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Throw Grandma Under The Bus

Cal

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Throw Grandma Under The Bus
By Ann Coulter
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems.

By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John Edwards has talked about his dead son, and Al Franken has talked about his USO tours.

But the "post-racial candidate" thinks we need to talk yet more about race. How much more? I had had my fill by around 1974. How long must we all marinate in the angry resentment of black people?

As an authentic post-racial American, I will not patronize blacks by pretending Obama's pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is anything other than a raving racist loon. If a white pastor had said what Rev. Wright said -- not about black people, but literally, the exact same things -- I think we'd notice that he's crazier than Ward Churchill and David Duke's love child. (Indeed, both Churchill and the Rev. Wright referred to the attacks of 9/11 as the chickens coming "home to roost.")

Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."

Imagine a white pastor calling Condoleezza Rice, "Condoskeezza Rice."

Imagine a white pastor saying: "No, no, no, God damn America -- that's in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!"

We treat blacks like children, constantly talking about their temper tantrums right in front of them with airy phrases about black anger. I will not pat blacks on the head and say, "Isn't that cute?" As a post-racial American, I do not believe "the legacy of slavery" gives black people the right to be permanently ill-mannered.

Obama tried to justify Wright's deranged rants by explaining that "legalized discrimination" is the "reality in which Rev. Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up." He said that a "lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one's family, contributed to the erosion of black families."

That may accurately describe the libretto of "Porgy and Bess," but it has no connection to reality. By Rev. Wright's own account, he was 12 years old and was attending an integrated school in Philadelphia when Brown v. Board of Education was announced, ending "separate but equal" schooling.

Meanwhile, at least since the Supreme Court's decision in University of California v. Bakke in 1978 -- and obviously long before that, or there wouldn't have been a case or controversy for the court to consider -- it has been legal for the government to discriminate against whites on the basis of their race.

Consequently, any white person 30 years old or younger has lived, since the day he was born, in an America where it is legal to discriminate against white people. In many cases it's not just legal, but mandatory, for example, in education, in hiring and in Academy Award nominations.

So for half of Rev. Wright's 66 years, discrimination against blacks was legal -- though he never experienced it personally because it existed in a part of the country where he did not live. For the second half of Wright's life, discrimination against whites was legal throughout the land.

Discrimination has become so openly accepted that -- in a speech meant to tamp down his association with a black racist -- Obama felt perfectly comfortable throwing his white grandmother under the bus. He used her as the white racist counterpart to his black racist "old uncle," Rev. Wright.

First of all, Wright is not Obama's uncle. The only reason we indulge crazy uncles is that everyone understands that people don't choose their relatives the way they choose, for example, their pastors and mentors. No one quarrels with idea that you can't be expected to publicly denounce your blood relatives.

But Wright is not a relative of Obama's at all. Yet Obama cravenly compared Wright's racist invective to his actual grandmother, who "once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."

Rev. Wright accuses white people of inventing AIDS to kill black men, but Obama's grandmother -- who raised him, cooked his food, tucked him in at night, and paid for his clothes and books and private school -- has expressed the same feelings about passing black men on the street that Jesse Jackson has.

Unlike his "old uncle" -- who is not his uncle -- Obama had no excuses for his grandmother. Obama's grandmother never felt the lash of discrimination! Crazy grandma doesn't get the same pass as the crazy uncle; she's white. Denounce the racist!

Fine. Can we move on now?

No, of course, not. It never ends. To be fair, Obama hinted that we might have one way out: If we elect him president, then maybe, just maybe, we can stop talking about race.

Ann Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and author of Godless: The Church of Liberalism .
 

aplusmnt

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That goes to say a lot about his character. You leave your Grandmother out of this crap. No person in their right mind would throw their grandmother under the bus for political gain.

This guy is no different than any other politician. And the Conservatives are going to have a field day with him in the general election.
 

