06/18/2008
The Question Texan Republicans are Asking
On sale at a booth hosted by Republicanmarket at the Republican state convention in Texas.
In related news, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warned fellow Republicans not to demonize Obama:
"'Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonizing Barack Obama,' Huckabee told reporters in Tokyo, according to a report by Agence France-Presse. Huckabee praised the country for getting 'to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail...When people are really hurting — and they are right now — they're not looking at a person's race,' he added."
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Posted by: Roscoe | Jun 18, 2008 11:00:04 AM
Revolting button, but not at all surprising.
I agree with Huckabee, although I think it's a bit premature for America to be all self-congratulatory about race relations.
Posted by: The Milkman | Jun 18, 2008 11:00:35 AM
This really isn't a surprise, the racist are still out and proud and part of the GOP, and Democrats as well to keep it real, as far as two bit Huckabee, didn't he come up with an assassination joke? He is as trifling on this issue as he is on gay rights.
Posted by: Mark | Jun 18, 2008 11:07:16 AM
Too many people in this country are looking at race. I was sort of hoping the country would be past that point by now. How foolish of me.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Jun 18, 2008 11:08:07 AM
Accepting racists was part of the 2004 platform. I recall the GOP chair saying something along the lines of "...everyone has a home at the GOP."
Posted by: Rad | Jun 18, 2008 11:09:39 AM
the more idiots wear buttons like that, the more it helps Obama get elected. Independents and confused republicans see assholes wearing that and think - 'do i really want to be associated with these people?'
It's like the Phelps phamily, who in my opinion are among the biggest advancers of gay rights and acceptance in america.
Posted by: b mac | Jun 18, 2008 11:10:29 AM
"...everyone has a home at the GOP."
For some, that home appears to be limited to the servants' quarters.
Posted by: Jeff | Jun 18, 2008 11:11:39 AM
That's a good one Jeff. I have to remember it.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Jun 18, 2008 11:15:25 AM
Why is Huckabee in Tokyo, and why does anybody there care about getting a statement from him?
Posted by: Zeke | Jun 18, 2008 11:17:30 AM
Stay classy, Republicans. It's why we love you.
Posted by: David D. | Jun 18, 2008 11:30:23 AM
Are you sure that was Mike Huckabee in Tokyo? I'm shocked he said something like that.
Posted by: Tintin Malfoy | Jun 18, 2008 11:41:15 AM
Don't those type of Texas Republicans sort of think of it as the "Cracker" Barrell rather than the White House right now anyway?
Posted by: patrick | Jun 18, 2008 11:46:18 AM
terrible button. But of course race was gonna be used in the general. Obama himself had no problem using sexism to his advantage when it came to getting Hillary out of the race so I'm sure he is not too surprised by this.
Posted by: daveynyc | Jun 18, 2008 12:13:16 PM
DAVENYC, what were these sexist tactics you speak of?
God help me, I found the Obama button funny. Maybe because it's something I've joked about myself and heard other people talk about in a humorous and even celebretory way. I dunno, but my first response was laughter. Then again, I have a REALLY inappropriate sense of humor. And I can see how it'd be construed as racist, considering the source.
I thought the "Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Deportation" button was much more aggressively racist and offensive.
Posted by: Chas | Jun 18, 2008 12:27:37 PM
I'm having a hard time coming up with sexism coming from the Obama camp as well. One time he said "the claws come out," and another time said that Clinton responded with attack ads when she was "feeling down," which are both kind of sexist, but not too shabby for almost a year of campaigning. Not that Clinton wasn't subject to a ton of sexism elsewhere, but I can't find much to attribute to Obama.
Posted by: adam | Jun 18, 2008 12:49:25 PM
DaveyNYC,
There are more pressing issues than the supposed sexism of Obama's campaign versus the quiet racism of Hillary's campaign. The main issue: making sure that McCain is not elected.
