Colin Powell...Who Is He, Again?

[CrusaderFrank]

Hillary Supporter Cuomo: Obama Tried To "Shuck And Jive" With Media

"Hillary Supporter Cuomo: Obama Tried To "Shuck And Jive" With Media"

It's different when a Dem says it, it just is

 

[Jarhead]

George W. Bush needed no shields against racist accusations.

Because George W. Bush was no racist.

Like ther honesty Sallow.

But do you think Sununu referring to Obamas first debate performance as "lazy" was said because Sununu believes the term lazy should be applied to black men that are lethargic?

Yep.

It wasn't just a poor choice of words..it was part of a narrative.

Sununu was making the rounds on the morning shows spouting all sorts of idiotic crap.

He had to apologize for some of it.

Sununu making the rounds talking trash about Obama after the debate was what anyone would expect....it goes both ways. And as for idiotic stuff? Sure, some can see it that way...and others see it other ways.

But racist? Other than using a "non racial word" like lazy....what else has Sununu said that was part of a "racial narrative"?

What is more racist?

Calling a black man lazy after a lethargic performance...

OR

Referring to an Ivy Leagus graduate, US Senator, who is black as "clean and articulate"?

Lets be honest Sallow....what seems to be more racist?

Better yet....

Have you ever referred to a white man as lazy?
I am sure you have...so have I.

Have you EVER heard someone refer to a US senator with an ivy league degree who is WHITE as "clean and articulate"?

Better yet....have you EVER heard ANYONE refer to ANY white politician as "clean and articulate"?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Rightwing shitstains ignore all of Powell's votes for both Bushes and Reagan, smfh!

'cause Obama wasn't running.



"All Colin Powell had to do to stop the budding scandal is stand up and tell the truth. Whether in private to his boss, President George Bush, or in public is immaterial."
The Shame of Colin Powell | RedState


Loyalty.

 

[Trajan]

Colin Powell shows his true colors.

1. Colin Powell has been given honors that few of us ever accrue: He has been National Security Advisor, he has been Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and even the United States Secretary of State.

2. Every one of those positions awarded at the behest of a Republican. And I’m certain he was aware of the political party that felt he deserves those awards. He even claimed to be a member of that party.





3. “COLIN POWELL: THERE’S A ‘DARK VEIN OF INTOLERANCE’ IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

a. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell — who split with the Republican Party to endorse President Barack Obama two times — said Sunday there are some clearly racial elements within the GOP.

b. “There’s also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party,” Powell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

c. While not mentioning former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin or former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu by name, Powell referenced past comments from each about Obama as evidence of racism in the party."
Colin Powell: There?s a ?Dark Vein of Intolerance? in the Republican Party | Video | TheBlaze.com



4. Seems it’s time to give the general a bit of instruction….and, perhaps, see who the real racist is.


5. A rule of life, that all would do well to learn early on, is that reality is defined by actions….not words. Perhaps some examples? “The check is in the mail,” or “I’ll respect you in the morning.”

6. In fact, 'the reality lesson' shows up as a major difference between Liberals, for whom “feeling passes for knowing,” and conservatives, for whom data informs policy.

7. Now, the general, who avows to be a Republican, but has voted for the most Liberal President we’ve ever had, twice, now gives cover- again- to Obama’s failure to cut spending by dangling this ‘racist’ red herring.

8. Seems to me that the general has become the race-card croupier,






9. Could not the phrases that Powell points to as indicia of racism be, merely, common phrases? Could not the racism be a figment of Powell’s psychology, or an attempt to ingratiate himself in other precincts?

a. Show me the actions….don’t babble!

10. Let’s go back to #5, above, and demand data rather than conjecture: : He has been National Security Advisor, he has been Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and even the United States Secretary of State. All due to Republicans.

a. Looks to me like some ‘racism’ lots of folks would like directed at them!



Hard to know the true colors of a turncoat.

Powell is a very successful but somewhat overrated General, who was a 'house niggar' 2000-2008, but has been rehabilitated as hes 'where he should be' in the field pimpin' for the right side.

