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CBS’ Bob Schieffer: Donald Trump Is Showing An ‘Ugly Strain Of Racism’

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Last night on the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric asked Bob Schieffer whether he thinks the “Birther” movement is now officially over with the release of the President’s birth certificate. Schieffer predicted that it was, but was very worried about a new movement that he sees Donald Trump trying to start: one unfortunately based on the President’s race.

Responding to Trump’s request for Obama to now also release his college transcripts to prove how he got into Harvard, Schieffer let loose:

“I want to go on to what Donald Trump said after he said ‘this is out’ and everything. He said, ‘we need to look at his grades and see if he was a good enough student to get into Harvard Law School.’ That’s just code for saying he got into law school because he’s black. This is an ugly strain of racism that’s running through this whole thing. We can hope that that kinda comes to an end too.”

However, is it racist for Trump to now ask for Obama’s grades or is it possible that it’s just Trump eager to extend his publicity by finding anything new to request from Obama?

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  • Barack Must Go

    Didn’t this nasty old fart say the same thing last week?

  • TristramShandy

    Katie Couric and Bob Schieffer… Two of the biggest losers in broadcasting. Who cares!

  • JoeRemi

    I don’t think the grades thing on it’s own qualifies as racist, but extending it out from the birther crap brings it closer. Trump needs to stop questioning the man’s background, and take on his policies. Of course, that would involve LEARNING them..

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Is Bob saying that affirmative action is racist?

    I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again, if we played the drinking game and took a shot each time a lib used the racism card, we’d all drop dead of alcohol poison in about a day. They are beyond shameful. But hey, I hope they keep it up, because no one is buying it.

  • JoeRemi

    Oh look, another idiot. Every time someone brings up a legitimate example of race-baiting, you guys shout RACISM CARD! and scurry away.

  • GoneFishing

    This really is no big secret. Obama got into Harvard because his Father graduated from Harvard, and was Harvard Alumni…Obama was a Legacy Admission.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    More narrow minded, race obsessed liberals trying to deflect attention away from the bad job Obama has done by calling his critics racist. Stop the fucking presses!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Race, Race, Race…
    To stand out, they should mention something that is NOT racism…

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    JoeRemi said:
    and take on his policies.

    The Dems don’t want that!

  • Upper Plateau

    Sadly, any criticism of the President Obama has been and will continue to be characterized as racism.

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Well upper plateau, the JournOlist scandal taught us that it was the liberal media’s plan to do that if anyone dared criticize Obama.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    Don’t ever retire Bob! You continue to give us lots o’
    laughs!
    Ya’ old turd!

  • me2010

    wow why is it the right that claims the left is racist ..but all the racist comments come from men & women on the right ? from pics of obama in black face from Sen Marsha Blackburn to Tea Party of Orange County with watermellon pics, comments about mexicans & the most current pics of Obama with apes. Please give one racist or email pics from a current Dem or other liberal lawmaker mocking people of color …

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    This is getting very funny. Racist, racist, racist. LOL

    Obama has made so many dumb moves in the last two years there should be a question about how smart he is. The libs sold us a bill of goods about how smart he is. Actions speak louder than words.
    Obama is NOT smart, he just thinks he is. Sadly this is a trait of most libs.
    Why would the smartest man in the world be afraid to release his grades?

  • possibly

    The tea party is a racist organization.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “You LIe!” hussein continues to sink in the polls due to his FAILED, OUTRAGEOUS, EXTREMIST, ANTI-AMERICAN POLICIES — so it’s time for the lunatic-left to (predictably) bring out their patented “THE RACE CARD™” once again.

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Those racist economic #’s are making Obama look bad…

  • Penguin60

    JoeRemi said:
    Every time someone brings up a legitimate example of race-baiting

    The term legitimate certainly has sunk to lowly depths.

  • VoiceofReason

    NOBAMA 2012 said:
    “That’s just code for saying he got into law school because he’s black.” “Black?” Someone inform Schieffer that Obama is 1/2 White…and at best 1/4 Middle Eastern & 1/4 Black… And Liberals accusing others of “racism” is rich…”pot…kettle” comes to mind… Or should I post some of the Democrat racists & bigots including Obama, Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Dick Gephardt, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ernest Hollings, Robert Byrd, F.D.R., Hugo Black, L.B.J. & Harry Truman… just to name a few… Outside of Congress, the three most notorious opponents of school integration were all Democrats:- Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas and one of Bill Clinton’s political heroes- George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama- Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes Senators: – Hill and Sparkman of Alabama- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas- Holland and Smathers of Florida- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia- Ellender and Long of Louisiana- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia- R. Byrd of West Virginia “Racism?”…The KKK Democrat Party is the HOME OF RACISM & RACISTS!

    Bob Byrd actually fillabustered the Civil Rights act of 64.

  • Jaurez

    Upper Plateau said:
    Sadly, any criticism of the President Obama has been and will continue to be characterized as racism.

    They can’t defend the president so they resort to personal attacks.

