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Florida Congressman: Palin 'Don't Care Too Much What They Do With Jews and Blacks'
September 24, 2008 6:21 PM
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Florida Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings pointed to Sarah Palin on Wednesday to rally Jews to Obama.
"If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention," said Hastings. "Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through."
Hastings, who is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, made his comments in Washington, D.C., while participating in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council.
Asked what the congressman meant, Hastings spokesman David Goldenberg told ABC News that he was trying to argue that Palin is an "extremely conservative woman who is out of touch with mainstream America."
After saying that Palin "don't care too much" about Jews and blacks, Hastings argued that African Americans and Jews should come together behind Obama because there are many issues on which they agree.
"Just like Jews, blacks care about affordable health care, energy independence, and the separation of church and state," said Hastings. "And just like blacks, Jews care about equal pay for equal work, investment in alternative energy, and a woman's right to choose."
Asked about the Hastings criticism, Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella said, "We’re taking a pass."
The Florida GOP responded to Wednesday's panel discussion by calling on Obama to repudiate Hastings.
"Unless Senator Obama and the Florida Democrat Party believes that 'anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks,' both Obama and the FDP should immediately refute this ridiculous and divisive statement."
When contacted by ABC News on Thursday afternoon, the Obama campaign had no response to the Florida GOP.
September 24, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (2099)
Alcee Hastings should be ashamed of himself....
Are you kidding! Just what kind of kook would infer that someone that hunts and does the things Palin does is somehow a RACIST and ANTI-JEW.
Democrats this year will SAY ANYTHING to win. Even make stuff up...
AMAZING
Posted by: Steve from Dallas | Sep 24, 2008 6:29:11 PM
What a dolt.
Posted by: Mike A. In Iowa | Sep 24, 2008 6:30:59 PM
Rep Hasting may have a point.
Sarah Falin was said to have called Obama 'sambo' as in "so sambo beat the biatch" when Obama defeated Hilary in the Primaries. lol
Posted by: Patriot | Sep 24, 2008 6:32:07 PM
Jews are people with familys feelings and part of this nation, Palin needs a boot in the aqq Send her back to Alaska she is something else and we don't need her in Washington.....
Posted by: indp voter | Sep 24, 2008 6:34:12 PM
he over flow is to great on the other ABC blogs so:
McCain, did this ass hole EVER have principles or did he just throw them away for the election? Grandstanding, politicizing the crisis, making out that HE is essential to the economic survival of America, now THAT"S arrogance.
If just PROVES that McCain can't handle the job. Has anyone told him that he may need to juggle more than one thing at a time as president? What a loser.
Posted by: JR | Sep 24, 2008 6:37:14 PM
Where in Palin's records show that she cares about Jews and AA? In fact, she had shown they are out of her range of view. Obama is inclusive abd McCain-Palin is about divide and conquer: only Republicans are patriotic, knowing "family values" (meaning having an unwedded pregnant teen)!
McCAIN-PALIN: COUNTRY LAST, RECKLESS JUDGMENT, LIES, SECRECY, CRONYISM.
Posted by: justobserve | Sep 24, 2008 6:38:13 PM
embarrassing
Posted by: Ronnie Wrangler | Sep 24, 2008 6:41:56 PM
Toting guns and stripping moose...talk about an idiot. Anybody close enough to smack that idiot in the head and ask him what he's thinking?!
Posted by: samhiguchi | Sep 24, 2008 6:45:03 PM
Democratic politicians are now bordering on obscene.
Posted by: Kitty | Sep 24, 2008 6:45:35 PM
It was a "racist" comment ... but of course nobody will say that in the Media because he is black.
Posted by: Cassandra Washington | Sep 24, 2008 6:46:22 PM
Sound like you are saying Jews and Blacks are just animals to be killed without anyony caring. Maybe you thing Jews don't hunt. My friends and I do. So far, Palin has been supported of us and I have not seen anything in her record not supporting Blacks as well.
Peace not hate.
Posted by: Gerald | Sep 24, 2008 6:50:37 PM
Race baiting!
. Race baiting!
.. Race baiting!
... Race baiting!
.... Race baiting!
Posted by: Large Richard | Sep 24, 2008 6:51:58 PM
Posted by: Patriot
Rep Hasting may have a point.
Sarah Falin was said to have called Obama 'sambo' as in "so sambo beat the biatch" when Obama defeated Hilary in the Primaries. lol
________________________________________
Yes I heard that is what was said,and if it was, it isn't funny, but I do aagree with you, that there may be some truth in what Rep Hastings says
Posted by: fempharoh08 | Sep 24, 2008 6:52:34 PM
JR
"Just proves ..".
