NC U.S. Senator Richard Burr on Obama: 'tremendous athlete' but I won't dine with him

Translation

"I don't hang around the blacky's, I only like to watch them on TV bouncing the ball thing around.  O yea, and I like it when they stay in line and don't cause trouble.  As a concession, I'd hang around a white women even though we have opposing views."

Sorry, I'm feeling a little snippy today toward my white inbred brethren.  

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by: Will St. James @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 12:37:12 PM CDT

Richard Burr is a massive tool

You have an opportunity to dine with the President of the United States, and you pass on it?

How can we expect you to best represent NC when you won't even sit down to break bread with our President (a President for whom the majority of your constituents voted.)

This seriously defies belief. I don't care if it was racism or partisanship that led Dickie Burr to this decision; it was stupid. He had a chance to meet with the President, and possibly advocate for issues affecting North Carolina, and he passed on it?

What a jerk.  

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by: lcloud @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 12:42:58 PM CDT

BS meter is in the RED zone

So he agrees with Hilary Clinton on the issues?

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by: GTJeff76 @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 12:46:55 PM CDT

On the one hand...

...I wouldn't want to dine with George Bush (either of them) and it's not because he's white.  On the other hand, I definitely smell racism with that guy, and may sexism too.

No problems dining with Hillary??  Remind me again, how much does she differ from Obama on the issues??  She's Obama's Secretary of State!!

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by: konagod @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 13:24:46 PM CDT

True, konagod

I wouldn't want to dine with any of the Bushes, but if I were a U.S. Senator representing my state, I would have done it.  I might have thrown soup in W.'s face, but I would have gone.  Why?  Because I'm representing my state and NOT myself.  This guy, racist or not (and I vote for racist) is not serving his constituency.

P.S.  My vehemence is not towards you, by the way.  Just want to be clear about that.

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by: asiangrrl @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 14:39:26 PM CDT

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Geeze!

What an absolute twit.

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by: Zorya @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 13:27:27 PM CDT

OMG did he really say that?

Since when is Obama an "athlete?"  Either I'm not very well-versed in Obama's bio and missed the fact that he played on his college basketball or high school baseball team or something, or else Burr is a racist moron who assumes every successful black guy is an athlete.  I suppose we're lucky Burr didn't say, "I liked the way he sings and dances."  How do you get away with being so blatantly racist in this day and age?

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by: anotherothermother @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 13:42:58 PM CDT

He did

Obama did play on his High School's basketball team.  But everything else considered he was being racist in his comments.

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by: Will St. James @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 14:17:00 PM CDT

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The Jimmy the Greek quote

I remember seeing Jimmy the Greek actually say what he said.  As I remember it, it was perhaps even more offensive than quoted in the main article:

"In slave times, the slave owner would breed his big black buck with his big woman so that he would have a big black kid. That's where it all started."

When I heard that, I thought to myself that he would be in hotter water than former New York weather forecaster Tex Antuan, who made the remark in a faux Asian accent:

"Confucius say, in case of rape, lay back, relax and enjoy it."

as a segue into the weather, after a report of a particularly horrible rape of a young girl.

Both of these men were justifiably fired for making their crude remarks on the air.

Even if slaveowners had a history of "breeding" slaves that way, it would have been an inappropriate comment. And apparently the actual historical evidence is against Jimmy the Greek's primitive theorizing - though there may have been a few slaveowners who may have made such an attempt.  See, e.g.

http://web.econ.ohio-state.edu...

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by: Joann Prinzivalli @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 14:37:44 PM CDT

more on Burr, for those unfamiliar with his views

He's no friend of civil rights of any kind.

   *  Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. (Sep 2004)
   * Voted YES on recommending Constitutional ban on flag desecration. (Jun 2006)
   * Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
   * Voted YES on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
   * Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
   * Voted YES on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
   * Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
   * Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
   * Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
   * Rated 13% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
   * Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
   * Rated 7% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)
   * Amend Constitution to define traditional marriage. (Jun 2008)

   *  Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
   * Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
   * Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
   * Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
   * Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
   * Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
   * Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
   * Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. (Oct 2003)
   * Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
   * Voted YES on funding for health providers who don't provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
   * Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
   * Voted YES on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
   * Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
   * Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
   * Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
   * Rated 75% by the NRLC, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)
   * Apply 14th amendment protections to pre-born fetuses. (Jun 2008)

No, as I said, it's probably just partisan stupidity, or he's just from the George Allen school of race relations. Well, he was born in Charlottesville, VA.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 14:50:45 PM CDT

Senator Richard Burr - throw this man out of office

I'm a North Carolina Republican.  I've voted Republican my entire life.  But I'm fed up with the irresponsible leadership in the Republican party.  I live, eat, sleep and breathe the world of finance.  And I know who is to blame for this financial crises.  Republicans.  Every single Republican who served during the Bush Administration needs to be booted from office. I'm going to do my part.  Every single day,  from now until the election,  18 months from now,  I'll be blogging Senator Richard Burr out of office.  When the election rolls around,  and you do any keyword search on Senator Richard Burr,  your screen is going to be full of my critical posts pounding on this worthless Senator.  From now,  until the election, you can find me here:

http://republicanagainstburr.b...

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by: jwillis44 @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 07:54:18 AM CDT