"unfortunately"???

Ari Melber is so cute. J.P. Freire is such a poop.

I absolutely love it when McCain/Palin/Republicans,etc cannot come up with any specific examples/follow up to the accusations they hurl up.
it's just beautiful, J.P. Freire "classic trumping up of the RACE card". Ari does not bring up race, he brings up hate. J.P. Freire immediately changes the subject to Obama's mentors.
J.P. Freire, et al can all just FUCK OFF

Sieze every verbal typo and extrapolate it into a news story. I can't wait till the next one.

Biden sounded like a gangster.
It was awesome!

@4 I have to give the Republicans props for finally using some imagination with their paid shills, but that doesn't make you less of a paid shill. Or any more effective as one. Your posts are just as clumsy as any other paid shills because you have no other choice -- you're dancing around the truth, which means you can't help but slip and fall.

Perhaps your friends wouldn't have "verbal typos" if they just spoke the truth plainly.

One other thing. Republicans partly INVENTED identity politics and the "race card" they supposedly deplore.

1) Southern Strategy for segregationists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

2) The "social issue" for northern Democrats who were economic populists but would vote Republican if they could get riled up against anti-war protesters and civil rights activists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Majority

Verbal typo, raindrop? Do you mean him using the word "unfortunate"? That's a little bit more than a typo. But even so, there's plenty more ridiculous bullshit coming out of that man's mouth.

Perhaps, you can illuminate how Obama saying that Ayers was "just some guy in the neighborhood" is some nefarious obscuring of their true relationship, when it's well documented that Obama served on the same board with him and had one political rally in the guy's house, and all because he was a well respected guy who happened to live in Obama's neighborhood. Because this guy certainly doesn't seem to know, and no other conservative who harps constantly on the issue seems to either.

FOX FORUM: What Will You Do If Election Is Stolen?

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/rmiller_1010/#more-1548

verbal typo.. they didn't mean to play the 'race' card. they meant to play the 'rice' card. make a note of it y'all.

Fun and interesting side note: Ari Melber grew up right here in Seattle, Washington.

it's funny how you can tell that the conservative guy just doesn't have a soul, or at least it's been packed neatly away behind that crappy suit of his. does anyone think the paycheck is really worth it?

For more about this kind of race baiting, visit stopdogwhistleracism.com. We cover the good, bad and ugly from the left, right and center about race in the race.

90 percent of African-Americans support BO.

Why won't they even consider voting for McCain?

The Republicans are grasping at straws.

@12 -- The other way around.

I think the problem for Democrats is they started to believe their own hype.

Let's remember...Obama never won a single big primary in his own party.

Obama is a media concoction.

What you are seeing now is the reaction

A reaction not based on race, or ethnicity, much as SLOG would like to believe.

But based on the simple question: Why is Barry Obama?

After two years, many people still don't know.

His biography is not authentic, and people are starting to see through the veil.

Some slime is racist and some isn't.
Don't call the normal GOP slime racist slime--they painted the last candidate as a suspicious foreigner cuz he had a foreign wifey spent childhoods in France etc. Threw away his medals etc.
The other day everyone was upset about the "Osama" ballot ..turns out (a) it went out to 300 voters (b) the bipartisan elections board had a D commissh who said it was a mistake.
There's plenty of real racism about in this campaign and in America today, why not be careful in crying racism?
Right now Obama is doing great on TV hitting hard that America is about full opportunity for all -- not just CEOs -- he ties this back to one America we are all together we will rise or fall as one nation -- wonderful -- (warning to Bailo et al. yes indeedy he's laying the ground work for more socialism communism collectism anti wildmarketism, via democracy/regulation/intervention/ redistribution, yesirree just like most of the rest of the capitalist world has more smartly decided on, democratically)

setting stage for his big half hour speech when hopefully he lays out his plans for first 100 days and push for fucking getting everything passed asap like FDR.

The more we focus on that the more change we will actually get.

Some of the talk like that of Bill Ayers, is just normal GOP slime not the GOP racist slime....some of the other talk is racist slime.....thankfully it won't work this year because the economy is tanking.

In response to the Ayers slime we should simply point out a huge GOP richy rich Annenberg set up a education charity and had a board with lots of people on it D and R and when Obama and Ayers were on that board working with a bbunch off others they were fulfilling the intent of that richy rich Annenberg.

So if Ayers was doing what a GOP richey rich wanted to do the implciation it was nefarious is a big fat typical GOP slimey treasonous unpatriotic unAmerican lie.

