“There are overtones of potential racial coding in the campaign,” Paterson said at an event in New York City:
“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 – a ‘community organizer.’ They kept saying it, they kept laughing,” he said.
Paterson referred to McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin who compared her work experience to Obama’s.
“So I suppose a small town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except with real responsibilities,” she said at the convention.
Paterson sees the repeated use of the words “community organizer” as Republican code for “black”.
This isn’t the first time he has thrown that out there:
Governor Paterson, who became New York’s first black governor following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer, is lashing out at the press for describing him as an “accidental governor,” implying in a speech that the term’s frequent usage was motivated by racial bias.
In a speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual convention in Cincinnati, Mr. Paterson also suggested that the defeat of Senator Obama by Senator McCain in the presidential contest would be a victory for racism.
Racial coding huh?
Who said this?
“And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? :The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’
Obama: Grandma is a typical white person
This?
They’re going to try to make you afraid of me: ‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. … Oh, and did I mention he’s black?’
This?
The only strategy they’ve got in this election is to try to scare you about me — ‘He doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills.”
The only people playing the race card seem to be Obama and idiots like Paterson!
Synonyms for Obama-esque “community organizer:”
They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and illegal and criminal records.
It ain’t about the black or white. It’s all about the green.
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You can hear it in his voice now. Obama is feeling the pain. He is totally focused now on his opponent’s VP choice. That situation may be a historic first in history.
I heard the Demotrash have already sent a small army of lawyers and investigators to Alaska to try to dig up dirt on Palin. The vermin just never give up, do they? Hanging chads, dimpled chads. Free sandwiches and juice for seniors to hop on the bus and go to the polls to vote Democrite. Busing loads of illegals from precinct to precinct to vote Democrap. Vandalizing campaign posters and signs, breaking into opposition offices, vandalizing cars with stickers, stealing opposition newspapers out of the racks.These roaches just never give up; no dirty or illegal or unethical tactic is too low for these degenerate skumbags.
It’s kind of funny really but throughout this entire election cycle the only remarks that I have heard which could be misconstrued as racist came from BHO himself or his liberal campaigners. But I thought ‘community organizer’ could be anyone.
Get out the cryin towels, man the crutches, waaaaaa boohoo another when of Them Whities had the nerve to practice free speech. When us White folk gonna learn that the freedom to speak your mind is only to non-whites and white liberal lackeys, who grovel and weep with guilt for something that happened over 10 years ago?:)
I wonder what he called the newspapers that reported he had cheated on his wife for 3 years during their marriage? Or when she cheated on him??
She called him a community organizer because that’s what he was. He has no experience. They keep calling her the mayor of a town of 9,000 people…must be Obama code for white…racist people calling her a mayor…how do they get away with names like that?
Make that over 150 yrs ago:)**==
I think people use the title “Community Organizer” because… oh, I dunno – - that’s the title Barack Obama uses, himself, to describe his job during those years. Gov. Paterson makes it sound like the Republicans made up the term “Community Organizer”. Hello – that was his actual title.
I find it increasingly hilarious that it is the Democrats in this campaign who are making it about racism…sexism – - out and out discrimination all the way around for the party of the overly tolerant.
Makes ya wonder if they’re not really closet racists/sexists…and all these years they’ve been pulling the wool over our eyes. Now, in this campaign, their true feelings have come to light.
Either that? Or they are SO frustrated that the Republicans are NOT making it a race issue, when they expected them to. Republicans aren’t living up to their expectations that way – - so the Dems are baiting the Republicans, with no success.
Very interesting.
The Democrite Party depends on racism. If there were no more racism, they would lose a large part of their political advantage. They constantly have to whip up hysteria and fan the flames of race warfare so they can continue to sucker minorities into staying on the Democrat Virtual Plantation.
You’ve noticed how the Democrites are always the one bringing it up. They are always the ones playing the race card. They are always the ones making the accusations. They want everyone to view every issue, every person according the race, gender, and class distinctions.
You bet the Democrites want to feed the flames of racism. They depend on it! And the reality of it is that they are the true racists, by definition!
The demacrook party will try and dig up all kinds of dirty knowing what a bunch of dirty lowdown misrble bunch of no good carpetbaggers they are[-x
If the Obama campaign’s army of dirt seekers in Alaska can’t find enough good dirt, they’ll just make it up. And isn’t it ironic? Obama is supposed to be the agent of hope, change, no more politics as usual, he’s fresh and new!!!
No, he isn’t. He’s a slimeball gutter rat. This is classic Klintonian street fight politics.
Robert
Should we take this to mean you don’t like Obama and his ignorant disciples?
Correct! Don’t you find it interesting that mr. new, fresh, hope, change is using age-old gutter tactics?
I just found this web site, what a breath of fresh air, used to be a demorobot until Sarah Palin now I am watching all the little varmit attack her and she hold’s her head up high, this is the change that we need in Washington now….MCCain/Palin in 2008.