Cynthia Tucker: 45-65% Of Townhall Protesters Are Racists

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Are you opposed to ObamaCare?  Willing to attend a town hall to express your disapproval?  Odds are good you're a racist.  Just ask Cynthia Tucker . . .

As Clay Waters has noted, Paul Krugman alleges that racist motives are at the heart of the town hall protests against ObamaCare.  On this evening's Hardball, Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was willing to get specific, estimating that "45 to 65%" of the protesters are motivated by racism.

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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them into gurneys.  Inject them with sodium pentathol. How many of them would say "I don't like the idea of having a black president"? What percentage?

CYNTHIA TUCKER: Oh, I'm just guessing. This is just off the cuff. I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president.


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As long as she's making up

As long as she's making up statistics, she should have said "45.6 to 65.1%, with a margin of error of 2.5%."  It would make her made-up statistics look more real.

Cynthia Tucker = 65.1%

Cynthia Tucker = 65.1% racist.......

Cynthia is a Racist -

CYNTHIA TUCKER: Oh, I'm just guessing. This is just off the cuff. I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president.

Now, what does Health Care have to do with a Black President?   Do you think Cynthia is attempting to make this into a Racial thing b/c she thinks this Gov't Healthcare is a bad idea and she is afraid to be honest and say so? 

Shame on you for being so Ignorant, Cynthia!

Interesting perspective

First, when I hear blacks call someone racist, I just laugh any more. It has lost it's meaing, and now is just comical. Secondly, I was one of many, many whites who supported a real American, black man, Alan Keyes. I would and will support him anytime he asks..and yes, I am a white guy.

Joe... I'm with you all

Joe...

I'm with you all the way in all respects of your post.

I've loved Keyes from years and years back now...the way the msm and some of the 'R' party big-wigs have treated this man has been horrendous.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

So, this is just off the cuff

Just off the cuff, Ms. Tucker thinks that 45-65% of the people who disagree with Obama's policies are doing it because they don't like the idea of a black president.

Bull$hit.

She needs to get past her prejudices and start judging the Obama administration on it's merits (or lack of merit) rather than just looking at skin color.

Any fan of Feynman is a

Any fan of Feynman is a friend of mine.  One of my all-time heroes!

Welcome, Friend!

And if you're also a fan of Thomas Jefferson we might be twins separated at birth...

"if you're also a fan of

"if you're also a fan of Thomas Jefferson we might be twins separated at birth.'

My screen name at Free Republic is "governsleastgovernsbest."  Need I say more, brother?

Hang on -

I'm calling Mom to ask her what she thought she was doing by splitting us up.

Probably thought that much

Probably thought that much genius in one family would be overwhelming ;-)

I'm just cracking up

I'm just cracking up laughing with both of you fellas back and forths.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Me, too, bt - and after watching all these town hall fisticuffs

I needed a good chuckle ;~)

Darn - I guess my 'Sam Adams' sig doesn't fit in this with this little genealogical find - oh well, I'll add it anyhow ;~)

On topic - Cynthia Tucker is one of the most disliked Georgia Girls alive...I take anything she writes with a grain of salt...no, make that a POUND of salt!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

Evening CC.. Not just

Evening CC..

Not just Georgia....I couldn't stand her and her rants when she was in the House, still can't stand her BS now.

Anything for attention and a grasp on some kind of a political future that's looking mighty bleak and has been long ago now...she seems to be clueless to that little fact...of course who knows....I shouldn't speak so fast I guess.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

CC... Now I am laughing

CC...

Now I am laughing at myself...I thought this was referring to ex-congress gal Cynthia Tucker, not this leftist witch from the AJ...both are about the same as far as I am concerned with their politics, they are both racists themselves.

That is a lesson well learned by me, never take a long distance phone call and click a comment on and assume the person they are talking about is the person you think it is....before you read the blog you didn't ever see beforehand...lol.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Cynthia McKinney is the one you're thinking about, bt - the

Georgia folks get a bit upset when you mention either of their two Cynthia's ;-)  (they can't stand them either)

PS  know all about that click before thinking it through bit ;-) 

PPS  I like your new tag line! (but as you can see, I'm sticking with my old one)

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CC... Thank you...you are

CC...

