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   "I wish this President would learn how to be an American," says Cuban-born John Sununu, who is of Palestinian and Greek descent, and father grew up in Jerusalem and mother was from El Salvador

17 Jul 2012 05:46 PM   |   1312 clicks   |   Huffington Post
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themindiswatching    [TotalFark]  
"I wish this President wasn't so uppity"

Fixed.

17 Jul 2012 01:51 PM
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BunkoSquad    [TotalFark]  
I want to buy this headline dinner

17 Jul 2012 01:52 PM
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what_now    [TotalFark]  
BunkoSquad: I want to buy this headline dinner

And never call it again?

17 Jul 2012 01:58 PM
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bloobeary     
themindiswatching: "I wish this President wasn't so uppity"

Fixed.


Over in one.

17 Jul 2012 02:06 PM
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Sgt Otter    [TotalFark]  
BunkoSquad: I want to buy this headline dinner

Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

/Did I just white-knight John farking Sununu? SERENITY NOW!

17 Jul 2012 02:09 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
So f*cking what where his ancestors were from or where he was born?

You sound like a racist piece of shiat Birther with this crap.

17 Jul 2012 02:12 PM
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what_now    [TotalFark]  
Sgt Otter: Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

Well, you'd think former Governor and Ambassador John Sununu would understand about the immigrant experience, but apparently not.

17 Jul 2012 02:13 PM
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BunkoSquad    [TotalFark]  
Sgt Otter: BunkoSquad: I want to buy this headline dinner

Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

/Did I just white-knight John farking Sununu? SERENITY NOW!


Well, I mean, I'd buy it dinner at the new pan-Asian-fusion-Middle Eastern-Latin place that's probably opening in town sometime soon.

17 Jul 2012 02:14 PM
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what_now    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: So f*cking what where his ancestors were from or where he was born?

You sound like a racist piece of shiat Birther with this crap.


Let me explain:

Mitt Romney needs to dog whistle to the mouth breathers about how Obama is so very black, and black people aren't really Americans.

So who does he get to do this? Does he go with a supporter who can trace their family tree back to the Mayflower? Does he go with someone who grandparents emigrated from a nice white country several generations ago?

No, he goes with the half Muslim half Hispanic dude who was born in Cuba.

Because the Romney campaign can't even dog whistle correctly.

17 Jul 2012 02:16 PM
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Sgt Otter    [TotalFark]  
what_now: Sgt Otter: Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

Well, you'd think former Governor and Ambassador John Sununu would understand about the immigrant experience, but apparently not.


That's what I get for not reading TFA:

"He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia," he said. "And, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago."

I take it back. You're a dick, Sununu.

17 Jul 2012 02:19 PM
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Vodka Zombie     
Shorter John Sununu: "Vote for the moon god-worshiping teetotaler. After all, what's more American than that?"

17 Jul 2012 02:22 PM
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cameroncrazy1984     
Aarontology: So f*cking what where his ancestors were from or where he was born?

You sound like a racist piece of shiat Birther with this crap.


I think you might need to read what Sununu said about Obama.

17 Jul 2012 02:24 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
what_now: Aarontology: So f*cking what where his ancestors were from or where he was born?

You sound like a racist piece of shiat Birther with this crap.

Let me explain:

Mitt Romney needs to dog whistle to the mouth breathers about how Obama is so very black, and black people aren't really Americans.

So who does he get to do this? Does he go with a supporter who can trace their family tree back to the Mayflower? Does he go with someone who grandparents emigrated from a nice white country several generations ago?

No, he goes with the half Muslim half Hispanic dude who was born in Cuba.

Because the Romney campaign can't even dog whistle correctly.


Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

17 Jul 2012 02:24 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
cameroncrazy1984: Aarontology: So f*cking what where his ancestors were from or where he was born?

You sound like a racist piece of shiat Birther with this crap.

I think you might need to read what Sununu said about Obama.


I did. He's a dipshiat.

Now, answer me this. How is attacking Sununu's ethnicity any better?

17 Jul 2012 02:25 PM
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BunkoSquad    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

Is anybody attacking Sununu for having mixed ethnicity? It looks to me more like people are giving him crap because he can't or won't understand how his mixed ethnicity makes him a good American while the President's mixed ethnicity makes him a scary Other.

17 Jul 2012 02:27 PM
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flaEsq    [TotalFark]  
Sununu for veep?

17 Jul 2012 02:27 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
BunkoSquad: Aarontology: Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

Is anybody attacking Sununu for having mixed ethnicity? It looks to me more like people are giving him crap because he can't or won't understand how his mixed ethnicity makes him a good American while the President's mixed ethnicity makes him a scary Other.


If what Sununu said was an attack on Obama's ethnicity, then what these people are saying is an attack on Sununu's.

17 Jul 2012 02:28 PM
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sweetmelissa31    [TotalFark]  
He's literally the Revolting Blob from Billy Madison.

17 Jul 2012 02:28 PM
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what_now    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

No, that's not what we're doing at all. No one is saying it's BAD to be of Palestinian and Greek descent with roots Latin America. No one is saying that Ambassador Sununu isn't very American.

