CARTOONS: Republican Racism & Our President

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1. Racism? What Racism?

1. Romney Advisor John Sununu’s Racist Attacks Against Colin Powell And Barack Obama

by David Badash
October 26, 2012

Sununu, an outspoken top advisor to Mitt Romney, his campaign chair, and a Romney surrogate who frequently appears on TV news shows, yesterday told America that General Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama because they both are Black.

Sununu, the former Republican governor of New Hampshire, last night told CNN’s Piers Morgan, “You have to wonder whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or that he’s got a slightly different reason for President Obama.”

When pressed, Sununu added, “Well, I think that when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being President of the United States — I applaud Colin for standing with him.”

This is hardly the first time John Sununu has used race and other dog whistle politics to attack President Obama and his supporters.

Igor Volsky at Think Progress offers a quick look back:

– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]

Read more: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/romney-advisor-john-sununus-racist-attacks-against-colin-powell-and-barack-obama/politics/2012/10/26/52258




2. Palin stoops to 'shuck and jive'

by Steve Benen
October 24, 2012

Like many conservative pundits, Sarah Palin is criticizing President Obama for his administration's inconsistent statements on the Benghazi, Libya, attack. Unlike many conservative pundits, Palin used the term "shuck and jive" to describe Obama's behavior.

In a Facebook post today, Palin wrote: "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies." She also used the term in the text of the post, which concludes, "President Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end."

Let's put aside, at least for now, the fact that the latest Benghazi revelations appear to be entirely uninteresting, and even the most unhinged White House critics are yet to document any administration "lies" associated with last month's attack.

Let's instead ponder a fairly straightforward, two-part question: "Shuck and jive"? Seriously?

Read more: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/10/24/14674427-palin-stoops-to-shuck-and-jive?lite




3. Palin, Trump continue to lead right-wing hate party against Obama

by Chris Matthews
October 24, 2012

You know, the guy Donald Trump accuses of being from another country. The guy he accuses of, in his delightful words, “monkeying” with the jobless numbers. The guy he continues to call a minority who couldn’t have gotten where he got without some special help because, you know–he’s black.

This crap from the party of Abraham Lincoln, this endless spewing of garbage that belittles not the target, but the people who eat it up out there. What about the Senate candidate’s son who said the president should go back to Kenya? Or the endless, old stuff about the “food stamp president,” or about welfare and Obama dumping the work requirement so he could help his base?

All of this seeps into the brain of some people, the low-information voter who can be reached by this stuff. Look at the numbers in Ohio where more than a third of Republican voters say they think Obama’s a Muslim.

It works all right. And just think if it affects the results two weeks from now. Just think if Romney benefits from this slime without ever trying to stop, ever having a Sister Soulja moment where he said, “No, I’m not taking this kind of help. I’m not having this kind of ally.”

Read more: http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/24/palin-trump-continue-to-lead-right-wing-hate-party-against-obama/




4. Tommy Thompson’s son tells birther joke about sending Obama to Kenya

by David Edwards
October 15, 2012

“We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya,” Jason Thompson, the son of former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson said at a brunch on Sunday. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus also attended the brunch, according to the Republican Party Of Kenosha County’s website.

“We’re taking donations for that Kenya trip,” one woman can be heard saying in the video.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/15/tommy-thompsons-son-tells-birther-joke-about-sending-obama-to-kenya/




5. Romney Supporter Wears 'Put The White Back In The White House' T-Shirt At Ohio Campaign Event

October 13, 2012

A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was spotted wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "Put the white back in the White House" at a campaign event this week:





Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/13/romney-supporter-wears-put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house-campaign-event-ohio_n_1963583.html




6. Go back to Kenya’ anti-Obama display with watermelons and noose sparks controversy

by Ugonna Okpalaoka
October 12, 2012





Residents in Morgan Hill, California are calling a nearby homeowner’s anti-Obama display racist and threatening towards the president.

“Go back to Kenya,” reads a sign, made to look like a teleprompter, in front of the home, KTVU reported. Next to it sits a chair with two watermelons placed on it and a noose hanging from the side. A “Romney for President” sign stands just a few feet away.

Many local citizens are uncomfortable with the display.

“We shouldn’t be threatening with a noose and a watermelon,” resident Ben Gomez told the local station. “I believe that’s a little over the top. I like the chair and the teleprompter. I mean, they’re just copying Clint Eastwood, so I can’t blame them on that one. But the noose goes a little over the edge.”

