Congressman Calls Hussein “A Snake Oil Salesman” - Update: Congressman Apologizes For Calling Hussein “Boy”
Geoff Davis in Iraq
‘That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button’
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From Politico:
U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a “snake oil salesman” [at a Northern Kentucky Lincoln Day dinner].
He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a “highly classified, national security simulation” with Obama.
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button,” Davis said. “He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
Congressman Jim Bunning used an even harsher description.
“The people we’re fighting against now are worse than Adolf Hitler and Nazis. And we don’t know where they live, half of them,” Bunning said.
The Republicans specifically skewered Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, perhaps as a signal that they expect — or hope — that he is that party’s nominee against McCain.
“I fear the two Democrats, one in particular, is incredibly naive,” McConnell said, adding that five years ago when the U.S. Senate voted to go to war in Iraq, Obama was in the Illinois state senate. “This is the big leagues now. At what point do you turn off the demagoguery and become a serious, responsible leader?”
Davis, at home
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“That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button”
That quote made me cringe. Did he REALLY have to call him a boy?
I mean I agree with him but come on, you’re just throwing fuel on the Rev. Wright’s message by calling a grown man a boy.
I don’t care how much you disagree with Obama, there is no need for that.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pmYeah it is soooo easy to bust obama’s balls without the
April 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pmrace thing.
Fuck the PC bullshit. If he starts acting like a man, he won’t be called a boy. He can call him a boy all day long, as far as I’m concerned. I’m tired of following PC rules that apply to one side, but not the other. If you think the Congressman is a racist for using the word “boy”, then say it. If he’s not, then who cares?
April 14th, 2008 at 12:58 pmI live in a tri-state area. southeast indiana, southwest ohio and northern kentucky. I was just right by hebron on Saturday. Calling someone boy is just a word around that area. country boy, farm boy, good ole’ boy. I dont exactly think thats a racist term at all.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pmboy? nah… maybe if he called him an oreo or something then it would be racist. my hunch is that its a refrence to is age and immaturity.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:11 pmKurt, that’s all he meant by it. There’s no reason we should all have to walk on egg shells, those mental degenerates don’t deserve the extra thought required. After all, some of us are just knuckle-dragging Pennsylvanians.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pmReminds me of an incident: working for NASA,1960’s Apollo program,
April 14th, 2008 at 1:22 pmA black guy who worked with us had some success fishing,and was showing photos of the fish he caught,someone said “boy,that’s a big one” He got all worked up about it…
John
exactly. sure there was a time when the word boy was used as a racial term but only when used that way. im sure it was obvious when it was too. I dont play into the race game and the word boy is just a word to me. Im living in the present and not the past.
and i can relate to Pennsylvania, i love going there, it always feels like i hardly even left home.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:36 pmArlieghB - Reminds me of one time about 20 years ago I was at a party full of kids ages 18 - 25, I guess - Being the outgoing one, I was organizing a game a guys against girls sort of thing - where people had to take positions in different parts of the room. There was one black guy at the party. I was grabbing people by the arm and saying okay - I need a boy here and a girl here . . . When I grabbed the black guy and said okay “boy over here” . . . he got mad - The entire room made fun of my lack of sensitivity . . .
Ridiculous.
But Mike in Dallas is right - that “boy” part is all they will hear.
April 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pmStop it! Boy, kid, greenhorn, who cares? This is exactly why
April 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pmObama will not be President. Four to eight years of everything is racial/racist. A bill is opposed: that’s because Republicans don’t want a black man to succeed. Cave.
Do not let yourselves be diverted. My husband’s reaction to seeing O. on tv for the first time was “There is no way that kid can be President.” Boy is just the right word. Courage.
Umm…
Calling a black man a “boy” is a hair’s breadth away from calling him a **gg**.
Hussein is so busy hanging himself with his own brand of racism, let’s not tease the media camera away from his own idiocy by one-upping him in the stupid contest.
Geoff Davis may have had a good point to make, but the manner in which he made it just flipped his position from authority to suspect.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pmShit … {yawn}
I STILL don’t want his fucking finger “on the button” … even if it’s to ease his perceived hurt feelings. “Oooo, let’s give Obama a turn because it’s only fair … Ooooo …”
The guy has been riding the ‘black’ candidate wagon for weeks now since the Rev. Wright bullshit hit the fan. So, he’ll take some sort of misunderstood racial offense to Davis using a gender related friggin’ NOUN?
Shit … {yawn}
April 14th, 2008 at 5:47 pm‘I don’t care how much you disagree with Obama, there is no need for that.’
Why
People need to get over their over-sensitivity or we won’t have a language to use. At the rate were going we’ll be back to grunting at each other within 50 years. What the fuck is next…..he looked at me wrong!
Grow some balls and get on with life!
April 14th, 2008 at 7:01 pmThe nation is fu*ked if O’Bambam wins. But he won’t.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pmPeople would vote for a black in an instant if he or she had integrity. I would. Heck, I already did years back. Alan Keys. What ever you may think of Keys, he is light years ahead of the young-man (boy) O’Bambam.
To many people took offensive to senators language. If he wasn’t from the south those comments wouldn’t be that big of a deal. The word “Boy” is used alot in the south to refer to friends and peoples juniors. my dad would come in to my house when in was 20 a ask me “What are you up to boy” he didn’t mean it an any kind of hurtful way. my friends would say stuff like “that boy knows his shit” and would refer to another white male. This country is being eaten away from the inside by these libral bastards.
April 14th, 2008 at 7:42 pmThat boy is no boy he’s a girl. get it straight! (pun intended)
April 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm