{"id":1908,"date":"2015-03-29T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/07\/11\/rep-cleaver-romney-shouldnt-criticize-obama-in-front-of-a-black-audience\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:49:52","slug":"cleaver-romney-shouldnt-criticize-obama-in-front-of-a-blackaudience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/1908","title":{"rendered":"Cleaver: Romney shouldn’t criticize Obama in front of a black audience"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/secupp\/status\/223072324876910594\n

Today’s lesson in race card logic comes to us courtesy of Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver. Here’s how he reacted to Romney’s criticism of Obamacare while delivering a speech at the annual NAACP convention<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

Rep Cleaver (D-MO) MSNBC: booing Romney on healthcare “inappropriate but predictable” & “he should never have gone there in the first place”<\/p>\n

— Greg Giroux (@greggiroux) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Video via The Washington Examiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Such is life under Obama’s post-racial presidency. Apparently a white candidate must never “go there” when speaking to a black audience about a black opponent’s policies. It’s okay to talk about Obamacare, just not to “this audience.”<\/p>\n

Would Rep. Cleaver would prefer that Romney lie? Does he think black Americans need to be pandered to and spoon-fed liberal pablum instead of hearing what Romney’s candidacy is really about?<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/PollyCarbo\/status\/223075322516611073<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing racist about that. No siree.<\/p>\n\n\n

Shorter Rep. Cleaver: Obama should not be criticized in front of the American people because of his skin color.<\/p>\n

— joe warner (@jwarner180) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conservatives on Twitter tried to puzzle out how Rep. Cleaver’s logic might apply to other situations.<\/p>\n\n\n

So I guess President Obama shouldn't criticize Romney in front a white audience in Ohio, right Rep. Cleaver? #StuckOnStupid<\/a><\/p>\n

— Seth (@dcseth) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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According to Cleaver's logic, Obama shouldn't criticize Palin while speaking before women.<\/p>\n

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rep. Cleaver must also believe that Obama can never criticize Romney in front of white voters. Right?<\/p>\n

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Obama shouldn't criticize obsesity in front of fat people.<\/p>\n

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Can Obama criticize Romney in front of white audience? @secupp<\/a>: Cleaver: Romney should not have criticized Obama in front of black audience.<\/p>\n

— Brad Boll (@acoltfan) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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This tweet just might blow Rep. Cleaver’s mind.<\/p>\n\n\n

Rep. Cleaver shouldn't criticize Romney criticizing Obama in front of a black audience in front of a white audience.<\/p>\n

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hey, Rep. Cleaver, we’ve got news for you:<\/p>\n\n\n

@BenHowe<\/a> Anybody who says the president shouldn't be criticized is obviously not well versed in history or the Constitution.<\/p>\n

— This Will Kill You (@stephenkruiser) July 11, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/secupp\/status\/223072324876910594 Today’s lesson in race card logic comes to us courtesy of Congressional Black Caucus chairman Emanuel Cleaver. Here’s how he reacted to Romney’s criticism of Obamacare while delivering a speech at the annual NAACP convention: Rep Cleaver (D-MO) MSNBC: booing Romney on healthcare “inappropriate but predictable” & “he should never have gone there in … Continue reading Cleaver: Romney shouldn’t criticize Obama in front of a black audience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/14276009948321-racecard-e1340120217984.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}