This isn't the first time....

[firedupdem]

this man has shown his true colors.


http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/you-lie-not-the-first-time-rep-wilsons-emotions-got-the-best-of-him.php?ref=fpb

Last night, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) issued an apology -- "I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks" -- and called the White House after heckling Obama during his nationally televised health care speech.

That's the first time most Americans heard of Congressman Wilson, but it's not, it turns out, the first time Wilson's emotions got the best of him and he was forced to apologize.

Flashback to mid-December 2003, when Essie Mae Washington-Williams came forward with the bombshell that she was the illegitimate daughter of the recently-deceased patriarch of South Carolina politics, Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Rep. Wilson, a former page of Thurmond's, immediately told The State newspaper that he didn't believe Williams. He deemed the revelation "unseemly." And he added that even if she was telling the truth, she should have kept the inconvenient facts to herself:

"It's a smear on the image that has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina," Wilson said.

**This woman's birth was a smear?**

[FrenchieCat]

1. He's a piece of shit not even worth my time.

[Number23]

2. Good catch, firedup. Thanks for posting that. Can't say I'm the first damn bit surprised

[firedupdem]

3. Sickening but not surprising at all. And the same people that

hate the president on every level are defending him. How the hell can someone who has never spent a day as a black person in this country, tell me that the word "racist" is used far too loosely and frequently?



:rofl:

[Raineyb]

4. Are they still bitching about that? Someone likened the use of the word in

reference to people who pulled their kids out of school on Tuesday to the boy who cried wolf. So this is what I said

I'm calling it because that's what I see.

Presidents have addressed children in school before and there was no big outcry about needing to opt out. So why in this case? I can think of ONE thing that's different about this president than all the others before. Now maybe you are under the delusion that racism is a thing of the past because a black man has managed to get himself elected president of this still racist country but I can ill afford to delude myself in such a manner.

That people on this board may be uncomfortable with the charge is not my concern. That you refuse to see it matters to me not one whit. That someone on a so called Democratic board admits that he kept his kids out of school to have them avoid seeing the black president speak and have the nerve to claim it's not racism is an insult to my intelligence. I know that people don't want to see the racism involved in the opposition to Obama. Too bad, I will rub you nose in it until you recognize it. I have to live with it every day why the hell shouldn't you?

The boy who cried wolf? The deadly consequences of racism in this country are too fucking serious to relegate to a mere game or a stupid fable. But then you don't have to live in a black skin in a racist country do you? I will not hold back in order to make you comfortable. Don't like it? Too bad! I don't like being a second class citizen in the country in which I was born. I have to deal with it. You'll just have to suffer or put your head in the sand. Either way I will call racism every time I see it. I don't need your permission nor do I need your approval.

The response was to tell me she didn't need my permission to have her opinions and beliefs and maybe that means I saw her as racist too. (Which was an accusation I had not made.)

So I was my usual self in replying.

Of course you don't need my permission. Just like you didn't need my permission to dismiss what I see because you refuse to see it. I am sick and tired of racism only being called racism on the few (or blatantly obvious examples of it) when white people manage to recognize it. Until you stop acting as though it's only racism when YOU see it we won't agree on much when it comes to racism. I am sick and tired of white people telling me what the hell it is I see. I just told you what the hell I saw who the fuck are you to tell me otherwise?

Hmmm. I think I hurt someone's feelings. :shrug: Oh well!

[firedupdem]

5. Very well stated!!

Same defenders all the time. Nothing is racist unless, they call you a ni**er, or lynch your ass....and hell, even that may be defended.

[AspenRose]

11. I think I have that one on ignore.

[Raineyb]

12. There's a whole bunch of people I'm considering placing on ignore

I can't stand the stupid, the disrespect, and the dismissive attitude. Now we've got "scary black woman" memes flying about due to yesterday's match.

I've really about had it with motherfuckers in this joint.

[firedupdem]

13. I had to shut it down after reading that shit. We even have some

defending racist tea bagger signs. I've had it myself. A few weeks ago, I limited myself to this forum. I think I need to go back to doing just that.

