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To: i-node who wrote (762224)	1/8/2014 1:21:25 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By joseffy Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574230

Obamacare is a code word used by racists even though Obama used it. This was explained on MSLSD by Melissa Harris-Perry who had used the word Obamacare just a couple weeks before... Calling Bammy stupid, dishonest, incompetent. All code words!

To: i-node who wrote (762224)	1/8/2014 1:28:01 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574230

I don't have to, it's been provided by the inventor: thenation.com The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: <<You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”>> Atwater INVENTED dog whistle politics. Republicans have been using that whistle ever since.

To: i-node who wrote (762224)	1/8/2014 1:59:07 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1574230

If you'd read a little deeper into the article, the author provides some more up-to-date dog whistles: "Veiled references to the undeserving poor, illegal aliens and sharia law carry racial undertones that avoid the stigma of overt racism but nonetheless provoke the desired reaction." Or, just read Fubho's posts. He reliably responds to every dog whistle he hears. So does Joefly.