Is the Romney/Ryan campaign trying to "niggerize" Obama?

[beej]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Good for him. Because that's EXACTLY what it is. Going back to......Oh, the "Welfare Queen" days. Racial resentment, plain & simple, has been the modus operundi.

That's what I believe to be true....I don't give a damn what you think.

Dave

Hence the allegation that Obama is eliminating the work requirement for welfare recipients. Never in my life seen such a blatant attempt at red-meat race-baiting.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by beej

Hence the allegation that Obama is eliminating the work requirement for welfare recipients. Never in my life seen such a blatant attempt at red-meat race-baiting.

What's even more amazing is that all Obama is doing is exactly what Romney and 28 other GOP had petitioned the government to do. What an @sshole.

"The Romney campaign’s claim is based on a memorandum from the Department of Health and Human Services that does afford states the opportunity to seek waivers from federal welfare requirements.

But HHS said it would grant waivers only to states committed to “testing approaches that build on existing evidence on successful strategies for improving employment outcomes.”

Requests for such waivers have come primarily from Republican governors.

“The president recently gave states more tools they need to help move people from welfare to work as quickly as possible,” Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said on a conference call with reporters. “Contrary to what Romney is alleging, President Obama’s actions have strengthened, not weakened, the welfare system’s ability to move people from assistance to employment.”

The Obama administration created the waiver option in response to governors’ contentions that they could produce better results unbound by inflexible federal welfare rules.

The letter Romney signed seven years ago, along with 28 other members of the Republican Governors Association, made a similar argument.

“Romney is falsely criticizing a policy he once supported that empowers states to implement welfare reform,” Obama policy director James Kvaal said."

http://www.boston.com/politicalintel...q7M/story.html

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by beej

Hence the allegation that Obama is eliminating the work requirement for welfare recipients. Never in my life seen such a blatant attempt at red-meat race-baiting.

Well, there was the Willy Horton ad and Reagan's Philadelphia, MS "states' rights" speech to kick off his 1980 campaign. Awful as it is, it really isn't anything new for the GOPers.

John