 

[lukelk]

Hillary Supporter Cuomo: Obama Tried To "Shuck And Jive" With Media

"Hillary Supporter Cuomo: Obama Tried To "Shuck And Jive" With Media"

It's different when a Dem says it, it just is

shall we break down the racist posts just on here? of how about the racist avatars? or how about people not knowing the difference between socialism and fascism?

 

[007]

Powell is a racist, plain and simple. He saw his chance to "come out" when he saw obama get elected. Now he can play his race games and get away with it because there's a black president, and everybody knows that if you say anything against odumbo, then you're a racist, so if you say anything against powell now, well, you must be a racist for that too then, because they're both black.

Never mind the fact that's it's THEM that's THROWING OUT THE RACE CARD.

Double standard, hypocrites, they can say ****** but you can't, yeah, it all fits on them and the stupid libroid imbeciles here supporting this charade.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I look up to Colin Powell as a role model, somebody wo has worked hard to achieved what he has done, the bullshit from the radical right is retarded, blow it out of your asses, you guys want a party of lemmings and when some don't run off the cliff and think with their own mind they're RINOS and turncoats. You fucktards are dumb for preferring people like Allen West over Colin Powell.

"Colin Powell as a role model, somebody wo has worked hard to achieved what he has done,.."

But Bill Clinton said his promotions were due to affirmative action?????


Hey...you didn't vote for the rapist .....did you?

and now the dumb cow is saying clinton is a rapist. keep talking, your making our point for us.

Clinton Misogyny - Sex
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - "forced himself on her, biting, bruising her"
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned
CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:


Mooooooo.....

 

[Bfgrn]

Maybe Colin Powell is putting his country before his party. What a traitor!

 

[jillian]

Powell has no integrity.

He's a lackey for the Democrat Party, the same party that called NYC "Hymietown" and is amazed that Obama can speak and shower.

the PARTY did not call New York, Hymietown. that was the pos jessie jackson. he is not the democratic party. by the same token, it WAS your party that told NY to "drop dead" and is now refusing to send a post-sandy package which was done routinely for every freaking red state that ever needed it.

as for powell not having integrity... having no integrity was bush/cheney sending him in front of the UN to lie in order to benefit from his political capital.

but no surprises that you're eating your own when he tells you the truth about your party.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Colin Powell shows his true colors.

1. Colin Powell has been given honors that few of us ever accrue: He has been National Security Advisor, he has been Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and even the United States Secretary of State.

2. Every one of those positions awarded at the behest of a Republican. And I’m certain he was aware of the political party that felt he deserves those awards. He even claimed to be a member of that party.





3. “COLIN POWELL: THERE’S A ‘DARK VEIN OF INTOLERANCE’ IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

a. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell — who split with the Republican Party to endorse President Barack Obama two times — said Sunday there are some clearly racial elements within the GOP.

b. “There’s also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party,” Powell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

c. While not mentioning former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin or former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu by name, Powell referenced past comments from each about Obama as evidence of racism in the party."
Colin Powell: There?s a ?Dark Vein of Intolerance? in the Republican Party | Video | TheBlaze.com



4. Seems it’s time to give the general a bit of instruction….and, perhaps, see who the real racist is.


5. A rule of life, that all would do well to learn early on, is that reality is defined by actions….not words. Perhaps some examples? “The check is in the mail,” or “I’ll respect you in the morning.”

6. In fact, 'the reality lesson' shows up as a major difference between Liberals, for whom “feeling passes for knowing,” and conservatives, for whom data informs policy.

7. Now, the general, who avows to be a Republican, but has voted for the most Liberal President we’ve ever had, twice, now gives cover- again- to Obama’s failure to cut spending by dangling this ‘racist’ red herring.

8. Seems to me that the general has become the race-card croupier,






9. Could not the phrases that Powell points to as indicia of racism be, merely, common phrases? Could not the racism be a figment of Powell’s psychology, or an attempt to ingratiate himself in other precincts?

a. Show me the actions….don’t babble!

10. Let’s go back to #5, above, and demand data rather than conjecture: : He has been National Security Advisor, he has been Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, and even the United States Secretary of State. All due to Republicans.

a. Looks to me like some ‘racism’ lots of folks would like directed at them!



