Obama Is Stoking Racial Antagonism (By RUSH LIMBAUGH)

wsj.com ^ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 | Rush Limbaugh

[Checkers]

I understand the rough and tumble of politics. But Barack Obama -- the supposedly postpartisan, postracial candidate of hope and change -- has gone where few modern candidates have gone before.

Mr. Obama's campaign is now trafficking in prejudice of its own making. And in doing so, it is playing with political dynamite. What kind of potential president would let his campaign knowingly extract two incomplete, out-of-context lines from two radio parodies and build a framework of hate around them in order to exploit racial tensions? The segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s were famous for such vile fear-mongering.

Here's the relevant part of the Spanish-language television commercial Mr. Obama is running in Hispanic communities:

"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with . . . the intolerance . . . they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much."

Then the commercial flashes two quotes from me: ". . . stupid and unskilled Mexicans" and "You shut your mouth or you get out!"

And then a voice says, "John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that says lies just to get our vote . . . and another, even worse, that continues the policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families. John McCain . . . more of the same old Republican tricks."

Much of the media that is uninterested in Mr. Obama's connections to unrepentant 1970s Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright have so far gone along with the attempt to tie me to Mr. McCain. But Mr. McCain and I have not agreed on how to address illegal immigration. While I am heartened by his willingness to start by securing the borders, it is no secret that we have fundamental differences...

[csense]

Just read the entire article. Excellent piece of work. At least there's one person in this country (who has national access)who has the balls to stand up, and speak up.

Well done Rush.....well done.

[NutCrackerBoy]

This was the perfect response by Rush. The Obama campaign vomited out this reprehensible bald-faced smear. And Mr. Obama approved the message.

[tioga]

I am beginning to think obama and his staff are rank amateurs and that his success was all the media's doing.

[Raster Man]

I am convinced that the GOP have a secret operative in the top of the Democrat party leadership. What else would explain their continual screw-ups that keep alienating people?

[VeniVidiVici]

Obama's firing up the Bull Connor tapes! He better watch it or someone will point out that all the old time segregationists were from his party. On the other hand, all he has to do is ask Bobby Byrd.

Or maybe Barry's had enough of being Black. Maybe now he'll flip and be white till the election.

[csense]

Don’t have time to read all of it right now, but it seems interesting enough. Put me on the list....

[fullchroma]

printing and bumping

[ConservativeMan55]

Thank you for the ping!

[writer33]

You’re on the list. Thank you. I do appreciate it.

[writer33]

You’re welcome.

[SierraWasp]

"Maybe now he'll flip and be white till the election."

Well, he is the magic negro, ya know!!! Just ask Al Sharpton...

[TheThinker]

Obama is a sociopath, pure and simple.

[denydenydeny]

Then the commercial flashes two quotes from me: ". . . stupid and unskilled Mexicans" and "You shut your mouth or you get out!"

To me this opens the door to commercials featuring Obama saying "My Muslim faith..."

[jeffc]

Wow! That is really taking something out of context. And it is so obvious and easily checked. But here is the kicker: The MSM will not expose this. They will let it ride.
Sure it's proof of the desperation of the Obama-ites, but it begs the question: What else are they capable of trying? What will the MSM let them get away with? At what point will they press say, "enough is enough!"? Are some people in power willing to tear this country apart to get "their guy" elected? What would they with all that power if they accomplish that?
And, more ominously, what will they do if BO loses?

[coconutt2000]

The Obama campaign is being run by “marketing” people with no sense of history, honor, or honesty. They are selling a product, Obama, and they are doing it using every tool and trick in the trade, including advertisements that they think are “cutesy” and “clever” if not entirely accurate or honest.

Their mantra is as always, “Fake but Accurate.”

[GOP Poet]

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[TheThinker]

It seems to me that Obama's actions are the continuation of a policy to relegate whites to second-class citizenship. Government favoring minorities in terms of financial assistance, job attainment, home loans, etc. is so egregious that it threatens to tear the financial system apart. Whites themselves have to not only pay for subsidizing minority advancement but have to weather the storm of government interference on behalf of minorities while simultaneously take the blame for black underachievement and financial woes.

[ScoochDude]

Bingo!