obama said at the Quad Cities Airport. "What we need to do is focus on unifying the party to win in November, and that's what I intend to do."
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More background .. posted earlier today.
Keep yapping your traps, ethical Democrats ... LOL.
I’m about to max my popcorn budget.
Not ‘Uncle Tom’ - ‘Aunt Jemima’.
But that is just a quibble. Some pretty ugly emotions are coming to the surface.
At least the “N-word” was not flung. I suppose that speaks well of the decorum they now exercise.
lol! So true!
Ah, it is nice to see the left getting some of it’s race baiting tactics thrown back in their faces and by their own!!!
More democrat outrage. My day is complete.
To the Liberal if someone is called an “Uncle Tom” it’s the worst thing in the world. It’s evil, it’s over the line!
But ripping an innocent life from the womb in order to kill it is O.K. with them.
Seems like his “not having time to deal with that stuff” is becoming a theme of his running for President.
Wow! The worst thing you can call a Democrat is ‘racist’. That is why they call us racists all the time.
If everything falls in correctly, this elections season will be the most entertaining ever with the DemocRATS falling apart. Mr. Obambi been Biden will need to pull a miracle out of his hat to unite the party; he is The One? isn’t he?
This just keeps getting better and better.
Don't worry, Cupcake. The Anointed One will issue a reassuring statement saying that it's not the Emil Jones that he knows.
How about Mrs. Butterworth? :)
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