Palin To Obama: Honor MLK By Not Playing The 'Race Card'
Source: TPM
CATHERINE THOMPSON JANUARY 20, 2014, 2:01 PM EST
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin seized Martin Luther King Day as an opportunity to lob vague criticism at President Barack Obama.
"Mr. President, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and all who commit to ending any racial divide, no more playing the race card," Palin wrote Monday on her Facebook page, after quoting from the civil rights icon's famous "I Have A Dream" speech.
Obama said in an extensive New Yorker profile published this weekend that he believes theres no doubt that theres some folks who just really dislike me because they dont like the idea of a black President. Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because Im a black President," he added.
Palin didn't point to any specific instances of the President playing the race card in the short post.
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Blue Owl
(50,514 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Emphasis on 'Klan' intended.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)Metro135
(359 posts)the kid to the left of the man in the suit, who seems to be imagining that the flagpole is his penis.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)Canoe52
(2,949 posts)I just put it up on my Facebook page with the caption-
"Why is it that every time our society tries to progress, the people opposed to it label it "communism" (or socialism). Reminds me of Chicken Little saying the "sky is falling". You would think people would catch on after awhile, but nooo...."
secondwind
(16,903 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)From a Republican AND Fox News "contributor"?!??!
unblock
(52,331 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)see themselves for what they are.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)to do that. Or an incredibly dense brain.
jmowreader
(50,565 posts)Let's see...the "mother of a soldier" card, the "mother of a Down syndrome child" card, the "I'm better than you because I'm from a small town" card...
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Nobody plays The Victim better than Palin.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)She's qualified to paly that one too!
jmowreader
(50,565 posts)Palin is dumb as a rock but in her eyes she's the smartest person in the room...she got elected governor and you didn't, right? Thing is, Palin can read a script well and she isn't Frank Murkowski, and Alaska doesn't need much governing anyway. (The mayor of Talkeetna would have boon a better governor than the mayor of Wasilla, and the mayor of Talkeetna is a tailless cat. Alaska is so spread out local governance works better there anyway.)
arcane1
(38,613 posts)And I hope it's soon!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)From LBN. It completely goes against the spirit of LBN, which is meant to contain substantial journalistic stories about facts of note, not dumbass tweets repackaged as news. These are, at best, abusive of the forum's rules.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)And that goes for anyone's tweet!
snowshadow
(41 posts)What I don't understand is why the DU even allows a story about this person?
marble falls
(57,270 posts)yes
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)she`s basically another republican has been who has no credibility but somehow someone gives it to her.
yes that`s talking points memo who i would think has better things to write about than this loser.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Which is why we like posts about her stunts.
Ranchemp.
(1,991 posts)I'll bet she's tops this one in a week or so.
Any takers?
movonne
(9,623 posts)Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)The fucking nerve of her.
albino65
(484 posts)Nothing makes racists more uncomfortable than being reminded that they are racists.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)She has a few other lines. Wish no one covered her!!
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)NickB79
(19,274 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)May she live in interesting times.
raging moderate
(4,311 posts)Or maybe by just keeping your ears open and your mouth shut for awhile.
irisblue
(33,034 posts)In Ohio. Geez McCain you really screwed us over with that one
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . like when there's a breeze blowing and it gets between her ears?
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Shut your pie hole and go away.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Please, please, please keep her in the lower 48. She sucks the beauty out of the mountains every time she sets foot back here! Sarah
Palin
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope she never comes home.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)What a stupid woman! Sorry for the ad hominem criticque, but really????
How can she be so ignorant? Didn't she study any history in school?
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)You're a POS, Palin...go the fuck away forever.
frwrfpos
(517 posts)She race baits Obama and is a huge hypocrite. No shame this asshole has
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)For Gawd's sake.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)fishwax
(29,149 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)Yeah, I said it, or rather, implied it. Sarah Palin is a ****, and I wish the press didn't feel the need to hold out the barf bag and show the contents to us every time this woman spews.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)I think I will be borrowing this. Spot on imagery.
PFunk
(876 posts)Palin using (IMO) dog whistle-like codewords plays her (white) race card every time she speaks.
sheshe2
(83,929 posts)or better yet, vacant. She has absolutely no brain manner between her ears.
You betcha~
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Your 15 minutes are over. ffs stfu.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)"says" or "thinks." She doesn't have the ability to "think" in fact, so they should just ignore her alltogether.
I know I am dreaming but still I don't give a crap about her opinion.
truthisfreedom
(23,157 posts)Sarah who?
stewert
(3,509 posts)I read about this on another website earlier today and one of the people who left a comment called Palin this:
The Klondike Kardashian
He said the Klondike Kardashian should shut the hell up and go back to Wasilla.
Now that's funny, I dont care who you are.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)The fumes are liquifying what little brain she has left.
Gothmog
(145,619 posts)She wants President Barack Obama to quit playing the race card. And she says that on Dr. Martin Luther Kings birthday.
I suspect she feels that President Obama plays the race card when he shows up.
Maybe she should stop playing the stupid card.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)card a lot. She expects a PASS for it as well. Take your damn cards and go home SARAH!
classof56
(5,376 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)even of it is for just one day.
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)groundloop
(11,523 posts)And I refuse to utter her name anymore. If enough of us ignore her maybe, just maybe, she'll go back where she came from and simply drop out of sight.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)other than helping Obama win in 2008.
Zambero
(8,971 posts)As for the "race card" noted in Palin's post: Just imply it, with no specific examples, and it becomes a hard fact. Fox News might have given her the heave-ho, but some of their propagandizing techniques appear to have worn off on this shallow bucket of tired talking points.
3catwoman3
(24,054 posts)...ALL of the cards in her deck are idiot cards.
Skittles
(153,199 posts)she is fucking DISGUSTING
Baalzamon
(21 posts).
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Geez I miss the duzies!
alp227
(32,060 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)This is the woman the Republicans wanted to put one heartbeat away from the presidency. What a grifting moron.
movonne
(9,623 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)niyad
(113,582 posts)mdbl
(4,976 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)Palin: do stop playing the idiot card!
Beacool
(30,253 posts)She's one of the most idiotic persons to enter politics.
ninjanurse
(93 posts)You can use it any way, such as "Sarah Palin, no more speeches at Klan rallies." Then let her deny it or fail to answer.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)or just to get her name out there for any reason, no matter how unrelated to her. She's got her forum on Facebook, so why can't what she says on Facebook STAY on Facebook? Why should it be worthy of comments on the "news" ???
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Apologies are due dear Don, there are a few nuts I will not comment on, you picked one.
Why should I, our US, be abused with the name or insanity of miscreants on any blog? Limbaugh and Palin are so not news, or opinion, or power.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)Crawl Back Into The Slime-Covered Hole You Oozed Out Of, You Moronic, Hell-Spawned, Lying, Grifting, Braying Jackass
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,782 posts)...cuz I gotta 5 card straight.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)By Left Action: "Sarah Palin you need to quit playing the moron card".
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)End of Story. Pin Up Girl for the GOP/Teabaggers .. no one really cares what comes out of her mouth.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)LeftOfWest
(482 posts)You bigoted lying race baiting half term quitting grifter.
Go away.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)" Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)In 50, even less years- no one will remember her name.
BootinUp
(47,197 posts)The day she stops making shit up out of whole cloth while simultaneously making racism related comments is the day I will retract that.
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