Bitter, Clinging To Guns? Now I Don’t Care About Jews Or Blacks?
September 25, 2008
Florida Rep. Alcee Hastings told an audience yesterday that:
“anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.â€
Earlier in this campaign we heard of Barack Obama describing rural Pennsylvanians as bitter, clinging to guns and religion, showing antipathy toward those not like them. What a huge disappointment.
Now this coming from Rep. Hastings speaking at a conference of Jews and African-American Democrats. Of course this was his demented and perverse way of dissing Gov. Sarah Palin. Why do we have to stand for this? Is this not a double standard? What have we become?
We wonder about our Second Amendment rights and when our own leaders, making the laws and sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, view people who own guns and hunt as uncaring toward Jews and blacks, it is ignorant and stereotyping at its worst.
Is this what we have really been facing all these years in our fight for Second Amendment rights? Have I been so naive to think that it was more about interpretation, fear and dealing with control freaks that I couldn’t see that it’s based on hatred, misunderstanding and stereotyping? Do too many Americans think of gun owners and hunters this way?
Maybe Mr. Hastings should take a page out of Obama’s campaign book, seeings as he is supporting him for president, and realize that he is showing his antipathy and dislike toward those not like him.
It’s all quite disgusting actually and Rep. Hastings gets a free ride!
Tom Remington
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Wow Tom!
Wonder where he picked up on that??
Or something close, from another poster on BBB!
rob newsom Says:
Ok lets hunt but not aerial hunt. ok im done arguing that. now onto that black guy. Obama will get SHOT!!! no matter who wins we got a race war on our hands. obama gets killed blacks get mad, mccain wins blacks get mad, obama wins whites shoot him and blacks get mad. and if mccain wins whites will get severely picked on in the media. but who always comes out ontop? whites. alot of fights and killing sprees will happen in roughly a month and five or six days. it’s coming, get ready!
September 24th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Good point! To some degree George I am at a loss for words in what I am witness to!
So was Lott and his family.
Funny, but way back before he got the nomination, I had either a dream or a vision, (when you get old enough, it’s hard to tell the difference, sometimes) of this, in some fashion, depending on what people do…as everything depends on that anyway! And strange I keep hearing it in different quarters..
Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-Fl), a man impeached, convicted and removed from office as a federal judge for corruption and perjury, had this to say at a panel of African-American and Jewish Democrats, according to Jennifer Rubin of Commentary:
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.
After telling attendees that the most important thing Jewish and African-American Democrats could do to support one another was to get Sen. Barack Obama elected president, Hastings had one more message: “For those of you like me that supported Sen. Hillary Clinton, she lost! Get over it!”
If there were ever time for Barack Obama to show some leadership on race and religion this is it. Will he condemn the comment and banish Hastings from any campaign role? It is time to step up to the plate
Is this a shot across the bow-an implied threat that the relationship between African-Americans and American Jews will suffer if not enough Jewish support is showered upon Barack Obama?
Did Jewish Democrats register any objection to this objectionable statement? No they laughed and applauded at the NJDC meeting. Is this funny- if you hunt and skin moose, you will do worse to blacks and Jews
Jewish organizations have been in high dungeon regarding criticism of Barack Obama but have not only remained silent in the face of anti-Palin smears but, in some cases, Jewish leaders are complicit in spreading them (as Congressman Robert Wexler has in slurring Palin as being a supporter of Pat Buchanan).
David Bernstein writes:
On January 16th, the New York Times reported that “the leaders of nine Jewish groups released an open letter on Tuesday condemning what they called ‘hateful e-mails’ that they said spread lies about Senator Barack Obama’s religious beliefs and his intentions.” As I’ve pointed out before, despite allegations that there was an anti-Obama email campaign targeting the Jewish community, the emails in question seemed to be written for a Christian audience, though they were also forwarded to Jews.
Flash-forward to this Fall. “Lies about [Sarah Palin's] religious beliefs and [her] intentions” are spreading like wildfire through the Jewish community. And this time, it’s not a shadowy email campaign, but prominent bloggers and sometimes Obama spokesmen who are doing the spreading. And this time, Jews are the direct targets.
I’ve noted before false claims, at times emanating directly from the Obama camp, that Palin was a Pat Buchanan supporter in 2000 (she supported Steve Forbes), and that this in turn indicated that she is anti-Israel or even anti-Semitic.
So, if a coalition of Jewish organizations thought it necessary to condemn a false anti-Obama email campaign in January, when the campaign does not seem to have targeted Jews, isn’t it about time they condemn the much more open and blatant campaign of lies directed at Sarah Palin and targeting Jewish voters?