EDITORIAL: Biden: Back on the chain gang

The Washington Times ^ | August 14, 2012 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

Obama campaign takes race-mongering to new low

Vice President Joe Biden told a racially mixed audience Wednesday that if Republicans take back the White House, “They’re going to put y’all back in chains.” It’s hard to say what is more offensive: Mr. Biden’s overt use of inflammatory racial symbolism, or someone from Delaware saying “y’all.”

Stephanie Cutter, the Obama campaign’s apply-named hatchet man, claimed Mr. Biden was “using a metaphor to talk about what’s going to happen” and that “the bottom line is that we have no problem with those comments.” That makes sense. There’s no reason for the Obama campaign to apologize because hacking at the raw wound of racism is critical to the Democrats’ reelection strategy.

This race is about race because if it were about issues, Democrats would lose. Mr. Obama’s moribund economic record would guarantee that. Democrats haven’t fared well with majority white voters generally at the presidential level. According to Gallup, the only Democratic presidential nominee to win a majority of the white vote in the last 60 years was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Currently, white men favor Mr. Romney by a 24-point margin, and white women back the Republican ticket by 7 percent, according to Gallup.

White voters are still an overwhelming majority, but Democrats calculate there are enough self-loathing liberals of pallor who will vote for Mr. Obama even as they are being castigated for their ethnicity...

[jazusamo]

I used to believe Biden was a mere birdbrain but no longer, he's a tool for the Rat party, well maybe a birdbrain too.

[Nachum]

Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADuw_CBG5xc

[Flycatcher]

I used to believe Biden was a mere birdbrain...

That's an insult to birds!

[Fiji Hill]

Chains--The Cookies

[jazusamo]

Thanks Nachum, haven’t heard that for many moons.

[jazusamo]

ROFL!!

Sorry Fly, you’re as right as can be.

[doug from upland]

[deweyfrank]

It would be his use of inflammatory racial rhetoric. And he's not from Delaware, He was born in Scranton, Pa. He grew up in northern De. Southern Delaware is very much y'all. There are places on the Delmarva peninsula where you would need an interpreter to understand what they were saying.

[Nachum]

Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALWIj9ketA

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[Dysart]

"That's an insult to birds!

Good call.

[Dysart]

Yep. Racial. I fully expect Hispanic race card to be dealt soon enough. I'd be embarrassed if I was a member of either group. Obama must have a very low opinion of the parties to treat them essentially as ignorant, pliable imbeciles.

Campaign also about fear, see Mediscare; and lastly class warfare, see rich v poor.

[Flycatcher]

Good "call."

Lol.

Biden's not worth a pish.

[Steely Tom]

Biden's not worth a pish.

Yiddish!

Aaron, that you?

[Flycatcher]

Not Yiddish.

Just Birdish.

[oyez]

Biden knows what he is doing and how far he can push things. Its OK with the DNC and that DWS woman. They plan to take this election any means necessary, while MSN looks the other way.

[Hardraade]

Biden is the original soggy bottom boy.

[Dysart]

Touche'

Just noticed your tagline, nice.

[GOPJ]

I've never seen a Freeper talk about putting people in chains... never... ever. It doesn't happen. It's so stupid.

We lament the fate citizens broken and made dependent just so they'll vote dem - that happens.

Biden’s an idiot - the only people crass enough and selfp-serving enough not to see how stupid Biden is are the people at the New York Times. Biden could be drooling on the floor, speaking gibberish and spitting obscenities and the New York Times would be impressed with his brilliance...

[jazusamo]

Well said and so true!