Verdict: Pat Buchanan's <strike>Racist</strike> "Exotic" Code Words
By SilentPatriot Thursday Jun 12, 2008 12:00pm
While talking about RNC Chairman Mike Duncan's promise to go negative on Barack Obama Thursday night on "Verdict," conservative dinosaur Pat Buchanan made the astute observation that the GOP's only shot at winning this year is to trash Obama for his "associations" with controversial figures, and raise doubts among the electorate about choosing an "exotic" (code word for black) guy. Luckily, Tanya Acker was there to call him out on it right away and make him look like the racist "exotic" fool that he is. Buchanan's stammering definition of exotic is equally as absurd.
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Buchanan: The only way the Republicans can win this -- when everyone wants to throw the Republicans out -- is to raise questions, raise doubts about the alternative. They're gonna use his associations, and they're gonna use his statements, his elitism, they're gonna use the fact that hes exotic. That's what's gonna happen.
Acker: Exotic? What does exotic mean? Is exotic code for black? I dont understand what exotic means.
It's pretty fascinating to watch someone like Pat Buchanan opine on the 2008 Presidential race with Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee. It's almost seems at times like Pat is living in a different country, in a different era. One which doesn't resemble 21st century America, and one in which he undoubtedly would feel more comfortable.
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2 requirements for being a Republican:
1. Liar
2. Bigot
Yeah, Barack Obama is "exotic": neither his spouse nor father were Presidents, and none of his ancestors were scions of inherited wealth. What a weirdo un-American.
BuCANNON shoots off vitriolic slurs.
El Cid @ 2:
hes remotely related to cheney...believe it or dont
Buchanan and that other gay-looking Republican hick, know that they have to keep stirring up their new base: the toothless, overweight, barefoot, no education hicks to even have a snowballs chance of beating Sen Obama!
However Sen Obama's campaign won't get "swift-boated" this time around!
Maybe he means like an exotic pet. He's saying Obama is an iguana. Still not sure how that would make sense though.
Some of these political cable shows are going to need to "mothball" these old white guys until after the election. I mean, this guy can't make it 72 hours without saying something that sounds racist. And there are a few more like him.
Of course, he can always go over to Fox News and discuss Obama and his "baby Mama". Outrageous and transparent.
Buchanan is a racist!? *GASP*
buchanan is a racist and ant semite....that is no surprise
someone needs to explain to me how a man raised mostly by a single parent is not of middle america
my god, he was born in the heartland
so he pulled himself out of that and has risen to possibly become the prez of the us
isnt that the american dream?
All these talking heads are like dinosaurs trudging their way to the tarpits of history. Gone are the days when folks like Pat Buchanan, Chris Matthews, etc...could just rattle off some insane jargon, assume we'd swallow it whole, and move onto the next topic.
I almost feel bad for them. Too big and cumbersome from years of habit and to stupid to realize it and change course.
Someday this kind of footage will find it's place in a museum of the extinct where children can marvel that such creatures ever existed much less thrived.
Unfortunately, I don't think Buchanan is living in different century, different country. I just saw an ad for an "Obama Sock Monkey" Not to mention the all the Curious George t-shirts, and the "Obama's baby mama" slur. It's not even two weeks since he became the nominee and it's getting really ugly.
Buchannan's future is all behind him.
Why does anyone listen to him, anymore?
He's proof positive there is no intelligent design.
He's also a good argument for abortion.
The Republicans know they can't beat Obama on ideas, raising money, or in the debates. This means the only thing they can do is race bait. I wonder when someone will just come out and say well damn he is a n*gger you know!
Free Obama '08 bumper stickers!
Uncle Joe Hussein Mccarthy @ 4:
Now THAT'S pretty exotic.
Would someone please tell me where and when the angry mob is assembling? I want to be there.
Now, if I could just remember where I left my pitchfork.....
El Cid at#2:
You forget, however, ....Obama, who grew up middle class, played basketball in high school and came from a broken home, is, somehow, an "elitist". Not to mention that he's not the kind of guy you'd meet and an Applebee's Salad Bar.