Look, Sununu was welcomed in farking New Hampshire, which has less coloring than an Irish nun's ass, and he never made a secret of his ethnicity or heritage.

But he's attacking Obama "not being American enough" because of his ethnicity.

17 Jul 2012 02:33 PM
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zedster    [TotalFark]  
themindiswatching: "I wish this President wasn't so uppity"

Fixed.


I've been saying for a while now the Tea Party is really a game of who can find the most synonyms for uppity

17 Jul 2012 02:38 PM
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cameroncrazy1984     
what_now: Aarontology: Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

No, that's not what we're doing at all. No one is saying it's BAD to be of Palestinian and Greek descent with roots Latin America. No one is saying that Ambassador Sununu isn't very American.

Look, Sununu was welcomed in farking New Hampshire, which has less coloring than an Irish nun's ass, and he never made a secret of his ethnicity or heritage.

But he's attacking Obama "not being American enough" because of his ethnicity.


This is exactly correct. Calling Sununu a hypocrite isn't attacking him. It's telling the truth.

17 Jul 2012 02:39 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
what_now: No, that's not what we're doing at all. No one is saying it's BAD to be of Palestinian and Greek descent with roots Latin America. No one is saying that Ambassador Sununu isn't very American.

Look, Sununu was welcomed in farking New Hampshire, which has less coloring than an Irish nun's ass, and he never made a secret of his ethnicity or heritage.

But he's attacking Obama "not being American enough" because of his ethnicity.


Sununu wasn't saying it was Obama's ethnicity that didn't make him American. It was that he was raised partially outside of the country and because he smoked weed, and because he didn't grind poor people into paste in Chicago. The "otherness" factor is the result of that, not race. It's still a dipshiat ignorant thing to say.

Screaming racist at every goddamned thing only contributes to the pathetic teabagger persecution complex, and enforces intellectual laziness because it's a handy excuse you can just mindlessly parrot. It's like how the mouthbreathers on the right scream socialism at everything, including their own ideas.

17 Jul 2012 02:40 PM
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violentsalvation    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: Which totally justifies acting like retard birthers and using someone's ethnicity to attack them.

Greek descent is the highest form of patriotic.

17 Jul 2012 02:41 PM
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cameroncrazy1984     
Aarontology: Sununu wasn't saying it was Obama's ethnicity that didn't make him American. It was that he was raised partially outside of the country and because he smoked weed, and because he didn't grind poor people into paste in Chicago. The "otherness" factor is the result of that, not race. It's still a dipshiat ignorant thing to say.

Except, you know, being Cuban-born, Sununu is the same way.

17 Jul 2012 02:42 PM
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JerseyTim    [TotalFark]  
I love the fact that John Sununu, who was forced to resign as Chief of Staff for George H.W. Bush, is a prominent Romney surrogate.

17 Jul 2012 02:42 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
cameroncrazy1984: Except, you know, being Cuban-born, Sununu is the same way.

How long did he live in Cuba?

17 Jul 2012 02:44 PM
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what_now    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: Sununu wasn't saying it was Obama's ethnicity that didn't make him American.

Maybe not to people who understand nuance and such, but that wasn't his audience.

The bottom line is, the Romney campaign tried to dog whistle about Obama being an "other" and can't even do that right.

17 Jul 2012 02:45 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
what_now: The bottom line is, the Romney campaign tried to dog whistle about Obama being an "other" and can't even do that right.

Well, you're not going to get any disagreements from me that the Romney campaign is amateur hour.

17 Jul 2012 02:46 PM
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Bloody William     
Sgt Otter: what_now: Sgt Otter: Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

Well, you'd think former Governor and Ambassador John Sununu would understand about the immigrant experience, but apparently not.

That's what I get for not reading TFA:

"He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia," he said. "And, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago."

I take it back. You're a dick, Sununu.


What the wheezing fark is a "socialized structure," and why is it bad?

17 Jul 2012 02:46 PM
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MorrisBird    [TotalFark]  
Now, for a little traveling music. Right, John?

17 Jul 2012 02:48 PM
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gilgigamesh    [TotalFark]  
Sgt Otter: what_now: Sgt Otter: Immigrants? In America? Who can imagine such a thing?

Well, you'd think former Governor and Ambassador John Sununu would understand about the immigrant experience, but apparently not.

That's what I get for not reading TFA:

"He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn't be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, another set of years in Indonesia," he said. "And, frankly, when he came to the U.S. he worked as a community organizer, which is a socialized structure, and then got into politics in Chicago."

I take it back. You're a dick, Sununu.


Not when "he came back to the US". "When he came to the US". This douchebag is playing to the birther retards by not-so-subtlely implying that Hawaii is not a part of the United States.

17 Jul 2012 02:48 PM
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violentsalvation    [TotalFark]  
Goddammit I f*cked up my post.

