"We've been misdefined as a party that doesn't care, a party that's insensitive, a party that is unconcerned about minorities, a party that's unconcerned about the lives and expectations and dreams of average Americans, and nothing could be further from the truth.."
So says Michael Steele, the guy who loves puppies and the new Chairman of the RNC. Oh, and Michael, as you can tell by his pic, just happens to be an African American. Oh those repubs, they are so original. Seriously, if you are a *dye in the wool repub this has got to hurt. Steele, after all, pissed off conservatives when he found a moderate organization, and from time to time has seemed almost embarrassed by his party affiliation. But look at the choices they had: The frat boy's hand picked man, Mike Duncan, Chip (the rapper)Salstman, Katon (I am a son of the confederacy) Dawson, and Kenneth (I am a proud house Negro)Blackwell. Wow, talk about scraping from the bottom of the barrel. These repubs are in some serious trouble.
Oh come on field, you are always crying about how insensitive the republicans are, and how they need to reach out to people of color, and now they pick one of your people and you still aren't satisfied. Nope, because I know a hustle when I see one. Here is the thing: if you put an African American in a position of power just because the other guy did it and you think it was successful for him, you aren't really doing shit. You are just playing politics as usual.
Steel might be "charismatic", but he strikes me as one of those Negroes who will say whatever is necessary to fit in. I see the guy on FOX NEWS and he is killing Obama and calling him every kind of name in the book. Then I see him on one of those late night talk shows and he is saying what a great guy Obama is and how the repubs have a lot of work to do blah blah blah. Yeah, Michael is somewhat of a fraud, he should fit in well with the folks over at the RNC.
But he will be right at home with the repubs, and this is just what the Doctor ordered for them in the age of Obama. They were losing their minds while trying to come up with an answer for his O ness, and now they think they have it. Damn that Obama sure is popular. He is smart, articulate, and very telegenic. Where can we get a Negro like that? Hey, how about that Steele guy, he speaks really well....
"I would say to the new president, congratulations,... It's going to be an honor to spar with him, and I would follow that up with 'how do you like me now?' "
Michael, I didn't like you before, and I sure as hell don't like you now. I am just not feeling the our Negro is better than your Negro game your party is playing. And I am really not feeling you because you are letting yourself become a pawn in the game. Still, I wish you luck. Your party has a lot of work to do. Divide and conquer politics doesn't seem to work in A-merry-ca anymore. And all of those old Southern voters who long for the days when we were paler and more Christian are all [thankfully] dying off. What that means is less votes for you and a better A-merry-ca for all of us.
So congrats Michael, you can go out and celebrate now. But don't party too hard, you have a lot of work to do.
*Thanks Murf..
99 comments:
strike a nerve did we .....LOL
at least Steele is a real negro
Field:
"Lexington" Steele was pretty much sold down the river by Bahama Bob Ehlrich's wingnut crew here in MD no matter the lip service. LOL When a short bald Jew can beat the crap out of him among black voters, you know he was full of sh*t. Not even anti-abortion, anti-queer black mega preachers in Baltimore and PG Co. could save him.
I despise him more than Blackwell. Reason: Lex is a fool. He thinks these folk really love him, and that the GOP's faithful can evolve, adapt. Poor Lex. Now Ken Blackwell's a straight scumbag and Quisling, but at least he ain't misguided. He understands fully what his pals are all about, and his place with them. Lex's place is thus tragic.
Steele was the only choice. He got a lot of work to do, starting on the ground. 2010 will be a test. To see if Steele can make inroads, Obama to keep and expand what he got. Expect the insiders to undermind Steeele, yes, THEY WILL.
These are the same people who thought that Sarah P. could be their Hillary.
Clueless
did you see the Jonesboro Ga. High school dance team? WTF is wrong with these black girls!?!?
a bunch of high school gilrs giving lap dances on gym floor in front of the whole school?
the crowd (kids) are jumping around waving thier arms in the air yelling.....sad
Wain,(oops...I mean "Field")it has been many years. But, as usual, you are "Right On!" Keep on "keeping it real."
Signed: "Angela Davis" from the Frnklin Mint Night Shift era
"at least Steele is a real negro"
Uhm...Anonymous dear moron
Condoleezza Rice, Clearnce Thomas & Alan Keyes are all so called real Negros too. And they pretty much stabbed the Black Race in the back. So, having two Black parents may make you real to some people. But, that does not guarantee you allegiance to your race. Steele is a house negro.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, but "Lex" is no Obama.
Or the real Lexington Steele for that matter.
Steele was much better choice than Voter Suppressor Blackwell.
Thank you for making Juan Williams House Negro and Lawn Jockey. He deserved both.
So that's what happened to "Humpty Hump" from Digital Underground. He became a Republican! I tell you what, the years have not been kind to him. :-)
Everyone sing it with me...
"Mike Steel the Magic Negro..."
whats up with the pic on the top right?
security csm shot of someoe stealing the prez's seal...
not in the house a month and it's gone to hell....sad
And to think that the West Coast Steele (Shelby) criticized Obama as someone required to appropriate 'Masks' in order to come across as more appealing to the average White voter, while holding up his fellow East Coast conservative and namesake as an example of someone who was genuine and principled in their approach to confronting issues and the public at large...