Thank you...you are so right....don't know how I got those two stuck in my mind as the same name, and I most likely never will.

Thanks for rescuing me.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Uh-oh

This is a little awkward.  She claims she has no idea what I'm talking about.

Amen

I didn't vote for the socialist b@stard, but his race was the furthest thing from my mind at the time. And most of my mid-Missouri red-state friends appeared to feel the same way.  I would have voted for him in a heartbeat over Hillary because I felt she would sell the country.  I never expected him and the Demoncats to destroy it before giving it away.

The one thing i can tell you is that our lovely Ms. Tucker is a hard-core racist because she has the numbers down pat.

David

Oh no!  was that sexist???

Save me from the Good People!

no but it was OBVIOUSLY

no but it was OBVIOUSLY RACIST

most libs tell me that blacks "can't be racist" because its all about power...so obviously they "left the building" a long while ago

so i say we just drug these people up, stick em in the visitors lounge to watch TV, and just try to keep them comfortable until the sweet release of death

Palin/Prejean 2012

The definition of prejudice

The illogic of racism is judging people on false pretenses.

When you judge someone's racial attitudes, not based on anything they've said or done, but simply because they oppose your political position, you're officially a racist yourself.

These people are revealing just how prejudiced they are themselves.

 

keep digging that hole, MSM

The smell of desperation fits you very well.

 

Gee. 45-65 percent?

Rush: "Leaving our healthcare the way it is will save three trillion dollars!"

 Greta: "Three trillion? Where'd you get that number?"

 Rush:  "I made it up.  Just like they do.  Just pulled it out of thin air."

It's probably more like 6

It's probably more like 6 Trillion - if you project into the future.

It's actually 8 trillion. 

It's actually 8 trillion.  You forgot to factor in inflation. 

Who will lead the Republicans to victory in 2010 and 2012?  Why, Barack Obama, of course!

...

Funny how she pulled that percentage out of her a#@.  These people are pathetic and desperate in their attempts to justify their remaining on the Dem plantation.  She doesn't have an ounce of courage in her bone.   She should look at her conservative African-American brethren and see real courage.   

 

"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything."
  --  GK Chesterton

That's ok

That's ok because Cynthia Tucker is 95 - 99% racist. I wonder why she hates America so much. It's a shame that she'll never be comfortable with Americans around. Wonder why she just doesn't go to Iran or some place she'll feel more comfortable.

  But... obama's not

  But... obama's not black.  He's a mixed race individual who was raised in Hawaii by a white family and later was promoted along by affirmative action policies and by liberals who saw that he had the ambitious qualities of his white upbringing coupled with an ability to sell himself as a legitimate 'black' even though his life experiences leave him far removed from the struggles of the civil rights era.

black??

But Bill Clinton was our first black president! How can anyone deny that nObama is black.     <--typo back there

David

Save me from the Good People!

Where'd she GET these numbers?

So where did this ignoramus get her stats?  From a box of Rice Krispies?

As long as the media is vomiting made-up statistics, how about this one:  I'd say nearly 95% of all journalists are proven liars, and that only 2% of the content of any of their articles/segments has any truth in them.

Given those stats, it looks like her own report is nothing but a load of weapons-grade bolognium....

Ah, but Slyrr

But 95% of all journalists are proven liars, and that only 2% of the
content of any of their articles/segments has any truth in them.

It's been proven.  Otherwise NewsBusters would not exist and flourish.

I am sooooooooooooo glad

I am sooooooooooooo glad this hideous woman left Atlanta and moved to D.C. The mean IQ here jumped ten points once she left.

BTW, Cynthia, I am going to be attending the Atlanta Town Hall here on August 15th, and if you don't like it? 

Tough cheese, baby.

