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Home Front: Politix
Paterson: Obama Defeat Would Be Victory For Racism
2008-07-18
This is about the clearest delivery of the message to date, though I have confidence that the Donks can wield an even-bigger sledgehammer in the days ahead ...
Governor Paterson, delivering a speech today at the NAACP's 99th annual convention at Cincinnati, suggested that the defeat of Senator Obama in the presidential election would be a victory for racism in America.

Mr. Paterson, a former lieutenant governor whose sudden rise to power following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer has led the press to dub him the "accidental governor," said he is offended by the label and suggested that it was motivated by racism.
As opposed to being an inept career pol ...
Mr. Paterson, who supported Senator Clinton throughout her campaign and was a Clinton super-delegate before endorsing Mr. Obama after Mrs. Clinton conceded, cast the presidential race in stark racial terms, saying its outcome would decide whether the nation could finally move beyond its legacy of slavery and segregation.

"Can America reject the crucible of race that has dictated and pervaded all of our history to embrace an African American man who has the right polices for the next decade in this country? Can America overlook its past practices that were so grave that in 1820 the great Scottish Whig, Sydney Smith, writing in the Edinburgh Review, said of America: 'How can they protest the tyrannies of Europe when they torture and brutalize one-sixth of its population?' How can America get past this and elect an African-American president of the United States?" Mr. Paterson said.

He continued on and on and on and on: "Can America go past the crippling way that we've shot ourselves in the foot over and over, denying opportunity to people who are bright, to people who are qualified, to people who are able because they didn't look like us, or they didn't come from where we came from, or they are from a different gender, or they are from the African continent? Can America push that away and find new leadership? We'll find out in the next few months what America can do."

Mr. Paterson, who is New York's first black governor, ...
... which sort of suggests that the problem isn't as big as he paints it ...
... also turned the focus on himself, strongly suggesting that people have belittled his governorship not because of the unusual way in which he took office but because of his race.

"I am known as New York's accidental governor. I would like to point out a couple of facts: The two adjoining states to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, have had three government changes in the last five years," he said. "None of those people were called the accidental governor."
Because they were elected ...
"... Nobody called Malcolm Wison, who became governor of New York in 1974 when Governor Rockefeller became vice president, he was referred to — Google his name in any article — as an accidental governor. Nobody called Teddy Roosevelt an accidental president. Nobody called Truman an accidental president. And nobody called LBJ an accidental anything. So why was this non-illustrious title held all of these years for me? I will leave the answer to all of you and the Freudians in the audience because I haven't had the chance to think about it," he said.
No, of course not, no sirree ...
Mr. Paterson, while praising a speech to the NAACP delivered yesterday by the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Senator McCain, echoed Mr. Obama's primary attack strategy by linking the senator to Bush administration policies.

"He wants to support policies of an administration that has seen jobs go overseas and the national savings cut in half, thousands of companies out of business and going out of business, state budgets wildly out of balance, more children going without food and without shelter than any time in the last 10 years, entire regions struggling for survival, people denied the opportunity of work and now others thrown out of work, and people who rather than living in prosperity as we were promised are more divided than ever, region against region, class against class, the halves and against the have-nots," Mr. Paterson said.
Posted by:Steve White

#20  Gov. Paterson is obviously Dumb as well as Blind.
Posted by: Woozle Unusosing8053   2008-07-18 20:46  

#19  Who ya talking about, Jomosing Bluetooth8431?


The "no justice, no peace" crowd, who are almost invariably black, undoubtedly for Bama, and will see his loss as an excuse to rape, loot, burn, destroy and generally terrorize the innocent civilian populace.

I've had it with black criminality and the excuses used to justify it. I've also had it with the "when there's something good to be gained, I'm a member of the black group; when there is a bad consequence involved, I'm an individual!" garbage.

If there are going to be group rewards, there should also be group punishments. Example: if you're going to give blacks affirmative action, so they have an advantage over whites and Asians in competition for school admissions and jobs (where they are supposedly less represented), let's also give them affirmative crime action, like ten extra years in jail for a violent crime, or a mandatory extra tax payment to offset the cost of incarcerating the vastly disproportionate number of criminals from their ethnic group.

Screw the pandering, screw the excuses. If blacks can't keep to the rules that the rest of civilized society expects, we need to hammer them for it until they do. It's going to have to be external pressure that causes them to shape up because the mechanism of internal societal pressure that motivates other ethnic groups has collapsed in the black community.