I didn't even see a fact much less any kind of proof. I think you are a knuckle headed nitwit.
Posted by: Large Richard | Sep 24, 2008 6:54:20 PM
Well she does shot animals from the air, that's a new way to hunt and i Live In Pa where we hunt everything from small game to bears but at least we do it from the ground. She is about as qualifies as my first fart is.
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Sep 24, 2008 6:54:42 PM
We, the bitter bible-clutching, gun-toting, white-trash of America should be ashamed that we simply don't give a damn about anyone but ourselves.
Posted by: Sue | Sep 24, 2008 6:59:52 PM
This tears it! He is disgusting!!
What a racist, slandering remark!
Posted by: Pamela | Sep 24, 2008 7:00:49 PM
As a moose, I am deeply offended!
Just imagine the uproar if that racist comment was made by a European-American!
What a schmoe.
Posted by: Dave | Sep 24, 2008 7:00:59 PM
They don't hunt from the air! When the wolves get to many, they have to thin them out, so the other animals can survive. They do this in many western states as well.
Posted by: Rustr | Sep 24, 2008 7:03:33 PM
Wow what a facist. Hmm "I dont like hunters because they kill animals there for they must hate jews and blacks, Palin shoots moose therefor she hates jews and blacks" Are you kidding me? Obamamaniac "victims" will just eat it up, along with their hamburgers and french fries.(I was going to say pork and beans but lord knows that would have sounded bigoted right?)
Posted by: Dennis | Sep 24, 2008 7:07:16 PM
Hastings must have been impeached as a judge for being a moron.
He is an embarrassment to americans, blacks, and democrats in that order.
He has the brains and common sense of a headless toad
Posted by: epaminondas | Sep 24, 2008 7:09:55 PM
"... asked him what he meant ..." Asked him what he meant? He meant exactly what he said! What a racist thug.
Once again the Democrats are trying to divide us on race, gender and creed. Where is the outrage!! Why does Hastings get a pass?!?!! Gee, I wonder.
Posted by: Woody | Sep 24, 2008 7:17:18 PM
Welcome to the Democratic Party, voters. Most of the ordinary citizens I know who vote Democrat are decent people. I don't dislike them. I dislike their friends (Demoacratic politicians).
Posted by: Kitty | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
Race baiting!
. Race baiting!
.. Race baiting!
... Race baiting!
.... Race baiting!
Posted by: Large Richard | Sep 24, 2008 7:30:02 PM
Well well Kitty you must do a lot of hating politicians flip and they flop from one party to an other flip flop.
Posted by: Rose Szymanski | Sep 24, 2008 7:36:46 PM
Hey, JR, ya dumba**, it was YOUR dem leader, Harry Reid, that INSISTED yesterday for McCain to come back to Washington and "help" him save the country. Get your damn facts straight. The left truly has shown the world ing this election what low lying scum they really are.
Posted by: Ann | Sep 24, 2008 8:00:17 PM
Palin is a undercover racist! It does'nt take much of a brain to see that. These people we elect because we think they are like us is what's killing us. My son asked me the other day that I had my turn in making America what I wanted it to be, now it is his turn. I had to think for a minute, but he is right. Racism, hatred, and bigotry is my generation, not his.
Posted by: Jordan | Sep 24, 2008 8:01:07 PM
Hmm. Maybe we should take anything that Alcee Hastings say with a grain of salt? Check the following link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings#Impeachment
Posted by: Electricalcheck Pete | Sep 24, 2008 8:32:34 PM
Alcee Hasting...
One of the six judges in the history of our country to be impeached. He took bribes and was CONVICTED.
Why is this doo-doo head in Congress?
Posted by: Mark | Sep 24, 2008 8:36:33 PM
And who the heck equates gun-owning and hunting with racism and/or anti-semitism. If you ask me anybody who thinks that is probably either deliberately trying to stoke hatred or a paranoid maniac.
Posted by: Mark | Sep 24, 2008 8:38:15 PM
More race/ethnic baiting from Democrats, what do you think this is, the primaries all over again!?! Poor DNC, they have gone CRAZY!!! Keep it up doing just enough to lose, if they can't win this election in spite of themselves they should just GIVE UP!!! Come to think of it, that's EXACTLY what Reid and Pelosi have been doing since they got in, Hmmn.... Interesting!
