Former Obama Campaign Co-Chair: Every African-American ‘Knew What Buttons’ Biden ‘Was Trying to

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(CNSNews.com) – Former 2008 Obama campaign co-chair Artur Davis said Wednesday that everyone in the audience at Vice President Joe Biden’s rally in Danville, Va., knew “who the y’all was” and “knew what buttons he was trying to push by talking about chains.”

“If I can be direct, I’ve spoken to a few African-American audiences in my day. Every African-American in that audience knew who the y’all was, and every African-American in that audience knew what buttons he was trying to push by talking about chains,” Davis said, while campaigning for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in Arlington, Va.

[kearnyirish2]

It is a silly button to push, and will cost Obama dearly. To his dismay, there are still a LOT of white people in the US.

He won in 2008 by downplaying race; any mention of it now hurts him badly.

[Fiji Hill]

It is a silly button to push

Indeed, it is. The notion of bringing back slavery is about as absurd as the notion of bringing back feudalism.

[kearnyirish2]

Obama’s election proved that a lot of whites had moved past race and voted for a (half) black for president; Obama’s actions since then have proven the he and many other blacks have not. It doesn’t bode well for him.

[j_tull]

Former 2008 Obama campaign co-chair Artur Davis...< snip >Davis said, while campaigning for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney

Huh?

[FlingWingFlyer]

An old, white man with hair plugs playing the race card. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so damn sad and pathetic.

[oldbrowser]

Indeed, it is. The notion of bringing back slavery is about as absurd as the notion of bringing back feudalism.

There is a feeling of inferiority in may blacks that is just below the surface. Or maybe it is a feeling that they are often judged to be inferior by people that don't give them a fair chance. Either way, it is close to the surface and they are very sensitive to veiled references to slavery. And there is absolutely no doubt that Biden was trying to take them there.

[Amntn]

"The notion of bringing back slavery is about as absurd as the notion of bringing back feudalism.'

Back during the 2000 election my stepson was teaching in a mostly black high school in Chattanooga. He actually heard black teachers telling students that Bush literally wanted to bring back slavery and some of the students actually believed it.

My stepson complained to the administration and they did warn the teachers not to do it anymore but the teachers eventually ran my stepson out, by making him miserable, and I'm sure they are still filling the kids heads with how evil republicans are.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

He was a Dem in 2008 and then changed parties. Can’t remember th reason given. I’ve seen him on tv. Seems like a good guy.

[svxdave]

We need Joe Biden to stay on the Obama Dream Ream Team. Check out this Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfjn4BpmirU&feature=player_embedded

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

He was a Dem in 2008 and then changed parties. Can’t remember th reason given.

He opposed Obamacare and was disowned by the black "leadership" and the rat party. He then ran for governor of Alabama and went down in flames because of it. He is not overly conservative but he seems to be honest and to place country over race and party (which is to rats like garlic to a vampire) - I can live with a guy like that. He may be Obama's worst nightmare in the coming months.

[okie01]

He was a Dem in 2008 and then changed parties. Can’t remember th reason given. I’ve seen him on tv. Seems like a good guy.

Artur Davis was a four-term black Democrat Congressman from Alabama; he supported Barack Obama in 2008. In 2010, he was defeated by a Republican.

Whereupon, Davis went public with the charge that Democrats routinely cheated to win elections -- offering fine detail as to their methodology.

In 2012, he switched to the Republican party and moved to Virginia.

I'd venture the notion that he's legitimate.

[thecodont]

He actually heard black teachers telling students that Bush literally wanted to bring back slavery and some of the students actually believed it.

Where do people get these weird notions?

[Beowulf9]

It’s not Biden’s first attempt at being briliant:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/joebiden/a/top-10-biden-quotes.htm

“Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.” —Joe Biden, Athens, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2008

How can these people criticize Ryan?

[Beowulf9]

brilliant spelled wrong, typing too fast...

[srmorton]

I LOVE that T-shirt! It so accurately displays how the MSM and the Obama campaign (which are one in the same) expect voters to feel.

[maine-iac7]

Yes - he’s now campainging for Romany - the media is trying to soft peddle it -

wonder if he’s speak at the convention? That would get the word out

[woofie]

When did Biden first use the word “y’all” anyway.
I bet he never uses it unless he is “down south”

Then everybody knows that African Americans were slaves in the south
thus looking out at a Black audience he has to say Y’all.

[Gator113]

It was calculated and deliberate.

I do not for a send believe that Biden was shooting from the hip. I believe this garbage was part of the script and read from the teleprompter..... all part of their game.

[Gator113]

send = second

[Robert DeLong]

For those of you like me who don't know Arthur Davis

[Cowboy Bob]

My aunt (white) was a librarian at a black school in 1980. The day after Reagan won the election, my aunt said the many of the children came to school crying. She asked "what is the matter?" They told her - "Now we're gonna get shipped back to Africa!"

It turns out that all the black leaders were trying to encourage a big turnout amongst "their people" by frightening them. So much for the "Compassionate" liberal...

[libs_kma]

It just bothers me to no end that the same State Run Media, who doesn't think what Biden said even deserves a mention, knows with every fiber of their being that if it had been a Republican who said that, they would have been beyond outraged, and this would have led every story from now until the election.

Hypocritical pieces of crap.

[Samurai_Jack]

“Every African-American in that audience knew who the y’all was”

SO Biden was using CodeWords?

[Ann Archy]

BINGO!! OBama setting Biden up for FAILURE so he can put Hillary in!! THAT would be a game changer for sure and he knows it!!

I wish the Pubbies would stop ENCOURAGING it and saying how great Hillary is!

[ronnie raygun]

Nice to see the old racist white guy gets a pass because he’s on the team.

[trebb]

He won in 2008 by downplaying race; any mention of it now hurts him badly.

[freeangel]

Sorry, Artur —but YOUR peeps have become so illiterate by their own doing that they have NO clue that this administration is stoking the fires of class warfare and racism.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Obama’s election proved that a lot of whites had moved past race and voted for a (half) black for president; Obama’s actions since then have proven the he and many other blacks have not. It doesn’t bode well for him.

I live in a rural county with demographics of 35-40% black people. One large and prosperous, rural black church had "Vote for Barack Obama", or something to that effect on its sign out front. So much for not being political........

[The_Media_never_lie]

Obama’s election proved that a lot of whites had moved past race and voted for a (half) black for president; Obama’s actions since then have proven the he and many other blacks have not. It doesn’t bode well for him.

I live in a rural county with demographics of 35-40% black people. One large and prosperous, rural black church had "Vote for Barack Obama", or something to that effect on its sign out front. So much for not being political........

[kearnyirish2]

“So much for not being political...”

I’ve never heard anyone even try to make the case that “black churches” were anything but political organizations; when is the last time a great theological mind emerged from a “black church”?

[The_Media_never_lie]

I’ve never heard anyone even try to make the case that “black churches” were anything but political organizations; when is the last time a great theological mind emerged from a “black church”?

So, if they are openly political organizations, why are they tax exempt?

Why then, are the white churches threatened with the loss of their tax exempt status (happens all the time)?

[kearnyirish2]

“So, if they are openly political organizations, why are they tax exempt?

Why then, are the white churches threatened with the loss of their tax exempt status (happens all the time)?”

They are tax exempt because blacks continue to enjoy “preferred minority” status. As for “white churches”, they can go much farther than they do politically without endangering their tax-exempt status (in terms of preaching family values, against abortion, etc.); the fact that they don’t leads me to believe that their leadership simply doesn’t support those positions.