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This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« on: August 10, 2008, 02:50:02 PM »
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CANDO  (793 posts)      Sun Aug-10-08 11:58 AM
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This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
 The past few days have been hard on me. Two middle of the road, independent type guys I work with have said they are voting for McCain now that Obama played the race card. These guys have told me this past spring that they liked Obama and would vote for him if he gets the nomination. Just yesterday at a party with some of my wife's co-workers, the husband of the host says to me regarding the election "how can you support a guy who plays the race card?" Folks, this is not good. It is god damned brilliant of the McCain campaign to paint Obama as playing the race card. They know the reaction of any ordinary white person to the charge of racism. The last thing you want to accuse a racist of being, is a racist.
 The backlash reaction is exactly what they are going for, and it is working according to the situations I've experienced this past week. The Obama campaign needs to go straight at this NOW, before it sets in permanently.


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polichick  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-10-08 11:59 AM
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2. imo your buddies were just looking for a reason not to vote for him...
 Sure they aren't racists themselves?


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cbc5g  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-10-08 12:00 PM
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3. Bingo
 Just Republicans coming back to their party. Any excuse would have worked for em.


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scarletwoman  (1000+ posts)      Sun Aug-10-08 12:04 PM
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4. Did you ask them what the hell that's supposed to mean?
 Make them define it, for cripesakes. Make them tell you exactly what Obama's "playing the race card" consisted of.

If YOU'RE not going to fight back, why come here with your Debbie Downer anecdotes and hand-wringing about what Obama's campaign should do?


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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts)       Sun Aug-10-08 12:07 PM
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5. I would answer them with the reality that as a black man Obama
 cannot 'play' the race card. He is living it.

White people have a choice, minorities don't. It's lose-lose. Bullshit !!

Anyone who can't face that reality IS a racist. Like it or not. And if they demand Obama deny who he is- then they are not only racist, they are assholes.


Your an asshole BTB, the only reason your voting for Obama is because he's black.  You don't look at
at his very thin resume and his voting record.

As a minority myself, I vote for the person who would be the best President.  Race is not an issue.
Since 1984 I've voted Republican.  I'm not really happy with our choice this year, but I'll be damned
if I vote for a socialist.  Kiss my brown butt DUmmie. 



 

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2008, 03:12:47 PM »
The 200 million Americans that don't usually vote in Presidential elections... yeah, they're all racists too.  :whatever:
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10. It makes me laugh to hear people repeat stupid things like this. As has been pointed out here, Obama can't play the race card. The accusation that he is (by McCain and your friends) is actually listed under the definition at Wiki as an example of "playing the race card". So, according to Wiki and the accepted definition of "playing the race card", it's McCain and your friends who are racists.

No one but a ignorant racist would think a black person could play the race card in an election where they do not have affirmative action, because it assumes he has something to gain by pointing out his race. WHAT does he have to gain? I hate it when we ask questions like this, upon which the entire premise of the accusation lay, and they are never answered. If the question can't be answered, the argument is invalid.

But the argument that is no longer invalid is that McCain is playing the race card in making the accusation. We can now call him a racist without reprisal.
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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2008, 03:22:21 PM »
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No one but a ignorant racist would think a black person could play the race card in an election where they do not have affirmative action, because it assumes he has something to gain by pointing out his race. WHAT does he have to gain? I hate it when we ask questions like this, upon which the entire premise of the accusation lay, and they are never answered. If the question can't be answered, the argument is invalid.

Okay DUmb**** here is what he has to gain....try to attack the integrity and character of his opponent by insinuating that he is racist.
Try to bring all the fold into the plantation to vote for him or stigmatize blacks that are supporting McCain.

