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2018-08-30 Home Front: Politix
Barack Obama in 2008: Both Parties ‘Have Monkeyed Around With Elections'
[Breitbart] Barack Obama warned supporters that politicians had "monkeyed around" with elections, during a campaign speech at Kent State University in New Philadelphia, Ohio, on September 3, 2008.

Then-Senator Obama (D-IL) said (0:29 in the video below): "I come from Chicago. It’s not as if it’s just Republicans who have monkeyed around with elections in the past. Sometimes Democrats have, too. You know, whenever people are in power, they have this tendency to try to tilt things in their direction."

Obama called for establishing a "voting rights division" within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat "voter fraud" and what he said were efforts to "discourage people to vote."

On Wednesday, Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) advised Floridians not to "monkey this up" by selecting a "socialist agenda" via a Democrat governor.

News media outlets such as The Hill and CNN framed the comment as racial, given that DeSantis’s Democrat opponent, Andrew Gillum, is black.
Emphasis added.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-30 08:33|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 The M-word, only to be used legally by people of color.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-08-30 08:45||   2018-08-30 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Like nigger-rigging an election.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-30 09:01||   2018-08-30 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 When only you hear the dog whistle...you're the dog
Posted by Frank G 2018-08-30 09:31||   2018-08-30 09:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Christopher Bell among Indy midget entrants

Drivers feeling diminished?
Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-30 09:43||   2018-08-30 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 That's different because...shut up.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-08-30 13:12||   2018-08-30 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Obama called for establishing a "voting rights division" within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to combat "voter fraud"...

Are we sure it's purpose wasn't election rigging?
Posted by JohnQC 2018-08-30 14:25||   2018-08-30 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Racial, shmacial. DeSantis merely called on lord Hanuman to help him against Gollum.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-30 14:38||   2018-08-30 14:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Ooops, I meant Gillum.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-30 14:40||   2018-08-30 14:40|| Front Page Top

#9 p.s. Gillum is grappling with the ongoing FBI investigation into possible corruption in Tallahassee, the city he has led since 2014.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-30 18:53||   2018-08-30 18:53|| Front Page Top

#10 My dad, of a time and place and service where racism didn't bother with code words, often used Obama's phrase ("Don't monkey around with that until it dries!"). Lord knows I was listening critically (cue Silver Haired Daddy), and it never even occurred to me that it might be racist.

This "monkey it up" thing, though, struck me instantly as a bigtime clanger (or baiting... NTTNAWWT). Is it common and benign (eeek!) in y'all's experience?
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-08-30 19:34||   2018-08-30 19:34|| Front Page Top










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