The Obama Double Standard– How Team O Treated Ferraro vs. Harry Reid (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:08 AM
More Post-Racial Politics…
Naked Emperor News and Breitbart TV released this video today showing the Obama double-standard on race. When they need to attack their opponent the race-card is played. When they need the offender’s assistance, the race-card stays in their hand.
Unfortunately for Clinton supporter Geraldine Ferraro the race card was played and played hard by Team Obama:
Of course, Harry Reid was given a complete pass for making a similar statement by this same leftist mob.
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J commented:
Haven’t you noticed? They can treat women and african americans like garbage and the women and african americans tolerate it. Ferraro is still a dem and the majority of african americans are still dems…..and most of them don’t realize Lincoln was a republican.
Mats commented:
Change!
Nahanni commented:
What the Corruptocrats, their race warrior buddies, the presstitutes in the MSM and their drool cupped Obamaworshiping Orcs and Trolls do not realize is that they just tore up The Race Card(TM) and tossed it in the fire.
They have shown to everyone the hypocrisy that I have known about for quite some time-that it has never been about the color of ones skin but the color of ones politics with them.
Their tossing of The Race Card(TM) has always been for me their equivalent of their admission that everything that is being said about [insert subject here] has been true and they can not defend their position with a logical, factual argument.
olm commented:
Thank you, I completely forgot about GF. She was completely railroaded and over nothing, IMO. Based on Trent Lott, at the time, it was tough to feel too sorry for her. BUT, Dingy Harry getting a pass and compared to GF shows that the plantation is alive and well and chugging along. How do feminists remain Democrats? Oh yeah, it’s that killing babies thing.
The Bear commented:
Bros before hos
Agent 99 commented:
Astounding!! I mentioned Geraldine just the other day!! But I’ve seen her since (like on Neil Cavuto) and she’s totally forgiven them. Tow the Party Line. (But she was MAD …angry.. for awhile) But not now. btw Scott Brown was on Hannity and on GRETA too last night! Thanks Fox. And tonight is Sarah on O’Reiley!! **Rambling here but for a reason** Remember GLENN BECK said last week Before the Reid debacle….Paraphrased..GB == The Race Card is gonna be used again! And this time it will INCLUSIVE of all races. Then just saw Eric Holder is ”cracking down” on Indian Reservations! I never miss GB!!
Agent 99 commented:
Ooops!! The Rev Wright Comment by BHO…..really?? Good God!
John Gargano commented:
Democratic Hypocrisy January 12, 2010
To me, the issue here is not racism but the practice of applying a blatant double standard. The term Negro in this case was more archaic then racially prejudiced. Characterizing Obama as light-skinned was Reid’s way of saying that he may be more acceptable to those that practice racism. When Reid spoke about a lack of a Negro dialect, he was talking about the cultural attributes that seem to parallel racial attributes in America to some significant measure. Geraldine Ferraro was also maligned for political gain as the double standard was again applied in her case.
Unto themselves, these statements represent views that most people would rather not discuss in public, and that does not constitute prejudice, however, they do represent a very primitive and archaic approach to racial issues – which for Democrats is very telling.
When Trent Lott was speaking about Strom Thurmond, I do not believe he was trying to subtlety put forth any particular agenda such as segregation, he was simply trying to praise an elderly man in the late winter of his life.
Trent Lott’s innocent comments were seized upon and made into what they weren’t by people that wished to put forth their obscene and opportunistic agenda that Republicans are racists and Democrats are not.
In my view, Democrats, while putting forth their agenda of “social justice”, ultimately bring about more racial division and they ultimately bring about more suffering amongst those in the black community than they provide any lasting benefit. For this reason I believe the Democrats are hypocritical. The double standard employed in this instance thus serves to disguise the real truth and to distract people away from their hypocrisy.
In my view, Democrats effectively say to the black race, “we are here to help you, we believe you are not capable unto yourselves of overcoming your oppressors, instead of fighting the scourge yourselves, trust us to champion your cause”. And I find this to be nothing more than a transparent effort to manipulate people, based upon their mistaken perceptions about them selves, for political gain of the party and a life of luxury and status for the elites and leaders of the party. And all the while, the black people accept (why, I do not know) the role of the down trodden and the role of those who are unable to help themselves. Hello – does anyone care to recall the recent history of the Jewish people? How about the history of the “Boat-People” who came here from Southeast Asia? The truth is that if the black people stopped following the pied pipers of the Democratic party, they would thrive in America. If the black people stopped to consider en masse that they have every bit of potential as any other people (and maybe even more) and that it is theirs alone to accomplish the raising of their social class and political class status, they would accomplish the same results they have in the fields of entertainment and athletics, which are clear meritocracies.
