“That One” … You Know … “The One” … It’s Now ‘Racist’
(Oct. 7: One of many “That One” T-shirts available on Web site Cafepress.com, inspired by John McCain’s comment during Tuesday’s presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn.)
Okay … I am beyond sick and tired of the damn race card being thrown down like some damn back alley card-flip game for crack money by the Obama Comrades.
It’s time someone said it … and out loud. Maybe Gov. Sarah Palin’s balls are big enough to do so.
If all this Obama campaign has to fall back on every time he is judged on his merit and record is to throw down that g.d. over-worn dog-eared race card as a counter to anything said about him then he IS proving himself to be completely void of any substance. Hell, he couldn’t even qualify for park clean up.
So, if I were McPalin every time before I said something about Hussein in a rally speech I would preface it with, “I’m going to say something racist about my democrat opponent …”
The McCain-Palin campaign NEEDS to address this constant nagging about racism RIGHT NOW!
Look at what James Carville and Paul Begala are INCITING right now … Just read:
(CNN Transcript … post-debate)
[ … ]
COOPER: So they’re not going to run a commercial with James Carville saying the dogs are wet bring them in or whatever that — I can’t remember exactly or do the laundry or I can’t remember what it was.
CARVILLE: Let me be clear, I said you can call the dogs and light the fire and leave the house. I think it sounds over.
Now let me be clear here, if Obama goes in this race with a 5- point lead and losing this election, the consequences are — bull, man. I mean I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I think David it’s a point to bring up
But you stop and contemplate this country if Obama goes in and he has a consistent five point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there.
BORGER: I think it’s about age, also, demographics plays into this tremendously. Because if you get a youth vote, race is going to be much less important and this is what the Obama people believe and this is what a lot of pollsters believe.
It really affects older voters much more than younger voters.
COOPER: Paul you were going to —
BEGALA: This is why what Sarah Palin was doing is so dangerous. I love, love, love attack politics, I love it. But she has — at least in the views of the Associated Press, they said her attack on this whole Bill Ayers thing was racially-tinged. That’s not what the Democrats said, this is what the Associated Press said and if harkens back to at the convention.
She had this quote in her convention speech a kind of argued court of the house small towns are good. Well, Buddy Kennedy Jr. look at it up and some of the guy named Westbrook Pegler, who Kennedy described as a fascist and about racist who wrote this about Buddy’s father, Senator Kennedy.
“Some white patriot of the southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies.”
Now, why does this governor have such an affinity for such a hate monger to quote him in her speech? Why is she saying things that at least the Associated Press says is very divisive.
McCain’s Usage of ‘That One’ Sparks Questions of Intent
The only two words anyone may recall from Tuesday’s town hall-style presidential debate –”that one” — could be memorable because of their many different meanings to voters.
(FOX)
John McCain uttered two words that could turn out to be the only ones people remember from Tuesday night’s presidential debate: That one.
But what those words meant is being spun in many different ways.
Halfway through the town-hall-style debate, McCain, discussing a bill before the Senate in 2005, said:
“There was an energy bill on the floor of the Senate loaded down with goodies, billions for the oil companies, and it was sponsored by Bush and Cheney,”he said, turning the tables on the Obama camp’s continuous attempts to link the Republican candidate to the unpopular president and vice president.
“You know who voted for it? You might never know. That one,” he said, pointing to Obama, who was sitting on a stool several feet away. “You know who voted against it? Me.”
The GOP candidate’s dismissive manner in saying that one generated much talk afterward about what McCain meant.
For some, it was nothing more than McCain pointing at his opponent and saying that Obama was the one who voted with Bush.
But for others, the expression represented something sinister: a suggestion that that one — Obama — is not like the rest.
That undertone wasn’t lost on critics who have watched the McCain campaign attack Obama’s associates and relationships, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers, rather than his policies in the last week.
“To my knowledge, I have never heard that used as a common phrase before,”said University of California-Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff.
“The phrase was meant to say, ‘You and I are in the same area, but he’s the outsider,’” Lakoff continued. “It’s the political equivalent of what (Sarah) Palin said the other day, which is, ‘He’s not one of us.’”