These folks will say anything.
Buchanan makes a lot of dough spouting his hate. Pat, Tucker and of course we can't forget Pat's sister Baye who turns up on CNN every now and then. If only we could have their jobs, but then again, we C&Lers have scrupples.
Uncle Joe Hussein Mccarthy @ 9:
Yes, It's the AMERICAN Dream, but it is the Republican Nightmare.
At least Pat's stopped using the term "Zulu".
Buchanan's GOP buddies threw him under the bus after his "stellar" performance at the GOP convention in 1992. Why anybody would be asking his opinions on ANYTHING 16 years later is completely incomprehensible, and that goes double for his equally insane sister Bay.
I'm so distressed by the "coding" of racial issues in this election. How many times have we heard the question, "Is America ready for a black president?" Why not come right out and suggest directly, bluntly, that America is too racist to elect a black man? It seems to me that the press should take seriously their responsibility to SHAME our country into progressing beyond our worst qualities.
This guy gets on my nerves big time. When he comes on a station I reach for the remote. For whatever reason the video doesn't play for me. Who says Friday the 13th is an unlucky day?
Did you notice that even Brad Blakeman laughed at Pat for the "exotic" thing? He may have been agreeing on the terminology, but I think he was just amused at Pat's code words.
And was Pat being sexist to tell the Democratic strategist to go along and run her "little" campaign? Maybe I'm just hypersensitive because my dad labels everything I do "little" (he's really tall and I'm really short), but I don't think Pat would have said that to a man.
As much as they try to smear Obama, we and many more are going to have to support him. That's how it seems to work.
Exotic!?? Obama looks kinda like the all-American guy next door to me. But then, I'm just a white guy who's fortunate enough to live in a racially mixed neighborhood in AZ. The funny thing is that Bush IS a uniter! Because black, hispanic, indian or white - we all believe that the Repugs have got to go!
Maybe he was an exotic dancer for Empire Club VIP.
Racism = Republican
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Hasn't Pat PukeCannon been rejected by the REPUBLICAN electorate several times already ??
Get a clue and GET OUT !
Buchanan: The only way the Republicans can win this — when everyone wants to throw the Republicans out — is to raise questions, raise doubts about the alternative.
Yeah Pat, that's really going to help this country isn't it?
At its plainest meaning, exotic is that which is introduced from another country, and not native to where it is found.
This not only shows the GOP to be a party of desperate, old white men wailing and gnashing their teeth as the curtain goes down on their own 'inevitable' show, but how shallow and ridiculous America has become. It wasn't that long ago that some of these same critics were denouncing Obama for not being black ENOUGH. Now, he's so black as to be exotic. Foreign. Oooga-booga scary, vote for the doddering white guy just so's you's all safe.
We may laugh and point at FOX News as they begin to implode, but the sad truth is that their stock in trade are leech-like memes that will continue to suck the life's blood from the American people and honest dialogue, spreading infection until they are burned off and cut free.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 20:
Have you ever seen Pat and Bay together in the same room at the same time ?
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 20:
Isn't BAY a red horse?? Found this in the American Heritage dictionary::
Could also be a howling hound............
bay3 (b³) adj. Color. 1. Reddish-brown: a bay colt. --bay n. 1. Color. A reddish brown. 2. A reddish-brown animal, especially a horse having a black mane and tail. [Middle English, from Old French bai, from Latin badius.]
bay4 (b³) n. 1. A deep, prolonged bark, such as the sound made by hounds. 2. The position of one cornered by pursuers and forced to turn and fight at close quarters: The hunters brought their quarry to bay. 3. The position of having been checked or held at a distance: “He has seen the nuclear threat held at bay for 40 years” (Earl W. Foell). --bay v. bayed, bay·ing, bays. --intr. 1. To utter a deep, prolonged bark. --tr. 1. To pursue or challenge with barking: “I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon” (Shakespeare). 2. To express by barking or howling: a mob baying its fury. 3. To bring to bay: “too big for the dogs which tried to bay it” (William Faulkner). [Middle English, from abai, cornering a hunted animal, from Old French, from abaiier, to bark, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *abbai³re : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *bad³re, to gape, yawn. V., from Middle English baien, to bark, from abaien, from Old French abaiier.]
pissed off patricia @ 22:
Is it his Whiney Voice that irritates you. It does me.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 32:
But I like horses Bangkok Bob. Bay Buchanan -not so much!
