If GOP tries to use Rev. Wright against Obama in fall, we should have their racist resume ready

[yurbud]

Which should be too hard to do.

Start with the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy">Southern Strategy of covert appeals to Southern racists that began after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act in 1964 & 1965.

Then go to Reagan launching his campaign talking about "states rights" a segregationist buzzword in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where the three civil rights workers were killed in the 60s.

Until recently, there was the obligatory stop of GOP candidates at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University#Racial">racist Bob Jones University, where inter-racial dating was not allowed until 2000.

Then go to various uses of blacks as boogey men by the likes of Jesse Helms in his "white hands" commercial and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton">Papa Bush with Willie Horton.

There are also the various statements of http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh">Rush Limbaugh including his brief tenure as a sportscaster, and http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007?f=s_search">Bill O'Reilly being shocked that black people behaved in a nice restaurant and weren't screaming obscenities.

Besides Bush's inaction during Hurricane Katrina, you have Fox News calling black residents looters and whites "searching for supplies," and http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/08/katrina-new-orleans-gop-deep-thoughts.html">a GOP congressman saying the destruction of low income housing was god doing what they couldn't.



In some of these cases of racism directed at blacks, the righties involved have been demoted or forced to apologize. I don't think they ever have apologized about their Muslim-baiting, and as recently as this primary season, Mitt Romney said he would never have a Muslim in his cabinet.

These are hardly the people to lecturing the rest of us about racism.

I'm sure I've left lots of examples out, so feel free to add them.

[uponit7771]

1. Me thinks it's being saved till then but Obama want's to beat McSame on his flip floppity...

...senate and talking record.

I'm honestly sKeered that if McSame gets elected we're going to war with Iran if we're not already at war with them

[yurbud]

2. on Iran, we are already depending on Mullahs and Amenijab behaving with more restraint that Bush

and Cheney.

[anonymous171]

3. Problem: GOP would do what BC is doing. Cry "Playing the Race Card"

[Oleladylib]

4. Yup

[yurbud]

7. wait till they play it, THEN say they are like Jeffrey Dahmer calling someone a bad vegetarian

[RememberWellstone]

5. WTF?????

Hell no! Don't get into the mud with a pig...the pig likes it. We have no use for throwing the racist card in November...it would turn us against each other, look at what is happening to us now. We do not need a replay of this race war in November. Above the fray, is the way.

[yurbud]

6. No, if they play the card, we trump it. And if they know we have the trump card

and the will to play it, they might hold back.