Allen West Defends Obama‘s ’Food Stamp President’ Label: ‘It’s a Fact’
- Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:12pm by
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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has received some harsh criticism from Democrats and liberal commentators who allege that when the former Speaker calls Barack Obama the “food stamp President,” he does so to reinvigorate racial prejudices against America’s first black President.
Speaking on Fox News Monday morning, Florida Rep. Allen West — the sole Republican member in the Congressional Black Caucus — said that Gingrich’s claim has nothing to do with racism but rather the reality of increasing poverty in America since Barack Obama took office.
“There is no race code. It’s a fact, since President Obama has been in office, you’ve seen a 4 to 1 increase in food stamp recipients in the United State of America,” West said. “We have a President that is making more Americans victims, rather than making them victors.
“We also have a 16 percent increase in Americans on the poverty role. 6.4 Million more Americans are on poverty since President Obama took office.”
On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, Gingrich defended his comments and scolded those who allege racism as a means to deflect criticism of President Obama.
“I think it’s unfortunate that liberal leaders, whatever their ethnic background, can’t have an honest, open debate about policies that fail,” the former Speaker said Sunday. “The fact is, far more whites than blacks are on food stamps. The fact is I’ve been talking about food stamps both with regard to Speaker Pelosi and with regard to President Obama since August of 2010.”
Rep. West, the first African-American Republican elected to Congress from Florida since 1873, agrees that allegations against Gingrich in regards to the “food stamp” label are a means draw attention away from the nation’s economic duress.
“What is really appalling and disgusting and despicable is that you have people such as, unfortunately, my colleague, Mr. Clyburn, and the charlatan Al Sharpton who all of a sudden now want to create a schism and try to hide away from the fact that the unemployment rate in the African-American community is 15.8 percent,” the freshman congressman said Monday.
The Washington Times notes that in an interview on CNN over the weekend, Rep. Clyburn said he wasn’t calling Gingrich a racist, but said that the Republican candidate was using racist language.
“All of this carries certain connotations that people know very very well,” Rep. Clyburn said. “I’m saying he’s appealing to an element in the party that sees Obama as different that any of the other presidents that we’ve had.”
Mediaite captured the exchange:
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Comments (164)
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:41pm.
And all those Non-Racist Black Arfican Americans, think he’s an Uncle Tom……
The Man Want‘s to Lift Ya’ll Out Of POVERTY, Help You Stand On Your Own, ***** Please!, and you call him a Tom……
So what have all the Democrat’s for you all these years? Nothing but put you back in chains……
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:53pmSo true. Bondage comes in all forms:
Report Post »Bondage to sex, money, entitlement, etc. In this case the progressives are like drug dealers. They get them hooked on these items and turn them into [literally] slaves. It’s interesting, after the Israelites were freed from bondage they complained about being free. Meaning, they were comfortable in their complacency.. “at least we had food” they grumbled. It is amazing the effect of complacency and “comfort” has on an individual. They would rather return to it even if full fledged freedom is offered to them.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:54pm@spank
Report Post »But to most of them the chains still beats the hell outa work 65 hours a week….. Sad but true
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:58pm.
I ment to say was……
So what have all the Democrat’s handout’s done for you all these years? Nothing but put you back in chains……
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:03pmThe sad fact is none of them want to admit that they have enslaved themselves to the system. They choose to stay blind because they have no true leadership withing their communities, just propaganda and hate dealers.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:04pmOne has to wonder, what all those millions of people are going to do, when the economy crashes, and their food stamps and welfare checks stop coming???…..civil war anyone?
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:21pmTSA can’t wait for Col. West to come through the line.
Report Post »They are going to ‘RAND’ him but good!!!!!
Melman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:29pmFertmind…now that’s great !! You just created a new terminalogy !!! “RAND HIM BY THE TSA” …love it
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:31pmGather & Give……. http://www.newt.org
America’s Best……Gingrich and West 2012
Report Post »Komponist-ZAH
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:37pmWhat strikes me most is that, if these “racial code words” are intended to stir up supposed latent conservative racism, why is it that only liberals see any racial component in them?
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:40pmI’m not sure what people are trying to make of this comment.
