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.

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[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.