  • Penguin60

    OK we have racist, now we have stupid…..can we have nazi, do I hear a nazi?, come on lemmings someone give me a nazi…….

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    The very moment Trump got caught with his pants down this became racist. Actually, the entire birth certificate thing was racist, only a bit less overt.

  • notsofast

    Poor Bobby. Bob, if you want to say asking for Barry’s grades is irrelevant, gratuitous and ridiculous, say that, but you reduce yourself to a senile lib court jester when you promiscuously use the term racist.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Penguin60 said:
    OK we have racist, now we have stupid…..can we have nazi, do I hear a nazi?, come on lemmings someone give me a nazi…….

    Kool it, Josef and don’t let Magda near a microphone.

  • TfT

    Bob needs to retire; Trump is no racist, but clearly Bob is one and is like many liberals to, projecting his own bigotry and ignorance onto others.

    Give it up Bob; we have a black president, he couldn’t have gotten there without the white vote; just becuase some of us don’t wnat him to have 8 years to destroy the country doesn’t mean we are racist, we just think his policies are ignorant and wrong for the country.

    Just like Bob thought W’s policies were wrong, because Bob is a liberal lefty who has now ventured out into loony land.

  • Jaurez

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The very moment Trump got caught with his pants down this became racist. Actually, the entire birth certificate thing was racist, only a bit less overt.

    Is garth taking a break?

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Liberal Tormentor said:
    Is Bob saying that affirmative action is racist?

    I said it yesterday and I’ll say it again, if we played the drinking game and took a shot each time a lib used the racism card, we’d all drop dead of alcohol poison in about a day. They are beyond shameful. But hey, I hope they keep it up, because no one is buying it.

    Yes, we all know you not only condone racism, Michelle-in-Utah, but embrace it. Now, stop with the drinking game. One of the sister wives will tell on you. They always do.

  • notsofast

    VoiceofReason said:
    Bob Byrd actually fillabustered the Civil Rights act of 64.

    What? You mean the guy who said the following didn’t want to pass the CRA of ’64?

    “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.”

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    my racist white milk is getting more expensive…
    I wish I knew whose policies to blame…

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    Jaurez said:
    Is garth taking a break?

    Apparently not. All the Marys in Heaven, you’re always wrong about everything.

    Garth said:
    Just pointing out what is painfully obvious to everyone except you idiots.

    Tell Jeff where you were please.

  • THE REAL ROYAL KING

    skoorbekim said:
    my racist white milk is getting more expensive…
    I wish I knew whose policies to blame…

    Milk is bad for you anyway.

  • Paul G

    Didn’t we call it? Racism. It’s just not Getting old anymore…IT IS OLD!

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    Paul G said:
    Didn’t we call it? Racism. It’s just not Getting old anymore…IT IS OLD!

    Old? Like a typical white grandmother?

  • Paul G

    Garth said:
    I think you mean to say you are comfortable with it.

    As comfortable as I am with your homosexualility…..

  • Paul G

    skoorbekim said:
    Old? Like a typical white grandmother?

    HA! Obamamas(?) HA!

  • Dave Richards

    THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
    The very moment Trump got caught with his pants down this became racist. Actually, the entire birth certificate thing was racist, only a bit less overt.

    Biggest load of crap I have seen in a month of Sunday’s.

    You clowns need to get over this racist circus you have going. It’s getting boring and makes you look stupid.

  • Dave Richards

    Penguin60 said:
    OK we have racist, now we have stupid…..can we have nazi, do I hear a nazi?, come on lemmings someone give me a nazi…….

    I call your racists and raise you two Nazi’s.

  • irishsob

    Thank you, Bob.

    As always, telling the truth, even when it makes others uncomfortable with themselves.

    Not much of that left in journalism today.

    When, as this thread attests, it’s really needed.

  • Penguin60

    Garth said:
    Just pointing out what is painfully obvious to everyone except you idiots.

    mmm…nope, try again girth. Lemmings just don’t get it, never will.

    Just in case you forgot:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/20/daily-caller-discovers-journolist-plot-to-spike-wright-story-smear-conservatives-as-racists/

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim

    When you preach and practice Identity Politics… all you really have as an argument is racism…

    “I want to balance our budget…” “Shut up Racist!”
    “I support federalism…” “Sit down racist”
    “Stop printing money please…” “Get that racist!”

  • http://www.perceptionasreality.blogspot.com/ skoorbekim
  • CAconservative

    Is Donald Trump racist, or is Bob Schieffer and Whoopi grasping at straws to protect their little-mistake! I’ll bet that if someone challeges his college grades, they’ll be attacked as a racist! If the Liberal-sheeple can’t beat them with logic, and facts, they’ll resort to calling them a racist.
    It’s time all of you pathetic Liberals owned up to your mistake. You voted for smoke and mirrors, and now your forced to protect your little bastard love-child. He, and you, are becoming more laughable with every transparent mistake this moron makes. Mistakes are about the only thing transparent with this clowns administration! But, fear not, you can erase your really stupid mistake by voting this interloper out of office in 2012, and once again begin to feel good about yourself.

