How many of these STUPID threads do we need?

[KaraokeKarlton]

Really now? One wasn't enough, half a dozen wasn't enough? We need the ENTIRE first page of the GD forum spreading the ridiculous, false and pathetic accusations that Dean is a racist? I swear that this has got to be the most inane garbage I've ever seen.

And for God's Sakes STOP insulting the intelligence of black people by thinking they don't have enough sense to know REAL racism from Howard Dean pointing out that ALL struggling southerners have reason to vote for a Democrat! Now THAT is insulting!

[southerngirlwriter]

1. Ummm......Thirteen? ;-)

n/t

[KaraokeKarlton]

5. I didn't count, but it seems like 113

I'm sure someone will clean it up once a moderator or admin shows up and sees it. It's pretty sad that the whole place falls apart when the babysitters take the night off. I really feel bad for whoever gets the task of having to weed through all this crap.

[AP]

2. Nobody's calling him a racist. These threads are about the stupidity

of the statement.

[Maddy McCall]

4. And the willingness of some DUers to defend that stupidity.

[w4rma]

9. And Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s willingness to defend Dean's statement?

Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. Praises Dean on Bringing Economic Agenda to the South

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, August 28, 1963

"White folks in the South who drive pick-up trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us because their kids don't have health insurance either, and their kids need better schools too."-- Dr. Howard Dean, DNC Winter meeting, February 21, 2003

Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., today said, "This year we celebrated the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Forty years later, Dr. Howard Dean is reminding us that the great task of uniting the northern black and white urban poor and working class, with the southern black and white rural poor and working class around common economic issues good health care, high quality schools, and affordable housing is the key to wrestling our democracy away from the race-oriented Republican right-wing.

"Democrats were not competitive in the South in 2000, and we have struggled to thrive, and in some instances survive, since Richard Nixon and the Republican Party began using their race-based 'southern strategy' in 1968. The use of race, cultural and social issues have served to distract voters by keeping the focus off of economic issues has been the basic strategy of Bush and the Republicans in the South. That's why they make wedge issues out of prayer in school, the Ten Commandments on public buildings, civil unions, the false allegation that Democrats will take away hunters' gun rights, choice for women, the controversy of having the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, and the Confederate Flag. Lest we forget, the Confederate Flag is the Democratic Party's historic contribution to the South, and current Democratic candidates have not been able to figure out how to come to grips with their own historic symbol.

"Normally, rather than directly confronting poor and working class white southerners with a strong economic agenda, Democrats have tried to imitate Republicans on many of these social issues. It is good that we have a candidate offering hope to the South with an economic agenda. It is Dr. Dean who is reminding us that the combination of poor and working class blacks and whites, north and south, united in coalition around a common economic agenda of jobs, health care, education and housing will constitute a winning strategy in 2004," concluded Cong. Jackson.

Posted by Mathew Gross at 07:12 PM
http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/002084.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=631124

Did these SOUTHERN, BLACK, Baptists have a problem with Dean's remarks?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=73335

[KaraokeKarlton]

6. One thread isn't enough to waste good bandwidth on?

There has to be a whole page worth?

[QC]

3. The amazing multiplying rabbit thread phenomenon

is the very worst thing about DU. An issue comes up and forty people who have nothing new or interesting or relevant to say insist on starting their very own personal threads in which to repeat what has been said hundreds of times already.

Meanwhile, lots of other threads that might actually serve some purpose get pushed into the archives, never to be seen again.

I wish people would think a moment before hitting the post buttom, or failing that, that the mods would enforce the dupe rules.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. A billion?

[mitchum]

8. Dean Dean Dean

[FrenchieCat]

10. Cause all of the Dean supporters want to make sure

this is not a bad mark on their candidate.....rationalizing sometimes takes many roads.

[w4rma]

12. Dean has been saying this same statement for about a year, now.

And, everytime I've heard him say it, I've supported it. I've also never heard any complaints about it from you or any other candidates' supporters until now.

[kentuck]

11. As many as it takes to clear up the more stupid distortions...

?? People don't want their comments to get lost under the thread of accusing their candidate of being a racist or worse...

[Forkboy]

13. Enough for Clark supporters to get it out of their system

[Aidoneus]

14. you noticed that too?

.

[AP]

15. Deanies dish it out but can't take it?

??

[Forkboy]

16. So acting like those you deplore

ir right?

[AP]

19. I don't deplore anyone.

But, if you're going to dish it out, you're going to have to sit back and take your own medicine. Or isn't that what the Doctor ordered?

[0rganism]

17. Given any positive integer N of stupid threads

the amount needed to fully address any subject will be no less than N+1

[kaitykaity]

18. Locking.

The Administrators are in the process of dealing
with problems like this that are becoming increasingly
more frequent in GD.

Thank you for your patience.



kaitykaity
DU Moderator