Hard to know the true colors of a turncoat.

Powell is a very successful but somewhat overrated General, who was a 'house niggar' 2000-2008, but has been rehabilitated as hes 'where he should be' in the field pimpin' for the right side.

That's a great point too, he's probably tired of getting called that by his friends on the Left

 

[lukelk]

Like ther honesty Sallow.

But do you think Sununu referring to Obamas first debate performance as "lazy" was said because Sununu believes the term lazy should be applied to black men that are lethargic?

Yep.

It wasn't just a poor choice of words..it was part of a narrative.

Sununu was making the rounds on the morning shows spouting all sorts of idiotic crap.

He had to apologize for some of it.

Sununu making the rounds talking trash about Obama after the debate was what anyone would expect....it goes both ways. And as for idiotic stuff? Sure, some can see it that way...and others see it other ways.

But racist? Other than using a "non racial word" like lazy....what else has Sununu said that was part of a "racial narrative"?

What is more racist?

Calling a black man lazy after a lethargic performance...

OR

Referring to an Ivy Leagus graduate, US Senator, who is black as "clean and articulate"?

Lets be honest Sallow....what seems to be more racist?

Better yet....

Have you ever referred to a white man as lazy?
I am sure you have...so have I.

Have you EVER heard someone refer to a US senator with an ivy league degree who is WHITE as "clean and articulate"?

Better yet....have you EVER heard ANYONE refer to ANY white politician as "clean and articulate"?

On Thursday, Romney campaign co-chair advanced the theory that Gen. Colin Powell endorsed President Obama because he’s black. But this isn’t the first time Sununu or even Mitt Romney’s campaign have introduced Obama’s race into the election. The former New Hampshire governor has repeatedly suggested that Obama or his policies are “foreign,” European, and something less than American. Here are some of his greatest hits:

– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]

– Obama doesn’t know how to be an American. During a conference call, Sununu claimed, “The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]

– Obama is a lazy idiot. Sununu described Obama’s debate performance as “babbling,” “lazy,” and “disengaged,” and dismissed the possibility that he could do better in the future. “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” [Fox News, 10/4/2012]

– Obama has no class, just wants to be cool. “That moment of using the B.S. word was kind of a self-defining moment for the president,” he told Sean Hannity. “No class, wants to be cool. Sacrifices the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his base.” [Fox News, 10/25/2012]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Powell has no integrity.

He's a lackey for the Democrat Party, the same party that called NYC "Hymietown" and is amazed that Obama can speak and shower.

the PARTY did not call New York, Hymietown. that was the pos jessie jackson. he is not the democratic party.

as for powell not having integrity... having no integrity was bush/cheney sending him in front of the UN to lie in order to benefit from his political capital.

but no surprises that you're eating your own when he tells you the truth about your party.

Fail, Jill. Under the Powell Doctrine the words of one member of a Party means the entire Party believes that.

Or is Powell a liar?

 

[Flaylo]

Powell is a racist, plain and simple. He saw his chance to "come out" when he saw obama get elected. Now he can play his race games and get away with it because there's a black president, and everybody knows that if you say anything against odumbo, then you're a racist, so if you say anything against powell now, well, you must be a racist for that too then, because they're both black.

Never mind the fact that's it's THEM that's THROWING OUT THE RACE CARD.

Double standard, hypocrites, they can say ****** but you can't, yeah, it all fits on them and the stupid libroid imbeciles here supporting this charade.

Fucking dunmbass like you believe Rush Limbaugh and Sununu instead of the facts, no one called Powell racist after he voted for Bush twice and Reagan, voting Democrat makes one a racist? STFU

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yep.

It wasn't just a poor choice of words..it was part of a narrative.

Sununu was making the rounds on the morning shows spouting all sorts of idiotic crap.

He had to apologize for some of it.

Sununu making the rounds talking trash about Obama after the debate was what anyone would expect....it goes both ways. And as for idiotic stuff? Sure, some can see it that way...and others see it other ways.

But racist? Other than using a "non racial word" like lazy....what else has Sununu said that was part of a "racial narrative"?

