Posted on 05/22/2014 4:00:32 PM PDT by mdittmar
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Senator Jay Rockefeller implied race is part of the reason many oppose President Obama and the Affordable Care Act.
As he chaired a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday, Rockefeller suggested opposition feels Obama is “of the wrong color.”
“It's not something you're meant to talk about in public, but it's something I'm talking about in public because that is very true," Rockefeller said.
Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin said it was offensive Rockefeller would play the race card.
"That you would say that opposition to Obamacare necessarily must stream from some inherent racism? Very offensive,” Johnson said at the hearing. “Listen, my opposition to health care has nothing to do with the race of President Obama."
We asked some people in Huntington whether they agree with Rockefeller.
"I can't say all over the country, but I know here in West Virginia it's probably the case," Larry Peters said.
A woman who works at a local hospital who wanted to remain anonymous said she believes Obamacare is doing more harm than good, and race is not a factor.
"So many doctors won't accept it because they limit billing on how much they can bill for a procedure and exams, so doctors just don't want to accept it," she said.
The computers that crashed on healthcare.gov, making Obama look bad, we’re all racist, too. D#%^ racist computers.
“The entire legacy of the Democratic Party is shrouded in racism and race baiting politics. Racism and the Democratic Party are joined at the hip.”
You’re right; people who truly hate blacks would love Obama for playing such a role in the abortion industry that targets them. With his message about babies being a burden and his horrible economic program, he has a hand in the piles of dead black babies in our abortuaries.
The fact is white libs want him there to do just that; where’s the hate?
Just another Rockefeller scum demonrat thief and liar from a family of white collar thieves and liars.
This is the product of a millionaire grandfather who’s grandosn never amounted to anything yet he is intelligent beyond anyones imagination.
senator rockefeller is a wealthy ignorant ass.
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I say again.. There is no black in Commie pink fag.
Oh, absolutely.
To Spawn 44. What the heck are you talking about? I’ve been around both politics and the news business since 1969, and I’ve seen a heck of a lot that the average person NOT in DC will ever see.
Perhaps your post went to the wrong person. Am I worried about racism? Yes. Don’t like it. Been called a “damned Jew” and worse but I’m still here and those who tried to insult me are probably in jail or dead from their stupidity.
As for giving away all my money. What money? If you’d like to contribute to paying for my skin cancer operations, feel Rockefeller-free to donate - cash, check or Money Order. I don’t discriminate.
I’ve lived in ghettoes (No. Phila, worked in East Baltimore). They are mental and physical death traps for those stuck in them. If I were a racist I would want to keep people there. I don’t. Give them a safe place to live, to go to school, and to play, and you’ll stop the racism that the Democrats have put on many black and hispanic people. It’s the old Plantation system of Robert Byrd updated as the Great Society, Welfare addiction, Free Cheese, and piss-poor schools and public housing.
Keeps a person down as effectively as a ball and chain. A ball and chain can keep down the body, but not the spirit. The Democrats aim to kill the spirit of self-reliance, dignity through work, and productive educational programs.
Look at who is behind Common Core? Leftover reds from the 60’s, by their own admissions. American children deserve better but under the Democrats, what have they got to show for decades of welfare paternalism and Big government deciding how they should live?
I guess you can call me a racist but how do you explain my trusting my life to brown and yellow people who guarded me in So. Vietnam and Cambodia during the war?
Meanwhile, I’ve got better things to write about such as the Red in the White House, the Fools in Congress, and RINOS who would sell out their principles for a congressional seat.
Haven’t got any time for racism. Way down on my list of things to do. Way high up on my list of things not to do.
Of course race is the reason Obama is so disliked.
They said that about the dislike of Nixon and Bush also./s
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Watch the video of Sen. Ron Johnson’s response to Sen Jay Rockhead’s slur:
They must be desperate, they are over using that word.
Couldn’t you all see sh*t like this coming the minute he announced he was running for pres?
The man responsible for this trust fund baby was considered to be a racist. Johnson should have pointed that out to him.
Winthrop did the same thing in Arkansas. He bought the governorship. But he moved to Arkansas because he wanted to be a farmer. So he had 2000 acres of top soil hauled to the top of Petit Jean Mountain.
I was addressing Rockefeller
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