{"id":3005,"date":"2008-09-10T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3005"},"modified":"2008-09-10T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T15:10:17","slug":"paterson-community-organizer-is-racist-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3005","title":{"rendered":"Paterson: Community organizer is racist term"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the entire English language will be placed off-limits in this election, because every effective phrase that refers to Obama’s inexperience will be classified as racist. From Drudge<\/a>, I found this nugget from WCBSTV<\/a> about New York’s accidental governor David Paterson lecturing us that “community organizer” is code for “black”;<\/p>\n

“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention \u2013 a ‘community organizer.’ They kept saying it, they kept laughing,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe they kept saying it and laughing because it’s damn funny that someone thinks their experience as a bloodsucking leach qualifies them to be President, um, Governor.<\/p>\n

In case you think he might have been taken out of context, Paterson went on to clarify;<\/p>\n

Paterson sees the repeated use of the words “community organizer” as Republican code for “black”.<\/p>\n

“I think where there are overtones is when there are uses of language that are designed to inhibit other people’s progress with a subtle reference to their race,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m not sure if my criticism of Paterson’s intellectual gymnastics will be perceived as a attack on him for his melanin content or his ocular deficiencies. Or his inability to grow a beard that doesn’t make him look like a scruffy hobo.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> quotes Paterson;<\/p>\n

Mr. Paterson on Tuesday seemed to bristle at such attacks. Defining what a community organizer was, Mr. Paterson said: \u201cIt means that an individual who could have gone to Wall Street and made a lot of money \u2014 and then run for office because he can buy media time \u2014 chose to go back and work in programs in neighborhoods where he thought he can make a difference and became an elected official based on his involvement right in his own community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Except that Chicago wasn’t Obama’s “own community” was it, Governor? He went there specifically for political reasons. I’m pretty tired of this code word bullshit. It’s just to deflect criticism without addressing the underlying issues. Hell, I could say the same about Obama’s use of code words, too.<\/p>\n

In the LA Times<\/a>, they quote Obama on a tear about the Constitution in relation to terrorists in Michigan;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may think this is Mohammed the terrorist,\u2019\u2019 he said at a campaign rally, but \u201cit might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think it\u2019s Barack the bomb-thrower. But it might be Barack the guy running for president.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Continuing, he got more heated, his voice booming. Referring to the Constitution, he said: \u201cDon\u2019t mock the Constitution! Don\u2019t make fun of it! Don\u2019t suggest that it\u2019s un-American to abide by what the founding fathers set up! It\u2019s worked pretty well for 200 years!\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

He finished with a sigh: \u201cThese people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What does he mean by “These people”? These white people? These people in the Midwest? These people who place the safety of citizens above the rights of a few criminals? Why, that’s racist. Since he was talking in Michigan, he was probably talking to a group of people who sympathize with terrorists, so maybe he was talking about Christians as “these people”.<\/p>\n

See how that works, Governor. Get a grip.<\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin <\/a>offers some synonyms for “community organizer” just to be helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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