Posted on 04/14/2008 1:15:10 PM PDT by RDTF
1) Refuse to apologize, retract or modify his remarks
2) Refuse to elaborate on the details of the "nuclear simulation" on which Obama so miserably failed.
This cannot hurt the GOP. It can only hurt Obama if he makes it an issue. It will simply remind Americans of how green and inexperienced he is compared to McCain.
Ooooh, don't cite the Olympics. I have two dear friends, each of which worked '96 Atlanta and '02 Salt Lake (Mitt's), and both describe in lurid detail the unbelievable graft that is extracted by the *ahem* '3rd world' from the (all-too-willing) host committee. I'm not against Romney as VP, but I hope '02 SL -- after Mitt came on board as the white knight -- has been vetted to everyone's satisfaction.
Memo to our side: do not give into the name game, arghhhh - why did he have to use that ugly-past due term: boy, we are fueling gasoline to the fire. Hello, we need to zip it on the past, out of date ugly racial remarks. Let this tripped and tricked up mack-daddy hustler, marxist-limousine liberal-so-called man of the people, eat his own words. So far by his recent fumbles - his constant foot in the mouth disorder will continue./Just Asking - seoul62........
Nice one RAB — that’s your’s, I presume.
He crossed no line. Compared to him Obama IS a boy, and a dangerously inexperienced one at that. Davis needs to stand by his remarks and ELABORATE on them. REPEAT that Obama is dangerously incompetent. Totally IGNORE any phony outrage over the "boy" comment.
This is ridiculously off-message and unhelpful. You don’t call a grown black man “boy.” Period.
McVain will be out shortly with a press release, to repudiate him.
Couldn’t this turn out to be a good thing? This could rile up the other side (blacks) and make things a bit more contentious with the Clintons. Just thinking out loud here.
If you think his remarks make him a bigot I think you would be more comfortable over on DailyKos.
As a typical white person, I just don’t understand...is “boy” shorthand for “typical black person”?
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I use it all the time: Oh, boy! ...for example. Guess I better stop using it. And I’m from the South!.....I should know better.
You'd address a grown black man as "boy?" I can only assume you're not familiar with the history of the remark.
Not a smart way to say it. Some folks spend their entire lives trying to blame their personal failings on some form of “oppression”, managing only to get traction out of similarly stupid utterances. The cult of perpetual victimhood found another exposed neck to feed off of. Thank twice, speak once.
LOL!! Make that “think twice, grammar check once, speak once”
John McCain will not like this and will will call for Geoff to apologize....
I call folks “boy” all the time.
Don’t mean anything derogatory by it, seldom is it taken that way.
Just a southern way of speaking.
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