Posted on 09/11/2009 8:47:01 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
[snip long aside about Joe Wilson]
Whether he knows it or not, Chambliss should be grateful that the dust-up over Wilson's outburst overshadowed the senator's own remarks about Obama.
In a Tuesday interview on Fox News, Chambliss was talking about Republican expectations for the president's address when he said, "I think what you're looking at is folks on my side anxious to see what the president has to say (Wednesday) night. I think he's going to have to express some humility based on what we've seen around the country during August, and that's not his inclination."
Take a closer look at those two sentences. Sen. Chambliss states clearly that "to express some humility ... is not (Obama's) inclination." It's not an unfair parsing of the senator's remarks to see them as coming uncomfortably close to suggesting the president is "uppity."
(Excerpt) Read more at onlineathens.com ...
I'll tweak something else: "In the future, everything will be racist for 15 minutes."
Obviously a racist comment.
“It’s not an unfair parsing of the senator’s remarks to see them as coming uncomfortably close to suggesting the president is “uppity.””
Oh, come on!
Does anyone know of any times further in the past when someone has asked for “humility” from another politican, in those or similar words? Someone’s asked for examples.
I’m looking especially for examples when it’s a Democrat telling a Republican to be “humble.” I remember the “we won” comment, but I vaguely, vaguely remember other examples, more in the past. Late 2006 could be one likely time for one.
IIRC, GWB was constantly harangued for not citing a laundry list of mistakes the media wanted him to admit.
“uppity.”
Doesn’t begin to describe the President.
“Oh, come on!”
Agreed. To me, the most obvious interpretation of his comments is that Obama should have said something to indicate at least passing respect to the tens of thousands of citizens who’ve expressed their extreme discontent in town halls and tea parties all over the country.
Has nothing to do with skin coloring. Maybe has something to do with Ivy League background.
Probably mostly due to having an inflated opinion of one's self and being surrounded by sycophants.
Early success is always desired - but is often destructive.
But yes, "uppity" understates the lack of humility our 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue resident brings to the table...
He is to be pitied and prayed for - not only because he is our President, but being ensnared by one's vanity and ego is a very deep pit, and difficult to extract oneself.
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
It's not an unfair parsing of this stupid editorial to see that they are trying to ... once again ...play the RACE CARD.
That is disgusting and vile. But typical for liberals. Anyone who criticizes the President eventually gets called a racist.
In fact, Chambliss was right. President Obama arrogantly refused to acknowledge the legitimate concerns (and on Wes he STILL didnt do so!)... ARROGANCE ... he's not being "uppity" as all. HE IS THE PRESIDENT. HE RULES FROM ON HIGH. His refusal to listen is elitism and arrogance and stubborn-ness.
Someone punch this vile race-baiting hippy for America. It's the patriotic thing.
“It’s not an unfair parsing of the senator’s remarks to see them as coming uncomfortably close to suggesting the president is “uppity.”
Oh here’s something “new”. The race card gambit for the 5,000th time.
“It’s not an unfair parsing of the senator’s remarks to see them as coming uncomfortably close to suggesting the president is “uppity.”
Nope. More like “arrogant” as in liberal.
“Sen. Chambliss states clearly that ‘to express some humility ... is not (Obama’s) inclination.’ It’s not an unfair parsing of the senator’s remarks to see them as coming uncomfortably close to suggesting the president is ‘uppity.’”
I realize this is a low racial swipe, but I’ll continue the debate on less graspingly crazy grounds and pretend no one said the word “uppity” (”uppity” being code for a black man who doesn’t know his place). Ever notice, by the way, that conservatives hardly ever use code words, as is alleged, but rather that leftists themselves read our minds and inject codes in place of our perfectly reasonable vocabulary. That is, they read our minds to pick out the code words that we would have used if we weren’t so cleverly masking our intent.
So really, they should be accusing us of using code words for code words. No one said “uppity”; they said he lacked humility. But a person lacking in humility can be considered uppity, so by the transitive principle of racist logic, to say Obama lacks humility can mean nothing other than he does not know his racial place. This is how they argue; get used to it.
Anyway, so what if Chambliss said Obama lacks humility? He does. Or his public persona does, at least. Not so as it’s automatically noticable. He rubs elbows with the press and naturally feel comfortable with them. And why not? I’ve never seen them fawn over a poltician like this.
Nevertheless, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, Newsweek, etc. aren’t enough. He has to strike back at Fox, repeatedly, in press conferences, interviews, and speeches. Not very humble.
He has a sixty-vote majority in Congress, talks a good game about bipartisanship, but makes little or no concessions to the opposition, and doesn’t push his party to do so either. That’s his perogative, I guess. Nevertheless, he complains about partisan bickering, lies and exaggerations from the opposition, fear tactics, uncivil debate, etc. In prime-time, of all places. It’s not enough that his party routed them in the election; he has to get in their faces about not rolling over? Not very humble.
This is a real problem. Not a terminal problem. Not even a problem at all so long as he was riding a wave of popularity. Now that his power is slipping, ever so slightly, who knows what it’ll mean? All it means as of now is that he wasn’t humble when he didn’t have to be, which means he lacks magnanimity.
“I’m looking especially for examples when it’s a Democrat telling a Republican to be ‘humble.’”
I can recall a whole lot of talk about the Bush administration possessing “hubris,” which implied they could use humility. Rush did one of his drive-by talking-points megamixes for it. Don’ty recall any Democrats specifically.
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