My Dad told me today the real reason Mitch McConnell wants Obama gone:

[hedgehog]

"Every time he sees Obama, all he sees is an uppity n****r."



Dad doesn't use the "N" word in normal conversation, he used it this time to illustrate what he sees as McConnell's POV.

[whathehell]

1. Is McConnell known to be racist?

Just wondering why he thinks that in particular to him.

[gateley]

8. I thought that about him when, during the Health Care meeting he was fucking

TIMING Obama, chastising him like a naughty child, being condescending. I am convinced, rightly or wrongly, that he wouldn't have done that if a White POTUS was sitting there. Or even White VP Biden.

[whathehell]

32. You might be right.

As I told Hedgehog, I tend to think most repukes lean racist. I just wasn't that familiar with McConnel regarding his demeanor, etc.

[hedgehog]

16. I think the remark comes from 80 years of observing human interactions.

[whathehell]

18. Okay..

:shrug:

[hedgehog]

21. He's basing it on McConnels' tone of voice, selection of words,

facial expression , body language, etc.

[whathehell]

31. Okay.....I get that..

For what it's worth, I wasn't challenging your father's opinion, as I tend to think most repukes lean racist ..I just wondered if there was something particularly racist in McConnel's past, etc.

[gateley]

2. I would agree, and I would also say McConnell isn't the only one with that attitude. nt

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[Ken Burch]

7. Er...you know something about him the rest of us don't know?

n/t.

[belpejic]

9. McConnell is your typical Log Cabin human/turtle mutant....nt

[TheKentuckian]

20. That is correct. He is amoral. Might be racist against blacks but I never felt that

As much as he'll just say or do anything to win for his masters.

He is pretty classist for sure. That may be more of it than anything. I know his (current) wife is asian, for whatever that says.

Who knows but the rumors of his log cabin type status goes way back. Who knows, I went to school with his daughters so it may be nothing to it but grapes but it is quite widespread and old and persistent.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear hedgehog...

I'm sorry to hear this. I know McConnell is a POS, but it's hard to actually contemplate it.

[stray cat]

5. And pelosi is an uppity nag who doesn't know her place......

Some of the hatred of ten right toward her and Hillary are because they are women who disagree with them

[hedgehog]

17. OH, big time! Absolutely!

[whathehell]

19. Absolutely..n/t

[Ken Burch]

6. I wonder what McConnell would've done if his party had nominated Colin or Condi.

I'm assuming he'd have needed ten or twelve mint juleps to recover from THAT.

[Chan790]

12. There would be blood in the streets if the GOP ever nominated a black moderate for the Presidency.

If that's not the perfect example of what they would consider "blacks not knowing their place".

The tea loonies would stage an armed insurrection. The south would secede again. Baby Jesus would cry. Pat Robertson would remember when he left his prosthetic dong. Mayhem would ensue.

[madmax]

10. You maybe too young to remember

'Father Knows Best.' Ask your Dad.

[Fire1]

11. Tell your Dad that Blacks folks been knowin that since 08. n/t

[political_Dem]

13. +1000000

[hedgehog]

15. Oh, he knew that back then, too, it's just that it came out in conversation today!

Dad was around when a lot of people looked down on Cousin Jack as either too young and/or too Irish to be trusted with running the country. seriously, there was a time when only white Protestants of a certain class were judged to be capable.

[Kind of Blue]

14. Bottom-line, the Dred Scott Decision

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, of the United States Supreme Court, declared that “The negro has no rights which the white man is bound to respect...”

[LatteLibertine]

22. It's known

the large corporations were sitting on their cash for the coming midterms hoping the economy would stay bleak so folks would get rid of many Democrats. Well it worked. Now they have their puppets in the majority working to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and trying to dismantle Wall Street reform.

The Republicans are tools of the most wealthy. Most of those folks see President Obama as a threat. They want him out so large corporate rule through our government continues unfettered. There certainly are racist elements at work, and the most important thing is to not have anyone slowing down their continual shifting of money and power ever upwards by any means necessary. Before they're racists, they're greedy sociopaths.

[and-justice-for-all]

23. All those old white trolls have distain for Obama because he is black...

the tea baggers would not exist if Obama was white and did not have 'funny name'.

[gkhouston]

24. There's another reason: he's trying to look powerful so Demint won't wrest

the Minority Leader position from him. The chest-beating isn't just meant to intimidate the President.

[jaysunb]

25. Your Dad is absolutely correct.

I tip my hat to him for his honesty. :thumbsup:

[DemocraticPilgrim]

26. Racism is a workable excuse but they're just power hungry bottom line.

[Blue_Roses]

27. exactly and it pisses McConnell off to no end!

nt

[Lilyeye]

28. You will have some deniers or people who don't really want to admit it

but your dad is spot on. I have teabaggers in my family and I know the shit they say when they feel safe.

[CakeGrrl]

29. I totally agree.

There's more of it going on than people want to admit; the condescension, the lack of respect toward the President, the impatience with him. There are 'tells'.

Racists don't go around identifying themselves as such; you spot it in their attitudes and actions.

[quaker bill]

30. There may be an element of truth here

but looked at impartially, they were pretty good at irrationally hating Clinton as well. Of course, with Clinton the venom was "justified" over of his "scandals". Obama does not apparently have any of these (or I am sure we would have heard by now). So the "uppity" notion does gain a bit more credibility.

I am sure that until late on election day 2008, many of these wealthy white republican males did not believe they could be beaten at the polls by a black man, and if so that at worst it would be close. Obama did not just beat them, he embarrassed them with a huge margin of victory. This is what they will not let stand.

[old mark]

33. But wait - don't we live in a post racial society? Didn't Chris Matthews himself

say that we did?

(I think your dad is exactly correct - the GOP uses a lot of code, but the meaning is clear to those who will read it...)


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