Rush Limbaugh Claims Democrats Are Keeping Black People Out of Power

[SunsetDreams]

On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh claimed that is the Democratic Party, which the nation’s first black president is the leader of, is trying to keep black people out of power. “The Democrats are trying to keep black people out of politically powerful positions, it ain’t us.”

(video at link)

Limbaugh said, “It’s upside down. Alvin Greene is probably the most normal Democrat running for office this year. We only think he’s a joke because the Democrats make fun him. The Democrats are trying to keep black people out of politically powerful positions. It ain’t us.”

Assuming that Limbaugh is correct, the Democrats have really managed to screw this up because, in their quest to keep black people out of political power, they managed to elect the nation’s first black president. Limbaugh’s theory portrays African Americans as idiots who a supporting a political party that wishes to disempower them. What is really going on here is that Limbaugh is trying to make the very white Republican Party feel good about it, by engaging in more racial division.

Democrats have empowered African Americans, and helped them achieve the highest offices in the land. Besides Obama in the White House and the nation’s first African American Attorney General in Eric Holder, every single African American member of the current Congress is a Democrat. The highest ranking African American in the Republican Party is RNC Chairman Michael Steele (snicker-snicker). Plus, there has been a barrage of voter ID laws in Red States which were designed to suppress turnout and take the most basic political power away from minorities who are more likely to vote for Democrats.

According to USA Today, “A study by the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University shows turnout in 2004 was about 4% lower in states that required voters to sign their name or produce documentation. Hispanic turnout was 10% lower; the difference was about 6% for blacks and Asian-Americans.” Under the guise of clean elections, or national security, voter ID laws have the happy consequence for Republicans of suppressing turnout among Democratic leaning minorities.

Once again, Rush Limbaugh was more Republican strategy on to the Democratic Party. It is not the Democrats who systemically attempted to political power to minorities. This has been a conscious GOP strategy for years. It is continuing today with the GOP’s assault on Hispanic voters, and trying to cover up for it by blaming the party of the nation’s first black president is more than a little insane.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/democrats-disempowering

[steve2470]

1. Amazing people actually give this fool any credence nt

[mmonk]

2. The oxycontin is getting to his head.

[Ramulux]

3. Jesus Christ

"Every single African American member of the current Congress is a Democrat"

End of story.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Oh yeah, there's Mr. Diversity dishing out more of his drug-laced crap

and the Dittoheads are lined up to have their bowls filled.

[msongs]

5. the republican run pentagon lets him broadcast on armed forces radio to undermine obama nt

[ProfessionalLeftist]

6. Ugh. Has this brain-fried tub of lard realized yet that...

our President is BLACK?

Duh. :rofl:

Out of power he is NOT. I just wish he'd use the power he has and was given more wisely - and forcefully.

[tabasco]

7. Why post his stupid shit here?

The drooling, drug-addled draft dodger's idiotic ramblings are droll and irrelevant.

[madrchsod]

9. it`s todays right wing talking point that will be....

morphed into more talking points in the weeks ahead. so in a couple of weeks when some dumb fuck brings this up we`ll know where it comes from.

in war you never underestimate your enemy

[Bitwit1234]

8. Oh then it is a good thing we didn't elect Obama president

wouldn't that have been something. Instead of ditto heads...the people who listen to him should be called sh*t for brains air heads.

[Brewman_Jax]

10. If Rush Limpballs is working on a comedy act

he'll have to do much better. The GOP has never worked for diversity, and they aren't starting anytime soon.

[bikebloke]

11. Yeah!

Just think how far that Obama guy could've gone if those Democrats hadn't held him back.

[htuttle]

12. He's not trying to convince black people to vote for Republicans

He's trying to convince white Republicans that they're not racists.

[Enthusiast]

13. Lies and convoluted exaggerations.

This is all the fat fuck has to offer. Pure propaganda.