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Obama advance: 'Get me more white people'
The Politico ^ | Ben Smith

Posted on 04/09/2008 5:00:22 AM PDT by LonesomeHawk

Obama advance: 'Get me more white people' POLITICO Ben Smith

From the account in Carnegie Mellon's paper, the Tartan, of a Michelle Obama event in Pittsburgh: While the crowd was indeed diverse, some students at the event questioned the practices of Mrs. Obama’s event coordinators, who handpicked the crowd sitting behind Mrs. Obama. The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”

“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.” I'm not sure there's any real reason for outrage here; every campaign, at least implicitly, includes race in the staging of events like this -- even a campaign whose supporters chant "race doesn't matter." But they don't usually get caught doing it this explicitly. And (if you didn't pick it up from the bowling) it does give you a sense of the community Obama's trying to reach in Pennsylvania: whitefolks.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2008; barack; blueturban; democratparty; duplicate; election; elections; erie; harrisburg; jeremiahwright; nobama; obama; obamatruthfile; pennsylvania; philadelphia; pittsburgh; race; scranton; whitevote; wright; yesterday
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To: OeOeO
It was supposed to look something like this:


101 posted on 04/10/2008 6:19:39 PM PDT by jmcenanly
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To: AmericanArchConservative

See the thing is I think America has BEEN ready for a minority President for a long time. He or she just has to make sure that they are PRO-AMERICA and that they think of themselves as AMERICANS FIRST. Not AFRICAN americans. But AMERICANS...oh and not got to a racist church for 20 years, and not visit Pakistan during the 80’s when Russia was in Afganistan etc..I know I know...were not supposed to judge those associations and interesting little trips abroad....Sorry (/sarcasm off)


102 posted on 04/10/2008 7:14:55 PM PDT by YoungBlackRepublican
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To: LonesomeHawk

“Sanford, you old heathen!”


103 posted on 04/11/2008 2:01:51 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Laverne
. . .even the left has got to be scratching their heads over their inability to speak “truth to power”.

Forget 'truth' to power; the Left is a 'collective WILL to power'. . .and truth is no more than an annoyance to be 'duly' dealt with. Truth for a Leftist is not worth a scratch.

104 posted on 04/11/2008 2:25:46 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: LonesomeHawk
. . .but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.

This, Dear Student; goes to the very heart of Marxism/Socialism. Obama's 'Change' is to 'reseat'everyone in America. . .

Racism is the agent of Leftist change. (By his own MO; Obama is a traditional socialist. . . No change here at all. . .)

105 posted on 04/11/2008 2:36:23 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: Laverne
Can you possibly immagine the bru-ha-ha that would ensue if a McCain advance team had said: “get me more black people”?

OH YESSSS.............. The four-eyed, girlie man Keith Oblbermann would have been all over it making that person his daily "Worst Person in the World".
106 posted on 04/11/2008 6:57:39 AM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I thought about making my tagline into a bumper sticker.


107 posted on 04/11/2008 7:00:09 AM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: popdonnelly
Hillary............has little support among blacks.

I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY.
108 posted on 04/11/2008 7:02:20 AM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: Abathar

Is that “Blazing Saddles”?


109 posted on 04/11/2008 7:03:12 AM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: cricket; All

Someone needs to get this story to Bill O’ and he needs to have this college newspaper kid on his program.


110 posted on 04/11/2008 7:05:37 AM PDT by no dems (Barack Obama's Pastor is nuttier than a squirrel turd.)
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To: no dems

Yes it is, one of the most politically incorrect movies ever made.

Also one of the funniest.


111 posted on 04/11/2008 7:54:38 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: no dems
Someone needs to get this story to Bill O’ and he needs to have this college newspaper kid on his program.

Well, we know he won't read it here. . .lol/but yes, it would be a good exposure. Am surprised, that Brit did not just give it a mention. John Gibson? Sean? Fox & Friends coiuld have had a laugh on this one, as least.

112 posted on 04/11/2008 12:44:44 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: no dems; cricket

‘at least!’


113 posted on 04/11/2008 12:46:14 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: LonesomeHawk

It is a shame that he does not have many blacks attending his ‘speeches’, noticed that all sitting on the stage behind him are WHITE?


114 posted on 04/12/2008 8:25:45 AM PDT by gulfcoast6
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To: LonesomeHawk
Hey, if Mark Steyn can do song parodies, why can't I? Apologies to Sly and the family Stone.

Get Me Some More White People TUNE: Everyday People
Sometimes a white just don’t come along
To help you window dress the throng
I’ll put her next to her. Oh, bummer! It then
Makes a difference what seat you’re in.
Get me some more white people, yeah yeah!

There is a black one who can't sit next to that one
And there is a fat one, try to get a skinny one
What this evokes! These different folks!
And so on and so on. We “pretty up” diversity!
Oh, sha sha – those two can’t sit together!

Some are so bitter and cling to guns, too
Go move that dame, whatever you do
We’ll screen you, hand pick you, (you know this) and then
We will figure out what seat you’re in
Get me some more white people, yeah yeah!

This one has long hair and that one, spiky, short hair
I will have to switch one, I told you, get some white ones!
What this evokes! These different folks!
And so on and so on. We “pretty up” diversity!
Oh sha sha-Those two can’t sit together!

There is a yellow one that could sit next to that one
Don't you seat that other one, I said, we need more white ones!
What this evokes! These different folks!
And so on and so on. We “pretty up” diversity!
Oh sha sha- Get me some more white people!

I crack me up.

115 posted on 04/12/2008 5:14:20 PM PDT by MaggieCarta (Disobedience is in our DNA. - Charlton Heston)
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To: LonesomeHawk

Barak Obama is playing racial politics. Why is this even news?


116 posted on 04/12/2008 9:56:20 PM PDT by TypeZoNegative (I'm An American Engaged To Another American, we're not a mixed couple.)
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To: KosmicKitty
I'm right with you on that one. Only this is what I see.

Vote For Me!!! Or the N***** gets it!

117 posted on 04/12/2008 10:00:28 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: CougarGA7

Yeah, i thought about that scene too :-)


118 posted on 04/13/2008 6:36:12 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: LonesomeHawk
typically
119 posted on 04/13/2008 9:37:12 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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