Anonymous ‘Bush insider’ calls Obama ‘uppity.’
Anonymous ‘Bush insider’ calls Obama ‘uppity.’
In his Playbook this morning, Politico’s Mike Allen relays “a Bush insider’s prescription” for how Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) can change the dynamics of presidential race. The McCain campaign needs to drive “out the range of contrast that makes McCain different from Obama,” said the insider, whom Allen refers to as “one of the smartest Bushies.” Giving examples of those contrasts, the Bushie then used the racially-load term “uppity” to describe Obama:
“The tactics that got them to mid-September in a tie are not going to get them to 50 percent plus one in November. They need … an eye toward driving out the range of contrast that makes McCain different from Obama (action-oriented rhetoric v. grand prose; accessible v. uppity; humble servant of country v. arrogant).”
This isn’t the first time a Republican insider has used the racial epithet to refer to Obama. Last month, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) told reporters that Obama and wife, Michelle, were part of “an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.”
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I’m sure that we’ll see more of these racist code-words from the Grampy Camp over the next few weeks.
These people are disgusting and have no honor.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:34 amI think the problem the repubicans are having, is they are having a tough time defining Obama as an uppity elitist. After all the guy grew up middle class in Hawaii, not the son and grandson of Navy Admirals. Obama has been married to the same woman for 19 years, and knows how many houses he owns. McCain can’t say the same thing.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:36 amYeah, that’s the ticket, uppity as if Obama had seven mansions.
¶ AIO
September 21st, 2008 at 11:42 amThe racist asswipes, who won’t vote for Obama because he’s black, are already firmly in the corner of the Straight Jacket Express(TM). Calling Obama “uppity”, at this point,is merely preaching to the choir. I doubt they’ll win over non-racists by calling him uppity or using other racist code words.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:42 am…the insider, whom Allen refers to as “one of the smartest Bushies.
Oh, please. We know he’s talking about Rove.
And if Rove is pushing this “uppity” line, it’s an acknowledgement that they’re running behind.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:47 amThis “anonymous” person (i.e. coward) thinks McCain is accessible? That’s too funny- lately all he does is shield himself from any media he doesn’t like, and Palin from any media at all.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:48 amAnd with 7 homes, 13 cars, McCain sounds more snooty/elitist than anyone.
Everybody using the code word “uppity” should be labeled as the racists they are and their careers should be permanently tarnished because of it. A list needs to be made and for all future campaigns anybody who played this came should be known as an on the record racist.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:50 amone of the smartest Bushies
Allen still suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, I see.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:52 amSarah Palin’s religious ties are scarier than we thought. Here’s a link to an in depth look at the religious sect she belongs to and how involved her church in Wasilla is.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:53 amsatirev, you have been doing your homework girl. I give you an A+ and thank you for all the great links you’ve been putting up.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:54 amGreat – by all means, do exactly that.
Show those who are undecided why you people are unable to unite this divided country.
Show them how you are so obsolete that you use phrases from the 1960’s when “negroes” were supposed to consider themselves submissive to your lily white self.
Show them how desperate you are to win, no matter how low you are willing to sink to get your way, because you simply cannot win on any honorable or honest approach, and certainly not on the merits of the issues.
Show them how marginalized and irrelevent Conservative ideology has become to a nation that is losing global respect, is in finncial ruin, and is falling apart at every last seem.
Please, show them.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:55 amWho is going to call on McCain to put a stop to this racially charged language. **crickets** b
September 21st, 2008 at 11:57 amAnd while they’re at it they need to tell him to stop using his BS town hall meeting disappointment for all the lying his campaign has been doing.
The Pukes cannot, for some reason, bring themselves to say “If you’re a true Murkin, you cannot vote for a Kneegrow.”
It is the sub-text of everything they do and say.
And Middull Murka understands perfectly.
And will vote accordingly.
Murkins will be satisfied that they have answered the world’s criticisms of endemic racism by the fact that Obama got the nomination of a major party. Middull Murka is NOT gonna elect a an ‘uppity’, young, black dude with a funny name (or who has “Hussein” anywhere in his name) to be ITS preznint…
September 21st, 2008 at 11:58 amKrazny Says: I think the problem the repubicans are having, is they are having a tough time defining Obama as an uppity elitist.
