Air America: Republican revives racist Obama-as-monkey campaign theme

How is jimmy Carter this is racist
we have a history in this country of white racist
saying conparing Black people to apes.

@macfan:
Is that all one sentence?

How is jimmy carter this is racist.........WTF does all that mean?

Jimmy Carter? The same Jimmy carter that, during the last election, referred to Obama as a "black boy"? Where were the democrats then? All asleep, apparently! Racism within their own party gets a stamp of approval- such outright hypocrisy is appalling! www.nbra.info

Yes there are.

They interviewed on on CNN.

Tray again and this time don't lie.

I've seen black tea baggers, but only in porno movies..... :) couldn't resist.

Yes. Educate yourself. www.nbra.info

never.

You have nailed it, bansheewail!

You hit your head against a wall and then posted.

what color is the race card?

so hunzedog, your profile says you're a cannabis activist. why then are you constantly supporting the right wing, who have constantly opposed your cause? just curious, because you always seem to slant to the right.

Delete! In the trash Good Bye.

the only fantasy on this thread is thinking that it's not racist to compare african american's to monkeys...

Paratus,

Historically I think both parties can be blamed for using racism to their political advantage.

Sam is making a very good point. Republicans usually just do it in a more 'explosive' fashion, but both parties carry their fair share of racists.

If you call the first black President a monkey
are racist how could some not see that this is racist.

To not speaking out against racism is to be sympathetic to it.

Delete! In the trash, good Bye.

Don't delete yourself Kenny.....stay awhile longer.

To constantly claim it is to desensitize anyone to it should it ACTUALLY happen.

Haha. Jammer you were desensitized to any information that doesn't fit your insane worldview long long ago. As the most dense personality on Current, none of this information is for you. You can't see what's happening in front of your face. You are a lost cause.

That doesn't prove anything except that you need help insulting.

What do you want me to do? Insult you better?

I could, but then you'd come back with something worse than what you have here and then it would go on and on and I'd get in trouble because my insults are better....and for what?

Over an Obama Monkey?

oooheeeooohaha.

Do you know what Obama is doing about this? Nothing.

Something some people should try.

You "no longer care..." about this topic?

Did you EVER care about racism towards Obama? All I've ever read from you on this topic is utter denial.

I'm half Japanese. I rode the school bus one time and this little white boy says he doesn't want to sit next to this Jap.

What did I do? Did I use that to hate white people? Did I automatically think that all little children who were blond and blue eyed as demons from hell via this one misinformed little KKK child? Did I go to a Yellow Panda's meeting and shove my fist in the air and chant hate phrases and justify it under the oppression of WWII in America? Which, by the way, I was not a part of.

Did I cry foul when there was not a Japanese American to pick from as a President? Did I scream racist for the Democrats and the Republicans because they didn't nominate a Japanese American?

I may not be the holy racist card paying black person, but I do know what racism is, thank you very much and when I see it I'll say something. But until then shut up and stop screaming WOLF WOLF WOLF because that's all I hear right now.

As I remember, Bush resembled a monkey as well, but more to that Politics are usually to play the role of characterizing people for their own reasons, such cartoons, stereotyping parties, and so on...Its been conclusive that there have been political comments made towards Obama about race and being racist and you can assure that....But this isn't racist...Why?
Simply because humans of America have been surrounded by racism for too long, and can easily spot racism other times not, in this case it could be made clear that recently, most presidents are to be made of by an monkey......Why monkies?

I DON'T CARE IF ANYBODY IS RACIST TOWARDS OBAMA ANYMORE.......

SOUNDS LIKE SOMEBODY'S TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR BIGOTRY.

IN TRUTH, THIS ARTICLE IS BLATANTLY RACIST, YOU CAN'T DENY IT. IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TO DEFEND YOUR IGNORANCE BY SAYING THAT, "I DON'T CARE ANYMORE",
YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ELSE.

No Kieth I think your wrong. When I am called a racist for ohhhhh maybe a year and a half now on current. It starts to lose any meaning to me and maybe others. Your labeling me/us as racists is getting so old and used up it just doesn't bother us/me any more. I care not what labels you use. They have no effect on me, my opinion or how I will express it. You folks cling to the "racist" label as if it were the air you need to breath. Its getting a little pathtic.

I think I'd rather just be a soloist.

My own race. You all can have your races. I'm starting a new one.

So from now on every time someone disagrees with me or hates on me because of my opinion they are a racist. They, because I can predict the future, will not have good reason to disagree with me. They are just doing so because they don't like me and my new race. They can't accept that a new race can form out of the blue and they have no respect for a race that isn't part of the normal fold.

Don't worry this will give me great press and popularity among all who are part of my race...namely: ME.

Former President Clinton says,

he can "sympathize with" fellow former president and Southerner Jimmy Carter's statement that an "overwhelming portion of the animosity toward President Obama is racially motivated."

"If you're a Southerner and you fought the battles, you're super sensitive of any manifestation or discrimination based on race. But what's driving the opposition to President Obama on health care is not race. Some of his opponents have racial discrimination in their heart. But that's not what's driving them. What's driving them is they don't want health care. They don't want the government to take care of people who are ... left behind."
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What that means is that if you're from Mississippi and used to having most things go your way and they don't anymore, you're probably hyper-sensitive of anything that has anything to do with race. You're going to always be on the defense trying to defend racism because it's the accepted norm for .You're probably still pissed that you have to pick your own cotton,(figure of speech for punching the clock) while watching those uppity Blacks, (like me) live in nice homes, and drive nice cars, send their children to nice schools, that Governors Bull Conner, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and KKK Imperial Wizard J.B. Stoner tried to keep us out of for so long. You redneck fucks should see how pretty my house and my wife is. I work from home.We go to Coffeehouses and bookstores on the weekends. My dog has pillows and bones all over the house, other people cut my lawn for me. I'm probably more conservative than I am liberal, except for the fact that I believe in freedom justice, and equality for everybody, even though I had a cross burned in my front yard as a child. Hot damn things are good JJ.

