Posted on 10/01/2012 9:09:58 AM PDT by diamond6
Here comes the Washington Post today, claiming that the reason Obama “could” lose the election is racism.
I want to tell you a story about what it was like working in a consulting firm here in Chicago. We had a very nasty VP at the firm who was the old school, screaming and yelling type; the guy was a real ogre. The firm would pitch to about three big clients a month…in deals that would be 100 million+ and would typically take several months of research to put together all the proposals and materials to make a successful bid for the job. There was a lot of lobbying involved regarding the decision-makers across the table who would decide if our firm would land the deal or not. In a lot of ways, it was like a political campaign because we were one candidate out of a handful who wanted to be hired for these jobs.
I could always tell if we were going to land an account by how crazy that one VP would be in the lead up to the final meeting that would determine whether the firm was hired or not. If he felt the account slipping away, that VP would resort to all sorts of nastiness in the last few weeks to try whatever he could to not so much make the case for our firm…but to kind of scorch the Earth and make weird threats if we didn’t get our way. There was general nastiness in the office, screaming and yelling, open hostility amongst the “big bosses”, and tons of excuse-making so that the angry VP wouldn’t take any of the blame for the failure.
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Is that the same racists that prevented him getting elected last time? Oh, wait, he was elected, thus no racism.
My father-in-law (a white man) was just at a mechanic shop and was in the waiting room with another man who happened to be black. As my father-in-law was reading a magazine which featured some political article on the cover, the other man asked him who he was voting for in the election. My father-in-law replied, “anybody but Obama”. The black man immediately responded, “Are you a racist?”.
My father-in-law was shocked, but calmly turned on his cell phone and showed his a few pictures. The first ones were of his black grand kids who were adopted. Then he showed him one of his own black adopted daughter. He then asked him, “does this look like I’m a racist?”. He went on to inform him that Obama’s policies are a polar opposite to what he believes is best for the country and that’s the reason he’s voting for anyone but Obama. The man shut up and had nothing else to say.
After thinking about it, I thought of a number of other good replies, like:
“Does it make you a racist for voting against a white man?”
“How many white kids out of poverty did you adopt?”
“Are you voting for Obama because he’s black?”
“No, I’m not racist. I don’t like the half-white side of him any better than the half black side.”
Oh that was sweet!!! I love your relative had the presence of mind to turn the tables on him. Bravo!
Oh that was sweet!!! Your relative had the presence of mind to turn the tables on him. Bravo!
I did a bad editing job on this post, sorry. The correction is below it. Sorry.
Please delete post no. 5, I wrote it badly.
My standard reply has been “I didn’t like Bill Clinton either. Does that mean I have a thing against white people from Arkansas? Or does it just mean that I think Democrats are bad for the economy and our national security?”
I would have reminded the guy about a remark Bill Clinton made in 2008.”A few years ago the guy would have been bringing us coffee.”So who’s the racist?
I’d have told the guy, Looks like I am. YOUR false President made me that way.
Makes you wonder what kind of BS we’ll have to put up with during and after the election.
there will be a lot of hand wringing and general wailing from the left. basically “we arent worthy of the one”, “we arent ready for his greatness”. blah, blah f’n blah. sounds like sweet music to me, I hope it comes to pass.,
I noticed this phenomenon too. My neighborhood in Southeastern Virginia is Republican oriented but there are a number of Democrats who always have signs on their lawn for whichever Democrat is running. This year, lots of Romney signs, zero Obama signs.
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