Posted on 10/05/2012 1:51:33 PM PDT by drewh
Liberal actor Martin Sheen must be feeling the pressure many of his peers face - how to defend the failing, flailing Obama administration. Never fear. The former "West Wing" star whipped out his trusty race card and played it like one of those eccentric poker players you see late at night on ESPN 2.
Sheen said the campaign’s racial dog whistles — like Romney’s race-baiting (and factchecker-disproven) welfare ads — demonstrate a willingness on the right’s part to use prejudice to win votes against the country’s first black president.
“It’s just fundamental racism,” Sheen explained. “It’s still there, you know. It is just something, who can explain it? It’s just part of our national culture, our heritage, our reality, you know. There are a lot of well meaning but misguided people who, without them thinking of themselves as such, are racist. Their conservative stance, it’s like fundamentalism is theology without imagination and racism is politics without foundation.”
The race card isn't all about pretend dog whistles. Class warfare can be a nice supplement, like getting dealt and face card and a 10 in Blackjack and drawing an ace.
“I don’t think there is anything that Ryan or Romney can do to stop it — neither one of them has a powerful enough commitment to the base. It’s just not who they are. It’s not where they come from. These are white, very, very over-privileged men who have never done the work necessary to embrace leadership. Neither one of them has ever done anything that really forced them to grow or change in a way that would make them a desirable leader.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
to Liberals , Obama is not a person ,he is BLACK
Some of the biggest racists I know are the ones screaming the loudest about everyone else being a racist.
Slip back into obscurity, along with your doper son...no one’s buying crazy today.
Words of wisdom from that great pillar of virtue, Martin Sheen.
How many types of racism exist according to the Leftists?
The race card is all the lowlife commies have. Stick some more duct tape on it Marty! You’re a has been.
We all know how virtuous lefties are!
Yeah I am being called a racist by a man who once was Ramon Estevez....but I guess Sheen did not like being Hispanic
If you are White and still voting for Obama, you are an Idiot. That is not racist...that is reality
Racist = Someone winning an argument with a Liberal.
As opposed to complex racism?
Ramon Estavez, AKA Martin Sheen, is another “catholic” who should be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He openly causes great scandal by continuing to support a baby killing, sodomite “marriage” supporting marxist creep by the name of Barry Obamagabe.
Martin Sheen...white Hispanic.
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