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President Obama Said Sec Tom Vilsack Jumped the Gun on Shirley Sherrod’s Ouster (Tom under the bus!)
ABC News ^ | 7/22/10 | George Stephanopoulos

Posted on 07/22/2010 4:33:43 PM PDT by jimbo123

President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism.

"He jumped the gun, partly because we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles," Obama told consumer correspondent Elisabeth Leamy in an exclusive “GMA” interview.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhousda; bus; obama; sherrod; underthebus; vilsack
Under the bus goes Vilsack...
1 posted on 07/22/2010 4:33:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

When you’re riding the short bus there isn’t room for everyone so under the bus you go.


2 posted on 07/22/2010 4:34:42 PM PDT by hometoroost (McCain is a Ron and Nancy Republican: Campaigns like Reagan, governs like Pelosi)
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To: jimbo123

I predicted this.


3 posted on 07/22/2010 4:36:11 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: jimbo123
President Obama Said Sec Tom Vilsack Jumped the Gun on Shirley Sherrod’s Ouster (Tom under the bus!)

White boy : Meet bus!

4 posted on 07/22/2010 4:37:01 PM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: jimbo123

How did Vilsack jump the gun. Didn’t he say he was sticking by his decision even after the full video came out?


5 posted on 07/22/2010 4:37:09 PM PDT by Krankor (Boy, giraffes are selfish, just run around looking out for number one, getting hit by lightning.)
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To: jimbo123

***”...we now live in this media culture where something goes up on YouTube or a blog and everybody scrambles,” Obama told ....***

This idiot has his finger on the nuclear button?!!!!!!!!!!

Good grief - we are in serious trouble!!!


6 posted on 07/22/2010 4:39:14 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: jimbo123

Never come between a hooker and her pimp.


7 posted on 07/22/2010 4:42:40 PM PDT by Pavegunner72
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To: jimbo123

Her remarks and her intent is clear to the American people. These schmucks look even more racist by the hour.


8 posted on 07/22/2010 4:44:24 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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To: jimbo123
Under the bus goes Vilsack...

Funny, all day yesterday Fibbs was saying, WE.

9 posted on 07/22/2010 4:45:07 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM, where are you?)
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To: jimbo123
If he'll throw his grandmother under the bus he'll surely throw a white subordinate.
10 posted on 07/22/2010 4:45:11 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: jimbo123

Crackers under a buses wheels sound GOOD to the NAACP...


11 posted on 07/22/2010 4:45:55 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: jimbo123

OK...anyone who didn’t see this coming...raise your hand, and you’ll be escorted out by the nice white-coated ‘ushers’...

Of course he’ll throw somebody under a bus, any bus. It’s the only tool he has left; blame, deflect, and deny.

It’s time to take back the country. Dumping this idiot would be a start.


12 posted on 07/22/2010 4:46:00 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: Caipirabob

Yeah! I just BET it was the WHITE guy who decided to fire her. This would make me laugh if it weren’t sooooo pathetic!


13 posted on 07/22/2010 4:47:13 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: jimbo123

Git your honky ass under dat bus Vilsack. And say hello to Revrunt Wright while you're there.

14 posted on 07/22/2010 4:48:04 PM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: jimbo123

A pizza chef’s cheese grater gets less action than the undercarriage of that metaphorical bus.


15 posted on 07/22/2010 4:48:32 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jimbo123
Deserves another look...


16 posted on 07/22/2010 4:48:46 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Barack Obama never misses an opportunity to jump to the wrong conclusion.


17 posted on 07/22/2010 4:49:03 PM PDT by csmusaret (A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
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To: jimbo123

The wheels on the bus go thump diddy dump.

Thump diddy dump.

Thump diddy dump.

The wheels on the bus go thump diddy dump.

All over Tom Vilsack.


18 posted on 07/22/2010 4:49:15 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: skimbell
Didn't post...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfL-Oj1rQ-c

19 posted on 07/22/2010 4:49:54 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: jimbo123

But he, Obama, did not jump the gun when he said he supported the firing!


20 posted on 07/22/2010 4:50:09 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: jimbo123

Q: How can you identify important people in the Obama Administration?

A: By the tire tracks on the back of their heads.


21 posted on 07/22/2010 4:50:31 PM PDT by FourPeas (God Save America)
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To: jimbo123
Oh Noes!


