Here I am, arguing with Andrew Lazarus that the modern GOP really isn’t all that racist, when I read the news and get some cold water tossed in my face.<\/p>\n
GOP Congressman from Kentucky, Geoff Davis, refers to Obama as “that boy”<\/a>. Now my first reaction was, well that’s a little bit understandable, Obama’s young, this guy is probably one of those crusty old pols from the South in his 60’s or whatever, I’m not gonna over-react.<\/p>\n Then I go to Wikipedia<\/a>. The stupid SOB was born in 1958. Obama was born in 1961<\/a>. What a tool.<\/p>\n So yes, Andrew, there are racists in the GOP, even in the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here I am, arguing with Andrew Lazarus that the modern GOP really isn’t all that racist, when I read the news and get some cold water tossed in my face. GOP Congressman from Kentucky, Geoff Davis, refers to Obama as “that boy”. Now my first reaction was, well that’s a little bit understandable, Obama’s young, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}