http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1498475Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:26 PM
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Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/171807-shei...
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.
"I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness this president,†said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. “Why is he different? And in my community, that is the question that we raise. In the minority community that is question that is being raised. Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully? Why has the debt limit been raised 60 times? Why did the leader of the Senate continually talk about his job is to bring the president down to make sure he is unelected?â€
Jackson Lee said Obama has been targeted unlike any other president.
"I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one," said Jackson Lee from the House floor.
"Read between the lines," she continued. "What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?"
Hint: It's not his race. It has something to do with him being a muslim and a socialist.
The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:31 PM
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3. That Is All There Is To Any Of This, Ma'am
The entire Republican mass line boils down to 'This used to be a White man's country...'.
???
joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:36 PM
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10. I agree...her explanation is part of it, maybe a large part...but any dem
president they would do this to.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 08:24 PM
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26. Okay. I agree that what BC went through was pretty bad.
I just don't think it's the same thing. And that's because my siblings are all RW fundies and I have heard the difference first hand. They would be just as bad or even worse to our first gay President as they are to Obama. No, I can say definitely worse. Because they wouldn't have to pretend they aren't homophobic since they think they have the bible on their side.
Your family admits to you that they hate obama because he's black? I doubt it. You're lying to prove a point. Not unusual though.
DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:33 PM
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5. I know teabaggers personally. They are racist
to the core.
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:35 PM
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7. Yep. The ones that I live amongst are. n/t
The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 05:34 PM
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6. And The Tea-Baggers, Sir, Are Just Klu-Klux In Mufti....
If it were not for active and residual racism, the Republican party would not net more than fifteen percent of the national vote.
Did you forget that the KKK was a democrat organization and one had to be a democrat to join?
FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 06:04 PM
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16. Sure, but my point is you have to understand your enemy
Otherwise you waste all your time wondering, "why are these Congress Critters so stuck on race?"
When, all the while, the Congress Critters are just taking advantage of the sorry state of their voters.
The rich DO matter, because they're the ones that pick the message and tell the M$M what to tell the great unwashed.
I'm sure you can provide just one teensy weensy example?
Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 06:23 PM
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18. I have a migraine today so I am having a little trouble conveying my thoughts
but I agreed with you. When the fog clears I will try to reestablish my point.
Migraine has nothing to do with it.
BumRushDaShow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Jul-15-11 07:44 PM
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25. Did anyone yell out "You Lie!" in the middle of Clinton's State of the Union speech?
Answer: NO. They are RACISTS and I hope they ROT IN HELL.
Well the muslim did lie ya know. What's wrong with calling a spade, a spade?