That one may also be the raging yang to a yin offered by the McCain campaign over the summer, when, in an ad, it compared Obama to Moses and mockingly suggested that the Democrat was “The One”who is hoping to achieve a messianic image and celebrity status.
University of Richmond Director of Debate Kevin Kuswa said that one probably grabbed the collective conscience because it was one of the very few “unfamiliar lines from the debate.”
Kuswa said that because of the town-hall format, the candidates were merely repeating their talking points.
“If these were more direct debates — in which candidates can ask each other questions directly — we would have more content material in our brains the next day,” he said.
“Any thing that stands out becomes magnified and more significant as people’s attention spans become shorter,”he said.
Kuswa added that individuals have homed in on the phrase because they can seize no other “defining gaffe” or “moment of total awkwardness in the presidential debates thus far.”
Whatever the intent, the description had caught on Wednesday among both Republicans and Democrats. Almost immediately after the debate, pro-Obama Web sites sprang up proudly describing Obama as “That One.”
The Republican National Committee also tried to have a little fun with the comment, calling that one the “most memorable line” of the debate and saying it plans to make use of the phrase in the coming days.
Obama campaign aides called the phrase “odd” and said it depicted the Arizona senator as “angry.” One aide characterized the phrase as McCain’s “get off my lawn moment.”
“It reminds you that McCain is sort of angry and agitated. He looked uncomfortable,” said Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs.”I guess the pillow seat wasn’t soft enough. He stood and walked around.”
Senior adviser David Axelrod said the phrase suggests McCain is “a little bit irascible, a little bit peevish.”
“Last time we had the debate, Senator McCain didn’t want to look at Senator Obama, and he made this reference today,” Axelrod said after the debate.
A McCain campaign aide said she doesn’t know what the hullabaloo is about over McCain’s use of the phrase. The candidate has often singled out Obama that way.
“I’m shocked that at a moment of national crisis, where our economy is on the minds of every single person, I am shocked that they are again proving to be the fussiest campaign in American history, McCain adviser Nicole Wallace told reporters after the debate.
In an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America on Wednesday, Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden dismissed questions about the implication of singling out Obama as that one.
“I think when John knows he’s sort of in attack mode, it’s always kind of difficult to look the other person in the eye and say, ‘It’s you, John, it’s you, Barack, it’s you, Harry,’” Biden said, noting that McCain’s camp has gone on defense. “I think it reflects his more — he’s ill at ease with the attack he has under way.”
Kuswa said he suspects McCain most likely meant to use the expression in a non-hurtful way.
“I’m not sure I would consider it a gaffe. It might have been a slip,” Kuswa said.
“It struck me during the debate as unexpected. I don’t think McCain intended to be disrespectful, but it certainly sounded dismissive at the least — and if we’re concerned about how each candidate is referencing each other, I think saying that one is certainly below using one’s first name in terms of respect,” he said.
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Funny thing… I don’t recall reading anything about UC Berkeley “linguistics professors” going on at nauseating length about The One’s “lipstick on a pig” comment. Must’ve missed that one.
You do know which comment I mean, right? Yeah - that one.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pmWell, if he was debating Hillary he might have asked “witch one”.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:14 pmAs a matter of fact, I saw one today.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pmHe happenes to be one of my best friends at work.
A great Christian man.
And he saw me too.
Peek-a-Boo, I see you!
Brilliant.
October 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pmsounds like military tone. At bootcamp our DIs used terms like “weird one,” as in “get the fuck over here weird one,” to the recruit who wasnt doing what he was supposed to.
“One” or being “that one” is a condescending notion in military life - it means you aren’t a team player.
Just thinking out loud
October 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pmAh, yes.
I had to hear about the big insulting “that one” comment at work as well. It is amazing how Obama can say and do no wrong. He can debate McCain and refer to the sitting President as “your President” - as if he is not the President of the entire U.S.A. and that disrespect is just fine with the obamabots. He can call McCain by his first name with a smirk on his face as if to say, “go away old man”. He can show disrespect to our military with misleading and outright lies about their conduct and performance and then turn around and sing their praises after months of these false statements. He can show disrespect to our military and their families when wearing a bracelet of a fallen hero and have difficulty recalling the warrior’s name in a cheap slap at McCain. It was after all just another prop for the empty messiah. As was already mentioned above he made his nasty little lipstick comment and it was absolutely crafted to insult. I am sure there are many more times he has shown outright disrespect but I cannot cover them all. The guy is as transparent as hell itself! The obamabots are too blinded with their undying love to see anything at all. Disrespect only goes one way with them.
