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To: puborectalis who wrote (663816)	7/25/2012 9:19:04 AM
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To: puborectalis who wrote (663816)	7/25/2012 12:27:02 PM
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Va. state senator blames racism for Romney gains By Laura Vozzella Sen. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) (Steve Helber - AP) State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), a campaign surrogate for President Obama in Virginia, said Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is appealing to racists who do not want a black man in the White House. Asked on a Hampton Roads radio show why the former Massachusetts governor had been able to pull even with President Obama in a recent poll, Lucas said the problem was race. “Mitt Romney, he’s speaking to ... a segment of the population who does not like to see people other than a white man in the White House or in any other elective position,” Lucas said Tuesday. “Let’s be real clear about it — Mitt Romney is speaking to a group of people out there who don’t like folks like President Barack Obama in any elective or leadership position. We know what’s going on here. And some people may be afraid to say it, but I’m not. ... He’s speaking to that fringe out there who do not want to see anybody but a white person in a leadership position.” Lucas is a member of Obama’s “Truth Team,” speaking on the president’s behalf on various campaign issues in Virginia. Obama’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) objected to Lucas’s statement. “The Governor found the comments to be divisive and flat wrong,” McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said via e-mail. “They are out of place and out of touch. This election is about who can best get Americans back to work, spending under control and our nation back on track.” Lucas made the comments while appearing on the John Fredericks Show on 1650-AM. Fredericks led into the segment by asking why Romney had caught up to Obama in the Quinnipiac University poll, despite the president’s recent two-day tour of the state. Lucas initially blamed the poll numbers on voters’ paying more attention to summer vacations than the campaign. But after sharing an anecdote about some constituents whisking their grandchildren off to Disney World, Lucas quickly shifted gears to racism. “Do you really believe now that this is still about race?” Fredericks asked. “I absolutely believe it’s all about race, and for the first time in my life I’ve been able to convince my children, finally, that racism is alive and well,” she replied. “Even in Virginia?” Fredericks asked. Lucas: “In Virginia? How about all across this nation — and especially in Virginia.” A liberal firebrand, Lucas has never been one to hold her tongue. She stormed out of a committee meeting one day during this year’s General Assembly session, tossing papers as she left. On Tuesday, she anticipated that her words would not sit well with some. “I know there are people who are probably cringing in their seats because they don’t want to hear it,” she said on the show. “But it’s time that we face the reality that we need to have a national discussion on racial issues.”

To: puborectalis who wrote (663816)	7/25/2012 12:35:40 PM
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A day doesn't go by without a little racism from the right. Romney Adviser's 'Anglo-Saxon' Comment 'Stunningly Offensive,' Obama Side Says By RUSSELL GOLDMAN ( @GoldmanRussell) and EMILY FRIEDMAN ( @EmilyABC) July 25, 2012 Just hours after arriving in London, the Romney campaign appeared to violate its own promise to not attack the president while overseas when two anonymous campaign advisers suggested President Obama could not fully understand the "Anglo-Saxon heritage" between the U.S. and Britain. The Obama campaign swiftly responded, calling the anonymous attacks "stunningly offensive" and even the reporter who sat down with the Romney advisers warned the "remarks may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity." "We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he [Romney] feels that the special relationship is special," the Romney adviser told British newspaper The Telegraph. "The White House didn't fully appreciate the shared history we have." It was those remarks that led reporter John Swain to note they could be read as racially insensitive, given the president's mixed African and European heritage. "Obama is a left-winger. He doesn't value the NATO alliance as much. He's very comfortable with American decline and the traditional alliances don't mean as much to him. He wouldn't like singing [British hymn] 'Land of Hope and Glory,'" another adviser told the paper. No details were given to identify the staffers or their position in the campaign. Nor did the advisers give any details as to how Romney's relationship to British Prime Minister David Cameron would be different from Obama's. After reading an initial ABC News report about the comments, Obama advisor David Axelrod tweeted "Mitt's trip off to flying start, even before he lands, with stunningly offensive quotes from his team in British press."Vice President Biden also criticized the remark. "Despite his promises that politics stops at the water's edge, Gov. Romney's wheels hadn't even touched down in London before his advisers were reportedly playing politics with international diplomacy," Biden said. "The comments reported this morning are a disturbing start to a trip designed to demonstrate Gov. Romney's readiness to represent the United States on the world's stage... This assertion is beneath a presidential campaign," the vice president said. Romney today kicked off a six-day international tour that includes Britain, Israel and Poland. The advisers spoke on the condition of anonymity became staffers have been told not criticize the president while overseas. The Romney campaign denied the authenticity of the article. "It's not true," Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said in a statement to ABC News. "If anyone said that, they weren't reflecting the views of Gov. Romney or anyone inside the campaign." While there is a long tradition of not attacking the president when overseas, there's an almost equally long tradition of violating that dictum "That is the old rule, but it's often ignored and there's a long history of partisans attacking presidents while they or the president is abroad," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. Sabato said there is always a difficulty in holding a candidate responsible for his surrogate's comments, especially when it's unknown just how high up in the campaign these advisers were. Nevertheless, he called the remarks "unwise comments that even the Telegraph acknowledged bordered on racialist." "Basically, their argument is Romney would just identify more with Cameron because he's white. That's really what they were saying," Sabato said. Other Romney campaign surrogates have, however, on the record suggested Obama, who spent part of his childhood in Asia, did not know what it meant to be an American. Romney campaign co-chair John Sununu last week on a call with reporters said Obama "has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia." "I wish this president would learn how to be an American," Sununu said. Devon Dwyer and Michael Falcone contributed from Washington, D.C. abcnews.go.com