Rep. Joe Walsh goes with the racism re: Obama "Why was he elected?" "He was black"

[wndycty]

From Dave Weigel: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/05/27/rep-joe-walsh-r-cable-news.aspx

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"Look," he says, "I don't think this is complicated. He doesn't really have a history. I say all of this respectfully—he is the least well-known guy we have ever put in the presidency, and there's no one even close. He's probably got easily the lightest résumé of anybody we've elected."

Walsh leans forward and taps me on the knee with a bumper sticker.

"Why was he elected? Again, it comes back to who he was. He was black, he was historic. And there's nothing racist about this. It is what it is. If he had been a dynamic, white, state senator elected to Congress he wouldn't have gotten in the game this fast. This is what made him different. That, combined with the fact that your profession"—another friendly tap of the bumper sticker—"not you, but your profession, was just absolutely compliant. They made up their minds early that they were in love with him. They were in love with him because they thought he was a good liberal guy and they were in love with him because he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate, liberal, the whole white guilt, all of that."
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I guess since he says hes not racist we need to take him at his word.

[sakabatou]

1. Hey Walsh, where's your white hood?

[LeftishBrit]

2. Yes, because only black people can get elected president

Obama's 43 predecessors were black too. So are all 100 Senators and 50 governors. So is Prime Minister David Cameron of the UK, all his recent predecessors, and all 650 MPs.

:sarcasm:

[marmar]

3. "he pushed that magical button: a black man who was articulate"

Good f**king grief......A racist who is clueless that he's a racist. And an idiot.

[BlueIris]

7. Yeah, that part just jumps right out at you.

Jesus Christ.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. And here he chastises Jewish people in the US for not being "Jewey" enough for him:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_05/joe_walshs_ongoing_struggles_w029838.php

[PatSeg]

5. "Least well-known guy we have ever put in

the presidency"???

I'd never heard of Bill Clinton before he ran for president or Jimmy Carter. Actually JFK wasn't known nationally until he ran for president either. I knew about Barack Obama back in 2004 because of his speech at the Democratic convention.

"Lightest resume"? - What about GW? His resume - son of a former president.

[JoePhilly]

6. Its nice when racists do us the favor of self-identfying.

[treestar]

8. Like all racists, he has to twist things to ridiculous

In order to try to evade the facts. That there's a black man who is smarter and more talented than he and all his white friends.

[last_texas_dem]

9. Shut up and sing, man!

Preferably, "I'll Tell the World"; I've always loved that one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6X9ugo4_Jo



(And, yeah, I know it's not *that* Joe Walsh; I just couldn't resist making what I thought was the obvious dumb joke that needed to be made. haha)

[jaysunb]

10. "Magic button ? "

That must come as news to other Blacks that have run....:shrug:

[Thrill]

11. "the whole white guilt"

Wow. Did he have a white hood on

[ClarkUSA]

12. I have heard similar racist whines from PUMAs who believe that's why Obama won the way he did.

Seriously. :puke:

The constant unreasoning attacks against Pres. Obama are obviously fuelled by racism (of course, racists always deny it) and an outraged sense of white entitlement denied. Democratic Minority Whip Rep. James Clyburn said as much just this week.

He's right.

[Number23]

13. Exactly, Clark.

There was a poster here a while ago who repeatedly posted a comic of Obama "walking on water" but underneath the water were a bunch of white people propping Obama up and there was a banner that said "white liberal guilt" as if whites were the only reason this president won OR just as bad, the only reason whites supported this president was to atone for past racist sins. And this poster used to bring themselves to rapture reminding everyone here how "liberal" s/he was.

ANYONE who thinks that only conservatives are complicit in this type of bullshit needs to grow up and WAKE up. I give serious props to ClarkUSA, wndycty, BigotBasher and a few other folks here for constantly riding some PUMA/racist ass. You guys are fantastic.

[Number23]

14. Btw, thanks for the heads up on Clyburn

Here's an interesting write up on his comments:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/26/114859/clyburn-protests-mcclatchy-article.html

[ClarkUSA]

16. I love James Clyburn. He is no fool.

Nice to see he didn't back down.

[Blue-Jay]

15. But don't you DARE accuse these assholes of racism!

[jenmito]

17. Then why didn't Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, or Carol Moseley Braun get elected? n/t

[Mimosa]

18. I was happier until I heard of 'joe walsh'. Where is he from? n/t

[Azathoth]

19. Guys like this can't even conceive that the black candidate might also have been the better choice

Their racism is so pervasive that they can't even engage with such an idea. It doesn't enter into their mind when they try to figure out why Obama won.

[BklnDem75]

20. I wonder if Alan Keyes feels the same way. n/t

[KingFlorez]

21. Redistricting threw him in with another Republican

A Republican he probably won't beat in the primary, so I'm thinking he won't serve more than one term.