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Maxine Waters calls
Republican leaders 'demons'
Fox News

Rep. Maxine Waters, no stranger to controversy, is turning heads once again, this time for describing House Republican leaders as "demons."

The California Democrat's comments, which surfaced Wednesday, were made last weekend at a state party convention in San Diego. Video of her speech shows her rallying Democrats to win back control of the House in November.

"I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens (at the convention). Don't ever let me see again, in life, those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything. These are demons," she told the crowd. "They are bringing down this country, destroying this country, because they’d rather do whatever they can do destroy this president rather than for the good of this country.”

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California Congresswoman calls
conservative leaders 'demons'.
Will Barack Obama condemn her?
Telegraph [UK], by Nile Gardiner

Just over a year ago, President Obama delivered an address commemorating the victims of the Arizona shootings, urging a new era of civility in US politics. In his remarks in Tucson he declared:

At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarised, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters' rant last weekend at the California Democrats State Convention in San Diego, however, fell short of those ideals. (Hat tip: Noah Glyn, at The Corner.) In her address, Waters described House Majority leader Eric Cantor and Speaker of the House John Boehner as “demons” who are “destroying this country”:

I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens. Don’t ever let me see, again in life, those Republicans in our hall, on our screens, talking about anything.

These are demons. These are legislators who are destroying this country rather than bringing us together… they are bringing down this country, destroying this country, because again they’d rather do whatever they can to destroy this president rather than for the good of the country.

You can view the full video of Waters’ speech here at The Blaze.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nileg ... ndemn-her/

Actor Samuel L. Jackson -- Vote Your Race
Townhall, by Larry Elder

What if actor Clint Eastwood gave an interview in which he explained why, in the 2008 presidential election, he voted for John McCain: "I voted for McCain because he was white. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people -- because they look like them. ... That's American politics, pure and simple."

No, Eastwood did not say that. But actor Samuel L. Jackson did, in explaining why he voted for President Barack Obama -- "because he was black." Jackson also said his vote had nothing to do with Obama's agenda: "(Obama's) message didn't mean (bleep) to me." If Eastwood had said stuff like this, a cry to boycott his films would come from everybody from the NAACP to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But the popular Jackson, who played in more films during the '90s than any other actor, makes an incredibly racist statement and it's ... yawn.

Jackson insists he just does what every voter does. If they did, Obama could not have been elected U.S. senator from Illinois (15 percent of the state is black, 72 percent white) or the president of the United States (13 percent black, 72 percent white).

How does Jackson explain Obama's election in a country where people vote their race?

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Understanding Sheila Jackson
Lee’s Accusations of “Racism”
PJ Media, by J. Christian Adams

During the 2010 election, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) was madder than a hornet that True the Vote was poll monitoring in Houston. True the Vote was inside polling locations documenting election irregularities. In response, Jackson Lee accused tea party groups like True the Vote of “intimidating and harassing” minorities by monitoring the elections.

As we get closer to November, let’s remember the Congresswoman who cried wolf, so the next time we better understand the motivations of those who accuse law abiding citizens of racism.

Why did Jackson Lee play the race card so quickly in November 2010? It turns out her own district is infested with election irregularities. True the Vote has complied data about behavior in her district, data which perhaps explain why the Congresswoman didn’t like pesky monitors recording what was happening there. Brandon Darby has details:

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http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2012 ... of-racism/

The last few days have moved public opinion significantly in favor of George Zimmerman.

In CNN’s poll conducted last weekend, 73% of American adults thought that Zimmerman should be arrested.
Just a few days later, our poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday revealed that just 48% of Americans believe he should be arrested. Our poll matched the partisan distribution of the CNN poll, so this is a real and significant change in opinion as more key details came out over a few brief days.

Obama's America: Why Black
Grievance Will Never End
American Thinker, by Selwyn Duke

When I was 12 years old, I used to play tennis at a certain public park in the Bronx. One day it got back to me that a black fellow at the courts, whose name I forget, said, "Selwyn doesn't like black people." This raised my eyebrows. You see, I had never really thought about the man one way or the other. And what occupied my mind were forehands, backhands, topspin, and volleys, not race. So the only thing I could figure was that I was probably in a funk one day and didn't hear and acknowledge a greeting he might have extended.

Whatever the perceived slight, race was a factor. After all, imagine the reaction if he had been white. At worst, he might have thought, "Selwyn is a self-absorbed brat," which would have been closer to the truth. Or he might just have concluded that I was having a bad day (I was an aspiring player at the time but, lamentably, had a lot of bad days). Instead, he saw bad intentions where none existed.

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The Times just published the results of Valpo's diversity survey. More respondents have been discriminated by because of gender or age than race here.

About 250 people responded to the survey, almost all of whom had at least an associate degree. Forty percent had graduate or postgraduate degrees and 68 percent had lived in the city at least 10 years. Three-quarters of the respondents were 40 or older, 86 percent were white and only 4 percent were black.
Read more: http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt ... z1rka4ebMi