… as exemplified by your own state senator
State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), a campaign surrogate for President Obama in Virginia, said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is appealing to racists who do not want a black man in the White House. […]
“Mitt Romney, he’s speaking to … a segment of the population who does not like to see people other than a white man in the White House or in any other elective position,” Lucas said Tuesday. “Let’s be real clear about it — Mitt Romney is speaking to a group of people out there who don’t like folks like President Barack Obama in any elective or leadership position. We know what’s going on here. And some people may be afraid to say it, but I’m not. … He’s speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see anybody but a white person in a leadership position.”
Lucas is a member of Obama’s “Truth Team,” speaking on the president’s behalf on various campaign issues in Virginia.
Ho hum, another member of Team Obama projecting their own racism on the motives of others.
But here is something Ms. Lucas admitted that should give anyone pause:
“Do you really believe now that this is still about race?” Fredericks asked.
“I absolutely believe it’s all about race, and for the first time in my life I’ve been able to convince my children, finally, that racism is alive and well,” she replied.
“Even in Virginia?” Fredericks asked.
Lucas: “In Virginia? How about all across this nation — and especially in Virginia.”
She freely admits to something that is borderline child abuse.
Hey, Virginia, why did you elect such a unrepentant racist?
Obama’s “Truth Team”
A more Orwellian turn of phrase you will never, ever see.
Romney: We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special. The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have.
That was not one of Romney’s smarter comments. But there aren’t many Romney fans around here, so you’re kind of off target.
My what sensitive ears you have.
There’s nothing wrong with the comment. Unless you’re stupid enough to think that representative government, participatory democracy, and equality under the law are “White” things.
Anglo-Saxon doesn’t refer to government, normally. But I would tend to not consider that a racist comment so much as an unthinking one.
I’m guessing of course, not having read the transcript, but I think Romney is channeling this, by way of this when he talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage.
This is a cultural thing, not a racial thing.
Except of course for the people whose political thing is to make a racial thing out of all things.
Great. It’s not even something Romney said. It’s something an unnamed advisor said.
The racial angle was provided by the reporter.
I think I can guess who the unnamed advisor is.
– So then we’ve come full circle in the “racist screed”. Its now “teh raaaaaacist” if a White even says anything positive about his/her heritage.
– Which is now, and always was, the aim of the Left propaganda machine. Namely to cow the majority opposition into silence through mangled linguistic pejoratives.
Unless you’re stupid enough to think that representative government, participatory democracy, and equality under the law are “White” things.
She sounds inauthentic to me. Probably ought to resign since the state senate is racist, and stuff.
Louise Lucas is 68 years old. If there were any real journalists left they might have pointed out the idiocy of that statement.
Interesting. They were off the reservation, so to speak.
The adviser said anglo-saxon, not Aryan.
There’s nothing “racist” about it. It was a political statement, and likely had to do with common language.
Fixed it for you.
I read this story last night. They didn’t say anything inflamatory—unless you’re a thin-skinned Arab pretending to be black and living in our White House—that hasn’t been said for ages here and there by us bitter-clingers. So, no: I don’t think they went rogue. Not authorized isn’t the same as sworn to secrecy or forbidden to speak.
I think it’s more politicalspeak along the lines of “You didn’t hear this from me, but—“
– The race card will draw its last breath when the last of my generations minorities have been gone for a few decades.
I’d go further than common language; I’d say common law, theology, artistic sense, or anything else deriving from life on the British Isles. Hell, we were British until mid-1776.
Political and legal institutions too.
Only blacks have a cultural history. Whites just sprouted from a jar of mayonaise.
In a bank vault.
The race card won’t die until somebody kills it. When politicians and pundits who resort to it are punished for doing so, they’ll stop playing it.
We’ll know we’re winnning that particular battle, when “how dare you accuse me of ‘playing the race card’!” becomes the new race card.
– Maybe this had something to do with it. You think?
– In other news, Newsweek gives up on printed issues and goes all digital. The begginning of the end for newspapers in general?
In any case, there’s little to be done for ignorant twits the like of this silly Virginia legislator, or plain liars like this Zachriel one. They’ve both every right (and the expectation from us) to show their asses in public.
Jeff G: The adviser said anglo-saxon, not Aryan.
No Irish need apply.
– Its interesting how the race card always bubbles to the surface everytime someone on the right starts asking questions about dead registered Democratic voters.
This Zachriel douche — you think he does this voluntarily, as part of a complex neuroses, or is paid?
BBH — the dead, of course, are now a race. And despite actually being a majority, they have minority protection.
Zach would like us to believe that the whole of the Enlightenment is outdone by English racism toward micks and wogs. Oh, sure, you get liberty and property rights and Isaac Fucking Newton and the Industrial Revolution, but at what cost?
But let’s not look too closely at the costs of secular socialism in the 20th Century, right Zach?
But we see who’s the real racist on the current scene.
That’s right, Sen. Diane Feinstein. The hater.
She should go back to San Francisco and stay there with her rich whitey-supremacist pals.
No Irish need apply.
That’s right. Obama’s Irish isn’t he?
Obama is all things to all people. He’s the Kwizatz Fucking Haderach.
Semanticleo? Is that you?
Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s (1820-) 1899!
That’s because only Africans had culture. Europeans stole their’s.
As he’s someone who was raised primarily outside of the Continental US with a radical leftist mother and communist mentors, then yes, the President would NOT fully understand the US’s cultural heritage.
And there’s nothing inherently racist in pointing it out.
I’m bored. Hey, Zach — float another softball over the plate for us, will ya?
Zach’s too busy floating something else in the kiddie pool.
So the *historical fact* that America’s political values are borne of an Anglo-Saxon heritage offends Zach? Is he also offended by the laws of physics? Moron.
Not re-electing Obama means the USA is racist, but electing him in the first place proves umm….
A little help here folks.
Sometimes “historical” doesn’t mean what we think it means, Mikey.
An unrequited demand for unicorn skittles?
Still need help here.
Anglo-Saxon refers to a cultural heritage. Language etc. We don’t live under a Scandinavian, French, Chinese, or Latin heritage. Out legal system is set up under the assumptions of English common law instead of the Napoleonic code. Ghana culture is not a big part of the United States.
instead of the Napoleonic code
Excepting Louisiana.
“No Irish need apply.”
There are more Irish here than in Ireland. Apparently the Irish preferred to escape the Irish culture for the modified Anglo-Saxon one. Most of my ancestors were german they went to the modified Anglo Saxon culture here too. So are people from China, Vietnam, Korea, etc. People are moving up from Mexico’s Latin culture.
But an anachronistic snap shot of a single region like ” No Irish Need Apply” is all that matter right ? And in the dust bowl “We don’t hire okies” signs stopped people leaving Oklahoma and moving west cold right?
Idiot.
Excepting Louisiana.
And that only applies to civil stuff like probate, business, and family law. Criminal law is still Anglo-Saxon.
Oh wait…it’s Reformed Napoleonic Code derived…which means Anglo-Saxon compatible.
They’re just defending their base and there’s no more reliable Democrat voting bloc than dead people.