  • Alice67

    irishsob said:
    Thank you, Bob.

    As always, telling the truth, even when it makes others uncomfortable with themselves.

    Not much of that left in journalism today.

    When, as this thread attests, it’s really needed.

    This bares repeating. Thanks irishsob. :)

  • Alice67

    CAconservative said:
    I’ll bet that if someone challeges his college grades, they’ll be attacked as a racist!

    That’s because it IS racist. Been interesting watching you righties defending racism, I must say.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    America to Schieffer: Try Pulling Your Head Out of Your A** and Stop Being A D-crat Socialist Tool.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Unfortunately many Americans wont believe Obama is our President until he turns White.

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

  • grafxmail7

    This is getting better by the day!

    Trump is a TRUE REPUBLICAN!

    The Birther thing will hang over the Republicans heads in a bad way.

    Americans as a whole are going to reflect on this as time goes on and be disgusted.

    Now that Trump has come out as a UNABASHED RACIST, this will stick to the REPUBLICANS….

    Keep up the dirty work Trump!!! Keep smoking out the closet racists!!

  • BatBoy

    That’s just code for saying he got into law school because he’s black.

    Saying like this are “just code” for saying I am the self annointed intlectual, “You People” are Nothing to us.
    Oh yes, “What time is the liberal “whine and cheezy” party tonight?

  • jo hoochie

    Lefty Loon Socialist Liberals are the Racist. They hate white people, rich white people, poor white people. They hate people who love Christ so they must hate Christ and Jews. Obama is racial and a racist, a divider and deceiver. If you are on the right, white, no matter what you say will be wrong and racist. This is what the racial left wants and with the media’s help it will become truth. The media will be working over time to get this message out.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    BFD . The maggot who refers to babies as “BASTARDS” and women as “WHORES” is the sickest SOB on this website . This scumbag is not interesting , not clever , not original , and sure not funny . Even Garth has more brains than this piece of filth .

    Signed ,
    Not a fan of BFD .

  • BeckFinallyDemoted
  • felixw

    This is the third Mediaite article on Donald Trump’s racism in three days.

    I guess the birther pablum got stale and so we are back to the four approved liberal stories.

    (1) Conservatives are evil
    (2) Conservatives are stupid
    (3) Conservatives are racist
    (4) Conservatives are violent

    Watch MSNBC tonight and see how much of their programming can be categorized into one of those four slots. Pretty much all of it. And Mediaite isn’t much better these days.

    What you won’t see in the liberal media is any response to substantive conservative critiques of actual Obama policies. For a start, these liberal geniuses could explain the wisdom of borrowing another $4 billion EVERY DAY to prop up Democrat spending. My advice to the Left: give up on the name calling and engage on issues…..If you dare!

  • BatBoy

    Garth said:
    Yet another example of someone who is dumb, a racist and damn proud of it. A person’s IQ can’t go lower than yours without becoming vegetable. Keep the stupid coming, these are great examples.

    Garth….you are describing yourself…!

  • jo hoochie

    Garth said:
    Yet another example of someone who is dumb, a racist and damn proud of it. A person’s IQ can’t go lower than yours without becoming vegetable. Keep the stupid coming, these are great examples.

    You are stupid and expose yourself everytime to reply to me or others. Proud to be a CRACKER!!

  • jo hoochie

    Garth said:
    You expose yourself in public places. You, a cracker? Nooooooooo!

    You just expose yourself ,if you know what I mean!

  • Dsiscokid

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Unfortunately many Americans wont believe Obama is our President until he turns White.

    1/2 of him is, on his mom’s side. You know, the side of the family that actually raised him.
    But that doesn’t matter to my “friends” on the left side of the aisle……….
    ALL HAIL GEORGE W. OBAMA THE THIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dsiscokid

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    lol http://i.imgur.com/N2FNf.gif

    BTW- That was pretty funny…….

  • jo hoochie

    Garth said:
    You don’t know what you mean, why should I know what you mean? You speak in tea-bag-ese.

    Just shows what a true idiot you are. The village idiot!

  • jo hoochie

    Dsiscokid said:
    1/2 of him is, on his mom’s side. You know, the side of the family that actually raised him.But that doesn’t matter to my “friends” on the left side of the aisle……….ALL HAIL GEORGE W. OBAMA THE THIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    You mean his cracker side?? Ö)

  • Keaton

    The only racism here is the media’s refusal to hold Obama to a standard that they would hold a white president to. Do they not think a black president can stand criticism.

  • Azarkhan

    Bob, you’re an ugly old man. STFU and retire.

  • Bill Huggins

    Scheiffer is 100% CORRECT.

    You racists are going to be be continually called out for this BS if you keep it up. EVERYONE knows what you are doing

    If you don’t like being called a racist: don’t make race baiting accusations

    Hahahahha., but I know you won’t change. Hahahahahhaha

  • Dsiscokid

    Keaton said:
    The only racism here is the media’s refusal to hold Obama to a standard that they would hold a white president to. Do they not think a black president can stand criticism?

