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Racism Is the Answer

“Racist” dissenters. Kneejerk liberalism. The Baucus option. Plus more.

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With all due respect, Mr. Cline, you could not be more wrong here. The last thing I plan to do if called a racist is to get into an argument with my accuser about whether or not the charge is valid.

What I would say is what any conservative, in private or public life, should now say:

“The word ‘racism’ has been applied so often to legitimate differences of opinion that the word has lost its meaning. When my accuser wants to grow up and discuss the issues, I’ll be happy to do so.”
— Bob Danielson

The liberals have been demonstrably telling fibs about their health care plans and now they and their media henchmen lie about racism. What’s new? Why should they have any credibility about this?
— Craig

CHOKING ON AN ELEPHANT
Re: Philip Klein’s No Deal:

Senator Baucus, having been properly seasoned by his 30 plus years in the Senate, unlike a certain arrogant and inexperienced Chi Town pol, knows how to cook a frog: slowly.

The Democrats have not lost their lust for power. Baucus is simply more patient and less arrogant than President Obama. That the liberal base feels impatient, emboldened and entitled only works against them. The American public might have gone for the health care co-ops early on, but The One looked to swallow the elephant in one bite and the American people were startled into opposition. Once the people became aware of the level of intrusion, the war on health care was once again lost by the Left.

Now that the not so silent majority of Americans have been stirred from their slumber, it is up to the Right (not necessarily the GOP) to come up with some tasty alternatives to the current administrations smorgasbord of government goodies.

Maybe the Left has, once again, cooked its own overstuffed goose.
— I.M. Kessel

NOT THE BEST VOTING BLOCK
Re: W. James Antle III.’s Life Lynched:

Congressmen Lynch forgot that “the unborn” don’t have a voice, and he just (re)learned, they don’t vote either.
— I.M.Kessel

UNFORGIVEABLE
Re: Mark Judge’s Lingua Crapa:

Bias and its practitioners’ lack of writing skills, or just being lousy at what they do aren’t the only reasons for the liberal media’s decline.

Maybe they don’t know news gathering and reporting differ from opinion, and that advocacy doesn’t belong in news?

Maybe its practitioners lack creativity?

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Letter to the Editor View all comments (12) |

Alan Brooks| 9.18.09 @ 9:00AM

Even our pets are racists these days.
You'd better take Fido to the vet and have him put to sleep.

Galen| 9.18.09 @ 10:34AM

Obama's task is to make everyone forget Carter.

Margie| 9.18.09 @ 12:45PM

You wanna see racism on display? Read Obama's autobiography!

sandyinohio| 9.18.09 @ 2:04PM

Very Good!

Alan Brooks| 9.18.09 @ 8:44PM

'Funny' thing is, at the very moment America is no longer truly racist (in contrast to many countries that ARE still racist) Carter opens his big stupid pie hole...

and shoots it off.

Alan Brooks| 9.18.09 @ 10:29PM

Carter is the politician (retired, though) version of a muck-raking journalist, only it is his big mouth that it stupid, not his mind.
With friends like Carter, Obama doesn't enemies.
Okay, America is racist, but less racist than other
nations. Canada is less racist, because there are less minorities there. Scandinavia is in fact a kinder, gentler region;
but for how long? until minorities filter into the region and it is economically globalised.
I'm not sure, but it appears the one leads to the other.
We live in no utopia-- and the Nordics are going to find that out in the next decade.

Alan Brooks| 9.18.09 @ 10:34PM

Carter is nothing so much as the political version of Dr. Laura, lecturing us all the time:

"You're wacists!"
"You think wacist thoughts"

Alan Brooks| 9.18.09 @ 11:19PM

In my two cents (or one cents worth) opinion, President Obama ought to get advice from conservative blacks on improving race relations. Jimmy Carter, as he knows, is mostly fanning the fires of dissension; Carter means well, but so does Louis Farrakhan.
A conservative such as Thomas Sowell could definitely help-- if he isn't seen as anathema by too many blacks.

Look at how Al Sharpton is working together with Newt Gingrich on education. Be thankful for small favors

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