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The Crazy Fool From the Attic Turned Vice President Race Baits

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  August 15th, 2012 at 04:46 AM  | 

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In fairness to Vice President Biden, I supposed I should have a full post for our collective crazy uncle in the attic turned Vice President. The man from Delaware claimed that Republicans want to put people back in chains. Considering there is only one group of people ever put in chains in this country, it is clear he was race baiting. I have no doubt this was orchestrated by the Obama campaign, which immediately is again screaming that the old fool was taken out of context.

It is remarkable that the party that thinks “states rights” is racist code thinks “put you back in chains” is hot and sexy talk. It is remarkable that the party that heard Sarah Palin had a political target list and cried foul would think telling people the GOP will enslave them is okay. It is remarkable that the party that screams bloody murder when you say they are marxists is okay with Joe Biden claiming the GOP will put people back in chains. It is remarkable that the party that screams bloody murder the moment you mention a death panel has no problem saying the GOP wants to put you back in chains. In short, if you use Barack Obama’s middle name, you are a racist. But if you race bait a crowd by telling them Mitt Romney will put them back in chains, Stephanie Cutter, the President’s spokesgal is cool with that. She’s also cool with telling people Mitt Romney killed a woman by giving her cancer and is perfectly cool with lying about her knowledge of Joe Soptic.

Actually, it’s not really remarkable at all. Inciting racial animosity for political gain has been the Democratic playbook since the Democrats were, well, not to put too fine a point on it, putting black people in chains. But I’m sure we are just, again, taking the Democrats all out of context.

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  • jsbrodhead

    If the MARXISTS insist on calling us “RACISTS” – NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, so we might as well wear it as a badge of honor! After all, anything which is in opposition to the reprobate-minded creatures, can’t be all bad.

    Remember the old Dr. Pepper song: “I’m a Pepper, She’s a Pepper, wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper too?”

    Well, substitute “racist” for Pepper and make it FUN! to harass the jackasses.

    The best way to destroy wannabe tyrants, is to laugh at them. Their fragile pea-brains can’t handle it.

  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    of Democrat politician. A guy chosen by the machine because he sounded sincere, he could give a good speech (especially if he plagiarized) and most important of all he was very very stupid.

    The party machine likes that, because stupid, but loyal, politicians are easiest to control. Unfortunately the downside is that they are not very good speaking off the cuff. They just fall back into their cliche’s and name calling.

    Joe is jut a stupid, small minded little man who managed to fool a lot of people for a long time.

  • celador2

    I have read his audience was mostly blacks which means Biden can take their suport for granted. He can not take for granted turnout or other voters’ reactions, however. Coarse Biden made his audience the butt of the joke not Romney or Republican policies to jump the economy with lower taxes and energy jobs.
    .
    Does a voter feel good about the ticket of Obama -Biden after hearing Biden’s talkin’ southern remarks? Will that voter stand in line to vote for such a man with that message?

    The gut reaction of, NO WAY may linger and have a sleeper effect in voting booths.

    Biden brings what state to the ticket? Who does he help GOTV?

    Does Biden hurt Romney-Ryan?

    In the state of VIrginia that is tied, Biden told an audience that Obama – Biden can win NC. This guy has bad karma that lingers in the air.

  • partyof1

    “Essentially, what the other side has decided is that they are going to try to ride fear and anxiety all the way to the ballot box on November 2,”

    -Obama Oct 12, 2010

  • rodguy911

    Most of these comments are not original. Biden is a known village idiot. They all come from the master of astroturfing,triangulation and in this case projection. It’s allDavid Axelrod.
    He is a master at accusing others of doing what he and his party are doing.
    By destroying Medicare SS–gutting 700 billion, and installing obamcare they are truly “chaining” the middle class like no one else.Add in the debt,no budget for three years and all the other little goodies that are seldom mentioned like giving drone technology to iran instead of destroying the wayward drone and many other midnight EU’s of destruciton they are doing the destructio/chaining they are now accusing uf of doing.
    Clasic projection.
    The key here as always is to get the word out as to what is really going on.
    If we explain accurately what propaganda technique they are using how they have nothing to run on except how bad we are, we will have a succcessful camapaign and will win. If not it wil lbe close but we will still win.
    We have Sarah Palin,Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan,they don’t.

