Obama Plays the Race Card

[OldRegular]

Yup. Of which I will read none.

Mark Twain put it well for those who will not read:



It is sad to see you put yourself in that position.

Stupidity is a condition. Ignorance is a choice and by refusing to read a person place has chosen to remain ignorant.

You are a poor one to talk about Ignorance. I can understand a Stupid Christian aiding and abetting the slaughter of the unborn but no others!

 

[Crabtownboy]

So you can show us all where these talking points are part of a Republican plarform ? You can prove....

Republicans want to bring back company housing along with script.
Republicans support predatory lending.
Republicans want dicrimination in the workplaces.(There you at least admit Biden's comment was racial, in nature).

That should keep you busy for a while.

You ask for shackles. I gave you shackles. You do not think the rich folk are going to advertise do you? Give them some credit for being subtle.

The shackles may not be exactly like those of the past, but shackles are shackles.

The most current shackle is the redistribution of income that has taken place over the last twelve years of moving money from the poor and middle class to the rich. I believe you have voiced displeasure about income distribution from the rich to the middle-class and poor. Are you in favor of the redistribution from the poor and middle class to the rich? The disparage between the rich and the poor and middle class has grown rapidly during this 21st century.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

O/R, can we leave abortion out of this ?

C.T.Boy, you offer nothing but slander & libel, generalizations and speculation. You are not able to prove a single point you make.

If anything, it is liberals, on both sides who have taken from the workers, and given it to the super rich. Biden has no moral ground to stand on, and if you take his position, niether do you.

 

[OldRegular]

The shackles of ignorance by people refusing to read and simply believe the propaganda of the right-wing.

Listen to me CRABBY. I heard motor mouth Biden. He was race baiting and that is a fact. He said "They're going to put y'all back in chains."

 

[Crabtownboy]

C.T.Boy, you offer nothing but slander & libel, generalizations and speculation. You are not able to prove a single point you make.

BroC, you know as well as I do that if I said the sun will come up in the East tomorrow morning you would find a way to disagree. :laugh:

While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall.

While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul. There are several reasons for this.
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105

We the average person in the US are being shackled and many either cannot see this or refuse to see what is happening.

 

[OldRegular]

Listening to former Gov. Wilder of Virginia, first black governor of Virginia. His take on Biden's remarks is the same as mine! And he ain't no redneck!

 

[Bro. Curtis]

BroC, you know as well as I do that if I said the sun will come up in the East tomorrow morning you would find a way to disagree. :laugh:

Quote:
While the top 1 percent have seen their incomes rise 18 percent over the past decade, those in the middle have actually seen their incomes fall.

While many of the old centers of inequality in Latin America, such as Brazil, have been striving in recent years, rather successfully, to improve the plight of the poor and reduce gaps in income, America has allowed inequality to grow.

An economy in which most citizens are doing worse year after year—an economy like America’s—is not likely to do well over the long haul. There are several reasons for this.
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
We the average person in the US are being shackled and many either cannot see this or refuse to see what is happening.

The first statement is off-topic, and inane.

Second, you claim it is a republican policy to put these chains back on people, yet offer nothing to back it up. Care to retract that statement ?

 

[OldRegular]

We the average person in the US are being shackled and many either cannot see this or refuse to see what is happening.

It is the leftist democrats who want to shackle, or should I say chain, the entire country with the failed economic policies of Socialism. It is worth noting that the total welfare spending since 1964 is equivalent to the National Debt!

 

[Bro. Curtis]

I don't think most liberals want people in shackles, but their policies have hurt working people. But that is the result. Liberals do not examine their results, only heart-felt intentions. It is what makes them dangerous.

 

[OldRegular]

Meanwhile Back at the OP

Biden to Southern audience: Romney financial plan would ‘put y’all back in chains’
by Wes Barrett | August 14, 2012

Vice President Biden drew a tough retort from Mitt Romney's campaign Tuesday after telling a Virginia audience that the Republican presidential candidate's plan to lift financial regulation would "put y'all back in chains."

Romney's campaign responded by claiming the rhetoric marked a "new low" in the 2012 race.

Biden made the remarks during a stop in Danville, Va. He took a swipe at Romney's plan to ease financial regulations, by recycling a Romney bank analogy and creating an analogy of his own.