Texan

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Mike said:
Grandma is white. It's OK to throw her under the bus. :roll:
She's not just white, she's a "typical white person." Whatever the hell that is. Could a white politician get by with saying somebody is a typical black person? :???:


"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDg1MTk0YjQ2YjI1ZDBhNDYzMTA4Y2NhMDA4ZWRlOWU=
 

passin thru

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"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."

"The point I was making was not that Don Imus harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If he sees somebody on the street that he doesn't know (pause) there's a reaction in him that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."

What's good for his grandma should be good for Don Imus?
 

Steve

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"The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person.

This is still pissing me off.. and even though I would never had voted for a liberal.. It shows the length Obama will go to defend radical ideals and a radical minister..

he has no problem parading out a kenyan family he doesn't know..so he can pass as black.. yet smears his grandmother who raised him.. by smearing his Grandmother... Obama's is a pathetic slimeball politician....
 

Steve

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It looks like Richardson endorses throwing Obama's Grandma under the bus as well.. :roll: , claims the Obama "Throw grandmother under the Bus" speech was one of Obama's finest..

now who will Edwards endores.. or will he represent Grandma against Obama in a multimillion dollar slander lawsuit.. :wink:
 

Goodpasture

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Cal said:
......Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."
Sounds like what was preached in the southern baptist churches for more than a generation..........In 1844, the national Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions refused to license slave owning missionaries. One year later, that refusal led to the split between the northern and southern Baptists. The southern Baptists were absolutely convinced that the Bible taught that God had divinely sanctioned slavery. As early as 1823, Richard Furman, a leader of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, a slaveholder, and for whom Furman University is named, stated in a famous address to the Governor of South Carolina, "The right of holding slaves is clearly established by the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." [See Exposition of The Views of the Baptists, Relative To The Coloured Population In The United States]. The next year, in 1845, those firmly convicted defenders of slavery formed their own separate Baptist denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.

Maybe Ann should study a little more history before she spouts off.....but if she did that, she wouldn't be a neocon darling, would she?

http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/rcd-fmn1.htm
 

Red Robin

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The racist mr wright has a little more recent activity than the southern baptist church. :lol: Something like 160 years more recent.
 

Mike

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Goodpasture said:
Cal said:
......Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."
Sounds like what was preached in the southern baptist churches for more than a generation..........In 1844, the national Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions refused to license slave owning missionaries. One year later, that refusal led to the split between the northern and southern Baptists. The southern Baptists were absolutely convinced that the Bible taught that God had divinely sanctioned slavery. As early as 1823, Richard Furman, a leader of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, a slaveholder, and for whom Furman University is named, stated in a famous address to the Governor of South Carolina, "The right of holding slaves is clearly established by the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." [See Exposition of The Views of the Baptists, Relative To The Coloured Population In The United States]. The next year, in 1845, those firmly convicted defenders of slavery formed their own separate Baptist denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.

Maybe Ann should study a little more history before she spouts off.....but if she did that, she wouldn't be a neocon darling, would she?

http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/rcd-fmn1.htm

The word "saying" in Ann's remark is used as present tense, not past tense. :roll: :lol: :roll: Especially 150+ years "past".
 

Faster horses

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Rusty Humphrey last night on talk radio said he had just gotten back from Sudan in Africa...where Darfur is located. He said that after seeing what has happened there from terrorists; Rev. Wright should be saying "GOD BLESS AMERICA."

