Tea Party funds Obama as Hitler/Lennon message, walks it back

**Reenk Roink** · 07-16-2010, 12:38

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Who is pretending that they aren't?

Also, I'm intrigued as to what race has to do with anything. Considering 91% of blacks and 57% of hispanics still support President Obama and his policies, and both groups provide much of the block vote for the Democratic party regardless of who is running, is it any wonder that 88% of the anti-Obama, anti-democratic governing policies Tea Party is 88% white?

Some of them themselves pretend they aren't, this movement is basically not independent nor does it really appeal beyond a narrow demographic.

And yeah, it's well known that blacks are overwhelmingly in support of Obama and the democratic party in general (and who can blame them for the latter), but I don't really see them making a big deal about being independent or non partisan unlike the Tea Party, nor do they claim to speak for a larger demographic.

**HoreTore** · 07-16-2010, 19:12

Originally Posted by Reenk Roink

Some of them themselves pretend they aren't, this movement is basically not independent nor does it really appeal beyond a narrow demographic.

And yeah, it's well known that blacks are overwhelmingly in support of Obama and the democratic party in general (and who can blame them for the latter), but I don't really see them making a big deal about being independent or non partisan unlike the Tea Party, nor do they claim to speak for a larger demographic.

Another drawback of having just two parties: a vote for a party does not have to mean support for a party, it can also be about disgust for the other party.

Honestly. Republicans in the south have members of congress who are former members of the KKK, who thinks that Martin Luther King was a radical commie, etc etc... Is it really any wonder why african americans are reluctant to vote for that bunch...?

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-16-2010, 19:51

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Honestly. Republicans in the south have members of congress who are former members of the KKK, who thinks that Martin Luther King was a radical commie, etc etc... Is it really any wonder why african americans are reluctant to vote for that bunch...?

Ummm... the only member of congress in recent memory that I know of that was a former KKK member, an Exhaulted Cyclops at that, was the now deceased Democratic Senator Robert Byrd; who has gifted us with such awesomely racist quotes as:

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

Can you name some of these former KKK Republican members of congress, please? Google is not being helpful.

**HoreTore** · 07-16-2010, 20:14

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Ummm... the only member of congress in recent memory that I know of that was a former KKK member, an Exhaulted Cyclops at that, was the now deceased Democratic Senator Robert Byrd; who has gifted us with such awesomely racist quotes as:

Can you name some of these former KKK Republican members of congress, please? Google is not being helpful.

Robert Byrd was indeed the lunatic I was referring to.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 07-17-2010, 00:17

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Robert Byrd was indeed the lunatic I was referring to.

You mean the lifelong Democratic party member Robert Byrd?

Of whom Clinton said:

"He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected," former President Bill Clinton said of Sen. Robert Byrd.

Ah, Byrd. A man so convinced of his own importance and the necessity of him governing other people that he made nice with the racist, bigoted, and one of the original terrorist organizations, the KKK.

Or he was just a racist himself.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I wasn't convinced of much by the OP. The Tea Party doesn't seem to have much central authority, so I think it's likely some small chapter put this up. I think the horrible, cringe inducing attempt at satire by one of the Tea Party Express leaders is much worse, and more relevant.

CR

**HoreTore** · 07-17-2010, 19:13

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

You mean the lifelong Democratic party member Robert Byrd?

Don't confuse me with someone with intimate knowledge of US congressmen.

Just threw an idea out there...

**Centurion1** · 07-17-2010, 19:49

Don't throw out ideas that have absolutely no basis in fact and are personally repugnant. Republicans freed the south. Republican forced integration of public schools. Democrats formed the kkk.

**drone** · 07-16-2010, 21:35

Originally Posted by HoreTore

Honestly. Republicans in the south have members of congress who are former members of the KKK, who thinks that Martin Luther King was a radical commie, etc etc... Is it really any wonder why african americans are reluctant to vote for that bunch...?

Lincoln was a Republican. The south was mainly Democrat until Nixon came in with the "Southern Strategy". The old-school klukkers and segregationists are Democrats, even Helms started out as a Democrat.