When did saying someone having a "lazy performance" equal "he lost because he's just a lazy black guy?"
I don't buy that argument.
Here are Sununu's quotes:
Quote:
– Obama is foreign. Obama doesn’t understand the “American system” because “he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia, and, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure.” [Fox News, 7/17/2012]
– Obama doesn’t know how to be an American. During a conference call, Sununu claimed, “The men and women all over America who have worked hard to build these businesses, their businesses, from the ground up is how our economy became the envy of the world. It is the American way. And I wish this president would learn how to be an American.” [Conference call, 7/17/2012]
– Obama is a lazy idiot. Sununu described Obama’s debate performance as “babbling,” “lazy,” and “disengaged,” and dismissed the possibility that he could do better in the future. “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.” [Fox News, 10/4/2012]
– Obama has no class, just wants to be cool. “That moment of using the B.S. word was kind of a self-defining moment for the president,” he told Sean Hannity. “No class, wants to be cool. Sacrifices the dignity of the presidency for appearing cool to a magazine that works for some of his base.” [Fox News, 10/25/2012]
Nowhere in there does he mention race once. Some are in bad taste. The "When you're not that bright" comment is bulls**t. I think Obama is a brilliant man. I don't like most of his policies, but he's not an idiot by any stretch. But, on the other hand, half of the country are continuously designated racists every day by people that can't seem to understand that you can disagree with the policies of a person, and honestly not care what they look like.
The racist argument is crap, just like when people said that calling it "Chicago politics" meant "black" for some reason.
You don't have to say the word 'black' for an argument to be racist. Blacks have been tarred with stereotypes for more than a century in this country, and if you say, 'not a real American,' 'lazy,' 'stupid,' 'incompetent,' 'boy,' 'focused on being cool instead of substance,' 'protecting his homeys instead of the community,' or any other statement that plays into the stereotypes that blacks have had to fight, then you don't have to use the 'n-word' because everyone understands what you're conveying anyway.
07 Nov 2012, 11:57 pm