  • celador2

    In the early days of the presidential primary campaign 2007, I think, Biden did some reflecting on Hillary and Obama. He said Bill had spent years pushing her for president and could get no more than a third of voters to back her.

    He also made remarks about rookie Sen Obama that got media attention because they were race based Biden got even more media attention clearing the misunderstanings about what he meant.

  • veritaseequitas

    statement referred to as a gaffe. These are not gaffes, these are remarks that are meant to harm people. Harm race relations.
    This administration, not content to merely win the election, is intent on a scorched earth policy.
    Comrade Obama and your despicable posse be damned.

    Note: This is NOT a gaffe.

  • danandsis

    You are dead on about Axelrod being the power behind the throne. So few have recognized the danger this man is to our country.

  • throwback59

    superimpose the phrase “Hoax and Chains?” over it.

  • vamoose

    “I have no doubt this was orchestrated by the Obama campaign, which immediately is again screaming that the old fool was taken out of context.”

    When is Biden ever in context? He’s always rabidly out of context.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Has finally lost his tenuous grip on reality.

  • reclaimit

    That Biden’s “chains” line was referring to banks. Where in Sam heck do they get this stuff? If Old Joe wasn’t using racial code words to pander to blacks in the crowd, then up is now down in Obamaworld. In this day and age, for politicians to be using dog whistle phrases to accuse white men of wanting a return to slavery is beyond pathetic and far beneath the dignity of the vice presidency. This is 2012, and we do, after all, have a half black president. Can you imagine the uproar if Mitt Romney tried to bring the word “welfare” into the campaign? The Dems would be beside themselves, saying the GOP was up to their old Lee Atwater tricks again. Talk about double standards.

  • babykaboomer

    You can actually see it dripping out his nose and ears as he speaks. The whole, sordid, democrat litter – Obama, Biden, Schultz, Pelosi, Reid, et al.- is a cast of con artists whose only real talent is to prey on the weaknesses of trusting people. There is most certainly a choice spot in hell for such devils.

  • fightnright

    are reduced to using vile threats in their desperate attempt to drive voters to the polls.

    Especially sad is Biden’s crudeness when the negative effects of the disastrous Obama economy have already disproportionately burdened the African American community with fewer freedoms and choices.

    Guess the DNC has no shame when it comes to their need to retain power. Even when their power robs their supporters of their last shreds of hope for prosperity and its offspring, independence. The irony of ‘chains’ as metaphor….

  • babykaboomer

    That is excellent!

  • funwithknives

    “…is an Idea, whose Time has come…”

  • gmscan

    The Democrats are purposely inciting race riots if and when Romney is elected.

  • cactusjack

    both have similar facial structures – weak chins and sloped back foreheads, which creates a definite weasel- like appearance. Both of them try to compensate for it by wearing those irritating little mustaches but it doesnt quite work now, does it?

  • funwithknives

    a Patient Saint if there ever was one, could not believe it when I told her of this Mental Ka-noodling last night.

    Then, we sat down and watched the only news program she’ll view ,Bair’s @ 6 pm EDT.
    Not 10 minutes in, it was broadcast and she was 90% plus ready to break out in tears over this. It was UnBelief, pure and simple.

    Now understand, she will not participate, and only will vote. She loathes Politics and most Politicians and only occasionally relents to view such as Mark Levin, Sowell and Charlie Krauthammer.
    ( who, by the way she seems to ‘adore’.)

    But I wanna tell ya’ boys and girls, this one really set her off.
    I use her as a ‘reality barometer’ as I am All Right, all the time.
    Rarely, have I seen this in her.

