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GOP Congressman Apologizes for Calling Obama 'Boy' (that was quick)
ABC ^ | 4/14/08 | staff

Posted on 04/14/2008 2:06:55 PM PDT by pissant

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A Republican House member Monday sent a letter of apology to Sen. Barack Obama, after calling him "boy" and comparing him to a "snake oil salesman" in attacking his national security credentials at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Kentucky.

According to a Lexington Herald-Leader blog item, Rep. Geoff Davis, R-Ky., said Saturday that he had recently participated in a "highly classified, national security simulation" with Obama, and said that exercise showed that Obama can't be trusted to make difficult decisions.

"I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the button," Davis said. "He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country."

The Obama campaign slammed the comments.

"It's hard to tell what is more outrageous -- Representative Davis' condescending and personal attack, or his absurd and offensive claim that Barack Obama is not prepared to defend America," said Bill Burton, an Obama campaign spokesman.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 110th; apology; boy; geoffdavis; larrysinclairslover; obama; pc; unfit
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To: Red6

“The candidate whose middle name shall never be mentioned, may also not be referred to as “boy.” Add that to the list of special political no-no’s in this race”

Probably should throw the word “monkey” in there as well.

That leads to the addition of “monkey-boy” to the list ,,,and it goes on and on and on

Kinda like the Democratic primary season!


41 posted on 04/14/2008 2:23:12 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: cake_crumb
He's special man. Haven't you got that yet? Anything you say that negative is racist or xenopohobic.

This includes the word “boy,” or even his own middle name “Hussein.”

Those things not racist or xenophobic are simply “insensitive and mean spirited.”

42 posted on 04/14/2008 2:23:35 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: pissant

I’d say it wasn’t absurd at all to question whether Obama would defend this country.

I’m sure that I’ve heard him take the position that he wouldn’t use nuclear weapons in any case.


43 posted on 04/14/2008 2:25:49 PM PDT by MrB (There is no problem we face today that isn't the result of a liberal policy.)
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To: Robe

Well that didn’t take long did it? And of course Obama won’t apologize for anything! I sure wish Repubs would all grow a pair and stop acting so pathetic.


44 posted on 04/14/2008 2:26:01 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: cake_crumb
re: The word “boy” is not in and of itself a racist slur

That's not your, or my, determination to make! It's a slur if anyone of color says it is. The rules have changed. Glad we could clear that up. </sarc>

45 posted on 04/14/2008 2:26:22 PM PDT by jwparkerjr (Sigh . . .)
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To: bigbob

Meanwhile a dhimmirat is still in the Senate after repeatedly saying N*R on television.


46 posted on 04/14/2008 2:26:56 PM PDT by MrB (There is no problem we face today that isn't the result of a liberal policy.)
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To: hsalaw

Time to separate the men from the young men................


47 posted on 04/14/2008 2:28:42 PM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Danae

BOY? You don’t say that about an AA person. I learned that when I was young. Slavery and all that.


48 posted on 04/14/2008 2:34:24 PM PDT by tampacon ( NO more Bushes or Clintons!)
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To: pissant

There are certain words right wingers just can’t say regarding minorities. It’s okay if you’re a wacko liberal, but not if you’re on the right.

You can’t call a black man a boy, but you can call a cracker a boy.

You can’t say a black man likes chicken or watermelon.

You can’t say “those people” when the people happen to be minority, but you can say “typical white person” all day long.


49 posted on 04/14/2008 2:34:49 PM PDT by subterfuge (Homophobic and proud of it!)
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To: pissant

Oh, good grief...Obama is young...The sentence is written to express that specifically....No apology needed...


50 posted on 04/14/2008 2:35:58 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: bigbob
He’ll be lucky to keep his job after the MSM gets done with him

Oh yeah, he's a gonner for sure.

51 posted on 04/14/2008 2:36:31 PM PDT by subterfuge (Homophobic and proud of it!)
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To: pissant
Welcome to the media pillory!

Your apology will not save you!


52 posted on 04/14/2008 2:37:44 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Skooz

Obama has set race relations backwards by 20-30 years.


53 posted on 04/14/2008 2:38:39 PM PDT by Clock King (Bring the noise!)
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To: bigbob
He’ll be lucky to keep his job after the MSM gets done with him

I would wager, if Internet gambling were legal, which it isn't, so wager is just a figure of speech, that he will be drummed out by Wednesday, 3:00 p.m. This is fresh meat to the MSM.


54 posted on 04/14/2008 2:38:57 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: sheana

As one who grew up in the South, I can tell you that “boy” is NOT reserved for blacks.

Frequently, when referring to someone they knew who WASN’T black, people would say “That boy sure can swing a bat” or “He’s a good old boy”.

Another “Southernism” that’s taboo now.

Damn I hate these perpetual “victims”.


55 posted on 04/14/2008 2:45:04 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: pissant

It was an *assinine* thing to say. There is no excuse for it.


56 posted on 04/14/2008 2:45:26 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: pissant

I find this rather amusing. The gym I belong to is full of white, middle aged, jewish women all who support Obama. Back when all the primaries were going on I can’t tell you how many times I heard them say they had to go home and find out how their “boy” did.


57 posted on 04/14/2008 2:46:12 PM PDT by beandog (Quit serving me mud and telling me it's chocolate pie.)
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To: DGHoodini

Bullcrap. No more than me saying “your boy Kevin Garnett will choke again in the playoffs”.


58 posted on 04/14/2008 2:48:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: DGHoodini

While Obama *is* a snake Oil salesman, it is beyond comprehension that he could have not realised this would be taken as a racial slur. What an idiot.


59 posted on 04/14/2008 2:48:27 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Tin eared zeroes and Hollypukes comin...)
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To: DGHoodini

What astounds me is the so called conservatives that buy into such nonsense.


60 posted on 04/14/2008 2:49:17 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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