Another hilarious, delusional and not particularly well reasoned position from the voices that can be overheard arguing inside of Massa's house!
Hey Field,
I enjoyed reading your article. However, you wrote 614 words just to say the RNC chose a token chairman.
Just as you realize a hustle when you see one, I can smell a rat before rigamortis sets in.
What's with you Negroes and Lex Steele? Obviously you all are behaving badly during your spare time?
Hi "Angie Davis", how are things? North Jersey, right? Please shoot me an e-mail.
"These are the same people who thought that Sarah P. could be their Hillary."
Clark, let's not forget that they gave us Alan Keys as well.
Okay rikyrah, I will give him that much, he was a better choice than Blackwell.
BTW Field,
I met the real Lexington Steele and his attorney-agent at a party in DC two years ago given by an erotica writer and even he disliked Mike...I mean, Mike Tyson's ex-brother in law. Better to have a big dick then to be one, man.
Republicans!
You are a day late and millions of negroes short, As usual, nice try.
To Anon. 8:21pm and Field,
Wanted to share this excellent column from a former editor of the Maui News who has a few thoughts on "race" as seen from the Hawaiian perspective.
Please read when you have the time.
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/514287.html?nav=16
Thanks for your faithful writing everyday and giving us all something to think about whether we are "field" or "house"
Makaii from Maui
p.s.
You should come visit, it is a great time to get away from Philly. Bring Mrs. Field, I know she would love it here.
"So that's what happened to "Humpty Hump" from Digital Underground. He became a Republican! I tell you what, the years have not been kind to him. :-)"
*That's me holding my stomach and rolling on the floor.*
I'm curious what you think of Steele's distinction between "outreach" to Blacks and other POC, and "coalitions". There is an easy way to mouth words about "diversity" and "inclusion", and then there is the tough talk that tells Republicans "you want Black people to vote for you, it's not enough to do photo-ops -- you gotta listen." Steele, to his credit, was very clear he is in the latter camp.
These are some of the best blogs I've read in a long time...
David, I respect Steele wanting to listen and reach out. I won't judge him in his new position just yet. But he has a history of lip service and talking out of both sides of his mouth. He was on FOX tonight praising Sean Insanity of all people, and he wants to go back to REAL conservative principles. What are "real conservative principles"?. I am willing to listen to see if these so called "real conservative" principles can help real people in this country.
Thanks Cheron, and I am sure that I can speak for the people commenting with their own blogs as well.
I see a man that is passionate about conservative principles who happens to be black. He'll do fine since he raising money to defeat Jimmy Carter. Stagflation is back in fasion, where's my jumpsuit?
szpork
I’m not a member of the republican party because of their platform .. I believe in everything the republicans are against .. a woman right to choose .. gay rights .. universal healthcare.. global warning .. unions .. I’m against the death penalty .. guns .. etc.. I’ve had difficultly understanding .. the correlation between God and guns..
Dr. Melissa Harris-Lacewell gave a great analysis of what electing Michael Steele does for the GOP. The GOP went to Planet Black Guy (Krypton ) and got Michael Steele (Kryptonite) to neutralize President Obama (Superman).. The RNC is good at placing blacks in positions of visibility.
Kryptonite, I too wish you well in leading the RNC .. I hope your jigga moments are tolerable.
The lack of originality aside this cynical choice proves once and for all that the Republicans are all out of ideas.
THIS is so sad, we should be happy for MICHAEL STELLE as a AFRICAN AMERICAN, but, how can we, MICHAEL STEELE is a AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, that I am so ashamed of!! and trust me, that's not easy to say, but, MICAEL STEELE is a well EDUCATED BLACK MAN, who chose to take part, in the SMEARING of another BLACK MAN and the sad thing about it is, he has no shame about it, I watch him on SEAN HANNITY, HANNITY PERSECUTE'S BARACK and STELLE is in full agreement with it, so I could care less about his NOMINATION!!!
Field - you do not disappoint! I wondered how you would write about this. You surprised me.
I guess I am dumb. I didn't see the obvious reason the GOP did this - its just like running Sarah Palin for VP to try to woo away Hillary supporters.
Anyway, thank you for this - at least I can visit your blog for the great insight.
Maybe they can run Steele and Palen for Pres and VP in 2012. Alot of GOPers have been whining saying that African Americans were prejudiced for voting for Obama.
OMG! I canvassed for Obama, but I am just a mere cracker. Im an Obamaholic actually.
Oh Field - you are still NOT off the hook for that little jog, uh uh...
I'm convinced now!! I used to be a "Boy From the Hood" now I'm on the RNC's team since they got dem a negra calling the shots. That wipes out all they have done since Reagan in one swell swoop. NOT!!!!
Man he does look like the cat from Digital Underground. Too funny.
As a Maryland resident, I will just state simply, Steele was, is and will continue to be, simply an embarrassment. He let Ehrlich use him, now he let the RNC use him. I'm still waiting for him to fess up that he never passed the damn bar. Lawyer my ass.
