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Martin Sheen: Conservatives Use 'Fundamental Racism' Against Obama (losers playing the race card)
Big Hollywood ^ | 4 Oct 2012

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 ...


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To: sam_paine

I think it is obama when he says, “let me be perfectly clear”.

LLS


41 posted on 10/05/2012 3:23:22 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: drewh

Martin Sheen can kiss my rosy red ass.


42 posted on 10/05/2012 3:26:02 PM PDT by sport
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To: drewh
Martin. Just shut up. If I don't want to vote for the black guy, it has a lot more to do with the nature of HIS character than mine.
43 posted on 10/05/2012 3:33:14 PM PDT by Kenton (Happiness is watching MSNBC's meltdown after the first Presidential debate.)
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To: drewh

I have always detested this talentless creep.


44 posted on 10/05/2012 3:35:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: drewh

No, Martin Sheen, you’re using racism for your ends.


45 posted on 10/05/2012 3:35:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: drewh

Leftards, your Race Card has been rejected. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you.


46 posted on 10/05/2012 3:39:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: drewh

Martin Sheen has not learned anything in forty years. He must be sleepwalking through his life.


47 posted on 10/05/2012 3:43:50 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: drewh

Martin Sheen is a racist.


48 posted on 10/05/2012 3:48:52 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: drewh

Martin who?? Please STFU, Mr Sheen... (and tell Charlie that too!)


49 posted on 10/05/2012 3:50:14 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
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To: drewh

Poor, Charlie. He likes black. Someone buy this cretin an ant farm.


50 posted on 10/05/2012 3:52:21 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: drewh

Wow. Pathetic.


51 posted on 10/05/2012 3:53:25 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Some on our "Roads & Bridges" head to the beach. Others head to their offices, farms, libraries....)
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To: drewh

Dems are race obsessed. Always have been, it is their party’s DNA.

A guy like Sheen will never vote for a black Repub, he will never vote for a black conservative. Its not a race thing, he’s a socialist. He will never vote for someone who is not a socialist. I will never vote for a socialist black or white. I didn’t vote for Clinton, and I won’t vote for Mrs Clinton. Are the Clintons black? No, they are socialists.

Sheen only favors minorities if they are socialists but not otherwise. A conservative will vote for a conservative whatever his ethnicity. So to that degree I suppose we both judge the man based on his character. The difference is that conservatives honestly don’t care what color you are and Dems like Sheen obsess over it.


52 posted on 10/05/2012 4:02:56 PM PDT by marron
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To: sam_paine
The reason they become clichés is because they are so boringly true.
53 posted on 10/05/2012 4:25:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: sam_paine

Which is the more overused cliche, calling everything “something-gate” or using the phrase “playing the race card”.

Face card. I hear at least a royal flush every day. In spades.


54 posted on 10/06/2012 12:45:14 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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