Is George Bush a racist?

[Archae]

Just watch this video, what Bush does after shaking a Haitian's hand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DtwkTS9mq8

[Spazito]

1. Yes n/t

[Enthusiast]

2. Every Republican

I have known is a racist. I'm sure there are some good Republicans, I just haven't met any.

[DURHAM D]

7. Agree. And a a sexist.

Since the 60s every policy/political position taken by the leaders of the Republican party has been based on sexism or racism. Sometimes they manage to camouflage it a little but it always begins with fear of people with different colored skin and scary lady parts.

[goldcanyonaz]

8. Lots of sexists in our party as well.

[Shell Beau]

9. Unfortunately there are bigots on both sides.

[DURHAM D]

16. True that. And, they are becoming more brazen. nt

[dchill]

26. Well put. n/t

[onehandle]

3. Maybe he just wanted to touch Bill Clinton.

Sigh.

Bubba is ever so dreamy.

[goldcanyonaz]

5. I believe this to be the case.

[Raineyb]

41. Based on what?

I think there's a more obvious explanation as to shrub's actions and wanting to be close to Clinton has nothing to do with it. Why find a less plausible explanation for the same behavior?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. I don't know about racism, but I've heard before that he's very germaphobic.

Everyone is free to draw their own conclusions.

[goldcanyonaz]

6. I can't believe how many germaphobes there are these days.

[951-Riverside]

10. You can thank the TV show Monk for that.

A family member turned into a major germaphobe after watching that show.

[geardaddy]

52. No, you can thank the good folks at

Johnson and Johnson for that.

[GoCubsGo]

70. Exactly right.

And, Proctor and Gamble, and all the other companies that sell all of that "antibacterial" shit. It's not surprising that there an increase in germaphobes, when we are inundated every damn day with ad telling us to buy Product XYZ, or we will become violently ill or die. With all of those evil bacteria out there, one has to wonder how Mankind survived for tens of thousands of years AND reproduced to a point where there are well over 6 billion of us. Doesn't any have critical thinking skills any more?

[uberblonde]

24. Yes, I've read that, too.

He's a heavy Purell user.

[geardaddy]

47. He doesn't like Germans?

But what about this picture?



lol

[GoCubsGo]

66. He only hates those germie poor people

It doesn't matter what color they are. If he hated blacks, he wouldn't have been so smitten with Kindasleazzzy Rice. BTW, I have read stories about him being germaphobic, too.

[kestrel91316]

11. Of course. I thought that was obvious years ago.

[jaksavage]

12. His dad ran on the Eugenics ticket

for congress, while he was employed by the CIA.
It runs in the family.

[ecstatic]

13. Remember, Bush took a big squirt of Purell hand sanitizer after shaking Obama's hand

for the first time.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7840068

[mochajava666]

29. That's the first thing I thought of. too.

W just doesn't like touching black people. With the look on his face after the handshake, you would swear he was looking to see if he got some black on him.

I never saw him reach for the Purell after he tongued and held hands with his oil sheik buddies.

[Lord Magus]

35. I don't know about that.

After all, there was that time that Condi Rice referred to Bush as "my husband", wasn't there?

Maybe it's only black women that he's okay with touching.

[Raineyb]

40. Pardon my French but there are plenty of bigots who have no qualms

about fucking black women. They're still bigoted as hell.

[mochajava666]

75. You're right.

Most slave owners seemed to make that distinction, too.

[Soylent Brice]

14. Kanye has the answer to this one:

[deaniac21]

67. I heard that Kanye likes fishsticks.

[Soylent Brice]

73. lol. what??

[Mira]

15. Yes. Next question please N/T

[madokie]

17. After Katrina you still have doubts?

[omega minimo]

61. ++++++++++ 1,000,000,000,000,000

[tammywammy]

18. I think he's a germophobe n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

19. I don't think he's a racist.

That said, I believe he is utterly devoid of any capacity to care about anyone but himself. He neither loves nor hates, he merely tolerates; some he tolerates better than others, the rest are annoyances to be endured for the sake of appearance. He's hollow.

--

[my2sense]

20. HELL Yes!

[leeroysphitz]

21. Yes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXAuiqMYTG0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2elYnsqG-MM

[blondeatlast]

22. Well, he certainly behaved like one. That it was so automatic makes me think that he is.

Not a moment's hesitation.

[lunatica]

23. If he's not racist then he has a particular dislike of poor people

His actions in New Orleans attest to one or the other or both.

[Raineyb]

25. Is this a rhetorical question? I thought the answer would be obvious by now. n/t

[cognoscere]

27. Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Do bears live in the Vatican? Somebody once said that we can really know nothing for certain, but I'm certain that when that ass wipe stops using oxygen, the world will be a substantially better place to live.

[LaPera]

28. Every republican is - Everyone I've ever known & certainly all the republicans

I've seen & heard on TV news shows & talk radio.

Anyone who says they know a republican who isn't, then that person in question is nothing more than an ignorant, stupid moronic republican who votes republican, in so much as that same republican in question supports republican racism and the republicans sick ideology....so in essence they too are racist....Until they stop fucking voting & supporting republican, uninformed assholes!