Whites out number by several times the number of Blacks on food stamps. Do FACTS and TRUTH have ANY bearing in our world today? Or are we doomed to have to be used like total idiots by the communist democrats?
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:47pmYou can’t argue with the truth…unless you’re a democrat that is
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:51pmGive it a rest Col. West…It all falls under the good and plenty clause of the Constitution.
I wonder what is going to happen to our country when we run out of money to send welfare checks and food stamps? I know….I get to shoot looters.
Report Post »mamawalker
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:32pm@Spank…well said once again!
Report Post »We need more men like Col. West and C. Mason Weaver (he is running for Congress for California’s 53rd District – wrote a book, “It’s OK to Leave the Plantation”). These men get it! I hope everyone in his district will get out and help this man get elected!
MONICNE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:51pmColonel West, (R-Plantation) is a true race baiter. Not that there is anything wrong with that!
In August 2011 we learned Allen West referred his unemployed brother to see Maxine Waters at the CBC Job Fairs, where he did indeed get some offers after a full 10-hour day of interviews.
The week before, Scrappy Coco said he would be the “Harriet Tubman” to prevent Democratic “plantation owners” from using their evil social networks to maintain government slaves.
He well understands that while most food stamp recipients are white the Ronnie Reagan-bot welfare queen image of an Oprah-clone buying lobster tails and Colt 45 with Agriculture Department coupons is still a mainstay of Taxed Enough Already dog whistle politics.
TEA
Report Post »realindependent
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 4:33amIt is a fact that more people are on food stamps then ever before. But again the elite right wing media caught blaming this president for everything. he tripled the debt, he bailed out the banks,Democrats caused the near depression. I know how you all say on right wing radio. you can’t blame GWB for long. O.k. that’s true, but you can’t blame Obama for the collapse and the reason so many people are on food stamps or unemployed. George W Bush doubled the debt while he was in office and it was unregulated banks and wall street that caused this mess. and we are on the right track fixing it. we have 2 years of growth and the unemployment rate has dropped consistently. and by the end of this year it will be below 8 percent. So blame this president for the slow recovery all you want. but history proves who grew this government and caused the “food stamp” problem not Barrack Obama.
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:40pmYou bet it is a fact Obama is the great food stamp president, that’s the game plan for the commie demoncats, keep the voters ignorant and obliged. Slavery is alive and well in America just look at all of the loyal partisans the welfare system perpetuates.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:39pmYes….you’re right!
And the BIGGEST PUSHERS OF SLAVERY & SLAVERY MENTALITY IS:
THE DEMOCRATS PARTY ….. AND OBAMA!!!
Obama could CARE LESS about the personal conditions of Blacks OR ANYONE ELSE!
When Obama told Blacks to “take off their bed room slippers and put on their
marching boots”…HE WAS TALKING ABOUT ….FOR HIM!!!
HE TOLD BLACKS TO MARCH THEIR BUTTS DOWN TO THE VOTING POLLS FOR HIM.
NOT a word from the black community of THAT being a “ racist statement”.
He WASN’T EVEN SAYING-
Report Post »I’m going to help to bring JOBS – so MARCH YOUR BUTTS OUT AND GET ONE.
IT WAS AGAIN ALL ABOUT HIM….SERVING HIM…..DOING FOR HIM…..SAVING HIS AZZ!
RightThinking1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:40pmAnyone know if there will be Blaze chat for Florida debate?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:02pmThey usually do.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:40pmNewt AND Col. West ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
James Clyburn, AKA “ THE CLYDESDALE HORSE” is only let out of the
BARN when they need him to “trod around”, and stomp out the FACTS that go
AGAINST Obama. HELPING to keep the “ignorant” and down on the
Obama Plantation. Otherwise, he‘s driving Miss Pelosi’s lies home.
WHENEVER there’s an opportunity to play the race card – you can expect to see
Clyburn and Shelia Jackson-Lee, two of the biggest race-baiting haters.
Both Clyburn and SHJ ONLY see “racial issues” when it benefits THEIR purposes.
