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| Rep. Keith Ellison is an African American Democrat from Minnesota who is a Sunni Muslim. Ellison has spoken out against racial profiling within the Black and Hispanic community. He was very vocal against the "radical Muslim" hearings by Islamophobic Rep. Peter King (R-New York). |
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is a controversial figure in U.S. politics. After suffering a major setback in the Republican presidential nomination race, Bachmann now focuses on her chances at retaining her congressional seat. After Minnesota legislators approved a controversial voting redistricting, Bachmann is facing an opponent within a heavily Democratic district. So instead of competing in this district, she takes her case to another district and hopes on a long-shot victory in a district that leans Republican. Her latest brush with controversy is the comment her fellow Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado) used during a radio interview.
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| Conservatives up in arms over Rep. Ellison's retweet of a supporter's view of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney. |
For the right to get riled up about this Twitter posting is funny. There's plenty of extremely offensive things online conservatives say about the first Muslim to be elected in U.S. Congress. Nevermind the fact, that most online chatter from those in the conservative movement is far worse. Nevermind the whisper campaign about President Barack Obama being a Muslim, by those in the conservative movement.
You notice the pattern of disrespect shown to the president, in the mind of a conservative is considered patriotic by some! Even those in the media such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck parade themselves as patriotic Americans fighting against the perceived tyranny of a liberal government (aka Black president)!
Unfortunately, they're still stuck in the past. They still got a lot of work to do in order to catch up with the rest of society. The facts are shown that the Republican Party is having real trouble courting minorities, GLBT and those who practice in Islam.
Just about 86% of the Republican Party is solely white. The party is mostly catered to men. It's beginning to look like an "all boys club" with a few "Blacks, Latinos, Asians and handful of women!"
This controversy is ridiculous. This is grasping for straws again.
You got to admit, Mitt Romney does come off as a douchbag! And that's not a product of President Barack Obama or Congressman Keith Ellison. That's coming strictly out of Romney's own Republican Party.
Here's a taste of the conservative outrage! A reminder: To those who share bigoted views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings. My question to you!
For those who criticize President Barack Obama and Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), why is it harder for you to complete a full sentence when you're upset over another person's criticism of a public figure? Why can't you figure out that this ongoing Obama Derangement Syndrome will eventually turn off the independents. You understand that this is another example of why those in the progressive movement call conservatives the racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, overreaching, condscending bigots they've made this group out to be!
Check out what The Fox Nation is saying! Be warned this website contains offensive language that's deemed extremely racist and insensitive.
Check out what The Fox Nation is saying! Be warned this website contains offensive language that's deemed extremely racist and insensitive.
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| Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is a controversial figure who ran for U.S. President in 2012. |
Now after failing to capture the Republican nomination, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) utters out the infamous racial slur "Tar Baby" during a interview with a conservative website.
Courtesy of CBS News/The Political Hotsheet
Rep. Michele Bachmann charged the president with caring only about his re-election. She also called him "irresponsible" and "infantile" for failing to address the economy and energy prices.
"This is just about waving a tar baby in the air," Bachmann told a conservative Florida website The Shark Tank in an interview on Thursday. "The president is a complete and utter fraud and a hypocrite on this issue, with all due respect," she said, referring to the president's energy policy.
Bachmann has come under fire for using the term "tar baby," which is a phrase that denotes a sticky situation and refers to a children's story, the Brer Rabbit. However, the term is also considered derogatory toward African Americans.
Bachmann's spokesperson Becky Rogness says in a Thursday email that Bachmann made a point about Obama's understanding of oil prices that has "nothing to do with race." Instead, Rogness says Obama "has gotten himself into a sticky situation."
Throughout the interview, Bachmann's hit the president hard, calling him "infantile."
"I have never seen a more irresponsible president who is infantile in the way he continually blames everybody else for his failure to first diagnose the problem and second to address the problem," Bachmann said.
She charged him with being focused on one thing. "All you have to know about president Obama is filtered through a grid called his re-election. Everything he does. It has nothing to do with priorities of the country. It has nothing to do with turning around the economy," Bachmann said. (Watch the interview below.)
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