Posted on 01/27/2011 2:18:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Jim Moran: Racism fueled Democrats' midterm losses
By: Jennifer Epstein January 27, 2011 04:43 PM EST
A Democratic congressman is attributing his party’s losses in the 2010 election cycle to the fact that President Barack Obama is black.
Speaking to Arab television network Alhurra, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said Republicans made big gains in November because “a lot of people in this country … don’t want to be governed by an African-American.”
Even more objectionable to some Americans, he said, is that Obama is a black president “who is inclusive, who is liberal, who wants to spend money on everyone and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our society — that’s a basic philosophical clash.”
Moran’s remarks came Tuesday in an interview conducted after Obama delivered his State of the Union speech. Democrats, Moran said, lost for “the same reason the Civil War Happened in the United States … the Southern states, particularly the slaveholding states, didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery.” Virginia, of course, is one of those Southern, formerly slaveholding states.
Moran has gotten in trouble for his off-the-cuff remarks in the past. In 2007, he alleged that the “extraordinarily powerful” pro-Israel lobby played a major role in promoting the U.S. war in Iraq. A strong supporter of his district’s Muslim community, Moran faced criticism from Jewish groups in 2003 for saying that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was visiting Washington “probably seeking a warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we’ve paid for.”
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He would be too drunk to understand.
Socialists out of OPM become pathetic whimpering whining piles of monkey poo.
His last name is misspelled.
So, Mr. Moron, what do you contribute to Obozo’s winning the Presidential election in 2008? Racist there too? What a complete and utter waste of skin this jerk is.
That is one bad Mick.
Just wondering what happened when the country elected Obama, and gave the democrats both houses of Congress. I guess it’s a mystery.
A big YAWN to the old democrat racism carthorse.
Yawn, yawn, YAWN, Y - A - W - N.
Their race-baiting should be illegal.
Jim Moran needs to be slapped around by a small black child. Instead of the other way around.
Okay Bubble Breath, then how do you explain Obama getting elected?
Please God, make it stop!
So nobody but white guys voted? If a black voted in favor of a black guy would that make him a racist?
Beat me to it
I only remember the photo because he was exposed as a DU plant.
http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/000472.html
Funny, I thought that the consummate stupidity of liberals was the cause of those election results.
Silly me.
Guess I should drop my math/physics background and study a true intellectual major: journalism
Not.
All the hate, racism, classism, envy, greed and handout mentality from the left is bound to cause a loss every now and then, but January’s loss was fear driven. People are afraid there won’t be anything left to salvage after Barry is through screwing it up. You can paint it any color you want, and it still comes up a steaming pile of crap.
Hmmm Not sure how this played out for me and my choices.
Mark Schauer - White - Marxist
Tim Walberg - White - Conservatve
Virg Bernero - White - Marxist
Rick Snyder - White - “republican”
and his point is???
Moran refuses to admit that this is 2011. Much of what he spoke of has passed away, but no doubt the Left would love to bring it back from the dead, if that is what it takes give them power again..
Moran refuses to admit that this is 2011. Much of what he spoke of has passed away, but no doubt the Left would love to bring it back from the dead, if that is what it takes give them power again..
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