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Jay Rockefeller: Some Obama foes think he’s the ‘wrong color’
The Politico ^ | May 6, 2014 | Kathryn A. Wolfe, deputy transportation editor

Posted on 05/06/2014 6:48:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Jay Rockefeller unloaded on lawmakers Tuesday, accusing some of blocking efforts to solve urgent problems during Barack Obama’s presidency “because he’s the wrong color.”

Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who will retire at the end of the year, made his comments during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on transportation funding, saying he’s confounded by the “lack of will to keep ourselves from dropping into rivers and rolling over bridges that are no longer there.”

“It’s an American characteristic that you don’t do anything which displeases the voters, because you always have to get reelected here,” he added. “I understand part of it. It has to do with — for some, it’s just we don’t want anything good to happen under this president, because he’s the wrong color.”

Rockefeller’s tirade was sparked by the long-running dilemma over funding the trust fund that covers most of America’s federal transportation spending. Many lawmakers have ruled out a hike to its primary funding mechanism: the tax on gasoline....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: demagogicparty; democrats; jayrockefeller; kathrynwolfe; memebuilding; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pinkos; politico; racism; rockefeller; westvirginia
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To: piytar

Two comments

1. I’d make a campaign ad of his comments and play it against every Senate Democrat incumbent running for reelection with a very few words: “Had enough of this garbage? If your answer is yes, defeat _____ and vote for _______.”

2. I’d take to the Senate floor and point out that many, including I’d guess Mr. Rockefeller, are very critical of Joseph McCarthy who said he had a list of communists in the State Department. [He may or may not have had a list, but of course he was substantially right about the infestation within the State Department.] Anyway, I’d point out the “McCarthyite” tactic and challenge Senator Rockefeller to start naming names.


61 posted on 05/06/2014 10:39:13 PM PDT by SweetWilliamsMom
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To: piytar

Two comments

1. I’d make a campaign ad of his comments and play it against every Senate Democrat incumbent running for reelection with a very few words: “Had enough of this garbage? If your answer is yes, defeat _____ and vote for _______.”

2. I’d take to the Senate floor and point out that many, including I’d guess Mr. Rockefeller, are very critical of Joseph McCarthy who said he had a list of communists in the State Department. [He may or may not have had a list, but of course he was substantially right about the infestation within the State Department.] Anyway, I’d point out the “McCarthyite” tactic and challenge Senator Rockefeller to start naming names.


62 posted on 05/06/2014 10:39:13 PM PDT by SweetWilliamsMom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Some grains on the beach are pearls, Jay, but most are silicone dioxide sand.
Likewise, some Obama foes think he's the 'wrong color', but most think he's a lying commie fool.
63 posted on 05/07/2014 4:26:38 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; AuH2ORepublican; Reaganite Republican; MinorityRepublican; ..
This is standard operating procedure for so many Democrat politicians, whether white or black: accuse the critics on the other side of an issue of being "racists," when, as usual, the facts and the logic are not on their side. Just about anything advocated by conservatives (and even the Clintons back in 2008) can be classified, by some inane reasoning, as "racist" by the left, especially in the age of Obama. If nothing else, the tactic keeps race hustlers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in business and might turn out more 'Rat voters for the next election.

Just completed the interesting book "Mugged" by Ann Coulter, a book about American racial conflict in general. One of its major themes is the gross overuse of the word "racist" by the left in their efforts to have their opponents cowered and silenced. There are slews of examples of this tactic employed since about 1970.

64 posted on 05/07/2014 4:27:58 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Thank you!

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65 posted on 05/07/2014 5:52:25 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: laconic

His grandfather stole billions from the common folks by enforcing a monopoly on kerosene, then oil, at sky-high monopoly prices.


Really? Details matter.


66 posted on 05/07/2014 9:06:45 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: justiceseeker93

The only people that oppose Obama because he’s Black are rural hick DEMOCRATS.


67 posted on 05/07/2014 2:01:32 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

The one percent speaks! Thanks justiceseeker93.


68 posted on 05/07/2014 6:14:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The richest person in a poor state speaks!

Looks like all of the silver in those spoons he’s been using has gone to his head.


69 posted on 05/07/2014 6:19:20 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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