Posted on 09/10/2008 7:02:44 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
New York Governor David Paterson says Sarah Palin's criticism of Barack Obama's time as a community organizer is racially charged. Paterson said Tuesday, "There are overtones of potential racial coding in this campaign. I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black'... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing."
He said such language is "designed to inhibit other people's progress with a subtle reference to their race."
The McCain camp says Palin's criticism of Obama's community organizer days was not racist but was in response to Obama's belittling of her executive experience.
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What should we call him Race baiting poverty pimp
Funny. I guess inexperience is a “code word” for black too.
And Patterson is not?
Sadly, it seems like ONLY Black people need ORGANIZERS!! Have you EVER heard of a WHITE one??
I have rarely had such a swing in opinion on one man from favorable to extremely unfavorable in such a short span. Paterson is one.
Yawn. This guv should just crawl back into his hole.
Paterson is am unaccomplished piece of garbage who was an understudy to Elliot Spitzer, a super piece of garbage who resigned due to his fetish with call girls.
I see that today McCain was protested by a bunch of “community organizers”.
When you are a black racist like David Patterson everything you hear is filtered through your own predjudice.
And I wouldn’t exactly call him a “prominent” governor since he came to office by default when his whore-monger predecessor resigned. As I recall, he’s stepped out on his wife a time or two, also.
This must be satire.
Nobody could be this dumb.
When all else fails, when you’re backed into a corner, when they’ve caught you dead-to-rights, its time to pull out . . . . . . . THE RACE CARD!!!
b.s.
there’s nothing racial about it.
the vast majority of “community organizers” are white,
some hispanic, but i’ve never seen an asian community organizer.
i went to college with more than my share of communist organizers.
RACE CARD, played again. They must have had a meeting where they decided they can’t refute the evidence that being a partisan hack, ie: ACORN, does not qualify as Presidential qualification, thus it was passed to the “neutralizing committee” where “Play The Race Card” is Options 1-10, and so far they have not added any other options.
Probably. I heard a nasty sounding black woman on the radio this afternoon ranting that "elite" or "elitist" was a racist attack on Obama. Her theory: "Elitist" = "uppity" = a racial epithet applied to blacks in the Old South. She kept saying "you need to call someone in the South and they'll tell you all about it." The host finally said "You need to call someone in Boston, they'll tell you all about what a real elitist is!" and hung up on the be-otch.
Being a New Yorker I don’t who I’m more ashamed of this putz or Spitzer. I actually want Pataki back.
Paterson has been known to be an idjit for along time. Ever since he took over for Spitzer.
Racist?
I thought a “community organizer” was just someone paying their dues to the Chicago political machine.
And aren’t most of those mobsters white?
“There are overtones of potential racial coding in this campaign. I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing.”
It’s all right Governor. I would laugh at white “community organizers” too if they had the audacity to run for president and use “community organizing” as a lead item in their resume.
If you call Paterson governor, does that mean you are comparing him to Pontius Pilate?
Adolf Hitler-he was a community organizer. His beer hall putsch was his crowning glory.
LLS
“Coding.” In other words, I couldn’t find anything overtly racist in what she said so I will assign meaning to her words, without any basis in fact, so I can use my ultimate weapon: The Race Card.
This guy is dumber than plywood...the accidental governor. It’s always good to a RAT buffoon in the state house....guy’s nothing but a Kwame Kilpatrick without the vision thing.
and the moon actually regulates the price of silver.... whatever.... You ever wonder why they can’t smell the fumes? You think at least one person would be able to get the message through to them.... so sad.
I find evidence of flat-stone stupidity in Paterson’s remarks on the Republican response to Obama’s insults.
On what planet is this idiot ‘prominent’? His own party doesn’t regard him as prominent.
Saul Alinsky the original source of this ebola-like disease. Cadres of labor thugs back in the 30's and 40's. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA)co-opted the role via its "party organizers" in the forties and fifties. Their demon spawn the "New Left" radicals, all through the sixties.
The US has a long and squalid history of the left wing preying on vulnerable special interest groups and feeding off their discontents for their own power agenda.
LOL. Wrong, Mr. Paterson......
“community organizer” = communist agitator
Race has absolutely nothing to do with it.
The Dems are flustered, scared and quite frankly, not sure what to do. I am surprised that the race card is being used so early. On second thought, anything the dems do should not surprise me.
I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’... but you can take something about his life... a community organizer. They kept saying it, they kept laughing.”.......
So all Community Organizers are black?
OOPS sorry, meant Governor.
Don’t need New York and its socialists to win the White House
Exactly. We’d be smart to blow the lid off this community organizer tripe and explain to the American people really what a community antagonizer really does.
Mr. Paterson, the ACCIDENTAL Governor ... The Government Of New York State has been a SHIP OF FOOLS for YEARS. You are following the old saying...
Tis Better to remain silent, and be thought a FOOL ...
or SPEAK, and REMOVE ALL DOUBT!
just 2cents worth from the “CITY OF EVIL”
What the hell has an arab ever organized except defeat to Israel?
What the hell has an arab ever organized except defeat to Israel?
“And I wouldn’t exactly call him a “prominent” governor since ...”
The media is the DNC’s public relations committee. Remember when they called Mrs. Obama ‘glamorous’ in every article? Talk about a joke.
I am very concerned that registered community activists may not swing back to the RNC.
What has an Arab ever organized but defeat to Israel?
This Guv has crawled into many holes.
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New York state and Pennsylvania and the “Rust Belt” states like Michigan and Illinois will die under an Obama-democrat Socialist party agenda:
- No USA oil from offshore
- No coal
- No natural gas
- No nuclear power
Without a fast infusion of existing American energy sources those areas will lose more corporations, jobs, population
The unions can believe all the “GREEN alternative energy” BS that would have been used long ago if it was practical and profitable -
Barack Hussein Obama Junior, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid have no intention of turning on the tap of conventional energy sources that have worked for over a century - or nuclear which has proven to be safe and cheap for over half a century
But then Nancy Pelosi was buying up stocks while fighting against oil, coal , nuclear......
And she made a ton of money
Clean, bright, and eloquent, too.
But I think this is just, “False outrage.”
This would be the “Governor by default”, right?
I didn't know Jon Effin Cary was black!
As I understand it, Pontius Pilate was a governor.
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