I'm going to preface this entry by stating unequivocally that this has absolutely nothing to do with the 2008 presidential race. I don't care which candidate you may be supporting.
In the past couple of days, Andrew Cuomo recently made these remarks:
"It's not a TV-crazed race, you know, you can't just buy your way through that race ... It doesn't work that way, it's frankly a more demanding process. You have to get on a bus, you have to go into a diner, you have to shake hands, you have to sit down with 10 people in a living room.
"You can't shuck and jive at a press conference, you can't just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you saying answer the question, you know, and all those moves you can make with the press don't work when you're in someone's living room.
Does this mean Andrew Cuomo is racist? Probably not. But it sure as hell means he is tone-deaf, if not racially insensitive.
What's disturbing, though, is that Kossacks have been defending the use of the term 'shuck and jive'.
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