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Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Hypocrite Howie calls NC GOP’S Wright/Obama ad “racially divisive”
Jim Geraghty notes with quotes from the past the sheer hypocrisy of the DNC Chair Howard Dean when it comes to his accusations of “racial divisiveness.” What Dean said today:
“This is a test of leadership for John McCain. If he can’t pick up the phone and make members of his own party stop airing a television ad he claims to oppose, how can he lead our country through an economic crisis or the war in Iraq? After shifting his positions on gun control, immigration and tax cuts throughout this campaign, McCain should not equivocate on this issue. Making a show of releasing your emails to the press is not leadership. If he is serious, he will get this ad pulled.”
In addition to Geraghty’s quotes which prove Dean is a flaming hypocrite on this issue, here’s one from back in February that I wrote about:
Howard Dean showed up to talk about Black History Month but the focus quickly changed to politics Tuesday night in ICC Auditorium.
The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and former Governor of Vermont contrasted the two parties’ presidential candidates, saying that with a woman and an African-American as the two front-runners, the Democratic field “looks like America” while the all-white male Republican field “looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s.”
Dean wants to talk about McCain’s “lack of leadership” on this issue, but that is an absurd accusation considering the decades of Democrat party and mainstream media (but I repeat myself) complicity in letting racist black Democrats get away with incendiary remarks that really are racially divisive – remarks that neither he, nor other prominent members of his party are keen to denounce because they’re so desperate to keep their hold on the black vote – so much so that they are willing to let racist members of their own party get away with demagoguing the issue and throwing out false accusations of racism against not just Republicans, but Democrats as well, when the occasion presents itself. Instead of denouncing the comments, lying hypocrites like Howard Dean display a cowardice far bigger than the earth’s so-called “carbon footprint” because allowing the comments to stand without tackling them head on just keeps the racial pot stirred and as a result, keeps people divided, and makes it harder to move foward beyond the racially divisive issues of the past.
But come to think of it, that’s exactly what they want (see first paragraph), isn’t it? So completely and utterly reprehensible.
Just one more reason I thank God I had a wake-up call in the early to mid-90s and rejected liberalism – forever.
Related: In another post at Campaign Spot, Geraghty thinks there’s a method to McCain’s madness re: his condemnation of the Wright/Obama ad:
We never see Obama denounce any of these [insulting] remarks [made by other Democrats about McCain], (heaven forbid he do so in front of a camera like McCain does) or ever call anyone out as inappropriate.
The DNC chops up McCain’s quote, and Obama doesn’t object. A liberal group makes a web ad mocking McCain’s age, and Obama doesn’t object. Jimmy Carter goes overseas to hug Hamas leaders, and Obama says he doesn’t approve, but he can’t do anything about it.
One guy says he’s going to unite the country, and is running on hope, but when his surrogates try to kneecap an opponent, we get these milquetoast disapproving statements from press aides. But when somebody on McCain’s team does something that’s even remotely controversial, the senator denounces it in front of the cameras.
One guy walks the walk, the other guy just talks the talk. And the frustrated independents, exhausted from nasty politics, will notice this.
He makes some good points, but I think McCain should have been more diplomatic on the ad rather than denounce it in the manner that he did. These issues speak to character, and as someone who is trying to, in part, make his character a selling point in his campaign, the Mc should understand why the Wright/Obama connection is an important one to explore and study. Not only that, but McCain’s still got his conservative base to worry about, and his forceful criticism of the ad did nothing to help on that front and in fact, may have hurt him some.
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This week, the North Carolina Republican Party has came out with a political TV ad that highlights Rev. Jeremiah Wright, specifically, his “God D___ America” rant. The ad, while making the case that Barack Obama was too extreme for America, was directly targeted at two Democrats running for governor of North Carolina since they had both endorsed Obama for president. As a result, liberals and Democrats are up in arms over the ad, even as the Hillary camp plays on the same points.
In the wake of the ad, John McCain and the RNC have asked the NC Republican Party to remove the ad as being divisive. Up to now, the state party has refused to comply. Notwithstanding his disapproval of the ad, McCain is taking heat from Democrats. Howard Dean is attacking McCain for his inability to force the NC Republican Party to take down the ad.
Then there is MSNBC’s blatantly partisan Keith Olbermann, who, last night, called the ad racist and attacked McCain in his “Worst person in the world” segment for his “connection” to those putting the ad up.
What connection, Mr Olbermann? John McCain has disowned the ad and tried to have it taken down (something he does not have the authority to do).
John McCain should be praised for his attempt to conduct a non-divisive campaign (at least to this point). But was the ad racist, as Olbermann and others on the left are charging? I think not. Just because Obama has a pastor who cries “God d___ America” and rails about white people and the “US of KKK”, does not make those who point out the truth racists. If anyone is racist, it is Reverend Wright. I would agree that the two Democratic gubernatorial candidates of North Carolina should not be saddled with Jeremiah Wright just because they endorsed Obama. That is another step removed. At any rate, I don’t consider the ad racist just because it criticizes a black pastor who has said outrageous things.
Olbermann’s charges of racism surrounding the ad are to be expected. While he rails against Bill O’Reilly and Fox News (“Fix News” as he calls it.) on a nightly basis, Olbermann is a hypocrite when he makes these statements. His own show is nothing more than a one-sided exercise in bashing of Bush, the Republican Party and all things conservative. Unlike Fox, which has debates between liberals and conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, Hannity and Colmes, as well as O’Reilly bringing on opposing voices, Olbermann debates no one. His guests every night are the same tired old faces, Eugene Robinson, Rachel Maddow, Chuck Todd, Jonathan Alter and others who agree with him on everything. So now, Olbermann is attaching the “racist” label on the North Carolina ad without any explanation or evidence.
In the wake of the ad “controversy”, David Axelrod, campaign chief for Obama, has thrown in his two cents worth with a comment about “white working-class voters” who will vote for the white candidate (as opposed to Obama).
Then there is Joy Behar of “The View”. This morning, she joined the fray in bringing up the “Republican Attack Machine”, that “will do anything to hold on to power- anything.” What Joy refuses to understand is that Obama is still engaged in fighting off Hillary Clinton for the nomination. It is the Clintons that are playing the race card against Obama, not John McCain and his campaign. It is the Clintons who will do anything to win-anything.
In short, the NC ad, while stretching to connect Jeremiah Wright to the two Democratic candidates for governor, are not racist. If they are, then any criticism of a black public figure is also racist. I would like to think we have progressed beyond that point.
gary fouse
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John STFU! You’re in by default, but we don’t need to cater to these friends of yours EVER!
John STFU! You’re in by default, we don’t need to cater to these friends of yours EVER!
MMMMmmmmm forest has figured out what else not to do. That’s two!
They get it in London.
Some people say stupid things without actually being stupid – GWB comes to mind. One can examine his accomplishments and garner some insight into his thought processes, personality, and integrity. I’d say Bush 43, as infuriating as he I sometimes find him, scores very highly in all three areas.
Howlin’ Howie, on the other hand, has never shown he possesses the slightest inkling of the speculation of the possibility of considering the remote hypothesis that he’s aware of the silliness (at best) of his ludicrous statements. He never comes back to clarify, strongly suggesting that whatever idiotic words just came out of his mouth were precisely what he meant to say.
And so I have concluded that Dean is just flat out, irredeemably, unutterably stupid. Anyone who can say so many stupid things without realizing how stupid they are is just… well, I already said it.
More than that, he’s stoopid, which is a whole new breakthrough. You don’t get any dumber than double-O stupid.