Black Mickey is an Opportunistic Slave Catcher.
Operation Antibama didn't work when Keyes moved up to Chicago to take the senate seat.
The GOP's new Mascot will go down in flames as the scapegoat for the demise of the party.
This was a very predictable move by the GOP and in my opinion, they’ve probably shot themselves in the foot again because I just cannot perceive that a lot of the good old boys are very happy with this choice. That being said I’d have to think that Steele would have realized this from the onset and thus be prepared to be a sacrifice if the Republicans don’t make gains in the 2010 elections. If Steele delivers…he’s a hero and maybe the Repubs will rethink minorities as a strategy, but if this blows up in their face I have to wonder about the Repubs as a viable party.
I just don't understand what is wrong with the republican party. They're supposed to represent half of America, but they seem to all be blundering idiots!
Steele, you haven't been misconstrued as the uncaring party. You've been construed as the incompetent one. And you just sacrificed competency to improve your image.
The republicans said Obama was too young and did not have enough experience, and they answered his challenge with Sarah Palin. And now this?
Actually, their is one good thing about this. The republicans will not win minority votes anytime soon. But now, I think they will also lose a certain segment of the white vote. Many white voters will be disillusioned by what they see as de facto affirmative action, and given the choice between the competent party which contains minorities, and the incompetant one which contains minorities, they will pick the competent one.
I just don't knwo what to say about this. These fuckers never learn do they? All tired tactics and no long term strategy.
Clinton=Palin
Obama=Steele
They just went our and got their own "magic negro" even thought he has no proven magic, just like there was nothing about Sarah Palin that equaled Hillary. All they are doing is proving that they don't see women and minorities as individual people with real issues. We aren't going to vote for them if they don't address those issues. Steele may have been the best of the bunch, but that wasn't hard to be. All they have is a guy who couldn't get people to vote for him now in charge of getting people to vote for their party. As a Democrat I am happy the RNC is so foolish, but I don't think I have ever seen such stupidity and lazy thinking.
My Goddess; you wrote the hell out this! My sentiments,exactly!
(question to myself, can I say hell and goddess in the same sentence)???
I saw the news and had to rush here first LOL! This is getting crazy.
But guess what, these guys can pull it off. Especially with the Latinos and other minorities. They can succeed in haulting the momentum of the democrats with this move.
Obama is more of a cleaner now than a President. Its same old. The Republicans needed a cleaner of their own.
They are virtually on the brink. And no smart white male wants to be holding the reigns when things finally fall apart. He was a perfect choice for them.
Come to think of it, in this new age only a minority can give hope to that party.
"I hope Steele, and conservatism fail."
It's amazing that I haven't heard a black--any black, not one here posting on this blog, nor one of note--make such a statement.
But....Rush Limbaugh?
"I hope liberalism fails." "I hope Obama fails." [RB]
Now, what I hear Rush saying is that our country is not big enough for two parties, or for two political ideologies--that liberalism, and its far-reaching tentacles, must be severed at the head, if this country has a chance of surviving.
If liberalism is the bane of the nation, and is the real enemy of democracy and the American Way, then according to Rush our salvation lies in setting up a Nation under conservatism, with a Republican flag flying over the White House, and the Capital.
Rush's outspoken position appears to be as un-American and as anti-America as the brush with which McCain/Palin attempted to paint Obama during the election.
How can Steele, an avowed moderate conservative, embrace fundamental conservative values, when such values are now more reactionary than ever, what with the values of unity, and change that Americans have embraced with the election of Obama as this nation's first sitting black president?
It doesn't appear that Republicans have the right man for the job in Steele, if it's a return to conservative principles and values that they want, and was the reason why they elected Steele as party Chairman.
Surely Republican's weren't going to be outdone--they, too, now have their first black, their first Magic Negro in Steele.
Isn't in ironic that the only way Steele (RNC's first black Chairman) can ascend is to bring down Obama (this nation's first black president).
And I'm sure Steele is the man for the job, the man for the season, and will do his best to unseat Obama.
And for doing that, Steele believes that he will bring more blacks and whites into the Republican, conservative fold.
It appears that Steel is going to use Obama's 50 state strategy (nothing original here) to convince us that the last eight years under a Republican president was somehow a misrepresentation of true conservatism, true Republicanism--that Republican's aren't really the bad guys, they just lost their way in the entangled jungle of liberalism--but that now they have a new guide, someone who knows the terrain, who knows where the safe trails are, and have a firm grip on strong, hearty, unfailing, conservative values and principles that will surely bring us safely through the entangled jungle of liberalism and all the wild, voracious animals lurking in the undergrowth ready to devour us and our American Ideals.
As liberals, Obama may not be our savior, but neither will Steele be the savior of the Republican party.
I was once told that if you're going to sell someone a wrapped box with the promise that it may contain something worth a hundred bucks, or nothing at all, that it's foolish to give those that plunked down their dollar--hoping to gain the hundred dollars--an empty box.
All I've gotten from Republicans over the years are "empty boxes."