Well, at the beginning of the clip I was going to defend Buchanan for simply making the case for what the Republicans are going to do, but by the end of it he made it clear that these kinds of attacks are what the Republicans should do. All and all, pretty pathetic.
Pat is using the word exotic to insinuate that Obama is not only black and an "elitist" (Republican word for educated) but also unamerican, super liberal, Muslim, antisemite, a crazy Christian antiwhite racist, marxist, far left radical, terrorist sympathizer etc etc. To give xenophobic paranoid voters lots of bogus excuses not to vote for a black man
Of course Pat is kinda correct. This is Republicans only chance to win
exotic? 50 years ago he would have said "colored" or worst. clueless pat buttchanan is one of those ol' time racist dinosaurs that should never be allowed on the air because he gives nothing to any debate. as a wealthy loser who has no idea what he's talking about i wonder why no one has EVER called him out on his blatant racism or sexism; maybe consider him comic relief. i'm dissapointed in rachel maddow because she should get in his face at every chance.
take his wrinkly old pasty ass off the air!
pissed off patricia @ 22:
'Tis bad luck to be superstitious.
geneHUSSEIN214 @ 34:
Then we'll go with the hound dogs howl. That fits her pretty good anyway.
Bill Norton @ 35:
And exactly what Pat the pathetic was doing himself in that clip
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 33:
Yes, and he just gets louder and louder until he pulls a Chris Matthews and starts dripping spit from his mouth. If he is losing an argument he starts laughing at his opponent. All of that drives me nuts.
Pat showing his true colors.
Repugs are very desperate and it's showing like a bad face lift.
Sorry, Pat: "old white men" is the new exotic, and as a white person, I'm ready for something less exotic, like Obama.
pissed off patricia @ 41:
I'd like to invent an automatic mute button for certain voices.
Anytime anyone wants to think kindly of dear old Tricky Dick Nixon, keep in mind Buchanan was one of his speechwriters. I'd almost be willing to bet ol' Pat was an unindicted co-conspirator. He, Haldemann and Ehrlichmann should be stamping out license plates at Leavenworth.
This 'senior political commentator' skin he wears is camouflage for the bigot inside that skin. Rachel Maddow has treated Pat with some respect but has had the good sense to nail this jerk when he deserved it.
By the way, I've been dying to ask David Brooks if Applebees really did have a salad bar, exactly how we tell whether someone (i.e., Barack Obama or anyone else) looks either out of place or totally at ease at a salad bar.
Is there really some sort of cool, hip, insider crowd somewhere who knows how to really kick it at a franchise chain salad bar?
Have I secretly been missing out on the coded "cool" signifiers while choosing between honey mustard & light ranch?
Poor old fat bigot. Missing the grand old days way back when when real white men would say whatever they wanted, pissing all over anyone who wasn't like them. Progress sucks, doesn't it Pat. Racism is so deeply embedded in this Nazi's skull that he has no clue to how wrong his sick comments are.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 33:
It's his WHITEY voice that irritates me.
El Cid @ 46:
Inquiring People want to know.
"The Salad Bar In-Crowd " How to reach under the spit-barrier.
Oh please, the old toad rarely knows what he's saying and to suggest he's learned some "code" is laughable. I doubt he can still tie his own shoes.
Repugs are just spinning their wheels.
They keep appeasing the 28%'ers who already aren't going to vote for Obama. No matter how rabid they get, they can only cast ONE vote each.