You can’t reach down to “help” someone unless you do it from a position of “one-up”. You can’t accept “help” from anyone unless you first accept the position of “one-down”. And as soon as anyone accepts the one-down position, they only denigrate themselves and they only end up persecuting those who reached down to them. Which I believe accounts to some measure for the racism we see in America today on the part of Blacks against Whites.
Thus, in my view, Harry Reid, and the Democrats who follow him, actually serve to the detriment of the black people in the long run. The Republicans believe if left to one’s own, and not held back by government intrusion and stigmatized by false social engineering, each person can realize their own highest potential. So the hypocrisy here is not just that Harry Reid used primitive, archaic and insensitive dialog, the greater hypocrisy is that the Democrats ultimately do more harm than good in the black community over the long term.
And then they try to twist Trent Lott’s words up and re-package them as though they were a blatant endorsement segregation! THAT is REALLY ironic!
Tom63010 commented:
How fortunate that we live in a time where we have the internet to hold the politicians’ feet to the fire!
I remember Rush Limbaugh talking about Bill Clinton when he was in office and he said that he had no core beliefs. That is, what he does he does based on political expediency.
Our country was fortunate that the Republicans took control of Congress and Bill signed the bills. Of course now the Democrats brag how HE had a budget surplus totally ignoring the fiscal restraint of that Congress.
Unfortunately I do believe Obama has core beliefs and they are enmity with our Constitution and therefore our country. At this point in time I am praying for the Republicans to retake the Congress. I am sure it will cause gridlock but that would be a vast improvement over this train wreck!
Hedgehog commented:
They just need Sleazy Harry to do their bidding for a while longer. Then they will throw him overboard like so much useless baggage.
JR commented:
I like how everyone is ignoring how even Reid recognizes how disingenuous Obama is – he can turn off his Negro dialect when he wants. And, presumably, he can turn it on when he wants – like when he has a black audience. How nice.
Also note that he can turn on and off his “I’m a centrist” politcal views, too, when he wants. When he’s talking or speechifying, he’s a centrist. When he’s governing, the real extreme liberal Obama comes out. How nice.
USMC Thomas commented:
@John Gargano,
Excellent viewpoint, perhaps if you presented it in a “Negro dialect” the people its intended for would have a better comprehension.
Richard of Oregon commented:
What else do uou expect. We continue to allow them to use a one-sided race card, then we simply complain about it. Works for them but not us. If we insisted on using the terms that they use under our First Adment Rights, we would see some changes and hopefully this ridicously high double standard would start to melt. So, using the rules of the Congressional Black Caucaus, I can now refer to our President as a light-skinned negro. The term doesn’t do much for me and I don’t expect to use it any time soon. Still, it feels good to get back even a tiny piece of my First Admendment.
Richard of Oregon commented:
One more thing on this subject, as long as we bitch about the unfairness it will work for them. Quit bitching and start using one standard of useage – theirs.
Lynn commented:
Geraldine Ferraro could teach the Obama asshats a few things about class and being honorable. She was treated horribly by the media and Obama. And her point was just as valid as Reid’s. It became a point of contention between myself and the Dems. I actually left the party because of their hateful rhetoric and policies of “entitlement”.
Chisum commented:
More hypocrisy.
Undermining McChrystal
After delaying the surge, White House officials are upset because troops aren’t deploying fast enough to Afghanistan.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/undermining-mcchrystal
Joanne commented:
“When they need to attack their opponent the race-card is played. When they need the offender’s assistance, the race-card stays in their hand.”
Does anyone think this is by chance? The democrats knew what they were doing when they decided to stand behind Obama. They knew that anytime anyone or thing opposed Obama, they could play the race card and shut the opposition down.
Joanne commented:
Democrats kill and eat their own.
Just_Saying commented:
Jim, please give us warning when Obummer is on a video — oVomit makes me retch.
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AuntieMadder commented:
Throughout the Dem primaries, Hillary and her campaigners could hardly utter a sound without the Obamao campaign’s spin doctors twisting their words into racist comments they didn’t make. At the same time, Obamao’s campaigners AND supporters used misogyny and sexism to degrade Clinton (and then, later, Palin) constantly, with no lulls and rarely even subtlety. Obamao did not fire them or even ask them to stop.Actually, I do believe he fired one – a woman on his staff, as one would expect from a hypocrite.
Incidentally, Feraro did, indeed, get in line with the DNC, even demanding that Clinton supporters do the same, something that only added fuel to the PUMA fire and the support of many of them for Palin. Oh, and McCain was on the Palin ticket, too.