2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHaley Barbour would like to see a hot poker on Obama's butt
More respectful language towards the President from the Republicans:
Republican heavyweight Haley Barbour wanted Chris Christie to take a tougher line on President Barack Obama in his speech at the GOP convention, telling a closed-door meeting of top donors he wished the New Jersey governor had put a hot poker to Obamas butt.
While I would love for [Chris] Christie to put a hot poker to Obamas butt, Barbour told backers of American Crossroads last week in Tampa, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. I thought he did what he was supposed to do.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80642.html
get the red out
(13,468 posts)The Republicans have zero class, they are complete boors, disgusting.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)That's called branding ... something done by humans to their livestock and (once upon a time) their slaves.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)What a sorry ass mouth breathing racist...
TroyD
(4,551 posts)That's going to be the question that the political panels discuss when this statement is discussed.
Was this just ordinary disrespectful, ignorant language towards the President from the GOP? Or did it have darker racial undertones?
I've never lived in Mississippi under Barbour so I don't know enough about his history to know if he's done stuff like this before.
Does he have a history of this?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Does saying:
He doesn't remember jim crow being that bad ... or,
that the white citizen's council was a good thing because it served the invaluable role in keeping mississippi free from the racial strife of the civil rights movement, count?
Bad Thoughts
(2,525 posts)Let call it what it is: Barbour fantisizes about committing a sexual crime.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)I guess we should be happy that worthless fool is not on the ticket, although Ryan isn't much better.
DFW
(54,415 posts)Obama is pretty limber and not exactly overweight. Not the easiest moving target to hit.
Christie, on the other hand...........
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)Siwsan
(26,281 posts)To be exact, the hot poker wasn't actually applied TO the butt. It was, well, let's just say that the assasins didn't want to leave any marks.
I'm sure Barbour didn't mean anything like that..................
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,422 posts)Didn't Mitt call for more civility in the campaign a couple of weeks ago? Oh well, I guess that idea was fleeting..........
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)cabot
(724 posts)but it isn't going to happen. Douchebag.