Why should I plunk down my dollar again, hoping each time that the beautifully wrapped box will hold something other than an empty box?
The minute I saw this news on the New York Times website I had to run over here to see what you would say.
This is a joke. I am not a fan of Mr. "I love Sean Hannity" Steele at all.
"Isn't in ironic that the only way Steele (RNC's first black Chairman) can ascend is to bring down Obama (this nation's first black president)."
ON POINT.
It will be interesting to see how Steele does, given that the GOP is at its lowest point in years and could become a permanent Southern party.
He will have to reach out to and organize among some people who believe that the GOP's problem is that it's not getting out the white vote. So he definitely has some work to do.
This is not playing well in Georgia, Just wait until they find out he's a real black man,
Field. oh please Field could you do something about that RON CHRISTY dude, You know the Effeminate Non-threatening Negro
who make a sometimes appearence on MSMBC, man is he an embarrasment.I'm beginning to feel sorry for him,
It’s not that steel is a negro, whether you agree are not he is well educated, ahs a polical track record and wide appeal (obviously not w/libs).
That being said look at obama and his admin. He’s taken the helm of a country that is on the verge of econ/doom, two different war fronts and NO JOBS, ice men in Detroit!
Fast forward 4 yrs form now. Best case scenario one war front by that time thousands killed (& you can bet you ass the press is going to have a field day w/that), the econ if it is better will not/can/not be that good in four yrs, still not many jobs, no houses, black people the same place they were pre/obama.
Now, it’s election time, my question to you the good liberal community is are the same folks black/white/hispanic/asian going to actually bother to get out and vote?
I don’t think it’s going to happen
One term pony Have fun with it, because at the end folks will be calling him names like they/YOU did bush boy and pointing their judgmental fingers at him
Who really thinks that Steele is gonna make inroads with minorities?? LMAO!!!!!!!!! He won't even be able to get the base to GO to the polls in 2010!
Has everyone forgotten the "base" of the Republican Party?? Those people yelling "kill him" at the McKlan rallies?? Those "I aint votin for no nigger" loyalists all thru Appalachia and the south?? Michael Steele is supposed to hold on to that crowd and simultaneously tell minorities, we want you too?? BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Go on over to Stormfront or some other right wing site and see how happy they are with Michael Steele as the head of the GOP! The rethugs painted themselves into that corner so the only way to get out is to completely ditch the confederate/please bring on armaggedon evangelicals faction of the party...the rethugs won't see significance for at least a couple of decades.
Black Disporia,
"Rush's outspoken position appears to be as un-American and as anti-America as the brush with which McCain/Palin attempted to paint Obama during the election."
McCain treated Obama fairly during the campaign I thought. He declared many things off limits, like Obama's former church, for example. Palin got a little rough towards the end but that's the traditional role of the VP in a campaign. Nothing new there. How often did Moveon wish Bush success and puppy kisses? Their money comes from a Greek citizen who wants to marginalize the US. Is that un-American to you?
szpork
Don't you just love the way these guys think? It's like when the O-man was running for Senate in Illinois and the GOP's candidate crashed and burned. Who did they get to run then? That walking freak-show Alan Keyes, who didn't even live in Illinois!
Like Condoleezza Rice, Michael Steele has been 'working for whitey' his entire professional career.
Working for whitey has paid handsome dividends too: a nice house, a nice car and the respect of the country club Republicans.
But Steele has baggage.
Steele, a regular on FIXED News, and the former chairmanship of GOPAC. Of his tenure at GOPAC in 2008 resulted in 11 Republican candidates seeking U.S. House seats nearly $20,000. Six won and five lost.
In MLB, hardly a stellar record.
The controversy surrounding Steele comes from the $5,000 he siphoned out of GOPAC's coffers to use to pay off serious debts from his failed 2006 Congressional campaign.
Also, Michael Steele has some serious money problems of his own. In fact, long before there was a 'mortgage meltdown,' Steele had two banks liens slapped against his crib. He managed to clear them but how did he come up with the money?
If he used GOPAC monies -- an illegal act, is charged and convicted, he could end up in jail.
Christopher just to help you out a little bubba, folks don't vote for the party head they vote for the person on the ticket.
It's ok, we'll speak slowly for you sweetie.
At least Mr. Steel has paid his TAXES.
More than you can say for the majority of Prez Obama's nominees.
Why is it we aren't hearing an out cry from the dem-party about these folks?
Wait I know....it was a simple mistake.
Anonymous, just help me out a little bubba and give yourself a screen name.
Grow a pair. If you can, that it. LMAO!
As I said.
Like Condoleezza Rice, Michael Steele has been 'working for whitey' his entire professional career.
Working for whitey has paid handsome dividends too: a nice house, a nice car and the respect of the country club Republicans.
But Steele has baggage.
Steele, a regular on FIXED News, and the former chairmanship of GOPAC. Of his tenure at GOPAC in 2008 resulted in 11 Republican candidates seeking U.S. House seats nearly $20,000. Six won and five lost.
In MLB, hardly a stellar record.