Read more: http://thegrio.com/2012/10/10/go-back-to-kenya-anti-obama-display-with-watermelons-and-noose-sparks-controversy/




7. Texas man ‘lynches’ empty chair, says Obama can ‘go to Hell’

by the Grio
September 20, 2012





In what appears to be an homage to Clint Eastwood’s much-maligned debate with an imaginary President Barack Obama at the Republican National Convention, Bud Johnson, a 73-year-old Texas man, has hung an empty chair from a tree in his front yard.

Burnt Orange Report posted the photo of the Austin Republican’s display and interviewed Johnson.

“I don’t really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not,” Johnson told the publication. “You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don’t give a sh*t. If you don’t like it, don’t come down my street.”

Read more: http://thegrio.com/2012/09/20/texas-man-lynches-empty-chair-says-obama-can-go-to-hell/




8. Romney blows birther dog-whistle with 'joke'

by Steve Frank
August 24, 2012

Mitt Romney fueled the controversial birther movement today at a campaign event in Michigan after he described how he loved "being home in this place where (Romney's wife) Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born."

"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate," Romney said. "They know that this was the place (points to ground) that we were born and raised."

Birtherism is about race, after all. It's clearly part of an effort to paint Obama as un-American, or an "other." No white president has ever had their nationality questioned. Obama's is questioned simply because he is black.

And by saying what he said today, Romney's managed to tap into the most divisive, most hateful "we want to delegitimize this black president" fringe of his party.

Read more: http://ed.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/24/13459354-romney-blows-birther-dog-whistle-with-joke

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9. Gingrich Surges With Old, Familiar Ploy: Racist Attacks on Poor People

January 19, 2012
by Seth Freed Wessler

Newt Gingrich looks to be winning the race-baiting competition this Republican primary season. Fueled by a new version of his well honed attacks on the safety net, Gingrich celebrated Martin Luther King Day on Monday by restating what has become a staple of his stump speeches, calling President Obama the “best food stamp president in American history.”

The remark came, this time, after debate moderator Juan Williams asked if Gingrich’s campaign-trail suggestion that poor students be given jobs as janitors might me “viewed at a minimum insulting to all Americans, but as particularly to African Americans?” “The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barrack Obama than any president in American history,” Gingrich said before an audience that erupted into vociferous applause.

Gingrich argues that the reason so many people are on food stamps is not that the economy has thrown millions into poverty, but rather that lazy black families are getting on the dole and don’t want to work. Earlier this month, Gingrich told an audience in New Hampshire, “If the NAACP invites me, I’ll go to their convention and talk about why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.”

Gingrich’s attack on the food stamp program is not surprising; it’s the kind of politics that he’s been helping to perfect for over 30 years. He’s been waging the conservative counterrevolution against economic justice for a generation, using whatever Southern Strategy relics he can get his hands on.

Read more: http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/01/newt_gingrich_racist_food_stamps_attack.html



10. Newt Gingrich: Food Stamp President Dog Whistle Racism

January 20, 2012

11. Study: Hate of Obama fuels 755% growth in extremist groups

March 9, 2012
by David Edwards

Fears that the nation’s first black president will be re-elected has fueled the dramatic growth extremists groups in the U.S. over the past year, according to a report from a civil rights organization that tracks these groups.

The number of groups in the anti-government “Patriot” movement have sky rocketed 755 percent since President Barack Obama has been elected, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) yearly report found.

“These groups are becoming more and more aware as they watch the primary season unfold that Obama is fairly likely to win and some of them are having meltdowns over this,” Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok told Raw Story. “They’re looking at four more years under a very hated black president — hated by them. So, we’re seeing signs of real anger over that. People saying we’re at war already, saying go out and buy AK-47s and hollow-point bullets, get tools to derail trains.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/study-hate-of-obama-fuels-755-growth-in-extremist-groups/




12. Michigan City Councilman in hot water as video of Obama's head on a spike emerges

August 9, 2012

via The Detroit News

Sterling Heights— The City Council called for Councilman Paul Smith to resign over a video that shows him holding inflammatory signs depicting violence against President Barack Obama and others during a tea party rally in 2009.