Report Post »They DON’T see how Obama USES THEM, racially ..do they? HAHAHAHA
RightThinking1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:38pmAnyone know if there will be Blaze coverage/chat at the Florida debate?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:36pmThey are even running radio ads to sign up for food assistance….. They are trying to tip the scales, buy votes and get everyone dependent on them…..
Report Post »Freedomtomakeupmyownmind
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:35pmI don‘t think it’s a great idea to alienate the part of the population that is receiving assistance. There is around 40% of the population on food stamps, and threatening them to go hungry isn’t gonna win any votes. There are people who truly need the help, not just gaming the system. What is to become of them, starving? People are hurting and need the help, take that away and people get desperate.
Report Post »So I don‘t think it’s a good idea to attack the very people you want to vote for you.
Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:49pmNo one is attacking food stamp recipients. Obama is the food stamp president because he’s the poster child for creating and exacerbating poverty. Not a single one of his ideas has created so much as one wealth-creating job. He creates jobs for wealth-sucking bureaucrats to watch over the myriads of new job-killing regulations that his minions have spawned. He favors projects like the $100 billion California high-speed rail project that would be a financial albatross around California (and America’s) neck for decades. His signature achievement, Obamacare cost us untold numbers of jobs because of uncertainty of what it will cost businesses. He impedes drilling in the Gulf and has killed the oil pipeline from Canada in the face of likely Mideast chaos. Obama has done more than any other president in history to kill jobs and put people on government assistance. Thus, he is the Food Stamp President.
Report Post »betterthantv
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:50pmWhat a sad post. They would NOT go hungry! They would simply have to sell their iphones and 24″ wheels so they could afford food! All these freeloaders are just abusing the system. It’s not like all these folks would just die of hunger if we took away their food stamps. They would simply be forced to pay for their food like the rest of us!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:51pmI don’t think ANY politician, with maybe the exception of Ron Paul, would support the complete shutdown of foodstamps or welfare. This is as silly as suggesting Republicans want to throw grandmas off cliffs. Only a complete moron would believe such a thing.
However, if 40% of a nation is receiving foodstamps would that not suggest to you there is a problem somewhere?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:51pm@fredom
Report Post »Dependentcy is never a good thing, and those people wont vote republican if you gave em all a new pair of Air Jordens….. And hunger is a great motivator to get one of those jobs…. Quote….. That Americans just wont do…. End quote !
Gr8St8ofWA
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:07pmWhile I agree that there are those that have fallen on hard times and need help. IMHO, the help should come from family, neighbors, community (food banks, shelters), churches/religious relief groups, then as a last resort the state and the federal government should be available for catastrophe’s and overwhelming need. If folks had to pay with the old fashioned “food stamps” and were getting assistance from their neighbors and church, most would be embarrassed and want to be self-sufficient as quickly as possible. That would lessen the load on the entire system. Donating locally puts the power back in the hands of the community.
Report Post »eyestoseeearstohear
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:28pmNo… I don’t think ANYONE is threatening to take away Food Stamps from
ANYONE who is currently recieving them legitimately.
The POINT IS –
THANKS TO OBAMA – THEY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT THEM.
AND – even more of us potentially will be on Food Stamps
Report Post »AGAIN – THANKS TO OBAMA FOR TURNING DOWN THE PIPELINE OPPORTUNITY –
which would have very easily provided JOBS, lowered the cost of FUEL, FOOD and etc.
Truth1776
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:35pmThank you Allen West for speaking the truth! Please keep doing so, our country continues to need you and more people like you. God bless you and yours.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:47pmAnd please, Mr. West, if you are asked to be Vice-president….ACCEPT the position. We need you.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:54pmEspecially more black folks, and that’s the TRUTH !
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:01pmAllen West is AWESOME! Wish he had run for POTUS.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 10:00pmTRUTH1776, Amen. Great comment, short and to the point. Well done!
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pmI dont know about the other ladies here but its kinda hot seeing a man be a man and not backing down even when confronted with the race card he stands firm,.coooooooooool.We have many many heros in our services but now im seeing a few pop up in our Government hope its not to late to make a difference…………..Allen West 2012
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pmIt would be very nice seeing this guy running for President of your country….
