Tuesday, September 8, 2009

That Uppity So-and-So

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) -- whom you might remember as the guy who unseated Max Cleland in 2002, a triple amputee Vietnam Veteran, by conflating him with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein -- today discussed with Fox News President Obama's Wednesday speech to a joint session of Congress on the subject of health care reform:
What you're seeing is folks on my side anxious to see what the president has to say tomorrow night. I think he's gonna have to express some humility based on what we've seen around the country this August and that's not his inclination.
In other words, the crazies in the town halls are winning the health care debate (hah!) and Obama better show some deference to that anger and be humble, except that Obama's an uppity Negro and we don't expect that from the likes of him.

What is amazing to me is the utter lack of awareness at his own racism.

1 comment:

marilyn said...

it just gets crazier. I've been in a Facebook "duel" with two wingnuts who say Obama's speech will be like recruiting the Hitler Youth, and that he is a closet Communist. After a couple of days of trying to make them see that this isn't Germany in the 1930's or America in the 1950's, I gave up and said I would agree to disagree with them. They probably think they won. Whatever.