-Dave

If it's CommieCare you want, then move to Cuba.

It's too easy to drop the "R" word.

I'm fed up with every time anyone disagrees with someone of a different color..."They are raciest". What about Ken Gladney? How raciest was that for the Black Union thug to call him "nigger" and beat him up because he was selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags. Which by the way, is a U S Navy Battle Flag. Where is the main stream media on this???

I think you're quite

I think you're quite right.  The Demorats and leftists have cried wolf one too many times now for their own good.  They've been bleating 'racist' this and 'racist' that for decades - over and over like a mantra to ward off evil spirits.

And by and large, Americans of ALL skin colors are sick of it.  The people are starting to roll their eyes and wag their heads now every time a liberal invokes the racist boogeyman. 

Ditto for 'Nazis'.  Demorats have accused their enemies of being Nazis far too many times for people to take them seriously anymore.  Every time they talk about their opponents, it's either 'racists' or 'nazis'. There's only so many times in a row you can cry wolf before the villagers start ignoring you.

Quoth Gandalf:  'That word comes too oft and easy from your lips!'

Yawn. These people are SOoo

Yawn. These people are SOoo boring. No wonder no one is watching any more.

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WHO ME?

 I have dated a few Black women...and i respect immensely J.C. Watts, Allen Keys, Michael Steele, Condy Rice all Great, Great Americans....

You know your a racist

If you keep bringing up the color of a person.The msm doesnt seem to understand that.All you hear from them is the color of Obama skin.I dont like his policies and it has nothing to with his color.I dont like Tucker or Chrissy because I am alergic to leftist.Not to be confused with liberals.If their are any left.

The R word

When the left can't get facts and or make the ones they invent sound plausible, they go to the race card.  It is why people like Tucker--Jackson and Sharpton are race baiting clowns along with alot of the State run media today.  They could not present a logical argument to defend their position without their pity party give me a hand out attitudes.

You deserve the democrat party and they deserve you.  And yes I thought Alan keyes was a worthy candidate.

"Don't let the bastards grind you down.'

Red

Red

It just gets so sickening.It is like their tiny minds cant have more than one idea at a time.That must be why you always hear the msm yell racist.It is pathetic.

Yea, like-wise for these two clowns

Inject them with sodium pentathol

 Anyone wanna bet its pretty damd ugly in these two heads

 My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Being born white makes one a racist

All liberals can see is skin color.  Especially when their opponents don't agree with them.  This racist business has become so ridiculous that all it takes anymore to be a racist is to have been born white.  It is amazing that 13% of the population get this much attention!

I dislike Obama because he is a dangerous socialist. By the way, AWD is supporting Michael Williams, a black conservative to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson as Senator in Texas.

Angry White Dude

www.angrywhitedude.c...

I'm going to look more into

I'm going to look more into who this guy is with time...this would be great...I hope he is more conservative than Hutchinson.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

She won't be missed in the Senate - and from the looks of it

she shouldn't be thinking about redoing the mansion in Austin, either ;-)  Latest numbers give Perry a good lead!  We need REAL conservatives in Congress...be they white, black, brown, yellow, green, pink, or polka dot!  Glad to hear there is a good one running!

Re: Florida...it's a bit of a mystery as to the real reason Martinez is stepping down early...to give a pro-Crist 'seat-filler' until he can run?  I sure hope another REAL conservative, Rubio, comes through in 2010!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

CC... You and me

CC...

You and me both.

We sure as heck know he will not name Rubio....that was the first thing I thought of this morning when this was announced.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

What makes sadist's drool

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them into gurneys. Inject them with sodium pentathol.

Dayum Chris - "These people" getting left in a gutter outside a townhall meeting after being kicked and beaten by a mob of Dem thugs isn't enough for you?

Sounds Fishy. Just reported

Sounds Fishy. Just reported her to Dear Leader at Flag.

How did she come up with the

How did she come up with the 45 to 65% of the people she's talking about?  And of course there was no dissent.  Maybe Chrissy was getting a tingle up his leg.

