Enjoyed this blog post by Alexandra Petri over at the WashPost:
On Fox News, commenting on Joe Biden’s Danville “Put Y’all Back in Chains” gaffe, Sarah Palin observed: “If that’s not the nail in the coffin, really, the strategists there in the Obama campaign have got to look at a diplomatic way of replacing Joe Biden on the ticket with Hillary.”
It is seldom that you get such good quotes from the pot about the color of the kettle.
Then again, you know you’ve made a gaffe when Sarah Palin is suggesting you might have chosen your words more judiciously. That’s like Charlie Sheen suggesting you might have a substance problem.
But perhaps we should cut her some slack. Vice presidential candidates whose comments prompt everyone in the vicinity to wince uncontrollably for several minutes is a subject no one knows better than Palin. Maybe she and Biden were better matched than we thought.
After the selection of Paul Ryan to fill the VP slot on the ticket (prompting such exciting merchandise as this button!), it is hard not to think back to August 2008, when everyone was cheering Palin as a game-changer. And she was a game-changer, in the sense that Godzilla is a city-changer. Say what you will about Paul Ryan and the potential risks of having to engage in a Serious Mature Debate of his policies, everyone admits one thing about him: He’s no Sarah Palin. If anyone sets off the trademark “Mayday! Mayday! The Veep’s Saying Something” alarm this year, it’s Biden.
And yep, she oughta know. Onion Joe!
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As Fits said, they don’t call him Vice-Idiot for nothing.
A video that Obama supporters don’t want to watch. It gets interesting about 6:45 into it.
I guess all those Republican references to the “Democrat plantation” are A-OK.
And Romney calling POTUS “angry” —which is dog whistle. code for________
Bless Joe Biden’s heart. He says that Ryan and Romney are honorable and decent men. Then he basically says that they want to throw old people into the street and put black people back into slavery.
So, they’re decent and honorable guys, but Joe just has a little quibble with them on the slavery/murder issues. See? This is a positive campaign.
@Bryan
And Brutus is an honorable man…..
“Angry” is now a code word? I would like a comprehensive list of code words please.
Libs definition of racist words: All words in the dictionary*
* when spoken by conservatives
Yeah… I hate to appear unhip, but I didn’t get the “angry” reference.
But whatever it means, it sort of boggle the mind that anyone would apply that term to No-Drama.
Hey Brad: Starting today, it’s the A-word. Have some decency, please.
We’ll have to use euphemisms. How does “peevish” sound?
But seriously, what did you mean, Kathryn? Were you saying it was code for “uppity” or something?
Oh, and I missed my cue above. I meant to say, “so are they all, all honorable men…”
Geez, Mr. W, use the Google.
Angry black man. Republicans have tried desperately to paint Obama as angry and aggrieved. Why would they do that? Well, do you remember that Lee Atwater quote you posted a few days ago?
Kathryn: So as not to be racially insensitive which of these will you sign off on: galled, chafed, cross, huffy. Please advise.
“Angry black man” has been a fear-mongerer’s trope for decades, if not centuries– the Stono uprising, say. Why raise it against No Drama Obama otherwise?
“Racist” You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
More of Biden’s blunders
http://patriotpost.us/opinion/14446
I think more people fear “angry black woman” than “angry black man”. Once those ear rings and wig come off, it’s game on.