Posted by: hmn | Sep 24, 2008 9:32:16 PM
The Black Rep reveals STUPIDITY that seems to be the hallmark of the B.H. Obama Run For Office. Please make a public announcement concerning how Obama paid for his college and law school education. This will reveal who the real Obama is.
Posted by: Rambo | Sep 24, 2008 9:41:15 PM
Obama the magic negro is going to prison soon.
Posted by: Rezko | Sep 24, 2008 9:52:24 PM
Hastings would rather see people hunting in the 'hood instead of in the wood.
Posted by: Ken in IL | Sep 24, 2008 10:03:48 PM
This is disgusting and he owes her an apology. the Obama campaign is disgusting.
Posted by: anne | Sep 24, 2008 10:13:29 PM
Is this a normal response for this guy?
He sounds like someone in the stages of dementia. Very odd.
If he's not actually sick...well, he's really sick, if you know what I mean.
Posted by: shar b | Sep 24, 2008 11:44:58 PM
He is absolutely disgusting and should be ashamed of himself! That is one of the all time most ridiculous "race card" statements I have heard in a long time and that is saying a lot since that is all that Obama's campaign is about. Is that all the Democratic party has is to bring race into this election? May God help us all if Obama is elected President!
Posted by: Nos | Sep 24, 2008 11:49:23 PM
Posted by: Patriot
"Rep Alcee Hastings may have a point."
The only point this guy has is he can racebait, lie, and act out his own hateful inclinations. Hastings should apologize for such hate speech that
attempts to stir up far left zealots to act out violence.
Posted by: shar b | Sep 24, 2008 11:55:16 PM
Alcee Hastings can't be ashamed of himself because he is.
Posted by: cuzinmikie | Sep 25, 2008 12:10:25 AM
Glad to see that Gov. Palin took the high road and didn't comment. The comments speak for themselves- What a kook!
Posted by: Loves this country | Sep 25, 2008 12:37:54 AM
What a totally disgusting person Alcee Hastings is, she should be ashamed of herself. But then she is a democrat and they have no shame.
God help us all if Obama is elected.
Posted by: Wild Thing | Sep 25, 2008 12:38:34 AM
she= he
sorry about the typo
haaha
Posted by: Wild Thing | Sep 25, 2008 12:40:57 AM
This Obama fellow sure is doing a bangup job of bringing America together. The warm glow of postracial America is emanating from all his supporters. You can see it in Hasting's remarks, seeking to alienate Jews and Blacks from the nearly half of Americans who support Palin, and the numerous comments on this thread showing total disrespect for anyone not toeing the Obama line.
Posted by: DaMav | Sep 25, 2008 12:45:28 AM
CAn you say racist
Posted by: Sue | Sep 25, 2008 2:08:04 AM
As a Jew, I find this so offensive on so many levels. First of all, I hunt, and many Jews I know do as well. Second, Palin is much more a friend of Jews than the anti-Semitic Obama and his hateful church that is anti-Jews and anti-Israel and anti-Whites.
Sarah Palin had an Israeli flag hanging in her office. She actually supports Israel, unlike Obama, who obviously is a Palestinian sympathizer before anything else.
Posted by: Bob | Sep 25, 2008 2:25:10 AM
Yes. Sarah Palin hunts Jews and blacks when moose aren't around.
Or is it meese?
Notice lots of playing the race card these days? Dems are getting desperate. And they should be, because they have the worst candidate in the history of this country.
Posted by: Marissa | Sep 25, 2008 2:31:50 AM
Gerald's comments show he didn't understand what Alcee Hastings was saying. Hastings wasn't referring to killing Jews or African Americans, but to the fact Palin is Alaska's version of a redneck.
No, there's nothing wrong with a little hunting, I go out myself on occasion(for food only, as hunting just to grab a pair of antlers a.k.a Palin & her father [a reporter found hundreds of rotting carcasses or moose, elk and caribou lying outside Daddy's house - stripped of antlers]is morally irresponsible).
Palin DOES have something against Jews and Af.Am. - don't be fooled. She is a WASP - and if you think differently, look at her voting record.
She has voted 100% of the time AGAINST programs to help these groups. Ex: She voted down sex-ed programs in the schools because she felt if parents of [poor] children did their job their kids wouldn't get pregnant. The joke, of course,is on her: her daughter obviously wasn't paying attention when Mommy gave her lecture of "Just say 'no'".
