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Obama Is Stoking
Racial Antagonism (By RUSH LIMBAUGH)
wsj.com ^
| SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 09/18/2008 9:39:54 PM PDT by 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...
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; ads; electionpresident; elrushbo; liberalism; limbaugh; mccainpalin; obama; obamabiden; politicsofdivision; racebaiting; racecard; rush; rushlimbaugh; segregationism; talkradio; wallstreetjournal
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To: Checkers
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.
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:06:43 PM PDT
by
csense
To: Dems_R_Losers
This was the perfect response by Rush. The Obama campaign vomited out this reprehensible bald-faced smear. And Mr. Obama approved the message.
To: Dems_R_Losers
I am beginning to think obama and his staff are rank amateurs and that his success was all the media's doing.
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:12:10 PM PDT
by
tioga
(Goodbye ugly pantsuits, hello sexy specs! Vote McCain/Palin 2008!)
To: Dems_R_Losers
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?
To: Checkers
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.
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:14:15 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
To: writer33
Don’t have time to read all of it right now, but it seems interesting enough. Put me on the list....
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:15:56 PM PDT
by
csense
To: Checkers
To: writer33
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:17:45 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: csense
You’re on the list. Thank you. I do appreciate it.
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:17:48 PM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism)
To: ConservativeMan55
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:18:15 PM PDT
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism)
To: VeniVidiVici; writer33
"Maybe now he'll flip and be white till the election."Well, he is the magic negro, ya know!!! Just ask Al Sharpton...
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:19:38 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(Obama... Just another lying Commonist Communutty Organizing thug from the south side of Chicago!!!)
Comment #32 Removed by Moderator
To: Checkers
Obama is a sociopath, pure and simple.
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:53:17 PM PDT
by
TheThinker
(It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
To: Checkers
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..."
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posted on
09/18/2008 10:57:21 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
To: Checkers
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?
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posted on
09/18/2008 11:06:33 PM PDT
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
To: Checkers
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.”
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posted on
09/18/2008 11:13:32 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Checkers
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posted on
09/19/2008 12:09:37 AM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: writer33
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posted on
09/19/2008 2:54:37 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
(To read a freeper's FR postings, click on his or her screen name and then "In Forum".)
To: Checkers
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.
39
posted on
09/19/2008 4:11:55 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
To: tioga
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