Posted by: Tread | Jun 18, 2008 1:04:24 PM
Again,
Deceptive, misleading title. Is this the kind of categorization and manipulation of the facts that we need? ALL Texas Republicans? C'mon....stop the games...
Posted by: Ed | Jun 18, 2008 1:23:46 PM
"...quiet racism of Hillary's campaign."
Great way to illustrate the "main" issue, TREAD.
As far as the button goes, it seems to me that White house turned into an outhouse 8 years ago...now we've just all that sh!t to clean up.
Posted by: silverskreen | Jun 18, 2008 1:49:01 PM
"What kind of progressive American leader would stand silent, supporting with the cold reserve of ambition the disgracefully sexist, blatantly anti-feminist attack on a well-respected woman of the same party, a political foe perhaps, but a national Democratic leader?
Barack Obama - so far.
Make no mistake, Obama's breakthrough says something wonderful about the state of racial politics in our nation - or perhaps the lack of racial politics - and the involvement of young people in politics. But his silence in the case of the cynical media lynching of Hillary Clinton by a national press corps obsessed with her gender is telling...his campaign's chilling acceptance of the gender bias stirred by our national media will also remind many of Ronald Reagan's acceptance of the race-baiting southern strategy - because if Obama accepts the presidency, at least in part, because of abject sexism, a brutal gender attack on a female rival - the most famous female Democrat in history - he will set feminism in our country back a generation."
Journalist Tom Watson,
01/08
Posted by: daveynyc | Jun 18, 2008 2:13:37 PM
Aha! So Obama was COMPLICIT in the "disgracefully sexist, blatantly anti-feminist attacks" on Clinton.
In other words, "they" came for Hillary Clinton, and Obama said nothing because he was NOT Hillary Clinton.
This is how holocausts start, people.
Davey, thanks to you and "journalist Tom Watson," I have seen the light!
Posted by: 24play | Jun 18, 2008 2:31:16 PM
"When people are really hurting...they're not looking at people's race."
SO good to know. Presumably that means that once the economy recovers, we can all start being shallow, racist jerks again. What a relief!
Posted by: Paul R | Jun 18, 2008 2:42:42 PM
What 24PLAY said.
Posted by: Chas | Jun 18, 2008 2:45:48 PM
Obama is our nominee and we will all support him in the general election but LET'S GET REAL. I for one will not forget all the condescending "dears and "sweethearts" that have come out of Obama's mouth.
I certainly will not forget Barack Obama's decision to have Jay Z's song "99 Problems" played at his victory party in Des Moines- the same song that featured the lyrics on a loop "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one" to the joys of all his supporters.
Let's not say Obama did NOT fuel the sexism that has plagued this country these past 16 months. I'm just a dude in my 20's so I can't even begin to imagine would it must have been like for women decades ago, what they had to face...but I did see a little of it recently, I think we all did. Obama could have stepped forward and said something about the way the media was depicting his fellow Democrat but he didn't. I REALLY liked him and I kinda thought he might a few times but alas it was silence from his camp. Let’s support him but let’s not pretend he’s perfect…sexism was out at full force. This country has a looong way to go when it comes to the way women are treated. Yes, Obama is to blame as well.
Some harmless novelty items for your next bash:
http://hillarynutcracker.com/
Also, pick up your Hillary Urinal target:
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Posted by: daveynyc | Jun 18, 2008 4:48:19 PM
Obama is proving more each day as his naive policy proposals come forth on the stump that he hasn't any sound solutions to solving this country's problems. Kicking off his latest campaign tour in North Carolina, he wants to "send out the stimulus checks again." How about some real world solutions to fix the problems instead of trying to buy votes with taxpayer money.
Windfall profits taxes on oil companies will do nothing but increase gas prices. They will pass it right on to the consumer to keep their stock prices and shareholder returns constant. Removing the off-shore drilling restrictions and proposing tax credits to off-set windfall profits provided that excess profits are invested in domestic drilling and/or renewable and alternative energy sources might be a plan. Robin Hood economics is all that Obama knows.
