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Say It Ain't So, Joe

Vice President Joe Biden delivers a disgusting speech in Virginia, while pleading for North Carolina's help?

Say it aint so Joe! Please tell me you didn't just say that. "They're gonna put y'all back in chains." Did the Vice President of the United States just say that at a campaign event that was attended by a fairly equally mixed, black and white audience?

Is this is what the Obama campaign has sunk to? He takes Mitt Romney's economic plan, and declares that it will put black Americans back to the days of slavery. It takes a very creative mind to come up with any other conclusion if you just read the sentence. Even if you read the whole paragraph for more context, it reads the same way.

"Look at what they value, and look at their budget, and what they're proposing. He said in the first hundred days. Romney is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, unchain Wall Street. He is gonna put y'all back in chains."

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If you are speaking to black voters, there is only one way to take these words. Romney is going to make slaves out of you. He will be your slavemaster. He is going to take you back to the days of slavery. That's what he meant, and there is no way of spinning that statement.

That is not the worst part of this whole speech, though, not by a long shot. What really blows my mind is that Vice President Joe Biden spoke these words in his very best Rev. Jeremiah Wright voice. You'll recall that the Reverend Wright presided at President Obama's former church.

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Joltin' Joe Biden decided that, in order to drive his point home, he had to do his apparently newly learned "black voice" so that the black folks in the audience could understand just how serious this matter is.

"(Romney) is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, Unchaaaaain Wall Street. He's gonna put y'all back in chains."  

Unchaaaaain wall Street?  Put y'all back in chains? Spoken in some sort of freakish sounding black voice? The Vice President of the United States? The man who could someday be the President of the United States? Really?

I find his words disgusting and demeaning. I find them demeaning to any minority, and especially demeaning to any African-American. Does he think that people can't see through this insulting black preacher voice? "He's gonna put y'all back in chains."

Of course, Vice President Biden is not done with his speech yet.  Vice President Biden, who is never one to disappoint in giving us all a good laugh at his public gaffes, finishes his speech with a flourish by telling the voters of Virginia, that "With you, we can win North Carolina again, and if we do, we win the election if we win you."

Joe! You are in Danville, VA! Why are you talking about North Carolina to these folks?They don't care about North Carolina! They wanna know what you meant about those chains!

Now we all know that "BFD" Joe Biden is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and we all know that every time he opens his mouth in public, the Obama campaign shudders, and basically just hopes for the best. What we didn't know, though, was how stupidly demeaning the Vice President, and by extension the President, have decided they are going to be during this election.

The most disgusting thing of all, is that the Obama campaign has chosen to stand behind Vice President Biden's remarks lock, stock, and barrel. They are fine with this type of rhetoric. They are fine with using slavery as a campaign tool. They are fine with a Vice President using a "faux black preacher" voice as a way of communicating their message to Americans.

As a proud American, I reject those types of politics...

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