So? One is running for the presidency. The other isn’t.
If Obama was white you wouldn’t have said boo.
Agreed.
And there’s a significant possibility Davis wouldn’t have said “boy”.
I don’t think anyone disagrees that it’s meant to be insulting but that’s hardly something to start a pit thread over. The question is if it’s meant to be racially demeaning.
I know you’ve pointed out the four year difference in age I just don’t think it matters. They’re manufacturing an issue with his age and ‘inexperience’ in general as a campaign issue against him being president. You can very well be dismissive of someone the same age/experience of you if they’re trying out for an office much higher then you think they’re ready for (or you just want an issue to goad someone with throughout their campaign). He can be perfectly age suitable to be a congressman but considered young to be a President pretty easily.
Okay… and, like I said, I’m not saying that it wasn’t an assclown-ish remark. It was.
It sounds like you’re really getting bent out of shape over something that you’re admittedly not outraged about.
Obama took the high road, though. Were I him, my reply to the esteemed Senator would have been “It’s all good, pops.” 
It’s not completely silly to think that it’s possible to describe a candidate who’s running for president at 47 as too young- 47 is a perfectly normal age to be a congressman, but rather younger than average to be president.
That said, it’s very awkward to do it by calling a black man running for president “boy”. Wonder how Davis’s chances for re-election are doing? I’d lay money that he doesn’t stand for re-election, so as to give another Republican a clear field, so as not to give a Democrat a solid shot at the seat.
Obama made a pretty bad mistake in his description of small town folks. I can easily see how pointing out all of the negative qualities about them could alienate more than a few, whether what he said was true or not. It’s good for him that people are stumbling even harder all around him, otherwise that blunder might have made a bigger splash than it did.
If Obama looks like a three-year-old to you, you may have serious problems that we’re not qualified to help you with.
I guess a 50-year-old Representative with no name recognition outside of Kentucky is more experienced than a 47-year-old Senator who has held elected office for longer and has given himself a viable shot at becoming President.
I won’t even attempt to decipher the voodoo logic at work here.
Kentucky ain’t Oregon, so maybe better than you think.
Boo? Now you’re calling him a spook?
That was only a poor taste joke Weirddave, please don’t take it seriously.
If I’m gonna guess, I’m gonna guess belittling but not racist. I honestly don’t think, in this day and age, overt racism is possible for a politician. The social onus is too great, that don’t fly.
He will clarify the remark, you can’t get away with that shit anymore. Except gays, maybe. Hippies, sure. Lepers, borderline.
You’re probably thinking of this thread where Liberal called out a CNN anchor for referring to Tiger Woods as “boy.” Of course that case was a bit different since, much to everyone’s amusement, it turned out that the anchor was a light-skinned black woman herself. To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Lib kept fighting it for two more pages. 
Sorry, I do the same thing. I have repeatedly said of BO, “That boy speaks good.” Nothing racial is intended. Just a Southern, Foghorn Leghorn thing. I understand I can be misunderstood, so I am censoring myself, but still, no harm was meant.
What incident are you referring to? I must have missed it.
Obama spoke about the inhabitants of economically depressed small towns and how they cling to things like guns and religion for comfort. This pissed some people off and, unsurprisingly, Hillary is milking it for all it’s worth and then some. Here’s the obligatory Pit thread.
Ah, thanks, neutron star.
The spectacle of Hillary accusing somebody else of being “elitist” is almost as mind-boggling as the subject of the OP. :eek:
Hold the phone!
Boy is a racist remark?
Uh, yeah. This is common knowledge in the US. Sure there might be regions in the South where “boy” is used in a more general sense, but calling a grown man a boy is inhernently demeaning and emasculating.
…sits back and waits for the apologists to flood in.
Is 47 too young to be president? Clinton was only 46 when he was elected. Bush is only a month older (but he was elected 8 years later, of course.)
Davis is a tool from a strongly conservative, EXTREMELY white district (only 2.8% black). It’s entirely possible that this was a calculated move to endear himself to the racists, since they’re a voting block he really can’t do without.
Then again, it’s equally likely that he’s just an idiot.