    In my limited, little world , Joe-Baby seems to have blown it , Large.

    I keep hoping that Progressives will “…open their mouths and remove the doubt…”
    …and in this, I am never disappointed, my Hopes are always rewarded.
    Is there a place I can go to Make Book on that…..?
    Daddy needs the Money.

  • FlyingTigress

    is, imho, an insurance policy.

    “President Biden” is a notion that would disuade a conviction for all manner of impeachable offences, and, frankly serves a purpose more effective than could be accomplished by even 50 SS personnel on POTUS duty.

    As a bonus, he serves as the as-needed ‘shiny distraction’.

    As an aside. I have two friends (“M” and his wife “K”) who are from Delaware. “M” actually admitted that Joe was a known village idiot, but was good at bringing home federal funds – after all, “that’s what they’re elected for”. And, went on to apologize (“M” doesn’t apologize for jack-squat, typically) for having – indirectly – helped put BHO into office by repeatedly re-electing one of the few individuals who could serve the needed functions of “distraction”, “good ol’boy congress-critter” and insurance policy.

  • jaykali

    Bc we are all super confident in Biden’s ability to run the country??

    Anywho Biden, DWS, Axelrod are the most amazing politicians bc they will say anything. They will deny that 2+2=4 all day long. I think the sad thing is that the people who will sway this election do not know who DWS or Axelrod is. They probably know that Biden is a moron. In 2008 they thought Obama was a smart, hopeful guy. I am hopeful now that people see what a cynical guy he is but I don’t know…

  • veritaseequitas

    The other thing I have been seeing in print today is that people are suggesting that Joe Biden has a mental problem and needs to be replaced. There is no mental problem here, this is orchestrated. We do not need Joe replaced with someone else. We need Comrade Obama and his sidekick Plugs to keep digging the hole that they eventually will not be able to climb out of.

    As far as inciting race riots, if the NBPP thinks they are going to put their boot on the necks of Conservatives and Republicans, they better understand they will have a fire fight on their hands that they will not win.

  • gizmo

    You have put in permanent print exactly what so many of us out here in the “real world” have sensed, tried to verbalize, even have spoken out at least to those around us. We’re tired of the PC gang setting the standards of behavior & speech, especially since it is always arbitrary & always dependent upon who’s speaking!
    Great example is this ICE scandal that’s popping it’s almost expected ugly head as I’m writing this….

  • msctex

    That almost cost me a new keyboard, due to spit coffee.

    It’s just harder and harder to believe the Dem ticket in November is going to be the one they offer today. Palin’s comment about adding HRC as VP can easily be seen as a pre-emptive acknowledgment of this.

    The thinking being, if they are going to do it, why not make them agree with their bete noire in the process.

  • irishgirl

    ignorant old coot is a “heartbeat” away from the Presidency.

  • proudmarinemom

    His precise words were, “They’ gonna put y’all back in chains!”

    They = Those Mean Capitalists
    Gonna = Future tense form of “to go” used to sound colloquial
    Y’all = Second person plural form of “I am such a phoney idiot”

    Got that, y’all?

  • izoneguy

    Rudy Giuliani on Joe Biden: ?He?s never been bright. He isn?t bright. Actually, he?s just not very smart.?

  • ctredstater

    don’t you know?

    watch the CBS Romney interview this AM. One of the CBS people, trying to cover for Biden claimed that he said that Romney-Ryan wanted to put the “middle class back in chains.”

    Now I don’t see anywhere where “middle class” was mentioned. It was a clear racial smear. But the state-run media is frantically trying to cover for Their Guys.

    I hope in the convention someone gets off a good line – maybe Christie – about a Pres and Vice Pres who are “so inarticulate” that they require dozens of explanations after they speak so we “know what they meant”. could be a killer of a moment.