The controversy surrounding Steele comes from the $5,000 he siphoned out of GOPAC's coffers to use to pay off serious debts from his failed 2006 Congressional campaign.
Also, Michael Steele has some serious money problems of his own. In fact, long before there was a 'mortgage meltdown,' Steele had two banks liens slapped against his crib. He managed to clear them but how did he come up with the money?
If he used GOPAC monies -- an illegal act, is charged and convicted, he could end up in jail.
Call me what ever you want to sweet cheeks....lol
he's still paid his taxes as opposed to your self righteous demos that berry keep throwing at us
and please stop repeating yourself sounds like oltimers setting in....LOL
berry, berry wtf are you doing up there?
Weak 1
Biden joked about Chief Justice John Roberts's faulty memory, provoking President Obama to give him a stern nudge to stop. During the taping of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" the day before the inauguration, his wife, Jill Biden, said her husband was given the choice of being vice president or secretary of state, which was quickly refuted by the White House.
can't wait till weak2...LOL
White House Lawyers Look to Limit Commercial Use of President
“Our lawyers are working on developing a policy that will protect the presidential image while being careful not to squelch the overwhelming enthusiasm that the public has for the president,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Field you're an attorney, does this mean i have to take down my offical berry lawn jockey?
It won't last, don't worry, Steele's days are already numbered.
Repunks have a short attention span when it comes to surppressing their racist urges.
This man has not had a black thought in years, and, why is it that everyone of these so called black "conservatives" and just what are they trying to preserve, the Confederate flag, have white wives??? Love is color blind, but, the black Republicans seem to have taken it to the next level, LOL!
I was astonished to see Steele elected, but in reality is should be an offense to him and everyone else. In case he didn't realize it he is a token to the highest extreme. The assumption is we have a negero now so we can attract black or ethnic votes. Sure wish I had listened to rush the nut limbaugh upon steeles election, I assume he had to run for the oxycotin to clam down.
The GOP is a sad farce and should be held as such, but I am sure they are as snug as a bug in a rug over there house negro/token, good luck GOP.
Not to worry, anonyMOUSE.
I will most definitely call you whatever I want and stomp on your tail while I'm doing it.
Steele is an Uncle Tom, a failed politician and he used GOPAC monies to stave off two bank liens against his crib.
He's a douche and the Repugs will lose even more seats under his leadership because he's a crook and moderates have zero confidence in him.
Baltimore, Maryland
* Failing School system
* The fasted growing rate of HIV infections of any American city
* Homicide Rate higher than the US average
BUT
If you are a Black person living in East Baltimore in a state of despair about your surroundings you have as your representatives:
* A city council Rep who is a DEMOCRAT
* In a city council that is 100% DEMOCRATIC
* A mayor who is a DEMOCRAT (and in under indictment)
* A police chief who is a DEMOCRAT
* A School board representative who is a DEMOCRAT
* A Democratic majority School Board
* A State House Rep who is a DEMOCRAT
* A State Senator who is a DEMOCRAT
* A State House that is dominantly controlled by the DEMOCRATS
* A State Senate which is controlled by the DEMOCRATS
* A US House Representative who is a DEMOCRAT
* A US House that has a solid DEMOCRAT majority
* 2 US SENATORS who are DEMOCRATS
* In a US Senate controlled by the DEMOCRATS
* A DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT!!!!!
(This same 100% Democratic line up applies to Newark, Chicago and Milwaukee)
But despite living in fear and sorrow in Baltimore and you are a reader of "Filled-Negro's blog" WHO ARE YOU LIKELY TO BLAME YOUR CONDITIONS ON?............Republicans!!
Filled Negro - at what point will you and your other Ideological Bigots look at the POWER THAT YOU DO HAVE and begin to SPEAK TRUTH TO THE POWER.......that you help get elected to sit in the seats that you got the bad guys out of?
Anon 9:05
"That being said look at obama and his admin. He’s taken the helm of a country that is on the verge of econ/doom, two different war fronts and NO JOBS, ice men in Detroit!
Fast forward 4 yrs form now. Best case scenario one war front by that time thousands killed (& you can bet you ass the press is going to have a field day w/that), the econ if it is better will not/can/not be that good in four yrs, still not many jobs, no houses, black people the same place they were pre/obama.
Now, it’s election time, my question to you the good liberal community is are the same folks black/white/hispanic/asian going to actually bother to get out and vote?
I don’t think it’s going to happen"
Black/hispanic voters go out and voted at about the same rate as white voters, and white voters showed up more than black ones. If you are implying that black voters won't step up and make a difference next time, you are very ignorant.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/voting/004986.html
In 2004, turnout rates for citizens were 67 percent for non-Hispanic whites, 60 percent for blacks, 44 percent for Asians and 47 percent for Hispanics (of any race). These rates were higher than the previous presidential election by 5 percentage points for non-Hispanic whites and 3 points for blacks. By contrast, the voting rates for Asian and Hispanic citizens did not change. These data pertain to those who identified themselves as being of a single race. (See Table 1.
Something about Steele is inescapably shrill.
Obama v. Steele? The person who engineered this tone-deaf match-up needs a time out.
