With the right wing blogosphere having virtual orgasms over President Obama’s remark which was of course, taken out of context, they’ve ignored the obvious. President Obama is fighting back.
The party of obstruction is clearly fighting for its life.
Titled, “Self-described mutt Barack Obama: Don’t ‘talk about me like a dog’
Just when it seemed that Barack Obama couldn’t dig himself any deeper into the political hole he’s in, he does something really stupid. “Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they’re not always happy with me,” he told a union crowd in Milwaukee. “They talk about me like a dog. That’s not in my prepared remarks, but it’s true.
It gets better:
The comment makes him look ridiculous. First off, there are inevitable racial overtones to it. To be treated “like a dog” is to be treated as something less than human. In the Muslim world, to call someone a dog is a pretty serious insult (and no, I’m not suggesting Obama is a Muslim).
Yes, he did. He suggested President Obama is a Muslim. The genius author of this fiasco of a post then suggested Obama is playing the race card. Can you say Michael Steele?
Who historically in the US has been treated as less than human? Blacks during the eras of slavery and segregation. During his campaign and since in office (the Henry Louis Gates fiasco was an exception) Obama has – to his credit – generally not sought to make racial comments or, to use that hackneyed term, “play the race card”. Now he’s going to be accused of doing so.
The other reason he looks stupid is that he himself has described both himself and black people in canine terms.
This post used: Muslim, race, ridiculous, stupid, politically disastrous, plucky, odd and race card, just to name a few, simply to discuss one sentence out of President Obama’s entire speech, which was not “stupid.“
During the campaign on the race card issue:
Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,” Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, charged in a statement with which Mr. McCain later said he agreed. “It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”
This was candidate Barack Obama’s “shameful” remark:
“So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Mr. Obama said in Springfield, Mo., echoing earlier remarks. “You know, he’s not patriotic enough. He’s got a funny name. You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky. That’s essentially the argument they’re making.”
Comments from the Telegraph post:
John Bailey:
“Unlike BO dogs are loyal”
Errol Flynn:
Perhaps few of you here understand how Muslims typically greet the Saudi King (at least those allowed to get close enough to him). They bow and kiss his hand.
Now watch this video clip showing someone who Toby has written about, doing exactly the same thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd425zfw5Ew&NR=1
Then ask yourself … could someone with the name ‘Barack’, and who was part educated in Indonesia, and who kisses the hand of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques” … not be a Muslim??
My emphasis.
Amusing Bunni:
He insults dogs with his whining. He is more a snake, rat, or some slimy thing without a spine. I can’t wait until he’s impeached.
Cherokeekid:
The manner that the talk about Obama like a dog is that they blame him for stinking up the Country like a dog gets blamed for farting in a room.
I feel sorry for you Democrats. It looks like you only had the choice of nominating the dog or the bitch.
Anomaly100: (I couldn’t help myself)
Cherokeekid- I had no idea you were running for President during the last campaign. You were the one that mentioned “bitch” not me.
45govt replies to NYCSteve:
If we offend your libtard sensibilities, why are you here? We can stand it without yiu Stevie, it is not as if you have added anything but brain-dead fawning over your marxist disaster.
My emphasis.
HostileLogic:
Calling Obama a dog is an extreme insult to dogs.Obama is a Marxist cockroach.Damn! Now I feel as though I must apologize to cockroaches.”
The most thin-skinned, whiny, name-calling and weak President EVER. We see the true character and personality in gaffes – when he is not plugged into the teleprompter or reading off the prepared remarks.
A good orator is lost on some if he isn’t reading from his palm, but instead uses a teleprompter like many Presidents before him. American Thinker obviously, refudiates Obama’s “dog” remark while at the same time calling him, “thin-skinned, whiny, name-calling and weak.”
Here’s the video which contains the aforementioned remarks by President Obama:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7XNfZDczs[/youtube]
A more bipartisan, equally faulting Obama, and touting other points article which even included a quote, in context:
“I’m going to keep fighting, every single day, every single hour, every single minute, to turn this economy around; to put people back to work; to renew the American Dream for your families and for future generations,” the president said.
Using a metaphor he has employed a number of times before, Mr. Obama said Republicans “drove our economy into a ditch… And then they got the nerve to ask for the keys back!”
He added:
They’d have those special interests riding shotgun, then they’d hit the gas and we’d be right back in the ditch.”
Considering the right wing posts and the comments, yes, they talk about him like a “dog” but they are also calling him a stupid, Muslim dog, among other things.
We know better. Get out and vote.
We keep the keys!
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