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:31pmComing from the mouth of someone who wants the antiPatriot Act and even Beck had to admonish for supporting the NDAA? West is NOT my type of Republican.
Neither was Bush when it comes to comparing him to Obama:
Bush has expanded the welfare state and increased discretionary spending at a faster rate than any president since Lyndon Johnson. His Medicare bill alone should have disgusted enough conservatives sufficiently to refuse to vote for him. The fact that the Bush administration deliberately misled fellow Republicans in Congress about the cost of the bill — a misdeed that would have surely, and justifiably, yielded scorn and wrath from conservatives had Clinton been the perpetrator — should alone convince Americans that this administration is neither politically honest nor fiscally responsible.
Spending in Bush’s first year (FY2001) was $1.863 trillion, thus he presided over an 83-percent increase in overall federal spending, which includes defense, domestic, entitlements, and interest. Even without TARP and Fannie/Freddie, spending was up a huge 70 percent under Bush over eight years.
I swear — what’s the difference? Bush welfare? Obama welfare? It still welfare.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:52pmFacts are not welcome here.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:10pmSpending in Bush’s first year (FY2001) was $1.863 trillion.
That was the whole budget. Obama deficit spends almost that in a year. Obama’s proposed budget is 3.6 Trillion with half of that deficit spending. Bush actually deficit spent 400 Billion in 2001. By the time Obama took office Bush racked up 4.8 Trillion in national debt under his watch of 8 years. Obama has racked up 5.4 Trillion in 3 years.
Yup, you gotta love those FACTS. Unfortunately you don’t get your FACTS straight.
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:31pmThis is absolutely true, try standing behind a person with food stamps before you check out, waiting for them to pull them out of their wallets and present them for the right food stuffs…Too many people have witnessed this sight….and we the Taxpayers are paying for them.
Report Post »Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:29pmUnder President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million.
Under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million.
The program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.
Poor conservatives…never good at counting!
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:34pmYour facts are correct. People just don’t do their homework these days and just look for the D and R to agree or disagree. Sad days in America.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:36pmBush 8 years
Obama 3 1/2 years
Poor Liberals…never good at math.
If Obama keeps this up for 8 years, it’ll be double the number that increased under Bush. Nice try, though. You lose.
Report Post »Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:41pm@Goodstuff, you’re making assumptions. You’re assuming that the past = the future. There’s nothing guaranteeing that the trend will remain the same.
So until Obama has put more people on “food stamps” than Bush, both West and Gingrich are FACTUALLY incorrect and lying.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:00pm@Goodstuff:
Report Post »Noballs is just another incarnation for one of the middle school trolls. You are correct. Except that if obama gets another 4 years, the number on foodstamps will explode not just double. And little noballs will graduate from high school and go direct from Mom’s basement to the Obama Workfarm.
Polarized America
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:02pmGood
I would also add that you have to consider what each President started with as well.
————–
Ballz
do you know the years of Bush’s rise in F.S. ?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:43pmHere you go:
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Presidents-Totals.png
The disparity in Bush 43s years is the fact that in the Clinton years people were coming off food stamps. But check the real story from the links in my post further down the page.
The real story is Bush did indeed drive the car in the ditch. Obama, instead of pulling it out and continuing on our way proceeded to hit it with a sledge hammer, break out all the windows, burn it, then push it to the edge of a cliff and is now, as we speak, trying to get it over the edge.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:45pmSorry, wrong graph. Bush’s rise in food stamps by month is here:
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Monthly.jpg
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:28pmCol. West,
Report Post »Again I thank you for your forthrightness and character.
I also hope you can get to a higher position to help our sick Country
We sure need men like you in real leadership positions.
mwhaley
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:28pmPresident Pookie is given away free cash. We won’t have to worry about paying our rent, filling up our Mercedes, or buying crack.
Report Post »NOTvotingforRomney
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:27pmIn 2010, I gave around $150 or $200 to West.
THEN he voted to extend the Patriot Act. I haven’t checked but I bet he voted to give the president the right to have the military arrest Americans on American soil and throw them in Guantanamo without a lawyer indefinitely a law which passed recently.
West is running for re-election and I keep getting emails asking for money. I gave him $10.
