"It's Just Joe!" No, It's Not
Joseph Biden was elected to the US Senate in 1972. And he's been acting ridiculous ever since.
Just this week, Biden confused Virginia and North Carolina, telling supporters in Virginia "we can win in North Carolina!" The Virginians were overheard saying, "Well, that's nice, but what about Virginia?" He called Congressman Paul Ryan "Governor." And he catapulted us back decades in comments he made about the auto bailout. Acoording to Biden, we're livin' large in the 20th century, which is weird given that his campaign's slogan is "Forward!"
But Biden's most egregious comment came mid-week, when he told a largely black audience that Republicans were "gonna put y'all back in chains." He hails from Delaware, but you would never know it by the phony Southern dialect he used. It reminded me of when Hillary Clinton stood before a black audience in a black church and, in a fake Southern dialect, quoted Rev. James Cleveland's famous song: "I ain't nowheres tired, I came too far from I started from. Nobody told me that the road would be easy, but I don't believe He brought me this far to leave me."
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and other Democrats also have been known to lapse into the phony accent to pander to black groups. It's like listening to Madonna try to speak with a fake British accent. She's from Detroit.
What's infuriating about it is that they get away with the insulting language and phony inflections and the bigotry they reveal.
When Biden blurted out his racist comment about the "chains," Obama--the first black president!---raced to his defense. The leftwing press covered the remark but didn't pound Biden for its racist connotations. Imagine if this had been a white Republican. Imagine if this had been Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan or Sarah Palin who had said that the Democrats wanted to put "y'all back in chains." The Left and their wingmen in the press would have them running for their reputations...and their lives.
There have been some Democrats who have spoken out against Biden, including the nation's first black governor, Virginia's Doug Wilder; Rev. Jesse Jackson called Biden's comment "not helpful." But their mild rebukes pale in comparison to the sound and fury we would now be experiencing if a white conservative had made the exact same statement.
But Joe (and Hillary and Bill and so many others) get away with their soft bigotry because they are who they are and because they belong to the "right" party and because the press protects them and because "It's just Joe being Joe" or "Hillary being Hillary."
I think most Americans see through the hypocrisy and have had enough. And I think the widespread fed-upedness is going to help to feed a massive revolt of the Great Silent Majority 2.0 sometime soon. Say....on November 6.
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Wow, Princess... you won over three MORE actual bonafide Negro votes with that blog post:
Herman Cain, Allen West, and Condoleeza Rice.
Break out the champagne!
"Egregious"... no wonder I want you around the house. I need to laugh my ass off a LOT more.
Let me explain something to you that people who belong to a racist Party (the GOP) like yourself obviously have a hard time understanding:
When a liberal who marched with black people and fights daily for black people uses ebonics to communicate because they IDENTIFY with black people, it's a GOOD thing.
When conservatives who HOSED black people and fight daily to keep them poor and brood mares for the right wings' endless wars uses ebonics to communicate, it isn't even then racism: It is condescension to black people and dog whistling to their own white racist cronies.
See who it works, Pumpkin?
You CANNOT and WILL NOT EVER win again.
Even Adelson's 100 million pissed completely away will never beat the CIA.
So SWITCH SIDES. PROVE you're not an idiot like Adelson et al.
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