    Bill Huggins said:
    Scheiffer is 100% CORRECT. You racists are going to be be continually called out for this BS if you keep it up. EVERYONE knows what you are doing If you don’t like being called a racist: don’t make race baiting accusations Hahahahha., but I know you won’t change. Hahahahahhaha

    A Tale of Two Nations. Do we hold this President to the same standard we hold to other Presidents? If GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. can be, and should be, scrutinized by the People AND the Press, why not our current President?

    The REAL battle is idealogy, culture, and the Constitution, IMHO. Thoughts?

  • TfT

    Come on Bill – Scheiffer is projecting his own racism onto others. There is no way no how Trump can be called a racist with a straight face; Bob is doing what CBS does – protecting hehimself, the ONLY politician to get a complete pass on anything/everything he does. It is absurd.

    I’m so sick of the race card being played. The terms grown more and more meaningless the more and more the liberal loons like Bob and Whoopi throw it around.

  • felixw

    Garth said:
    Not conservatives; none of you idiots are conservatives. You’re birthers, tea-baggers and assorted lunatics.

    I am sorry about all the thumbs down you get, Garth. But maybe if you posted something showing even a spark of intelligence….

  • Keaton

    The media exercises the “soft bigotry of low expectations”.What white president could go to a racist church and get a pass like Obama. The media believe it is fine for a black president to have racial anger, because the media believe blacks can’t help themselves. Oh, and by the way, calling me a racist really makes me like Obama.

  • tatboy

    They (liberals) want to let students jump ahead in line because of race and then have a epileptic fit if someone states that a black student got in due to race. That is intellectually dishonest.

  • Cancon2

    I am starting to feel left out. I feel like I am missing out on some Liberal blowhorn yelling “racist” at me. I mean really, is here anyone left who hasn’t been called a racist for asking questions of this guy? Now, let me get back to my copy of “The Complete Consolidated Rantings of the Rev Wright”( Forward by Travis Smiley). This is really great stuff.

  • Keaton

    The only people who are not racist in the media are the journalists who wholeheartedly criticize Obama over his policies. To pull your punches because of his color is racist!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Keaton said:
    The only racism here is the media’s refusal to hold Obama to a standard that they would hold a white president to. Do they not think a black president can stand criticism.

    Keaton said:
    The only people who are not racist in the media are the journalists who wholeheartedly criticize Obama over his policies. To pull your punches because of his color is racist!

    Exactly!

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Royal Dimwit says:

    Yes, we all know you not only condone racism, Michelle-in-Utah, but embrace it.

    Prove it with just one of my statements or SHUTTY!!!!

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Obama himself said he benefited from Affirmative Action – why is it racist to talk about it, or ask for his grades? Bush, Kerry, Gore, McCain have all released their grades. The Left attacked Bush’s intelligence for 10 years!

    It is SOOO maddening – what BS! I am so sick of the race card.

    I swear I am starting to believe that the Left is doing this to purposely keep people divided. It’s like they fear that people are getting over racism, and they are desperate to keep it alive, to keep people in their little groups, and be able to spew divisions. Race baiters like Sharpton are desperate to stay relevant and Dems are desperate to keep people dependent on them, and maintain their voting block.

  • WildMan

    Bob Schieffer, retire already! Seriously RETIRE before making a bigger fool of yourself than you already have over the past 2-3 years. You’ve become senile! Nobody watches you! I thought little cbs went out of business when the world saw what a fraud Dan Rathers was. See ya old man!

  • Alice67

    jo hoochie said:
    If you are on the right, white, no matter what you say will be wrong and racist.

    No matter what you say it WILL be wrong, that’s true enough. But not all wrongs make a racist.

  • Alice67

    Dsiscokid said:
    If GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc.

    So what did you think of all their long form birth certificates?

  • Dsiscokid

    Alice67 said:
    So what did you think of all their long form birth certificates?

    Nice attempt at a “swerve”. Why don’t you answer the rest of the question? i’ll repeat –

    “Do we hold this President to the same standard we hold to other Presidents? If GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. can be, and should be, scrutinized by the People AND the Press, why not our current President?

    The REAL battle is idealogy, culture, and the Constitution, IMHO. Thoughts?”

  • Dsiscokid

    Alice67 said:
    No matter what you say it WILL be wrong, that’s true enough. But not all wrongs make a racist.

    If you wouldn’t mind, could you clarify this statement?

  • Sean68

    I’d be very interested to know his SAT and LSAT scores. They won’t release them because it would be embarrassing to both Obama and Columbia and HLS. Come on, Obama! How come we know Bush’s test scores but not yours?

  • scristanti

    Here we go again, the race card, it’s election time so Obama and his buddies the press and media have to use the race card because he is going to lose, this country is in a mess and far worse then when he took over, sorry libs facts are facts, he is so bad that what else can he do, where was all this outrage when bush was questioned about his brains, how could he have ever gotten into Yale, all the libs calling him an idiot, well it ain’t gonna work, people are sick and tired of the race card always thrown out there if anyone dares to say anything about the anointed one, well get use to it, look at his polls,pretty bad huh……….