For anyone that is interested, there is a website www.csi-int.org that Rusty talked about. He said sending $50 would feed a family there for 6 weeks. He's been there and he says this is a wonderful organization.
I know $50 spent there would mean a lot more to them than it would to me so I'm gonna do it.
 

aplusmnt

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Goodpasture said:
Cal said:
......Imagine a white pastor saying: "Racism is the American way. Racism is how this country was founded, and how this country is still run. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority. And believe it more than we believe in God."
Sounds like what was preached in the southern baptist churches for more than a generation..........In 1844, the national Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions refused to license slave owning missionaries. One year later, that refusal led to the split between the northern and southern Baptists. The southern Baptists were absolutely convinced that the Bible taught that God had divinely sanctioned slavery. As early as 1823, Richard Furman, a leader of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, a slaveholder, and for whom Furman University is named, stated in a famous address to the Governor of South Carolina, "The right of holding slaves is clearly established by the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example." [See Exposition of The Views of the Baptists, Relative To The Coloured Population In The United States]. The next year, in 1845, those firmly convicted defenders of slavery formed their own separate Baptist denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.

Maybe Ann should study a little more history before she spouts off.....but if she did that, she wouldn't be a neocon darling, would she?

http://facweb.furman.edu/~benson/docs/rcd-fmn1.htm

Lots of things were different in the 1800's we live in the 2000's. In today's time if a Radio host or anyone says anything that remotely sounds racist rather it is or not they loose their jobs and people like Sharpton and Jackson ruin their lives.

You might want to move into the present with the rest of us because what happened in horse and buggy days are irrelevant.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Well by the last few days and the raciest comments that have been made....it looks to me alot of you guys haven't moved out of the Horse and Buggy days :?
 
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Mrs.Greg said:
Well by the last few days and the raciest comments that have been made....it looks to me alot of you guys haven't moved out of the Horse and Buggy days :?


AMEN :clap: :clap: :clap: :agree:
 

Sandhusker

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Mrs.Greg said:
Well by the last few days and the raciest comments that have been made....it looks to me alot of you guys haven't moved out of the Horse and Buggy days :?

Racism goes all ways, it's isn't just a white against black, white against yellow, white against brown, etc.... deal.
 

aplusmnt

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Mrs.Greg said:
Well by the last few days and the raciest comments that have been made....it looks to me alot of you guys haven't moved out of the Horse and Buggy days :?

Seems most of what I have heard people say is Racism goes both ways. I honestly believe per capita there is as much or more Racism with blacks towards whites as vise versa.

To say that does not make me a Racist, it makes me aware of the situation. You may put down the Kool-Aid and try taking in some reality.

I have two black nephews that go with me everywhere like like my own children. I take them to 80% of the same activities that my own son goes to. I know what it is like to have a couple black kids with me and see looks of confusion or prejudice. I also know what it is like to be around black adults and see the Prejudice they have towards whites. Being educated and aware of the real world does not make a person a racist.

Calling someone a Racist is a liberal plow of distraction to keep most people from accepting personal responsibility.

I live everyday with the black white issue do you?

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Faster horses said:
The mule certainly doesn't seem to mind what color those kids are.
Perhaps there is a lesson in that.

AMEN!!!

aplusmnt
Seems most of what I have heard people say is Racism goes both ways. I honestly believe per capita there is as much or more Racism with blacks towards whites as vise versa.

To say that does not make me a Racist, it makes me aware of the situation. You may put down the Kool-Aid and try taking in some reality.

I agree- and I think that was the message that Obama was trying to get across- and that we have to be aware that it exists and approach it head on-not continue to pretend it doesn't exist- and forms of it exist both ways- involving not only races but religions....Anyway thats the message I see that those that don't fear the changing world- and of changing the world around them got....
 

Cal

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Mrs.Greg said:
Well by the last few days and the raciest comments that have been made....it looks to me alot of you guys haven't moved out of the Horse and Buggy days :?
My family has given away loads of food, furniture, clothes, and money to the "underprivelaged" this year....along with lots of advice, like "you need to get help for your drinking problem", "you need to respect your wife and stop hitting her", "you have a moral obligation to pay your child support". Yeah....I'm one rascist sonofabitch.
 

Sandhusker

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And his choosing a racist pastor, his marrying a racist woman, and his comment, "Typical white people" show he's got a little racism in him as well. You know, I'm fine with that if he would be honest about it, but I'm not fine with him being a hypocrite.
 
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