DISQUS

mwfolsom · 4 months ago

What a waste of time!!!!!

How about a discussion with Markos about the sizable number of Democrats in the House and Senate that don't want Health Care reform?

vkobaya · 4 months ago

are either confirmed birthers or aren't sure if Obama was born in the U.S.

That isn't really true. What they believe is that Blacks aren't human beings and aren't anymore qualified to vote than animals. They are bigots and try to hide behind the claim Obama isn't American born. They are truly dispicable. Dobbs and his filthy ilk would say the same of any Black in the Oval Office.

Moncusa · 4 months ago

Be fair. G. W. Bush had more African Americans in high positions than any other Pres.

leliorisen · 4 months ago

And they were all about as representative of Black America as Al Jolson.

tootiredoftheright · 4 months ago

Care to provide proof? Care to provide proof that they were actually good at the job and cared to do the job or were they all like Uncle Tom on the Supreme Court who said he got in do to affirmative action and didn't care if he was confirmed for the job or not.

shell · 4 months ago

AMEN! Look at Condi Rice, in his cabinet. She did NOTHING. Just for show. Dick was calling all the shots. Typical -- a 100-year-old white "man."

vkobaya · 4 months ago

Obama turns my stomach, but have to hold my nose and fight against these disgusting, racist, barbaric attacks from the Republicans. As bad as Obama has been, you would think that the Republicans would love him, embrace him and claim him as one of their own. Crystal clear proof just how revoltingly, extremely bigoted the Republicans are. You would think that they should be wearing animal skins and carrying clubs over their shoulders, speaking in grunts and groans.

SCLiberal · 4 months ago

Being stuck in South Carolina I can assure you people are this stupid and racist. It's very depressing.

cosanostradamus · 4 months ago

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Repukelickin's believe the universe is 6,000 years old, and Moses rode a dinosaur. Let's just sterilize them and get it over with. They can home-skewl each other.
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leliorisen · 4 months ago

This was not Ed Schultz' finest moment. I saw Markos interviewed by Richard Wolfe on 'Countdown' and it was far better.

I am amazed that the big question Schultz deemed necessary to ask, when confronted with these numbers, was, 'should the White House address the issue again?'

Huh?

The other pundits I heard discuss this, addressed the fact that the birther movement was just a contemporary way of being a racist. The fact that the emphasis always goes back to Obama's African roots, and that it is a philosophy embraced by white southerners, is what fuels the discussion.

But Schultz does not even address the racist component of this, which is the real story.

Duh, Ed. Ya really think that President Obama needs to show proof, yet again?

Sorry, missed opportunity to actually address the story behind the numbers. Thankfully, there was 'Countdown.'

Moncusa · 4 months ago

I think the foreign-born who've been citizens at least 20 years should be able to run for U.S. President anyway, so I don't care where Obama the homophobe was born.

An_American_Karol · 4 months ago

There was a time when Republicans were a bright, educated party. It seems now it's a lynch mob of uneducated, bigoted trash.
Do these doorstops know their Representatives laugh at them behind their backs?

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 4 months ago

The legacy of the Nixon "Southern Strategy" is in full fruition.

FatRat · 4 months ago

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/0015...
"Outside the South, this madness is gaining very little traction, and remains a fringe conspiracy theory," Benen concluded, lamenting, "Within the South, it's practically mainstream."
(The "Southern Stategy", pretty much sums it up.)

An_American_Karol · 4 months ago

Unfortunately, we have two senators from each of these marginal states - the same number as California with a much greater population.

FatRat · 4 months ago

Just thinking about that makes my neck hairs stand up.

PeteWa · 4 months ago

So Repubes are batshit crazy...
I'm shocked...
shocked...

John · 4 months ago

If you thought white South Africans were xenophobic crazies who had cornered the market on unsubstantiated rumors about their black president, you haven't seen anything yet. We're proud Americans. And we're not going to let this "most crazy racists" title slip through our fingers. No siree Bob.

We're still number one in this department. And thanks to our friends, the Republicans, we're going to have plenty of evidence to prove it.

Keith & Dustin · 4 months ago

You can't fix stupid

unrepentant_expat · 4 months ago

Not without a major neutering programme. /snark

djny10003 · 4 months ago

So they're suggesting that Obama's parents faked his birth certificate and put a birth announcement in the local paper because they knew that 40+ years later, after they were both dead, he would beat Hillary Clinton for the nomination and become president. Maybe I'll try that too ;-)

leliorisen · 4 months ago

Racism knows no logic.

doggril · 4 months ago

They need to change the old saying to "you can fool most of the Republicans most of the time..."