Given that 80+% of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the only way for any candidate to win this year's elections is via addressing the ISSUES. And since the issues are the GOP's weakest link, they will find themselves with little if anything to bring to the table.
Exotic? As in Exotic Dancer. OMG Obama strips for Chippendales on the side.
Sad thing is my Father loves this guy. Immigration, the theory of all white suburbia( a pipe dream, really). Older white guys suck this sh*t up.
El Cid @ 46:
Dude, you have to learn to put your "tag" on the sneeze guard when the waitress isn't looking. Then you'll really be part of the cool kids club. If you can score some of your server's "flair" (see Office Space) then you'd probably be made leader, or something.
Can anyone make out what Buchanan says at around 1:39-1:43 in reference to Obama's exoticness?
"He's ______________."
OK, so I'm not that exotic. But I wanna be!!!
Listening to Buchanan or almost any of the "pundits" leads one to believe that there is an epidemic of organic brain deficiencies.
I can see that the MSM is finally showing signs of becoming unglued. We need to keep our Internet running on all cylinders so
we can eliminate the MSM from our homes. Turn off your televisions!!!!
Buchanan spoke the truth. This is the only way for the Republicans to win. To play on the "exotic" angle The different, the fear factor..divide divide divide. "Exotic" is a code word for "divide". The gods gun gays issue.
I do not find Buchanan racist or anti Jewish. Some in the MSM have been spinning him this way for ever.
Michelle and Barak will keep bringing it back to the ISSUES ISSUES ISSUES.
Should "Exotic" go before or after "Hussein"?
jowilli @ 37:
So true. Whenever this old hateful man begins to discuss race or Obama I say to myself 'here it comes' waiting for some of his 19th century throwback race hate. And he's far from being alone in the MSM. Buchanan makes me very uncomfortable. For every Rev. Wright, there's a hundred of these vile racist in the media.
4 years ago when kerry was running this sort of thing would make me very nervous. i could care less now. why? because this shit isn't going to work this time. people are too pissed off to let semantics change thier mind. this only makes people madder and that's a good thing.
Isn't Pat Buchanan the one that said McCain makes Cheney look like Ghandi?
It’s almost seems at times like Pat is living in a different country, in a different era. One which doesn’t resemble 21st century America, and one in which he undoubtedly would feel more comfortable.
BTW, Godwin's law works (or doesnt work) both ways.
Why does anyone give this self-glorified gasbag the time of day? Exotic? Did he get a new thesaurus? My arse. Just too chicken to call him what you really think, eh?
"Exotic" does a lot of things. It makes Obama into a foreign, perfumed and incensed effeminate. An exotic dancer. Brilliant choice of an attack work. As opposed to McCain whose last video showed him in a virile cluster f*ck of manly American men all rubbing their backs up against each while backing up into a phalanx of American flags. Let the manliest man win!
Kathleen @ 58:
You may not find him racist, but what he is saying is that the only way his side can win is to lie and cheat.
That is the only way his side has ever won the presidency.
phhpt, 'exotic'
here in philly obama is about as 'exotic' as a buildings and cement.
what is 'exotic', as in strikingly unusual or strange, is someone who is at the msnbc studio 24/7. seriously, does pat have a home?
It's been said before: the 2008 election is going to bring all of the closet racists out into the open where everyone can see them, and it's going to be a turning point in their grubworms-under-the-rock existence in our society. And mark my words, we will see, before the thing is over, as the severity of the ass-whooping the Republicans are about to receive becomes apparent to even a dinosaur racist like Buchanan, his final panicked attempt to stop the oncoming crush of reality will consist of him running around the studio like his pants are on fire, screaming the n word over and over again, because behind the facade of a civilized, rational man that's all that ultimately drives a fucksack like Buchanan: keeping the n*** at bay. Like all human beings he carries the hindbrain of a fucking reptile, but in his case, he's got no forebrain to keep it under control.
David Hill @ 63:
That sounds like a great wiki entry for the definition of Republican.
