Mike Lupica via Legal Insurrection:
The silent issue that could doom President Obama in 2012 election
There will be so many things to talk about with Obama vs. Romney from here to November, but the one that nobody will want to talk about very much in polite society, even in what has a chance to be the meanest presidential campaign for all times, is race.
It works against the President this time, in a big way.
Last time, there were just weren’t enough reasons for enough white voters to vote against the black guy, as much as they wanted to. This time there are plenty.
Mr. Lupica actually believes that there were racist white people who voted for Obama four years ago:
When it was over four years ago, even people who didn’t want to vote for a black presidential candidate — but did in the end — congratulated themselves on America finally putting a black man in the White House.
See? Even if you voted for Obama last time that isn’t proof you aren’t a racist.
To agree with Mr. Lupica you have to believe that not only is there still racism in this country (there is) but it is widespread and very common among the white community. But even though we’re racist (I’m white too) we’re so ashamed of it that we keep it hidden from each other.
Mr. Lupica also believes that Obama is objectively successful and correct in his policies. That means the default position should be supporting Obama. No reasonable person could possibly think otherwise. Anyone who doesn’t support Obama is being unreasonable, i.e., racist.
This is really tinfoil hat territory. Lupica envisions a vast conspiracy so secret that the conspirators don’t even know about it.
The race card is an excuse for failure. Success needs no excuse.
The Crawdad Hole 
What’s gonna happen when Obama loses?
Riots?
No, because the vast majority of race obsessed Obots are white people. Black folks are like anybody else, they think the economy sucks and they’re ready for change, (with the added twist of quite a few being upset about Obama’s alleged support of gay marriage.)
In order for black people to riot, Obama would have had to have actually done something for them that would make rioting worth the time and effort. So far the only thing the race card has been good for is relieving white liberal guilt.
Bingo.
Nothing came after the Wisconsin recall and they were certainly trying to rally the union and occupy troops. Hopefully, that’s a good sign there will be no riots in November either 🙂
If the default position is “No matter what you do, you are racist”, then I guess I’ll just do whatever the fuck I want.
The sky is blue, we’re all racists. Whatever.
….so its NOT racist to vote for the black guy just because he’s black?
they are twisting themselves into pretzels.
Yet they mocked other people as voting for the vajayjay.
if I vote for someone who is black and has a vajayjay am I still a racist? But then am I a man hater? Im so confused …..if only MSNBC would tell me who to vote for….,
We’re all just too stupid to think for ourselves. I’m waiting for Chris Hayes to show me the way. Like Obama, he’s a genius.
Chris Hayes isn’t genius enough to see his weak jaw line can’t pull off those hipster doofus glasses he wears.
LOL
OT
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/it-begins-obama-to-move-brigade-of-3000-us-soldiers-to-africa-to-battle-hunger/
this does not look good
WTF?
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2012/06/08/scott-walkers-recall-victory-shows-barack-obama-may-be-bleeding-youth-vote_print.html
Well, there is an entire legal doctrine called Critical Race Theory & an entire religious doctrine based on it called Black Liberation Theology, the basic premise of which is that white people are inherently racist and nothing — nothing — they can do can make them *not* racist because of the white privilege to which they are born and which — how did the Derrick Bell law review article put it? — they “carry around like magical backpacks that cannot be taken off.” (Sorry, Soledad O’Brien, it’s true no matter how many times you read the wiki definitions). In fact, when whites attempt to assist blacks in things like civil rights, etc. it is not because they aren’t racist themselves, it is only to make themselves look good — kind of like a person who gives to charity not out of a good heart, but to brag to their peers to *show* how good they are. (IOW, we are all the fat, rich man who gives a lot of money — although a mere pittance to him — to the church in a big show, with his name engraved on the altar, etc and not the little old widow who gives her only penny — everything she has — quietly, if you are familiar with that fable). Naturally, the same would apply to the whites who voted for Obama in 2008.
So, while Mr. Lupica (what is that, an Italian or Spanish last name? I don’t know the guy from Adam, but I’d bet he’s white, or at least white Hispanic) thinks he’s come up with some novel theory here, he actually hasn’t. He’s based his conclusions on Critical Race Theory/Black Liberation Theology, whether he realizes it or not. And if he is white, the same applies to him, too.
