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Veiled play of the race card.

Via Politico 44:

The president said it will be up to the American people to decide whether Newt Gingrich calling him the “foodstamp president” reflects values that America wants in a president.

Asked if the label carried potentially racist undertones, Obama called it a “rhetorical flourish” that he doesn’t think the American people are interested in.

“I think the American people are going to make a judgment about who’s trying to bring the country together and who’s dividing it, who reflects sort of the core values that helped create this country– values of hard work and responsibility but also of looking out for one another — and who is tapping into some of our worst instincts,” he said in an interview with ABC News.

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28 comments
  1. gastorgrab says:
    January 27, 2012 at 10:57 am

    Obama: Bush Is Food Stamp President, Not Me
    http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-bush-is-food-stamp-president-not-me/

  2. real American says:
    January 27, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Its only your worst instincts—we call it the truth. I’m sure your tongue would explode if you tried it.

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    January 27, 2012 at 10:59 am

    Obama is a blabbering liberal nincompoop he needs to stay off the golf course

  4. Dapandico says:
    January 27, 2012 at 10:59 am

    O’Blamey is the reparations President.

  5. Katherine says:
    January 27, 2012 at 10:59 am

    So now, stating the truth is ‘tapping into our worst instincts’, but lying through out the entire SOTU address is trying to bring the country together.

  6. Rufus says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:02 am

    It’s kind of early in the campaign for Obama himself to play the Race Card.

    They must be desperate and know full well that they are about to be defeated.

  7. Katherine says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:03 am

    Not going to work anymore Obama, MSNBC and Leftists everywhere, your race card has been punched so many times there’s nothing left. It’s useless now!

    I wouldn’t care if Gingrich got up on stage in black face and called you boy!

  8. Davey Mac says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:06 am

    He’s (BO) talking about the DOJ with the NBP thing and the DoA with the Pigford settlement, and continued funding of ACORN shops, RIGHT? Wanna tap into worst instincts? How about keeping that pot stirred and perpetuating them? Don’t hand me that “tapping into” shit. He’s been “tapping into” that card his entire political career, and make no mistake about it.

  9. Mickey Shea says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:09 am

    He’s talking about hard work and responsibility?
    Get the fuq outta here…now I’ve heard everything.

  10. Chuck_Barry says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:09 am

    “I think the American people are going to make a judgment about who’s trying to bring the country together and who’s dividing it, who reflects sort of the core values that helped create this country– values of hard work and responsibility but also of looking out for one another — and who is tapping into some of our worst instincts”

    When he says dividing does he mean the 99% vs the 1%?
    When he says worst instincts does he mean living in your own filth and demanding handouts?

    If so I think he’s got it exactly right.

  11. Disgusted says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Yes, Zero’s right for once: “I think the American people are going to make a judgment about who’s trying to bring the country together and who’s dividing it . . .”

    YUP.

  12. deez says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:10 am

    Dog whistle race card?

  13. Chuck_Barry says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Of course what I like best is the Obama ad I see on this page that starts with a pic of a man in a Guy Fawkes mask holding a “We are the 99%” sign. Oh the irony.

  14. Clark Narkulis says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:14 am

    Core values that created the country? LOL.

    I guess he thinks the Declaration of Independence was actually an apology to King George.

  15. St. Nicholas says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Maybe Barry should start focusing on his own “worst instincts“: He’s clearly the worst offender.

    ** Obama: “They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
    ** Obama to His Followers: “Get in Their Faces!”
    ** Obama on ACORN Mobs: “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
    ** Obama to His Mercenary Army: “Hit Back Twice As Hard”
    ** Obama on the private sector: “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“
    ** Obama to voters: Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
    ** Obama to lib supporters: “It’s time to Fight for it.”
    ** Obama to Latino supporters: “Punish your enemies.”
    ** Obama to democrats: “I’m itching for a fight.”

    If folks really consider who’s dividing America, they should start at the White House.

  16. St. Nicholas says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:18 am

    Cluebat to the Divider-in-Chief

    “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” [Obama at a Philadelphia fundraiser, June 2008]

  17. CS_GUY says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:25 am

    Consider:

    Barack has been “tapping” into the middle class warfare since he took office.

    Fight fire with fire………..

    Hypocrite, Liar, Egomaniac, and proud of it all…..

  18. NWMN says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:31 am

    Look what the Paulbots are doing over at Drudge:

    WOOS AND BOOS!
    GINGRICH 16.93% (41,509 votes)
    PAUL 32.34% (79,288 votes)
    ROMNEY 30.39% (74,504 votes)
    SANTORUM 20.34% (49,854 votes)
    Total Votes: 245,155

  19. Rannie says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:39 am

    “tapping into some of our worst instincts”
    Obama is like the tap dancing black faced minstrel’s ‘shuffle and slide’ (swanky movement … but it’s still dancing).

  20. Benson II says:
    January 27, 2012 at 11:41 am

    The percentage of whites on food stamps is greater than Blacks. Time for someone to point that out.

  21. west1890 says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Sorry Benson- it doesnt matter what color people on food stamps are. The point is that our silk panty gay president is using the Cloward Piven strategy to overwhelm the system in order to get it to collapse. THAT is the point.

  22. DisturbedMary says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Okay, so call him the “foodstamp president with a great smile and a cool Al Green imitation.”

  23. fubar says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    “silk panty president”

    GOod one West1890!

  24. Commieobamie says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps!
    Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps!
    Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps! Food Stamps!

  25. Dannyboy71 says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    I would love to talk to Obama about anything Because I know I AM smarter than that bugger!!

  26. Zoltanne says:
    January 27, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    Hey Obama!! I dare ya to debate Gingrich!

    Double dare ya!

  27. GrumpyOne says:
    January 27, 2012 at 3:48 pm

    There is no doubt that Gingrich is quicker with the tongue than are the other GOP candidates although Romney did put in a stellar performance Thursday evening.

    Gingrich is his own worst enemy and I’m starting to give some credence to what some call, “instability.” Putting a colony on the moon while we’re broke??? Pandering to the NASA crowd in Florida when we all know there will be inevitable cuts ahead.

    But he’s right on the food stamp issue and put one out of the ball park last week at another debate.

    Come on November!

  28. jabbernaught says:
    January 27, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    That label stung Obama and the left, they can’t wash it away. Food stamp President ………….. bwahahahahahaha!!

    So true!

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