re: Scalise, Supremacist Conv., David Duke, Stormfront.com... has all the characters

You can't call someone stupid when using graphs based on "author's analysis" that come from a progressive website.

It's comparing tax cuts to a failed jobs program and calling it all tax cuts.

Thats, um, pretty fricking dumb.

I for one love it! Just when Rand Paul tries to show the GOP isn't racist, the truth comes out.

Keep defending hm. PLEASE!

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He wasn't actually at this thing, though, was he?

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Sure:

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Scalise, who was a state representative in 2002, said he was speaking to groups and giving interviews that year because he was one of very few members of the Legislature opposed to the so-called Stelly state tax plan.

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I'm speaking the truth and you can't handle it, there's no hypocrisy here. Franklin Graham is also a racist, but like Farrakhan, he has some redeeming qualities.

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Racists that support your position have redeeming qualities.

Racists that don't, don't.

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I have no use for Graham or Farrakhan. What made you think I did? Just because I'm willing to give the devil his due if he does something good?

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There's no comparison. You're comparing one speech to decades of exploitation of racial grievances, anger and resentment.

One speech. Is there a pattern of racism in Scalise's votes or other actions.

Even the lone La Democrat in Congress an African American, Cedric Richmond, said that he and Scalise have worked for years together and that Scalise has not one racist bone in his body.

So I'm taking all the things Scalise has done over the years, and putting it up against one speech, and I'm supposed to conclude that he's some sort of White Supremacist?

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Well said!

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the perception it's a white man's party. 

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Senator Tim Scott says frick you.

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Too assume that the one party will raise taxes and another party will not is pretty fricking dumb. 

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When was the last time a Republican led Congress or President proposed a tax increase? I'll wait for your answer numbnuts.

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I for one love it! Just when Rand Paul tries to show the GOP isn't racist, the truth comes out.

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Play 1 in the Dem playbook -- Race card

when that wears thin they break out Play 2 -- class envy.

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However, cynically Pretending that Scalise is somehow a white supremacist is dishonest and desperate.

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I haven't seen a transcript of the Scalise speech or video, so I wouldn't call him a white supremacist.

As for Obama 'sitting in Rev. Wright's pew for years', I do have a story about these types of sentiments.

On my father's side, down in Gretna, LA I have (had) 5 aunts and 8 uncles (it was 14 siblings in all). As a young child, I had no choice but to be at all the family functions--family reunions, weddings, funerals, etc. Oh, by the way, this is a black family. You can imagine what I was subjected to: 'Whitey' this, and 'whitey' that. Fascinating, and some, hard to believe stories of abuse, discrimination, and conspiracy theories. For me to say that a spirit of distrust was fostered for white people, would be putting it very nicely. My uncles, who built a fairly good portion of Gretna, would talk about everyone from Sherrif Harry Lee to David Duke etc. Their speech was hateful, prejudicial etc, just bad.

As I grew up, and as they died off (my father, 4 uncles, and an aunt), I still sat, and listened respectfully, without joining in, because my views were different. I understood what their hate and anger was based on, and that allowed me to continue to be respectful. They certainly were not my closest associates. I did not spend my every waking minute with them, but I couldn't just forsake/disavow/ disown them either. They were/are family.

I imagine my experience is not unlike many of you who had older relatives unopposed to segregation, and who also had plenty of hate-filled rhetoric spew at the family table, or when playing spades or dominos (maybe spades and dominos is just a black thing??)

Like most politicians, especially one running for president, Obama first tried to explain his relationship with J. Wright. It' was not unlike any relationship we all have with relatives who have prejudicial, hateful views. You still have to own them. They are family.

Only difference is, after several attempts to do just that, to own him, and not his views, he was finally forced to disown him.

Does that make him a racist? Not even close. Does it mean he endorsed hate-filled speech? Not likely. His words and actions show contrary.

That's why I say I have to know exactly what Scalise said to make a determination either way. I think it is highly unlikely he is racist. The difference, the American public vetted this stuff on Obama, and he came out in front of it, several times, before he even won the primary.

This guy has been elected to a position and is about to take his seat, with no one even knowing about this. Not good

Nice story.
But definitely not an absolution of Obama for attending that shitty church with that shitty race-agitator for all those years.

Now let me tell you a story. It may blow the collective PT mind. I HATED, DESPISED AND LOATHED EDWIN EDWARDS. I HATED, DESPISED AND LOATHED CLEO FIELDS.

Yet when Edwards ran against DUKE, not only did I vote for Edwards, but I actually helped Edwards (through Fields by coordinating a very specific election-day project) enough that I was invited to the Inaugural and to the Edwin Edwards box at the dome for the Saints wild card game shortly after the election. So strong is my loathing of Duke and that racist mindset. It was the one and ONLY time I EVER voted for a Democrat for a State-wide office.