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[Svartalf]

They don't look to be very good at their job.

They don't look like GI personnel either

[piscator]

GOP Scrambles to Condemn Rancher's Remarks on Race

Offering words of encouragement for a rancher leading an armed standoff against federal rangers turns out to be not so great of a political move – especially when the rancher in question muses publicly about the benefits of slavery.

Republicans – including possible 2016 candidate Rand Paul -- are scrambling to distance themselves from defiant Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after he made startling comments about slavery and African-Americans in a New York Times article published Wednesday night.

From the Times’ Adam Nagourney:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Bundy had previously drawn support from some GOP lawmakers for his clash with the Bureau of Land Management.
After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Bundy and his allies “domestic violent terrorist wannabes,” fellow Sen. Dean Heller countered last week that they are “patriots.” Paul urged Reid to “calm the rhetoric” and criticized the federal government for what he described as an intimidating presence during the standoff. “The federal government shouldn’t violate the law, nor should we have 48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams,” he told a Kentucky radio station.

In statements after Bundy’s remarks, both Paul and Heller condemned his comments.

"His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” said Paul.

And a spokesman for Heller told the Times that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politic ... ace-n88556

[Seabass]

GOP Scrambles to Condemn Rancher's Remarks on Race

Offering words of encouragement for a rancher leading an armed standoff against federal rangers turns out to be not so great of a political move – especially when the rancher in question muses publicly about the benefits of slavery.

Republicans – including possible 2016 candidate Rand Paul -- are scrambling to distance themselves from defiant Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after he made startling comments about slavery and African-Americans in a New York Times article published Wednesday night.

From the Times’ Adam Nagourney:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Bundy had previously drawn support from some GOP lawmakers for his clash with the Bureau of Land Management.
After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Bundy and his allies “domestic violent terrorist wannabes,” fellow Sen. Dean Heller countered last week that they are “patriots.” Paul urged Reid to “calm the rhetoric” and criticized the federal government for what he described as an intimidating presence during the standoff. “The federal government shouldn’t violate the law, nor should we have 48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams,” he told a Kentucky radio station.

In statements after Bundy’s remarks, both Paul and Heller condemned his comments.

"His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” said Paul.

And a spokesman for Heller told the Times that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politic ... ace-n88556

Priceless.

[FBM]

Holy shit...

[Seabass]

Hilarity ensues.


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[Seth]

Yeah, he sure put his foot in it, even though he appears to have been making a philosophical point about the dependent class, welfare, and it's corrosive impact on the black family structure and culture that has mired generations of blacks in dependent poverty.

I think he was more inarticulate and politically un-savvy than racist per-se. As a Mormon living in the hinterlands of Nevada I'm guessing his exposure to blacks and black culture has been pretty much limited to that drive he took and nothing else. He's a fool for poisoning his own well, but then again he's a Nevada rancher, not a public speaker. Maybe he's got a minder now to tell him to shut his yap...like Harry Reid needs.

[piscator]

Yeah, he sure put his foot in it, even though he appears to have been making a philosophical point about the dependent class, welfare, and it's corrosive impact on the black family structure and culture that has mired generations of blacks in dependent poverty.

Of course he was. He just let out a little too much of the attitudes and type of thinking that went into forming that particular "Philosophical point". You can be sure he got them from his father, and passed them on to his children, by God.

I think he was more inarticulate and politically un-savvy than racist per-se.

You left out "government subsidized", "home schooled", and "a product of his environment" in your quest to give him the benefit of every doubt and hand wave the more David Duke-ish bits.

As a Mormon living in the hinterlands of Nevada I'm guessing his exposure to blacks and black culture has been pretty much limited to that drive he took and nothing else. He's a fool for poisoning his own well, but then again he's a Nevada rancher, not a public speaker.

Right. He's a product of generations of government subsidy himself, a member of the dependent class. He doesn't know how to think rationally or properly articulate his thoughts because he's never had to.
Now he thinks he's responsible for feeding his kids, has free run of whatever land he wants, and that African-Americans would be better off picking cotton. Go figure.