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Wow. Oh, yes he did. (Mediaite):
Former South Carolina Governor and Fox News contributor Mark Sanford wandered off the Appalachian Trail again Sunday morning when, in yet another completely isolated example of a Republican being totally-not-racist even though he sounds racist, said that President Obama is going to “come out and throw a lot of spears” at Tuesday’s upcoming debate.
Gov. Sanford first praised former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney‘s performance at the first debate, then predicted that “You know, obviously Obama will come out in this case much more forcefully and he will throw a lot of spears.”
Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Mediaite reporter Tommy Christopher wrote:
Completely coincidentally, and not at all related to this, the term “spearchucker” is a racial slur against black people, but what would a 52 year-old white guy from South Carolina know about that? Also, he didn’t call President Obama a “spearchucker,” he just said he would be throwing spears. That’s completely different.
I guess Sanford had his Klan sheet at the cleaners so it wasn’t available to wear during his Faux News appearance.
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“But I’m not racist…”
Moving north to New Jersey, the race-baiting continues with the re-emergence of a familiar image of Barack Obama, this time in a display in Bill Skuby’s storefront in downtown Spring Lake.
The picture shows Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, naked except for a primitive loincloth, with a bone through his nose, witch-doctor style. Underneath the image, a caption is written in black and white: ‘ObamaCare – coming soon to a clinic near you.’ The ‘C’ is depicted as a classic Communist hammer and sickle, a symbol not as regularly seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.
…Skuby, 66, a Spring Lake resident, saw nothing wrong with displaying his anti-Obama visual, which has been up since last week, for the world to see. ”A lot of people feel the way I feel, but are just afraid to say it,” said Skuby, who said that public response on the street in front of his store ran “70 percent positive” in favor of the display’s anti-Obama sentiments. “It always comes down to the race card.”
… “My son married a girl that had a biracial kid. She is every bit a part of our family as the other two in this picture. I’m not racist. And as long as my grandchild doesn’t think I’m a racist, I’m perfectly fine with all of this.”
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jesusgodalmighty
I know. When Rush Limbaugh calls Obama a “man-child,” he isn’t actually saying “boy.” Personally, I hope some of those alleged “spears” land deep in Romney’s bony behind. Figuratively of course.
Crap. Almost the saddest part of this is that it’s true that that horrendous photshopped picture is, indeed, familiar.
Words fail.
TOTALLY NOT RACIST
Republicans do have the Lazarus touch. Raising dead politicians all over the place. Mark Sanford – ugh!
This sort of thing has been going on for years with the GOP, but the good news is that it is self-defeating, particularly in this day and age. The Taliban shot a 14 y.o. activist in the head, does anyone believe that act actually furthered their world view? Of course not. Same goes for Sanford. He is a moron in a party of morons and the fact that he proclaims his stupidity so loudly just hastens the demise of his lizard brain perspective of the world.
Maybe a question of taste or denial, but I wish that picture did not appear on my screen. Truly so disrespectful and horrible.
Obama is POTUS, Holder is AG and RG III is starting QB for Washington, so racism no longer exists in America !
“A lot of people feel the THE WAY I FEEL but are afraid to say it”. Please explain precisely how your feel Mr. Skuby. Do you feel cheated? Do you feel offended? Do you feel deprived? Do you feel superior? Do you feel afraid for your country and your fellow citizens because we have an African American President? When you put such an image in your window, and you assume it reflects what others feel, you should have the courage to actually say what you feel, or would it embarrass you to say it and reveal how racist your are?
i used to live in spring lake, NJ; never met a dickhead like that; kinda surprised– at least that someone would put it in his window
The people not calling this out says more to me. There’s a new book by a Mr. Thompson about secession from the South, not theirs, ours. Lots of pretty good stuff but the comments most interesting to me were about U.S. citizens leaving this country because of overt and continuous hate speech, race baiting and worse. Where are the ” good ” Republicans and fundamentalist religious leaders, who are the base of that party, calling this garbage out for what it is? The world watches this stuff, too. And, they cringe and tremble simultaneously. Who’d open their doors to citizens of this country warmly after seeing our leaders exhibit such disgusting behavior? And, more importantly not be publicly shamed by the rest of us.
Thank the Republican Pharisee Jesus for Pox News Channel. Lank-haired redneck adulterer Mark Sanford found a soft place to fall. Sanford is not a spear chucker. He is a dip sticker.
He ain’t the plumber,
Ain’t the plumber’s son.
But Lank-Haired Redneck
Mark Sanford will
Plug that hole ’til the plumber comes.
Some people are just evil.They just can’t wash it off. It is imbedded in their souls. And they tend to be the holiest among us. Why is that?
707 … EXCELLENT !
‘Cause “spearchucker” was never a racist term for African Americans, right, Governor Trail Mix?
Ok, so Mark Sanford is a redneck hillbilly, etc., etc., but this NJ POS is not? And when all you self-righteous people in the north secede from the South, are you going to leave NJ behind, or what?
So lemme get this “right.”
When Joe Biden spoke about citizens being “unchained” from Wall St, it was the very height of racism and all AA citizens should run far far away from the “Democratic” party.
But when cheating adulterer, Mark Sanford, wanders back from the Appalacian Trail shenanigans with his hottie mistress to inform us that POTUS Barack Obama is
a spearchuckergoing to throw spears, IOKIYAR???Is THAT how it works??
I have no comment about the proudly bigoted racist shithead in NJ. Good luck to his granddaughter.
I beg to disagree. I don’t think you can equate the Pakistan disease with the American disease. Sanford knows he can get away with this, no problem. He’s evil but not a moron.
Again and again I get confirmed in my opinion that American racism is what contains Obama and will continue to contain him. A sickness from sea to shining sea, northern to southern borders and all the amber waves of grain between. But when I express that opinion, I am anything from a common asshole to some kind of anti-American idiot. “You don’t even know America is changed, you jerk”, I’m told.
Well, there, I said it again too. Respectfully, I don’t think “in this day and age” is enough cover for what has been and still is. In spite of real progress in many pockets, enough to keep honest hope alive.