Delegate for Obama quits over remark

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 8, 2008 | BY ABDON M. PALLASCH

[gridlock]

Or maybe it's Pinky... Kinky!!!

[Girlene]

Don't you love it when a sancturay city backer gets bounced from Obama's campaign for alleged racial remarks.

Yes. But a ticket for "disturbing" or "alarming" someone? Wow.

[6ppc]

The dems have turned language into a mine field... Kind of funny that they find themselves self detonating these days trying to traverse their own creation...

LOL! Your comment reminds me of the video of three jihadis who screwed up trying to turn a 155mm artillary shell into an IED.

[Osage Orange]

"We are elected officials. We are in a position where people look to us for leadership and professionalism. We have to be diplomatic at all times."

"Diplomatic" = P.C.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

My vote’s for the fat guy in the white blouse, on the right. ;)

[Proverbs 3-5]

I had a black coworker once who went running to my supervisor after I used the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" during a work related discussion.

Fortunately the supervisor rolled his eyes and told her to pound sand. That, however was 18 years ago... not sure what would happen today...

[RGSpincich]

Told of the incident Monday by the Sun-Times, Obama's campaign called Ramirez-Sliwinski and persuaded her to step aside as a delegate because the campaign felt her remarks were "divisive and unacceptable."

Way to step up and inject some sanity into the "race" conversation, Obama. OTH, pass the popcorn.

[Robert DeLong]

Let the uniting begin. /s

I assume now that monkey is one of those words we can no longer use.

[cookcounty]

Oh, those macaca moments!

[gridlock]

Yup. Sounds like a new dawn of frank and open discussions on racial issues...

[TommyDale]

"I was shocked! Shocked I tell 'ya!"

[tlb]

You can no longer call people a “monkey”. Now you must call them Simian-Americans.

[gridlock]

My vote’s for the fat guy in the white blouse, on the right. ;)

Yeah, she was my second choice...

[TommyDale]

The neighbor child is now contemplating a hate-crime civil lawsuit.

[Krankor]

Mother: “Ok, hold it down, you little monkeys...er, I mean, uh, except for Jamaal and Kaneesha.”

[RGSpincich]

Send your heartfelt condolescences.

LRamirezSliwinski@vil.carpentersville.il.us

[Bender2]

This reminds me of Howard Hawks' 1951 The Thing from Another World, you know, that scene where:

Lt. Ken McPherson: What if he can read our minds?

Eddie: He'll be real mad when he gets to me.

Except I play the part of Eddie... and President Obama is the Thing reading my 'typical white' mind

[RGSpincich]

Send your heartfelt condolences.

LRamirezSliwinski@vil.carpentersville.il.us

[Osage Orange]

Wait a minute, didn’t Obama say something about how unfair it was to judge a person based on a just a few snippets of the thousands of comments they made over their lifetime.

That's different.....

All animals are equal, except some animals are more equal than others.......

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees

And people say we monkey around.

But we're too busy singing

To put anybody down.

We're just tryin' to be friendly,

Come and watch us sing and play,

We're the young gneration,

And we've got something to say.

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees,

You never know where we'll be found.

so you'd better get ready,

We may be comin' to your town.

[ohioman]

WTF was the ticket for? This a-hole cop ever hear of Freedom of Speech? Note: I call my tree climbing grandchildren monkeys from time to time.