Just in this case not a racist one.

Unity y'all--

@16: Hmmmm....

Why is Barry Obama?

Let's remember...Obama never won a single big primary in his own party.

The real racists are in the Democrat Party. They always have been. In fact therewould have been no Civil Rights Act of 1964 if not for Republicans.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

The real racists are in the Democrat Party. They always have been. In fact therewould have been no Civil Rights Act of 1964 if not for Republicans.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

The real racists are in the Democrat Party. They always have been. In fact therewould have been no Civil Rights Act of 1964 if not for Republicans.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

The real racists are in the Democrat Party. They always have been. In fact therewould have been no Civil Rights Act of 1964 if not for Republicans.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

wait, obama is a closeted islamic redistributionist junkie? well, shit, then i'm gonna vote for him twice. i know lord basil and john bailo are trolls, but seriously, "why is barry obama?" "dympathizer", can't you idiots even troll without making fools of yourselves. there's no time limit on commenting, you can go ahead and proof read yourself.

and john bailo, i mean what i said. watch that clip. you can see the conservative guy struggle with his own wilting humanity. it doesn't matter who you support or what label you call yourself, when something is plain as day, go ahead and call it bright.

I went drinking with Lord Basil and woke up with my asshole really hurting and it is bleeding too. Should I be concerned?

@ 9 - Went to that message board. It's safe to say our educational system has failed most of those people. But what's scary is that many of these ingrates know how to use a gun. When I read the rage of these racist motherfuckers, I get the chills, big time. It's an environment that breeds the Timothy McVeighs of this world. Absolutely fucking scary.

Sarah Palin needs to be raped by a gang of black thugs according to the brilliant performer Sandra Bernhard.

I can't believe how racist and biggoted the Republicans are. We have to silence McCain and Palin now! Barak Obama's first act as president should be to arrest Sarah Palin for hate crimes.

@26

That quote makes me think that you and Sandra Bernhard are pretty racist and sexist yourselves. "Raped by a gang of BLACK THUGS?" Do you listen to yourself?

Much like moderate republicans are brought down by "Kill him" and "off with his head," I feel ashamed to share a party affiliation with you and Sandra Bernhard issur.

John Bailo, you are a media concoction, ringing hollowly with the shrill right-wing bullshit you regurgitate. Sorry to be the one to break it to you.

And by the way, if McCain's campaign couldn't find anything more damning about Obama and Ayers after all these months, there really isn't any "mentor" relationship or McCain's campaign is completely inept. Or both, now that I think about it.

Gay people know that the Republican's exploit hate and ignorance at every election because they've been the victims before. It should be no surprise to anyone they are now whipping up racial hatred. Keep focused and remind people McCain is the reason their 401K is in the tank.

sam @27, issur is one of slogs more persistent trolls, you'd be better off ignoring him/her/it.

The reason I personally conclude that this shit is racist is that I don't believe that people are dumb enough to actually oppose Obama because of trumped-up GOP nonsense. Rather, I think they latch on to trumped-up GOP nonsense because it gives them an excuse not to acknowledge that racism is their real reason for being uncomfortable with the candidate.

And no, I don't think the McCain campaign is trying to whip up racist votes. I think they're trying to whip up a racist nutjob assassination.

Another fun fact: Canard is the French word for duck.

I'm never comfortable agreeing with the Earl of Fawlty, but he has a point. Back in 1964 (when Mr Obama was three years old), it was indeed Republicans without whose firm support the Civil Rights Act would not have been passed. And if there were an ex-KKK Kleagle--a recruiting officer--in Congress as a Republican we'd surely hear a lot more about him than we do about Mr Byrd. One could also mention George Wallace and 'Bull' Connor as racist Democrats within living memory.

It was in 1854 that the Republican Party was founded in order to put an end to slavery, and a Republican President, Lincoln, fought a war to accomplish it, freeing the slaves by the Emancipation Proclamation. The first black Representative, Joseph Rainey, and the first black Senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, were Republicans. But let's fast-forward.

In 1954, former GOP governor of California and GOP vice-presidential candidate Earl Warren won unanimous support for the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.

In 1955, E. Frederic Morrow, a Republican, was appointed the first black Presidential staffer by President Eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the Civil Rights Act of that year; in that year he also forced school desegregation, and in 1960 introduced another Civil Rights Act.

In 1965, a Republican judge, Frank Johnson, overruled George Wallace's attempt to ban Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery. Also that year, it was Republican votes that passed the Voting Rights Act.

