Help Elok fathom Republican rhetoric

[Darius871]

So far we've established that it's some p*ssy. Plenty of those around.

[MrFun]

Glenn is your typical far-right JERK.

[Theben]

Looks like those crying communist pictures. I guess he's a communist.

[Theben]

I'm pretty sure that comment was referencing Obama's lack of experience (getting coffee as an aide), rather than his skin color.

To be fair, had a repug said this he would've been run out of town on a rail.

[Drake Tungsten]

To be fair, had a repug said this he would've been run out of town on a rail.

That's really the issue with Clinton and Reid's comments. More people (especially those of a conservative bent) would be willing to cut them some slack if Republicans hadn't been raked over the coals for similar statements in the past.

[Theben]

In Reid's case it seems to be "I made a mistake" and the dems are pointing to his record in support of minorities. If his past record was anything like Lott's* or republicans in general, he wouldn't have gotten support from Sharpton, et al.


*assuming Lott had an abysmal record wrt minorities and can't be arsed to double-check... it's just the internet ffs

[Drake Tungsten]

In Reid's case it seems to be "I made a mistake" and the dems are pointing to his record in support of minorities.

So, as John Oliver said on The Daily Show tonight, Republicans can get away with saying dumb things about national security because everyone thinks they're good at national security and Democrats can say dumb things about blacks because everyone thinks they're good at blacks...

[Theben]

That sums up past events pretty well.

[Drake Tungsten]

Sort of, although it makes less sense when you remember that the Democrats were the party of segregation.

[Theben]

Not really. Same people with the same attitude, just most of them jumped ship to the GOP when the northern dems brought minorities on board.

[Drake Tungsten]

Plenty of Dixiecrats stayed in the Democratic Party; Robert Byrd is the last Dixiecrat standing, after all. Once segregation was defeated, the conservative racists moved to the GOP and the liberal racists stayed with the Democrats...

[DaShi]

To be fair, had a repug said this he would've been run out of town on a rail.

That's really the issue with Clinton and Reid's comments. More people (especially those of a conservative bent) would be willing to cut them some slack if Republicans hadn't been raked over the coals for similar statements in the past.

[MrFun]

In Reid's case it seems to be "I made a mistake" and the dems are pointing to his record in support of minorities. If his past record was anything like Lott's* or republicans in general, he wouldn't have gotten support from Sharpton, et al.


*assuming Lott had an abysmal record wrt minorities and can't be arsed to double-check... it's just the internet ffs

Yeah - Lott celebrated the legacy of a virulent racist, and openly said that our country would have been better off had Thurmond won the presidential race in 1948. A spokesperson on one news show I saw even claimed that Lott was associated with "racially-charged" organizations.

Reid made a dumb mistake in his choice of words - he's definitely not a racist like Lott.

[HalfLotus]

You say it as if the words a person uses are completely removed from their ideas and beliefs.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It was just a poor choice of words. If Reid said Obama doesn't talk black, but can when he wants to, it'd be a-ok