Racism is alive and in full swing as defined by the Left. They define a racist as anyone who criticizes President Obama. Really? The criticism is directed at Obama because of his policies, which are diminishing U.S. standing in the world, preventing the economy from recovering with robust employment and reasonable prices for food and oil, and policies that bring more regulation and interference in every aspect of business and our personal lives.
We criticize his policies for the continuing devaluation of our dollar and the runaway federal spending that is pushing our debt to unconscionable levels. We are not critical of Obama because of the color of his skin. Jimmy Carter had previously been called our worst president ever. Now Obama has taken his place. And it is not because he is black.
The Left and liberals are pulling out the race card as never before. That's because it's the tried and true tactic and actually the only strategy they have.
Susan Leeper, Scottsdale
Dale Whiting posted at 8:18 am on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Care to give us a few examples of race card playing? I haven't heard of any. Me thinks thou doth protest too much!
Leon Ceniceros posted at 9:29 am on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Our erstwhile ex-Democrat Governor, Janet Napolitano...currently Secretary of Homeland "Insecurity" even put out a Nationwide Local Law Enforcement Alert to watch out for "RETURNING US MILITARY VETERANS WHO BECAUSE OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF WEAPONS AND WARFARE MAY BE...'RECRUTIED'..BY RIGHT-WING WHITE-POWER MILITIA GROUPS"..............can you believe that.
Folks it is all described in the NEVER REPUDIATED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ALERT......"RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM: Current Economic and Political Climate fueling Resurgeance and Recruitment".
Who is being watched..........you and I.....here are some of the criteria for Local Law Enforcement (Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert..etc...Police Department to put you on the LIST);
1. If you have made public comments opposing Government Bail Outs.
2. If you have made public comments supporting the 2nd Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
3. If you have made public comments against the Obama Administration's Pro-Illegal Alien Amnesty policy.
4. If you have made public comments supporting ..State's Rights.
5. If you have made public comments against the Obama Administration's Repeal of "Don't Ask..Don't Tell" policy for the United States Military.
6. If you have made public comments supporting the....TEA PARTY...or Obama's Birth Certificate (Birthers).
7. If you have made public comments supporting Anti-Abortion Laws.
8. If you have made public comments against SAME-SEX Marriage Laws.
9. If you have made public comments against ...NAFTA and Globalization.
10. If you have made public comments against the ........NEW WORLD ORDER or OPEN BORDERS BETWEEN MEXICO, THE USA AND CANADA.
IF YOU HAVE MADE PUBLIC COMMENTS, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, GIVEN YOUR NAME WHILE STANDING UP AT A PUBLIC MEETING TO EXPRESS YOUR OPINION = YOU COULD BE ON THIS LIST.
I KNOW THAT I AM BECAUSE I HAVE PUBLICLY COMMENTED ON JUST ABOUT ALL 10 (and a whole lot more.....LOL).
If you think about it ....George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would all be on this......OBAMA ADMINISTRATION "RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM" .........LIST.
Accuracy posted at 11:29 am on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Criticize the President, because he was black?
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain stated during a CBS News interview, "....whenever President Obama is criticized because something didn't work, or because of bad-- bad policy, or something of this nature, his surrogates, and other members of Congress, would then try to play the race card because it's supposed to be something wrong with criticizing him."
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In a nutshell: When anyone criticizes President Barack Obama, they are singled out as being racist . . . and this is reverse racism by the Liberal media and by Obama.
dustbowl11 posted at 12:28 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Susan must have been unconscious or institutionalized from 2000-2008.
Dale Whiting posted at 1:42 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Guys,
In 2012 the issue will be the economy. No one will be playing race cards.
CSalafia posted at 2:20 pm on Fri, Jun 10, 2011.
Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
Aside from a vocal, and misguided, minority on the left, nobody believes that if you simply criticize the President's policies you're automatically a racist.
Don't like his economics? Fine, criticize that.
Don't like his foreign policy? Fine, criticize that.
However, that's not typically the Tea Party M.O. In fact, in a 2010 survey, Tea Partiers were found to be substantially more "racially resentful" than any other demographic.
Did you know your taxes are lower than any time in the last 60 years, even lower than under Reagan?
Did you know that US oil production has increased every year since Obama took office after 8 straight years of decline under Bush?
Did you know that the single largest contributor to the current deficit are the Bush tax cut packages?
Did you?
Every single statement above is true.
Yet one question always remains unanswered.... we all want to know where you were from 2000-2008? You know, those years when you called anyone who questioned Bush's policies or criticized the war "terrorist-loving, America-hating traitors"? Those years when Bush and the GOP put policies in place that are directly responsible for the vast, vast majority of the deficit and debt the US has today?
You were in the same place you are now... standing on the far-right, waving your flags, claiming to be 'more patriotic-er' than anyone else and blissfully ignorant of anything outside your delusional version of reality.
viborafan posted at 7:35 am on Sat, Jun 11, 2011.
BINGO!
viborafan posted at 7:39 am on Sat, Jun 11, 2011.
Short memory these righties have. Remember the way over-used line "Providing aid and comfort to the emeny"? This phrase was used ANY time ANY body dared to speak out against ANY Bush Administration policy. Cheney and Rumsfeld constantly trotted out this line and the media just went along with it, lest they be accused.
Heard it lately?
Dale Whiting posted at 6:54 pm on Sat, Jun 11, 2011.
I repeat. "Care to give us a few examples of race card playing? I haven't heard of any. Me thinks thou doth protest too much!"
With no one citing to any examples of Democrats or their surrogates playing the race card, I conclude that this article is 100% pure Baloney!
samkat posted at 8:40 pm on Sat, Jun 11, 2011.
Shall we start with Holder's famous statement that Americans are cowards because they are afraid to discuss race and yet his department is the one who is assaulting individuals and states who dare take on these issues when they are not in line with the administration's policies? Dale, can you name one legitimate White organization and do you really think anyone who tries to establish one such as the White American Legal Defense and Education Fund or the White Congressional Caucus would not be roundly called a racist for even attempting to do so? Heck, you like to stand out in the crowd. How about you starting the move and we will gladly back you up.
Slabside posted at 8:40 pm on Tue, Jun 14, 2011.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee". (Former president William Jefferson Clinton speaking to Edward Kennedy about Barack Obama).
"He is light skinned, with no negro dialect". (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaking about Barack Obama).
"He ran a gas station in St. Louis". (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking of Gandhi).
"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent". (Vice President Joseph Biden).