What is more racist?

Calling a black man lazy after a lethargic performance...

OR

Referring to an Ivy Leagus graduate, US Senator, who is black as "clean and articulate"?

Lets be honest Sallow....what seems to be more racist?

Better yet....

Have you ever referred to a white man as lazy?
I am sure you have...so have I.

Have you EVER heard someone refer to a US senator with an ivy league degree who is WHITE as "clean and articulate"?

Better yet....have you EVER heard ANYONE refer to ANY white politician as "clean and articulate"?

On Thursday, Romney campaign co-chair advanced the theory that Gen. Colin Powell endorsed President Obama because he’s black. But this isn’t the first time Sununu or even Mitt Romney’s campaign have introduced Obama’s race into the election. The former New Hampshire governor has repeatedly suggested that Obama or his policies are “foreign,” European, and something less than American. Here are some of his greatest hits:

– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]

– Obama doesn’t know how to be an American. During a conference call, Sununu claimed, “The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]

– Obama is a lazy idiot. Sununu described Obama’s debate performance as “babbling,” “lazy,” and “disengaged,” and dismissed the possibility that he could do better in the future. “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” [Fox News, 10/4/2012]

– Obama has no class, just wants to be cool. “That moment of using the B.S. word was kind of a self-defining moment for the president,” he told Sean Hannity. “No class, wants to be cool. Sacrifices the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his base.” [Fox News, 10/25/2012]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLAy8aqSG7Y]Obama (southern accent): "Where's yo dolla?" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[jillian]

Powell has no integrity.

He's a lackey for the Democrat Party, the same party that called NYC "Hymietown" and is amazed that Obama can speak and shower.

the PARTY did not call New York, Hymietown. that was the pos jessie jackson. he is not the democratic party.

as for powell not having integrity... having no integrity was bush/cheney sending him in front of the UN to lie in order to benefit from his political capital.

but no surprises that you're eating your own when he tells you the truth about your party.

Fail, Jill. Under the Powell Doctrine the words of one member of a Party means the entire Party believes that.

Or is Powell a liar?

really? jessie jackson speaks for no one but himself last i checked.

as for the powell doctrine, no doubt you have a link to that... or do you mean idiots like beck and limbot who you all drool over?

 

[lukelk]

Powell has no integrity.

He's a lackey for the Democrat Party, the same party that called NYC "Hymietown" and is amazed that Obama can speak and shower.

the PARTY did not call New York, Hymietown. that was the pos jessie jackson. he is not the democratic party.

as for powell not having integrity... having no integrity was bush/cheney sending him in front of the UN to lie in order to benefit from his political capital.

but no surprises that you're eating your own when he tells you the truth about your party.

Fail, Jill. Under the Powell Doctrine the words of one member of a Party means the entire Party believes that.

Or is Powell a liar?

shall I post racist comments by more than member of the republican pary, I think I shall.
On Thursday, Romney campaign co-chair advanced the theory that Gen. Colin Powell endorsed President Obama because he’s black. But this isn’t the first time Sununu or even Mitt Romney’s campaign have introduced Obama’s race into the election. The former New Hampshire governor has repeatedly suggested that Obama or his policies are “foreign,” European, and something less than American. Here are some of his greatest hits:

– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]

– Obama doesn’t know how to be an American. During a conference call, Sununu claimed, “The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]

– Obama is a lazy idiot. Sununu described Obama’s debate performance as “babbling,” “lazy,” and “disengaged,” and dismissed the possibility that he could do better in the future. “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” [Fox News, 10/4/2012]

– Obama has no class, just wants to be cool. “That moment of using the B.S. word was kind of a self-defining moment for the president,” he told Sean Hannity. “No class, wants to be cool. Sacrifices the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his base.” [Fox News, 10/25/2012]


LANSING — The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan's former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times."

Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. "without a side arm."

The video of Weiser's comments, recorded by a Democratic operative shadowing GOP congressional candidate Kerry Bentivolio to a meeting where Weiser also spoke, was given to the Free Press and posted on YouTube by the Michigan Democratic Party. Weiser emphatically said Friday that he meant no offense to Detroit and was speaking about past, not current, campaigns. But his comments immediately drew sharp criticism from a civil rights activist and a Detroit lawmaker.

