The Obama campaign offered no apology Sunday for Vice President Joe Biden’s “chains” remark, refusing even to call it a poor choice of words as Republicans accused the president’s reelection campaign of race baiting.
At a rally in Virginia last week, Biden told an audience that included hundreds of African-Americans that Republican challenger Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, are “going to put y’all back in chains.” Biden made the comment while talking about bank regulations and later said he was referencing to Ryan’s promise to “unshackle” the economy, but critics have accused him of inappropriately using a slavery metaphor.
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Can you imagine the outrage if the comment was made by Gov. Romney
The Romney supporters suggest that President Obama is a muslim, anti-American, a socialist, the Manchurian candidate and everything in-between but this is what THEY seize on? Hilarious.
I can imagine the hilarity if it was made by Governor Romney.
"Representative Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and a Democrat, dismissed the remark as "a little throwaway line" Thursday in an interview on CNN"---------- So as intelligent people already know, the "Black Caucus", like most other Black advocacy groups, are hypocrites and do NOT really really represent Blacks.-----In fact, as another blogger noted, these groups actually WANT their fellow Blacks to be in chains (with 20% unemployment).