22 posted on 07/22/2010 4:51:26 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: jimbo123

Ol’ Tom has to be the nerviest, most decisive Ag Secretary ever. Wow! Grabbing the bull by the horns and and firing a BLACK woman subordinate without so much as mulling it over with his own BLACK superior first! And Tom had to be aware the BLACK Atty. General was under orders to not go after possible BLACK transgressors in another situation. Double wow!! Hey, he deserves a raise just for showing an aptitude for sheer, gutty, quick handling of problems.


23 posted on 07/22/2010 4:51:53 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: csmusaret

That would be a great tagline. May I?


24 posted on 07/22/2010 4:51:53 PM PDT by FourPeas (God Save America)
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To: Krankor
-- How did Vilsack jump the gun. Didn't he say he was sticking by his decision even after the full video came out? --

Both he, and the White House said they were standing by the decision to oust. Exact timing should not be assumed from the news report.

USDA worker pressured to resign over race comments - Houston Chronicle

The NAACP, which initially condemned Sherrod's remarks and supported Sherrod's ouster, joined the calls for her to keep her job. The civil rights group said it and millions of others were duped by the conservative website that posted partial video of her speech on Monday.

"We have come to the conclusion we were snookered ... into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias," said the statement from NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous.

A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said President Barack Obama was briefed on the matter after Sherrod's resignation and stands by the Agriculture Department's handling of it.


25 posted on 07/22/2010 4:54:39 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: mylife

Is Vilsack a Furry?


26 posted on 07/22/2010 4:56:30 PM PDT by csvset
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To: badgerlandjim
-- Ol' Tom has to be the nerviest, most decisive Ag Secretary ever. Wow! Grabbing the bull by the horns and and firing a BLACK woman subordinate without so much as mulling it over with his own BLACK superior first! --

Sherrod's story is that she was told the White House demanded her resignation.

Then they stood buy the decision. Then they reversed.

27 posted on 07/22/2010 4:57:12 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Shoulda hung out my sarcasm sign. Sorry.


28 posted on 07/22/2010 4:59:57 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: FourPeas

Please do. I sent it to the local paper, but they didn’t use it. Now I will be “published” after all.


29 posted on 07/22/2010 5:00:22 PM PDT by csmusaret (A government that can dictate how much water flows into a toilet is a powerful government indeed.)
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To: jimbo123

Too funny! I bet one of Bambi’s advisors told Vilsack to get rid of her...and he should have, because no matter what she says, she is a raving racist and was talking about the fact that it was obviously her policy not to help whites. Out of the goodness of her heart, she handed him over to “one of his own.”

If a white person had said this, he’d be in jail now.


30 posted on 07/22/2010 5:11:07 PM PDT by livius
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To: jimbo123

Good grief, I am embarrassed for the president.


31 posted on 07/22/2010 5:15:38 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: jimbo123; hometoroost; Eagles6; Caipirabob; Krankor; sodpoodle; Pavegunner72; ExTexasRedhead; ...

Yes, of course Tom Vilsack did it all of his own accord, trashing civil service procedures and not taking even a few hours, let alone a few days to get all sides of the story. Sure, I believe that.

We should all be tearfully grateful. America now has a low-rent successor to the sainted Rosa Parks. Of course Shirley Sherrod will turn down any Ag reinstatement as she can now spend the rest of her life on the lucrative speaking tour, socking it to college audiences, democrat gatherings, black congregations (Uh Huh! Right on! Testify!) and certainly the NAACP who now can’t do enough for her and will no doubt be chiseling her name in the pantheon of Movement heroines somewhere between Harriet Tubman and Madame C.J. Walker. Of course by next week the official narrative will have changed to it being all the fault of evil Breitbart and racist FNC for “snookering” (bamboozling?) us po’ innocent black folk into railroading her eminence.


32 posted on 07/22/2010 7:33:07 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju

You left out her likely lawsuit for the firing. She will be a millionaire many times over.


33 posted on 07/22/2010 7:35:09 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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successor to the sainted Rosa Parks.

Man, you nailed it on the head.

34 posted on 07/22/2010 7:35:40 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
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To: originalbuckeye

Lawsuit? Probably not. She has to look big and magnanimous now. She has a halo to polish.


35 posted on 07/22/2010 7:43:05 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: sinanju

Give her time. She was asked and answered she would consider one. I can’t remember which reporterette did the asking.


36 posted on 07/22/2010 7:54:28 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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