I just learned something new from Mitt Romney about the hard-working American people.
Can you guess what it is? Sure enough, according to Mitt Romney, the hard-working Americans are all white! Who would have thought?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F4LtTlktm0&feature=player_embedded
If you watch the video you'll see what I mean. Set aside for the moment the fact that the claim made in the ad is a lie: nothing that President Obama has done “guts” welfare reform. Instead, pay attention to the text and subtext.
The text is pretty straightforward: by “gutting” President Clinton's welfare reform President Obama has betrayed hard-working Americans and favored people who want to just sit at home and collect welfare checks. This text follows a standard Republican theme for the last few decades.
So does the subtext. The ad shows us video of the hard-working Americans that Romney wants to protect, and every single one of those hard-working Americans is white. Every single one.
Romney here is following in the proud tradition of Jesse Helms, and other Republicans who have made blatant appeals to racism.
Usually, when Republicans do this kind of thing it works. We'll see what happens this time. Meanwhile, prepare for more as the Republicans show their true colors.
are lining up behind Romney for November.
Obama is black, and many of them hate that. Somewhere between a third and a half believe the Muslim and birther conspiracies, that is how deep their mindless visceral hatred and racism is.
The GOP has been after Obama’s blackness like a pack of rabid hyenas since it looked like he was going to beat Hillary. Their constituencies fear and hatred of Obama and his blackness gets them out the door every morning, the only thing they can really count on, and their only consistent position.
The Ryan pick is a Hail Mary. His young white-breadness will keep the lynch mob snarlin’ and the hope is that some swing state voters will be fooled by his wonkishness. I’m thinking Biden will eat him alive in debates, but I hate having the fate of this nation riding on a couple of debate performances.
I had not seen the ad. I usually do not watch TV. It is only August and the political landscape is already so ugly. It is very disheartening to see everything I began advocating for in 1967-68 being torn down. Civil rights, women’s rights, gay and lesbian rights, a strong social safety net, good healthcare for all, strong environmental protection efforts, and an end to corporate and banking malfeasance. What a messy legacy for our kids and grandchildren.
Yes. Us whities are no longer the majority race in this country. Must be time to circle the wagons. Them ‘others’ is coming to get those low-paying minimum wage jobs we need to fight to hold on to. No? Oh yeah, that’s right. They don’t want to work. They’re laughing at us working our asses of at these low paying minimum wage jobs. Why, the SONABITCHES! I can’t get a raise because these people are getting free money? Hey? Can I get some of that? Yeah. Quit this bastard job. Let the government support me. You Too! Come on EVERYBODY–I Quit! I Quit! I Fuckin’ Quit!!! Ahhh…that’s better.