Retired Colonel Calls Obama 'The Black One With The Reading Thing,' Backs Crist

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Retired Colonel Calls Obama 'The Black One With The Reading Thing,' Backs Crist
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Medal of Honor recipient and retired Colonel Bud Day announced that he is backing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) for Senate over Marco Rubio.

His reason? "Charlie has not got a gritty track record," Day said, unlike Obama, "the black one with the reading thing," and Rubio, "a Hispanic who can run his mouth at Mach 1."

Day said yesterday that Crist has "been a really good governor and shows all the possibility of being the same kind of good senator."

He continued, comparing Rubio and Obama:

You know, we just got through a politician who can run his mouth at Mach 1, a black one, and now we have a Hispanic who can run his mouth at Mach 1. You look at their track records and they're both pretty gritty. Charlie has not got a gritty track record.

Day also described Obama as "the black one with the reading thing," presumably referring to a teleprompter. "He can go as fast as the speed of light and has no idea what he's saying."



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/30/852443/-FL-Sen:-Best-endorsement-EVER
Kos:Gov. Charlie Crist won't be putting this endorsement, from Col. Bud Day, a Medal of Honor winner and former McCain POW cellmate, up on his website:

[Taverner]

1. WTF is "the reading thing"

Is this another example of Republicans being so anti-intellectual that literacy is considered un-american?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Teleprompter ?

[maxsolomon]

7. there's not a person on TV that works without one, dumbass

GOD DAMN this country is full of cretins.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

31. May I assume that "dumbass" was meant for the colonel?

[Taverner]

8. Or it could be that he thinks "the black ones" shouldn't read?

Just like it used to be (death penalty for RWB)

[NJmaverick]

2. Ironic that a racist fool is so delusional as to suggest a brilliant

President doesn't know what he is saying.

[madmax]

4. Psssssssst.......

it's the race thing.

edit: born and raised in NJ - now living in NC and loving it. ;)

[NJmaverick]

10. Yeah racism certainly makes fools of men and women

What part of NJ?

[madmax]

18. I grew up in

Perth Amboy in the 60's, then Woodbridge, got married and lived in Sayreville. When Levitz when belly up we moved here almost 3 years ago. What a difference. If I knew how nice NC was I'd have moved here 15 years ago. The Triangle area is very nice - a lot of NJ transplants and New Yawkers. C'mon down we're turning the state blue. ;)

[a la izquierda]

29. I lived in Sayreville the first two years of my life

then my parents moved to Hazlet. Do you go back often? I visit my folks once a year or so.

Heck, at least you moved to a state with the potential to stay blue. I go to grad school in Oklahoma. We get redder by the day.

[madmax]

37. I've gone back twice

to visit my son in Browns Mills and once to visit my BIL in Westwood (north Jersey) - hate it. Getting off the plane in Newark I can see and smell the difference in the air and the temperament of the people. :scared: I have yet to get flipped the bird or be harassed by another driver here. It's amazing.

My son, DIL and 2 teenage Grands are moving down this summer. :party:

From what I've heard NC has one of the best Vet schools. Students come here for school and never leave. That's why there are so many vets!! Tons of them and seems like everyone owns at least 1 dog. Also, small farmers and livestock need a vet.

After you graduate from Grad school, come for a visit ask your parents to come too. You all make get bitten by the NC love bug and move ;) :hug:

[a la izquierda]

38. welp, two of the best schools in Latin American history...

are Duke and UNC. but i have little control over where i'll end up. i figure texas to start. it's a job, so i will not complain. ;)

you're definitely right about the people. over christmas break i drove home to visit my mom. as i passed through a god-forsaken toll both, i wished the collector a merry christmas. he said nothing. i responded- oh, i forgot, i'm in new jersey. i don't have to be nice! lol, i thought it was funny.

[madmax]

3. And stupid runs through it

Titles and medals mean nothing - there is always the stoopid mixed into the batch.

[my2sense]

6. He's a twisted piece of trash

He does NOT deserve to be called Colonel.

