Notice that at no time did I even hint that he had no right to express it. What I said is that expressing it does not render him immune from being called to task for it.
And, as others have already pointed out, he did not refer to "conservatives," nor even to all Republicans.
Except that this isn't happening. Hank Aaron didn't *just* talk racism. He accused essentially everyone opposing Obama of being a racist. There's a major difference between the two. I can support strict enforcement of immigration law even as I agree that immigration law needs reform.
On the other hand, Mr Aaron has painted every last Republican in Congress with that broad brush. He's earned rebuke for that.
I don't think that narrowing the focus to Congressional Republicans alters my point.
Your "point" is lost somewhere in outer space being probed.
You keep going on how Aaron "accused essentially everyone opposing Obama of being a racist" and Aaron did not accuse anyone of anything. Your overheated imagination is making you respond to things
he never said.
Once again, here's what Aaron
said:
"We can talk about baseball. Talk about politics. Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country. The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts."
There must be a whistle going off somewhere only conservatives and Republicans can hear that reveals Aaron
really was saying,
"President Obama is left with his foot in the stuck in the mud from all of the [racist] Republicans [everywhere, but especially in Congress] with the [racist] way he's treated."
That has to be the only answer, because there is NOTHING in Aaron's remarks that put all of the Republicans in America in general or in Congress on blast as being racists which is a term Aaron
never used.
It would appear crying wolf about racism is not a malady confined only to The Left.
That health care fiasco wasn't new, or original. It bore a striking resemblance to what Clinton considered attempting when he had the Oval Office, and immediately abandoned once it was fairly clear it stood no chance.
Which has nothing to do with this topic.
benluby said:
The supposed irrationality of gun purchases? Yeah...again, not a damn thing to do with race. It had everything to do with his comments and his track record as an anti gun type. His 'let them cling to their guns and religion' comment went a long way toward the run on firearms and ammunition.
Which has nothing to do with this topic either.
benluby said:
And lets not forget his brilliant 'you didn't build that' comment directed at business owners.
Let's not. And let's not deliberately misconstrue the context of
the president's original remarks because that shit has really gotten old and tired.
Obama, July 13: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t — look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country, you know what, there are some things we do better together. That’s how we funded the GI Bill. That’s how we created the middle class. That’s how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That’s how we invented the Internet. That’s how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people, and that’s the reason I’m running for President — because I still believe in that idea. You’re not on your own, we’re in this together.
Which still has
nothing to do with this topic.
benluby said:
The man is an idiot. It has nothing to do with his skin tone, and everything to do with this natural ability to sound like an arrogant douche with a huge superiority complex.
If Obama has a huge superiority complex it could be he's got sumpthin' sumpthin' to feel superior about and it's not complex figuring out what it is.
Barack Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School, an award bestowed upon students in the top 10 percent of their class. While Obama's I.Q. has not been publicly revealed it is estimated between 110 and 165.
According to some measures of I.Q, genius level is reached at 140, genius or almost genius 120 - 140. Figure it out.
The president graduated from Columbia University and was named editor of the Harvard Law Review. He taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago for 12 years. He has written two best-selling books and received two Best Spoken Word Grammy Awards for
Dreams from My Father and
The Audacity of Hope, named TIME's Man of the Year in 2008 and 2012 and a Nobel Prize in 2009.
He has been married to the same woman for 22 years and has two daughters and two dogs. His estimated worth is $11 million dollars.
Oh, and he was elected as President of the United States in 2008 and reelected in 2012. Not too shabby for an arrogant douche.
And what did
you do today that was so great?
benluby said:
As for Hank Aaron's comments? He's got a small fortune rolling in regularly from his BMW dealership in Atlanta. Yeah, he's really suffering from racism.
Missed the part where he said, "
We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements..." huh?
Reading is so much harder than ranting.
Do you go to restaurants and order your steaks raw, too?