[stuntcat]

34. yah

I paint assholes with a very broad brush :) anyone who votes with them, I see them the same way I do their most bigoted KKK member, no matter why they cast the R vote.

[Shell Beau]

37. Wow. Got some pent up anger?

My parents are republicans, but they aren't racist. So your whole last little paragraph is wrong.

[LaPera]

43. Bullshit!!

Your parents vote republican and by doing so encourage the racism.

Republicans are always try to use little scapegoats like oh but my parents aren't racist, when completely & thoroughly throughout history the republican party has been a racist party of white elitist fighting tooth and nail against African-American civil rights, Affirmative actions, and offering unequal prison terms for Blacks than for whites. This is fact.

The latest injustice by the republicans being the bullshit con the republicans used to get rid of ACORN. Simply because ACORN registered hundreds of thousands of poor black Americans to vote across the country....

with very little exception the "token negro" that one can count on one hand the total of African-Americans the republicans have had representing their elitist corporate fascist republican party in the senate or congress in the past 150 years. Can you even name five in a 150 years, just five? If one votes republican one is voting for sick corporate racist republican elitism ideology!

This is NOT "pent up anger" this something I've been angry about and fighting since I was seventeen years old....people making like yourself fooling themselves with voluntary blindness and believing the bullshit excuses, denials & exceptions for republicans absolute racism...Oh my parents have many many black friends, yeah how many is that?...Pitiful how flippant and uncaring one can be "Wow. Got some pent up anger?" You bet, against oh, so breezy people like yourself!

[Shell Beau]

44. Your life must suck hard.

My parents aren't racist. In fact, they taught me to love the person, not the color. But keep on thinking all republicans are evil. Posts like this are what make others think DU is batshit insane. Call me breezy, easy whatever the hell you want to. You don't know me, and thankfully, from what I can tell, I don't know you.

[LaPera]

46. Your parents vote republican and by doing support a long history of republican racism.

A history that absolutely exists today...either your parents are ignorant greedy elitist or they agree with the republicans obvious racist platform & ideology....either way it's no excuse for voting with a racist republican political party.

[Shell Beau]

50. I'll be sure to let my parents know they are in fact racist.

You'd think they'd know it by now being in their 50's and all. Oh well, I will let them know some random DUer said so, so it must be true. Who cares what they feel inside their hearts.

[LaPera]

53. They already know they don't care -greedy hateful lying republicanism must be more important to them

[Shell Beau]

54. Wow. I am so glad I am not an angry person.

It comes across so nasty. Really, talk about hateful... Hope you have a mirror. Take a look.

[LaPera]

55. Anger is needed to fight racism or it will continue- I'm certainly happy I have the anger & passion

to fight the indifference, the breezy don't worry, no big thing, don't take it so seriously that the republicans and other racist count on....because republicans too are really just so neat and keen people....they are never projecting hate, vindictiveness nor arrogance. Old "Rushbo" really isn't so bad underneath...No need to care so passionately just pretend ignorance and all is well and happy ...and then you won't be angry.

[Shell Beau]

56. You can fight the good fight with passion and without anger.

In fact, anger blinds us from good decisions. Anger is no good. Life is too short to live it like that. Passion does not = anger. And accusing people who don't agree with everything you agree with of being racist, you'll certainly accomplish nothing that way. You'll push people further away. So keep fighting your angry fight. Hell, you pushed me away, and I probably agree with you more than I don't.

[LaPera]

57. Get fucking real -Fight what fight you don't even believe republican racism exist..

You have no problems with it....you actually have and will vote again for a republican...you have no concept of what ideology is. You have voted republican and you'll again vote republican ideology...which is and has always been an elitist white racist party that believes in corporations prospering over the poor, the workers and minorities, getting rid of every single social program even though its our taxes that pay for them...instead allowing corporations to privatize everything for rich & elitist profits, using our same tax dollars for their subsidies & use....so if you don't understand how voting for an ideology how you ever see or care about racism....you don't believe the republican party is racist though I pointed out many facts proving it...you still choose to be ignorant and believe the republican bullshit and ideology.

[Shell Beau]

58. That is it. You are a freakin lunatic.

You make stuff up. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, in your last paragraph even rhymes with the truth. What are you smoking? Whatever it is, I don't want any. Good riddance to you.

[LaPera]

59. You can't take the truth was quite obvious for the beginning....

that was and is my point....and it's why you have nothing to rebut except to scream, "freakin lunatic"....I would hope you mean a FUCKING lunatic....but you could never use such a word....cuz the world is nice and breezy and you have such quaint opinions... you are and consider yourself a knowledgeable moderate, a grown up...How are how you anyway?

[Shell Beau]

60. How about this? None of your FUCKING business.

You are not sane. Really. You have NO IDEA what I stand for. NONE. I can't stand people like you. You think you are some know it all. No I am not moderate. No I have never voted republican. Yes, I am knowledgeable on issues. Just because I am not some angry asshole doesn't mean I am "breezy" as you like to say. No, my parents aren't racist. No, I am certainly not racist. You have never had one conversation with me outside of this ridiculous one, yet you can somehow define me and my parents? You are no better than those lovely republicans you hate so much.

