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Source: Salon
A congressman renews the GOP's big lie, and reveals the party's true ideal: Male, rich, straight, white
Twenty-four hour news cycles are messy and chaotic, almost never fully summarizing the zeitgeist of the moment. But today is one of those rare days where the news cycle perfectly embodies the tectonic shifts in American politics and the friction that comes from such shifts.
In the last day, weve learned that America has reached a demographic tipping point. For the first time in history, there are more minority births than white births in the United States, meaning were closer than ever to becoming a majority minority nation.
At almost exactly the same time these numbers were being released, a top Republican lawmaker, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), was making national headlines with a leaked audio recording of him publicly declaring that the first African-American president is not an American. Heres the audio and full quote from Coffmans remarks at a Republican fundraiser:
I dont know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I dont know that. But I do know this, that in his heart, hes not an American. Hes just not an American.
Coffman has since issued a non-apology apology, saying that while he misspoke in questioning Obamas birth certificate, he stands by his not an American declaration because Obama doesnt share my belief in American Exceptionalism his policies reflect a philosophy that America is but one nation among many equals.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2012/05/17/colorado_congressman_obamas_not_an_american/?utm_medium=twitter
rurallib
(62,474 posts)There is one thing that Americans are exceptional in - crackpots in power.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)MissMarple
(9,656 posts)So I guess the disguise is off?
Bryan
(1,837 posts)I knew it was Coffman before I clicked on this thread. The man is a dolt.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)He was born in Missouri. Therefore he cannot share my belief in Colorado Exceptionalism.
otohara
(24,135 posts)reading the racist comments in Denver Post story and other sites on this story, is what Coffman does best, he divides us.
Bolo Boffin
(23,796 posts)I don't know what this idiot is smoking, but he best stay clear of George Zimmerman.