Posted on 07/21/2010 10:12:45 AM PDT by maggief
As soon as much of the available evidence suggested that Shirley Sherrod had become the victim of a rush to judgment by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, it became clear President Barack Obama had a mushrooming political problem on his hands.
Sherrod went from being the villain of the piece to a figure drawing great empathy from millions, not the least of which was conservative talk show host Glen Beck.
And among those who were most closely watching the presidents handling of affair were important members of the presidents base, people he could ill afford to alienate: African Americans and liberals.
While Obama remains popular, his poll numbers are significantly lower than they were earlier in the year. His support among independents who helped propel him to the presidency has steadily eroded.
That was worrisome enough for Democrats during a mid-term election year.
But then the Sherrod affair threatened to hurt the president with some of the most members of the Democratic base.
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I think the real story now has moved beyond Shirley Sherrod to the reactions of the press and the Administration (White House and Secretary Vilsack) and the NAACP.
Andrew Breitbart posts a video on his site, and look how everyone is acting and reacting.
I have never seen anything like this.....
The big story was the way the NAACP cheered when they heard how a white farmer might get the shaft. That’s the big story all along as I understand it:
The NAACP: Becoming Mel Gibson, Applauding Shirley Sherrod
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2555693/posts
Rush is pointing that out exactly while I’m typing.
I admit I took the report at face value, but it wasn’t up to me to decide whether to give her the boot. Hah! I hereby formally apologize to Shirley Sherrod for the brief misunderstanding, partly due to the fact that I can’t load youtubes personally from home.
Now, I don’t know what excuse the White House has. Did it interfere with a party, banquet, sporting event, or fundraiser? I do want to know.
Yeah, like that group is going to start voting Republican in droves.
What? Me worry?
Obama will blame Vilsack and Vilsack will throw himself under the Kenyan’s bus before the evening news starts in a few hours. Whitey must be sacrificed, even if it’s a liberal democrat.
***But then the Sherrod affair threatened to hurt the president with some of the most members of the Democratic base.***
>>>Hmm. NPR isn’t getting enough taxpayer money to edit their programs now? >>>
I agree with you totally. But, at least it’s not as bad as writers who say, “one of the only people who, etc.” What does “only” mean? One, ten, a thousand, ten thousand people?
Obama doesn’t like black people.
Ole Tom’s days are numbered.
Shirley Sherrod is a racist. Only a racist would even come close to thinking in the terms that she does. No racist should ever be in government employment.
The Hussein Express!!!
It is amazing to watch this.
God bless Andrew Breitbart!
I listened to her whole 43 minute speech. It was wall-to-wall racism.
It was also agony to listen to—the woman is totally incomprehensible, has numerous speech impediments, cannot follow a simple line of reasoning, rambles all over the place, and laughs at her own jokes.
And she is resigning from a $125,000 a year government job! With benefits!!!
Any one of the millions of unemployed out there could do a better job.
I fully expect slavery reparations and a wrongful termination multi-million dollar cash settlement are due to Ms. Sherrod due Vilsack’s racist rush-to-judgement.
Yep. She’s an idiot, but she was the right skin color to get the job.
I called the local newspaper’s SoundOff this morning and that’s exactly what I said - it wasn’t so much her comments as the fact that the NAACP laughed and applauded her comments.....that’s what the most offensive....
Another hit piece for talk radio.
Blaming the wrong people.
She said what she said...SHE the one that needs to apologize.
Would that be the white part or the black part?
That’s a very good question. But charges should be brought no matter what.
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