[Karenina]

18. I've been here 8 years and now feel the necessity

of either weaning myself away or simply logging out for an extended break. DU has become an incredibly "hostile environment." I've weathered so many storms and in my vanity credited my training to deal wit dem who hate us in high places with my ability to do so. But lately I find myself feeling physically ill after my normal routine of scanning the forums. I no longer wish to engage as the subtext of so many encounters is the denial of stealth racism. I am SO HAPPY that I no longer live there...

[Number23]

20. As usual, Karenina, we are *HERE*

But lately I find myself feeling physically ill after my normal routine of scanning the forums.

I haven't even been doing that lately. Hostile is only one word I'd use to describe this place. Ignorant. Hyperventilating. Immature. Idiotic. Astoundingly foolish. And Racist are a few other choice adjectives.

In the last two weeks, I've been here four times. Even AAIG (which I still love) ain't fresh enough to cover up the stench from the rest of this place.

[noiretextatique]

14. she needed her feelings hurt

i am about to hurt someone's feelings in Bright's thread too.

[Raineyb]

16. I've been hurting people's feelings all weekend

(when I manage not to get the posts deleted)

There's some real foul shit floating about the board and it needs a good flushing.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Here how one poster put it....

and she gets an "A" on this One!
Responding to OP stating that Republicans are simply projecting
when they react to this President!


Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-10-09 07:47 PM
Response to Original message

1. I think it's a whole lot more basic than that -
I don't think it even gets to the matter of empathy, or compassion, or even a sense of responsibility to their constituents.

I think it's mostly a matter - and this is just about the males - of being confronted by a powerful, confident, brilliant black man who owns their sorry asses in every way, and who also - almost as an afterthought - makes the women, the white women, THEIR women, swoon, albeit secretly.

Their meager little dicks shrivel even more whenever that Big Black Buck appears, and takes over every situation. He's been anointed by the American electorate, who put him into that Oval Office without any controversy at all, and he's wearing his mantle of power and strength and courage quite well.

You get the distinct impression that there is some serious romantic activity in the White House, something that's been lacking for a long, long time, and Bill Clinton doesn't count.

These guys watch Obama work the world, and they just DIE! Inside their pants, inside their heads, they DIE. He is their superior on every measurable level, and some that cannot be measured, and they know it.

They know it, and all they can do is hiss and jeer and make playground noises. They're impotent, in every possible way, Barack Obama's continued existence is a personal rebuff to each of them - they all take it personally, on an emotional level - and they don't know what to do with any of it.

Ultimately, everything is about sex........................

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6518837&mesg_id=6518906

[Fire1]

9. I'll buy every bit of it Frenchie!! LOL!!! Insecure and impotent!!

ROFLMBAO!!!!:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Brewman_Jax]

7. No surprise

if nothing else, racists are usually consistent.

[HopeOverFear]

8. That dude has scary eyes...demonic eyes

like heaven's gate dude...

[Raineyb]

10. He also is a member of the sons of confederate veterans, a white supremacist group

but we're not supposed to call him a racist. The word's overused you know.

[noiretextatique]

15. yeah...it detracts from "real racism" if you use it too much

:eyes:

[Karenina]

17. The "real racism" in Ami-land is wearing me out, girl.

I apologize for not offering support on your very "fetching" thread but I suddenly experienced such a high-pitched ringing in my ears upon reading the subject line I felt it time to chill. Never mind the horseshit that regularly passes as "discussion." There are some priceless gems on this board. With its rapid expansion finding such as TB is like digging in Bandini Mountain. Seems Obama has lanced a HUMONGOUS steaming, streaming, festering. stinking pustule. Like we didn't foresee that. I can barely watch...

[noiretextatique]

19. we've been telling them, and even now that it is on display for the entire world to see

we still have deniers here. :rofl: the *&%($ who used the word "fetching" has been kissing my ass ever since. she brought a HUD auditor to my office yesterday and pretty much gave me a verbal blow-job in praising me to him :rofl: as for this disgusting mess of a country...i am really getting sick of it. i may have to come and crash on your sofa :7 seriously though...i'm looking at canada. because of my profession, i actually get some extra immigration points.

[Raineyb]

21. Really?

I've returned to scholastic endeavors and my major is accounting. I find my classmates to be a bit of a speedbump but it seems to stick in the old noggin.

[noiretextatique]

22. i believe so...last time i check was a few years ago

i will have to check again to make sure. i have done well in accounting because i have a personality, unlike many of may colleagues in the field :7