Rebuilding inner city schools so they can be vandalized, sprayed with graffiti and hopelessly wrecked beyond use is another waste of taxpayer money. Right here in Las Vegas it takes three security personnel 24/7 to guard each school during the summer to keep the gang bangers from defiling them. And isn't it interesting that every time they catch one he's black. They go after the new schools, even in their own neighborhoods. Look at the history of public housing and the billions wasted. The high rises are vandalized until implosion is the only answer.
Like it or not, Bush started the war in Iraq. Personally, I hate it and I think Bush is criminally liable. But the deed is done and we will have to deal with it for decades. If we pull out, Iran will seize the oil fields and block the Persian Gulf as they have promised. We would be facing a renewed war on a larger scale and lock out of oil shipments to the point that the price would be prohibitive for consumer use. Not a shot has been fired from North Korea since 1945 and we are still there.
At this very moment, Australia is preparing its military for domestic gas and food riots. We need to be doing the same thing here.
Obama is a joke. And the people who support him are a disgrace. If you can't see his true intent and how hopelessly unqualified he is, move to Kenya and take him with you.
As for Texas, Republicans have always controlled that state. I lived there for five decades. Only two Democrats have been elected Governor in the past 100 years and they were one term wonders.
Wake up people!
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 6:06:58 PM
Johnny Lane,
We already know you hate black people.
Why waste time typing when you could be washing out your sheets before tonight's rally?
Posted by: 24play | Jun 18, 2008 6:21:04 PM
Keep waiting for your handouts 24Play. The government checks will be in the mail, if someone in your neighborhood doesn't steal it first.
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 6:33:16 PM
Oh Johnny, I already got my $600. And that Cracker Dubya even deposited it right in my checking account!
I've already spent half of it on lowfat half-caf venti lattes at Starbucks and organic free-range arugula at Whole Foods. Did you stock up on pork rinds, crank, and shotgun shells? Or did you get new siding for the double-wide? I know the Nevada sun can be hell on siding.
Posted by: 24play | Jun 18, 2008 6:40:35 PM
And once again 24Play, you say absolutely nothing in support of Obama. That would take brainpower and knowledge of the issues.
Remember that Obama got the majority of these delegates BEFORE the "Rev." Wright, Rezko, Ayers and the rants of his militant wife were aired on MSM. 70 million people have not voted yet, and Hillary supporters including me don't want him. Sane people don't want him. Conservatives don't want him. Women don't want him. Shall I go on? Even the sane blacks don't want him!
As far as what I hate, that would be stupid, careless and destructive people. Skin color does not enter into the equation.
Why don't you write us an essay on Obama's proposed $1,000 tax cut for the "average American" and let's see if you know anything about the real facts of the situation. Because that is just one more proposal that does not add up.
Clue: He has never defined what the "average American" makes in annual wages. I looked it up and the people is he pandering to will get pennies, not $1,000, like that is any big deal.
Keep dreaming.
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 6:50:29 PM
I'm waiting 24Play. Show us you have a brain or are you just a Michelle Obama clone?
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 6:54:41 PM
Johnny,
I don't make a case for Obama because there's about as much use trying to have a reasoned discussion with a racist as there is with a religious fundamentalist. None.
I'm not commenting in an effort to have a conversation with you. I'm here as a public service, to let anyone who might be seeing your comments here for the first time know that where you're really coming from on Obama is, I'll never vote for that "crack-smoking ni--er!"
Anything else you post is just so much bullshit rationalization. And there's no need. We get it, I get it.
Posted by: 24play | Jun 18, 2008 6:59:00 PM
Johnny,
I don't make a case for Obama because there's about as much use trying to have a reasoned discussion with a racist as there is with a religious fundamentalist. None.
I'm not commenting in an effort to have a conversation with you. I'm here as a public service, to let anyone who might be seeing your comments here for the first time know that where you're really coming from on Obama is, I'll never vote for that "crack-smoking ni--er!"