  • Pablo

    Glackin said:
    I don’t know. W would’ve had a wet dream if his numbers got as high as Obama’s in his second term. He’d cry if he got up to 35%.

    Of course you don’t know, Joey. You don’t know jack. Why should this be any different? Bush was polling in the high 60′s at this point in his Presidency.

    As for getting into Yale, he was a 3rd gen. legacy, seat guaranteed.

    How’d he get into Harvard?

    We wanted to know why he didn’t finish his USAFNG requirement (he didn’t).

    Why did Dan Rather get canned, again? Oh, for lying about that subject! You’re as perceptive as a barnacle, Joey.

    The usual penalty for failure to fulfill Guard duty was transfer to active service and deployment to SE Asia.

    Gee, and Bush got an honorable discharge. Hmmmm…..

  • Pablo

    Alice67 said:
    So what did you think of all their long form birth certificates?

    What did you think of their fathers?

  • Alice67

    Dsiscokid said:
    “Do we hold this President to the same standard we hold to other Presidents? If GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. can be, and should be, scrutinized by the People AND the Press, why not our current President?

    It would be wonderful if he were held to the same standard but unfortunately hes held to a much higher one. Now answer my question. What did you think of the demands made of GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. to show their long form BCs?

  • Alice67

    Dsiscokid said:
    If you wouldn’t mind, could you clarify this statement?

    It was a joke and needs to be taken within the context of the post I was responding to.

  • Alice67

    Sean68 said:
    They won’t release them because it would be embarrassing to both Obama and Columbia and HLS. Come on, Obama! How come we know Bush’s test scores but not yours?

    He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and was the editor of the Law Review the highest honor when can receive in Law School. Not good enough?

  • Keaton

    It would be wonderful if he were held to the same standard but unfortunately hes held to a much higher one. Now answer my question. What did you think of the demands made of GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. to show their long form BCs
    The reason America is suspicious of everything Obama, is because he has been so sheltered by the racist democrat friendly press. The press gives Obama a pass on everything rotten he has done. I mean, seriously, he got a pass on attending a racist church with his family for 20 years. When the press passed on that, fairminded people started questioning. Now they question everything about him. The press did Obama no favors by protecting him. They planted the seeds of distrust.

  • Pickles McKay

    Pablo said:
    Of course you don’t know, Joey. You don’t know jack. Why should this be any different? Bush was polling in the high 60’s at this point in his Presidency.

    Hmm. Anything happen in Bush’s first year that caused the country to largely unite behind him?

    I really can’t remember.

  • Alice67

    Pablo said:
    What did you think of their fathers?

    I’m gonna guess they weren’t Kenyan, Mau Mau, Marxist, Communist, Stalinist, Fascist, black, Socialists. Did I get they right?

  • Alice67

    Keaton said:
    It would be wonderful if he were held to the same standard but unfortunately hes held to a much higher one. Now answer my question. What did you think of the demands made of GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. to show their long form BCs
    The reason America is suspicious of everything Obama, is because he has been so sheltered by the racist democrat friendly press. The press gives Obama a pass on everything rotten he has done. I mean, seriously, he got a pass on attending a racist church with his family for 20 years. When the press passed on that, fairminded people started questioning. Now they question everything about him. The press did Obama no favors by protecting him. They planted the seeds of distrust.

    You’re a fruit loop and should be treated as one.

  • grafxmail7

    sarainitaly said:
    Obama himself said he benefited from Affirmative Action – why is it racist to talk about it, or ask for his grades? Bush, Kerry, Gore, McCain have all released their grades. The Left attacked Bush’s intelligence for 10 years!

    It is SOOO maddening – what BS! I am so sick of the race card.

    I swear I am starting to believe that the Left is doing this to purposely keep people divided. It’s like they fear that people are getting over racism, and they are desperate to keep it alive, to keep people in their little groups, and be able to spew divisions. Race baiters like Sharpton are desperate to stay relevant and Dems are desperate to keep people dependent on them, and maintain their voting block.

    That’s a perfect example of motivated reasoning.

    I know you don’t live here anymore so you might not know this but we haven’t solved the racism problem here in the USA like you have in Italy. Oh wait…oh yeah…you guys still have racism too.

    There are a lot of holes in your logic to say the least.

    As a Hilary supporter that that ended up voting for McCain who is now fervently defending the Right against these questions of racism, would it be so outlandish to question your motivation and even to question that you might have issues with race as well?

    The lady doth protest too much, methinks…..I’m calling Bulls#!t. I know some people like you. They would have voted for Hillary but didn’t want to or couldn’t vote for a ‘black guy’. That’s what looks like happened to you. Call it what you want but it is what it is.

  • Pickles McKay

    sarainitaly said:
    Obama himself said he benefited from Affirmative Action – why is it racist to talk about it, or ask for his grades? Bush, Kerry, Gore, McCain have all released their grades. The Left attacked Bush’s intelligence for 10 years! It is SOOO maddening – what BS! I am so sick of the race card. I swear I am starting to believe that the Left is doing this to purposely keep people divided. It’s like they fear that people are getting over racism, and they are desperate to keep it alive, to keep people in their little groups, and be able to spew divisions. Race baiters like Sharpton are desperate to stay relevant and Dems are desperate to keep people dependent on them, and maintain their voting block.