Read more: http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/michigan-city-councilman-and-tea-partier-ge




13. Ohio senator: ‘Jim Crow has been resurrected’

August 14, 2012
by Arturo Garcia

An Ohio Democratic senator slammed her state’s Republican party and accused them of racially-motivated voter-suppresion tactics during an interview with CNN’s Deborah Feyerick Tuesday.

“It’s tragic that in the 21st century, 2012, we have voter suppression going on,” Sen. Nina Turner (D-OH) said. “Jim Crow has been resurrected, making repeat performances in the south and has packed his bags and moved north, in Ohio, in particular.”

A past analysis of voter tendencies in 2008 by the Dayton Daily News indicated that Democratic voters voted earlier than Republicans. While not citing that study, Turner did point at what she called efforts to stifle voting hours in urban and Democratic-leaning areas while extending them for Republican-dominated precincts, echoing a report by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last week.

“Even Ray Charles could see what is going on here: flat-out voter suppression in democratic areas and also areas that are predominantly African-American,” Turner said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/14/ohio-senator-jim-crow-has-been-resurrected/




14. Republican Voter Suppression Campaign Rolls Back Early Voting

August 18, 2012
by Dan Froomkin

But early voting was apparently too much of a success for some people. In Ohio and four other states -- Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and West Virginia -- Republican-led legislatures have dramatically reduced early voting in 2012 as part of what can only be explained as a concerted effort to suppress the votes of Democratic-leaning voters. Other parts of that effort include voter ID bils, intimidation of voter registration groups and the purges of voter rolls.

In Ohio and Florida, two of the most critical swing states in this year's presidential election, the GOP early voting rollback specifically included a ban on voting on the Sunday before Election Day.

Early voting started off a wildly popular, bipartisan element of voting reform. Indeed, of all the voting reforms this country has seen over the last decades, early voting is easily the most unassailable. It makes voting more convenient for the public and makes Election Day easier for election officials. Because it generally happens at board of elections offices, it takes notoriously unreliable volunteer poll workers out of the picture.

But Republican leaders cooled on the idea after 2008. "It just so happened that this was the first time that early voting had been used in large numbers to mobilize African American and Latino voters," said Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

After the GOP won control of many statehouses in 2010, rolling back early voting became a top legislative priority. That meant reducing the period for early in-person voting in Florida from 14 to 8 days, and in Ohio, from 35 to 11. And no voting on Sunday before the election.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/18/republican-voter-suppression-early-voting_n_1766172.html




15. Ohio GOP Election Board Member: Our Voting Process Shouldn’t Accommodate Black Voters

August 19, 2012
by Aviva Shen

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s recent decision to prohibit early voting on nights and weekends in all districts has many concerned about the effect on voter turnout in the state, particularly among low-income and minority communities. But one Republican Party chairman is content to suppress votes among this vulnerable demographic. Doug Preisse, chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County, which contains the city of Columbus, admitted in an email to the Columbus Dispatch that black voters would now have a more difficult time voting:

I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine. Let’s be fair and reasonable.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/19/711551/gop-election-board-member-admits-he-canceled-weekend-voting-in-ohio-to-suppress-the-black-vote/?mobile=nc




16. The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama

August 23, 2012
by Michael Grunwald

TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama before he even took office, including secret meetings led by House GOP whip Eric Cantor (in December 2008) and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (in early January 2009) in which they laid out their daring (though cynical and political) no-honeymoon strategy of all-out resistance to a popular President-elect during an economic emergency. “If he was for it,” former Ohio Senator George Voinovich explained, “we had to be against it.” The excerpt includes a special bonus nugget of Mitt Romney dissing the Tea Party.

But as we say in the sales world: There’s more! I’m going to be blogging some of the news and larger themes from the book here at TIME.com, and I’ll kick it off with more scenes from the early days of the Republican strategy of No. Read on to hear what Joe Biden’s sources in the Senate GOP were telling him, some candid pillow talk between a Republican staffer and an Obama aide, and a top Republican admitting his party didn’t want to “play.” I’ll start with a scene I consider a turning point in the Obama era, when the new President went to the Hill to extend his hand and the GOP spurned it.

On Jan. 27, 2009, House Republican leader John Boehner opened his weekly conference meeting with an announcement: Obama would make his first visit to the Capitol around noon, to meet exclusively with Republicans about his economic-recovery plan. “We’re looking forward to the President’s visit,” Boehner said.

