Nightline. "I'm not like those Democrats who expect free handouts"

[in_cog_ni_to]

(paraphrased) from a man in NOLA who Ted walked up to as he was clearing trees from his property. Ted asked him what he was doing and he said he was working to clear his property because he "wasn't like those Democrats who expect free handouts." :cry: Damn. Democrats are the only ones fighting for his city and state! Have I told you lately how much I hate these repuke people? :grr:

We'll see how much he loves his fucking repuke dictator when he has to leave NOLA.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. OK..now we need to find out if the guy actually lives there or was a plant

[AspenRose]

2. "Democrats who expect free handouts": BLACK PEOPLE

It's CODE. Everyone knows 90% of blacks vote Democratic.

[Erika]

5. The assumptions by the GOP that Blacks are useless

and don't work is infuriating me. They are racists.

[sandnsea]

29. Uh uh

My B-I-L just told me they don't treat blacks badly in the south anymore.

Right before he told this joke..

What did Jesus say to the black people? Don't do anything until I get back.

And he really believes he's not a racist. What do you do with people like that? :shrug:

[in_cog_ni_to]

And this was a WHITE MAN!

:grr: Bastard.

[meow2u3]

40. We should use some code of our own

"People too proud to ask for help" = REPUBLICANS, WHITE SUPREMACIST BIGOTS

"Callous bastards" = Republicans

[Erika]

3. I've never known a democrat who didn't work

But I've known a lot of Bushies who don't believe in working. Ask W and his family.

[BayCityProgressive]

6. I totally agree

since it is no longer PC to say racial slurs people code it as "people who expect hand outs". I just got in a debate at my college about this tonight. Sickening. I also had a girl tell me that We should close our borders because she was sick of seeing Mohammed at every gas station. I need to move.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. I know how you feel

Sometimes I wonder why I bother caring anymore. *sigh* They don't care for me. And how do they know they're democrats? :eyes:

[Cleita]

7. Statements like this shouldn't even be allowed on the news

without qualifications and checking facts. It just tells you how biased the news is. It's nothing but propaganda. Right now it's so racist is sucks.

[spuddonna]

8. Yes! Damn them people who can't get that 20' ft of water out of their apt!

What slackers! Haven't they heard of sponges and buckets!?

:sarcasm:

idiot...

[Nikki Stone 1]

9. Sounds like Rove is back in charge. Prolly hired that guy

We had a press for a week.....:(

[NYC]

10. Is there any more information on that man?

Did he evacuate and return? Ride out the storm? Was his house in one piece? Was it in a low lying area?

Just curious.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. It looked dry. It may have been around "Desire" street?

That's where Ted did most of tonight's show. I do believe he stayed and rode out the storm.

[NYC]

24. I tried Google maps and mapnation.com.

I couldn't find Desire St.

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. It's named for "A Streetcar Named Desire" and I think Ted said

the movie was filmed there. The street Desire, use to have a streetcar that ran from where he stood to downtown New Orleans. That's all I know. There IS a street named "Desire" because they showed the street sign.

Here's a Google search I did. It has some pages on Desire Street

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=New+Orleans%2C+Desire+Street

[TahitiNut]

33. Desire Street (originally Désirée Street) was created and named in ...

... the early 19th Century, when Robert Montreuil named two of the streets cut through his platnation land for his daughters Désirée and Elmire. A muddled English translation of Désirée produced Desire, a street which today runs from the Mississippi river through the heart of Bywater almost to Lake Pontchartrain.

The play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesee Williams and later made into a movie by Elia Kazan, opened on Broadway in 1947 and won Williams a New York's Critics Circle Award and a Pullitzer Prize.

[in_cog_ni_to]

36. Thanks TN.

:hi:

[NYC]

37. Thanks, but I still can't find a street map.

I tried AAA (listed on your Google page) this time, but you have to be a member.

[joemurphy]

11. Fine, then perhaps he'll also dispense with his Social Security,

Medicare I and II, his Medicaid, his Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation protection, his FDA protection, his $2000 check from
FEMA, his Workers Compensation protection, his Unemployment Compensation, his VA loans, and the Corps of Engineer Work that is being done to repair the levees.

Libertarian that he is, he can keep his autographed copy of Atlas Shrugged and the deed to his house.

[Garbo 2004]

17. Yeah, folks who say shit like that most often are the first ones to insist

on their "rights" but when it comes to others it's "entitlements" which is the word for "welfare."

[incapsulated]

13. I hope this racist jerk is the first to get his house bulldozed

More bad karma for me.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. When he said that, it was like someone stabbed me in the heart.

I've done nothing but cry my eyes out for the past 10 days for the citizens of NOLA and when he said that, I almost started crying again...FROM ANGER. My g-d, what is wrong with those people?!