Pat Buchanan is an "exoticist!" Belly up to the bar everyone ... code words all around!
Off Topic. ABC News is doing a story. Is it the end of the world? I'm deadly serious. That's all we need, the religious nut-balls in a tizzy.
that was mild for Pat.
Posted this elsewhere last night but it bears repeating.
A Warning to My Old Republican Friends: Screw Up The Obama Moment and You're History -- Literally
Samson- @ 67:
Hey! You've got a point. Maybe 'exotic' means someone who gets out once in awhile to Old Gassy there.
What an old, white, southern, racist Republican? That's unpossible!
Underground Pirate @ 66:
buchanan is a racist.
Fred @ 5:
To me this statement is worse than "exotic." The stereotyping has to stop somewhere. If the right is the only portion of the population, the only side in this election slinging shit across the room the American people will have a clear choice. If we get down in the sewer with these people it will confuse not the issue, because the color of a candidate's skin is not the issue, it will confuse fair minded people about which party is more progressive.
Attack these people on their merits or lack there of. Do not slander them. Do not libel them. We have the moral high ground. They have a slander machine. Let them sputter and let us call them on it, but please don't emulate them. That is how the United States lost its moral compass when it decided to embrace the tactics of the Soviet Union. We are better than that.
Buchanan owes me a fucking Sprite because I spit mine out last night when I saw this.
♠Bangkok-Bob♠ in Chiang Mai @ 18:
Sounds alot like Bill Clinton's story...don't it. No wonder the right wings' heads are exploding.
I think the tagline under Buchanan should always read "Former Nixon aide and self-described ratfucker"
Kathleen @ 58:
"I do not find Buchanan racist" I'll go out on a limb and say you're probably not black. I'll also suggest to you not to refer to anyone black as "exotic".
Kinda funny when the other guy whoever he is goes "What about your codewords? About McCains age. That hes confused?"
Confused means exactly that. Its not a codeword for anything.
Snig @ 80:
And the tagline under Brad Blakeman should read "Channeling Baghdad Bob."
I love watching that guy get his shit owned everytime he's on Abrams.
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America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million and were introduced to Christian salvation.
Pat Buchanan
See slavery can be fun!!!!!!
Did I think that I would ever be sticking up for Pat Buchanan? Hell no. But I have been listening closely to what Pat Buchanan has been saying the last seven years instead of a great deal of the horse shit spin on Buchanan. He stood againt the invasion of Iraq, he has consistently brought attention to the use of American soldiers lives for cannon fodder and he has consistently brought attention to the loss of Iraqi lives and the Iraqi refugee situation. You should listen closely to what he says instead of the spin.
He has been one of the ony MSMer's to stand up to the Israeli lobby (and for this is he has been labeled Anti-semite). He has consistently stood up to the right wing radical foreign policies implemented in the middle east. He has been doing this for a long long time.
Watch out for the labels and listen more closely.
Do I agree with Buchanans "anti' choice" stance. Hell no. But I have found his stance on respect for life consistent. Respect for the unborn fetus, respect for Iraqi childrens and other Iraqi peoples lives. He stood solidly against the invasion of Iraq and has been standing firm against an attack on Iran.
He knows the Republicans are done with the exception of hitting below the belt
MSNBC: THe PLACE for Racists!!!
They can try to smear Obama, it's not going to work this time around.
Sane people caught on this evil bunch and what they are up too.
It's interesting that an unapologetic bigot like Pat Buchanan is given credence for his political opinions & social commentary, while someone like Reverend Wright (who I & many others of African descent happen to agree with on some things) is universally vilified in the mainstream media.
Pat writes a book essentially telling the readers that people who are NOT white do not know how to run a democracy (as if America were actually that mythical, shining city on a hill).
In his book State of Emergency Pat wrote:
"This idea of America as a creedal nation bound together not by 'blood or birth or soil' but by 'ideals' that must be taught and learned ... is demonstrably false..."
