You Say "Macaca," I Say "Jimmy The Greek," Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
I Guess They Are Not The Clean and Articulate Kind
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2008 | 2008 Presidential Campaign | Congressional Democrats | Joe Biden | Joe Biden's Mouth | Media | Race Card — Comments (17) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Joe Biden's arch-nemesis - his own mouth - has struck again, according to a one-day story on Page A7 of the Washington Post:
Biden also stumbled through a discourse on race and education, leaving the impression that he believes one reason that so many District of Columbia schools fail is the city's high minority population. His campaign quickly issued a statement saying he meant to indicate that the disadvantages were based on economic status, not race.
After a lengthy critique of Bush administration education policies, Biden attempted to explain why some schools perform better than others -- in Iowa, for instance, compared with the District. "There's less than 1 percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than 4 or 5 percent that are minorities. What is in Washington? So look, it goes back to what you start off with, what you're dealing with," Biden said. He went on to discuss the importance of parental involvement in reading to children and how "half this education gap exists before the kid steps foot in the classroom."
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Naturally, rather than tattoo this statement onto Biden as it did with George Allen, the WaPo gives him an immediate out, and then drops the issue:
The Biden campaign moved quickly to clarify the senator's remarks in a statement: "This was not a race-based distinction, but a discussion of the problems kids face who don't have the same socio-economic support system (and all that implies -- nutrition, pre K, etc.) entering grade school and the impact of those disadvantages on outcomes."
I'm sure if this was a GOP Senator that would not be the end of the story.
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The democrats won't crucify Biden like republicans did George Allen.
When will we ever learn?
That was the Democrats, the alphabet TV networks, and the Washington Compost (daily headliners) -- with a generous assist from George Allen himself, who insisted in going around apologizing to to every person, building, tree, and fireplug in Virginia instead of gutting up and telling those people to shut up about an inconsequential matter that was NOT a slur of any kind.
I don't recall any piling on by the Repubs.
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In what context is calling a dark-skinned guy "monkey" not a slur?
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You snotty little bigot.
First of all, what difference is the guy's race? And how does "rhesus monkey" have any bearing on skin color? Oh, never mind, you are a Democrat, and therefore race *does* matter, and you Democrats obviously draw some connection between monkeys and dark people.
The dude was an annoying little Democrat operative following the campaign around, making a nuisance of himself. Kinda like a noisy monkey. Simple as that.
By the by, I betcha didn't know that macacas are indigenous to several places in the Old World -- none of them being sub-Saharan Africa or India.
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Molon Labe!
Uhh, no, it wasn't that he apologized, which was appropriate, it was that he KEPT MAKING MISTAKES. Such as insulting both Jews, by saying that while he just discovered was Jewish, he was apparently shocked and troubled, given his reaction, and then, that he "still ate porkchops," i.e. your customs are stupid and I don't follow them, and the rest of Virginia, by insinuating because of his reactions, that he thought people wouldn't vote for him if he was Jewish.
Oh, and then there is also that thing about him spending two weeks attacking a novel Webb wrote 20 years ago, (N-O-B-O-D-Y C-A-R-E-D, and it was insulting that he thought they would care, not to mention it drained time for him to talk about real issues) refusing to say if he'd have voted for Iraq if he knew what he knew now, refusing to answer MOST straightforward questions in interviews, (the Tim Russert debate between him and Webb was the single most painful thing I've ever seen, I wanted to strangle him most of the time) etc.
I'm not from Virginia, and I actually think George Allen is a pretty good guy, he was a great governor but only an OK Senator, but I was so disgusted with his campaign by the time election day came around I would have had to hold my nose to vote for him. I still would have, don't get me wrong, Webb makes me ill, but he ran the single most insulting and idiotic campaign I'd seen an incumbent run. Heck, any serious candidate for statewide office, run, for that matter.
Jindal/Palin '16
Story being held back by the LAT, until the timing is right and they can run it up the flagpole, then divert the country's attention with their serial news-scams. Kaus divines that the scandal concerns the Dems or it would have splashed all over the national media and its many mighty Wurlitzers in the commentariat are probably getting pre-positioned to cushion the blow. It could be Hillary's love-interest of the same gender that I was told of by a Chicago socialite---or John Edwards' swishing his Silk Pony tail around the lovelies with equally great hair.
As long as "the Democrats, the alphabet TV networks, and the Washington Compost (daily headliners)" plus the NYT & the leftish blogosphere all give stories on Foley, Craig and Allen and the rest of those sinful Republicans legs than run for weeks and even months---the BIG LIE was invented by their colleagues further left---we will see one-day wonders on the left and classic sagas of vice on the right.
I trust Matt Welch, so if he hasn't heard of it, it is clearly either a very closely held story (not one "everybody knows" about) or just doesn't exist.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
n/t.
Delaware was a slave state during the Civil War...he was trying to argue that he would do well in the South as a candidate.
As is often the case with Biden, it came out sounding very strange, as if being a slave state was a good thing to be.
But that is the statement of a blatant racist trying to pretend he's not.
Carlos: "What? Were they [Democrats]?"
Seth: "They look like [Democrats]? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires.
"[Democrats] do not explode when sunlight hits them."
If Biden actually had a chance of winning, this LAT story could be about him. It is well-known that he fools around.
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Coming from Delaware, the first campaign I worked on was against slick Joe (whose son is now Atty Gen).
Biden went to Archmere Academy for High School way back when.
In Wilmington and the surrounding suburbs, that has a minority population hovering around 35%, Biden went to a private school that has about 4 or 5 minorities in the entire population.
He also made a racial slur about Delaware's Indian Population not too long ago.