West (and Bachman) crapped on our Constitution. Thank God for Rand Paul and a few others TRUE Constitutionalists.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pmI would have asked for my money back. It hurt much more when he voted for it than the others because you thought he was so real. I’ve said it before. I was like finding out Santa wasn’t real.
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:21pmDonkeyFeathers,…..ya’ little, lying, musty-smelling Troll-
As Rep. West previously said, chastising a liberal liar,
“DON’T BLOW SMOKE UP MY BUTT”…..
You NEVER gave Rep. West ONE dollar, leave alone, in your words, “around $150 or $200″.
Quit masquerading, as a logical, caring, human being-
a slimy, rotten Lima Bean has MORE virtue !
America’s Best
Report Post »Gingrich/West 2012
www,newt.org
Frodo RinosBane
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:27pmI would take this man over any person running right now.
Report Post »Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:30pmOf course you would. You believe anything anyone says, regardless of whether it’s accurate or not. You‘re a typical t’bag.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pmSO you enjoy West stripping Americans of liberties with the antiPatriot Act and NDAA? Do you even know what those acts contain?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:15pm@BALLS
And you are a typical D’bag
Report Post »Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:27pmHey Allen:
Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.
But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. We asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.
And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.
The economic downturn began in December 2007. In the 12 months before Obama was sworn in, 4.4 million were added to the rolls, triple the 1.4 million added in 2007.
You’re welcome!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:34pm“Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.”
Report Post »————————————————————-
You must have got your figures from Bob Beckle…
Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:38pmExactly. And the larger point remains… Why does Newt call out “blacks” specifically??!! This is the worst economic downturn in two generations yet Newt castigates “blacks” as being lazy and mooching off of welfare. This is the right-wing race card and its called the “Southern Strategy” (started during the Nixon Administration to attract white Southern voters). The idea is to frame blacks specifically as “lazy” and undeserving of assistance.
Nevermind that a majority of food stamp recipients are WHITE and Latino. Newt forgives the millions of whites on food stamps yet demonizes blacks because he wants to create cultural animosity towards blacks particularly. This gets him votes in South Carolina! Southern Strategy! “They” (blacks) are lazy and mooching off of welfare and steal “our” (whites) tax dollars… Racial divisiveness at its worst.
Report Post »Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:42pm@trolltrainer, look it up buddy.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:44pm@ballzinyamouth
Report Post »14.8 million added in 8 years
14.2 million added in 2 1/2 years
Do the math , if he keeps it up for 8 years, it will be 56 million added… Nice try, now wipe yr chin off and get off your knees.. Obama has left the building….
I.Gaspar
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:45pmpragmatica:
Report Post »You are pushing your racist views into the argument. Neither Gingrich nor West blamed blacks for the increase in food stamps; they blame obama.
You bring racism into the argument…they didn’t.
Ballzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:47pm@Pragmatica, good points. We all know why he calls out blacks specifically. Fact is, something like 38% of food stamp recipients are white. And something like 60% of recipients are employed (ie “working poor”).
It’s the Republican racism thing. Nothing new here.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:04pmBallzonya
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:42pm
@trolltrainer, look it up buddy.
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You are the one making claims without any supporting links!
But I was interested so I did look it up.
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Monthly.jpg
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Yearly.jpg
from
http://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/public/food-stamps-charts
also
http://dailybail.com/home/chart-food-stamp-use-jumps-to-record-46-million-americans-15.html
It would seem to me Obama is the food stamp president.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:08pmhttp://www.dailyjobsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/Food-Stamps-Presidents-Totals.png
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:19pm@I.GASPAR
You are correct, and we have not seen anything yet.
They are starting early, and they are putting the full court press on.
It’s going to be all racist, all the time from here on out.
It’s going to hard to stomach, but it won’t work this time.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:29pm@ Detroit paperboy
Report Post »Excellent Volley !
Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:33pmBilly: It’s not all racist all the time. But we do need to call out racism and negative stereotyping, even “soft” racism (i.e. blacks are lazy welfare moochers). Newt is obviously blowing the racial dogwhistle when he singles out blacks and food stamps, and that needs to be called out! Unless conservatives and the Republican Party want to go backward to the Stone Age and alienate all voters except white Southern males.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:34pm@ Ballzonya
Whats the other 2% doing car jacking and robbing the working poor of their meager earnings ?