He also cites the work of James Lubinskas (a white supremacist) and Clyde Wilson (a member of the League of the South which is filled with racists). And yet, there is no hue & cry from other white Americans loud enough to keep him off the public airwaves that I help pay for with my taxes.
Clearly there are so many white Americans in positions of power who share or sympathize with his views that Americans who do not share his skin color will continue to be subjected to his offensive rhetoric. And yet, the general consensus in this country is that racism (soft, hard, overt, covert, individual & institutional) is a thing of the past.
Funny thing that is... funny, funny thing!!
Kathleen @ 86:
Being against the war makes you anti racist?
xoites defends Constitution @ 77:
absolutely correct. That's what has helped Obama so far. The truth, simply told, and a visible sense of humanity. not one repug or repug operative has demonstrated any semblance of humanity. the repugs' only statements, other than those based on pure hatred, have been lies, denials of those lies and attacks on those who expose the lies.
i can tell you what exotic means, my mother, bless her heart, told me she wouldn't vote for Obama because his name is too close to Osama. and that is what they mean. People in this country are Morons, yes, even you MOM.
dumbasses.
Bu-Cannon is Whining on CNN as we speak. The guy must have a cot somewhere int the studio.
I thank the makers of my PC for the mute feature on my keyboard.
Kathleen @ 86:
And he's still a fucking bigot!
Don't pick on " fat pat", he loves black people, in fact he believes everyone should own three or four of them. Why is this turd even on tv, if he is so scared of people who do not look like him, perhaps he could get some courage from the wizard of oz. Hey pat, might as well pick up brains and a heart while you are there as well. worthless fuck! CEO
O.T. but I thought that Scott McClellan was supposed to testify before congress today. Has anyone heard anything.
Funny thing is, Buchy-boy opposes the war.
go figger.
SSG burnt @ 92:
LOL
Kathleen @ 86:
It's obvious you can parse with the best of them. It does not mitigate Buchanan's continuing search for the racist code word that can be deemed acceptable. It does not mitigate his continuous, blatant racism.
Many people say Pat Buchannan is a throwback to the Nixon years.
Close.
Buchannan is really from the Woodrow Wilson era.
P.D. @ 53:
AARGH! Hey, I'm an older white guy, and if I sucked any of that up,I'd hurl! No, older white guys don't have the entire stupidity cornered yet...just most of it. Most of the few counterdemonstrators at the peace rallies here seem to be young (military aged!) white pick up truck guys. Funny, why aren't they in the service?
Here is a site Obama put up to combat the smears campaign. Share it with your friends. Share it with others.
Kathleen @ 86:
Even a broken clock is right 2 times each day.
harley @ 85:
As if slavery weren't enough, they had to be further suppressed and manipulated by converting them to Christianity.
i've seen pat buchanan and supposively his sister bae buchanan on television but never together.......i swear it's pat in drag
doesn't understand middle America?????
Maybe we should start sending dog whistles to pat and other pundits when they make these "exotic" statements
Mick @ 101:
Because they have a social conscience and they have chosen to use it wisely.
t-bone @ 55:
He's Hyde Park.....
What has happened at Hyde Park?
xoites defends Constitution @ 90:
How is it that you do not consider the MSM's and our nations willingness to dismiss the deaths of over a million Iraqi people a(who knows how many have been injured) and 4 million Iraqi refugees as RASCIST. There are a pack of Islamophobes in the Bush administration.
I have heard many Americans when they are referring to what is going on in Afghanistan, Iraq, (maybe about to go on in Iran) say 'KILL THEM ALL" I have heard this too many times to list. Yes this war in Iraq is partially racist. And yes Pat Buchanan has expressed anger, concern and dismay at the loss of American and Iraqi lives far more than many Americans. And yes this war is racist.
Underground Pirate @ 104:
Being snatched from your home, being stacked like a sardine in a tin on a slave ship, to work in the fields 15 hours a day is salvation....to your owner.
Mick @ 101:
They are busy fighting democracy here. Their reward will be brown shirts and swastikas.
