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Sen. Landrieu's remarks on race anger Republicans[W:466]

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No, I am old enough to remember the 1956 and 1960 presidential campaigns. I was just a little tyke in 1952 and do not remember much about it. I think what we have today started with LBJ's flower girl political ad.

or maybe it has existed since the day this country had been founded.

consider this forbes article from two years ago.
The Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever? Not Even Close! - Forbes

Not unlike much of the mud-slinging we experience in modern elections, the dirty work, back in the earliest days of the nation, was often left to surrogates. One such surrogate was the influential President of Yale University, a John Adams supporter, who publically suggested that were Jefferson to become the president, “we would see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution.”

The concern was amplified by an influential—and highly partisan—Connecticut newspaper’s warning that electing Jefferson would create a nation where “murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced.”

and the response from jeffersons supporters?

One particularly stinging attack came via one James Callender—an influential journalist of the time whose incendiary pamphlets had been secretly funded by Thomas Jefferson and who had an axe to grind for having been prosecuted and imprisoned by the Adams Administration for violating The Sedition Act.

Callender wrote that Adams was a rageful, lying, warmongering fellow; a “repulsive pedant” and “gross hypocrite” who “behaved neither like a man nor like a woman but instead possessed a hideous hermaphroditical character.”
 
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You can see the graph is from 538, find it yourself....BUT....what you should be answering to is your lousy reading skills and the context of Rangel's comments.
 
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In this thread?

Yeah, I'm sure.

You are the only one that brought this up. YOU. So . . . I guess I was wrong. Someone is talking about this link in this thread . . . YOU. My goodness . . . I'm not going to suggest you are being obtuse . . . that would be punishable, but boy oh boy you truly have me shaking my head.
 
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That's a racist question right there and you don't even know it. Sad.

It's only "racist" if you completely change the definition of "racist" to fit your cute little narrative.
 
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Why do you insist that the government needs to do so much for black folks? Is it because you believe black folks are too stupid to take care of themselves?

I made no such insistence.

Every voting bloc -- every single one, without exception -- is going to vote for candidates that speak to their issues, that offer something.
 
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or maybe it has existed since the day this country had been founded.

consider this forbes article from two years ago.
The Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever? Not Even Close! - Forbes



and the response from jeffersons supporters?

If those two elections were a respite from the norm, I prefer the respite. I prefer to make up my mind on whom to vote for due to their visions, ideas and solutions. Not because someone smoked pot back in school or said something stupid 30 years earlier. I don't give a hoot about that.

I got so tired of all the lies being told in our senate race in Georgia, Perdue lying about Nunn and Nunn lying about Perdue that I decided I wasn't going to be part of sending a bald face liar to Washington to lie to us while there. I voted for Amanda Swafford. You can have your liars, the cherished candidates and parties that will do anything and everything to win except tell you the truth.

It is said we get the government we deserve and oh boy, do we ever deserve this one. If no one cares about a candidates vision or where they will take America, only about the mud, the slogans and lying rhetoric, what can I say? You have what and whom you voted for. Enjoy.
 
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See, I have shown before how HORRIBLE your reading skills were, and you just proved it again. What he said is that "some in the GOP believe that slavery is not over"....the context being that significant numbers of the GOP push for voter suppression, feel that Blacks are inferior.
Except that is a lie because no one actually believes that. Well except maybe liberals who believe anything any other liberal says.
 
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Anybody who doesn't realize that Landrieu's remarks were made because she may just lose her race isn't paying attention.

I agree with Governor Jindal that Landrieu was speaking divisively here and add that it was for the most transparently self-serving and desperate of reasons.

Obama's not running; she is. Let's see if she can outrun the criticism.

Yep. Democrats like Landrieu see themselves as losing in next weeks election and are desperate. They are attempting to use race baiting to increase the African American turnout. Sadly it shows just how little respect they have for African Americans.
 
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Except that is a lie because no one actually believes that.
No one in the GOP believes Blacks are inferior....and do not engage in voter suppression?
 