Palin's voted 100% of the time AGAINST women's issues (she agrees with McCain that women DON'T deserve equal pay for equal work because women are 'not as educated').
Palin evidently feels the ACLU should be abolished as 'anti-American' despite the fact the ACLU is probably THE most Pro-American group ever formed. It exists soley to protect the Constitution of the United States.
Prior to her being chosen Palin openly stated her distrust of groups like the ACLU because of the type of people who run such groups.
Palin states she will not only continue Bush's polices that have decimated the Constitution, she has a few more ideas of her own...not yet for the public; only intimated.
If you want to know WHY McCain's advisors have her locked in a 'virgin's basket'to keep the press away, one of the biggest reasons is they know if the public ever finds out about this woman's real UCC views (ultra CHRISTIAN conservative) their advantage in choosing her will evaporate like water on a car hood on a hot, sunny day.
So, to put it mildly, the worst thing that could happen to America is for an old man with early Alzheimer's and a rabid conservative with an agenda to turn back the clock to 'the good old days of the 1930's' to be elected to office.
[or is it the other way? After all, Palin obviously knows she'll be the President very quickly after election. JM has a history of cancer & his worsening memory loss and bursts of anger point to a short shrift for her running mate)
Posted by: Logikal1 | Sep 25, 2008 4:38:14 AM
what sad small person to have as your representive in congress
Posted by: kbjordan | Sep 25, 2008 5:47:47 AM
The only people speaking of race, age and gender are the Dems.
Alcee Hastings, what a loser!
Posted by: Devil Dog | Sep 25, 2008 6:43:46 AM
"Democrat" is becoming pretty much synonymous with a wide assortment of words:
Racist, moron, liar, race-baiter, sexist.
Some are new, some are old. All are despicable and true.
Posted by: Meme | Sep 25, 2008 6:48:52 AM
It appears some people are single minded -- race this, race that, race, race, race. Such a person is a racist. Get over it. Move on.
Posted by: Susan Constant | Sep 25, 2008 6:59:11 AM
When Hastings was a judge in Miami the FBI was investigating corruption and Hastings was giving FBI information to the crooks.
Even with this, Black democrats elected him to high office. I noticed that abt. 97% of blacks will vote for Obama.
The real problem for you lefties and the media is that Palin is a Christan.
Posted by: |Sam | Sep 25, 2008 7:15:51 AM
When Hastings was a judge in Miami the FBI was investigating corruption and Hastings was giving FBI information to the crooks.
Even with this, Black democrats elected him to high office. I noticed that abt. 97% of blacks will vote for Obama.
The real problem for you lefties and the media is that Palin is a Christan.
Posted by: |Sam | Sep 25, 2008 7:18:28 AM
So, let me get this straight: Hastings equates moose with black people and Jews?
And other people take this seriously?
And this is supposed to be for the benefit of said Blacks and Jews, right?
Is insanity catching or what's going on?
Posted by: Not Your sweetie | Sep 25, 2008 7:30:31 AM
It seems like there are people in this country who believe that the ACLU is one of the greatest entities in the world. It is the ACLU that protects people like Hastings whenever he spews hate speech but if someone on the right says something against them they are first in line trying to shut them up. If a white person would have said the same thing that Hasting did it would be splashed on every front page of every paper throughout the country.
Posted by: Jim | Sep 25, 2008 7:33:00 AM
Everyone yells racist if ya don't agree,
why don't all of you blacks go look in the mirror, 95% of you are voting for Obama cause he is black, whata call that?
This Hastings guy and the rest of you Dems just keep opening your mouth let your real colors show.
Posted by: CW | Sep 25, 2008 7:52:47 AM
"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” This statement is absurd and offensive. Being a hunter and being a racist have nothing to do with one another... they are two completely separate issues. That is of course you are hunting “blacks and Jews” other than that hunting does not make you a racist!!
“The earth and all that it had were meant to serve the needs of man.” Man has been hunting since the beginning, for survival. Today it is a little less about survival and more about enjoying God’s bounty that he has provided for us. Please... look at the sites below to understand what the Bible itself says about hunting and killing of animals.
www.thercg.org/questions/p051.a.html
www.bible-history.com/isbe/H/HUNTING/
www.all-creatures.org/hr/hrajews.htm
Posted by: Frustrated with stupidity | Sep 25, 2008 8:17:06 AM
Posted by: JoeyHairplugs | Sep 25, 2008 8:24:47 AM
I think we can see why this guy was kicked out of public office.