The controversy drew comparisons to a surreptitiously recorded video of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling people at a Florida campaign fund-raiser last May that he couldn't rely on the support of 47% of the country because they rely on government handouts and likely would support President Barack Obama.

Romney was accused of racism and classism. Now, Weiser is drawing similar objections from critics who say he disrespected and stereotyped Detroit because of its large African-American and low-income population.

In a phone interview Friday evening with the Free Press, Weiser, an Ann Arbor businessman who was running for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents when he appeared at the tea party gathering, initially said he didn't recall making the comments and didn't think he would have used that kind of language. He later acknowledged making the remarks.

But Weiser said there were African Americans present at the meeting and the comments "were never intended to be racist comments." He apologized if he offended anyone.LANSING — The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan's former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times."

Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. "without a side arm."

The video of Weiser's comments, recorded by a Democratic operative shadowing GOP congressional candidate Kerry Bentivolio to a meeting where Weiser also spoke, was given to the Free Press and posted on YouTube by the Michigan Democratic Party. Weiser emphatically said Friday that he meant no offense to Detroit and was speaking about past, not current, campaigns. But his comments immediately drew sharp criticism from a civil rights activist and a Detroit lawmaker.

The controversy drew comparisons to a surreptitiously recorded video of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling people at a Florida campaign fund-raiser last May that he couldn't rely on the support of 47% of the country because they rely on government handouts and likely would support President Barack Obama.

Romney was accused of racism and classism. Now, Weiser is drawing similar objections from critics who say he disrespected and stereotyped Detroit because of its large African-American and low-income population.

In a phone interview Friday evening with the Free Press, Weiser, an Ann Arbor businessman who was running for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents when he appeared at the tea party gathering, initially said he didn't recall making the comments and didn't think he would have used that kind of language. He later acknowledged making the remarks.

But Weiser said there were African Americans present at the meeting and the comments "were never intended to be racist comments." He apologized if he offended anyone.

want me too keep going?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

the PARTY did not call New York, Hymietown. that was the pos jessie jackson. he is not the democratic party.

as for powell not having integrity... having no integrity was bush/cheney sending him in front of the UN to lie in order to benefit from his political capital.

but no surprises that you're eating your own when he tells you the truth about your party.

Fail, Jill. Under the Powell Doctrine the words of one member of a Party means the entire Party believes that.

Or is Powell a liar?

really? jessie jackson speaks for no one but himself last i checked.

as for the powell doctrine, no doubt you have a link to that... or do you mean idiots like beck and limbot who you all drool over?

Oh, so only Libs like Powell can use the Broad brush. Gotcha.

Is that because he's black or because he's a Progressive?

 

[007]

"Colin Powell as a role model, somebody wo has worked hard to achieved what he has done,.."

But Bill Clinton said his promotions were due to affirmative action?????


Hey...you didn't vote for the rapist .....did you?

and now the dumb cow is saying clinton is a rapist. keep talking, your making our point for us.

Clinton Misogyny - Sex
Juanita Broaddrick (AR)- rape
Eileen Wellstone (Oxford) - rape
Elizabeth Ward Gracen - rape - quid pro quo, post incident intimidation
Regina Hopper Blakely - "forced himself on her, biting, bruising her"
Kathleen Willey (WH) - sexual assault, intimidations, threats
Sandra Allen James (DC) - sexual assault
22 Year Old 1972 (Yale) - sexual assault
Kathy Bradshaw (AK) - sexual assault
Cristy Zercher - unwelcomed sexual advance, intimidations
Paula Jones (AR) - unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
Carolyn Moffet -unwelcomed sexual advance, exposure, bordering on sexual assault
1974 student at University of Arkansas - unwelcomed physical contact
1978-1980 - seven complaints per Arkansas state troopers
Monica Lewinsky - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Gennifer Flowers - quid pro quo, post incident character assault
Dolly Kyle Browning - post incident character assault
Sally Perdue - post incident threats
Betty Dalton - rebuffed his advances, married to one of his supporters
Denise Reeder - apologetic note scanned
CLINTON'S ROGUES GALLERY:


Mooooooo.....