Most of the people who would need such strictures applied to them understand nothing but force anyway. Really, what percentage of the black community these days sees a stretch in prison or an out-of-wedlock birth as something shameful? DuBois "talented tenth?" Remember the Rev. Jesse's "love child" with Karin Standford? Does that seem like it hurt him much with the black community? For every Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams there are ten thousand Roderick Carrs and Letalvis Cobbinses; our jails are proof positive of it. There is no way to deter these people other than a bullet to the head or the prospect of a 40 year jail stretch in solitary. Like it or not, that's what it's going to take.

If you don't believe that, take a look at the general run of places where blacks rule. They're almost inevitably places where corruption and the rule of the gun are paramount, and certainly not places conducive to much other than a desperate and brutal struggle for survival. Zimbabwe is just the latest example in a very, very long line.
Posted by: Jomosing Bluetooth8431   2008-07-18 19:46  

#18  Who ya talking about, Jomosing Bluetooth8431?

Cry-baby mooselimbs?
Posted by: Bobby   2008-07-18 18:15  

#17  Go Racism!!
Posted by: Hellfish   2008-07-18 17:47  

#16  RACIST: Person who is winning an argument with a liberal.

There's not a hope in Hell of me voting for Bama. If there are black riots when he loses, I hope the police shoot them down in the streets in job lots and we bury the mounds of corpses in unmarked graves. I'm damned sick and tired of the threat of black violence every time something doesn't go exactly their way. They don't have a monopoly on that tactic and it's time they got a lesson on that matter.
Posted by: Jomosing Bluetooth8431   2008-07-18 17:18  

#15  An Obama Victory is a Big Win for Racism!
Posted by: Red Dawg   2008-07-18 17:16  

#14  Prediction for the night of November 4th, 2008:
If Obama loses there will be roits in many cities across the nation.
If Obama wins the riots will be even bigger.
Posted by: Bob   2008-07-18 15:48  

#13  And so it begins.

Don't bother yourself with all that other "stuff," the Democrats will tell us (I can hear Howard Dean now...), because a vote for Obama is a vote against racism and a vote for McCain is a vote for racism. You're not racist, are you?

These people have no shame.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2008-07-18 15:02  

#12  I am bombarded daily by this same attitude frm both the students and their families. Posted by WolfDog 2008-07-18 14:39|| Front Page|| ||Comments Top

To be expected! They've been sucking down the Government pablum of vicimization and entitlement for decades. "A Lie Told Often Enought Becomes The Truth." Vladimir Lenin
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-07-18 14:48  

#11  As a middle school teacher in what is essentially an "inner city" schoo, albeit a private religious school, I am bombarded daily by this same attitude frm both the students and their families. Further proof, if any was needed,the apple(s) rarely fall far from the tree.
Posted by: WolfDog   2008-07-18 14:39  

#10  Mr. Paterson, who is New York's first black governor...

Actually, he's New York's first unelected black governor. Another pol who's a contestant in the "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" contest. How convienient for him that Spitzer was addicted to hookers.
Posted by: tu3031   2008-07-18 13:10  

#9  So how many people are going to vote for OB because the Donks are calling them rascist? And how many not? The more this is used, the bigger his defeat. You don't vote for someone who calls you a S*******d.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-07-18 13:04  

#8  There's little room for common sense in this year's election, so let's stick with racism.
As a racist, I'll have to vote against BO. I wasn't born a racist, I was born in a city with sections of Irish, and sections of Italians, and sections of blacks, etc. I have become a product of my environment.
Posted by: wxjames   2008-07-18 12:39  

#7  Or would it be a victory for common sense?
Posted by: James Carville   2008-07-18 10:58  

#6  Should've hinted about riots in the streets if he loses, David. Really give whitey the heebee jeebies...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-07-18 10:24  

#5  Crew him and the horse he rode in on.

Obama, black, whtie or even little green man from mars, is the least qualified person to run foir the presidency in a long time.

3 years in the US Senate, and that's it!

He's waffled on every major issue, been a gaffe a minute at many times, is a lightweight on foriegn policy, a peacenik rube on military policy, and is generally a vacuous, but well spoken, Chicago machine hack politican.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-07-18 09:56  

#4  An Obambi defeat would be a victory for common sense.
Posted by: Grease Dark Lord of the Algonquins9226   2008-07-18 09:45  

#3  If the Obamamessiah is defeated, I recommend Paterson resign in protest.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-07-18 09:16  

#2  And here I'd thought it was because he had a disability.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-07-18 08:47  

#1  Hits bottom, keeps digging?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-07-18 08:28  

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