On one hand you have cool, cerebral Obama (I'm not saying this isn't something of a construct, either) and on the other hand you have Steele, who, the moment he thinks the cameras are recording, launches into hysterical recitations of hackneyed repub talking points like some sort of angry black republican robot. Americans don't like their black leaders disgruntled and superficial--republican or democrat.
I'm a not familiar with the black repub bench so I don't know if such a person exists, but I would think that circumstances might call for a Powellesque figure--someone calm, respectable, and empathetic. Black repubs need to re-interpret their platform and this requires a degree of vision and willingness to forgo lapdogism that Steele has not showcased. He’s just same ol’, same ol’.
"McCain treated Obama fairly during the campaign I thought. He declared many things off limits, like Obama's former church, for example. Palin got a little rough towards the end but that's the traditional role of the VP in a campaign." szpork
Nice try.
I yoked McCain/Palin for a reason. She did nothing of import without McCain's approval, and his blessings. His hands are as dirty as her hands--"traditional role" be damned. It was McCain's candidacy after all--she was merely alone for the ride.
She was not this autonomous figure, or some rogue element in his campaign--a description that was often attributed to her.
Palin spoke for him which means he has to be colored with the same crayon from her box.
McCain avoided Obama's church, not because he's this honorable, high-road, "fair" politician, but because he had pastor trouble of his own, and so did his running mate, Sarah Palin.
We all knew it, and it would have been grossly hypocritical of him to attack Obama on this point, knowing that the American people had the scoop on him as well.
It would have severely damaged his credibility.
McCain/Palin's attempt to divide this country into regions that are anti-America, and people as either "real" Americans, or un-American, for personal political gain, went well beyond the pale of a vigorous campaign fight, and focused on ad hominem attacks and character assassination by association.
Neither one of them have my respect, and if either run for office again, my vote.
"How often did Moveon wish Bush success and puppy kisses? Their money comes from a Greek citizen who wants to marginalize the US. Is that un-American to you?"
Nice try again.
I don't frequent "Moveon," but I'm guessing that if Bush was attacked, it was for his policies, and not because he was a Republican or a conservative.
If you can show me where Moveon uttered something as stupid as Rush Limbaugh's destructive words--
"I hope liberalism fails" and "I hope Obama fails," days after Bush took office
--then I will condemn them, too. I'm an equal opportunity "call-it- as-I-see-it" guy, a candor that I don't see often coming from Republicans or conservatives.
That the two wish to keep some distinction going between their names is beyond me--conservatism is not well represented anywhere in politics, except perhaps in the Libertarian party, and that party has never gotten a good toehold among the American electorate, and I doubt if it ever will.
I'll take your word for it that Soros is attempting to marginalize the U.S.
"He says his lifelong attraction to civil freedoms is due in part to his first-hand view of Nazi, and, later, Communist oppression there..."
And further,
"George Soros uses the wealth he amassed as a financier to support liberal U.S. political candidates and pro-democracy movements worldwide...."
Now if you can show me how Soros is "marginalizing" our country-- and that it's a bad thing--apart from the shrill Republican voices on the right, and the punditry of Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh, whose firm wish it is to defeat liberalism (his stated intentions), then I will take Soros to task as well.
I think that our country would be better served by the two voices, conservatism and liberalism, as well as other voices.
And those who would want to silence either (think Rush Limbaugh), doesn't have the American people's best interest at heart, nor that of democracy in its purist form.
Christopher sez - Also, Michael Steele has some serious money problems of his own. In fact, long before there was a 'mortgage meltdown,' Steele had two banks liens slapped against his crib. He managed to clear them but how did he come up with the money?
If I were an enterprising Dem, I would sniff around certain corporate relationships when he was Lt Gov...
I believe he was in such bad shape before the election, Erlich actually had to pay him $5 or $10k a month "salary" to keep him afloat...
And this is when they were portraying him as a "sucessful businessman" with a "upscale" home in an upscale neighborhood in Mitchellville, near Bowie.
There is a lot of the stink of corruption on Steele.
Dems will have a field day.
The Porch Simian pimps slaps himself (again) with the nonsensical -
Filled Negro - at what point will you and your other Ideological Bigots look at the POWER THAT YOU DO HAVE and begin to SPEAK TRUTH TO THE POWER.......that you help get elected to sit in the seats that you got the bad guys out of?
What? You were the ONLY Negro in the Republican party too stupid to be considered for the job?
Clark, let's not forget that they gave us Alan Keys as well.
Alan Keyes is so crazy that he makes mainstream Republicans nervous. In Obama's The Audacity of Hope, he recounts a visit to the White House.
As his meeting with Bush was winding up, Bush notes, "You and me have something in common--we both debated Alan Keyes. He's a piece of work, isn't he?"
security csm shot of someoe stealing the prez's seal...
This post must be your first visit. Or this is your attempt at being clever.
That pix of someone affixing, the seal--not stealing it--has been displayed here several times during the campaign.
Silly goose.
Hi Field. I'm an old white lady here to tell you that I like this post. I couldn't help laughing when I heard the announcement of Steele's election. So. I take it that you really think he has zero chance of being the Republicans' Obama.