"He said in the first 100 days, he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules," Biden said. "Unchain Wall Street! They're gonna put y'all back in chains."

The remark's context is unclear. Some conservative blogs claimed Biden had just made a reference to slavery. Danville, aside from being the last capital of the Confederacy, is racially split -- the city is nearly half black and half white. The crowd at Tuesday's event reflected that makeup.

Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul fired back at Biden after the event, without accusing Biden of any racial reference.

"After weeks of slanderous and baseless accusations leveled against Governor Romney, the Obama campaign has reached a new low," she said. "The comments made by the vice president of the United States are not acceptable in our political discourse and demonstrate yet again that the Obama campaign will say and do anything to win this election. President Obama should tell the American people whether he agrees with Joe Biden's comments."

The Obama campaign, though, likened the language Biden used to language used repeatedly by GOP officials.

"For months, Speaker Boehner, Congressman Ryan and other Republicans have called for the 'unshackling' of the private sector from regulations that protect Americans from risky financial deals and other reckless behavior that crashed our economy," Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager, said in a statement. "Since then, the vice president has often used a similar metaphor to describe the need to 'unshackle' the middle class.

"Today's comments were a derivative of those remarks, describing the devastating impact letting Wall Street write its own rules again would have on middle class families. We find the Romney campaign's outrage over the vice president's comments today hypocritical, particularly in light of their own candidate's stump speech questioning the president's patriotism. Now, let's return to that 'substantive' debate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan promised 72 hours ago, but quickly abandoned."

The Obama campaign did the same to Bill and Hillary Clinton in 2008!



Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/20...#ixzz23Zh0Ayy5

 

[Revmitchell]

What shackles?

What are the "shackles" that he is talking about?

What "shackles" are supposedly being put on the people?

How about a straight forward answer?

How about listening to the whole remark on full context and you will get your answer.

 

[Revmitchell]

The Obama administration has distanced itself from the remark, with a White House official telling reporters:

“President Obama has great affection for Joe, but we can make no more sense of the statement than any of you can." :laugh:

Uh no they didn't:

But Obama, in an interview with "Entertainment Tonight," downplayed Palin's comments.

"We don't spend a lot of time worrying about the chatter and the noise and this and that," he said. "The country isn't as divided with gaffes or some stray remark as Washington is. Most folks know that's just sort of a WWF wrestling part of politics. It doesn't mean anything, just fills up a lot of air time."

He also said in an interview with People magazine that Biden's remarks meant consumers would be worse off if Republicans succeeded in doing away with new restraints on financial institutions.

"In no sense was he trying to connote something other than that," Obama said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/08/15/obama-defends-biden-on-chains-remark/#ixzz23ftWFKz9

 

[targus]

Uh no they didn't:

Uhhhh....

It was a joke. :laugh:

But it does sound like something that they should say pretty much anytime that Biden opens his mouth. :laugh:

 

[OldRegular]

Just for the doubters and apologists.

Carl Rove picked up on something in Biden's remark that I didn't. Biden said: "They're gonna put y'all back in chains." Now notice Biden said: "put y'all back"; back being an obvious reference to the enslavement of blacks!

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

I've changed my mind - I am now convinced that this was an incredibly stupid mistake on the vice-president's part that caused President Obama and Co to cringe in horror. I think he was referring to 'chains of slavery' even in the context.

They are ultimately pragmatists and surely knew that nothing good could come of this.

IN other words, Vice-president Biden said something stupid - that still does not justify the title of the thread. Obama did not play the race card.

 

[targus]

IN other words, Vice-president Biden said something stupid - that still does not justify the title of the thread. Obama did not play the race card.

I agree...

Obama played "the Biden card".

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Just for the doubters and apologists.

Carl Rove picked up on something in Biden's remark that I didn't. Biden said: "They're gonna put y'all back in chains." Now notice Biden said: "put y'all back"; back being an obvious reference to the enslavement of blacks!

While using a very southern expression to emphasize it. Nobody from the North East especially being born & raised in Scranton Pa would ever use "Ya'll".....it's just not done. That tells me a lot about the creep. Now if he used "Hayna" at the end of his sentence! :laugh: