Unless you have been in a hole the past week you are familiar with a couple of incidents that occurred that are prime examples of how the race card is being played. The first happened during Obama's 489th speech on health care reform, this one before a joint session of Congress. When he started waxing poetic about how illegal aliens would not be able to participate in the reform package a little known congressman from South Carolina shouted "you lie"! The second was the Tea Party in Washington, D.C. this past weekend. This was a protest rally of somewhere between 20,000 and 2,000,000 people, depending on who is telling the story. They were protesting runaway government spending and the plans to co-opt the health care system in favor of something "better". The common denominator in both occasion was white people were protesting; Joe Wilson and the Tea Party folks.
Wait a minute, I thought that when we elected a black president that racism would be dead. That Barack Obama being half black and half white would transcend race and bring us all together as Americans. What we learned this past week is that because Joe Wilson is white he must be a racist. And because most of the Tea Party people are white that they must be criticizing him because he is black and are therefore, racists.
Well I am glad I have this straight. So when Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton criticized George Bush they must have been racists. And when La Raza criticized him they were racists as well. What, you can't be a racists unless you are white? I never heard them or Louis Farrakhan being called racists for the vile way they referred to whites so it must be that way. I guess the race card can only be played one way!
Seriously, the only people bringing up race in the discussion are the Obama supporters and their willing sycophants in the media. So it can't be that his ideas and plans are bad it is that the white man wants to keep the black man down. How 1950's can you get!!!!
Barack Obama is being challenged on the issues and is getting his butt kicked. Like any man on the losing end of an argument he (and his people) are resorting to personal attacks. There is nothing more feared by a white person than to be adjudged a racist. It is an attack against which there is no defense. If accused you are guilty unless you can get a minority to come to your defense, and then they are attacked for being a "Tom".
Is there racism in this country? Of course and it goes both ways. But that is not the point. These claims are disingenuous and are being thrown out to deflect the valid criticism of his proposals. I had hoped that we had gotten past this but I guess that is too much to hope for.
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I don't think Joe Wilson is a racist...just a douche. Regardless of his views, he could've shown a bit of restraint. And what about the irony that he voted in 2003 "to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants."
As for the rest, again, I'm sure there are some racists among them, but it's just the ridiculousness of them that gets me. Are these really the people you want representing your interests? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y&feature=player_embedded
Imagine that, an inconsistent politician! Stop the presses!
These people do not represent my interests. Nor do they represent yours. They represent only their own interests!
The question in the 2003 legislation is different from the one in the shell game they are playing today. They were authorizing reimbursement for costs incurred as a result of a government mandate; i.e. treatment of anyone, regardless of ability to pay, in an emergency situation. What the "douche" as you call him, was concerned about was that illegal aliens would be covered under the "public option". Where do you draw the line in rewarding illegal behavior?
The point I apparently didn't make was that was that these charades on both sides do not serve our interests and they should not insult our intelligence with them.
I'm sure he isn't the only one with "concerns." But he was the only one to blurt out inappropriately and disrespectfully. Regardless, his "concern" isn't based on any kind of fact, just conjecture and emotion.
I don't think Obama is a Savior. I don't like some of what he's done so far(like, yay, today, extending the Patriot Act). But I don't know how anyone working in healthcare can say it isn't in need of reform.
I liked this video called "No Room for a Centrist." http://www.nj.com/ledgerlive/index.ssf/2009/08/health_care_reform_town_hall_n.html
I wonder if this is going to be our next civil war. It's starting to feel like it.
The country is definitely more polarized than I have seen it since the '60's. However, yelling "you lie" in the hallowed halls of Congress is pretty tame compared to some of the things that are happening these days outside that den of vipers. For example, I love watching the British Parliament go at Gordon Brown on C Span weekly. They not only call him a liar but laugh at him regularly.
The Office of the Presidency deserves respect. Unfortunately that only appears to be true when there is a Democrat holding it.
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