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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ROTFLM*O!!
This is one riposte well worth making a note of...
I don’t suppose you’ve ever read the book “Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats” by Star Parker...?
With your own well-developed sense of humour, I believe you would appreciate her writing.
BTW, congrats to you and the ret. USMC hubby for your last 20 years (+/-)
A.A.C.
I find it funny how Obama is supposed to be this unifier yet somebody around him is always spewing hatred, racism, and/or anti-american rhetoric.
Also, If he is elected President I guess we won’t be allowed to critique him.
Too bad no one had a can of spray paint.
Chelsea’s got it backwards. If you want to look good you need to hang around people uglier than you.
Excellent observation!
You are not alone in wondering about those dichotomies. I’m certainly not against having a black American Pres., but Lord let it be someone like Alan Keyes, Condoleeza Rice, or J.C. Watts - even any two of those three.
Watts and Rice - now there’s a duo that would stand up for America against overseas aggressors, and enemies of Israel.
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[MidEast tinhorn]: “We have taken as hostage some of your infidel dog capitalist imperialist American citizens - it is our right by allah. You must pay us the sum of $XX,XXX,XXX in ransom, release our political prisoners, and pressure the Zionists to yield the West Bank to Palestine before we will consider releasing them safely!”
[V-POTUS Watts]: “Say what?!?! You want us to do WHAT for HOW MANY dog biscuits, you MidEast slave-trading, goat-raping piece of garbage? Madame President Rice - did you hear that crap?!” (doubling up hands into fists...) “Awwww no, you DIDN’T...!”
[POTUS C. Rice] “Mr. Vice President, don’t you EVEN dirty your hands on that stanky used-camel salesman! Your grandmama taught you better than that! Mr. Tinhorn, I am instructing the SecDef to have the Pentagon immediately dispatch 10 unmanned Predator drones armed with Hellfire missiles into region XXXXX of your country, where we know the hostages to be located, based upon satellite reconn photos from 30 minutes ago. The only hope your terrorist underlings have to survive is to release all of our citizens promptly and safely, and allow them to reach map coordinates xx.xx lat. and yy.yy long., five minutes on foot from their current location, where one of our transport helicopters will meet and extract them; your terrorists must then surrender peacefully to the SEAL team which will have surrounded their position.”
[MidEast tinhorn]: “Impudent woman! Daughter of a pig herder! American trash! How dare you address a Arabic man in such fash-” (SMAAACKK! THUD!)
[MidEast Tinhorn is lying prone on the carpet groaning and nursing a bloody nose and two missing teeth...]
[VPOTUS Watts]: “Madame President Rice - please forgive me, I just couldn’t listen to that sleazy chump dissing on you or our country any longer!”
[POTUS C. Rice]: “Mr. Vice President don’t worry about it! Are your knuckles okay, JC? You laid a smackdown on his **** sorry ***(unprintable) - was that a hook or an uppercut?”
[VPOTUS Watts]:”It was a hook, Madame President - and my knuckles are fine, thanks...”
[POTUS C. Rice]: “All right then - well, have the Secret Service detail get some ice for your knuckles anyway, you never know, Mr. Vice President. Can we get housekeeping to bring a few dirty rags for Mr. Al-TinHorn’s big, uuugly nose? Get him out of here, now, please - and get the SecDef and the Pentagon on a videoconference feed...we have some Predators to fly, and a SEAL team to deploy! Oh, and have Mr. Al-TinHorn’s diplomatic status officially revoked, and recall our ambassador from his sandbox!”
Hey a guy can dream, can’t he?!
A.A.C.
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what? no one in a wheelchair to fill out the ratios?
“quick, roll up a cripple, lets do this thing right”
Welcome to reality, Shayna.
At least Corporate diversity goals will make you a Vice President by the time you’re 35.
I need an Asian sitting next to me.
Preferably Michelle Malkin.
This kind of “diversity image engineering’ is entirely predictable and it most likely didn’t start with this Michelle Hussein Obama event. What do we expect considering the level of discussion regarding these candidates, most of which revolves around demographics built around what are really abstractions of multiple kinds, party, religious, racial ? i.e. —he needs the —fill in the blank——vote.” The Obama campaign is just continuing the project of trying to manipulate the subliminal imagery necessary to suggesting he’s all things to all men, even typical white people.
This kind of “diversity image engineering’ is entirely predictable and it most likely didn’t start with this Michelle Hussein Obama event. What do we expect considering the level of discussion regarding these candidates, most of which revolves around demographics built around what are really abstractions of multiple kinds, party, religious, racial ? i.e. —he needs the —fill in the blank——vote.” The Obama campaign is just continuing the project of trying to manipulate the subliminal imagery necessary to suggesting he’s all things to all men, even typical white people.
You again! LOL
I was at a Hillary rally (had nothing better to do- Saturday,snow on the ground) and behind her staged were union members, college female students, lesbian couple with bi- racial children.
sheesh a comment like ‘we need more white people in the background’ is insulting to both blacks AND whites.
Liberals end up being as racist as anyone
The Obama pushers are the worst racists of all.
It will be to no avail in Pennsylvania.
Obama can kiss the white union vote good-bye.
After seeing Obama bowl, no self-respecting union guy could ever vote for him.
And this surprises you?
No not surprsied....
However after awhile it is exasperating watching people who are theoretically promoting harmony divide people into neat little categories in order to alienate them.
Not to mention trying their hardest to make more neat little categories by pushing out of control immigration.
It is all so nauseating.
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