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Soledad O'Brien Tees Up Clyburn to Identify Racial Code In GOP Opposition to Susan Rice
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Posted on 11/20/2012 9:46:57 AM PST by chessplayer

CNN's Soledad O'Brien teed up Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) to pick out the "code words" in GOP opposition to Susan Rice's nomination to Secretary of State, on Tuesday morning's Starting Point.

"Would you agree with what she's saying that there's a racial or a sexist component to a lot of these comments?" O'Brien asked, quoting the incoming chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). "Or would you say as the letter seems to say, they use the word 'incompetent,' and they use the word undermining the desire to improve U.S. relations?"

Clyburn, himself a member of the CBC, obliged and said the criticism was racially-coded. "You know, these are code words," he insisted. "During this recent campaign we heard Senator Sununu calling our President 'lazy,' 'incompetent,' these kinds of terms that those of us, especially those of us who had grown and raised in the south, we would hear these little words and phrases all of our lives and we'd get insulted by them."


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To: chessplayer
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21 posted on 11/20/2012 10:57:37 AM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: jimt

yup equality should be for anything goes but how strange the homosexuals oppose other kinds of marriage but shout equality, one would think they’re just hypocritical and it;s all about them.

Oh wait.


22 posted on 11/20/2012 11:07:43 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: jimt

yup equality should be for anything goes but how strange the homosexuals oppose other kinds of marriage but shout equality, one would think they’re just hypocritical and it;s all about them.

Oh wait.


23 posted on 11/20/2012 11:16:07 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: chessplayer
"Would you agree with what she's saying that there's a racial or a sexist component to a lot of these comments?" O'Brien asked, quoting the incoming chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). "Or would you say as the letter seems to say, they use the word 'incompetent,' and they use the word undermining the desire to improve U.S. relations?"

I think her refusal to identify, by name, Marcia Fudge is racial code-talking.

24 posted on 11/20/2012 11:20:32 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: barmag25

People believe this crap because it is easy. And the United States is all about easy. Black people can hide behind their skin color and Susan Rice can hide behind her vagina. That’s all it is. When will the GOP call them on it? Never...


25 posted on 11/20/2012 11:32:15 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: chessplayer
I have a simple proposition for ending racism in America.

1. Racists should be shot.

2. Anyone making accusations of racism without proof should be shot.

If the "crime" of racism is going to be held as heinous, then unfounded accustions of it should be no less so.

26 posted on 11/20/2012 11:35:38 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: bigbob

Aren’t we all “people of color”? I’ve yet to meet a person who didn’t have color. Whites, blacks, Latinos, Asians, and every other person has color.


27 posted on 11/20/2012 12:21:57 PM PST by Isabel C.
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To: chessplayer

Two words: Condolezza Rice

I don’t recall any Republicans opposing her on racist grounds.


28 posted on 11/20/2012 1:07:43 PM PST by BigBobber
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To: manc

All of this is very true but not important to those who like their free ice cream. If acting on the facts will result in eliminating the ice cream vendor, those who like their free ice cream don’t want to be bothered with the facts. We have lost our Republic - politicians know how to bribe the public with the public’s money. We have lost our democracy because the people have found the keys to our public treasury. We have lost America, in large part, because conservatives do not vote.


29 posted on 11/20/2012 1:13:40 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: BigBobber

Me neither. I thought it was about what she said about Benghazi.


30 posted on 11/20/2012 1:48:40 PM PST by virgil
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To: Chipper

I never knew she was black until I read the Democrats saying criticism of her was racist.


Me neither. 99% of the country (including libs) probably didn’t know she was black until the race peddlers started screeching like banshees.


31 posted on 11/20/2012 5:28:18 PM PST by chessplayer
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To: virgil

I thought it was about what she said about Benghazi.


Me too, until the race peddlers and Pravda USA set us straight. ‘Incompetent’ is racist code speak. So I guess there are no incompetent blacks in the US. Zero.


32 posted on 11/20/2012 5:33:17 PM PST by chessplayer
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