Cynthia Tucker

Ms. Tucker sees a racist under every rock.  When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  I'm hard pressed to find anyone more intellectually vacant.

I left the southeast 20 years ago and she was focused on

nothing but race back then!  Some people just seem to get stuck on stupid!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

Yeah, well 90% + black

Yeah, well 90% + black people are racist because they voted for a socialist incompetent named Barack Hussein Obama simply because he has Kenyan blood, which they equate as being black, to run our cherished country.

Oh, and my 90% + statistic is actually backed up by real polls; her statistic was pulled from her arse! 

And I thought the speaker of the house had a tight face?

Tucker is without a doubt the human equivalent of a donut hole.

Her brain is missing or hiding in her lips?

Maybe the botox screwed her up?

Does she know how ignorant she is?

No matter what happens if SOBama is criticized, the person who disagrees, is a racist. Must be a proven fact.

Then again, I'm just guessing.

I don't like SOBama because of what he wants to do to our Country and our Constitution! Tucker thinks I am uncomfortable with "blackness".

Well, she is wrong! I am not uncomfortable with "black", I am uncomfortable with a Marxist as President of the United States. 

And those eyebrows. They don't move.

 

''Journalists''

Put 100 of these people in a room. Strap them onto gurneys.  Inject
them with sodium pentathol. How many of them would say "I don't have a clue about the evil within our president"? What percentage?

There - fixed it.

If we are going to have

If we are going to have hate-crimes laws then I think we need a law for people who claim "racism" when there is absolutely no foundation for such a patently false claim.  In other words, a "reverse hate-crimes bill".  You claim racism you better have sufficient evidence or suffer the consequences of inciting racial tensions.  

Do you realize that anybody can claim racism except for white people that are Christians?  It is BULLS#1t.  Do you realize that every time one of these media-whores on the left declare "racism" that it incites people to not get along?  It's a hate crime!  Hate against 'whitey'.

mm - just one more 'thingy' we can thank the liberal lion for

sponsoring and thereby contributing toward the demise of our great country!   He scores right up there at the top of the list of those who have done the most damage!  And if the attendees at these town hall meetings feel as though their voices are not being heard, they ought to try being a K/K constituent!  Neither of these two 'do you know who I am' give a tinkers dam what their constituents think...THEY KNOW BEST, doncha know!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

 

Ah, the mainstream media...

They've done studies. 60% of the time, they're right every time. 

"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Official Motto of the State of Iowa

You folks can deny it all

You folks can deny it all you want but I went to a Town Hall this afternoon and asked this exact question- and I didn't even have to inject everyone with sodium pentathol- and you know what? Out of 100 people, exactly 55 were card-carrying racists! I just had them show me their voter registration card and 55 were registered GOP. So there! Cynthia (who actually is a racist) was right on the money!

In all seriousness though- I will be courageous enough to actually say it:

"I don't like the idea of having a black president... trying to reform this country into some progressive, utopian, socially engineered prolitariate! Come to think of it, I don't like the idea of a white, brown, blue or green one doing it either!"

BK... I Second

BK...

I Second that!

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

bk - nor a polka dot one! You forgot him/her!

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>>>CC

Well, now that you mention it, and after careful deliberation, I have decided that in fact, I would be okay with a polka dot president leading us down the primrose path to utopian proletariatotalitarfacsolialism(s)!

;-b

Same old tired BS. If you

Same old tired BS. If you don't go along with Barry Sotero AKA B. Hussein Obama's socialist ideas, you're a racist. They aren't bright enough to see that it's his deliberate attempt to destroy America that's the objectionable part.

Tired BS for sure.  They

Tired BS for sure.  They can't win the arguement, or even HAVE a two sided debate, so the easiest way out is to call someone racist.  They who love to use that word, have unknowingly made that word mean very little anymore, much to their chagrin if they realized it.

Hey Tucker: 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot

Plus, Lisa Rinna wants her lips back, immediately.