    McCain never realeased his grades.

  • Keaton

    Alice67 says:
    April 28, 2011 at 10:26 pm Alice67(Quote)
    0 0
    Keaton said:
    It would be wonderful if he were held to the same standard but unfortunately hes held to a much higher one. Now answer my question. What did you think of the demands made of GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. to show their long form BCs
    The reason America is suspicious of everything Obama, is because he has been so sheltered by the racist democrat friendly press. The press gives Obama a pass on everything rotten he has done. I mean, seriously, he got a pass on attending a racist church with his family for 20 years. When the press passed on that, fairminded people started questioning. Now they question everything about him. The press did Obama no favors by protecting him. They planted the seeds of distrust.

    You’re a fruit loop and should be treated as one
    Alice 67

    Your reply is soooooo intellectual . Are you sure you aren’t Alice 69

  • ganymede

    me2010 said:
    wow why is it the right that claims the left is racist ..but all the racist comments come from men & women on the right ? from pics of obama in black face from Sen Marsha Blackburn to Tea Party of Orange County with watermellon pics, comments about mexicans & the most current pics of Obama with apes. Please give one racist or email pics from a current Dem or other liberal lawmaker mocking people of color …

    It’s really sad. I’ve had some time today to actually go through and read some comments and it’s really sad. The quote above sums up where most of this extreme prejudice comes from. Racism is a disease that affects all of us because it’s so ingrained in our culture. No one is really free from this malady although it seems that the further right one goes, the more intense this hatred and self-loathing becomes. For sure, Obama has his faults but you people on the right should really look into your hearts. It’s self-evident that if Obama were white, the hostility would be 90% less than what we’re dealing with. Fortunately, the power of raciost whites is diminishing as or country becomes even more diverse and it’s obvious that the more virulent racists will eventually fade away and die out and this rancor will diminish.

  • Sean68

    Alice67 said:
    He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and was the editor of the Law Review the highest honor when can receive in Law School. Not good enough?

    Almost everyone graduates from Harvard with honors. In fact, it became such a problem that Harvard Law School instituted the policy–in 1998, several years AFTER Obama graduated–that the honor “magna cum laude” could only be bestowed on students whose grades place them in the top 10% of their class.

    P.S. “Magna Cum Laude” means “with high honors”. “Summa cum laude” means “with highest honors.” HLS doesn’t award Summa Cum Laude honors? Didn’t know that.

  • Sean68

    Sean68 said:
    Almost everyone graduates from Harvard with honors. In fact, it became such a problem that Harvard Law School instituted the policy–in 1998, several years AFTER Obama graduated–that the honor “magna cum laude” could only be bestowed on students whose grades place them in the top 10% of their class.

    P.S. “Magna Cum Laude” means “with high honors”. “Summa cum laude” means “with highest honors.” HLS doesn’t award Summa Cum Laude honors? Didn’t know that.

    P.P.S. My main interest is in his SAT and LSAT scores.

  • Pickles McKay

    Sean68 said:
    Almost everyone graduates from Harvard with honors. In fact, it became such a problem that Harvard Law School instituted the policy–in 1998, several years AFTER Obama graduated–that the honor “magna cum laude” could only be bestowed on students whose grades place them in the top 10% of their class. P.S. “Magna Cum Laude” means “with high honors”. “Summa cum laude” means “with highest honors.” HLS doesn’t award Summa Cum Laude honors? Didn’t know that.

    You go to Harvard? Yeah, though not.

    By the way, they do award Summa. It is just very rare.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson
    He became among only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the law school.

    One person who was graduated without honors from Harvard? The 43rd President.

  • Pablo

    Alice67 said:
    I’m gonna guess they weren’t Kenyan, Mau Mau, Marxist, Communist, Stalinist, Fascist, black, Socialists. Did I get they right?

    Yup. Though I don’t think Obama’s father was a Stalinist or a fascist, either.

  • Pablo

    Pickles McKay said:
    Hmm. Anything happen in Bush’s first year that caused the country to largely unite behind him?

    I really can’t remember.

    That’s a pity. But we’re not talking about Obama’s first year, or Bush’s. Clearly, nothing has happened to rally people around Obama, aside from him getting elected. But the bloom sure is off that rose, huh?

  • Sean68

    Pickles McKay said:
    You go to Harvard? Yeah, though not.

    By the way, they do award Summa. It is just very rare.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson
    He became among only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the law school.

    One person who was graduated without honors from Harvard? The 43rd President.

    I can’t help but note you didn’t contradict a thing I wrote.

  • Alice67

    Sean68 said:
    Almost everyone graduates from Harvard with honors. In fact, it became such a problem that Harvard Law School instituted the policy–in 1998, several years AFTER Obama graduated–that the honor “magna cum laude” could only be bestowed on students whose grades place them in the top 10% of their class.