17 Jul 2012 02:48 PM
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sweetmelissa31    [TotalFark]  
I mean seriously, am I right?

i.chzbgr.com

17 Jul 2012 02:49 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
violentsalvation: Goddammit I f*cked up my post.

WHERE IS YOUR PATRIOTIC NOW?

17 Jul 2012 02:50 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
what_now: No, he goes with the half Muslim half Hispanic dude who was born in Cuba.

I don't think you can be half-Muslm and half-Hispanic. Isn't that like being half-Catholic and half-Japanese?

17 Jul 2012 02:50 PM
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cameroncrazy1984     
Aarontology: cameroncrazy1984: Except, you know, being Cuban-born, Sununu is the same way.

How long did he live in Cuba?


How long did Obama live in Indonesia? Also, Sununu is implying that Hawaii is not part of the US.

17 Jul 2012 02:51 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: what_now: The bottom line is, the Romney campaign tried to dog whistle about Obama being an "other" and can't even do that right.

Well, you're not going to get any disagreements from me that the Romney campaign is amateur hour.


With that much money, you'd think they could hire a pro, tighten up the message and at least try to run a better campaign than McCain.

17 Jul 2012 02:51 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
cameroncrazy1984: Aarontology: cameroncrazy1984: Except, you know, being Cuban-born, Sununu is the same way.

How long did he live in Cuba?

How long did Obama live in Indonesia? Also, Sununu is implying that Hawaii is not part of the US.


Doesn't Hawaii still have a king? That's got to be as anti-American as letting the British crown tax our tea.

17 Jul 2012 02:53 PM
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gilgigamesh    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: violentsalvation: Goddammit I f*cked up my post.

WHERE IS YOUR PATRIOTIC NOW?


Descenting.

17 Jul 2012 02:53 PM
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vernonFL    [TotalFark]  
www.examiner.com


John Goodman isn't aging well.

17 Jul 2012 02:53 PM
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BSABSVR     
I_C_Weener: Aarontology: what_now: The bottom line is, the Romney campaign tried to dog whistle about Obama being an "other" and can't even do that right.

Well, you're not going to get any disagreements from me that the Romney campaign is amateur hour.

With that much money, you'd think they could hire a pro, tighten up the message and at least try to run a better campaign than McCain.


Sounds like they need a game changer.

17 Jul 2012 02:54 PM
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Aarontology    [TotalFark]  
cameroncrazy1984: How long did Obama live in Indonesia?

Through elementary school at least, right? A couple of years in any case.

cameroncrazy1984: Also, Sununu is implying that Hawaii is not part of the US.

I missed that part, actually.

I_C_Weener: With that much money, you'd think they could hire a pro, tighten up the message and at least try to run a better campaign than McCain.

Is he using his own money this time around? I suppose it wouldn't matter since he's been raking in a lot of contributions. It should be interesting to see if he changes staff after the convention when the real campaign begins.

17 Jul 2012 02:54 PM
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gilgigamesh    [TotalFark]  
I_C_Weener: Doesn't Hawaii still have a king?

So does Louisiana.

Of course I could be confusing reality with "True Blood" again.

17 Jul 2012 02:56 PM
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Jackson Herring    [TotalFark]  
sweetmelissa31: I mean seriously, am I right?

[i.chzbgr.com image 401x271]


you Are right

17 Jul 2012 02:57 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
vernonFL: [www.examiner.com image 400x300]


John Goodman isn't aging well.


He looks more John Madden

17 Jul 2012 02:57 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: Is he using his own money this time around? I suppose it wouldn't matter since he's been raking in a lot of contributions. It should be interesting to see if he changes staff after the convention when the real campaign begins.

I don't know, but the people from the old guard he is using are losers like Sununu. He needs Karl Rove, or at least someone who can act as the top-down leader of the campaign. Romney is a flip flopper looks a lot more real when even his supporters and staff can't keep their positions straight.

One message on his agenda, every day. One poke at Obama every day. This is the Clinton way. Well, Skeletor from Clinton's campaigns anyway.

17 Jul 2012 03:00 PM
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BunkoSquad    [TotalFark]  
I'm gonna say "John Goodman after about 40 seconds in a microwave"

17 Jul 2012 03:00 PM
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gilgigamesh    [TotalFark]  
I_C_Weener: One message on his agenda, every day. One poke at Obama every day. This is the Clinton way. Well, Skeletor from Clinton's campaigns anyway.

They'll have to do better than that.

Remember that when the Clintons were at the height of their power, Obama dismantled the Clinton machine and assimilated it like Obama was the Borg and Clinton was Whoopi "Guinan" Goldberg.

17 Jul 2012 03:03 PM
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I_C_Weener    [TotalFark]  
vernonFL: [www.examiner.com image 400x300]


John Goodman isn't aging well.


Definitely John Madden.

www.dailystab.com



www.examiner.com

"Boom! Tough actin' Tinactin!"

17 Jul 2012 03:05 PM
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make me some tea    [TotalFark]  
Aarontology: How is attacking Sununu's ethnicity any better?

thatsthejoke.jpg

17 Jul 2012 03:10 PM
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