In 1971, Republican President Richard Nixon made RA Samuel Gravely the first black officer to attain flag rank in the US Navy. Nixon also selected the first black Teacher Of The Year, James M. Rogers Jr., and named the first black Secretary of Transportation, William T. Coleman, and in 1972 appointed the first black member of the US Civil Rights Commission, Benjamin Hooks, who would later speak at the 1980 Republican National Convention as NAACP President.

In 1975, GOP President Gerald Ford gave the fourth star for the first-ever black Air Force general, Daniel James.

In 1981, GOP President Ronald Reagan appointed Clarence Pendleton the first black Chair of the US Civil Rights Commission.

In 1982, Reagan promoted the first black four-star general in the U.S. Army, Roscoe Robinson, and extended the 1965 Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. It would be extended again in 2007 by GOP Pres. George Dubya Bush. Reagan also made Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday in 1983.

In 1991, GOP President George H. W. Bush signed another Civil Rights Act. In 1996, a bill authored by GOP Congresswoman Susan Molinari outlawing racial discrimination in adoptions was passed by a Republican Congress. In 1999, it was GOP Senator Spencer Abraham who saw to it that Rosa Parks got the Congressional Gold Medal for her civil rights work.

In 2000, J. C. Watts became the first black presider at a major national party convention, the Republican one. In 2001, Dubya selected the first black Secretary of Education, Rod Paige. In the same year, the GOP Senate made Alfonso Lenhardt the first black Sergeant-at-Arms, and Dubya named Colin Powell the first black Secretary of State. He would be followed by second black one, Condoleezza Rice, in 2005.

In 2003, Jeannette Bradley of Ohio became the first black woman Lieutenant-Governor of a State. The same year, GOP Senator Sam Brownback introduced legislation to establish the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, which Dubya signed into law.

So, I'm wondering, exactly when did the Republican Party become a nothing but a raving lynch mob of black-hating bigots and racists? Seems to me that African-Americans have done pretty well by that party generally. And with Democrats making up about 39% of the electorate, it's doubtful that a President Obama could be elected without a fair amount of support from registered Republicans.

Just puttin' out some facts for the mill.

Correction: "In 2003, Republican Jeannette Bradley, etc."

wonder if America is ready for a black president, or will it show the true racial legacy of the icemans inheritance

Yes, the GOP had a nice civil rights history. Because of you, I'm going to vote for the candidate who's most like Abraham Lincoln.

Ugh, I'm so tired of hearing Republicans take credit for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. While it's true that many of the staunchest opponents were Southern Democrats, more Democrats in both the House and the Senate voted for it than Republicans did, and it was President Johnson - a Southern Democrat - who engineered the strategy to get the legislation around hostile committee chairs. Sure, the Republicans who voted for it helped provide the majorities needed for passage, but it's disingenuous to then give the Republican Party sole credit for its passage. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_party for the actual voting breakdown.

So if you're genuinely curious about how much of my soul I had to tuck away prior to my career of occasional verbal gaffes, I'm more than happy to tell you. But to be honest, I was arguing for conservatism long before I knew I could get paid for it.

I think RS has a solid point about the history of the Civil Rights Act, but it's only one point in the long list of things Seajay offered.

Chris in Tampa -- Two things. One, I was wearing jeans and a black blazer. I didn't think it would be obvious the blazer wasn't the best, but I don't really get paid a lot. Fortunately, most people ripped on my glasses than the jacket.

Two, you do have a point about whether those things showing a relationship between Obama and Ayers are relevant. But that's always the political football, right? McCain is at a rally, and two people say inappropriate things, and suddenly his campaign is encouraging racism. But even a superficial relationship with Ayers, or a very real relationship with Jeremiah Wright, can't be questioned? That doesn't strike me as very fair.

@4 -- Well, expletives aside, I actually misunderstood Ari when he said "hate" because "hate crimes" are most definitely crimes against minorities, etc. But it's sort of tenuous to even try to make the distinction right? In essence, his argument is that the McCain campaign is dredging up hate, even though the examples, if we take average Americans on good faith, are outliers. Those nuts that stand up and cry out racist slurs against Obama at McCain rallies can't be speaking for a majority.

Bringing up the radical connections isn't encouraging racism, or "hate" (as it may somehow be different from racism) guys. The racists don't need to be "convinced" they don't like Obama.

Sorry JP, but you didn't come across very good on this video. I think a couple shots of something strong beforehand might have loosened you up.