Sen. Landrieu's remarks on race anger Republicans

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Oct 30, 10:38 PM EDT

Sen. Landrieu's remarks on race anger Republicans

By MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Republicans are calling on Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu to apologize after she suggested that President Obama's deep unpopularity in the South is partly tied to race.

In an interview with NBC News on Thursday, Landrieu was quoted as saying that the South "has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans."

The comments came after an NBC reporter asked the senator why Obama has such low approval ratings in Louisiana. Landrieu's first response was that the president's energy policies are deeply disliked in the oil and gas-rich state.

She then went on to reference race relations in the South.



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[RandySF]

1. I hope she sticks to her remarks

[billhicks76]

36. Crybaby Racist Republicans

They need to be punished.

[Scuba]

56. +1

[nruthie]

2. Shocking!

Why whoever heard of such a thing? The very idea! How dare she speak the truth.

[Fred Sanders]

62. She must be silenced, the heretic witch speaks the truth. Burn her at the stake with Kaci Hickox!

[hibbing]

3. ya think?

I would not limit it to the South. I have never seen anything like the vitriol and frankly the open racist comments from people everywhere and on any of your local a.m. radio with their all day long line ups of right wing hacks. It started with the McCain/Idiot campaign with the whole "Who is Barack Obama?", the whole birth certificate thing, and everything else him and his family has had to put up with.

Peace

[Dawson Leery]

6. I have met a fair share of Rethugs in Connecticut,

who oppose Obama because he is black.

These bastards are in every state. Fortunately, they are a clear (however loud) minority in Connecticut.

With that said, Mary must NOT apologize. She is telling the truth. Obama has his lowest approval ratings in the deep south (and Wyoming/Utah/Idaho).

[strawberries]

49. really

They don't dislike Obama because of his color, although that does seem to be the talking points here.

CT is full of hunters, they love their guns. They are not too crazy about some of his taxes that went into effect this year, (referring to the 3.5% tax rate on selling a house).

That is really all I have heard while living here

You sound like Sen Landrieu Hail Mary pass

[Darb]

50. You sound like

the Repugnants, daily meme and all.

[sendero]

58. Could you please explain..

... how Obama had anything whatsoever to do with a tax on selling houses? This I'm really curious about.

[Dawson Leery]

64. Would you care to explain

what Dan Malloy's tax increases have to do with Obama?

As for guns, the law passed after the Sandy Hook massacre has 2:1 support in the state.

[KamaAina]

61. What part of the state?

Makes a big difference.

[Dawson Leery]

63. Upper Fairfield and Litchfield counties.

[KamaAina]

66. Yup. I hear ya.

[sabbat hunter]

65. But

Wyoming/Utah/Idaho are not the deep south. They are western states.

[mopinko]

16. think?

racists think? not hardly.

yeah, stick with it mary.

[LuvNewcastle]

27. Race has everything to do with it.

Obama is hated more down here than anyone else I've ever seen. The hate is so deep it's fucking scary.

[Xipe Totec]

4. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that Republicans are a bunch of limp dicks.

There.

I apologized.

All better?

[Thinkingabout]

5. We know where the loyalty of the KKK and old Dixiecrats lies

They also don't want to admit to the war on women but it is their burden to bear.

[N.Y. to Paris]

7. Apologize?

Tell them to "Go piss up a Flagpole" Mary.....good for you!

[jimlup]

8. They are offended because the truth hurts

They don't like it when people tell the truth about who they really are and what they really stand for. The problem on our side is not that we sometimes tell the truth about them, it is that we don't tell the truth about them enough so that when someone does they can make a spectical of it and claim they are "offended".

Fucking ass clown republicans...

[Historic NY]

9. Truth will out....!!

[alp227]

10. Too bad it's the truth. Boo hoo you "politically incorrect" rightist hypocrites

thinking you're tough and all talking shit about minorities but become "WHINY LIBRULZ" once the shit hits YOUR head.

[nomorenomore08]

29. +1000000

[otohara]

11. Damn She Told The Truth

and the outrage overkill from the racist republicans begins.

[marble falls]

12. Its sad damn day when racists feel free to call for an apology from someone for telling the truth.

[shenmue]

13. Oh noes

Words are coming out of your face! What do sounds mean?

[freshwest]

17. Words have no meaning! Sounds are scary!

[Calista241]

51. Best gif evah!!!

[AverageJoe90]

14. Gee, really? (no sarcasm tag needed, I hope?)

Don't stop hitting 'em, Madam Senator. Keep going, in fact!

[still_one]

15. Apologize for what, telling the truth?

[aggiesal]

18. Truth hurts! n/t

[KingCharlemagne]

19. She should apologize for her remarks on race, only AFTER the South apologizes for slavery. - nt

[radicalliberal]

23. . . . not to mention Jim Crow. n/t

[leanforward]

20. She might be right.

What the good Senator said, I'd like to second. For some time now, I've thought some of his disapproval stems from his mixed race background. The excuse used is, "I don't like his policies". Which to me is a veiling of racism in thought. To me, the President, has done more for America, than anyone ahead of him.

[blackspade]

21. The truth hurts assholes.

Boo, fucking hoo. Pull up your big boy undies and move on.

[blkmusclmachine]

22. Bigots don't like being called bigots.

[dsharp88]

24. So Repubs want her to say the South HAS been the friendliest place for African-Americans??? n/t

[nakocal]

25. The hatred of President Obama in the south is almost entirely because of race

Republicans have a lot of trouble with facts. When you hate someone because of the color of their skin, you are a racist. When you would rather have your children die in agony then let a black man help you, you are a racist. And this seems to be the majority of the republican party.