I guess the Repugs have a negro for each day of the week now.
BTW, if you want political change in a big city, you don't vote for a Repug in Nov, you vote for the other Democrats in the primary. That's how Cory Booker was elected.
They're just using Steele as an Attack dog to tear at Barack so the party can't be called racist.
Feedback, did you notice who Obama put in charge of Education? The munshkins are so truly screwed without good parents now, but I guess that was always the case. This is not hope and change, it's just bad policy.
szpork
Field,
I heard crickets after Constructive Feedback's comments.
While I am more of a Republitarian, Constructive Feedback's comments got me thinking hard again.
Also, are there any black conservative folks that YOU DO LIKE?
You are a solid liberal thinker and you are honest, but I find tough to believe there are no black conservatives on the U.S. landscape that can find agreement with.
Same old game. Same old story: Divide and Conquer. ONly this time it won't work Repubs because so few people would look Steele's way. You're a day late and a dollar short. Maybe you should look at the title of this blog. We're on to the house negro and the field negro...We know the game because we tricked your buts.
What a pantload of insignificant noise. With all due respect, this is about rebuilding the Republican Party. Field Negro and other Democrats don't have any skin in that game, as they are cheerleading the New Regime. Steele's just fine by us, thank you very much.
Mike Steele was picked because, strangely enough, the Conservative Base liked him. Yes, he got beat in Maryland by a store mannequin, but 2006 was an extremely toxic year for us, and Steele ran the best race of any Republican candidate that year.
Further, Steele was picked not because he would be some reliable, pliant tool of white power but because most of the State Chairs and the activists were dissatisfied with Blackwell, Anuzis, and the rest of their choices. They weren't seen to have the combination of presentation and nuts and bolts mechanical skill that Steele's got.
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson lied to the country about Vietnam, then got his butt reelected in a landslide. The candidate that did tell the truth, Barry Goldwater, took fewer than five states that year. He did much worse than McCain. Out of that catastrophe came a man who rebuilt the Republican Party: Ray Bliss. We think Steele is another Ray Bliss, a mechanical political guy who can also act as a spokesman for the Party.
If you don't think Mike Steele is black enough for you because he's a Republican, too damn bad. If we had picked a white guy you'd have screamed, "Back to the Southern Strategy again! Same Old Republicans!" There's only so much of the same broken record we're going to listen to before we tune you out. Life, after all, is too short.
Partisan criticism really isn't our problem. Rebuilding the Republican Party and providing a reasonable, constructive Opposition to the Administration is our problem.
Steele was picked, at bottom, because the Party thinks he's part of the solution.
"Also, are there any black conservative folks that YOU DO LIKE?"
Yes Adam, and this might surprise some folks; but I actually like Shelby Steele as a thinker. (I have all of his books)I also think Thomas Sowell is a bright but misguided man. I am sure there are some more, I just have to think about it for awhile.
And the reason you only heard "crickets" after CF comments is because only "crickets" can make sense of what he is saying.
Yes, dems control all those cities he mentioned, but there is one little problem: laws and funding which affect urban areas the most all originate in Washington. So let's wait and see what happens now that there is a dem president and a dem congress.
Grandmere..., it's always nice to hear from "old white ladies":) Thanks for the kind words.
Clark, let's not forget that they gave us Alan Keys as well.
Alan Keyes is so over-the-top batshit crazy that I could do nothing but hoot and holler every time he appeared on TV. The man truly brought joy to my heart. I'm sitting here trying to think of a white equivalent. Maybe Mike Gravel two weeks after he was bitten by a rabid dog?
The lib/dem/blk run cities are sliding off in the toilet! Look at the garbage, crime, coruption, hell you don't even pick the dead off the street for days then blame bush, you people kill me!
Say what you will about the burbs but we take care of our hoods. We even have people that come around twice a week and pick up anything we put out by the curb. Fricking amazming!!!
Does anyone remember the white flight of the 70s? It's started again. The economy's falling apart the best berry can do is promise his people jobs are coming but "it may take years".
Good luck luck New York, Philadelphia. Chicago, Detroit, D.C., Maryland....LOL
It didn't take long for you to start. That's right just sit there in your stinking shithole killing each other and just plain falling down dead in the street with your friendly neighbors stepping right over your rotting corpse....mean old rebs fault I know
I was living in MD when Steele was running for the Senate and he had the nerve to have signs made up that said Steele Democrat. The black voters of MD were not fooled so easily and Steele. I can't help but wonder if Steele wanted to be head of the RNC so he would have an excuse as to why he can't run for POTUS against Mr. Obama.
And come to think of it, Steele does look like Humpty from Digital Underground. I always thought the way his chin recedes into his neck makes him look like a rodent.
"That's right just sit there in your stinking shithole killing each other and just plain falling down dead in the street with your friendly neighbors stepping right over your rotting corpse....mean old rebs fault I know...."
Sounds like you're pissing on yourself with joy!