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if those two elections were a respite from the norm, i prefer the respite. I prefer to make up my mind on whom to vote for due to their visions, ideas and solutions. Not because someone smoked pot back in school or said something stupid 30 years earlier. I don't give a hoot about that.

I got so tired of all the lies being told in our senate race in georgia, perdue lying about nunn and nunn lying about perdue that i decided i wasn't going to be part of sending a bald face liar to washington to lie to us while there. I voted for amanda swafford. You can have your liars, the cherished candidates and parties that will do anything and everything to win except tell you the truth.

It is said we get the government we deserve and oh boy, do we ever deserve this one. If no one cares about a candidates vision or where they will take america, only about the mud, the slogans and lying rhetoric, what can i say? You have what and whom you voted for. Enjoy.

all politicians lie, its part of their job!
 
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Yep. Democrats like Landrieu see themselves as losing in next weeks election and are desperate. They are attempting to use race baiting to increase the African American turnout. Sadly it shows just how little respect they have for African Americans.
Well, you kind of have to sympathize with liberals on this to some degree. Since left wing policies have done virtually nothing to improve the lives of most blacks, they have to dream up ways of getting them excited enough about election day to come to the polls. Saying the other guy will put them back into slavery if they don't vote is one way, but it does show how little respect they have for the intelligence of their base that they think they can be so easily fooled.
 
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No one in the GOP believes Blacks are inferior....and do not engage in voter suppression?
'Some in the GOP believe slavery is not over.' That is what he said. Now, anyone with an ounce of integrity would denounce such a statement, but true to form, here comes you to defend it to the death. Dude, you have zero credibility and this is why.
 
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Yep. Democrats like Landrieu see themselves as losing in next weeks election and are desperate. They are attempting to use race baiting to increase the African American turnout. Sadly it shows just how little respect they have for African Americans.
Got it, Landrieu is "race baiting" because her statement that Blacks have had a hard time in the South is unreasonable.
 
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It's only "racist" if you completely change the definition of "racist" to fit your cute little narrative.
Nope. It's racist
 
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'Some in the GOP believe slavery is not over.' That is what he said. Now, anyone with an ounce of integrity would denounce such a statement, but true to form, here comes you to defend it to the death. Dude, you have zero credibility and this is why.
The context being that they suppress Black voting and believe Blacks are inferior.

I'm giving the reason, you wanted reason...yet you continue to ignore the reasoning.
 
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The context being that they suppress Black voting and believe Blacks are inferior.

I'm giving the reason, you wanted reason...yet you continue to ignore the reasoning.
Which isn't true either. All you have is BS and partisan hackery. But go on defending the indefensible, you cant do any more damage to your credibility at this point.
 
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I made no such insistence.

Every voting bloc -- every single one, without exception -- is going to vote for candidates that speak to their issues, that offer something.

That exactly what you are infering. You claim that the GOP doesn't offer anything to black folks. The only thing the Democrats offer is more government assistance. Obviously, you believe blacks require that assistance, because they can't make it on their own.
 
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Which isn't true either. All you have is BS and partisan hackery. But go on defending the indefensible, you cant do any more damage to your credibility at this point.
You are going in circles and avoiding the thing you demanded...REASON.

Again, are you going to keep on denying that SOME in the GOP want to suppress Black votes and believe that Blacks are inferior?
 
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That exactly what you are infering. You claim that the GOP doesn't offer anything to black folks. The only thing the Democrats offer is more government assistance. Obviously, you believe blacks require that assistance, because they can't make it on their own.

That's a remarkable leap in logic, especially your claim of "the only thing the Democrats offer is more government assistance."
 
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In this thread?

Yeah, I'm sure.

You are the only one that brought this up. YOU. So . . . I guess I was wrong. Someone is talking about this link in this thread . . . YOU. My goodness . . . I'm not going to suggest you are being obtuse . . . that would be punishable, but boy oh boy you truly have me shaking my head.

Don't play the, "no one in this thread", game. That's weak. Obviously you have nothing to add to the discussion.
 
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That's a remarkable leap in logic, especially your claim of "the only thing the Democrats offer is more government assistance."

The unemployment rate among blacks is at 35%. What are the Democrats doing for blacks that is so wonderful?
 
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