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Omaha Steve

(99,660 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 01:56 PM Jan 2015

Ed board member resists pressure to resign over Obama 'half breed' remarks on blog

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joe Dejka

Gov. Pete Ricketts joined a rising tide of voices Thursday calling on Nebraska State Board of Education member Pat McPherson to resign over bigoted remarks posted on his blog.

McPherson responded with a statement that he does not intend to resign.

“Doing so would be a tacit admission of the false accusations being made that I am a racist,” McPherson said. “I am not.”

McPherson has disavowed the description of President Barack Obama as a “half breed” that appeared on his blog, the Objective Conservative. He said he did not author the five postings containing the term, blaming them on a contributor whom he had allowed to access the site.

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delete_bush

(1,712 posts)
2. His remarks notwithstanding, if for no other reason
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:09 PM
Jan 2015

he should be forced to resign for wearing such a hideous tie.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
3. To be fair, IF he let someone have access to his site and they posted the content that was evil,..
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:12 PM
Jan 2015

...I'd say "Change your damn password and never allow that to happen again".

I'm not always right but I try to be fair and just.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
7. I do agree about the tie. A pair of sissors would solved that problem.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:22 PM
Jan 2015

Of course, it could have been worse >>>>>>
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pangaia

(24,324 posts)
10. Actually, I think this tie has some character.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:34 PM
Jan 2015

And the guy wearing it probable knows it. As apposed to the unknowingly ugly tie on whats-his-face whom I have forgotten already because I served on a just and wrote another post. and.....

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
8. there is a built in irony in any racist attacks on Obama...
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:23 PM
Jan 2015

the most powerful politician in the world must be really hurt when a school board member in Pigfart, Nebraska says racist things about him on his blog that maybe a half dozen people read, and most of them by accident.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
12. I can answer that.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 02:43 PM
Jan 2015

Like every other living human being, he is a descendent of a small, very dark skinned woman who lived in central East Africa about 200K years ago. Considering he's from Pigfart NB this fact would surely send him up Denial.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/evolution/female-ancestor.htm

yurbud

(39,405 posts)
13. and especially in Nebraska, you don't want to disrespect your great great great great great great...
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 03:14 PM
Jan 2015

grandma.

louis-t

(23,295 posts)
17. Wouldn't surprise me to find out
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:41 PM
Jan 2015

the Kochs had something to do with his election to the school board. They do that, y'know.

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