Kathleen @ 109:
I consider it racist. You consider it racist. That does not mean Pat Buchanan considers it racist. He may consider it bad policy.
Speaking of the right... Michelle Malkin has made a new blog about fighting the smears against Rush and the Right.
I nearly lost my cookie... that's funny. I find it hard to believe that they are smears if they're the god-honest truth.
Pray for me... I'm going to go read it.
CEO,citizens,eyes,open @ 95:
Where is your evidence for making these claims?
harley @ 110:
Not to mention being bullwhipped or having a limb hacked off if you tried to escape.
Oh my Gawd! Pat is teaching us how to do the Ubangi Stomp!
I watched Buchannan squirm like the maggot he is last night.
xoites defends Constitution @ 112:
If there was a god that old fart would just dry up some more and blow the fuck away......
Underground Pirate @ 107:
I probably wasn't clear...I'm saying that the COUNTERdemonstrators at peace rallies are mostly young guys in large vehicles. If they had a social conscience - they would not be COUNTERdemonstrating at ANTIwar rallies i.e. they are demonstrating in favor of Bush's war.
Kathleen @ 114:
As i said up at 77, calling names or making shit up is wrong. We have enough facts on our side. Using smears or distorting the truth or outright lies will remove our credibility. Leave that the the far right and let them reap what they sow.
SSG burnt@92 I know how you feel, My mom(rip) who while I was growing up taught me all about being a good citizen, and yet in the 04 election she told me she would not vote for Kerry because of something she had read in an e- mail about his wife. What the hell happens to people that reduces them to shallow thinking when they get older, lazy?, mind going? out of touch? When I called her on it she got really pissed that I would question her at all. I could not believe my ears. WTF.-CEO
I think Julie makes a good point at the end. The right sticks to smearing while Barack speaks on those issues that are important to Americans. ie, the economy, the war, energy.....
I suppose when you are running on a party platform that has nothing to show over the last eight years, there is not much left to highlight other than to attack the other guy..Pathetic!
Kathleen @ 118:
Wow! Now I am exotic. Kool.
In this age of 24 hour news cycle, expect stuff like this to fill the vacant space.
Mick @ 120:
Sorry!! mybad
Kathleen @ 86:
A piece of shit with fresh M&M's in it is as inedible as a plain ol' piece of shit. You still won't like eating it just because some of the bits are palatable.
He didn't say anything racist. All he did was predict what sort of dirty tricks the GOP would use. The only thing buchanan is guilty of is trying to be too careful with his words and looking silly.
If he had just said the GOP will play dirty, calling Obama's race into question and playing on some ignorant voters tendencies, he would be in the clear while having said the same thing.
The day Pat Buchanan stands up and shouts, "I hate black people!" then I'll admit that he is what you say he is... but I think all the commenters here are letting their hate for all things Republican to make them more eager to jump all over Buchanan. He said nothing wrong.
Kathleen, if you are having problems with the quoting feature, skip it and just say it. (I feel like i am watching reruns.) :)
We would do well to listen to what Buchannon says. I respect this guy's political insight more and more each day. If Rush Limbaugh says the liberals are in trouble and going down, I ignore it, becuase he'll always say that. But if Pat says it, I worry because he speaks the brutal, straighforwardly honest truth, politically. I heard that exchange, and I don't think he was trying to say that the right SHOULD use Obama's "difference" to gain politically, but that they WILL, right or wrong. And I agree. Resist the initial emotional response and LISTEN. Obama's lead in this race is very, very tenuous, and he is still extremely vulnerable. We must fight TO WIN like we're behind this entire campaign until the last vote is counted.
all this time i was calling mccain exotic.....private jet,eight homes,wealthy spouse,born in the panama canal area
i had the definition of exotic all wrong.....the republicans are going to be very dirty and make it so some demographics will be embarassed to vote for obama and in addition if something big happens ie. attack iran that will take it over the edge we must be ready and not take this for granted.
Underground Pirate @ 66:
I've always felt that Pat Buchanan was pretty goddam exotic.
