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Obama Plays the Race Card

OldRegular

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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/2...lan-would-put-y-all-back-chains#ixzz23Zh0Ayy5
 

OldRegular

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Brief History of Obama's Campaigns

HANNITY: Explain this. All right. This is important.

COULTER: His very first race, he wanted to take the place of Alice Palmer. I can even put this in the column. I have a word limit. They persuade her not to run for her own seat for the Illinois State Senate by raising her breast cancer treatments. She decides to run, anyway. So, they get her disqualified by not having enough signatures.

Then when he is running for the Senate, he was up against Blair Hull, a multi-millionaire investment banker. Blair Hull was way ahead in the polls, and what happens? David Axelrod's ex-employer, The Chicago Tribune, pushes the story that Blair Hull's ex-wife had accused him of abuse and had gotten a protective order. This becomes the whole focus of the campaign. And suddenly, Blair Hull falls behinds, Obama wins the primary.

Then Obama is up against that amazingly attractive Republican Jack Ryan, Harvard law, Harvard business school , Dartmouth, Catholic, he went worked for Goldman Sachs, made hundreds of millions of dollars and then left it all in his 40s to teach in an inner-city school in Chicago. But he did have one problem. He was divorced. And so, once again.

HANNITY: It comes out.

COULTER: He released his tax records. He released his divorce records. The one thing that both he and his wife wanted under seal were their custody filings. He accused her of having an affair. She said he took her to sex clubs and that drove her into the arms of another man. So the sex club allegations come out, which he denied at the time. But they come out and five days later, Jack Ryan is knocked out.

And who does Obama end up running against? Alan Keyes, great man, no political aptitude for running for Senate. And that's how Obama became a senator.

So, you know -- look at what McCain -- the New York Times had on its front page rumors about an affair that they never got any substantiation for. You will also recall, Sarah Palin and Todd Palin, there were the rumors about their marriage. There was Herman Cain.

HANNITY: There is an important follow-up here.

COULTER: The attacks on Herman Cain were traced directly back to people David Axelrod knew, making hazy accusations against an actual American black running for -- unlike the Kenyan -- because I hear it on good authority. This is how Obama wins. So, his secret plan --


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/2012/08/03/obamas-cutthroat-campaign-history#ixzz23ZgIAHhN
 

Zaac

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Shouldn't it be BIDEN plays the race card? I say let him keep talking. I'm amazed at the stuff that comes out of that man's mouth. :laugh:
 

InTheLight

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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.

Mistake. Romney needs to quit replying to every attack that Obama's campaign puts out there. They do it on a daily basis. STOP PLAYING DEFENSE.

Best thing to do would be to shrug your shoulders, chuckle a little bit and say, "Wow, I can't believe they say stuff like that." Then immediately say, "Did you know that Obama has run up the debt by almost 6 trillion dollars."
 

OldRegular

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Shouldn't it be BIDEN plays the race card? I say let him keep talking. I'm amazed at the stuff that comes out of that man's mouth. :laugh:

Biden ia a motor mouth but what he said was endosed by the Obama campaign committee!
 

carpro

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Biden is an idiot.

But it doesn't matter what he says to blacks. Obama already has their vote. It's just empty rhetoric.
 

NaasPreacher (C4K)

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Mistake. Romney needs to quit replying to every attack that Obama's campaign puts out there. They do it on a daily basis. STOP PLAYING DEFENSE.

Best thing to do would be to shrug your shoulders, chuckle a little bit and say, "Wow, I can't believe they say stuff like that." Then immediately say, "Did you know that Obama has run up the debt by almost 6 trillion dollars."

Touche. A great summary about why the GOP is digging their grave deeper and deeper.
 

Revmitchell

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




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



Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2...lan-would-put-y-all-back-chains#ixzz23Zh0Ayy5

His comments about putting people back in chains was not about race. It was about being chained to wall street. The full context of the comments can be seen here:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1785632887001/
 

targus

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From 'Obama Plays the Race Card' to 'Biden Makes Another Gaffe' is quite a distance.

I have a different take on this.

It was the race card - and not a gaffe - but a race card played in a different way than normally played.

The use of the words "back in chains" was intended for African Americans.

Obama and the Dems are worried because Obama's support among African Americans has dropped.

He will still get a huge majority of the African American vote - among African Americans that actually vote that is.

Obama is afraid that African American voters will tend to stay home this time around - and if too many do Obama is in real trouble.

The charged rhetoric was intended to get out the Black vote.
 

Crabtownboy

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Through the wealth redistribution from the poor and middle class to the rich the Republicans have already succeeded in putting those two classes in financial chains. With the proposals of Romney and Ryan they want the chains double locked.

Be honest folk, it is not racial chains that is being talked about, but financial chains.
 

NaasPreacher (C4K)

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I have a different take on this.

It was the race card - and not a gaffe - but a race card played in a different way than normally played.

The use of the words "back in chains" was intended for African Americans.

Obama and the Dems are worried because Obama's support among African Americans has dropped.

He will still get a huge majority of the African American vote - among African Americans that actually vote that is.

Obama is afraid that African American voters will tend to stay home this time around - and if too many do Obama is in real trouble.

The charged rhetoric was intended to get out the Black vote.

Thanks for your reasoned reply. I am not sure there is enough skill in the campaign team to come up with that kind of plan and I sure wouldn't trust the vice-president to deliver.
 

targus

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BTW...

What is it with Northern Democrats campaigning in the South?

Does Biden say "y'all" much when he is back home in DC?

It sounds a bit condescending wouldn't everyone agree?
 

Bro. Curtis

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The problem is the phrase "back in chains" which would indicate the people he was talking to had once been in chains.
 
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