    Right. Not good enough.

  • Jaurez

    Sean68 said:
    I can’t help but note you didn’t contradict a thing I wrote.

    “Pickles” is just a sock puppet.

  • Alice67

    Sean68 said:
    P.P.S. My main interest is in his SAT and LSAT scores.

    Why?

  • catfishjuggling

    Sean68 said:
    I can’t help but note you didn’t contradict a thing I wrote.

    You said Harvard doesn’t award summa.
    I showed that they do (but it is rare).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction

    “In classical logic, a contradiction consists of a logical incompatibility between two or more propositions. It occurs when the propositions, taken together, yield two conclusions which form the logical, usually opposite inversions of each other”

    I didn’t make summa either, but I think I did, in fact, contradict you.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    No Bob, I think, like the rest of your pals in the “ProtectObama” Media, YOU’RE playing the race card!
    Shouldn’t you be wandering aimlessly around some dog track by now, Bob?
    ——————————————————————————————————–

    The biggest RACISTS today are those on the Democratic Left, using the Racist Allegation as a political tool to defend and promote their dysfunctional and disproven Progressive agenda.

    Matthews and the rest of his Liberal ilk in the media are little more than self-loathing racial sycophants, currying to the stereotypes and anti-white, anti-American rhetoric of black separatists and racial agitators like Tawana Sharpton, Rev. Wright, and their president!

  • Penguin60

    They found actual footage of girth, LMAO, absolutely perfect!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Alice67 said:
    What did you think of the demands made of GWB, Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, etc. to show their long form BCs?

    What did you think of the demands and lawsuits over McCain’s birth certificate and eligibility?

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    grafxmail7 said:
    The lady doth protest too much, methinks…..I’m calling Bulls#!t. I know some people like you. They would have voted for Hillary but didn’t want to or couldn’t vote for a ‘black guy’. That’s what looks like happened to you. Call it what you want but it is what it is.

    i liked obama when he spoke in 2004 and even said “there’s the first african american president”. I liked him when he announced his candidacy. I liked him for a little while. I always said online I supported Hillary and from the VERY beginning was called racist by hateful obots on sites like huffpo and others JUST for preferring hillary to obama. The angrier and nastier the Democats became towards the Clintons, and anyone who didn’t support Obama, the angrier I got – and the more I began to research Obama – and the more I began to despise all things Democrat and Obama. So, sorry bub, but I don’t give a rats ass about his skin color. It’s the content of his character that I don’t like. And his lack of experience, and his incessant *present* voting. your pathetic little race cards don’t work.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Pickles McKay said:
    McCain never realeased his grades.

    no, but he was challenged on his eligibility because he was born in Panama, and lawsuits were filed, and he showed his birth certificate to the media.

    He was also forced to release his medical records.
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/vote2008/blog/2008/05/healthy_mccain_releases_medica.html

    And he admitted to where he graduated, 5th from the bottom of the class.
    http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2008/10/john-mccains-gpa-and-college-records/

    Since Obama did not graduate with honors, that means his GPA was between a 2.0 and a 3.3 — although, since he was admitted to Harvard Law School, it’s hard to imagine his GPA was much lower than a 3.3.
    Law school was another story for Obama. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (the second highest honor available) in 1991.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Sean68 said:
    Alice67 said:
    He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and was the editor of the Law Review the highest honor when can receive in Law School. Not good enough?

    Sean68 said:
    P.S. “Magna Cum Laude” means “with high honors”. “Summa cum laude” means “with highest honors.” HLS doesn’t award Summa Cum Laude honors? Didn’t know that.

    catfishjuggling said:
    You said Harvard doesn’t award summa.

    No, he didn’t. He was pointing out that Alice said Magna Cum laud is the highest honor you can receive in law school, which isn’t true. Summa is.

  • Sean68

    Alice67 said:
    Right. Not good enough.

    In what sense? Are you also impressed when you see nudity in a nudist colony?

  • Sean68

    Alice67 said:
    Why?

    Because I thinks his test scores will speak more to his legendary brilliance than his grades at a place where an “A” is the most common grade received.

  • Sean68

    sarainitaly said:
    No, he didn’t. He was pointing out that Alice said Magna Cum laud is the highest honor you can receive in law school, which isn’t true. Summa is.

    You’re right about my point, but I must have been on crack last night. As I reread Alice’s post, it looks like she was saying that being the editor of the Harvard Law Review is the highest honor, which is also arguable since it is in many ways a politicized popularity contest and Obama was by all accounts a compromise selection.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Sean68 said:
    You’re right about my point, but I must have been on crack last night. As I reread Alice’s post, it looks like she was saying that being the editor of the Harvard Law Review is the highest honor, which is also arguable since it is in many ways a politicized popularity contest and Obama was by all accounts a compromise selection.

    i read her comment the same way, but i think you’re right, she meant the law review. oh well, still pointing out your point to catfish.