The niceties ended there, as Boehner turned to the $815 billion stimulus bill that House Democrats had just unveiled. Boehner complained that it would spend too much, too late, on too many Democratic goodies. He urged his members to trash it on cable, on YouTube, on the House floor: “It’s another run-of-the-mill, undisciplined, cumbersome, wasteful Washington spending bill … I hope everyone here will join me in voting no!”

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/23/the-party-of-no-new-details-on-the-gop-plot-to-obstruct-obama/#ixzz24R8XIAET




17. If It Walks Like a Duck and Talks Like a Duck: Racism, Bigotry and the Death of Respectable Conservatism

August 25, 2012
by Molefi Kete Asante

For the most part, I’ve tried to be restrained.

Although conservatives accuse those of us on the left of thinking that all critiques of President Obama are rooted in racism, this has certainly never been my argument. Indeed, I’ve written two books highly critical of Obama’s positions on a number of issues (from a place well to his left), and am fully aware that decent, honest people can disagree with Barack Obama from the right, too, without their disagreements serving as proof of some latent, let alone blatant, bigotry or anti-black bias.

That said, what I have also long maintained — and what seems increasingly evident as we move into the heart of the 2012 campaign — is that the style of opposition, its specific form, and its particular content are too often embedded in a narrative of white racial resentment, white racial anxiety, and a desire to “other” the president in ways that go well beyond the politically partisan. It is not that criticisms of Obama are quantitatively racist, per se, but rather that they are qualitatively so in too many instances; a distinction, yes, but one that does not alter the underlying reality.

In other words, it is one thing to disagree, even mightily, with a president’s policies.

It is quite another to suggest that that president is really a foreign imposter: over, and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And to accept no proof, no matter how extensive, that he really is an American after all.*

Or to suggest that he is a secret Muslim who wishes to see Sharia Law imposed in the United States, and who is working to usher in just such an outcome, and that he and his wife engage in “terrorist fist jabs” as their preferred form of greeting.

Or a Manchurian Candidate, bent on destroying America, or at least deliberately destroying the economy so as to pay whites back for slavery and racism, and insisting that he only appoints people to his administration if they hate whites, and that he only received the endorsement of Colin Powell because he’s black.

Read more: http://www.timwise.org/2012/08/if-it-walks-like-a-duck-and-talks-like-a-duck-racism-bigotry-and-the-death-of-respectable-conservatism/#more-2027




18. The Republican Strategy: The Niggerization of the Democratic Party:

August 27, 2012

Let's cut through the bullshit here, much like Chris Matthews did on Morning Starbucks with Joe today. The GOP strategy right now is simple: The Democratic Party is a bunch of niggers, with a nigger leading them. Do you want to be a nigger lover or, even worse, a nigger yourself?

See, it's not enough that Mitt Romney and his filthy minions marginalize the President by turning him into an angry black foreigner through idiotic jokes, heh-heh. No, they have to turn one of the coolest, mellowest men of any race and transform him into the vicious, rage-filled child of Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon. They have to go after his likability, his perceived strength, as Rove would want, and make us look at Barack Obama and only see the seething native, waiting to spear the poor, misunderstood colonizers and take their money to give to the rest of the Hottentots.

But they need to go further. It's not enough to make it seem like Democrats follow a cannibal bastard. Instead, the strategy has become to make simply being a Democrat associated with the dirty, poverty, hands-out part of humanity. The niggers, if you will. Romney told USA Today (motto: "Every once in a while, news gets in here&quot , regarding the waivers on welfare reform, that the President was just trying to "shore up his base" by, in essence, sending the word that the niggers won't have to work for that welfare check and can keep stealing from the rest of us. Even if the truth is the exact opposite, Romney keeps repeating it and flogging that lie like it's a ... well, you know.

With recent polls showing that the GOP couldn't get a black vote even if Romney took Rihanna as a sister-wife and the Hispanic vote limited mostly to a few Cuban-Americans, apparently they've more or less said, "Oh, fuck it" and not only played the race card but an entire race hand. That's the game now. How many whites, especially white males, feel so uncomfortable in a room with non-whites that they would vote for whatever white guys are running against Obama?

Read more: http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-republican-strategy-niggerization.html




19. Making the Election About Race

August 27, 2012
by THOMAS B. EDSALL

The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor.