SoL... LOL...That needed

SoL...

LOL...That needed a spew alert!

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

While she's giving back, the cheek fillers should go to at least

3 individuals!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

Thomas Sowell is a black

Thomas Sowell is a black man who I really think is on target in many areas.

Walter Williams is a black man who I really think is on target in many areas.

Alan Keyes is a black man who I really think is on target in many areas.

Barack Obama is a black man who I really think is off target in many areas.

Yep, looking at the list, the only conclusion anyone could have is that I'm racist.

Agree, GregE - how I wish we could get one of these fellows

to run!  I'd handle his local campaign ;-) 

However, the media have created such an evil environment that not too many people are willing to walk over the hot coals they continually lay out!  I do hope we are not going through all of this turbulence for nothing...if we can regain AMERICA as it once was, it will be worth it.  I'm not ready to give up yet!

This comment comes from a proud Tea Party attendee, otherwise designated by Homeland Security as a Domestic Right Wing Terrorist!     It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue ~ Sam Adams

Too Smart To Run

I think they are smart enough to realize that running for office is beneath them when you consider the hassles anyone wanting to be in the political spotlight is subject to these days. 

--

We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

 

GregE, you left out Herman Cain

...who will be hosting the Atlanta Health Care Town Hall here on the 15th:

http://www.americast...

-Dave

If it's CommieCare you want, then move to Cuba.

You're right.  I don't

You're right.  I don't hear his name much, but remember a couple years ago reading some of his viewpoints.  He's excellent too, so I'm still racist I guess.

Hey Dave...speaking of Cain

Hey Dave...speaking of Cain I heard him for the first time this morning very early my time on C-SPAN at a Young conservatives type of forum....he is GREAT!

I didn't even know he had run for Senate before...gosh the msm managed to keep silent about that now didn't they?

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Oh golly gee, a black man

Oh golly gee, a black man running for a Republican seat in the US Senate.  The liberals can't have that now can they?  They're deathly afraid of that.

Add To The List...

Shelby Steele, Ward Connerly and even, yes, Juan Williams. 

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We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

 

...Larry Elder...Jesse Lee

...Larry Elder...Jesse Lee Petterson.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

I just don't know how you

I just don't know how you racists can look at a person's viewpoints as the important things.  I mean, geeez, there's skin color available folks.  That's the most important thing.  Heck, listen to the high and mighty, legends in their own mind liberals long enough and they'll let you know that that is the case.

Yep!   http://iamnotara

No no No it's a LIBERAL president you KOOK

HELLO the democrats are the party of the KKK

Since “conservative whites” are… conservative, the chances they would vote for a Democrat in the first place is slim.

 

Reagan VS Liberalism

News Flash, Ms Tucker

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who urges people to "get the faces" of those who disagree with him and/or his policies as well as use other "thug" tactics to suppress dissension.

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who encourages his supporters to "snitch" on those who dare to point out contradictions between what the President wants us to hear and what is actually in the health care reform bill.

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who suddenly changes the subject from health CARE reform to health INSURANCE reform and in the process demonizes an entire industry. Indeed, some suggest that changing the subject is admitting that the Administration is losing the debate.

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who makes false statements about medical service providers such as alleging pediatricians performing unnecessary tonsillectomies for the profit.

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who does not unequivocally state what his policies are? Is he for continuing private health care insurance or is he for a single-payer system? He is on record as saying both.

We are "uncomfortable" with a President who says he is for total transparency of his administration, but uses executive orders to create "czars" who not only have not been subject to Senate hearings like cabinet appointees, but who work without any Congressional oversight effectively rendering their activities secret.

I could go on, but I think Ms Tucker is capable of understanding my point. That is that we are not racist for wanting elected officials to live up to the sworn oath they take and to serve us and not their own personal agendas.

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We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

 

I doubt it

 I could go on, but I think Ms Tucker is capable of understanding my
point. That is that we are not racist for wanting elected officials to
live up to the sworn oath they take and to serve us and not their own
personal agendas.