Honk, honk!
People often forget that in Animal Farm, which the left so loves to quote, the pigs were initially the oppressed. There is no law and nothing in human nature to indicate that being in a once-oppressed group gives you a forever pass from assholery.
I could give a shit if Obama or Derrick Bell are black, or 50% black. They are 100% assholes.
Portuguese?
What a cockroach
Crap like that makes me miss the days when the law only got involved AFTER the neighbors beat the shit out of you. And none of the neighbors got charged – nobody saw nothin’.
I don’t know nothin.
I didn’t see it, I didn’t hear it, and I have no idea how he got all those bruises, officer. Maybe he fell. My neighbors Joe and Mark? No, I will swear on a stack of Bibles they never left the house.
I’m voting against Obama because he’s the worst fucking president in my lifetime. And he and his crony backers have destroyed the Democratic party and liberalism. He and his backers can rot in hell.
But, if you give me the secret message and secret handshake, I’ll tell you the real reason. /s
HONK!!
I don’t give a damn if the GOP puts Mickey Mouse on the ticket, I’m not voting for a Dem on a national ticket until Obama & his cronies (including Markos & the other so-called “progressive” thugs) are purged from the party. They are the ones who took it over & ruined it with their worship of Plastic Jesus & they are the ones who dance around acting like Obama is handing out chocolate bars & hand jobs while he makes habeas corpus disappear & kills American citizens as well as countless other innocent bystanders with drones — I will *not* pretend the Dems are the “lesser of two evils” because as long as they are in control, they are NOT.
Local elections, I’m voting female OR GOP (if no woman on either side — if both sides run a female candidate, I vote against the Dems).
They don’t want my vote — they made that clear when they disregarded it (as well as 8 million others) on May 31, 2008 — fuck them all & the horse they rode in on.
As far as them thinking I’m a r@cist — you know what? I’m cool with that.
Honk right back atcha. The new Dem party must be turned to ash before it can be reborn, or a new part can be born. Right now they are corrupt and rotten to the core. The Repubs aren’t great and are corrupt too (e.g, see how they treat Palin), so there turn may be next. But right now, it’s the Dems turn. Fuck them and their little dogs too.
Paul Begala has gone full-on batshit crazy. Here’s his advice to liberals after the trouncing in WI:
Oh, BULLSHIT, Paul. Who “went ugly early”? Who occupied the Statehouse and screamed “shame” and defiled the grounds and trashed the place with grafitti and chanted and carried signs that Walker was fucking Hitler? Who attacked reporters, dumped beer on elected WI representatives, and fled the state to prevent a duly elected govt from functioning? Who “took possesion of” and wandered the halls of the Capitol screaming and pounding on legislators doors?
You are full of shit, Paul, and you lie. That ad did not accuse Barret of any such thing. Barret was trumpeting a reduction in violent crime while he was Milwaukee’s mayor. It turns out he was fudging the statistics by reclassifying obviously violent crimes as “non-violent”. He had fucking classified that little girl’s beating as non-violent. The ad was about his LIE and deception over the crime statistics. NO ONE even hinted that he was responsible for the crime itself.
Yes, because the WI protests looked just like those teaparty ones. HITLER HITLER HITLER NAZI NAZI SUCKS KOCH!!!!! I remember when it cost fucking millions to repair and clean up the damage done to the sites of the teaparty rallies. At which there were ZERO arrests, and barely any police presence needed. A couple of MILLION of them gathered in DC, and there were no incidents, and the place was cleaner when they left than it was when they got there.
The WI protestors, like OWS, were rejected because they showed a very very ugly face to the nation with their spittle flecked public hate-filled tantrum. They had none of the dignity of the civil rights marches. They didn’t stoicly ask for justice, they squatted and screamed “You owe me, you Nazi!”