Hey, pulling all that shit makes someone a HERO to the left PC. Just look at the enthusiastic reception the morally bankrupt left gave him at their last pat themselves on the back award show. They love him!

SEXUAL PREDATOR... so what... that's cool in their book.

 

[lukelk]

here is more for ya frankie



The 2008 U.S. presidential race will forever be remembered as historic because it saw the election of the nation’s first black president—Barack Obama. But four years later, an undercurrent of racism ran through the 2012 presidential race. Republican presidential candidates such as Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum were accused of making racist remarks, while Jon Huntsman found himself the target of a racist attack ad. A number of racial groups—blacks, Asians, even Palestinians—found themselves at the center of racial scandals triggered by conservative politicians. This recap provides an overview of race-based controversies during the 2012 presidential campaign and just why the actions and remarks of right-wing politicians managed to offend so many people.
Gingrich Offends Blacks and Palestinians

Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sparked a couple of different controversies related to race during the 2012 presidential campaign. Just before the Republican primaries kicked off, Gingrich made remarks that offended African Americans and Palestinians. So, what did Gingrich say? In December 2011, Gingrich said during an event at the Nationwide Insurance headquarters, “Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of ‘I do this and you give me cash,’ unless it's illegal.”

Gingrich faced a backlash because many people, including Whoopi Goldberg of “The View” and Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show,” felt that Gingrich was using the word “poor” as code for “black” and fueling the stereotype that African Americans are lazy criminals.

Gingrich also raised eyebrows in December 2011 for remarking during a Jewish Channel interview that Palestinians are an “invented people.” Palestinian officials, including prime minister Salam Fayyad, criticized Gingrich for making comments that denied “historical truths.”
Santorum Denies Making Anti-Black Remark

While campaigning in Iowa before the January 2012 caucus in the state, Pennsylvania politician Rick Santorum reportedly told a mostly white crowd that he didn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” Santorum later denied saying “black people,” but to the masses that’s exactly what it sounded like he said. This led to criticism that Santorum singled out African Americans for being on public assistance in a state where they make up a tiny percent of the population and certainly don’t receive more federal aid there than whites. Nationwide, whites also receive more public assistance than blacks in part because whites make up a much large sharer of the U.S. population than African Americans do.
Ron Paul’s Newsletters

Texas Congressman Ron Paul didn’t spark a racial controversy for comments he made during the 2012 presidential campaign but with racist statements published in newsletters bearing in his name in the 1980s and the 1990s. Paul denies writing the newsletters but was haunted by the inflammatory remarks they contained. The newsletters describe black men in the nation’s capital as mostly “criminals” and appear to bemoan the fact that racial segregation is now illegal. A 1993 Ron Paul Survival Report newsletter stated, “It is human nature that like attracts likes. But whites are not allowed to express this same human impulse. Except in a de facto sense, there can be no white schools, white clubs, or white neighborhoods. The political system demands white integration, while allowing black segregation.”
Anti-Asian Smear Campaign Against Huntsman

Ron Paul found himself embroiled in yet another racial controversy when supporters of his launched a video attack ad against Republican rival Jon Huntsman just before the New Hampshire primary in January 2012. Called “Jon Huntsman’s Values,” the viral video takes aim at the fact that Huntsman adopted two children from Asia. The video also highlights Huntsman’s familiarity with Asian cultures and ability to speak Mandarin Chinese. The point of the video is to question whether Huntsman, who’s served as U.S. ambassador to China and Singapore, has American values or foreign values. The Paul campaign denounced the ad, which was widely panned as racist and xenophobic.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Powell Docterine: "THERE’S A ‘DARK VEIN OF INTOLERANCE’ IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY"

....because Sarah Palin borrowed Andy Cuomo's phrase "Shuck and jive"

....and Sununu said Obama was "lazy" when the voice in Powells head completed the phrase as "Lazy, shiftless nigga"

See how that works?

Andy Cuomo words and the voices in Powell's head taint the whole Republican Party