Posted by: JKIR | Sep 25, 2008 8:59:38 AM
Latest on the Berg Lawsuit yesterday Obama was to appear in court. This is posted on the official Berg website.
For Immediate Release: - 09/24/08
OBAMA & DNC HIDE BEHIND LEGAL ISSUES WHILE BETRAYING PUBLIC IN NOT PRODUCING A CERTIFIED COPY OF OBAMA’S “VAULT” BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
Country is Headed to a Constitutional Crisis
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 09/24/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and Democratic National Committee [DNC] filed a Joint Motion to Dismiss on the last day to file a response, for the obvious purpose of delaying Court action in the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Their joint motion indicates a concerted effort to avoid the truth by delaying the judicial process, although legal, by not resolving the issue presented: that is, whether Barack Obama was “natural born.”
It is obvious that Obama was born in Kenya and does not meet the “qualifications” to be President of the United States pursuant to our United States Constitution. Obama cannot produce a certified copy of his “Vault” [original long version] Birth Certificate from Hawaii because it does not exist.
Posted by: Democrat All My LIfe | Sep 25, 2008 9:06:06 AM
Isn't Hastings the bit of sub-human scum that is a convicted felon. What diatribe from a slimy moron.
Posted by: r gobel | Sep 25, 2008 9:08:33 AM
This is a joke, plain and simple. This is extremely racist. I'm Hispanic, we hunt since we are young in certain parts of the Hispanic culture and I was raised in one of those. I guess I'm just a gun-toting moose-skinner too.
¡Que verguenza para los democratas!
Posted by: Josue | Sep 25, 2008 9:10:35 AM
Hastings embodies everything that is wrong with the Democratic Party today. Incredible statements!
Posted by: Dave C | Sep 25, 2008 9:11:07 AM
Isn't Hastings OJ Simpson's best buddy? Says alot, doesn't it. Many, many jews are behind Palin - she is pro-Israel.
Posted by: Himtngal | Sep 25, 2008 9:11:38 AM
What a dumbass!
When are the black people going to get it. The Dems are only interested in their situation during election year.
What a dumbass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: steve jordan | Sep 25, 2008 9:12:02 AM
For those people who say she is not for Jews or their causes, please explain to me why she has an ISRAELI flag in her governors office? Yes... Please look it up!
Posted by: chiapet | Sep 25, 2008 9:12:12 AM
Shame on the morally corrupt Alcee Hastings for practising politics of division and falsehoods. Why do his constituents insist on voting for this racist retard? The answer : because they themselves are a bunch of racist retards.
Posted by: Jakester | Sep 25, 2008 9:12:56 AM
Hastings is what you get with affirmative action. Only Bush is dumber.
Posted by: Rob Mason | Sep 25, 2008 9:15:37 AM
This is the quallity of politicians we have? This ignorant person makes laws? This is a prime example of the "dumbing down of America." We have lowered our standards and consequently anyone with a pulse can be a congressman. No wonder this country is in trouble.
Posted by: Carolyn | Sep 25, 2008 9:15:46 AM
What an idiot.
Posted by: tired170 | Sep 25, 2008 9:16:33 AM
Why do I have to share my country with illiterate, ignorant jerks like Alcee Hastings? Why, why, why?
Posted by: Greg E | Sep 25, 2008 9:16:34 AM
Yo, my man Rep. Hastings be speakin' on da TROOFF! Ya Feelin me?
Hahaha. Spectacular display of an inability to use even a grade-school level of grammatical correctness. Well done sir.
You don't not speak well indeed!
ha.
Posted by: Jerry G | Sep 25, 2008 9:17:04 AM
In 1991, Alcee Hastings accepted $150,000 bribe money and got his hand slapped because of his skin color. This is an example of what happens when you vote for race and not integrity. He's a big fool who's spending our hard earned money. What if a white politician said this?
Posted by: Bruce | Sep 25, 2008 9:17:39 AM
yuck...to infer that Palin is a racist redneck because she hunts moose is like saying that everyone from San Fran is gay...don't vote for someone because of something someone's told you, look for yourself
Posted by: Marc | Sep 25, 2008 9:17:42 AM
She has an Israeli flag in her office because she's never met a Jew who she didn't think was fit to die to usher in the apocalypse in order to save her millenarian a$$. Americans with Israeli flags scare me. They should scare you, too.
And don't tell me that if Obama had a foreign flag around, you wouldn't be screaming treason.