And your advice to them is to go uglier, sooner? Have at it. Please do. Double down. Intimidate harder. Paint your political opponents as something worse than the insane mass-murderer who gassed several miillion Jews. That’s a great idea. The American public obviously responds really well to bullies with bullhorns and bongos having paroxysms of hate directed at a seemingly nice man who is THE DEVIL INCARNATE WHO EATS PUPPIES AND DRIPS BLOOD!!!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/06/10/paul-begala-offers-fighting-lessons-for-liberals-after-wisconsin.html
Here’s your “peaceful protest” Paul. Just like the teaparty.
http://conservativehideout.com/2011/02/24/union-violence-in-wisconsin/
Here’s lots more, Paul. Look at the little angels, bravely sitting and singing spirituals while under that firehose:
http://specfriggintacular.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/wisconsin-union-thug-violence-arrests-double-standards-and-hypocrisy-democrats/
Sorry for so much ranting, but I am sick and fucking tired of these pricks rewriting history and lying out their ass.
Which begs the question – why isn’t the truth good enough?
Oh, I know this one. Because they’re too stupid to understand the truth. So you have to shit on them instead.
Because if they told the truth, they’d never get elected again. This is not the Democratic Party I knew. These people don’t want govt to function well and do some good. They want POWER. Period.
I look at the WI crowd, and the OWS crowd, and I would not care if I agreed with them on every policy issue. I never, NEVER want those unhinged people or those who support them in charge of so much as dogcatcher. EVER. They are hate-filled lunatics. I’ll put a sane person with whom I disagree on just about everything in office before I’d let that mob get within a mile of power.
And I seriously doubt that I am the only person who feels that way.
I think what you’re you’re seeing with OWS and the new Dems is fanatical religious devotion. They mindlessly are following a made up person and a made up ideology and a made up movement and want to destroy all the gold and burn all the books.
Honk x 1M!! Great rant. And spot on. What a fucking ass Paul has become. I too hope they take his advice. 🙂
To paraphrase Iowahawk: I was worried there for a second the Dems might have learned something from WI. Phew.
Exactly.
Here’s a nice little rejoinder to Belega. I don’t agree with every point on policy, but his take on the WI progs is good (not as good as WMCB’s, but you can’t expect that).
Mmmm, prog tears — I especially love how when they hit the ground they sizzle & dissipate in little puffs of sulfur.
http://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2012/06/10/dancing_a_little_jig_on_progressives_shattered_dreams
That’s very good.
I believe in a lot of liberal policies. But underlying it all, the most LIBERAL thing that I believe, that is the bedrock of everything else, is that I believe in our constitutional, limited, representative democratic republic.
The test for what one really believes is this: “If you could have every single policy you wanted, but the only way you could achieve it was by force, by discounting and denying and eliminating by hook or crook the votes and voices of those who disagree, would you do it?”
If your answer to that question is yes, then I am your implacable enemy, and you are no Liberal.
They remind me of alcoholics who say “Everybody I know drinks.” Yeah, but that’s because all your friends are alcoholics like you. There is a whole world out there filled with people who have different points of view.
Another righteous rant! You’re on a roll lately. But yes, I agree, I hope they keep this strategy up. Throwing a hissy has worked so well for them these last few years.
Very interesting article:
Sorry guys, but the tech industry just isn’t that into you any more. Actually the article talks about how out of touch much of tech industry marketing is because it’s still back in adolescent boy world and still thinks that’s the audience. Reminds me of Obots and Nutroots and the new Dem party.
“Brogramming culture” has been getting pushback like I haven’t seen before all year long so far. It’s good to see, because the stats in Silicon Valley are an embarrassment.
My first silicon valley start up experience was with a male/female engineering ratio of nearly 1:1. Imagine my surprise when I found out years later that it was very untypical.
Lupica lol. Used to read him in the sports pages.
Manny Pacquiao wuz robbed
Mark Steyn:
Lol, and yet members of those ‘inbred monarchies’ gets out among ‘the masses’ – and seems much more comfortable doing so – a whole lot more than Obama.
Living in one of those monarchies, I recently passed the crownprince out strolling with his 1-year old twins and exchanged a few words with him. No security in sight. Earlier I’ve met his wife the crownprincess out running with a single security guy following her … lazily paddling on a bike. 😉
They also don’t travel with double-digit-vehicle motorcades. Although that doesn’t prevent them from still travelling in style. 😉
I’ll take one of those cars please. 🙂
I’m so damn tired of the white guilt-mongers. The constant whinging is ridiculous. It should be funny that they whine about racism when Obama was raised in the “white privilege” they so despise. But maybe it’s their way of projecting their own narcissism by feeling sorry (for themselves) and superior all at the same time. Gawd, their egos must need their own zip code.