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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I think we're thinking about two different things. I'm focused on how Romney and Palin and other Republicans use the label "Chicago politician" on the stump and at rallies. It's all part of the same "he's not from the heartland, he wasn't born here, his base is made up of welfare recipients, he's urban, he's not like us," commentary that is a roundabout way of saying, "he's the urban black man your mother warned you about."

I understand what it means when you, Coltrane and others from Chicago use it.

It's depressing. But in order for him to get anything done, he needs to put white people at ease. And that's made harder by the Limbaughs and others who are constantly try to turn him into that nightmare black man in the back of so many white people's minds. Can you imagine if Obama's actions after the Zimmerman incident had been what you wanted them to be? Forget getting re-elected. Could he have gotten anything done in office?

Anyway, let's drop it. I don't belong over here anyway.

TM

Yeah. It's Romney saying "all you need to do is look at me; you don't need to see MY birth certificate." I wonder if Bobby Jindal has been frisked or thrown out of the convention center yet?