I agree. If anyone is out-of-touch, it is McCain who has never spent a day of his life in the real world, got into the Naval Academy due to nepotism, has been living off government hand-outs for his entire career, is married to a woman so rich she can afford $500,000 outfits, and has not one clue to what its like to pay $5 a gallon for gas.
Obama knows EXACTLY what we feel. It’s evident in all of his speeches. He has real pasion for the middle-class, while McCain has some prepared and rehearsed poor attempt at relating.
McCain simply doesn’t get it.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pmAnd this most heinous troll who steals the name of an honorable war hero is about as ignorant as they come. And he’s proud of it. FLAG HIM just because he’s stupid and it might be contagious.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:00 pmThe last week has tied mccain firmly to the failures in the bush economy and Obama has taken a double digit lead in every poll except fox….even there he has an 8 point lead.
Desperation is all we are seeing. Republicans have no low point beyond which they will not stoop to win and so they are playing the race card.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pmWhen all else fails, appeal to their base instincts of racism.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm#26, satirev Says:
unbelievable: I can’t believe the total missteps of McKeating’s campaign.
And he’s tied (within moe) or ahead just about everywhere.
I just cannot imagine how that could happen…
I’m so confused…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pmJohn Kerry Says: So???????????
I thought it was a violation of TP’s rules to use the persona of another living person?
September 21st, 2008 at 12:04 pmdumb as a rock vs intelligent
temperamental vs. calm and cool
old as dirt vs young and vital
for “we the people” vs for “us the corporations and lobbyists”
Two can play the same game.
Apparently they have not figured out that “we the people” are sick and tired of his ugliness.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pmMcCain = 7 homes and 13 cars
Obama = 1 house and 1 car
Who the Fu$%^ is uppity?????? Who is grounded? We’re not that stupid as the Repubublicans think we are!!!!
We’ll prove it in November.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:06 pmsatirev Says: They still believe in the antiquated media model where the election would take place before the lies could be aired. No more. The people find the lies almost immediately.
Yet another fact that the undecided should notice.
I think we’ve seen that theMSM is very easily influenced by viewer opinion of them.
When the Cons cried that the were too liberal, they became even more conservative than they already were.
Now that the grassroots internet information age is pointing them out as too biased, they’ve begun to point out some of McCain’s lies.
Pathetic that our news is a popularity contest controlled by ratings and opinion rather than integrity and facts. No surprise that is voting for McCain at all.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pmIt’s sad there is still people around with such low intelligence as to be racist. These are not the type of people that should even have a chance to run this country. And those that follow them are sad excuses of the human race.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:07 pmtokin librul Says:
The kind of racist you speak of has been a republican since 1964 and were going to vote republican anyway.
Anyone who says they are a liberal today and yet let race be the deciding factor was never a liberal or progressive and has had to distance themselves from democrats for that reason alone.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pmFrom Allen:
A Bush insider’s prescription for McCain: “I would look to make a set of unconventional moves: ‘Here is my first 100-day economic agenda. Here is my first-term economic team. Here is how we should be measured by the American people.’ You could dominate multiple news cycles with some boldness.”
And who but Rove would offer these insights?
Cheney?
Addington?
Who’s left?
September 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pmWe all know racism exists in this country and we all know there are a lot of Americans who won’t vote for Barack because of his skin color but bringing up the race card will only help McCain.
One more thing, if you go to republican blogs many of them whine about Barack supposedly playing the race card yet it’s alright for them to cry ageism or sexism whenever anyone points out the obvious about gramps or that Sarah has a vagina.
The sheople on the reich don’t get that McCain has played them. The ONLY reason he picked Palin is because she is a woman. The stories about her being a reformer or an outsider is rubbish. She is just the new face of the old corrupt republican party.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pmHe’s not tied with Obama in any polls.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:16 pmJohn Kerry Says
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YOU are an ignorant racist PIG and those are your best qualities.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pmSlightly O/T:
Oh dear, oh dear, the sky is falling, the sky is falling.
