Friday, January 30, 2009
2008 Smelling the Coffee
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Yet another reason for some grave turning.
This age does not know how to stop surprising us.
Michael Steele has won the election to be chairman of the Republican National Committee, becoming the first African-American to lead the party.Mr Steele won in the sixth ballot, with 91 votes out of a possible 168. His nearest rival, Katon Dawson, received the remaining 77 votes.
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Um, but won't they still be something like 99 percent old white people at their conventions?
Sorry, not buying it.
Sorry, not buying it.
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The next time a republican says that obama was elected because he was black, say the same thing about steele. then watch their head explode with glee.
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what's the surprising part? they've concluded that obama was elected BECAUSE he was black. they're consistently clueless.
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wow, that's really going to show us Democrats who's winning the culture wars..."We're going to top your Black President by electing a Black Party Chair! Nyah!"
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GOP is not synonymous with racial bigotry.
From reconstruction to the 1930's African Americans overwhelming supported Republican candidates. Of course Jim Crow prevented many from voting, but southern Democrats enforced poll taxes too.
And glossed over with all these Obama/Lincoln references... "the Great Emancipator" was a Republican
From reconstruction to the 1930's African Americans overwhelming supported Republican candidates. Of course Jim Crow prevented many from voting, but southern Democrats enforced poll taxes too.
And glossed over with all these Obama/Lincoln references... "the Great Emancipator" was a Republican
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And 150 years ago liberals were all about laissez-faire capitalism. Definitions change. Political parties get co-opted, and the GOP may not be synonymous with racial bigotry, but it sure as hell rhymes with it. A Republican is just a Dixiecrat by another name.
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Spot on! smade!
If only more people would understand political history.
Dixiecrats became and are still the heart and soul of the Republican Party. Who woulda thunk it. The Republicans are becoming a regional party. It must be fucking killing the country club money republican golf course types!!
If only more people would understand political history.
Dixiecrats became and are still the heart and soul of the Republican Party. Who woulda thunk it. The Republicans are becoming a regional party. It must be fucking killing the country club money republican golf course types!!
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I didn't know there were any black Republicans left. Amazing. And he's a black Catholic who doesn't appear to be from New Orleans. Very surprising.
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Remember, Obama ran against a black Republican, Alan Keyes, who has been a Presidential contender in the past.
(He beat him thoroughly, but it's the thought...)
(He beat him thoroughly, but it's the thought...)
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I don't know this guy from Obama, but he could be one of at least two things...
-- an enlightened conciliator who will help lead the Republican Party into the 20th century, then maybe even the 21st.
-- a co-conspirator on the level of fellow black man Ken Blackwell, a Bush/Rove lapdog who (incredibly, in our "democracy") held dual roles as Chief Elections Official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the "Committee to re-elect George W. Bush" during the 2004 election.
Which is it gonna be? Inquiring minds want to know.
-- an enlightened conciliator who will help lead the Republican Party into the 20th century, then maybe even the 21st.
-- a co-conspirator on the level of fellow black man Ken Blackwell, a Bush/Rove lapdog who (incredibly, in our "democracy") held dual roles as Chief Elections Official of Ohio and honorary co-chair of the "Committee to re-elect George W. Bush" during the 2004 election.
Which is it gonna be? Inquiring minds want to know.
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@8: The GOP became synonymous with racial bigotry in the 1970s, around the same time the Dems became pretty much the only party for African Americans interested in seeing the federal government enforce civil rights laws passed in the 1960s.
Blame Nixon's Southern strategy, and also Nixon courting the anti-busing, anti-quota northern white voter. By the time Reagan began his campaign in the town where 4 civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi, and later appointed an unknown and unqualified Clarence Thomas to head the EEOC solely because of his race, it was all over for the "party of Lincoln."
Blame Nixon's Southern strategy, and also Nixon courting the anti-busing, anti-quota northern white voter. By the time Reagan began his campaign in the town where 4 civil rights workers were killed in Mississippi, and later appointed an unknown and unqualified Clarence Thomas to head the EEOC solely because of his race, it was all over for the "party of Lincoln."
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"From reconstruction to the 1930's"
I judge the Republican Party by what they have done, and their overall M.O. for the past 50+ years. Electing a single black member of your party as head of your National Committee does not make them suddenly enlightened. Let's see how much progress Steele even makes. I'll be surprised if he lasts a year.
