Maine Governor Denies Saying Obama 'Hates White People'

Two lawmakers heard it at a fundraiser and told the media

Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who has a history of making controversial statements, denied that he said President Obama "hates white people."

"No, I never said that. And you guys are all about gossip," the Republican governor said Tuesday to WCSH-TV in Portland and other reporters who followed him.

The Portland Press Herald reported Monday that LePage said during a fundraiser last week that Obama "hates white people," according to two Republican lawmakers who had heard the remark. They had requested anonymity "for fear of political retribution," the newspaper said.

Comments

[Anders]

He doesn't hate white people he just hates that he is half white, as he wrote about in his Semen-al book, "Lies my Daddy done told me".

St. Trayvon, a black thug casing houses, assaults a neighborhood watchman and Lord O goes full Hollywood.

Christopher Lane, a foreign white devil gets shot in the back by 3 black kids when he's out for a jog.

NO COMMENT.

[John Galt]

What a shame those three Obama's sons weren't put down before they had a chance to murder that jogging honky just for "fun."

[Rufus J. Firefly]

So, Obama hates part of himself? Man, that's a stretch even for conspiratorial minds. If he does, then there are issues there.

[Anders]

"I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites."

This statement comes from the introduction to Dreams from My Father (p. xv),

"There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white."

This statement comes from page 142 of Dreams from My Father,

Yeah, I'd say there's some issues there. You'd catch all kinds of hell if you were a pol and said the above, swapping 'white' and 'black'.

[Rufus J. Firefly]

Advertise? That's the word he used? /face palm.

[Eric Bana]

Who doesn't hate whites?