Ads that accuse President Obama of gutting the work requirements enacted in the 1996 welfare reform legislation present the first theme. Ads alleging that Obama has taken $716 billion from Medicare — a program serving an overwhelmingly white constituency — in order to provide health coverage to the heavily black and Hispanic poor deliver the second. The ads are meant to work together, to mutually reinforce each other’s claims.

The announcer in one of the Romney campaign’s TV ads focusing on welfare tells viewers:

In 1996, President Clinton and a bipartisan Congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare. But on July 12, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping the work requirement. Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job. They just send you a welfare check. And welfare-to-work goes back to being plain old welfare. Mitt Romney will restore the work requirement because it works.

The ad includes the following text and photograph:





Read more: http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/27/making-the-election-about-race/?hp




20. Race Takes Over the Race

August 27, 2012
by Elspeth Reeve

Mitt Romney says that Obama allowed a waiver for the work requirement for welfare -- if states have a better way of getting recipients into jobs -- so that the President could "shore up his base." Romney probably didn't mean the Republican governors who asked for the waivers but, fitting with his campaign's recent message, poor black people who take white people's money.

On MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday, Chris Matthews tore into Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus about the welfare attacks and Romney's birther jokes, saying Republicans were playing the race card. Priebus seemed slightly taken aback by the angry Matthews, and the show's hosts tried awkwardly to calm him down. They failed. Priebus said Romney was just talking about his Michigan roots, and accused Matthews of being unable to take a joke. Matthews yelled that "The first joke he ever told in his life is about Obama's birth certificate."

Romney's advisers believe Romney "needs a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters and to persuade them that he is the best answer to their economic frustrations," The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg reported. And as we pointed out on Friday, if Romney gets 61 percent of the white vote, he wins. If you have any doubt that Romney is playing the race card, check out his YouTube page. There are five ads falsely accusing Obama of gutting welfare reform. The Republican National Committee has put out its own welfare ad. And another three Romney ads say Obama is raiding Medicare to pay for Obamacare. The latter ads show white faces and say "you paid in" but now health care is going to somebody else.

Let's look at some of the visuals in these ads. I've turned them into GIF form to show the most race-y parts so you don't have to sit through a whole video. This is from the RNC's ad "Never Happened":

Read more: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/race-takes-over-race/56223/#1




21. Will Republicans succeed with Jim Crow lite laws?

September 3, 2012
by Mary Sanchez

Old Southern political bosses of the Jim Crow era would have winked with delight at the ingenious ploys of their latter-day successors in the art of voter suppression.

Republican legislators in dozens of states have devised a number of schemes to deny the rights of hundreds of thousands of Americans to vote.

Many have succeeded, passing laws that would compel voters to present new forms of identification that many will find difficult to obtain, new fees, and confusing new rules that voters must navigate or risk having their vote disqualified.

A July report by the Brennan Center for Justice found that nearly 500,000 voters in 10 states with such ramped-up voter identification laws will struggle to meet the new standards.

Most of the disenfranchised will be African American, Hispanic, poor, rural or elderly.

Read more:
http://www.kansascity.com/2012/09/03/3790385/voter-id-laws.html




22. Barbour: ‘I Would Love For Christie To Put A Hot Poker To Obama’s Butt’

September 4, 2012
by Pema Levy

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said that he wished New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had "put a hot poker to Obama's butt" in his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention," according to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek.

Barbour spoke at a fundraiser and briefing in Tampa last Thursday put on by Karl Rove, who co-founded the American Crossroads super PAC and its sister non-profit. Barbour is a former adviser to the groups.

“While I would love for [Chris] Christie to put a hot poker to Obama’s butt,” Haley said of his reaction to Christie's address. “I thought he did what he was supposed to do.”

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/barbour-i-would-love-for-christie-to-put




23. Voting Rights Under Attack as GOP Seeks to Overturn Historic Civil Rights Law

September 7, 2012
by Common Dreams staff

Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) told the audience at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, “we have come too far together to ever turn back,” warning that Republican-led voter suppression laws are taking America back to the days when states had the right to deny voting capabilities to minority voters. Voting rights for minority voters continue to come under attack as Republican leaders are now turning to the Supreme Court to overturn historic civil rights legislation.