I judge the Republican Party by what they have done, and their overall M.O. for the past 50+ years. Electing a single black member of your party as head of your National Committee does not make them suddenly enlightened. Let's see how much progress Steele even makes. I'll be surprised if he lasts a year.
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@8,
You are indeed correct. I recall seeing a campaign commercial for Eisenhower (from a documentary) featuring an African-American male touting him for Pres. Its no surprise that the GOP is trying include more African-Americans. I believe the GOP is already the party of Asian-Americans. The Republicans merely want to expand their base. Bully for them.
You are indeed correct. I recall seeing a campaign commercial for Eisenhower (from a documentary) featuring an African-American male touting him for Pres. Its no surprise that the GOP is trying include more African-Americans. I believe the GOP is already the party of Asian-Americans. The Republicans merely want to expand their base. Bully for them.
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Blacks voted Republican until 1960/Kennedy.
Democrats ran on a platform in 1864 (after the Civil War was virtually won) of ending the war and preserving slavery.
After the Civil War Democrats invented Jim Crow and forced segregation, as well as the KKK.
After the Civil Rights laws were passed Democrats substituted economic slavery for actual slavery- Blacks became enslaved by welfare and poor schools (run and staffed by Democratic union 'educators') and dependent on the Democratic political machine, the Black family disintegrated and that brings us up to today.
When Blacks are ready to free themselves from the enslavements they currently find themselves entangled in (drugs, unwed birthrate, lack of education options, culture of dependancy) they will find their emancipation once again in the Republican Party.
Democrats ran on a platform in 1864 (after the Civil War was virtually won) of ending the war and preserving slavery.
After the Civil War Democrats invented Jim Crow and forced segregation, as well as the KKK.
After the Civil Rights laws were passed Democrats substituted economic slavery for actual slavery- Blacks became enslaved by welfare and poor schools (run and staffed by Democratic union 'educators') and dependent on the Democratic political machine, the Black family disintegrated and that brings us up to today.
When Blacks are ready to free themselves from the enslavements they currently find themselves entangled in (drugs, unwed birthrate, lack of education options, culture of dependancy) they will find their emancipation once again in the Republican Party.
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Hmm - this guy was my "Student Council President" in college. Really!
Republicans from Baltimore: Steele, Alan Keyes, Linda Chavez ...hmm you'd think a Republican from Baltimore would have won an election in the last.. oh since WWII maybe?
Or Not.
Oh, btw, Nancy Pelosi is from Baltimore too. There is a history of actually winning elections in her family...
Republicans from Baltimore: Steele, Alan Keyes, Linda Chavez ...hmm you'd think a Republican from Baltimore would have won an election in the last.. oh since WWII maybe?
Or Not.
Oh, btw, Nancy Pelosi is from Baltimore too. There is a history of actually winning elections in her family...
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five dollars that he' turns out to be gay when the appropriate time happens...
oh.. and do i have to be dead to start spinning ?
oh.. and do i have to be dead to start spinning ?
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@4 uhm, I don't think their heads will explode with glee, I think you want us to watch with glee while their heads explode....unless I'm really that wrong about republicans. It will be interesting to watch, however it unfolds.
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Excellent. Both of the black Republicans will be happy about this.
Plus, the racist half of the Republican party will have to find some other place to go, politically speaking.
Plus, the racist half of the Republican party will have to find some other place to go, politically speaking.
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By being elected president, Obama overcame the massive racial hatred that existed only in liberal imaginations.
I don't know a single conservative who thought America wouldn't elect a black man.
If Republicans had run Colin Powell in 1996 -- back when he was a Republican -- he would have been the first black president. As Powell himself said, he received the strongest support from Southern white men, who admired his military background.
The first serious black candidate to run for president in America won, so blacks are one-for-one in a country liberals would have us believe is teeming with Ku Klux Klanners.
I don't know a single conservative who thought America wouldn't elect a black man.
If Republicans had run Colin Powell in 1996 -- back when he was a Republican -- he would have been the first black president. As Powell himself said, he received the strongest support from Southern white men, who admired his military background.
The first serious black candidate to run for president in America won, so blacks are one-for-one in a country liberals would have us believe is teeming with Ku Klux Klanners.
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