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

**Centurion1** · 07-17-2010, 22:04

No horetore I'm talking about your basless claim that republican congressmen are in the kkk and that therefore we the voters who put them there are accepting of that

**HoreTore** · 07-18-2010, 07:54

Originally Posted by Centurion1

No horetore I'm talking about your basless claim that republican congressmen are in the kkk and that therefore we the voters who put them there are accepting of that

That had absolutely zero to do with my point.

Please try again.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-18-2010, 10:52

This thread smacks of profiling....party profiling....that's illegal and unconstitutional.

**CountArach** · 07-18-2010, 13:41

Originally Posted by Centurion1

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.

The insinuation here being that it was a formation of the Party, which clearly has no basis in fact. Further, the Democratic Party of the post Civil War 1860-70s South is NOTHING at all like the modern Democratic Party.

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-19-2010, 00:43

I think Centurion's point is that the modern Republican Party is NOTHING like it was described by our friend from Norway.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 07-19-2010, 07:33

Just wanted to point out that the South had already began switching from Democratic to Republican in the 1960s before Nixon's "Southern strategy" because they saw their racist views as cause for "irreconcilable differences" between them and the pushing of Civil Rights under Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson. (link in this text).

Also just another note, someone said that a Republican forced integration of public schools. That's false. The Brown vs. Board of Education ruling occurred during Republican Eisenhower's administration, but the Federal government did nothing to enforce it under his administration. It was only until the Civil Rights movement had gained enough strength in the early 1960s to push Democratic president John F. Kennedy administration that the Federal government should send Federal troops to get the Southern states in line. Perfect example is the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". (link in text)

**HoreTore** · 07-19-2010, 08:23

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

I think Centurion's point is that the modern Republican Party is NOTHING like it was described by our friend from Norway.

......Which wasn't my actual point, ya know....

It's pretty damn obvious to me that african americans don't all vote democrat because Obama's father is african, as they voted for Bill Clinton too. Further, it seems highly unlikely for a party to have such high support against a single demographic like that, unless they get a lot of votes from people who prefer them simply because the other guy is the bigger idiot. 91%? That's a kind of number you see in "elections" run in dictatorships. No, the reason why 91% of african americans support Obama must be in part because the other guy(republicans) are much, much worse in their opinion.

Just like a few non-fascist Brits voted for the BNP because they hate both Labour and the Tories. And I'm sure the same applies for the teabaggers.

**PanzerJaeger** · 07-20-2010, 01:56

Originally Posted by HoreTore

......Which wasn't my actual point, ya know....

It's pretty damn obvious to me that african americans don't all vote democrat because Obama's father is african, as they voted for Bill Clinton too. Further, it seems highly unlikely for a party to have such high support against a single demographic like that, unless they get a lot of votes from people who prefer them simply because the other guy is the bigger idiot. 91%? That's a kind of number you see in "elections" run in dictatorships. No, the reason why 91% of african americans support Obama must be in part because the other guy(republicans) are much, much worse in their opinion.

Just like a few non-fascist Brits voted for the BNP because they hate both Labour and the Tories. And I'm sure the same applies for the teabaggers.

Well, a couple of us on this board identify with Republicans so when you make claims about KKK membership, especially when it was in fact a Democrat to whom you were referring, you can expect to get a bit of a reaction.

Also, African-American block voting has several causes, none of which are particularly well reasoned.