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spanone

(135,828 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 06:51 PM Jan 2014

more comedy gold: Sarah Palin: Obama should stop 'playing race card'

really, really not the onion, i swear.

from the dimmest of wits......


Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin criticized President Obama on Monday and invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

"Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card," Palin wrote on her Facebook page on Monday, the national holiday marking the civil rights icon's birthday.

She included King's quote — "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character — in her post. Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, did not specify on Facebook how Obama is "playing the race card."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2014/01/20/sarah-palin-obama-race-mlk-dream-speech/4665031/
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Pretzel_Warrior

(8,361 posts)
1. Can you believe it? On MLK she spouts that shit? She needs to be fired from every job and never
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 06:53 PM
Jan 2014

employed again. She should suffer in poverty and obscurity as the best punishment for her sins.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
11. To her crowd it makes her appear tough, able to push presidents around.
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:00 PM
Jan 2014

Buncha likkered-up confederate-flag-waving good-ol-boys-and-girls as the front for a very smart (others would do well to study it, with or without money, just to learn from their organizing success) well-greased machine being run with corporate money, one which is capturing political offices around the country. these officials then make it easier for the few to take opportunity away from the people and stick it in their pockets.

The people SP was talking to have not a clue what they are shilling for, (Sarah does, I'm sure, and her intention is to play on whatever her fading blossom will bring her), but it doesn't make them any less determined or less dangerous an enemy.



The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
3. I don't think she even understands what that means.
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 06:56 PM
Jan 2014

Not that she understands much of anything - but I think in the creaky machinery of her tiny brain, "playing the race card" means mentioning the fact that racial discrimination exists and that it's bad. But you must never say that because then somebody might want to do something about it, which is exactly what GOPers and teabaggers don't want.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
4. I hate the term "playing the race card"
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 07:01 PM
Jan 2014

That means "mentioning race or racim." That's all it means. They don't think anyone should ever point out race or racism.

Gothmog

(145,152 posts)
6. Juanita Jean has some good comments on Sarah Palin's latest stupidity
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 07:42 PM
Jan 2014
http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/01/20/and-if-you-would-wear-whiteface-that-would-help-too/

She wants President Barack Obama to quit playing the race card. And she says that on Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday.

I suspect she feels that President Obama plays the race card when he shows up.

Maybe she should stop playing the stupid card.

spanone

(135,828 posts)
7. posting her ignorance and her racism on facebook....how endearing
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 07:46 PM
Jan 2014

her stupid is embarrassing to anyone with one cell of brain matter.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
8. How about in honor of all intelligent beings who commit to ending any intelligece divide,
Mon Jan 20, 2014, 07:57 PM
Jan 2014

no more playing the "sharing your thoughts" card, Governor Quitter?

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