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If that's not a vicious attack on human dignity, I don't know what is:“If Sarah Palin isn't enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida said at a panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats Wednesday. Hastings, who is African-American, was explaining what he intended to tell his Jewish constituents about the presidential race. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,” Hastings added as the room erupted in laughter and applause.So let's sneer a bit: this black guy is in effect telling his audience that Jews and blacks are like, you know, animals and all.
And they applaud him.
Either that, or he is claiming this as Sarah Palin's position on The Toting of Guns And Other Practical Uses of The Boomstick. That would be defamatory for a start but then again: defamation is the very least you can expect from a Democrat.
It is also particularly stupid, and denotes the man's singular ignorance of what guns and hunting are all about: I mean does Alcee Hastings seriously expect the sane people in the audience to believe that in addition to moose, Sarah Palin also has a taste for Jew burger and black burger?
Yeah, stupid only comes second in the short list of what one can reasonably expect from a Democrat.
In addition to that, considering that nothing in Sarah Palin's deeds and pledges ever hinted at her intention or dedication to have subarctic Jews and black hunting safaris (and, perhaps, redecorate the Oval Office's walls with her trophies) then we can only conclude that Alcee Hastings' appalling paranoid rant is nothing more than plain old projection—and one that adds the third pillar to his address to that so-called "panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats", and perhaps his own character as well:
Defamatory, stupid, and vicious.
Or maybe I'm just being nasty with poor old Alcee, and he just meant to say that since Sarah Palin holds her rank in the food chain, then poor old Alcee logically deduces that she won't be very nice to Jews and blacks. Or something.
For Alcee Hastings and his Merry Band of Applauding Morons that may sound logical—but for the rest of us that's non sequitur at its finest.
While only slightly less vicious and defamatory, it does proceed logically from stupid.
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3784 - Saurus
Saurus Peoples Republic of New York, USA
Move to America, DF. Seriously - we need people who think like you over here, because it appears to me at least half of the people here now don't have a brain in their friggin heads. You probably don't fit in over there anyway, so come on ... help us out, okay?
Would it help if we begged?
3792 - G.W.C.
G.W.C. Colorado
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
3793 - DrJen
DrJen
Thanks for the coverage on this.
I do so wish the Dems would shut up on the race and religion rhetoric. I'm about as endeared to the Dem Party via this lady's statements as I was when BHO went after people who cling to their guns and to religion. You're d*mn right I cling to my guns and to Judaism sitting here in mid-state Pennsylvania!
3794 - 2hotel9
2hotel9 Western Pennsylvania
Hold the mid, Doc! I got the western end and we gots us a sapper in the Allentown area. And remember, when they start screeching "neo-con" at you you got them terrified.
3806 - SPQR
SPQR
Pretty hilarious stuff, coming from someone who was impeached from a Federal judgeship for bribery, as Hastings' was.