Guess what? More controversial quotes incoming!

Pippen · October 08, 2015, 07:56:47 AM

So today the billionaire Rupert Murdoch said

Quote

"Ben and Candy Carson terrific. What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else."

So yeah..here's the article
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/08/rupert-murdoch-obama-not-real-black-president-tweet-ben-carson

Discuss

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · October 08, 2015, 07:58:45 AM

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Pippen · October 08, 2015, 08:02:20 AM

Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on October 08, 2015, 07:58:45 AM

People are missing the point.

Although tbh carson and obama are both pretty fuckin white

Ssssh don't say that!

You'll be the next person on a controversial quote article!

But in all seriousness, it really doesn't matter what color their skin is or if they are "a real black president". I'm gonna vote for the guy/gal who will get shit done.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · October 08, 2015, 08:02:36 AM

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Pippen · October 08, 2015, 08:05:06 AM

Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on October 08, 2015, 08:02:36 AM

What a pussy

Aaaay you're an Iphone guy too.
And an hour difference from me.

I don't really blame him for trying to fix what he said, it's not like all political figures backtrack like that anyways~

Spoiler

sarcasm

Mordo · October 08, 2015, 08:07:42 AM

Bit flippant mentioning his race when it's kind of irrelevant tbh.

Don't see why anyone should be getting distraught about it though.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · October 08, 2015, 08:11:59 AM

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Mordo · October 08, 2015, 08:19:46 AM

Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on October 08, 2015, 08:11:59 AM

Quote from: Madman Mordo on October 08, 2015, 08:07:42 AM
Bit flippant mentioning his race when it's kind of irrelevant tbh.

Don't see why anyone should be getting distraught about it though.
Carson's race is a big deal for this campaign, whether that's a good thing or not. There's no point in hopping around it. Obama's race won him the whitehouse, and it remains to be seen whether race will (or can) do the same for Carson.

Race really shouldn't be used to measure someone's capacity to do the job properly, though. It's partly why the whole identity politics fiasco has gotten so out of fucking hand in both the US and the UK.

Again, hardly something people should be wringing their in hands in disbelief over, but still a douchebag move regardless.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · October 08, 2015, 08:23:17 AM

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Jocephalopod · October 10, 2015, 12:03:01 PM

Good, I'm glad he's dead

Luciana · October 10, 2015, 01:06:37 PM

Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on October 08, 2015, 08:11:59 AM

Obama's race won him the whitehouse

It helped him with the primaries but it in no way "won" him the whitehouse. What won him the whitehouse was 8 years of Republican shit and then you get some old establishment guy coming in and people didn't want, what they perceived, as 4 more years of the same stuff. Old and established vs young and new. It was obvious who would win.

Then in 2012 it was him against someone who did a horrible job campaigning, saying 47% were desperate on government, and couldn't even outline his own plans on what to do as president, flip flopped left and right like none other to appeal to the conservative base (which was stupid because he's a moderate which is what we need), and finally had the same healthcare which Obama based his off of.

To say he won the whitehouse simply because he was black is oversimplifying it and wrong. Did it help? Yeah, but saying he won because of it is stupid, especially in 2012 when that whole "YES WE CAN" crap was done with.

MyNameIsCharlie · October 10, 2015, 01:48:04 PM

What does he mean by "real black?"

Is he going to address congress like Samuel L Jackson?

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · October 10, 2015, 03:32:45 PM

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Verbatim · October 10, 2015, 09:09:43 PM

i'd like to think that obama won in 2008 because nobody wanted the looming threat of having a mrs. sarah palin as president

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · October 10, 2015, 09:14:17 PM

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