RACIST PA SENATOR SPECTER OPPOSES AFRICAN AMERICAN CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
During the 2008 election, PA’s senior senator Arlen Specter exposed himself as the racist he is:
It was hard to believe he was actually saying it, but the words were really coming out of his mouth. Arlen Specter’s, that is, at an afternoon rally for John McCain in Perkasie, Pa., a small town north of Philadelphia. Specter, the senior senator from Pennsylvania, was talking about his “sense” that Election Day in his state was going to be a rude awakening for Democrats, despite weeks of polls showing Republicans lagging far behind in this former swing state. That’s when he let loose with his reason for optimism:
There are a “couple of hidden factors” in this election, said Specter. “The first is that people answer pollsters one way, but in the secrecy of the ballot booth, vote the other way.”
Yes. That is what he said, to a chorus of hopeful affirmation. Arlen Specter was openly — in public, into a microphone — crossing his fingers, and hoping for racism.
That probably explain why he’s the point man for obstructing Barack Obama’s choice for US Attorney General, African American Eric holder:
Before Tuesday, Mr. Specter had been mildly skeptical of Mr. Holder’s his role in the Marc Rich pardon controversy while withholding judgment on how he would vote. But he let loose on the Senate floor with a speech that compared Mr. Holder to Alberto Gonzales, who was forced to step down as attorney general despite close ties to President Bush, criticizing his “ability to maintain his independence from the president.”
That would be the same Arlen Specter who voted to confirm Alberto Gonzalez. The same Arlen Specter who, when it became apparent Gonzalez was a liar and a puppet of the president, was so sure of Gonzalez’s integrity that he refused to put the crook under oath:
While Specter’s refusal to require that Gonzales testify under oath does not shield Gonzales from liability if he said something untrue, it did spare him the inevitable front-page photo of the attorney general with his hand up, swearing to tell the truth, a courtesy that Democrats said was not similarly extended to Clinton administration officials.
At daily Kos, BarbinMD wonders if the conservatives are threatening Specter’s committee assignments or if he has his nose so far up Karl Rove’s pustulent asshole that he can carve his intials in tomorrow’s turd.
i think it’s a lot more simple than that: Specter’s a Republican, the party that has defined itself as the party of racial backlash, what with their “Barack the Magic Negro” songs, their willingness to let New Orleans drown, and its worship of Lee Atwater, who famously said:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me – because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Arlen Specter is a racist, and he is only too happy to attack a qualified African American for any position. I don’t know why anyone listens to this cancerous fool, and I hope to see him defeated in 2010.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am
A racist Republican? How’d that happen?