  • CAconservative

    Alice67:

    So, when the Liberal-sheeple attacked Bush’s college grades, that wasn’t racist? Apparently it’s only racist if it involves a Black man. Is that what your telling us? Is racism the only argument you have? Did you arrive at this really ignorant reasoning because your relying on what the buffoon Whoopi Goldberg said, or is this a product of your own inherent racism?

  • MPAndonee

    Some on this site try to make intelligent points, and tackle the subjects using facts. Well done.

    The problem is this: When the media or others (like Trump) consistently, promote an idea which is patently wrong what can one assume then?

    You and I might be educated (no this is not code word for East Coast Elites), but rather we know enough to understand truth from fallacy, facts from spin. But there is a large segment of the population that votes with their hearts. What they see on TV is how they perceive their word. What Trump or what Palin say is gospel to them. And if they say that “Obama did not have the grades to go to Harvard”, for them that’s code word for “the uppity black boy” got help getting an education.

    That’s the only thing that matters.

    If you, the pontificates of the Right don’t understand this, then it’s all besides the point. Trump might NOT in actuality be a racist, but his use of Racist words and racist imagery, defines his actions, because that’s the base he’s appealing to.

    Instead he can say, “Obama you’re not business friendly”, etc., but the base will just roll their eyes closed and fall asleep.

    I am stereotyping, aren’t I? See where this gets us? :-)

  • hgarner2000

    The birther movement is motivated partially by racism but also partially by politics and also a little of both. I wondered if Trump was just trying to clear the air of birtherism. Then I wondered if he’s just trying to drum up more business for news media. But now…I really don’t know what he’s up to.

  • Darr247

    sarainitaly said:
    What did you think of the demands and lawsuits over McCain’s birth certificate and eligibility?

    You mean the ones brought up AFTER the birthers (note I didn’t call them “afterbirthers”) started their rants to show them how hypocritical they were being?

    By the way… why hasn’t anyone (like Franklin Graham) noticed how all the states that got hit by tornados are run by republicans?
    Oh, yeah… because they’re still trying to figure out a way to blame it on Obama.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Darr247 said:
    You mean the ones brought up AFTER the birthers (note I didn’t call them “afterbirthers”) started their rants to show them how hypocritical they were being?

    not quite.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28mccain.html

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/citizen.asp

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028/ns/nightly_news/

  • X-3

    WHY IS MEDIA-LITE RUNNING STORIES ABOUT THE IRRELEVANT FOOL SCHEIFFER? HE’S A HAS-BEEN AND A DUMBASS ON HIS BEST DAY.

  • eingriff

    The irony, lost on stooges like Couric and Schieffer, is that Obama just fraudulently pretended, and still fraudulently pretends, to be half Negro. Wonder how many minority students he edged out by this pretense.

    What makes people think Barry released his birth certificate, a contemporaneous record of birth showing birth parents?

    When a child is adopted at birth, an original birth certificate is created showing birth parents.

    An amended birth certificate is created showing the adoptive parents.

    I suspect the latest proffered “birth certificate” from the Great Pretender is the latter, an amended birth certificate showing adoptive parents. Sophisticated forensic document analysis aside, it looks to me like the latest “birth certificate” is folded back at the top to obscure the printed or, more likely, typed word “AMENDED”.

    A key test of the document’s validity is not the document itself, but an analysis of Obama’s DNA. If, as I suspect, an analysis of his DNA shows it’s biologically impossible for him to be the child of a Negro father and a Caucasian mother, the latest proffered “birth certificate” can not be accepted as valid. Either it is somebody else’s birth certificate, or, much more likely, it is Barry’s amended birth certificate reflecting his adoption by Stanley Ann Dunham and Obama the alien black Luo tribesman.

    Congress and the state legislatures should investigate the Obama matter, starting with subpoenae of Obama’s DNA and Hawai’i’s vital records of him. In view of Obama’s clandestine M.O., all officials with jurisdiction or on whom jurisdiction can be conferred by law are duty bound to investigate.

    It is utterly unacceptable for America to be unable to identify the pretender to the Office of President. The failure to ascertain Mr. Obama’s biological identity lends great weight to the proposition that he claims his adoptive parents as his birth parents in order to maintain the hoax that he is half Negro, so that he can make a fraudulent racial appeal for votes and denigrate opponents as racists.

    Every state’s Secretary of State should require verified DNA samples from Obama to determine whether his past and future applications for ballot positions were and will be honest and in good faith, or fraudulent in light of his latest claimed “birth certificate”.

    If genetic analysis disproves the latest proffered “birth certificate”, Barry’s applications for ballot placement should be rejected until he finally produces for all the world to see, at long last, his true, original, birth certificate, a contemporaneous record of birth showing actual birth parents consistent with his DNA. I would bet Obama’s birth mother was Polynesian, from whom he inherits his warm mahogany complexion, and his birth father was Caucasian, not an alien black Luo tribesman who made it with a white chick.

    Of course, there still remains the question whether Barry lost U.S. citizenship in the course of acquiring and exercising Indonesian citizenship as a lad and as an adult. This too must be the subject of official investigations.

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