What you curse, you'll become.
if you are a die in the wool repub
dyed-in-the-wool
Thanks Murfyn, I corrected that. Although I think that might have been a Freudian slip. :)
"Does anyone remember the white flight of the 70s? It's started again. The economy's falling apart the best berry can do is promise his people jobs are coming but "it may take years".
Actually anon. there is a reverse flight now. Does the word gentrification mean anythng to you? See, it's lke this: all those white folks who ran to the burbs to get their kids in schools away from the n*****s are getting older now. The kids are off to college, so they can move back into the cities to enjoy the plays and the opera.
You’re got to be fucking kidding me right!?!?
I doubt very seriously that spending a night at the opera or a play downtown constitutes whites moving back to the cities we're talking about.
Downtown (anywhere) you exit the expressway (lock your doors) go to the small pocket that is clean and protected, and then get the fuck out.
Everyone here knows this is true! No one goes for a walk in these garbage wastelands and they won't.
So, to say there's no white flight is NOT true, their leaving and taking their money.
Anyone with an oz of common sense
Will take their children and run like hell!
I beg to differ. There are many enclaves to which white suburbanites are returning.
Brewer's Hill in Milwaukee is a prime example of this.
You have whites who are restoring their grandparents' homes while having the convenience of avoiding a long commute from the suburbs to work.
This is a trend that has been going on in other communities for some time now--moving into the city to be near work and social events the city offers.
Actually anon. there is a reverse flight now. Does the word gentrification mean anythng to you? See, it's lke this: all those white folks who ran to the burbs to get their kids in schools away from the n*****s are getting older now. The kids are off to college, so they can move back into the cities to enjoy the plays and the opera.
It is, as always, a mixed bag. Many whites with kids still don't want to live in the cities because the schools are in bad shape. Other whites without kids are happy to move back in for the street life and culture.
By the way, the whites who are afraid of the city schools aren't afraid of black kids in the schools per se.
I have a relative in this situation. He's a teacher in a big city system, and lives in that city per their regulations requiring him to do so. He has two kids, one just coming up on school age, and he's trying to find ways to escape the city system.
One way to do it is to send his kid to a parochial school in a nearby suburb. There are black kids at that school. He says that it's not a matter of the kids, it's a matter of the parents.
He says that most of the parents of the black kids in the city schools just don't give a shit, and send their kids to school without any sort of preparation or discipline. The parents of the black kids who go to the parochial school are people who care, plus the parochial school has a lot more control because they can expel kids who are disciplinary problems.
In the big city schools, they can't throw the disciplinary problems out of the school, and within the school they have to be careful because if they appear to be disciplining the black kids more harshly then there'll be hell to pay, even though there are more problems with the black kids -- because of the parents.
That's the word I hear, anyway. And I can't argue with my relative. His household, his kids. He's going to do what it takes, and there isn't anyone who'll get in his way.
You're right about the irresponsible parents.
The counseling center where I work provides treatment for children (mostly African American) with ADHD and mental health disorders.
Many of these children come from the same school--they get into fights, they defy the teachers, some self-harm, throw objects, walk out of class, etc. So many of them come from the same school and it makes you wonder how anyone is being educated there.
(To be fair, many of these kids come from the worst neighborhoods in town and their mental health issues are the least of their problems)
And the parents are cause to make you wonder...they forget to give their kids their medication; they fail to show up for family therapy; some have hampered their kids from day one by using drugs and alcohol while carrying them...the list goes on and on.
While there are some good schools in the city, there are schools that I wouldn't send a poodle to for an education, much less a child.
I need to say something else, which is that not all black kids are discipline problems. And far from all white kids are angels. There are some horrible white parents. They are some great black parents, starting with the two in the White House.
But I'm in no position to argue with my relative the teacher. He doesn't blame his students, most of whom are black. For years, he's been telling me that they are bringing the chaotic homes to class with them. He's actually a very compassionate guy on that set of issues. But he's drawing the line at putting his kids in the city schools, and I can't say I blame him.
"Maybe they can run Steele and Palen for Pres and VP in 2012."
-It'll drive the Klan nuts.
Good piece on the selection of Steele by the Rethuglys -
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/wattree/2009/02/republicans-look-yall-we-got-u.php
More accolades for Uncle Rethuglus -
Pity the fool who thinks he is leading a delegation to meet with his people but doesn’t wonder why they are carrying guns and rope. Michael Steele is now the top race hustler for the anti-black movement and his choice to lead an openly anti-black party demands a response. The Republican Party long ago made a choice to stir up white angst over civil rights and affirmative action as an organizing strategy. The Palin crowds and McCain’s calling President Obama “that one” simply demonstrates that the party of Lincoln is still living in the century of Lincoln.
Terms like Uncle Tom and house Negro are provocations that don’t get to the heart of the matter. Individual African American Republicans are like liberals who drive Hondas, they infuriate me but I can’t persuade them with vitriol. But leaders are a different matter. Steele can’t blame the Stockholm syndrome or claim he is on a mission to convert the enemy at this point, he’s made a choice.
http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Interests-Examiner~y2009m2d2-Michael-Steele-doesnt-care-about-black-people?cid=examiner-email
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