I tell ya, campaigning against Obama is going to be a real tap dance. Maybe the GOP should just not do it. I understand how using his middle name is some sort of code for “he’s one of them” and agree that it shouldn’t be done, but I hope this isn’t a hint of things to come.

It’s kind of funny that if Hillary had been the nominee, people could have gotten by with a lot more. Maybe Egalia is right and all of fellows are just a bunch of mis-og… Oh forget it. You know that word.

Just kidding of course.

Just to repost my recent tweet, this has also made the front page of reddit with the title “The Tennessee GOP is Smearing Obama as Anti-Semitic. Care to tie up their phone lines with some public outcry? (615) 269-4260″

Comments here: http://reddit.com/info/6a6yg/comments/

I tell ya, campaigning against Obama is going to be a real tap dance. Maybe the GOP should just not do it.

There’s a difference between being a vile racist asshole and making a public spectacle of being a vile racist asshole.

Hobbs has yet to learn the difference.

Dang!

Look, guys. Don’t fire at a dude droppin’ down a ravine like Wile E. Coyote. He’ll hit bottom, soon enough, without help.
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Take this quote from the TN Republican Party:

Obama has pledged to hold a Muslim Summit to determine Middle East policy with the very leaders that have as their goal to remove Israel from the map, referenced Jews to be “dogs” and “pigs,” among other vile references.

Sounds like the KKK is alive and well in the TN GOP

William:

I think Karl Rove’s absence from the WH is explained now. He’s been doing an outreach program for folks like Mr. Hobbs.

A Rove outreach program - I love that!

Glen, it’s not going to be a tap dance, or at least that’s what I’m expecting. I’ve already seen racist invective posted on Middle TN blogs. I was trying to do some research on racial population distribution in an effort to find stats on what portion of the global population could possibly feel the insults focused on Obama as impacting them and I discovered something interesting. The U.S. is one of very few countries that cares enough about race to even collect statistics on it.

Jim:

Get ready for a lot more “code” from the right if Obama gets the nomination. Perhaps someone from Redstate or LGF will finally find that cadillac driving welfare queen that Ronnie Rayguns used as strawperson–and it will turn out to be Obama’s mon!

Yeah, that “Cadillac-driving welfare queen “went the way of Democratic Party resistance to welfare reform.

NW:

Can you furnish some context for that comment? I doubt it, but please try.

As I said elsewhere, dc, you probably don’t deserve any type of respectful response from me, but the “context” was part rebuttal to the implication that it was “code” for racist Ronald Reagan and his racist Republican followers and part a comment on how salient the principle or value asserted by Reagan was given that Democrats (most of them anyway) sure changed their tune on welfare fraud and abuse and the culture of entitlement. So your assertion that it was a “strawperson” seems weak.

NW:

Boy, I guess the gloves are off now. Whoo.

Your comment:

“but the “context” was part rebuttal to the implication that it was “code” for racist Ronald Reagan and his racist Republican followers and part a comment on how salient the principle or value asserted by Reagan was given that Democrats (most of them anyway) sure changed their tune on welfare fraud and abuse and the culture of entitlement. So your assertion that it was a “strawperson” seems weak”

means what?

This definition is from one of a couple of sources that identifies the term strawman:

“Description of Straw Man
The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern:

Person A has position X.
Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
Person B attacks position Y.
Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

This sort of “reasoning” is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person.”

Ronnie Rayguns (did I say that his ploy was racist? I don’t believe I did.) used the image of the cadillac driving welfare recipient to garner votes from people, both voters and the press, who were too lazy to fact check him. But, then, what would I expect from a guy who actually talked about having been a member of a bomber crew during WWII when he in reality he had done all of his fighting with the John Wayne Commandos on Hollywood’s back lots. Yeah, I think St. Ronnie might stretch the truth–just a tad.

BTW, don’t worry about civility where I’m concerned. I’ll try not to be actionable, but you do whatever you think is christian.

Thanks for understanding, dc. Some day I’ll (a) be perfect (like you?) and not have to worry about God’s grace or (b) not give a flip about how I treat others (like you?).

Who said (or conceded) it was “distorted”?

I do believe you used the word “code” and then used Reagan as an illustration and what do you mean, if not racism, when you use the word “code”?

Oh, Reagan purportedly claimed to fight in WWII? Can you google (and then cut and paste!!) ad hominem for me?