Several federal judges recently struck down voter suppression laws in multiple states, introduced by Republican legislators and governors, such as voter identification laws, provisional voting restrictions, limits on voter registration drives, and reduced availability for early voting.

The court rulings in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, marked a widespread rejection of so called 'voter fraud' legislation, which seeks to greatly limit who can and cannot vote.

However, as Chris McGreal at the Guardian reports today, "Several state governments are (now) looking to the conservative-leaning supreme court, which has already expressed its doubts about racially-based policy," in order to overturn these rulings. This step would seek to challenge the historic Voter Rights Act of 1965, which gave the federal government some control over voting rules in states with a history of blocking African Americans from voting.

Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/07-4

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2. The GOP isn't even trying to hide it anymore. The first one is perfectly accurate.

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3. And they act so shocked ...

War on women? What war on women????

Racism? What racism???

Will anyone in their party stand up already and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

Is there one brave soul left in the GOP?

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4. Not that I've noticed. Specter was the last of them and he left the party. They're racists.

The GOP doesn't respect women, but for SOME reason some women seem to be okay with that. We have a word for that - "morons". I can't fathom how any woman or any non-white male bigot could even consider voting for rMoney. It just doesn't make sense.

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5. I don't remember which MSNBC evening show I saw it on, but ...

... one of the guests was saying that some so-called moderate Republican women are telling themselves that Romney would never really go that far, that he wouldn't really sign a personhood bill or choose a Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe.

They just don't believe it could really happen; they don't want to believe it.

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8. He'll do whatever the Koch brothers and other sponsors tell him to do. He's weak. Wimp.

The entire rMoney family is made up of wimps. I have to use a cane and have a service dog and I could still beat the shit out of any of them - and without the help of the dog. rMoney has no spine, and is barely more mentally functional than Palin. rLyan couldn't figure out anything on a calculator that doesn't involve "+ - / *".

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9. the Koch brothers and Grover

"We’re not auditioning for someone to tell us what to do. We know what to do. We just need a president who can sign the legislation that the Republican House and Senate pass. We don’t need someone to think. We need someone who knows how to hold a pen." -- Grover Norquist

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37. They act shocked because they don't see what they do to be racist.

Like they don't see what they do to women to be sexist. They see it as normal and far from offensive, since the people in their circle laugh along and support their antics. It's when they're shit is public they are surprised by the backlash. My friend from Georgia asked his father once to cool it with the racist jokes and his father says...this is what a group of white people do when they get together. To them it's normal. Hence the shock is not by their actions, it's by the reaction to their actions.

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6. "My Party Is Full Of Racists"

Well, finally, one brave soul from the Republican Party ...

Col Lawrence Wilkerson On Republican Party: My Party Is Full Of Racists


October 26, 2012
by Egberto Willies

Today on the Ed Show, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former General Colin Powell Chief of Staff decided to get tough and frank about the current state of the Republican Party.He was responding to John Sonunu’s racist statement where he said that General Colin Powell endorsed President Obama because they are both black (paraphrased).

Mitt Romney has not made any attempt to remove Sonunu who seems to have a preponderance of hate for the president as he continues to insult him racially both subliminally and overtly. Change will only occur when evil is called out as Colonel Wilkerson is doing.

Colonel Wilkerson said:

My party is full of racists and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants president Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander in chief and President and everything to do with the color of his skin and that is despicable.

http://egbertowillies.com/2012/10/26/col-lawrence-wilkerson-on-republican-party-my-party-is-full-of-racists/

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10. I Post This With Some Hesitation

In 2008, my choice for President was Joe Biden with Obama as the VP. All things considered, you can imagine my pleasure when the President went with Biden as VP.

I wrote a long essay on why I felt that Mr. Obama was not the right pick for President, but would be an ideal choice for VP.

The thrust of my post at the time was that I felt that this country was not ready for an African American President but as a VP, he could be set up well for a run in 2016. Another point I made was that Obama could make up for any "perceived" lack of experiece during his tenure as VP allowing him an opportunity to become one of the great Presidents in history. Joe Biden, with 35 years of experience could have tackled the immense issues left by Bush without the added burden of "race" as an albatross around his neck.

I cannot tell you how brutal people were to me for my post accusing me of everything from being a racist to a troll.

We now see the ugly head of racism rear it's ugly head moreso now than it did in '08. As I predicted back then, the Republican Party made it there primary goal to obstruct our President at every turn with the ultimate goal of making him a one-term President.