 She never lived up to any of hers, just race baited and played the victim

 My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Sadly...

...I think you are probably right. Ms Tucker only knows hatred for those who disagree with her.

--

We already have term limits. They are called elections. We can & should vote out those who do not represent & serve us! - Me

 

cynthia tucker

this really gets me mad....  who are the real racists???

how about the 97% of the black voters who voted for Obama??

did that have anything to do with race? isn't that racism? or can only whites be racist??

I bet if you strapped Cynthia, or Gates, or Obama, or Al Sharpton, or Roland Martin, or even Colin Powell to a gurney and used sodium pentathol and asked the question...

"Would you want your child to marry a white person?"  

you know exactly what the answer would be.

So lets get off this bull and be honest about it... blacks are just as racist as whites, hispanics, asians and even other blacks.

 

 

1261 days

What will she say in about 1261 days when President Palin and VP Michael L. Williams in sworn in. Well then the whole USA is Racists

Tj...thanks for the link to

Tj...thanks for the link to Williams.

Obama's a Community Agitator, a walking, talking destroyer. ~ Rush Limbaugh

Cynthia Tucker...motivated

Cynthia Tucker...motivated by 100% ignorance.

This is just off the cuff

I think 45 to 65% of Cynthia Tucker's face was worked on by Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon.

Signifying Nothing

These lame questions are coming faster and more furiously with the unraveling of Obama's scheme. It's dreadful, but I'm glad to see that prissie Chrissie has the guts - ignorance - to push ahead and make public his and all leftists beliefs. Wait. No one watches MSNBC. Nice try, Chrissie.

These townhall meetings are filled with rabble-rousing racist.

Don't believe me? Then watch this shocking video of an AARP Town Hall Meeting held in Dallas on Aug.4, 2009. There were so many Nazi Swastikas displayed that they were too numerous to count.

For some unknown reason that I can't understand, AARP members are not very happy with AARP's support of President Obama and the Dems' Healthcare Plan. Here are a few of their comments:

  • My wife and I have asked that you cancel our membership in AARP and will not renew or be a part of this organization under any circumstance. Your endorsement of the Obama / Democrat health care edict is the reason. No further elaboration or discussion is necessary!

  • The grassroots Revolt against Obamacare and the complicit AARP is underway!

  • Here's what I plan to do and today I told AARP my plans. Cancelling your membership is a good first step but IF you have any of AARP's insurance cancel it....I plan to do so with my Drug coverage this fall when I can switch. I already have researched and Aetna will give me the same coverage for less money and it keeps $71 a month out of AARP's pocket....if there are enough of us that can do that they will feel the pinch....after all they are first and foremost an insurance company.

  • It is apparent that these rabble-rousing racist don't appreciate what Obama, the Dems, and AARP are trying to do for them and this great country. 

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    "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” ~ Edmund Burke

    Yes, I'm sure the Freedom

    Yes, I'm sure the Freedom Riders endured intolerable cruelty just so infantile "journalists" like Chris Matthews and Cynthia Tucker could define racism down to a silly non-sequitur.

    "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."  -George Best

     They don't hate the

     They don't hate the protesters because they are racist, they hate them because they know thet are right.

    The intellectually

    The intellectually challenged Cynthia Tucker says racism because she is a typical, predictable leftists without a clue other than racism.  She is wrong.  She lies.

    Liberalism is a convenient lie.

    last puff (with apologies to Spooky Tooth)

    Playing the race care is a last act of desperation.  These protectors of BHO idealism have no where else to turn.  Their world is falling apart, so shouting racism is all they have left.  Their last puff on a short cigar.

     

     Call your cable or satellite company and demand that they remove CNN, MSNBC, and MTV from your entertainment package.  Stop subsidizing the liberal left.  

    There are 4 people in the

    There are 4 people in the state of Jawja that need to be locked away in an institution permanently. Jimma Carter, Cynthia McKinney, John Lewis and this stupid bitch. Wait. On second thought should be 26 which includes the Atlanta Braves. GO DODGERS 

    Semper suprene nitens

    North Carolina now has the worst government money can buy. 