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:04pmSure Prag, whatever you say.
You sound like JZS’s doppleganger.
Everyone here that is not one of you, (that’s code for marxist commie pinko) knows what you are all about.
You are pi$$ing in to the wind my friend. And we know that owsers rather enjoy wallowing around in thier own waste.
Peace
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:07am@Prag
Not to mention, I don‘t believe Newt ever addressed ’blacks‘ and ’food stamps’ in the same context. I remember him speaking about the ‘poor’ work ethic, and more people (people, not ‘black people’) being on food stamps under Obama, who happens to be a black president, but nothing about black people being singled out for being on welfare. You and other people of the media, have drawn the inference from Obama being black to the food stamp issue, and you’ve melded that into some crack-hallucination that he was specifically referencing blacks and food stamps together. With friends like you, who needs enemas? You do a great job perpetuating the race issue in America. In all honesty, if you all would just shut the hell up about it, it probably wouldn’t be a problem.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:26pmAllen West has been my top choice for President all along. I respect his desire to fulfill his commitment to the people of Florida who elected him to Congress, but I feel the country needs him more than Florida does!
Report Post »DASnow
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:24pmAllen West is a true patriot. His best comment however was calling the the Chair of the DNC (Wassermann-schultz) “Vile”. I could not agree more! Keep it up Allen West. We appreciate your love of this country and your service to it past and present.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:20pmAhhhh! To be LTCOL West right now! Priceless!
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:19pmObama insist we all pay out fair share.
Report Post »What about those who pay nothing? when do they stop riding in the wagon and start pushing?
PPMStudios
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:26pmThey’ll never push…. Especially when it‘s all going ’down-hill’ now….
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:17pmWest is right on; Obama has been ‘stamped’ the ‘food stamp’ prez…Obama brought it on himself and the libs can’t walk it back. Oh, they try but they fail.
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:25pmBut the economic recession and high unemployment is not the African American community’s fault for the most part. Millions of people of all racial backgrounds are unemployed and looking for work. This is the worst recessionary period since the Great Depression and the meltdown occurred before Obama took office.
Obama inherited these economic conditions, yet Newt blames “blacks” specifically for their usage of food stamps, while forgiving white and Latino recipients. Most food stamp recipients are WHITE but Newt doesn’t stigmatize whites or give white recipients a cross to bear. Why?
Newt blames “blacks” specifically because he knows stereotypes about black “laziness” play well in the South. Why doesn’t Newt castigate white and Latino food stamp recipients??!! Why doesn’t Newt tell the millions of whites on food stamps to demand paychecks??!! Because he wants to race-bait and create cultural animosity towards blacks in particular! This gets him votes in especially in places like South Carolina.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pmPragmatica, the only one saying anything about “blacks” seems to be you!
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:32pm@ Pragmatica,
Are you a troll, or just willfully stupid? You are deliberately misinterpreting everything he said and making it about race. He mentioned black people specifically BECAUSE their unemployment rate is so much higher than other ethnic groups. Newt’s point is that they deserve better–jobs instead of food stamps–and why are they not demanding to know why Obama has not done more to address the high black unemployment rate?
He was not “blaming the blacks” for having higher unemployment, Mr. Troll, he is blaming Obama for not doing more to bring that number down. NOW who’s the “race baiter”, Mr. Troll? What is wrong with Newt targeting black voters with the message that Obama is NOT the Messiah they thought he was or expected him to be?
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:41pmPragmatica I missed it where blacks were specifically singled out as being the blame and the only users of food stamps. I guess for enternity Bush will blamed for the meltdown of the economy. I guess during that period having a DemoRatic congress had nothing to do with it. Just saying
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:41pmNewt is the one who demonized “blacks” or “African American” specifically. I am merely repeating what Newt was saying. ALL ethnic groups are experiencing high unemployment right now. This is the worst recessionary period since the Great Depression. Yet he claims that “blacks” specifically are satisfied with food stamps. The insinuation is that blacks are lazy and mooching off of welfare and stealing whites’ tax dollars. Newt is playing the race card and creating cultural resentment towards “lazy” blacks in particular. It gets him votes especially in the South. Indeed, this strategy is known as the Southern Strategy!
