Teaparty.org founder labels Obama with Racial Terms - From SPLC

[stevenleser]

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/05/28/teaparty-org-founder-labels-obama-with-racial-terms/

Dale Robertson, the vitriolic founder and president of TeaParty.org, blasted out a mass E-mail today that seemed meant to convince doubters that his movement is, after all, racist at its core.
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"Obama is going home to spend time with “his homies in the Chicago hood,” writes Robertson, who is white. The taxpayers will be footing the bill for the president to “bump and grind in the hood.” While he’s gone, Vice President Joseph Biden and his wife “will step into Obama’s sneakers” to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Obama, meanwhile, will be “shooting hoops, smoking cigarettes and goofing-off with his homies.”

[Lilyeye]

1. Oh..another idiot who thinks they know how all black people talk...

BTW I haven't heard the term homies since 1999.

[The Magistrate]

2. It was My Impression As Well, Ma'am, That Only Dim Old White Men Used That By Now

[Odin2005]

3. The Teabaggers are racist to the core.

[SoxFan]

4. Hey, he can go on Bill Maher's show...

[Cha]

7. Yeah, and they

smooze and smirk in all their racist ignominy

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Where was that piece of shit when bush was having cake..

while people in NOLA where DYING.

PS: FUCK YOU DALE ROBERTSON.

[Cha]

6. President Obama is taking part in a ceremony at Abraham Lincoln

Memorial Cemetary on Memorial Day 2010.. http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/abrahamlincoln.asp

And, the whiners can dribble all the spit they want but it's not going to bring down the President.

This anonymous internet poster gets it.

"Are the veterans of the wars who are laid to rest at The Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Chicago somehow less heroic or had they served less than those buried at Arlington? Was their blood less brave, less red or less precious? Should President Obama be held in contempt because he chooses to honor fallen vets and stage the ceremony for doings so in an American city other than D.C.? What difference does it make if he chooses to honor the fallen in service in any other American city? Isn’t this the United States of America? Are the families who lost their loved ones in Chicago somehow less deserving of Presidential honor than those in D.C.." by Will

Vice President Joe Biden will lay the wreath on the Unknown Soldier in Arlington which is more than appropriate since his son Beau is a Capt in the Delaware Army National Guard.



"Reagan and George H.W. Bush both had representatives lay wreaths on Memorial Day
May 25, 2010 1:09 pm ET - by Todd Gregory

Right-wing media figures are suggesting that President Obama's plan to participate in a Memorial Day event in Chicago and have Vice President Joe Biden lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery is unprecedented and a sign of disrespect to the military. In fact, both Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush had representatives lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

In 1983, President Reagan had Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Thayer represent him at the ceremony. A May 30, 1983, Washington Post article reported (from Nexis):

The official commemoration of Memorial Day will take place at Arlington today at 11 a.m. when Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Thayer, representing President Reagan, will lay a wreath at the tomb. A plaque representing the unidentified dead from the Vietnam war will be dedicated and placed at the shrine at 11 a.m."

http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/201005250034

[Jennicut]

8. Excellent post, Cha. My Grandpa was a veteran of WWII and was

buried here in CT when he died. No veterans are any less deserving then any other.

[Cha]

9. When I read that post by

Will on another site..I thanked him so much for bringing to light the importance of Fallen Soldiers who are buried anywhere.

And, VP Biden is a wonderful representative to lay the Wreath at Arlington this year.

[Jennicut]

11. Yes, I see no reason why VP Biden cannot handle the duties.

And his own son was in Iraq.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Teabaggers prove time and time again

They are nothing more than racist hillbillies.

[dgibby]

12. I'm a hillbilly, born and raised in the mountaing of Va,

but I'm sure as hell not racist.

[Blue_Tires]

13. at least the "We should reach out to the TP" -crowd on DU has been

noticably silent for awhile now...

[davidpdx]

14. Not sure why it should surprise us that these right wing goofballs say this crap

I mean they DO listen to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

[Splinter Cell]

15. The people in the "tea party"......

FUCK 'EM ALL. :patriot: