Posted on 09/10/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
New York Governor David Paterson says Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's time as a community organizer is racially charged. Paterson said Tuesday, "There are overtones of potential racial coding in this campaign. I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black'... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing."
He said such language is "designed to inhibit other people's progress with a subtle reference to their race."
The McCain camp says Palin's criticism of Obama's community organizer days was not racist but was in response to Obama's belittling of her executive experience.
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“There are overtones of potential racial coding in this campaign. I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing.”
It’s all right Governor. I would laugh at white “community organizers” too if they had the audacity to run for president and use “community organizing” as a lead item in their resume.
If you call Paterson governor, does that mean you are comparing him to Pontius Pilate?
Adolf Hitler-he was a community organizer. His beer hall putsch was his crowning glory.
LLS
“Coding.” In other words, I couldn’t find anything overtly racist in what she said so I will assign meaning to her words, without any basis in fact, so I can use my ultimate weapon: The Race Card.
This guy is dumber than plywood...the accidental governor. It’s always good to a RAT buffoon in the state house....guy’s nothing but a Kwame Kilpatrick without the vision thing.
and the moon actually regulates the price of silver.... whatever.... You ever wonder why they can’t smell the fumes? You think at least one person would be able to get the message through to them.... so sad.
I find evidence of flat-stone stupidity in Paterson’s remarks on the Republican response to Obama’s insults.
On what planet is this idiot ‘prominent’? His own party doesn’t regard him as prominent.
Saul Alinsky the original source of this ebola-like disease. Cadres of labor thugs back in the 30's and 40's. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA)co-opted the role via its "party organizers" in the forties and fifties. Their demon spawn the "New Left" radicals, all through the sixties.
The US has a long and squalid history of the left wing preying on vulnerable special interest groups and feeding off their discontents for their own power agenda.
LOL. Wrong, Mr. Paterson......
“community organizer” = communist agitator
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.
The Dems are flustered, scared and quite frankly, not sure what to do. I am surprised that the race card is being used so early. On second thought, anything the dems do should not surprise me.
I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing.”.......
So all Community Organizers are black?
OOPS sorry, meant Governor.
Don’t need New York and its socialists to win the White House
Exactly. We’d be smart to blow the lid off this community organizer tripe and explain to the American people really what a community antagonizer really does.
Mr. Paterson, the ACCIDENTAL Governor ... The Government Of New York State has been a SHIP OF FOOLS for YEARS. You are following the old saying...
Tis Better to remain silent, and be thought a FOOL ...
or SPEAK, and REMOVE ALL DOUBT!
just 2cents worth from the “CITY OF EVIL”
What the hell has an arab ever organized except defeat to Israel?
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