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that the RW's goals were based upon race? It may not have been obvious in '09, but it must be obvious by now. They have had four years to set aside their inhibitions and reluctance to show their true racist feelings...as seen in the rise of the racist feelers put out during the Tea Party phenomenon. It is now clear and present for all the world to see...to see the true essence of the Republican Party. They are no longer afraid to show their true nature.

I still hold to my original feeling that this country was not ready for a Black President. This makes it all the more amazing that President Obama was able to succeed to whatever extent he has.

As I stated in my '08 post...
The challenges faced by whomever would follow Bush were so intense that adding the additional obstical of being the first African American President would make it nearly impossible to accomplish any substantial progress that our country absolutely required.

I believe that many here have come to see Biden as the strong unapologetic liberal that many of us sensed in him over the years...just the fighter that this country could hardly do without.

Please do not flame me for my beliefs concerning this issue. I am a strong supporter of our President and I am confident that he will retain his Office.

I will close by stating that I have not seen this kind if overt racism since the Civil Rights movement of the '60s. I sometimes wonder what could have been accomplished had we not had to fight the additional battle with the ugly underbelly of RW racism.

-Paige

[napkinz]

11. The GOP started planning the president's downfall the NIGHT of his inauguration

They refused to accept that an African-American had just been sworn in.

And Luntz, Cantor, Ryan, and others set out to destroy him. It was a conspiracy.

Republican members of the House and Senate agreed from day one to say NO to everything. It was OPERATION DESTROY THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT and make sure, with his ruin, that no other would ever be elected again.

---

Here from Daily Kos:

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan & Kevin McCarthy: Plot To Sabotage US Economy with Frank Luntz

On January 20, 2009 Republican Leaders in Congress literally plotted to sabotage and undermine U.S. Economy during President Obama's Inauguration.

In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Hate-Propaganda Minister, Frank Luntz, the below listed Senior GOP Law Writers literally plotted to sabotage, undermine and destroy America's Economy.


The Guest List:
Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).
Non-lawmakers present Newt Gingrich

During the four hour meeting:

The senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct and block President Obama on all legislation.

These Republican members of Congress were not simply airing their complaints regarding the other party's political platform for four long hours. No, these Republican Congressional Policymakers, who were elected to do 'the People's work' were literally plotting to sabotage, undermine and destroy the U.S. Economy.

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/08/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz



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[WiffenPoof]

12. Excellent Post

I wish more people were aware of this conspiracy. And I assume that your post is in agreement with mine. At least when it comes to racism.

Your post should be a thread on its own.

[napkinz]

14. you were right predicting the GOP was going to block him at every turn

but to your point: "The thrust of my post at the time was that I felt that this country was not ready for an African American President but as a VP, he could be set up well for a run in 2016."

I don't think racists would be swayed. They would probably say -- forgetting how much power Cheney gave to himself -- that Vice Presidents don't have any real powers, other than breaking a senate tie. That as Vice President, Obama had little responsibility, and they might even go so far as to attribute his limited actions not just to the limited role of the position but to the character of the person holding the position ... i.e., "Obama is lazy" (a dog whistle we've heard a lot the past four years, when we have a very ACTIVE and ENGAGED president).

That's just one scenario. Whatever the scenario, racism still prevails. We still have a long way to go.

[malaise]

13. K & R

for truth

[napkinz]

15. thanks for the K & R ...

Too bad the media can't handle the truth.

They've been derelict in covering this. Sure, once in a while it comes up, for example the case with John Sununu's comments. But they've failed to show just how pervasive racism is in the Republican Party. (If you didn't come to DU these past few years to see the despicable signs and t-shirts and hear all the vile comments at the Teapublican rallies, you wouldn't know just how widespread the racism is.)

[napkinz]

16. Is Mitt Romney a Racist?

by Robert Parry

U.S. media pundits were quick to reassure the American people that – despite a tasteless “joke” referring to the racist lie that Barack Obama was born in Kenya – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is surely no racist. We were told it was just an unfortunate off-the-cuff attempt at humor. But is that true?

Romney may not be a crude racist, the sort who would dress up in white sheets and burn crosses on someone’s lawn. But America has had a long – and equally grim – history of country-club racists whose personal contempt toward blacks, Hispanics, Arabs and other dark-skinned people is cloaked in more genteel phrasing.