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:46pmLODGERAT: Newt is the one who singled out “blacks” specifically. He did not single out whites or Latinos or any other ethnic group. He could have talked about all food stamp recipients but Newt chose to demonize blacks as lazy and mooching off of welfare because he knows that plays well among Southern white voters. He singled out blacks for a specific reason… To create cultural resentment towards blacks and get more votes in the primary. He played the Southern Strategy like Charlie Daniels fiddle and ultimately came out victorious!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:26pm@PRAG,
Can we look forward to 9 more months of your marxist propaganda and Alinsky tactics, or are you going to disappear again in a few days so that you can you post under one of your other psuedonyms ?
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:36pmHi Billy! Just stopping in to give my point of view from time to time. It’s obvious to me that Newt was ginning up racial resentment by singling out “blacks” as lazy, welfare moochers. He was obviously playing the Southern Strategy like Charlie Daniels’ fiddle. Just hoping others will see the actual reality that Newt was being very insensitive at a minimum if not outright racist!
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 5:51pmThe only folks who believe Newt was using racial code is the idiotic fringe left who have nothing to fall back on except race baiting. The American people are not buying though. I don’t think you are even that stupid.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 6:48pmAnd PRAG,
Why are you ignoring the topic of this story, (Allen West defending the food stamp label), and trying to steer the topic of discussion to your agenda of labeling Newt as a racist.
Allen West IS black, and he agrees with the food stamp label. Yet you ignore that and dwell on your smearing of Newt.
Them there is some Alinsky tactics if I ever did see some, sho nuff.
Is Allen West a racist?
That’s Saul Folks
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:50pmHey Prag,
Since you did not reply, I’ll answer for you………..
NO, Allen West is not a racist.
He is a proud black man that would like to see all blacks, and all Americans, regardless of race, prosper. As does the Republican party.
The democrat party? The party of abortion? ummmmmmmm……….not so much.
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:58pmBilly: I don’t think Allen West or Newt Gingrich are racist. I think West is just insensitive to actual desperation among all people and is somehow willing to defend Newt’s comments. Newt is not a racist but he is using race in divisive ways by saying that “blacks” are satisfied with food stamps.
Newt is driving a racial wedge to pit whites against blacks in order to get votes from white Southerners! Newt is not racist but he knows how to use racial stereotypes to his advantage, and it needs to be called out for what it is. Hope you can see reality one day. Love you either way. Peace for meow.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 11:11pmAhhh PRAG,
Aren’t we just lucky to have you as our vanguard against racism.
We can count on you to call it out for us, (seemingly because you feel that only you have the superior intellect needed to detect it), even when there is none to be found.
Eerily like the way MODERATIONISBEST feels it is his duty to alert us to the encroachment of that insidious theocracy that he envisions in every story that mentions religion or Christianity.
Frank Zappa claimed a theocracy was upon us, years before he died in 1993. Twenty years later, still no sign of a theocracy.
Report Post »Pragmatica
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 2:08amMeow… :-)
Report Post »KAdams
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 5:14amI think this here, pretty much sums up racism:
You don’t like my opinion of you. Specifically you, so you, therefore expand that to include anyone that may have the remotest chance of sharing any kind of characteristic with you. Yes, you’re right. I hate people with noses. So, anyone who hates my opinion of them, is simply a jackass, because we all know that opinions REALLY DON’T MATTER. Now go run along and play.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:16pmGod, please let this man run for higher office.
Report Post »openbook
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:15pmNewt isn’t one to speak, he’s as progressive as Obama is.
Report Post »openbook
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:23pmNot that Obama doesn’t deserve the verbal bashing, just saying it would sound a lot better coming from someone who wasn’t a hypocrite and a liar.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:45pmPick one politician that in some way isn’t a hypocrite or a liar.
Heck, I’m a hypocrite and I have been known to lie. We all fall into this category on a daily basis. To deny this fact is to affirm the same fact.
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