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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 10:13 AM
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People - Listen Up! This Is In No Way About Race!
http://www.alternet.org/politics/142747/10_horrifying_racist_attacks_on_obama

10 Horrifying Racist Attacks on Obama
By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. Posted September 21, 2009.

1. Oh no! Evil monkeys stole our balls!

You know who really had their act together? British colonists in India. But oppressing a country of hundreds of millions for more than a century was not without its dangers. For instance, sometimes monkeys descended on the Brits' golf courses and stole their balls.

And that it is how former House Whip Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., chose to illustrate the challenges facing conservatives in the Obama era. Friday, AlterNet's Adele Stan reported Blunt's words to the conservative Values Summit:

"... Something they didn't anticipate was monkeys came running out of the jungle, and they grabbed the golf balls ... and they might throw the golf ball back at you. ... So for this golf course, and this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule, and the rule was, you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it."

The crowd roared with laughter.

He went on to say that he recently saw a bumper sticker he liked that read: "Don't let Obama find out what comes after a trillion."

2. Rush Limbaugh, worried about future of favorite cookie, blows off steam by making racist joke about Obama

In a July broadcast, Rush Limbaugh voiced his displeasure -- nay, outrage -- about food-safety advocates potentially "going after" Oreo cookies. Added the great wit: "Might have to put that off until Obama's out of office, but they'll eventually go after Oreos."

Get it?

3. When you weren't looking, Obama snuck reparations into the health care bill

This is why we have to be vigilant. According to Beck and Limbaugh, Obama is using health reform to force reparations for slavery from white America. Beck: "Everything getting pushed through Congress -- including this health care bill -- is transforming America. And it's all driven by President Obama's thinking on one idea: reparations. ... He believes in all the 'universal' programs because they ‘disproportionately affect' people of color" (All of whom Obama knows personally, cause … you know … ).

Not one to be outdone, Limbaugh cast a wider net, saying: "Obama's entire program is reparations!"

4. Addendum: When you weren't looking, Obama snuck affirmative action in the health care bill...
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 10:27 AM
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1. I find it fascinating that Obama "snuck" things into the bill...
When the bills are being written by old white dudes like Bauccus. But a fram doesn't have to make sense, it only has to appeal to emotion and work in the 95% of the subconscious brain.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-21-09 12:33 PM
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