Posted on 11/06/2014 4:24:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Former Obama White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, now a political commentator for CNN, casually admitted that, yes, his party uses race to convince minorities that Republicans seek to oppress them.
Before the midterm election, Carney said: "Republicans are going to pick up seats in the Senate and the House, and they may win control of the Senate. So (Democrats) need to mobilize their base voters, and that is especially true of minority voters."
Carney also admitted that the use of the race card is cynical: "Equating support for stand-your-ground law ... doesn't mean you supported the action that took Trayvon Martin's life. So that's the kind of, you know, rough ad -- similar to the one we saw from the Republican. I think we've come to expect that, and hopefully a lot of voters ... kind of tune it out."
Carney claims both sides use race to gin up their base. But when Republicans do it, he insists, they do so out of racism. Consider this exchange with Bill Kristol, the conservative publisher of the Weekly Standard. Carney claims that the Republicans' push for voter ID is motivated by the racist Republican desire to suppress the black vote:
Kristol: I voted in Virginia last Saturday. Since I was going to be in New York next week, I voted early absentee in person, and I had to show my driver's license. Do you think that's really a problem?
Carney: You know what the statistics say. You know who is most affected by the requirements, essentially poll tax-type requirements.
Kristol: Poll tax? Showing an identification is like charging people a fine, a tax?
Carney: Bill, you know that the fraud isn't substantial and real. You know it doesn't have a significant impact, because it's so minimal, on election results and you know what the motivation is behind it. You know it.
Kristol: I just totally disagree. But that's OK.
Carney: No, you don't.
So here we have two white guys -- three counting host Jake Tapper -- discussing black-white relations. White Democrat accuses white Republican of being racist against blacks. White Republican denies it. White Democrat says: Oh, yes, you are, and you can deny it all you want. But you are a bigot unless and until I say otherwise. White Republican meekly denies the charge. The subject is changed. Let's move on.
Conservative commentator Ben Stein recently called out Obama and the Democrats on their vulgar use of the race card: "What the White House is doing is trying to racialize all politics, and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy. And that's just a complete lie. ... The President is the most racist president there has ever been in America. He is purposely trying to use race to divide Americans." Memo to RNC Chair Reince Priebus: Stein has just shown how to counter the race card -- with facts.
How pathetic is Obama's use of it? When running for president in 2008 -- and to prove he wasn't at all like the Reverend Al Sharpton, Obama refused to even appear with the race-hustling flamethrower. Today, they are BFF's.
Six years in, the Obama administration cannot brag about growth. This recovery is the nation's worst in 80 years, arguably ever. Dems cannot talk about declining black poverty because the rate is about where it was when Obama took office. Black Inner-city teenage unemployment exceeds 50 percent in some cities.
A black 82-year-old grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, recently called C-SPAN to explain why this time she "voted straight Republican": "I have noticed ... what the Democratic Party has done to my people. Unemployment is high in the black community -- we are double with unemployment -- than it is anywhere else. ... And I'm not talking about the people that need help -- because with so many people getting help that doesn't need help, it prevents the people that really need help from getting it. ... I hear my people calling in all the time saying that every time you say something against the ideology of President Obama, that you're doing it because he is black. We need to stop that foolishness. This man is destroying this country, and it's what he intended to do. He said he was going to transform America, and that's what he's doing."
More alarming for Democrats, it's not just 82-year-old black grannies who are reconsidering their allegiance to the Party. Young black people, the "hope and change" voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama, have also been mugged by the reality of uncommonly high unemployment and underemployment. They see that government, even when led by a young, progressive, empathetic black President, will not solve their problems. Among black 18- to 29-year-olds, nearly one-third of them now self-describe as political "independents."
After Tuesday's election, Democrats better order some new race cards. The deck is getting thin.
The two of you are so correct. I truly believe that if not for the politicization of race by leftist politicians the black community as a whole would be markedly better off now and that there wouldn’t be the socioeconomic disparities we see now. I also think that the whole issue of race would have faded much more by now if not used as a cynical political tool.
It’s harder to be at your best and to achieve at your highest level when the message you keep hearing (from youth on) is that the system is stacked against you and that you can’t make it without outside help. It’s tragically destructive politics.
That’s funny coming from the party of the Black & Hispanic Caucus...
> Jay Carney, now a political commentator for CNN, casually admitted that, yes, his party uses race to convince minorities that Republicans seek to oppress them.
A black 82-year-old grandmother, a lifelong Democrat, recently called C-SPAN to explain why this time she "voted straight Republican": "I have noticed ... what the Democratic Party has done to my people. Unemployment is high in the black community -- we are double with unemployment -- than it is anywhere else. ... And I'm not talking about the people that need help -- because with so many people getting help that doesn't need help, it prevents the people that really need help from getting it. ... I hear my people calling in all the time saying that every time you say something against the ideology of President Obama, that you're doing it because he is black. We need to stop that foolishness. This man is destroying this country, and it's what he intended to do. He said he was going to transform America, and that's what he's doing."
Pretty much says it all..
May God richly bless this wise old woman. ... If only such people had been paying closer attention for the last fifty years, we would not have an enemy of America like Barack Insane Obama in the presidency. We The People might even have a resounding voice in the republican party.
Al Franken was first elected a United States Senator by a margin which, had felons been eliminated from the electoral roll, he would have lost. If Franken had lost Obamacare would not have passed.
Kristol: I just totally disagree. But that's OK.
Carney: No, you don't.
Carney's a mind reader. Amazing.
Politics has utterly failed black America, because the truth is, they do not need political change. What they need is spiritual change, to have a spiritual leader who can put them on the path of individual morality.
What is destroying black America is simply sex outside of marriage. It’s effect on them is close to self-genocidal. So unless black Americans can abstain until they are married, and stay married long enough to raise their children, in a few generations, their numbers could be halved.
Among the derivatives that come from sex outside of marriage:
1) Long term birth control, taking six month blocks of time from the optimal years for having and raising children.
2) A horrifically high abortion rate. Since 1973, the native (to distinguish from immigrant) black population is 25% smaller than it would have been without abortion.
3) Children raised in single parent families are 60% more likely to become criminal offenders. The black illegitimacy rate is now about 72% of all births.
“Nearly one in three African American males aged 20–29 are under some form of criminal justice supervision whether imprisoned, jailed, on parole or probation.”
Here in Utah this carney liar should talk to Congressperson, Mia Love.
Carney and his ilk don't talk to people. They talk at them.
Mia Love and Tim Scott. Carnoid is a bad liar.
One of these days the pandered will become the pissed.
It might have begun last Tuesday.
Yes.
Young blacks are catching on to democrats and democrat lies... they have no intention of being played for fools by white liberal elites.
More proof of Republicans being white supremacists and being against mixed race marriages and all I guess /s
Yes, Gay Carney, I am a racist.
I am 100% racist.
See, you guys redefined ‘racist’ to mean anyone who disagrees with any liberal about any facet of any argument.
The minute I disagree with anything you a-holes say, you call me a racist.
So racism means, to disagree with you.
That makes me a proud racist.
Carney isn’t the only one by far. Watch the panic on their faces. It’s the look of a con man who’s been caught out.
I know that Jay Carney is a lying &sshole, that’s what I know.
99% of liberals are, so what else is new?
“Nathan Hale founder of KKK Democrat”
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