WE ALL TALK TOO MUCH, SOMETIMES, don't we...get caught with our foot in our mouth. This happened to mitt romney, whcn he accused half the american people of embracing victim status in order to get government handouts. That went over like a lead balloon.
So, hoping to retaliate, the romney people are, in the last days of the campaign, trying to paint obama as a racist, by digging up a speech he made about five years ago, to blacks, about the rescue efforts during hurricane katrina.
The diffrenence is, romney's remarks are blatantly untrue, and a clear indication of his bias against poor people. Blatantly untrue, even though romney sticks by them to this day. Do we want a president with this attitude?
Obama's comments were right on the mark, whether we wish to admit it or not. If those people clinging to rooftops in new orleans after katrina had been wealthy, white, famous, donald trump, mitt romney, rush limbaugh, justin beiber, the rescue would have been immediate.
but they were poor black riff raff. Not as important. Expendable. At least, that's the way they were treated. Yes, we all know that racism, and sexsim, and "wealthism" has not been eliminated in this country, only reduced. But the racism is not coming from obama, who was, and stillis, merely telling the truth; that the katrina victims were neglected because they were black and poor.
for conservatives to accuse obama of racism now is utterly ridiculous, being as how conservatives had to be dragged into the civil rights movement fifty years ago, kicking and screaming, all the way. Now that they regard racial equality as inevitable, suddenly they are its staunch supporters. They are "post racism". Oh, blather.
If anybody is racist, its the people accusing obama of it, not obama. the reaaon he is going to get reelected is that he is perceived as fighting for everybody, not just the producers.
By considering it harmful to help other people (by using government), american conservatives hurt themselves.
Bb
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