pinkfloydms said:

lonestar2004 said:

"Hoodwinked"?


“Bamboozled"?

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OMGZ!!!! This means he's soo not fit to be president!!!!!!

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Must be a common way to talk up in Chicago...

Phred said:

Malcolm X talked like that. It's from a famous Malcom X speech. Pretty near every African-American in the country knows the code - you can't trust Whitey.




Phred

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Obama: Don’t let McCain “hoodwink” or “bamboozle” you

Delivered, with exquisite nuance, within two minutes of congratulating Maverick for toning down the rhetoric yesterday in Minnesota and within a few hours of Rep. John Lewis comparing McCain to George Wallace, a smear for which the campaign is demanding an apology. In fact, Obama used this same rhetoric against the Clintons before the South Carolina primary and was called on it by the New Republic, among other lefty websites. TNR contributor Cinque Henderson:

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His use of the phrase is resonant. It comes from a scene in Malcolm X, where Denzel Washington warns black people about the hidden evils of “the White Man” masquerading as a smiling politician: “Every election year, these politicians are sent up here to pacify us,” he says. “You’ve been hoodwinked. Bamboozled.”

By uttering this famous phrase, Obama told his black audience everything it needed to know. He was helping to convince blacks that the first two-term Democratic president in 50 years, a man referred to as the first black president, is in fact a secret racist. As soon as I heard that Obama had quoted from Malcolm X like this, I knew that Obama would win South Carolina by a massive margin.

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It’s code, in other words, used by The One when he wants to accuse his opponents of racism but doesn’t want to do it so directly that he’ll be held accountable. I’ll let Jonathan Martin take it from there.

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Phred said:

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republicans have gotten disgusting with their desperate rhetoric

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You have no evidence these folks are even Republicans. They could easily be Mobys.





Phred

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piracetam said:

Phred said:

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republicans have gotten disgusting with their desperate rhetoric

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You have no evidence these folks are even Republicans. They could easily be Mobys.





Phred

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i wouldn't doubt if she got a cue card from mccain or his colleagues

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Jive turkey said:

the whole thing smells fishy to me. something tells that ACTUAL supporters wouldn't be retarded enough to yell those things at a rally knowing that the media would catch it and that it would hurt their candidate. I have a feeling those people were paid by special interest groups if not the democratic committee to crash the rally.

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