Oh dear, oh dear, the stock market is falling, the stock market is falling…
The latest gift of $700 Billion dollars to the ruling class, the so-called “bailout” – the $700 Billion dollar one -is just a massive theft from the poor and the middle classes to our ever-greedy ruling class. We need to demand a return to stiff and comprehensive regulations of our financial markets, first. Second, we need to demand that all these greedy incompetent (sic) CEOs be fired immediately without any “golden parachutes.” This bailout/gift should be paid for by a special surcharge on the incomes of the wealthy top two percent, since they are largely benefiting from it.
This whole show is rigged by the Bush & Co. gangsters. Just more fear-mongering by the Bush corporate crime family. The financial system is not collapsing, just because some of the bigger greedier financials got hoisted on their own petards. We should also demand that bank credit card and rates and bank mortgage interest rates be cut in half before any bailout of the top players… The Bush gangsters just want to hogtie Obama for 2009…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:18 pmI’m just waiting for some GOP hack — or Huggy Bear himself — to drop the N-word:
September 21st, 2008 at 12:19 pmThe Democratic nominee’s a ni–GONG!
Fred sez: The kind of racist you speak of has been a republican since 1964 and were going to vote republican anyway.
Anyone who says they are a liberal today and yet let race be the deciding factor was never a liberal or progressive and has had to distance themselves from democrats for that reason alone.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I am not talking about declared Pukes. I’m talking about the vast, sweaty, stupid, bovine, drooling, American-Idol/Vince McMahon/MickeyD’s MIDDULL.
True liberal/progressives amount to no more than about 10-15 percent of the population in the whole country.
Mebbe you don’t have to worry about them voting right (thought they’d have reason to be nervous about The Great Mocha Hope, imho: think “Robert Rubin” (e.g.)…) But all the rest are at issue. The McC(umst)ain campaign consists entirely of giving (white) voters (plausibly deniable) racial reasons for NOT voting for Obama. They don’t have to win the votes themselves, only to dissuade MIDDULL Murkins…Which ain’t that hard to do…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:23 pmOval12345678 aka James K. Sayre Says:
If Wall Street gets away with this, it will represent an historic swindle of the American public.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pmFred sez: He’s not tied in any polls.
But Fred cannot or does not read:
POLLSTER.COM HEADLINES
FL: McCain 46, Obama 45 (R2K-9/15-18)
Posted: 09/21/2008
Research 2000 / Florida Times-Union /…
OH: McCain 48, Obama 42 (UCincinnati-9/12-16)
Posted: 09/21/2008
University of Cincinnati / The Ohio…
NC: Obama 46, McCain 46 (PPP-9/17-19)
September 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pmPosted: 09/21/2008
Public Policy Polling (D) 9/17-19/08;…
You know they say uppity n_____ among themselves, I am waiting for them to slip up. You know it’s on the tip of their tongue
September 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pmHow dare any self-respecting journalist grant anonymity to race-baiters. Journalism like this is a central part of how Bush is able to destroy the country.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pmFury at $2.5bn Lehman bonus
Nomura and Barclays table bids today for US giant’s London operation as bank’s administrator likens collapse to Enron
Democrats are pressing to require that the plan help more strapped borrowers stay in their homes and to condition the bailout on new limits on executive compensation.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:31 pmtokin librul Says:
Who’s side are you on?
Even fox’s sunday morning so called news shows Obama with a 6 or 8 point lead.
obama 73/ mccain 26
Obama 276/mccain 265
You get truth only when you look for it.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pmOh lawd, dey gonna tro him in da briar patch again…
September 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pmEnough with the cowardly anonymous sources! If they aren’t willing to have their names published with their comments (even when praising the Bush Administration!), then their comments should not be printed at all. This is not journalism they practice at Politico.com, it’s Republican propaganda.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:51 pm#17 satirev , thanks for the newsweek link , those 3 NEV’s may look like a responsible “green” purchase but judging by their age , MY 2000 , they were probably bought during an ” alternative energy ” tax credit boondoggle in Arizona and the taxpayers most likely paid a large chunk or all of the cost.
