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1) What candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination, pressed to pay a compliment to then-Senator Barack Obama, described him as surprisingly "articulate and bright and clean" for a black guy?
--->Sorry, it wasn't a Republican. Again, a democrat: Joe Biden this time.
2) What Republican Senator was 65 years old before he had the earth-shattering revelation that "black people love their children" just like white people do?
---> Opps. Not a Republican....another Democrat. This time it's the Democrat’s favorite Ku Klux Klansman - Robert Byrd.
3) What Republican governor literally stood in the doorway of a school to prevent African-Americans from integrating it?
--->In 1963, both Governor George Wallace of Alabama and Governor Ross Barnett of Mississippi physically stood in the path of black students attempting to register at their respective State Universities. George Wallace and Ross Barnett -- BOTH DEMOCRATS.
Wallace would go on to serve multiple terms as governor, and ran for president several times on an explicitly racist platform. In 1972 he won the North Carolina, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, Tennessee and Florida primaries. And who was voting for him? -- DEMOCRATS.
and remembrer when Governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to "protect" Central High School in Little Rock from nine teenagers determined to get an education there. Orval Faubus -- DEMOCRAT. And who forced the Governor to back down, allowing the Little Rock Nine to integrate the school in safety? President Dwight Eisenhower -- REPUBLICAN.
4) What Republican politician said then-candidate Obama had a political advantage as a black man who doesn’t look or sound like one?
-->oops again....Harry Reid has acknowledged describing then-Senator Obama as a better political candidate for being "light-skinned" rather than dark-skinned, and for speaking "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to.''
5) What Republican governor coined the slogan "Segregation Forever"?
--->That was George Wallace again, who capped his inaugural address in 1962 with the words:
6) What former Republican president waxed nostalgic for the days when someone who looked like Barack Obama could only get into the White House by putting on a white jacket and pouring coffee?
--->Bill Clinton tried to pick up Ted Kennedy‘s endorsement for Hillary. Kennedy was reportedly livid over the conversation, telling friends later that Clinton had belittled Obama by saying:
"A few years ago, this guy would be getting us coffee."
Another report has Clinton complaining to Kennedy:
"The only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black."
7) What Republican First Lady told an ethnic joke about civil rights icon Mahatma Gandhi?
--->Ah, the Clintons. America’s fountain of controversy that never runs dry.
You may already be familiar with the incident. Below is the official version, reproduced, almost word-for-word, by every news organ I could find on the internet:
During (a fund-raiser in Missouri) for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis." After laughter from many in the crowd of at least 200 subsided, the former first lady continued, "No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century."
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