[LaPera]

65. You're a child- you react the same - You, I would encouage to put me on your ignore list-

You don't want to hear any truths nor that ignorance is a part of your philosophy and outlook...cuz you certainly can't take any truths...you see and read only what you want and already believe, you are indeed childlike.

[Shell Beau]

68. lol

ok God. The all knowing. I figured God was a liberal, yet I had no idea he was on DU. Amazing. And no, I am no child. Thanks though. As scary as you are, you gave me a good laugh. I have no one on ingore, so not gonna happen. Goodbye.

[treestar]

69. You tried to claim republicans aren't racists by making them your

parents, so that no one could question you, since you made it so personal.

Maybe a republican can be a non-racist. But it's rare. Mostly they are people who want to be better than someone else. And I can say that about them as a group, even though they do include people's spouses, children and parents.

[Shell Beau]

71. I was stating not all are racist. I never said many weren't.

There are several black republicans in my state. I can only assume they aren't racist. I KNOW my parents aren't. That whole broad brush, stereotyping just isn't what I stand for. I know racist people. They are more than likely republicans, but unfortunately, there are racist people all over. In every party, in every state. It is ugly, but it isn't just a republican thing.

[nini]

30. I've heard he has a germ phobia

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[hatesthegop]

31. Always has been, always will be!

[newtothegame]

32. We are. I've seen tons of criticism of Obama on here. n/t

[Shell Beau]

36. Unless people are criticizing his color, I don't see how that

makes people racist.

[Stinky The Clown]

33. He is a lot of things, but I never saw any racial bias in him

No, I am not defending him. I am saying that it is my observation that he is not any more racially biased than any other person.

[Motown_Johnny]

38. Honestly, I think it was funny that he used Clinton's shirt

Maybe there was something on the guy's hand

I am sure we can come up with hours of tape where he shakes the hands of other persons of color and he does not wipe off his hand.


I am just curious why he wasn't arrested while off American soil.

[lonestarnot]

39. Big Dawg needs a bottle of clorox. and to clarify, not due to Haitian contact.

:puke: Notice how sneaky he was about it too.

[City Lights]

42. One sure thing...he's a nose-picking boor.

I find it difficult to believe he's a germaphobe, considering that he picks his nose in public. He has been filmed strolling hand-in-hand with Saudi royalty, and has been filmed kissing Saudi royalty on or near the mouth. However, I can't recall seeing him wipe his hand or mouth off after either of those incidents.

The other sure thing is that he is rich trash. Money cannot buy manners, nor class.

[Zoeisright]

45. Yes.

It's obvious. Just look at Katrina.

[Kingofalldems]

48. He's Old Money so I bet he is totally class conscious

[Hekate]

49. Bushes are weird: it's hard to know where their innate classism leaves off & racism begins...

On the one hand, the Bush Clan has no problem hiring/appointing the creme de la creme of educationally elite and powerful black Americans, such as Condi Rice, PhD and General Colin Powell. They find stooges like Consiglieri Alberto ("Fredo") Gonzales to be very useful. One could go on. They find intelligent white women hirees/appointees very useful.

But I think they think of those people as vassals whose loyalty will be rewarded, as long as said vassals don't embarrass the Bush Clan.

Everyone else is a serf. The people of New Orleans, whether white, black, or brown, whether blue collar, white collar, or prestigious musician -- they were of no interest to the Bush Clan, and Bush let them drown.

Hekate

[Dappleganger]

51. He hates everyone who is not a Bush.

So yes, he's a racist pig.

[butterfly77]

62. YES...

[pitohui]

63. wow, what was yr first clue that dumbya might be a racist?

something abt partying w. john mccain at the coronado hotel while black people were being refused WATER DELIVERIES at the superdome during hurricane katrina might have been a real strong indication

of course he's a racist, he's never made any secret of it, why do you think he was chosen as grand figurehead and poobah of the GOP to begin w? it sure wasn't for his big brains

his entire existence has been a nod, nod, wink, wink to racist dumfucks as far as i'm concerned

maybe he's trying to save his soul now, but i doubt it, i think his dad yelled at him to get off his hind legs and DO SOMETHING to prove he wasn't the empty husk we all know that he was

[Spike89]

64. Ever shake hands with many at once?

From dry to sweaty with sticky thrown in and even possibly purposefully disgusting--shaking hundreds of hands is highly unnatural. It can't be a pleasant thing for anyone, but for a classist germaphobe, it must be nearly impossible. Bush may or may not be racist, but this video really only shows he is a ass for treating Clinton like that. It really proves nothing else

[SoCalDem]

72. Perhaps he thought he was a reaper..

obscure "Dead Like Me" reference.. That;s what popped into my head when I saw him do that..

[Synicus Maximus]

74. No

[spanone]

76. well he's a classless pig, i know that

[malaise]

77. Duh!

:puke:

[elias49]

78. He's just a dick-head without a condom n/t