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Prominent Democratic Governor Finds Racism in Palin's Comments on Obama
Foxnews ^ | 9/10/2008 | Brit Hume

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: communityorganizer; obama; palin; paterson
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To: hinckley buzzard
For years, as a kid in California and elsewhere, I would get uplifting and inspirational Christmas presents from a maiden aunt in the Back Bay. The most memorable one was a beautifully slipcased hardbound volume entitled Massachusetts: The Anatomy of Quality. Wonder if she'd still be sending those around today.
61 posted on 09/10/2008 7:55:56 PM PDT by Tenniel2 (You can't vote "present" in the Oval Office.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Keep digging.

Every time they come up with something like this McCain's lead stretches out by 1 or 2 percent. Americans are rightly sick and tired of this $#!+.

62 posted on 09/10/2008 7:57:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Red in Blue PA
"Prominent governor?" Yeah, I'd say he's real prominent. Just like the one he replaced for being an adulterer. Yeah, they're both "prominent Democrat governors", right? < / sarcasm >
63 posted on 09/10/2008 8:03:06 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (DEMOCRATS ARE PREDACIOUS BLOODSUCKERS AND THAT'S BECAUSE MOST OF THEM ARE LAWYERS!)
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To: CaptRon

Perzactly. You broke the code. So to speak.


64 posted on 09/10/2008 8:03:22 PM PDT by Tenniel2 (You can't vote "present" in the Oval Office.)
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To: Ann Archy
Have you EVER heard of a WHITE one??

Yes, and I have known and dealt with them. The one common characteristic I have seen among every "community organizer" is that they are Marxists or flat out communists. The organizers I knew had poster sized pictures of Marx and Lenin on the walls of their homes, and one had a full size Soviet hammer and sickle flag pinned to the wall. Their idea of "progress" was getting a bunch of unemployed people to sit around and have discussions about what to protest next.

The other characteristic they had was limited success in normal economic life. In fact I wondered where the money came from that some of them used to pay their rent and buy the cardboard for the signs.

65 posted on 09/10/2008 8:05:19 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: al baby

Calling him black? Why not he is. Call him a marxist POS, sure, he is. Stating the obvious is not racist, trying to attach that label to those you hate is. Party of slavery, the KKK etc; what else would you expect?


66 posted on 09/10/2008 8:07:06 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: NRA2BFree

I just hope he’s the DemonRat nominee the next time around, we’ll have this state back in the hands of the Republicans before you know it!


67 posted on 09/10/2008 8:09:49 PM PDT by hunter112 (Gov. Palin is ten times the woman Hillary could've hoped to be, if she had stayed a "Goldwater Girl")
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To: Red in Blue PA

Then I guess democrats like Steve Cohen are racists, too.

Steve Cohen Campaigns for Obama on House Floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_2Cw4RH1c


68 posted on 09/10/2008 8:10:05 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

bull


69 posted on 09/10/2008 8:10:36 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Red in Blue PA
He said such language is "designed to inhibit other people's progress with a subtle reference to their race."

No, Governor, you and your Dem cronies, from community organizers to your Presidents, have been the very conduit of failed policies that guarantee that the underclass will never achieve the ultimate goals - independence, self-worth, reduced crime, stronger families.

70 posted on 09/10/2008 8:11:02 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Preserve Youtube Clips Before They Disappear - www.keepvid.com)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? 1-800 RACE CARD!


71 posted on 09/10/2008 8:12:05 PM PDT by BatGuano (Go John and Sarah!)
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To: Harry Wurzbach

“Dumbo ears” is extremely racist.


72 posted on 09/10/2008 8:34:33 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Barack Obama has "Jumped the Pig".)
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