[Not a Fan]

26. Landrieu's remark

It's hilarious that those self-serving hypocrites want her to apologize for tellig the truth.

If she wants to maintain any integrity at all from her time in the Senate, now is not the time to fold.

[quakerboy]

28. Because usually racists LOVE being called racist?

[mountain grammy]

30. Don't back down, Senator. You are speaking the truth.

It's not just the south either. Plenty of racism to go around right here in Colorado. It's very dangerous and destructive that America can't seem to move on this. I remember, in the sixties, thinking by the time I was old, intermarriage would be widespread and racism would come to a natural end. Civil Rights and Voting Rights had passed, and Dr. King was alive and well. It looked like, finally, at long last.....

Guess it's going to take a little longer.

[LeftInTX]

31. The truth hurts

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Please don't back down from this, Mary

[davidpdx]

37. +1

[MontyPow]

32. Look who's pretending to be a Democrat.

Sorry Senator, but you will always be an R in D clothing to me. Not that it matters much.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. ...

[DallasNE]

34. Too Bad The Truth Hurts So Much

Also, this remark could help her energize her base. I certainly don't see it as hurting her chances so it was probably the right time to pull that rabbit out of the hat.

[vlakitti]

35. Yeh, well, lots of Southern whites hate Black people

and this has been the case since the Reconstruction period after the North smashed the Confederacy during the civil war.

And a whole lot of southern whites still hate black people, and haven't the decency or brains or sense to oppose the cynical autocrats who manipulate their stupidity to oppose and degrade them.

This has been going on for well over a century. It's past the point where it's anything other than a psychosis.

[kairos12]

38. Amazing how sensitive rethugs become when confronted with the truth. Their outrage is both

laughable and contemptible.

[mnhtnbb]

39. Link doesn't work.

[vlyons]

40. If you are a republican, you are by definition a racist.

Just like if you join the Nazi party, you are a Nazi. That's because the Republican party's platforms, policies, and candidates all support policies that descriminate, if not downright punish, people of color. Their policies are also prejudicial to women, the poor, the elderly, immigrants, native Americans, environmentalists, labor unions, scientists, environmentalists, non-Christians, and did I leave any group out? As far as I can tell, the GOP is the party of oligarchs, stupidity, hate-mongers, fear-mongers, and war-mongers, cheaters, liars, and corrupt criminals.

[stillwaiting]

48. The sanctimonious, holier-than-thou "Christians".

This is a large part of the Republican voting demographic that believe that liberals are "evil"/"babykillers"/etc...

These people have been so successfully brainwashed to believe that liberals are evil that they often vote AGAINST the Democratic candidate NO MATTER WHAT. They are highly motivated to not let pure evil win.

And, they are SURE of their moral superiority. They revel in it. It is a huge part of their identity so it would be difficult for them to ever let their brainwashed beliefs go.

I wish we could find a way to break the brainwashing, but I have no idea how to go about that.

[Sanity Claws]

41. Right on, Mary landrieu

How can repubs complain about that when yesterday the news quoted Lindsay graham saying his presidency would be good for white males?

[madokie]

42. Its all about the color of his skin, I'm sorry

I've been saying this from day one and nothing has changed. Changed for the worse maybe but not for the better. Many are using first one reason or the other for their hatred of him but in many of those cases the reasons they give is only to give cover for their real reason, his skin, his ancestry.

You can take this to the bank

[liberal N proud]

43. Republicans don't like the truth

[riversedge]

44. ahh, Truth hurts!! Do not apologize!

[Enthusiast]

45. More than anything else, racists hate to be called racists.

But that's what they are.

When a white guy makes a racist statement he often qualifies it by reminding me, "Now, I'm not a racist....but."

Racists hate to be called a racist.

[Louisiana1976]

55. Not only that--some are in denial about being racists. They remind me of the joke where the

Southern guy says, "There are two things I hate: race prejudice and n******."

[Enthusiast]

59. I never heard that one before.

Maybe cause I'm from Ohio.

[Snotcicles]

46. An apology from her would only perpetuate their being in denial. nt

[Snotcicles]

47. Co-dependency. nt

[Calista241]

52. She might have to apologize. Since she needs those racists to vote for her.

[KamaAina]

60. No, the racists are going to vote repuke as they always do

The moderates she needs to pull in aren't racist, at least no more so than the average American.

[WhiteTara]

71. No, she needs black voters

to lift her to victory.

[heaven05]

53. race has always

been an issue with the 'other' party since Obama's election. No if, and or but about it. The racism that has surfaced since 2008, shamefully revealing of our current culture. America is a racist society. Don't back off Mary Landrieu!!!!

[6000eliot]

54. Double down, Senator! They would!

[Louisiana1976]

57. Regarding an apology, Landrieu should tell the Republicans to pound sand, She spoke the truth.

[YOHABLO]

67. That's right Republicans are not racist .. no, why they have guys like Allen West, Ben Carson, Allen

Keys, Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain and Condoleezza Rice, just to name a few of their constituency.

[True Blue Door]

68. Racists are angry at being called racist.

Fuck them directly in the ear.

[sammy750]

69. Republicans hate the truth, just watch Fox NEWS and its LIES

I have to laugh because Republicans always get angry when the real truth is told. She is 100% accurate on how the South feels about Obama.

[graegoyle]

70. There are plenty of reasons not to like Obama that are not racist;

I haven't heard one from a conservative.