There asswipe your silly question is something any person with an IQ above their body temperature can answer.
If you were serious about it then it betrays where your level of intelligence is.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2008, 03:35:59 PM »
I just don't understand the circular logic that states minorities cant play the race card. Maybe Im just some dumb white guy.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2008, 03:37:42 PM »
Definition of racist: Anyone not voting for Obama, next question... :bs:


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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2008, 03:42:46 PM »
Which race card did Obama Hussein play?  He has two.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2008, 03:51:05 PM »
Definition of racist: Anyone not voting for Obama, next question... :bs:

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2008, 03:53:27 PM »
For the DUmmies this is a win, win, win election.  Either Obahussein is going to lose because the election was stolen or he is going to lose it because EVERYONE is racist or a combination of the two.  There will be no middle ground.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2008, 04:16:31 PM »
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CANDO  (793 posts)      Sun Aug-10-08 11:58 AM
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This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
 The past few days have been hard on me. Two middle of the road, independent type guys I work with have said they are voting for McCain now that Obama played the race card. These guys have told me this past spring that they liked Obama and would vote for him if he gets the nomination. Just yesterday at a party with some of my wife's co-workers, the husband of the host says to me regarding the election "how can you support a guy who plays the race card?" Folks, this is not good. It is god damned brilliant of the McCain campaign to paint Obama as playing the race card. They know the reaction of any ordinary white person to the charge of racism. The last thing you want to accuse a racist of being, is a racist.
 The backlash reaction is exactly what they are going for, and it is working according to the situations I've experienced this past week. The Obama campaign needs to go straight at this NOW, before it sets in permanently.

An ordinary white person is racist? WTF?

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2008, 10:26:12 PM »
These idiots don't know what "playing the race card" means.  It doesn't mean getting negative about someone's race.  It means accusing someone else of being racist, or blaming something you don't like on invisible racism, so you don't have to respond substantively to their arguments.  So all that bile about "blacks can't play the race card" is simply incoherent, reflecting the ignorance of the DUmmies.  Obama's statement, "They are gonna say.... Oh, did I mention he is black?", is PRECISELY what "playing the race card" means. 

The vast majority of white Americans are not racists.  Most of them go out of their way to avoid even the appearance of racism.  There are many, many, many reasons to vote against Obama -- lack of experience, lack of judgment, ties to extreme radicals, 20 years listening to hate-whitey sermons, working side by side with an admitted weather underground terrorist, tenuous connection with main stream American culture, lack of any sense of self (hence his sucking up to campus "radicals" to prove his "blackness"), moribund leftist economic policies, worship of big government, etc. etc. etc.  Telling a white person that their decision to vote against Obama is a reflection of their racism is insulting and itself racist. 

It's also counterproductive.  It's the kind of crap that makes people not only vote against Obama, but get out and campaign for his opponent.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2008, 10:34:16 PM »
'Playing the race card' is whatever they say it is and whatever puts thier candidate ahead in the polls.  This shit was going to happen sooner or later... whatever works is what happens.  Welcome to Chicago politics, America.
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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2008, 10:45:49 PM »
With his total lack of skills, experience, and integrity, he played the only card he had...
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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2008, 04:13:52 AM »
what would you call saying someone can't be racist based on their skin color ? Wouldn't that be Racism in and of itself ?


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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2008, 10:32:11 AM »
If you're going to go around saying stupid stuff like "people are going to try and make you afraid of me because I don't look like those guys on our money," then you deserve whatever bad things come your way.

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Re: This meme is working "Obama is playing the race card"
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts)       Sun Aug-10-08 12:07 PM
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5. I would answer them with the reality that as a black man Obama
 cannot 'play' the race card. He is living it.

White people have a choice, minorities don't. It's lose-lose. Bullshit !!

Anyone who can't face that reality IS a racist. Like it or not. And if they demand Obama deny who he is- then they are not only racist, they are assholes.


Your an asshole BTB, the only reason your voting for Obama is because he's black.  You don't look at
at his very thin resume and his voting record.

As a minority myself, I vote for the person who would be the best President.  Race is not an issue.
Since 1984 I've voted Republican.  I'm not really happy with our choice this year, but I'll be damned
if I vote for a socialist.  Kiss my brown butt DUmmie. 

If the DUmmie wants to try to win that argument by insisting that a minority can't be a racist by definition, I hope to GOD he rides that horse 'til it drops, because there is almost NOTHING he could say to rational non-minority people that would piss them off worse than that!

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« Last Edit: August 12, 2008, 10:40:00 AM by DumbAss Tanker »
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