Republicans and Race, Closer to Home

By: The Grey Havens
Published On: 8/24/2007 12:55:53 PM

Ben calls out the ODBA for their ongoing race to the bottom of blogger ethics.

A majority of that group has either made outright racist or jew-baiting comments in just the last year- it is a sick, out of control group that deserves to be compared to other sick and out of control groups.

Here's a hint for all you "concerned" Republicans who want to share your brilliant insights on race or women's issues with the rest of the class.  When you call a likely First Lady of the United States of America, a "Kenya 'doll'", you're not really winning any friends, but thanks a bunch for working so hard to eke out lasting minority status for your party.

Maybe if Republicans were to elect a person of color as a Member of Congress, and maybe if their entire electoral power structure wasn't based on the overtly racist "southern strategy", Republicans would have some credibility on these issues.  They don't.

The crux of this matter, however, is that the aspersion that Michelle Obama was attacking Hillary is completely false.

So our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House. So, so we've adjusted our schedules to make sure that our girls are first, so while he's traveling around, I do day trips. That means I get up in the morning, I get the girls ready, I get them off, I go and do trips, I'm home before bedtime.

How in the name of all that's holy do you go from Michelle Obama's personal evaluation of her own time priorities to an attack on Hillary Clinton?  You don't, unless you're flatly racist, flatly stupid, or if you've flatly decided not to read the whole blasted quote!

The ODBA is a shameful embarrassment.  Weak, stupid, and pitiful, ODBA needs to do much better.

Comments



Also (bherring - 8/24/2007 2:03:59 PM)
look at various other presidential candidates, and how they've kept their own houses in order.  Giuliani, Thompson, McCain all have had extreme problems keeping relationships going.  If she even was taking a shot at a candidate, Clinton is pretty low on the list of possibilities.


And (k8 - 8/24/2007 2:47:45 PM)
in spite of the problems that the Clintons had in their marrage, they weathered the storm and kept their marriage together, unlike the Republicans with their multiple divorces.

However, if it turns out that Michelle Obama was indeed referring to Hillary, then that's a totally wrong, uncalled for low blow since it was Hillary's husband who had 'flings' outside of the marriage, not Hillary.



Check your facts.... (Flipper - 8/24/2007 3:10:48 PM)
It has been made CLEAR that Michele Obama was not talking about Clinton when she made those comments.


Ummmm...... (code - 8/24/2007 3:55:18 PM)
That's exactly what this posts says


It's been made 'Clear'? (k8 - 8/24/2007 4:48:03 PM)
'Clear' by whom?  Not according to what I've seen on MSNBC and elsewhere.  There's still speculation as to what she really meant.

And what do you mean by 'check your facts'?  What facts?  The fact that the Obama campaign denied that Michelle was making an underhanded slight to Hillary?  Maybe she wasn't...and then again, maybe she was. 

No matter what she meant, though, it's for sure that she won't be making mistakes like that again.



Maybe the ODBA isn't racist.. (David Weintraub - 8/24/2007 5:00:16 PM)
Maybe it was really just referring to her perceived "immigration status."

:)



New Rules (Bubby - 8/24/2007 7:10:44 PM)
Any blog that deletes comments that disagree with the blogger isn't a blog, its a private club.  The owner should be prevented from posting on other public blogs.


Republicans have Congressmen of "color" (teacherken - 8/24/2007 8:41:43 PM)
since that term is usually believed to include Hispanics, and you a number, particularly from Florida. 

And there have been black Republican Congressmen in the past -  the first black Senator was Ed Brooke, a Republican from MA, although that was a very different kind of Republican.  More recently there have been Gary Franks of CT and JC Watts of OK.

So I think that part of the diary is a bit off.



Reviewing the current rolls... I see none... (The Grey Havens - 8/24/2007 10:09:52 PM)
Good point, Ken.

But the current brand of Republican is different from those of even a few years ago.  The extremism of these reactionaries just doesn't appear to have room for anyone who isn't a rich, white, dominionist, male.