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June 16, 2010 05:41 PM UTC
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feeling I kept getting while I was reading about this yesterday. Just now, it came to me. Pat Caddell!! Controversial public figure. Lots of easily googled public pronouncements. Yes, some differences in those pronouncements, but none real helpful to either candidate in question. Hard to understand why these campaigns get themselves into such contretemps.
about widely known commodity Pat Caddell and the Romanoff “I’m shock..shocked” reaction when called out. I think what spooked Gardner and Colorado GOP was that the Northern Colorado Tea Party leader denounced King’s views?
Also interesting that Limbaugh, Beck etc. say this sort of thing all the time and no GOP pol dares disagree publicly with a word from He Who Shall Never Be Publicly Contradicted but they have no fear of dissing a prominent GOP congress member.
What none of these wackos ever do is give examples of Obama demonstrating hatred for whites and preference for blacks. It would be tough considering his devotion to his mom and grandparents and to the number of whites close to him in his campaign and administration. Of course many close white pals, like Axelrod, are Jewish. Maybe that doesn’t quite count for white in King’s book, or at least qualifies for otherness.
Also interesting that King points to a comment from AG Holder, who is African American, saying that “we” are cowards about discussing race and sees it as a comment that white people are being called cowards. Holder is clearly talking about we as a society. It is King who sees it as a racist remark referring only to whites.
Was he so thrown off by a habit of automatically hearing “we” in reference to Americans as meaning whites only with everyone else being “other” that he completely spaced out the fact that “we” was being used here inclusively by an African American? Let’s hear from Gardner exactly how he disagrees with King’s statement. It would be fun to read him a similar remark from Rush and ask him to denounce that, too.
Gardner disinvited King before the NoCo Tea Party leader disassociated herself with the guy. So maybe that spooked him even more, but it’s unlikely that’s what led him to cancel.
Wasn’t sure about the timeline. Still shows nobody scares the GOP nearly as much as the Big Fat Idiot does. So who’s in charge? I say the guy that gets the genuflections and a free pass on everything that comes out of his mouth. Just ask Gardner to come out breathing a qualified word against one of the drugsters comments and listen to the silence.
And Kind brought this up himself, how did you miss it? He also referred to the Arizona immigration law. Good or bad, it’s pretty clear Obama has a preference for minorities.
You disagree with NoCo tea party that the statement doesn’t represent the tea party’s feelings?
that would agree Obama came down on the side of Gates simply because of race. The facts are pretty clear in that case that the police officer did nothing wrong. However, I don’t think Steve King represents the tea party’s feelings in the sense that issues of race are not a major theme of the tea party. The tea party is focused on limited government, fiscal responsibility, and adhering to the Constitution.
And disagree with NoCo Tea Party? Thanks.
I agree with both King’s point, and the NoCo Tea Party statement that issues of race have no place in the Tea Party movement. The Tea Party movement is focused on limited government and fiscal responsibility, and getting into issues of racism just sidetracks the movement’s ability to focus on its core issues.
They are in direct conflict with one another. Literally.
I agree with King’s point. I do not agree that King should be making this an issue in the Tea Party.
Values would indicate something different than just plain ol’ campaign strategy, which your comment was speaking to. Values would indicate that, at the very core of their beliefs, they disagree that the President makes decisions based on race.
You can’t agree with Hollywood’s statement and King’s statement. Sorry. I do think it’s weird that you came to King’s defense rather than the NoCo Tea Party and Cory Gardner’s though.
I also found it weird that ColoradoPols came to King’s defense as well. Anyway, I would say that Tea Party values include limited government, free markets, fiscal responsibility, etc. “Obama favors blacks” is not a Tea Party value. That doesn’t mean that it can’t be true or that I can’t believe it. Despite the blatant mischaracterization by the left wing media, the Tea Party is not focused on issues of race.
invited them both to discuss it and try to understand each other better. Coming from a bi-racial background and raised mainly by the white side of the family, he himself is no doubt more aware than most of where everybody is likely to be coming from.
I’m devastated…devastated I tells ya, by that brilliant put down. Guess I’ll just slink away now….or not.
Why did he cancel the fundraiser?
Because it looks bad now? He’s probably just upset that the story blew up on him.
he could bring in a national right wing figure like King, raise some good money from the far right, and send him away. Press isn’t normally at fundraisers anyway, so it wouldn’t be a big deal.
Just a guess
which keeps accusing the Tea Party of being racists in an attempt to discredit them. Now the slightest mention of race and the Tea Party is forced to cancel a speaker or risk being vilified as evil racists. Shame on the media.
is the Tea Party’s own signs and comments from people at the rallies. Nothing needs to be made up.
is one crackpot who shows up to discredit the rest. If you’re going to go by that standard, then all of the protesters against the Arizona bill want to shoot more cops.
so many crackpots show up. Whole frame filling, you-can’t-swing-a-dead-cat-without-hitting-one seas of them. Even the laziest old goat media member needn’t lift a finger to succeed with the dastardly plan: making bozos look like bozos.
The only ones proved to be misleading have been huge crowd scenes on Fox taken from former big events, sometimes years old, and presented as footage of much smaller current ones.
Then they would be ignored because they would have no effect. They work because there is a giant undercurrent of racism in it. Not everyone. And for many it’s just a part. But it’s there and in a very large chunk of the members.
and I have never seen any racism. In fact, many minorities are involved in the movement. The “racism” claim is a trumped up charge promoted by left of center media to try to discredit the Tea Party movement. They interpret any criticism of Obama as racism, which is simply not true. People oppose Obama for his socialist tendencies, not his race.