  • ctredstater

    nt

  • realfactchecker

    How revealing for Biden to look out at his audience and to envision them back in chains – regardless of who would be responsible. Wake up and smell the racism that lies within him.

  • bk

    But remember, unlike the extensive experience and extreme intellect of Obama and Romney, Palin and Ryan were woefully unqualified to be VP.

  • acat

    The lack of shots at Obama is a pretty accurate indicator of how pathetic the SNL writers are.

    Mew

  • renny

    to see how far the o campaign can take its racist underpinnings. Since Joe dropped this one while we are still in August is a major forewarning of the slime and dross to come.

  • lionelpeach

    Obama, gone. Biden, poof. Pelosi, goodbye …

    Work your way down the chain of command until you get to the guy who fetches coffee, who would certainly do a better job than these hacks. As a bonus he could throw the coffee into Axelrod’s face to stop his disgusting eyebrows from twitching. Yuch!

  • izoneguy

    Dear Sirs,

    The saturday morning rally when Ryan was unveiled as Romney’s choice for VP
    was like saying to me that the prison doors will be open after Nov. 6th.

    Your administration is the one that has “shackled” the American people since Jan 20th of 2009.

    We will be free once again when you are gone.

    Keep be-clowning yourselves until Nov. 6th.
    You guys are going to lose in a landslide.

    Here is looking forward to retirement.
    And President Obama – you are no Bill Clinton.
    Your message is toxic and will not be welcome in America
    after you are kicked out of office.
    Please retire back to Indonesia.

  • chuckie

    after this comment says more than i want to know about black americans.

    when will obama announce that romney the mormon wants to send jewish people to the gas chambers?

    smallpox-infected blankets, anyone?

    i can’t imagine it getting much more disgusting than this, but i’m pretty sure they are going to show me how limited my imagination is.

  • bk

    he reserves the right to revise and extend his remarks.

  • norskie

    You are correct that it would do no good to replace Joe on the Democratic ticket. They are all out of the same mold. However, we desperately need to replace him as Vice President of the United States. Paul Ryan will be a terrific replacement for old Joe.

  • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

    Care to identify the antecedent of the plural pronoun in your last sentence? At least one of us is downright curious.

  • texasref

    That’s one of the best quotes I’ve ever read.

    Biden turns 70 this November. Let’s give the guy a birthday present befitting the fact he has reached social security’s maximum retirement age.

    Erick, you are the best opinion writer on the interwebs. Krauthammer is a close second.

  • rightlane1111

    Oh sure there will be those people who see themselves back in the slavery days…but for many Black Americans…it is becoming increasingly more apparent that Obama and Company is dividing and guess what…many of them don’t like it.

    I know there are die hard Democratic voters that cast their ballot solely on what they see as payback for slavery days…but many of them do not.

    People are getting very, very tired of the RACE…RACE…RACE card and Obama minions, i.e., the press…that back this up are looking like fools. Their statements are incoherent and don’t make the point.

    If Obama ran on “equality”….I think it is about time that he explained his “new” meaning of the word…because the junk that comes out of his press office does not even resemble the word equality.

    Chief Justice Roberts…heads up dear…you might want to consider this in your next ruling!

  • Common_Cents

    Here is today’s WH shedule

    10:15AM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT receive the Presidential Daily Briefing

    Oval Office

    Closed Press

    10:45AM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT meet with Secretary of State Clinton

    Oval Office

    Closed Press

    12:30PM THE PRESIDENT and THE VICE PRESIDENT meet for lunch

    Private Dining Room

    Closed Press

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/today-day_650058.html

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-has-22-days-drop-biden_650014.html

    It would show that obama is in big trouble and clinton joining the ticket would make things tougher for GOP to win.

    If true, of course the DEMS would lie, deny any trouble, and say this was planned a LONG time ago that Biden/Clinton would switch after one term.

  • Common_Cents

    I’d take Biden hands down to limit the damage in comparison.