Anything else you post is just so much bullshit rationalization. And there's no need. We get it, I get it.
Posted by: 24play | Jun 18, 2008 7:01:16 PM
24Play - Brainless black Kool Aid drinker to the last. I will remind you that Obama is an admitted cocaine user. And the obvious reason that he made this admission is because he still uses it and no doubt this will haunt him in the waining days of the campaign. If you knew anything about the drug, you would know that only a small minority ever stop using it. And when past users get stressed out or it is offered the vast majority will take it every time. And that comes from experts on the subject, not from me.
Obama is a loser. His only gift, to those who can't see through him, is his ability to make a speech. His judgment and character already speak loud and clear, for anyone with enough intelligence to listen and study the facts concerning his background.
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 7:11:24 PM
Leave it to the typical Texan rednecks to come up with something this intelligent. That's why Texas is the butt of so many jokes. The white people who are there are pretty scary. I am white and I thought my hometown of Kentucky was questionable.
Posted by: joan durtz | Jun 18, 2008 7:14:51 PM
Yes, Texas, we will return to calling it "The White House" rather than "Duh White House" as we have for going on eight years.
Posted by: my2cents | Jun 18, 2008 7:22:59 PM
Johnny Lane - Bush ALSO did cocaine, yet I don't see you dismissing him so readily. I agree that we don't have enough record on Obama's politics to say what exactly he would to if elected - I say that as a citizen of Illinois as well. But c'mon, are you f'ing kidding me? Even you will have to admit, the button is out of line. Record or not, cocaine or not, that button is in the poorest of taste.
Posted by: Dave | Jun 18, 2008 8:29:06 PM
Dave, George Bush is a criminal, which I stated above as follows: "Like it or not, Bush started the war in Iraq. Personally, I hate it and I think Bush is criminally liable. But the deed is done and we will have to deal with it for decades."
I did not vote for Bush. He is an arrogant moron which is one of the worst combinations of personality traits, especially for someone in power. I was living in Austin at the time he was elected. People knew he was riding on his father's coattails. He was a failure in virtually every business deal he touched.
I never mentioned "the button" in any of my comments, however I think it is wrong. Obama is giving voters more than enough information to discredit his campaign if they will just listen carefully. The biggest problem we have today is that the vast majority of people know nothing of history, current events or even the names of people who currently hold office. And they have no concept of how the Federal government functions. People form opinions from headlines, sound bites and news presented in a comedy format. It is a sad commentary and that is why Obama has gotten this far.
Obama's candidacy is also a testament to how many people have used illegal drugs in this country. I have read countless comments which indicate that people think it is no big deal that he has used cocaine. I was in my early teens when JFK was President. And trust me, if he had admitted drug use, his campaign would have gone nowhere.
Obama's record speaks for itself. His association with lunatics, criminals, terrorists and his sophomoric policy proposals speak to his judgment and character.
The word "CHANGE" that is plastered on every Obama campaign poster means nothing. He can't change a damn thing without Congress. Anyone who thinks Congress is going to "CHANGE" anything hasn't been paying attention. The only change Congress will make each and every year is their increase in pay and pork spending for their districts so they can get reelected.
Posted by: Johnny Lane | Jun 18, 2008 10:55:47 PM
Johnny is sick and tired of black men asking him for CHANGE.
Posted by: 24play | Jun 19, 2008 12:18:10 AM
The button looked fake to me (the lettering looks added in PS as the edges do not conform to the button) so I checked out the republicanmarket website to see if it was actually being sold. I couldn't find this one specifically, but man, those buttons are hateful! Not just political statements, but out-right hate. Is there no other way to get your point across but to spew racist, sexist slurs like that? But I guess that IS their point. No wonder there are so many hate crimes being committed. They're basically promoting this evil mentality.
Posted by: JohnOB | Jun 19, 2008 3:46:23 AM