    Rick,

    LOL-You forgot Rep. David Scott.

    The only difference between him and John Lewis is that he represents the next district over.

    Their constuents are interchangeable.

    -Dave

    If it's CommieCare you want, then move to Cuba.

    One thing is NOT off the

    One thing is NOT off the cuff: Cynthia Tucker is 100% RAYYYCIST HERSELF. In America today, it seems as if I don't kiss the ass of a raging socialist, who will eliminate "useless eaters" as did Germany in 1936, and who just happens to be black, then the only reason possible is racism. I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU CINDY, THE EPITHET "RACIST" HAS LOST IT'S MEANING NOW. Just like the boy who cried wolf. It's dead Cindy baby.

    So, seeing how B.O. is

    So, seeing how B.O. is bi-racial, if he was 100% Black then the figures would be 90%- 130% of the people opposing national health care would be racists.

    Damn the details! Support Obama!

    Last year with the Liberals it was: Obama is black; if you do not vote for Obama, you are a racist.

    Now with the Liberals it is: Obama is black; if you do not support Obama’s agenda , you are a racist.

    Cap &  Trade and the “Health Care Reform” power grab are huge bills each running over 1000 pages.  One might reasonably think these are very complicated matters involving many complicated and sophisticated interactions and effects, giving rise to a wide range of views and opinions.  But with Liberals these matters are basically racial, plain and simple.  No wonder they feel no need to read the bills.

    - Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler to manage your portfolio.

    Here is a good example of

    Here is a good example of the arrogance of the man:

    I'm In Charge, So Shut Up and Get Out of My Way!


    stupid

    I am weary of being labeled racist for disagreeing with Obama -they race card has been played too much in this adminstration - we don't like his policies - is that too hard to understand? I would vote for a black person who was conservative enough - has nothing to do with Obama, and I am sick of them throwing up their racist accusations - anyone who voted for Obama just because he is black are the racists

    I don't think they really believe it.

    That's just an liberal tactic to change the subject.  Instead of debating policy, they'd rather make the discussion about the dissenter being a racist, and get them on the defensive.

    Oh ye Cynthia

    argghhhhh outchyer blowhole ye stupid wench argghhhhhh

    Not enough racism going on around here---

    With all this "You're a racist" labeling going on, being called a racist will become meaningless, hence the end of meaningful racism.

    Yeah, that image of Gabby Johnson jumping around on top of the church trying to be heard in "Blazing Saddles", just a distant memory.

    Something tells me, if meaningful racism is extinguished there will be a need for a "Poverty Pimp" stimulus plan, all those "Community organizers" out of jobs...

    Oh, I'm just guessing.

    This is just off the cuff. I think that her made up stats, are a result of her own racism towards whites, who would dare question a black president.

    Good riddance

    The good news is that Tucker has left Atlanta for Washington, to report on politics for the AJC. Atlanta's gain, DC's loss. The AJC has a new editor of the editorial page. This is part of the AJC's disaster recovery plan, but is unlikely to rescue the paper.

    http://www.ajc.com

    I think we are giving

    I think we are giving people like Tucker way too much credit when we call them "crazy" when they accuse us of racism or anything equally as vile. "Crazy" implies that they really believe these charges - even if mentally ill. I don't give them credit for being crazily sincere. I think they know very well that we or the town hall protesters aren't racists at all. They are just throwing the vilest charge they can think of in desperation of saving Obama's "Blue Shaft" program. No, these people are as dishonest as they come - and mean - and desperate.

    The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

    Well I guess I'm a racist.

    Well I guess I'm a racist. Thanks Media!

