It’s not really the same thing. Calling a black man “boy” is highly offensive and dehumanizing. Its meant to demoralize and marginalize his worth as a man.
Obama’s elitist remarks were poorly worded and he admitted as much, but clearly not as offensive as calling a black man “boy”. And what Obama said is already yesterday’s news, well for me it is. He was at a private fundraiser dealing with a very liberal audience, so he was relating with them. There’s no harm in that… if anything it’s damn smart.
Besides, what could be more elitist than to have a “no eye contact” rule in your office like Hillary has. She does not allow her staff to make eye contact with her. Talk about the height of elitism, she takes the cake.
Wow, at first I was logical and fair, then I proceeded to rationalize like most of us tend to do according to our own likes and prejudices; … then I deflected the entire thing onto hillary. :dubious:
It is unpleasant to realize that someone can be a sitting Congressman, yet be ignorant enough to not realize that in this day and age you simply don’t call black men “boys.” One would hope a US Congressman would be worldly enough to realize something so basic, but reality keeps showing us otherwise.
While it wouldn’t have been quite as bad, it would have been similarly inappropriate for him to refer to Hillary as a “girl,” “dear,” or “the little lady.”
No I don’t … an acquaintance of mine’s brother (Democrat) worked in her DC office. I cannot confirm if the no-eye contact rule is still in place, but only that it has existed. Maybe someone can kindly ask her.
As has been repeatedly pointed out, Obama did not say that small town folk “cling to things like guns and religion for comfort.” He said that they cling to the issues of guns and religion (which they legitimately feel to be important in their lives) when making their decisions in the voting booth, since neither party has been able to follow through on its promises regarding economics and jobs.
your grandfather found the perfect racist loophole, just call everyone ‘boy’, and no one will finger you as a racist. clever.
The elderly from that generation tend to be racist anyway, this is not news. It’s part of their upbringing and culture… they grew up with segregated restaurants, etc…
But Davis didn’t say anything about youth or inexperience. That wasn’t the context. he made reference to some kind of “highly classified, national security simulation” in which Geoff Davis (looking down from all 3 years and 3 months of his elected experience as back bencher in the House) declared that Obama "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
I’m guessing Obama wasn’t ready to nuke Iran at the drop of a hat. And if that simulation was so highly classified, then what the fuck is Davis doing talking about it? It’s pretty cheap to make public insinuations about it if Obama isn’t allowed to publicly respond to them.
Biden was trying to be complimentary, not demeaning and everyone in the world understood he was talking about Obama’s scandal-free record, not his personal hygene.
I support Obama. But I have an aversion to stupidity. Just because your acquaintance says something about something that may have happened to his brother, and you find a cranky newsletter alleging the same thing, does not mean it happened.
By the way, did you know that Proctor and Gamble is run bySatanists! Please get the word out about this right away.
But I think you’re way off base here. That makes about as much sense as concluding that someone is a raging alcoholic in denial if they state that they don’t drink.
The specific accusation about Hillary might be true but the author of this article is a shit head. Where do conservatives get this idiotic notion that liberals are elitist snobs? Conservatives are the ones with all the money and the aristocratic social hierarchies.
