MyDD :: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery

CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery

by RandyMI, Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 02:12:34 PM EST

I've always believed that one of the best ways to gauge what people believe is to listen to what comes out of the mouths of their children. And if what is coming out of the mouth of the son of US Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, we might be better off without him in office, especially with lines like "Slavery gets shit done".

Hmmm. If you're a GOP candidate for Senate, you probably don't want your son to be putting up stuff on Facebook that mocks Barack Obama as a Muslim, a homosexual, and a terrorist. (On second thought...)

You probably don't want him to put up pictures of Jesus holding an M-16 in front of a Confederate flag.

And you definitely don't want him to put up a poster declaring that "slavery gets shit done."

And yet -- all this really happened to some poor sap who's dreaming of joining the Senate one day.

The poor sap in question is Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer.

You're going to say that Schaffer is not 100% responsible, but one has to wonder what kind of environment was this kid brought up in to spout this crap. Crap, of course, that has been par for the course from Republicans for the past few months.

Tags: CO-SEN (all tags)

Permalink :: 11 Comments :: Post a Comment

May as well add the mirror (none / 0)

to Cap'n Bootyplunder's facebook mirror.

http://www.schafferfamilyvalues.com/

by JJE on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 02:34:42 PM EST

Re: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery (none / 0)

Give the kid a break. the sticker was a joke. It had an Egyptian pyramid and above it said "Slavery gets s*** done." i think you guys are overreacting.

by karajan72 on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 02:53:45 PM EST

Re: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery (2.00 / 2)

After reading your relentless Obama bashing, it's nice to see who you want to give the breaks to.

by RandyMI on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 03:01:22 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery (none / 0)

If you're a famliy values candidte you're family is fair game. He raised the idiot, he pays the political price.

by NewOaklandDem on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 04:11:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery (none / 0)

Why do PUMAs stick up for Republicans unless they are actually Republicans, themselves?

by RandyMI on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 04:14:42 PM EST
[ Parent ]

By th way (2.00 / 1)

If you put Shaffer and slavery into context, then you might think twice.

Just before boarding a plane to the Mariana Islands in 1999, then-Congressman Bob Schaffer announced he was embarking on a fact-finding mission to get to the bottom of repeated allegations of labor abuse in the American protectorate.

"I plan to walk right into those factories and living quarters to see for myself what conditions exist," Schaffer said in a news release in August of that year....

He left believing that allegations of widespread abuse were largely unfounded -- blaming them on Big Labor's efforts to shut down a booming textile industry allowed to use the "Made in USA" label but dependent on tens of thousands of imported workers....

At heart of the issue is the islands' massive textile industry, which is exempted from the U.S. minimum wage as well as most American immigration laws. The Northern Marianas economy is built on thousands of workers from China, the Philippines and Bangladesh, some of whom pay labor recruiters as much as $7,000 to land a job on U.S. soil.

A class-action lawsuit filed the year Schaffer toured the islands alleged that many of those workers lived in slum conditions, housed seven to a room in barracks surrounded by barbed wire designed to keep the workers in. Workers in some factories labored 12 hours a day, seven days a week, the suit alleged -- without pay if they fell behind set quotas.

A U.S. Interior Department investigation found that pregnant workers were forced to get illegal abortions or lose their jobs. Some were recruited for factories but forced into the sex trade instead....

"There were some examples of problems that we found, and we raised those with the equivalent of the attorney general," Schaffer said of his visit. But in many others, "the workers were smiling; they were happy."

by RandyMI on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 04:19:44 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: By th way (none / 0)

I doubt he can even think once about it, given his first comment.

by NewOaklandDem on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 04:22:02 PM EST
[ Parent ]

seriously? (none / 0)

I dont know how that crap plays out in Colorado, but kids are stupid. They do shit to get attention. He is purposely looking for a reaction from people like you.

Tell the little snot to bug off, but you're giving him way more attention than he needs.

When i was a teen i had a reaction, but in the opposite way. Mine was complete anti religion. I posted stuff on my livejournal (yes before facebook and myspace) that was just to get a reaction from people. who cares?

vote blue in 2008

by sepulvedaj3 on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 03:25:56 PM EST

Re: seriously? (none / 0)

Well for one thing, the campaign's website directly linked to the kid's page.

by RandyMI on Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 03:33:37 PM EST
[ Parent ]

oh.... (none / 0)

well thats pretty shitty and stupid.

vote blue in 2008

by sepulvedaj3 on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 02:12:30 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: CO-SEN: Schaffer's Son Praises Slavery (none / 0)

While tactless, this doesn't bother me. He's a kid. It's in poor taste. Meh.

Let's beat his father for having bad ideas...not for having a kid with a shitty sense of humor.