Pat can't say what he thinks in polite society, so he descibes Obama as if he were a fish. Exotic, eh? Well, I guess the majority of americans can be described as exotic. Hell, the whole friggin' world is exotic. Pity the poor people who are melanine challenged.
Yeah, Pat is speaking for the Beltway and his 'kind'. Purely for their consumption. He ain't talking to us darkies.
Some code. I guess we'll need to get a code whisperer full time until November.
Scott @ 130:
If you ever watched the Cartoon "Speed Racer" the theme is always the same. Speed Racer drives a fair race and his opponent does everything he can to cheat to get over the finish line first. Speed Racer wins but he has to work extra hard to do it.
This is not a cartoon with a made to order ending.
We will have to work three times as hard to win. We have to counter the lies and the smears and show the racism for what it really is. We have to be creative and we have to be right every time.
Otherwise McCain will win.
Jesus, can the phucker be any more condescending?
Steve @ 128:
OK, Mr. Race Authority. Next time I'll wait for your expert opinion before I try to interpret the red flags I'm getting from Mr. Buchanan. Arrogant fucker.
harley @ 85:
wow, it sure can harley! why those uppity Negroes sure have a nerve getting pissed about being forced into going to church, i know i sure loved it as a kid. nothing better than getting up on a sunday morning, and sitting in a nice and hard church pew instead of playing free outside. those 600,000 colored folk that complained are off their rockers also!. heck look at the facts, they got free, all-expense paid cruises across the atlantic too! they must have been some great kind of cruises too, because after getting off the ship their population ballooned to 40 million. talk about the love boat huh?
gee, that pat buchanan is some kinda astute fella. i sure hope all republicans aren't like him. we'll be screwed in the fall if they are.
LOL That Brad guy saying "your side is going to use code word for McCain's age"
LOL, yup, "72 years old" is a might sneaky "code word" LOL
Left&Left @ 81:
Hey! I'm not black and I think he's a big old bad ass racist. Probably the worst kind-the kind that has white people thinking what he says is not racially based or motivated. It makes sneaky racism acceptable-"He never said n-----" is NOT racist to a lot of white people, unfortunately. :-(
Steve @ 128:
Your concern has been noted. Duly.
tz @ 139:
McCain can't help it if he was born at the age of 72. :)
the surrogates are going to do the dirty work and mccain is going to be the grandfather figure......now that he has stated he can't control what others say...this strategy is going to be very effective
I'm glad their all having such a good time.
Who was that in the bottom left? Yes, let's do away with "code words" (Oh god, I feel another election year meme stalking us):
He's a putz.
The reality, friends and neighbors, is that the other side depends on and counts on our passive reaction when they go negative. They count our our reaction that "well we don't want to be brought down to their level." I see it on the blogs when folks say that McCain's "age" is off limits or McCain's status as a POW is off limits. We fall for their shit every time and it consistently adds up to one thing---LOSING.
Many say that we have a death wish to always bring a knife to a gun fight.
Fight back with nothing being off limits. We know that the MSM will attack us for it, so what.
If we don't, we'll feel better about our moral superiority while we're getting drunk during the McCain swearing-in next January.
karl @ 143:
"I can't control what others say."
["I can't wait until they get going!"]
miss_kitty @ 64:
Pat probably figured "uppity ni**er" would get him in trouble.
If you really want to know the truth, many progressives I know have more respect for Pat Buchanan than they do for
Andrea Mitchell, Tucker Carlson, Dan Abrams, Keith(I wanna be Jon Stewart) Olberman, and Chrissy Ann Matthews.
All these people suffer from major Clintonphobia and a skewed vision of their importance to this campaign.
Pat makes more sense than any of them.
t-bone @ 55:
Underground Pirate @ 57:
xoites defends Constitution @ 142:
they want us to attack his age....they will constantly set that trap for us until someone steps into it. personally i feel it doesn't matter depending on the person but of course you never know...i think mccain's biological age is higher than his calendar age...
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