Comments on: Family “Research” Council: Racism for Sale

By: Raymond Carnation

Raymond Carnation — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:44:36 +0000

Hello,
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By: Ephilei

Ephilei — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:45:56 +0000

I’m not surprised at all they didn’t realize this is racist. If you surround yourself with whites, you have no context to understand what offends anyone else. A reason to purposely expose yourself to diversity.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:21:23 +0000

We had the same runaround with the people who marketed the SockObama sock puppets. Their ignorance about the racial overtones was blinded by their sheer opportunism to make a buck.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:58:13 +0000

Michigan-Matt just doesn’t get it. There’s nothing that ISN’T racist about this.

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:57:32 +0000

Michigan-Matt, You are completely off the rails on this one. Even Bishop Harry Jackson, one of the FRC's Summit participants and sponsors, denounced it as ugly racism.

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:17:43 +0000

Oh, come on guys! This is frickin’ hillary-ous… Obama as a pitchman for waffles… with all the waffling he’s done so far in the campaign? It’s not syrup –it’s waffles you put the AJ syrup on.

It’s dead-on funny. Nothing racist about it. If you want to see real, ugly racism in all it’s glory one only need attend Obama’s former church. Now that’s racial bigotry in daily practice.

Nope, this is just plain ol’ funny and getting our panties in a tight wad isn’t going to change the Obama loss on Election Day. We gotta laugh now because it’s all tears for the next 50 days.

Waffles, not syrup.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:50:55 +0000

Here’s another link about this “product”. The two guys who produced it have connections to Focus on the Family and Tim LaHaye.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/98908/christian_right_voter_summit_sells_racist_%27obama_waffles%27/

By: Jim Burroway

Jim Burroway — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:50:47 +0000

At the risk of shoving this thread further off topic, I can’t help but point out that after Clinton signed DOMA into law, his 1996 presidential campaign bought ads on Christian radio stations to brag about it as proof of his “pro-family” credentials.

I have always found his defense of DOMA as self-serving and not very credible. It boils down to “I wanted to do A, but did B instead, which makes A easier to accomplish than doing A itself.” He often tried that contrarian logic in order to have it both ways on many things he did. I never bought it. Neither should anyone else. That’s the classic definition of talking out of both sides of one’s mouth.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:42:39 +0000

Eddie89, I believe that Bob Barr now reversed his position

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:36:00 +0000

Yes, Clinton signed DOMA and DADT into law, but DADT was after he failed to get rid of the ban altogether, and DOMA may actually be helping states enact gay marriage by removing the fear that it will cross state lines under the Full Faith and Credit Clause.