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As Race Debate Grows, Obama Steers Clear of It (NYT)
New York Times ^ | 9/16/09 | Jeff Zeleny and Jim Rutenberg (Our Betters from the NYT)

Posted on 09/17/2009 5:28:38 AM PDT by Haiku Guy

WASHINGTON — President Obama has long suggested that he would like to move beyond race. The question now is whether the country will let him.

He woke up on Wednesday to a rapidly intensifying debate about how his race factors into the broader discussion of civility in politics, a question prompted in part by former President Jimmy Carter’s assertion Tuesday that racism was behind a Republican lawmaker’s outburst against Mr. Obama last week as the president addressed a joint session of Congress.

Even before that, several conservatives had accused their liberal counterparts of unfairly tainting them as racists for engaging in legitimate criticism of the White House.

Mr. Obama’s response to all this, aides say, has been to tell his staff not to be distracted by the charges and to focus on health care and the rest of his policy agenda.

“He could probably give a very powerful speech on race, just as he did in the course of the campaign,” said Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Mr. Obama. “But right now his top domestic priority is health care reform. It’s difficult, challenging and complicated. And if he leads by example, our country will be far better off.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coward; race; thatsracist
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'Bam is the victim Of the out of control Donks Who call us racists...

He could give a speech, Throw Grandma under the bus... It worked the last time!

1 posted on 09/17/2009 5:28:39 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
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To: Haiku Guy
The title should be “As the NYT escalates the non existent race debate”
2 posted on 09/17/2009 5:30:32 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Haiku Guy

Darn Auto Format
Took away all my line breaks...
Destroyed the Haiku...


‘Bam is the victim
Of the out of control Donks
Who call us racists...

He could give a speech,
Throw Grandma under the bus...
It worked the last time!


3 posted on 09/17/2009 5:30:37 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

The dynamite blew up in their face so here comes the white flag.


4 posted on 09/17/2009 5:30:52 AM PDT by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: Haiku Guy

racist jimmy strikes again


5 posted on 09/17/2009 5:31:23 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Haiku Guy
NTY spin...Odumbo’s behind it because he's failing miserably in his Presidency
6 posted on 09/17/2009 5:31:28 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Haiku Guy
I only hate his white half, so I'm excused from this debate.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

7 posted on 09/17/2009 5:31:36 AM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Haiku Guy

Don’t believe for a second that Obama isn’t behind all this racism crap. He has his minions (Carter and others) do the dirty work and he sits back and pretends to be the uniter.


8 posted on 09/17/2009 5:31:38 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: DAC21

I challenge anybody to remember any line from his “very powerful speech on race”... (Aside from when he threw Grandma under the bus, which does stick in the mind!)


9 posted on 09/17/2009 5:31:48 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If You have a Right / To the Service I provide / I must be a Slave)
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"He could give a speech, Throw Grandma under the bus... It worked the last time!"

EXACTLY!

By staying quiet OBOZO is providing his tacit approval of the race baiting.

OBOZO is just like his mentors (incl rev wrong): a communist, racist, anti-semite, pro-moooooslum who hates America and our Constitution.

10 posted on 09/17/2009 5:32:32 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: nhwingut

Absolutely the polling didn’t pan out so now it’s time to blame everyone but zero.


11 posted on 09/17/2009 5:32:56 AM PDT by federal
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To: nhwingut

“The dynamite blew up in their face so here comes the white flag.”

Bingo. The Kenyan’s polling going to be negative on the race card.

Not to mention, there’s no escalation after calling half the country racists. What are they going to call us next? Illegal aliens?


12 posted on 09/17/2009 5:33:51 AM PDT by y6162 (uish..)
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To: Haiku Guy
He voted Present.
13 posted on 09/17/2009 5:33:53 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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"He woke up on Wednesday to a rapidly intensifying debate about..."

two days to the weekend, what to do, where to go.

14 posted on 09/17/2009 5:34:19 AM PDT by This_far (Mandatory health insurance? I thought it was about health care!)
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To: Haiku Guy

As Steyn wrote, “Dissent is the highest form of racism”.


15 posted on 09/17/2009 5:35:07 AM PDT by cmj328 (Filibuster FOCA--a/k/a this "Health" Bill--or lose reelection)
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To: Haiku Guy

Just a reminder on “race hate”....Reverend Wright”...


16 posted on 09/17/2009 5:35:57 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Haiku Guy

If opposing Obama’s policies is racist, then I will wear the label proudly.


17 posted on 09/17/2009 5:36:02 AM PDT by Juan Medén
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To: farmguy
Don’t believe for a second that Obama isn’t behind all this racism crap. He has his minions (Carter and others) do the dirty work and he sits back and pretends to be the uniter.

But nooooooo...Bill O. declared last night that had Jimmah called Barry beforehand to inform him of his plans, he would have had a fit!
18 posted on 09/17/2009 5:36:20 AM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Haiku Guy

Amazingly the reporters don’t mention that their own MoDo started it all with her “boy” column.


19 posted on 09/17/2009 5:36:35 AM PDT by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: Haiku Guy
"Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African-American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics,"

BHO, 12/10/06 (NH)

20 posted on 09/17/2009 5:36:37 AM PDT by Roccus (My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
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