If Colin Powell were a Repub President, would the Missouri Clown have done the same thing?

[MoonRiver]

I'm trying to determine if the sick antics were more anti-Democratic Party than racism. I don't know!

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[joeybee12]

1. I think this is VERY hypothetical and VEY unrealistic...Colonoscopy Powell

would not have made it through the Repuke primary where jokers like those rodeo assholes are the base.

[mindwalker_i]

12. I was just going to say

The whole broom thing would have been a colonoscopy.

Now if Herman Cain had been president, it would have had to be something about pepperoni...

[CBGLuthier]

2. and after everyone votes in this poll you still will not know.

The clown's routine may or may not have been racist. The people in the audience shouting kill the n------- they were pretty fucking racist.

[MoonRiver]

3. But I will know what those I respect and admire think! That's something!

[PowerToThePeople]

4. He would have presented the skit with computer generated figures.

No, probably not. But one could hope.

[liberal N proud]

5. We need not try to defend this clown

There is a reason he was hiding behind a mask!

[MoonRiver]

7. Not defending him, just wondering about "his" motivation.

[SCUBANOW]

21. What?

[RZM]

6. Probably not

Of course Powell isn't the best example. Nowadays Allen West and Herman Cain are more conservative than Powell is.

But I gotta ask. If this were 2003 would DU be all that concerned about a clown in a Bush mask? I wouldn't be.

I actually think it's less about party and race and more about the president being an easy target. Remember the Reagan humor in the 80s? Dana Carvey as H-Dub? All the Clinton-Lewinsky stuff? All the Bush jokes?

While this particular rodeo clown probably wouldn't have tried to get laughs off of President Cain, it's not like the left would be giving him quarter.

[gordianot]

8. The clown is only part of the problem someone scripted this display they need to be identified.

Maybe the clown will extend the joke and tell about all of the participants, now that would be funny.

[SummerSnow]

9. Because their hatred of the POTUS has nothing to do..

with his party or policies. Its all color.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. We'll never know, and we can't even make informed or educated guesses.

This thread is a mirror - posts to it don't tell us anything about the clown, just about the poster's attitudes.

[MoonRiver]

13. I would like to know what you are implying.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. I'm implying pretty much what I said - that all this speculation is uninformed.

This is about leaping to conclusions without evidence.

Because of that, all we can tell from a poster's post is what sort of conclusions that poster leaps to in the absence of evidence, not what conclusion is actually correct.

[MoonRiver]

16. I didn't leap to any conclusion. I was wondering if it would happen to an African American president

That question seems simple, and well founded, to me.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. Simple, but not currently possible to answer. N.T.

[okieinpain]

11. now that is a good question. I'm going to lean yes based on the way

he was treated when he was s.o.s. I still get out my head that time he was on meet the press and his assistant kept trying to stop the interview. I've never seen anything like that in my 53 years on earth (well my 37 years of giving a damn, first 18 I was either too young or too high to care) it was unreal.

[Rex]

15. Why would a rodeo clown make a political statement?

Seriously, think about it. How many rodeo clowns have you EVER heard of that make political statements by dressing up as the POTUS?

[MoonRiver]

17. Well, I don't know who was under the clown mask.

[Rex]

18. And the difference that makes?

Okay, I see your intentions here. Have a great day.

[Jamastiene]

20. Other.

I don't know.

[pipi_k]

22. Other...

Like some here, I don't know, either.

[loyalsister]

23. I have no idea

I do know that it would have been equally offensive.

[ecstatic]

24. Yes, because he's a pragmatist

The far right teabag wing would be furious with him, and his race would play into the level of disrespect. The far, far left tends to be unusually disrespectful of president Obama for the same reasons.

[1-Old-Man]

25. Half of my family is black, let me tell you what Kitty said about Powell

Kitty is the great grand mother of two of my grand daughters, maternal side. She is a black woman of about 85 years - give or take. Back after Powell gave his UN speech, one of the lowest hours in this countries history, here is what Kitty had to say about Powell - I remember it word for word, clear as a bell, because everyone in the room just broke out laughing - shes said "That black man's been white so long the Republicans don't even notice anymore".