Gov. Paul LePage told a group of Republicans last week that President Obama "hates white people," according to two state lawmakers who say they heard the remark directly.
The governor made the comment during a Maine Republican Party fundraiser on Aug. 12 at the home of John and Linda Fortier in Belgrade. According to the invitation, the fundraiser was a "meet and greet" for LePage and first lady Ann LePage, and an opportunity to meet Rick Bennett, the new party chairman.
The lawmakers, both Republicans, confirmed the comment when asked by a Portland Press Herald reporter but asked that their names be withheld for fear of political retribution.
Each said LePage talked about how Obama could have been the best president ever if he had highlighted his biracial heritage. LePage said the president hasn't done that because he hates white people.
"Yeah, he said it," said one of the lawmakers. "It was one little thing from a speech, but I think most people there thought it was totally inappropriate."
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Dah!
ReplyDeleteThe statement is true.
ReplyDeleteShow me where Obummer has been anything close to fair with whites.
Sorry I agree with him. It is a shame he had a great oppertunity to bring people together and he blew it.
ReplyDeleteHis brother is the Chief Financial Officer of the Muslim Brother-Hood as well; reason Obama hates Christians as well.
ReplyDeleteFor god's sake- his mother & grandparents who helped raise him were white!
ReplyDeleteHe's a thug that can talk a good game!
ReplyDeleteYou can't smear a man who is willing to tell the truth. I applaud him.
ReplyDelete>>>For god's sake- his mother & grandparents who helped raise him were white!<<< Ummmm - aren't those the same individuals that he dismissed as 'typical white people'?
ReplyDeleteOf course he hates white people. So many of us white people have his number and people always hate it when someone has their number.
ReplyDeleteHe hates it that so many white people can see him for what he really is and aren't fooled by him like an overwhelming majority of black people are.
Who didn't already know this??
ReplyDeletei beleeve it.
ReplyDeleteI wish he would get terminal cancer, a nice fast growing kind!
ReplyDelete*facepalm.
ReplyDeletePeople here defend a man calling Obama, who is half white, and was raised by white folk, a person who hates white people... a racist.
Yet will defy any notion that the Regans were racially insensitive, when they came from an era when it was *ok to be so. At least there are odds that Nancy and Ronald Regan could have been racially insensitive based on the time period they were raised and lived.
Oh.... the painful irony of it all.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Surprise announcement! White people don't like Obama.
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