[arbusto_baboso]

9. Bud Day: Absolute proof that receiving a MoH does NOT make you a decent human being.

We need to disabuse ourselves of the delusion that merely having worn a uniform - or even being decorated for gallantry - makes a person a moral human being. It does not.

[NJmaverick]

11. He is staining that medal with his racists comments

[arbusto_baboso]

13. News flash: most MoH recipients...

become substance abusers after receivng the medal. It's a complicated thing, usually involving survivor's remorse. So, the MoH is already "stained" by most of its wearers.

But here's the thing: it's a mere bit of metal and cloth. And the recipients aren't necessarily the bravest of Americans, but merely the ones who are SEEN doing certain things. And don't think for a moment that there aren't political considerations that go into deciding who gets what award. So, let's de-romanticize the whole aura about the MoH, shall we?

[NJmaverick]

20. Sorry but anyone who wins the MOH has my instant respect and gratitude

Sure some like this racist asshole can lose all that respect but that medal means something and what it takes to win such an honor is no small feat (especially in light of how many die in the process of winning it).

[arbusto_baboso]

21. Combat Infantry Badge recipients are more deserving of your respect.

Take it from someone who knows.

[NJmaverick]

24. I respect all the military honors

[Captain Hilts]

22. Getting the MOH is a BIG deal. It's not just "a mere bit of metal and cloth." nt

[arbusto_baboso]

28. But you can't deny that many recommendations for...

soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines are written up for the MoH and wind up as Bronze Stars. And vice versa. Merely measuring a person's service and/or valor by the ranking of the award is a sucker's bet.

For instance: a lot of Special Ops types engage in highly classified actions that never result in ANY decoration because to acknowledge their efforts with a medal would be to admit the action happened. So, are they less deserving of respect than the MoH recipient????

I maintain, it is merely a bit of cloth an metal. Period. Think what you will.

[virgogal]

34. The MoH is becoming as meaningless as The Nobel Peace Prize.

[ipfilter]

39. My experience with military medals and honors is this:

They always went to the most politically astute individuals and not necessarily the most deserving. There's no reason for me to believe the MoH would be any different.

[NJmaverick]

12. What's most disturbing is that this racist asshole was a high ranking officer

in a position to take actions on his racist views.

[DuckyCase]

14. I bet someone has posted this on Free Republic without referencing what he said about Rubio.

Also... I thought Rubio was Italian.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. Is it fair to say that white one doesn't know the word teleprompter? nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. In his market niche, luddism and anti-intellectualism sells.

"Teleprompter" has too many syllables.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. Plus it sounds gay.

:evilgrin:

[walldude]

17. Psst.. old man.. it's 2010, just shut up and get the fuck out of the way.

christ...

[BurtWorm]

27. As Richard Pryor once said to an ignorant woman in Phil Donahue's audience

in answer to a stupid, racist question: "You're old, and you're going to die soon."

[walldude]

32. Oh man I wish I had seen that.. Richard was my favorite..

Funniest man to ever live. Period.

[BurtWorm]

33. I never saw it either, but I heard Phil Donahue tell it

and I can just imagine it.

[bullwinkle428]

23. I wonder if this is early onset Alzheimer's? I don't want to believe

that someone with such impressive credentials can consciously be so willfully ignorant!! :mad:

[NJmaverick]

25. Probably only in the sense that he is having a harder time hiding his racist attitudes

tougher for him to remember when he can and can't say certain things

[BurtWorm]

40. Sounds like a cross between that and Siegheiler's.

:patriot:

[asdjrocky]

26. Now that's a glowing endorsement.

I expect to see it on Charlie's site soon. Maybe a mass mailing?

[Nite Owl]

30. Out and out racism

if Crist had the least bit of decency he would refuse the backing of this guy.

[LeftinOH]

35. Crusty old bastard.

[UTUSN]

36. In 2000 I complained to the Medal of Honor society about its members politicizing their

medals by standing on Shrub's stage during Coup 2000. And then and in '04 to the VFW and American Legion about their wingnut politics against the Dem veteran candidates. Lotta good it does.