September 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pmTrue liberal/progressives amount to no more than about 10-15 percent of the population in the whole country.
-tokin librul
I would say they amount to somewhere in the neighborhood of 60% or more. On issue after issue Americans agree with the liberal position. Conservatism is way out of the mainstream. Why do you think McCain was against his party on some important issues up until a few years ago? Simple answer: he wanted to be seen as mainstream.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:03 pmTotally agree, Wayne. The only time an anonymous source should be used is when identification would leave the life or livelihood of that source in danger.
Like most other elements of the media, Republicans have figured out a way to game the system and get their talking points repeated with almost no risk to themselves or the credibility of their message. And the lapdog press plays right along.
Sick bastards.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:05 pmMcCain continues to talk about Obama in tones of “I can’t believe I have to run against this guy.” and “Who does he think he is?”
September 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pmWright, Ayers, Rezko, celebrity, haven’t made a dent in Obama yet. They’re old news now, so I don’t see how McCain can use them anymore, so they have to step up the lizard brain Rovian racist mode. They have nothing else. The rotting fish of the Troopergate scandal continues. The sugar high of Sarah Palin has waned. They’re panicking. Palin and McCain will not perform as well as their opponents in the debates. Palin changed the format so she doesn’t have to meet Biden head-on. The questions will be from the panel – easier for her to prepare for.
It’s amazing to still hear people say, after daily lies, obfuscation and inaccessability from the McCain and Palin, “I don’t know. There’s just something I don’t trust about Obama.”
I think I know what it really is…
Is Floyd Brown involved? He relishes this sort of racism. He brought us the Willie Horton ads.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:28 pmI really think an asterik needs to be put by this –
If the person who says ‘uppity’ is over 45 and from the south, then the chances are they know that the term is ‘racially loaded.’
Otherwise, I had no idea ‘uppity’ was a racial epithet and I asked a few other people in my age range (25-35) and they didn’t know either.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:52 pmI am from the deep south and the only time the word “uppity” is ever used is to negatively describe someone who is black.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm.
“R” is more than Juat for Republican…
“R” is for RACIST too…
.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:48 pmWise up, folks, the Republican Party is a pack of butchers run by the degenerate, Godless Zionists. Crucifixation, anyone?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm[...]said the insider, whom Allen refers to as “one of the smartest Bushies.”
Being called “one of the smartest Bushies” is barely a compliment, when not openly insulting.
The McCain camp should just use the word “uppity” openly, and should also tell Obama to “know his place”; that way they will remove any lingering doubt of where they stand on racism.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:50 pmAllen is talking to someone whose nickname is a flower that grows in cow shit paddies.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 amrepublicanSScareme Says:
Crucifixation, anyone?
September 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
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A crucifixation is what Palin and her rapture-ready disciples have.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 amFred, you really should go look at Pollster yourself. It has ALL of the current polls, not just one, and it evaluates them all. It’s a very handy site. (e.g. in the Rasmussen poll that came out today, Obama is 1 point ahead of McCain, which is sure to be within uncertainty.)
This is way to obvious to be a dogwhistle. So I think you guys are right that it has to be a cater to the racist base. How appalling.
And no, no asterisk is necessary. Whether you’re aware of the history or not, “uppity” can only really mean one thing (someone getting above his or her “place”), and in the context of a black man that is more than just classist. The only reason a person would think it must come from a racist sentiment in this context. Besides, if you say something racist, even if you’re ignorant of the fact that it has a historically racist association, people hear what you say in cultural context. *Words* (and phrases and images, etc.) can be racist even if you don’t intend them to be.
I strongly disagree with the 60% liberal estimate. That’s labeling everyone who isn’t extreme far right as liberal, which just doesn’t make sense. “Liberal” party politics has shifted so far center-right in response that most people who consider themselves liberals don’t feel represented by the Democratic party anymore. So I’d say, maybe 60% of the country is left of extreme-right-wing, sure.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:36 am