I am beyond sick of listening to anything they have to say.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:02 pmBTW–I call him “That Little F@cker”– *bless his heart*
October 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pmHell YEA the site is back up….need to get my fix
BTW anyone see the new South Park?
October 8th, 2008 at 6:59 pmWhen these deviants call me racist, fascist, sexist, or any host of tired, excuse making “progressive” gotcha phrases, I smile and wear it as a badge of honor.
Because I know then the cowards have run out of talking points and are now reaching critical mass of implosion…
October 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pmDidn’t Pres. Clinton use “that” line FIRST… “I did not have sexual relations with THAT WOMAN.” No cries from the dems when slick willy lied to the whole world then. In psych. terms, this from the media is called PROJECTION. It’s when you acuse some one of doing something, cause you are guilty of it youself…
October 9th, 2008 at 8:53 amThe bottom line, Obama can’t win without paying the race card.
If he’s elected the race card will be payed until he get his way.
Obama is a racist spoiled child, just like his wife.
Under no circumstance should we stop speaking truth. That is what he wants to stop.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:55 am“That Little F@cker”– *bless his heart*
ROFLMAO..
October 9th, 2008 at 12:51 pmAh geez. I mean I remember him saying that and I paused a little. However it wasn’t because of race. It was because he didn’t say his name. Who cares who it was. I would have felt the same way about anyone. It just seemed “lowbrow” only, not racial. I mean if there are black folks out there that identify with THAT ONE in this particular arena, then they need to check their confidence.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:04 pmHowever if he EVER said THOSE PEOPLE, then I’m sorry, that’s when the gloves are officially off. No matter my political views.
But why hasn’t anyone spoke about when McCain slipped and said my fellow “prisoners” in a recent speech? No color attached there. Possible Freudian slip to reflect our economy?
October 9th, 2008 at 1:06 pmBarry has no skin, except for a bad mask. He can’t handle harshness of any kind. He couldn’t handle a real job in a 2-man shop.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:04 pm“That One.” A clear reference to Baraq’s hat size, nothing racial about microcephly. Nor was Senator McCain joking.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:35 pmThey can play the race card all they want. All they’re doing is enhancing the Bradley effect.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pmFor some reason tonight I clicked on your name and was directed to your blog. After reading your last entry, I wanted to respond on here, in Dollard Nation. One of the greatest blogs on the net with many, many vets and those that love them. Knottie, may God Bless You and keep your family safe. You’re son gave the ultimate sacrifice for his country, and our hearts and our prayers are with you for you also paid that price.
* * * *Never Forget* * * *
October 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pmPretty soon, saying “hey y’all” will be racist.
It’s the democrats that perpetuate the whole racial tension that’s supposed to exist between us. It’s a load of crap and they can’t survive without racial tension.
Bunch of crap
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October 9th, 2008 at 9:32 pmI thought McCain was being ironic. Obama is known as The One. So McCain called him That One.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:30 amIf someone has really bad teeth, you say, “I guess he never went to the dentist very often, bless his heart.”
Yepp..Nobama is a Little F*cker, bless his heart.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:53 amI applaud John McCain.
Every time Barry would ‘Not” answer a question from the audience or moderator, he didn’t say.
“Nigga Please”.
Now that would have been racist but if both candidates were African/Americans that would have been ok.
This just goes to show you, we have a lot of work to do here in America of ridding ourselves of domestic terrorists.
I am not a rascist. There is only one race as far as I am concerned and all 5 billion of us were made in his image.
There of course are circumstances that may make one feel they are being discriminated against. I’m Scottish/Irish red bloodied Americam. Can’t get too confused with that bloodline. My ancestory were slaves when they migrated to New York looking for Freedom.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:55 am