Posted by: Sam | Sep 25, 2008 9:18:16 AM
Hastings simply sums up the corrupt race baiting and divisive politics of the NeoSocialist party of Obama.
This is the face of the Obama movement. This is who they are. They are coming after your wallet and bank account. They won't be satisfied until the United States of America is a hardcore Communist nation.
Posted by: Obama Creep Supporters Exposed | Sep 25, 2008 9:18:39 AM
I would love to know where the following comment was suppose to have been said. Putting out stuff like this with no proof is ridiculous.
Perhaps hasting should look at the racist comments of Biden who has mad jokes about every minority group he can think of.
"Sarah Falin was said to have called Obama 'sambo' as in "so sambo beat the biatch" when Obama defeated Hilary in the Primaries"
Posted by: vb | Sep 25, 2008 9:19:35 AM
Shame on you Alcee.
Posted by: DCortez | Sep 25, 2008 9:20:14 AM
Sarah Palin turned me into a newt.
Posted by: John Galt | Sep 25, 2008 9:20:34 AM
Hastings doesn't speak for anyone but himself. His exaggerated point is that Palin has not had a chance to show minorities that she can understand their issues. How could she?
So far as hunting is concerned? Some folks don't like people who hunt animals for sport, but can empathize with those hunters who are hunting for food. Let's get real, though, the cost of getting to places to hunt in Alaska by plane or helicopter is far greater than the value of the meat or fish caught.
Palin lives in a culture where hunting is quite acceptable, and is not even questioned. That is the provincial problem she faces. If you grow up in an African village, your world-view is limited. If you grow up in Alaska, your world-view is, equivalently, limited.
Posted by: bfloxword | Sep 25, 2008 9:20:40 AM
Palin is just more proof that women should just stay at home....What could she possibly have in common with a Jew Woman from Florida?
Posted by: Irish Bri | Sep 25, 2008 9:21:03 AM
The Dem. Party has left me & my people. Most all of the people I know are voting McCain or staying home. This is the kind of talk that makes us think & wake up to the fact that the Dem. Party is not with us. See J. Carter, ect. We will NOT accept these sort of lies that Barrack's people are putting out. The Jewish people are starting to get it.
Posted by: Fla. Jewish Woman | Sep 25, 2008 9:21:50 AM
One of the most moronic public statements I've ever read. I'm embarrassed for Florida.
Posted by: RedGuyInABlueState | Sep 25, 2008 9:22:33 AM
Why am I not suprised?? These leftest nutjobs will say anything!! Want to get the real scoop on these idiots? Listen to Rush Limbaugh. He is like medicine to the soul after hearing the Dems ramble on making complete fools of themselves.
Posted by: Joy | Sep 25, 2008 9:22:42 AM
Why doesn't he just shut his pie hole. He is so meaningless.
Posted by: Adrian | Sep 25, 2008 9:23:11 AM
One thing is obvious. Congressman Alcee Hastings ain't too edicated and don't care about no Enlish grammah.
The people of Florida should be proud.
Posted by: nearboston | Sep 25, 2008 9:23:12 AM
Mike A. in Idaho is an idiot. Sarah Palin never said that. That is something he got from DU.
You need to go crawl back under your DU rock Mike A.
I think it is awfully telling when the so called Party of Tolerance utters such words as Alcee Hastings just did.
Posted by: Desert Rat | Sep 25, 2008 9:25:04 AM
Didn't Biden say you can't go into a 7 Eleven in Deleware without an Indian accent recently? So what is Palin called Obama Sambo...Is that worse than Biden.....At least Palin isn't making fun of parapalegics by telling them to stand up! Palin is hot....Hillary is not.....deal with it!!
Posted by: Irish Bri | Sep 25, 2008 9:25:17 AM
People should have a serious problem with this racist comment. This is race baiting at its best. One would expect a Congressman to use proper syntax even! Why the media give him a free pass is completely offensive. Take out the trash and elect someone not institutionalized by hatred and race baiting scare-tactics.
Posted by: FriendlySally | Sep 25, 2008 9:25:58 AM
Why has no one called attention to this morons superb use of the English language. It is obvious he is a product of the government (public) school system
Posted by: Heath, Ft Worth, TX | Sep 25, 2008 9:26:01 AM
What in the world are you Floridians doing this this moron as your rep?
Is THIS really the best you got?
Does THIS MORON really reflect your attitudes?
You guys are in some serious trouble if THIS is the very BEST you have to represent you.
The world is LAUGHING AT YOU.
Aren't you smart enough to see that???



