UPDATE: Jason Thompson, former governor Tommy Thompson's son, issues an apology for a joke he made about Obama yesterday.
Speaking at a fundraiser in Kenosha on Sunday, the son of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson joked about sending President Barack Obama back to Kenya.
ORIGINAL STORY: Jason Thompson spoke at a GOP brunch attended by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and state party Chairman Brad Courtney.
As seen on a YouTube video, Jason Thompson tells supporters: "We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya."
Those in the room applauded the comment, and one woman can be heard saying, "We're taking donations for that Kenya trip."
Tommy Thompson, who apparently was not at the event, told reporters Sunday night that he was unaware of his son's comment. "I haven't seen a video," he said.
Asked whether he was at the fundraiser, Tommy Thompson said: "'I don't know what you're talking about," and repeated that he hadn't seen anything.
A spokesman for Thompson's campaign told the website BuzzFeed, which first reported the incident, that Jason Thompson "said something that he should not have and he apologizes."
Thompson is locked in a tight battle for the U.S. Senate race with Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, whose campaign declined to comment on the incident.
Graeme Zielinski, communications director for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said: "These tactics have no place in our politics and we hope Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and Reince Preibus will disavow these comments immediately."
1) you are pulling from years to come up with a couple fo examples from Democrats, when there isn't a day that goes by that the Republicans don't say something objectifying people by race, gender or religious beliefs. 2) Even in your examples, there isn't anything inherently divisive about redistribution. You may not believe in it, but there isn't anything fundamentally divisive about it. I am a business owner for the past 15 years and I always thought that we pay a ridiculously low amount of taxes and I have always had our accountants on board with us paying our fair share. Similarly, you can find multitudes of millionaires, billionaires and business owners who think similarly, all the way up to Warren Buffett. So you can only say that is divisive up to the point that some people believe that the wealthy should be putting more back into the system that enabled them to get there...and then some people don't.
(Disclaimer: The personalities ascribed above bear absolutely no resemblance to those of persons who may have had a relationship of a similar nature to the person ascribing the same.)
Just don't go cryin to your momma when Obama/Biden/Baldwin go down in flames on November 6th!
Biden's comment was made fairly recently, and there are plenty of other examples from local as well as national players in the Democratic Party - Hoffa was just using the big ones. Because of MSM bias, not many divisive Dem comments get national or even regional attention. And if you don't consider all the class warfare rhetoric coming from the Obama/Biden campaign to be divisive, then you are clearly in denial and have drank too much of the liberal kool-aide. Please post a copy of your last tax return, with the personal info redacted, wherein it shows that you paid more than your required share of taxes because you believe that you pay too little and wanted to contribute even more than you legally owed to the government. Bottom line - if you can't do this, then you aren't for real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CqHPZteJ7rI
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57532786/poll-finds-romney-leads-by-five-points-in-swing-states/
First you alleged some kind of racism here, and then make a disparaging remark about Mexico and Romney? A bit hypocritical here, don't you think? And when did Romney ever refer to Mexico as his "home country?" To the contrary, Obama has on many occasions referred to Kenya as being his "home country." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs If you can't see the difference, then perhaps it's your ignorance that is astounding!
Romney never asserted that Mexico was his "home country," unlike Barack Obama who regularly asserts that Kenya is his "home country." Big difference!
That Rolling Stone article is a joke - it's filled with assumptions, speculations, conjecture, supposition, hearsay and everything else other than HARD OBJECTIVE FACT! It's little more than the gutter press running a political smear/hit piece. If you're using that piece upon which to form your opinion, then you're not being very open minded or fair. When it comes to politics/ideology, Rolling Stone is as far left as Mother Jones and the Daily Kos - it's little more than biased propaganda parading as 'real' news. Try again!
And guess what, ya goofball, just because I am not going to waste that much time having accounting pull up return, edit them, create a webpage to post a link to, etc. in no way delegitimizes what we do. Your claims, logic and conclusions are childlike. Move on, because I can't be bothered dummying everything down to the troll level that you dwell at.
Hoffa gets it - you talk the talk but don't walk the walk. There's a word that describes you perfectly - hypocrite!
Thompson doesn't think for Hoffa - only Hoffa thinks for Hoffa, thank you very much! And Hoffa stands by his original comment, no matter what anyone else says, because it's wholly supported by objective facts and reaches a logical conclusion premised upon those facts. Thompson is just playing it safe for political/electoral reasons.
Another brainwashed idiotic moron who pukes out the crap stuffed into its puny brain.
Yeap. 98% of blacks will vote for Obama solely due to race. Racism is very much prevalent in the black community, thank you for stating that!