Things aren't turning out quite the way your Daddies planned them, are they.There's a new Sheriff in town. Get used to it boys.

"and if if were all one race then there is no racism... megggghhhh" go hit the bong. leave the debate to grown ups. cliche ass hipster.

I don't think most of these debates are grown up at all. The only thing on here that is worth while and mature is the post by Tyr. On every page about racism you find they turn into these trivial fights about who and what party is more racist than the other and people who shout atop there soap box contradicting themselves by attacking someone who comes off as "uneducated". Keep that circle rolling and maybe we'll end up right back where we were. Evolve.

You know you say that, but how many blue collar union workers are racist? How many people who love those government farm subsidies in the midwest?

Any racists in West Virginia? Democrats control all branches of government.

Robert Byrd is a Democrat. How does that fit into your analysis?

Robert Byrd renounce his clan past so what's your point?

Once Byrd saw that it would hurt his political asperations he denounced it.

Oh yeah let's not forget our latest example of a racist, Kanye West. If Taylor Swift were black, he would have never did what he did, that is racist.

And the President called him what he is a Jackass!

what about the black panthers ? are they racist ?

Kenny,

As you know I view myself as an independent and don't care for either party. I think progress will come only when these two corporatist entities are replaced.

When I hear Dems saying that Republicans are racist, I ask them about their tolerance for Byrd. I don't mean to be offensive to any Dems in asking my question (or to piss off Neocongo in any way). When I hear Repubs slamming Dems for being anti American, I point out the service that Dems have rendered to our military and this country.

It is my naive and simplistic hope that people will get over their party allegiances (particularly those that are blinded by it---and I think we both know people like that) so that we can have progress.

Kenny,

My point on WV is that during the primaries the reason the MSM gave for Obama getting trounced by Hillary in WV is that the Democratic gun toting union workers were racist.

I was hoping this would illustrate that racism was not the sole domain of the Repubs.

No Kanye West is an idiot not a racist.

All nazis and skinhead are NOT republicans. That ranks pretty high on the list of ignorant things said on current.
It is obvious by that statement you have no idea about either of those groups. Nazis and skinheads HATE the jews. Republicans LOVE them. I am not saying that they don't hold some of the same ideas when it comes to other subjects, but to go as far as to say they are all republicans is just plain wrong.

Yes skinheads also hate black people.

Actually the majority of skinheads aren't racist, the skinhead movement started with Jamaican Reggae artists and fans in the 1960's.

Again, my dear woman you are in denial. Nearly 2 dozen DEMOCRATS voted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Recently, during the presidential election, Jimmy Carter was seen referring to Obama as a "black boy". And yet, not one democrat spoke out against his racism. Not one! "Silence gives consent." Dems hypocrisy makes me want to vomit!

I don't know. The Republicans have made a calculated decision to play on the nation's fears, ignorance and hatred. It's actually gaining some traction. 2008 was not the real test. Bush has screwed things up so badly that the Democrats had to take over. 2010 and 2012 will be the tests. Do the American people embrace fear and take a sharp turn right? Or do they reject hate and cast the Republicans into exile opening the door to a new party? If American history is any guide, the Republicans have a sound strategy and the Dems should be worried.

You're so correct, Reps. have always played on fears... it was terrorism for 8 years and now they're spewing this racial agenda on the hopes to weaken our President. The majority (which includes all races) voted for Obama and the I have to believe the majority will remain strong.

Thanks Tyr, the plan is simple but effective. If they can truly bring something of quality to the debate then so be it, until then delete works fine for me. Somehow I'm sure most of the ignorant folk making retarded comments don't know much about history or they simply can't read. Thanks for your history lesson of Tuskegee Airmen I read it I doubt the retards will.

I read it!

lol....

I love it.

Make up a poor excuse to ignore people and use it in a general sense and then feel justified.

It's apparent it's only created to make you seem logical and even and yet anyone with a sense of intelligence can see this is just an excuse to runaway.

I guess if those that were officers in the WWII American Army were so mistreated they must have had families back home who were in concentration camps of the American Variety. You know the one that told them it was for their own protection. The one where they STOLE everything that families worked hard to keep. The one where they had to live in even though their sons and fathers were off fighting to protect America.

The one that was only for one race due to the vile attack on an American Territory.

If you are going to play a victim card....you better have the worst victim example. Or you might as well not play it at all.

It is disgusting that you'd bring up anything about race when there is no reason for you to do so.

It is disgusting that people are using it at all. People predicted that such an excuse would be used by supporters of Obama if he won the election. Why you'd play into their prediction is beyond me. There is no reason to even bother with playing into their hand.

There is no reason that this is helpful and it only makes matters worse than they ever were. You can blame others for the damage that is being done, but you have your own hand in it every time you WRONGLY accuse someone of being a racist....

....and that is a gross sin against history.

I think its important to learn to call a spade a spade. Recognizing racism is not the same thing as calling someone a racist.

Like what you bring to the debate?

Propaganda and misleading information about those that disagree with you?

You should start removing yourself if your rule is a true thing to follow.

or perhaps what you bring to the debate Jammer, snide comments and condescension? or maybe empty accusations and uninformed opinion?

I bring thinking.