[sandnsea]

30. Hey

Still think all we have to do to win votes in the south is show up?

[Clark2008]

32. Well, I think it'd be a start.

Hell, we HAVEN'T shown up down here in years.

Are there racists here? Sure. But there are racists everywhere - they're not just limited to the South.

I think actually competing in the South instead of rolling over would do a lot more for the Democratic cause in the long run. But, think what you will. You obviously have your own prejudices.

[sandnsea]

34. Nonsense

Clinton, Gore, Begala, Carville. Democrats put up a helluva fight for the south. It's pointless and it's beyond racism. You can't have Democrats who believe in government "showing up" to "compete" for votes from folks who don't believe in government at all. The only result will be compromise in the national party which will piss people off too. These folks will never vote their economic interest because they don't see government as having any role in their personal finances in the first place. The only people who vote their economic interest are "those Democrats" and we now know who "those Democrats" are. Call it prejudice, call it whatever you want. I'm tired of good Democrats being blamed for the backwards attitudes of the south.

[Clark2008]

39. Bullshit.

No one is blaming "good" Democrats for any attitude, anywhere.

Clinton won the South, you misinformed soul. That's how he won the fucking presidency.

Gore lost because of the unspoken meme in his (and my) home state that he would take away guns - something he and his campaign never even addressed! Gore didn't even half-assed campaign in his freakin' home state! And, then, you wonder why he lost it? It wasn't OUR attitudes, it was his (and I LOVE Al Gore).

And, Kerry? Kerry put up a helluva fight for the South? When? By picking Edwards? Bullshit. Edwards was NO Southerner's idea of a fellow Southerner - but that's another story. Kerry didn't even BOTHER to come to the South. He conceded it before he started. Yeah, he made pop appearances in Arkansas, Louisiana and Virginia, but he couldn't be bothered to come into the rest of the place.

So, DO NOT give me that BULLSHIT that the Democrats "put up a helluva fight" because, since Clinton, it simply has NOT been true.

So, who's attitude is backward? The South's? Or the Democratic Party's? I think the latter for not even bothering to show up. You can't win if you don't race.

[stickdog]

14. I'm not like those infants who expected water, food and medicine during

a natural disaster of historic proportions. I work hard for a living and any infant or 80-year-old in a wheelchair who doesn't deserves to die!

Yep, I'm going to repair this here infrastucture of NO all by my little Repuke lonesome ...

[DanCa]

15. So than is he going to give back what the state gives him?

Talk is cheap. Lets see action.

[Digit]

18. I bet if his mother had lost everything he would be whistling a diff tune.

That is why he sounds like a plant. Surely anyone living closeby has a loved one who has lost everything.

[TahitiNut]

19. I've known a lot of guys like him.

A lot put 20 years into peace-time military, usually the Navy or Air Force, in a support MOS.
Then they find a good federal desk job, in the back office not actually providing first-hand services, long enough to qualify for a civil service pension.
Then they hook up with a military crony in the private sector, usually a federal contractor to the agency they worked for, and work long enough to collect their retirement benfits.

Then they sit back collecting three pensions along with social security and bad-mouth the people who pay for all that.

Meanwhile, their kids are educated at public expense, they drive on public highways, and shop at the PX ... or in Mexico.

They call themselves "rugged individualists."

[TorchTheWitch]

20. And who's hand goes out when the food truck comes in?

HIS. The only way this stooge is still able to eat and drink is because of the government handouts.

[txindy]

21. Clearing trees? No standing water there, then?

So life's good for him, then, is it? Must be nice. Tens of thousands of others weren't that lucky.

[Bozita]

22. Bet he dumped those tree limbs in a poor neighborhood

See! Their neighborhood looks like a dump anyway.

[skooooo]

23. They flew in some of the brush from Bush's Crawford ranch...

just for that little photo op!

[Dem2theMax]

25. Can those people on the TV see us? I hope so.

Because I flipped him off and said many a choice four letter word.
The asshole!

[SlowDownFast]

26. I've fucking had it with 'these' people.

It's already split up my family.

And I've TRIED and TRIED to talk sense into them.

If it ever comes to full on civil war, I'm no longer a pacifist.

These people are fucking with my kids' future and that's all I need to know..

[ladylibertee]

27. Well, Every State has their one or more Retardican Racsist........

He can just rot there then.

[msgadget]

28. Since Clinton

the country's been heading this way, almost completely divided along party lines. It's really awful when we dismiss whole segments of the population merely for their political choices. And, not knowing his age but that he's obviously from the south, I'll go out on a limb and say this guy had a little history in his venom. We need to pull together across party lines to succeed but it's not going to happen anytime soon.

[skygazer]

35. What a moran

And poor grammar as well - after all, a handout is, by its very definition, free. :eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

38. "Now where's my tax refund...gimme gimme gimme!"