    The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

    Wow

    I would say it's shocking, but it is the first rule in the socialist rule book.  People are all groups to them.  There are no individual Rights.  She's yet another Barbara Boxer in training. 

    race card improperly played

    Clearly an improperly played race card shows that Cynthia Tucker is a racial coward.

    do you know Cynthia Tucker

    What race card was played.  She was asked a ?.  And how brave are you to post Anonymous comments on this blog, calling someone a coward.  And what is a racial coward?  I am going to clearly state that you would not call her that to her face, as she is , like most older black folks who lived a long life, not a coward.

    older black folks?

    Aaah, someone is now playing the apologist-for-older-blacks-being-racist card.

    No matter how blatantly angry or biased (I won't say "racist") blacks are towards non-blacks, there's a "good excuse" to back it up at every turn.

     

    guessing

    Ms. Tucker was asked her op and just made a guess.  Nothing diff than most of these comments.  But can anyone tell me or show me where a black person is at one of these meetings prasing the current health care system or saying a public option is not wanted.  My "guess" is none.  Plus every poster here has some kind of government intervention in there health care....It is a regulated industry, (including the insurance companies)

    NYK

    Take a good look at all of the videos and you will see that you are wrong. First you have to look.

    Racist? Me? You betcha!

    If politician is a race, color me racist. The current set of people inhabitting the Congress and White House have nothing but their own power or greed on their mind. We need to throw these bums out on their ass.

    Ah-the friggin' race card

    Ah-the friggin' race card once again.  Hey, it worked for OJ!

    Actually, I thought years ago that Colin Powell would have made an excellent president and would have voted for him, even if he went Dem...then I actually heard him talk about politics-oh well.

    One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

    So, was I being a racist

    So, was I being a racist when I was against the Clinton's taking over the Medical system ? 

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

    HMMMM

     

     All one had to do is look at Africa and they could see what a black POTUS would do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

                  

                              If race cards were like credit cards, some people would be in debt up to their ears.                Angry Mobster

    So when are the libs going

    So when are the libs going to get on board for the whole Post Racial America thing?

    Correction...

    "I think 45 to 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of a black president."

    Correction, 100% of the people  who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with the idea of THIS black president.

    If tucker wants to play with

    If Tucker wants to play with statistics: Obama is 50% white and I disagree with that part of him as well. So there.

    That's right.  If Obama

    That's right.  If Obama wants to turn the health care system into a government system, you are racist if you are against that.  (Or 65% likely a racist, or whatever she said.)

    Just like everyone at the tea parties were "straight up racists," as Janeanne Imafoolo said.

    You can't be against what Obama wants, because whatever he wants is good for you.  Because, see, he's part black.  

    If he decided, for instance, that everyone will empty their wallets to him (which is pretty much what he is deciding!), then that must be good, and you are likely racist if you oppose it.

    In fact, he decided that every tenth person in the U.S. should be put to death, then that must be good, and you are likely racist if you oppose it.  If he decided that too many pets are bad and people can only own one cat or one dog (or one goldfish), you would be racist if you didn't get rid of your extras immediately.

    In other words, there is no longer any such thing as self-interest.  It is all about Obama now, and if you are against what he wants to do, much less actually go out there and demonstrate your opposition - in town hall meetings, tea parties, or wherever - well, then, you are likely racist.

    These people fail to realize that any racism people may have (and the country just got done demonstrating that it wanted a black president) is completely dwarfed by a person's own self-interest.  If there is a horrible plan at hand, people are going to be passionately against it, on its face.  Obama wants to take over health care (have you read that bill?), and I am totally against it.  Therefore I am racist.

    Cool how that works.

    Obama is not only black, he is infallible!  Self-interest is bad, anyway.  Give everything to the state, you racists you.

    Cynthia Tucker

    Cynthia, you are just making up statistics to fit your agenda.

    with all due respect

    I'd call Cynthia a disgusting turd, but I don't know what a turd's ever done to deserve such a demeaning association.

    Cynthia Tucker

    Hoping Ms Tucker recuses herself from any further news reporting for the AJC.  The weather or movie reviews seem more her forte.  Ms Tucker obviously does not know the difference between her personal (and obscenely racist) opinion and actual facts.