The Republican presidential candidate more fits that mold. In his book, No Apology, Romney delved into academic theories about the alleged cultural inferiority of Mexicans and Palestinians. Describing his thoughts as he traveled the world, he wrote:

“I wondered how such vast differences could exist between countries that were literally next door to each other. How could Americans be so rich and Mexicans so poor? How could Israelis have created a highly developed, technology-based economy while their Palestinian neighbors had not yet even begun to move to an industrial economy?”

Read more: http://consortiumnews.com/2012/08/25/is-mitt-romney-a-racist/

[napkinz]

17. more graphics ...

[mfcorey1]

18. I could without seeing these.

[napkinz]

20. You could what?

?

[tarheelsunc]

19. We should start using "get your hands off my Obamacare" in response

[napkinz]

21. from internetweekly

[napkinz]

22. kick

nt

[Matariki]

23. These are sickening. Do they really need to be posted here?

Why are you giving this garbage any sort of public platform at all. Shit like this is EXTREMELY offensive.

Where did you even get this many offensive 'cartoons'? I've never seen this garbage until you posted them here and I could have happily lived without ever seeing them. What sort of websites do you frequent that would have allowed you to put together such a disgusting collection?

And what's your point of posting this shit anyway? That there are extreme racists in the Republican party? Duh.

[napkinz]

24. Yes, the racism we've seen in the Republican Party towards our president has been

... OFFENSIVE!

Did you bother to read the additional posts SUPPORTING those images:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021640177#post1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021640177#post7

Get your head out of your @ss. If you can't see how racism is a factor in this election, how SEVERELY racist the attacks have been on the president, then you need to wake up fast.

[Matariki]

30. You post this SHIT and have the nerve to tell me to get my head out of my ass?

Prove that you aren't secretly delighting in the ugliness of these images you're posting.

[Matariki]

31. And ps - I don't need to see racist cartoons on DU to know that racism is a factor in the election

[Hugabear]

27. What's an 'extreme racist'?

Is there any other kind of racist?

I've maintained all along that the Republican party IS a racist organization. This is just further evidence towards that.

[Matariki]

29. as opposed to the unconscious racism that many people carry with them

Which is wrong but isn't quite the same as the deep and hateful maliciousness that would drive someone to create cartoons shown in the OP. I don't think the OP is appropriate for DU no matter what the excuse for it is.

[napkinz]

28. here's some more truth for you ... just posted by geardaddy

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021686255








http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/10/hang_in_there_obama_sign_adorned_with_noose_displayed_on_wisconsin_roadway_image.php

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/10/laura_mulholland_rochester_anti-obama_racist_has_a_public_facebook_profile.php


They have to be called out on this. It's been going on for four years. And it's not going to stop after the election. Their hate will only intensify.

[Matariki]

32. Yeah, keep posting racist images. Very good.

[napkinz]

34. That's what we do here

We expose racism.

Don't like it, too bad.

[Matariki]

36. Do you 'expose' child pornography by posting it on the internet?

I have to wonder what sort of internet sites you spend your time on to come up with such a collection. Your OP is the first I've ever seen any of those images. And I didn't need to see them to know that Republicans are racist and/or are leveraging the racism of their base.

[Cali_Democrat]

33. What's wrong with exposing the racists?

[Matariki]

35. Do you think that's what I'm saying?

I clicked on the link and the first thing I see is a big very offensive graphic blazoning the n-word. Now maybe I'm over-reacting but I don't think that needs to be posted here. It's like telling a horrible racist or sexist joke under the guise of 'exposing' the racist or sexist you heard it from.

And instead of insulting people who are offended by the images maybe the OP could engage in a more civil dialog about why reposting offensive material is the best way to make their point. I'd listen to their reasoning if it wasn't prefaced by "Get your head out of your @ss". That kind of incivility actually just makes me suspect their motives for posting this stuff in the first place.

[mil_5529dem]

25. Well put

Sad to see the GOP go so batshit insane.

[PowerToThePeople]

26. There was one photo

There one one photo in the 3x3 series, a person with a sign, "wake up and smell the fascism". The sign did not say anything about POTUS directly. I could have been holding this sign. But, if he was in a tea-party event at the time, it would not have been me.

It is sick that this bigotry still exists. So many are so slow to evolve.