It is a little worn out...
Posted on 05/25/2011 9:32:19 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn, the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on Wednesday blamed most of President Barack Obama's political problems on racism.
Clyburn, who's from South Carolina and is a close ally of the president, offered his views in response to a question about Obama's re-election prospects next year.
"I think they're improving every day," Clyburn said. "I think the president has been a good president, a great commander in chief."
Clyburn, who met his wife at a 1960 court hearing after spending a night in jail for having engaged in a civil rights protest in Orangeburg, S.C., then brought up Obama's race as the first black president.
"You know, I'm 70 years old," he said. "And I can tell you; people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the president's problems are in large measure because of the color of his skin."
Clyburn noted that he himself got hate mail, racist phone calls and offensive faxes on a regular basis. Asked how that relates to the president, Clyburn retorted: "We have the same skin color; that's how it relates to him."
Clyburn described a recent racist image of Obama that received widespread news coverage.
"When he sees his face being put on a chimpanzee's body; do you think he didn't see that?" Clyburn said. "And I suspect they send the same faxes to his office they send to mine."
Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee in California, forwarded an email to friends last month that displayed a photograph of a chimpanzee with Obama's face superimposed on its head.
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I guess he missed the fact that Seamus O’Bama is madly embracing his White side right now.
Post racial president alert
He’s right. If Zero would stop being a racist a$$hole, he’d have less problems.
It’s all they have to sell, sadly some are still
buying it.
We cant let that race card die.
The president, congress, senate and the Lord himself could all be black and we’d still have to beat that horse.
It is a little worn out...
Absolutely true; if the Democrats did not completely rely in racism, there would have been a much smaller idiot turnout in 2008, nobama would not be President, so he would not be having his current problems, like his bottoming-out car, bottoming-out popularity with the American public and bottoming-out acceptability amongst leaders of civilized nations.
50% of the fools believe this total crap.
The race card is all they have.
If anti-black racism in America were as rampant as Clyburn suggests, Obama never would've been elected in the first place. Never would've even come close.
People who talk about the color of his skin are racists.
And the only people who talk about the color of his skin are Democrats. But Democrats being racists is hardly news -- they've been that way for over 150 years.
Isn’t Clyburn the fellow that worried Guam could flip over?
Isn’t Clyburn the fellow that worried Guam could flip over?
He is a freakin’ Marxist. That’s enough for me. OBAMA I could care less about your race. You sir, have a unique ability to destroy freedom.
Now wait a tick laddie! you say Obama is now a whiteman from down Killarny Way, and no longer embraces his Kenyan roots?
I’m confused, and racist apparently.
It must really suck to be you Mr. Clyburn.
And By the way, I have much more respect for the chimp in that picture then the racist in chief.
Heck, if anti black racism was as rampant as Clyburn thinks, Clyburn never would've been elected in the first place!
It’s not hard to believe. It’s a Demonrat after all. They are the scum of the earth. They can’t talk policy and have to lie about what they really believe so they resort to pathetic accusations as this. This is the worst of life and people like him and 0bama and Demonrats are why there never will be peace on earth.
Shhhhhh...... Racists like Clyburn are immune to any and all common sense.
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