Comments on: Rep. Lynn Jenkins & The White Power Republicans

By: Indeed

Indeed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:12:38 +0000

Is that why you are so “amused.” And an “observer.” Perhaps you “could” “explain” “it” to “me.”

“Thanks” in advance.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:45 +0000

LOL Indeed,
You do not “get it.”

By: Indeed

Indeed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:55:34 +0000

I’d love to hear the learned dissertations regarding Kiplings poetic observations. Someone might do it but he’d be a better man than I. LOL

Dude, is the Google Button on your computer machine broke’?

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:24:29 +0000

I’d love to hear the learned dissertations regarding Kiplings poetic observations. Someone might do it but he’d be a better man than I. LOL

By: rip

rip — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:36:05 +0000

She did apologize – which I thought was mighty white of her.

By: Indeed

Indeed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:11:16 +0000

Besides, one lonely nut calling in a death threat? But you ignore the patterns of threats of violence from the right?

In a nutshell. (on at least two levels)

By: tim

tim — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:07:59 +0000

Dennis, why do you assume it was a democrat? Any evidence to support that? Her office even said they don’t know whether it was connected to any specific issue.

Besides, one lonely nut calling in a death threat? But you ignore the patterns of threats of violence from the right?

By: canadian bacon

canadian bacon — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:47:49 +0000

Next it will be the “white man’s burden.” Just saying. It’s all coming out. Frick in hell.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:23:49 +0000

Death threat is not a good thing and should never be done, but I love that you get into high dudgeon over it but not the racial speech.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:22:09 +0000

My, that’s powerful stuff Dennis.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:32:47 +0000

Lynn Jenkins Receives Death Threat

Stay Classy, Dems.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:04:12 +0000

Jay must be at a Tears for Fears concert.

By: Joba

Joba — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:06:47 +0000

Lynn Jenkins is an accountant who voted with Bush to spend more money than any US president in history. She is pro-Iraq War, but did not enlist in Gulf War #1 when she was a spry 25 years old. She did NOT support the troops because she is a CHICKEN HAWK. That is the litmus test. The CHicken Hawk is the lowest form of hypocrite there is — sending other people to war, when she herself was too CHICKEN to fight. Buck buck buck!

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:08:36 +0000

Or what Wilfredo said.

By: Wilfredo

Wilfredo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:59:40 +0000

Wow, funky comments.

Two cents: The connotation of “great white hope” is racist.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:59:10 +0000

Or, why do you think Oliver claims she is a racist and this is all about white power, Quaker?

I am at a loss for an answer. I am not Oliver. Regardless of any other plots you believe may be afoot, I am not Oliver’s alias.

Do you think she is a racist, and if so, why?

I think she made a racist statement. Not knowing anything at all about the woman or her attitudes, I can judge only what she is reported to have said.

Understand that I do not believe that racism is the same thing as being driven in one’s actions by a consuming hatred of black people. I optimistically believe that the number of people in our country motivated by such hatred is quite small.

However, if you refer to my earlier comments, you’ll see that I also believe that racism manifests itself in the assumption that the white majority gets to decides what’s normal and acceptable and the concerns of anyone not white can be–or should be–discounted. Far from being typical only of robe-wearing throwbacks, I think this assumption at times informs the attitudes of most white people, myself included.

To put it as briefly as I can, Rep. Jenkins made a statement that amounts to: “You don’t count.” Wisely, she withdrew that statement.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:28:24 +0000

It was me and not one of the at least two sock-puppets among us, both far-left libs curiously enough, but I didn’t say what you claimed I said. Those aren’t the same.

You are still confused.

Do you think she is a racist, and if so, why? Or, why do you think Oliver claims she is a racist and this is all about white power, Quaker?

And what of the story in Atlanta?

By: Indeed

Indeed — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:12:39 +0000

There’s an Onion headline in here somewhere: “Openly Racist Republicans Tired of Being Called Racist” or something to that effect.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:27:31 +0000

I suppose that could have been someone else posting under your name.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:26:14 +0000

No one here proves she’s a racist. Rarely does anyone here prove any their racism accusations. They just accuse, brand and implicate anyone who disagrees as racist too, and then move on.