he s come out and been upset that people are calling him a racist. why do you think that s conventional? i would call that racist and bigoted. gallop poll h had a poll that came out and said 87% v people support interracial marriage. that doesn t mean he was speaking on behalf of people that may be conventional. it was clumsy wording, i think. he was picking at the scabs of racism. if you re going to do that, like he did in 1986 where he said georgetown starters are justified in locking their doors because they re afraid of young african-americans and he also maid a comment about zimmerman in the trayvon martin trial saying he understands why when zimmerman was in that hoodie outfit i m sorry, when trayvon was in the hoodie, zimmerman would be afraid. well, i don t think richard cohen is a racist. i think his intent was to smear
that people are calling him a racist. why do you think that s conventional? i would call that racist and bigoted. gallop poll h had a poll that came out and said 87% v people support interracial marriage. that doesn t mean he was speaking on behalf of people that may be conventional. it was clumsy wording, i think. he was picking at the scabs of racism. if you re going to do that, like he did in 1986 where he said georgetown starters are justified in locking their doors because they re afraid of young african-americans and he also maid a comment about zimmerman in the trayvon martin trial saying he understands why when zimmerman was in that hoodie outfit i m sorry, when trayvon was in the hoodie, zimmerman would be afraid. well, i don t think richard cohen is a racist. i think his intent was to smear conservatives with this racist
that people are calling him a racist. why do you think that s conventional? i would call that racist and bigoted. gallop poll h had a poll that came out and said 87% v people support interracial marriage. that doesn t mean he was speaking on behalf of people that may be conventional. it was clumsy wording, i think. he was picking at the scabs of racism. if you re going to do that, like he did in 1986 where he said georgetown starters are justified in locking their doors because they re afraid of young african-americans and he also maid a comment about zimmerman in the trayvon martin trial saying he understands why when zimmerman was in that hoodie outfit i m sorry, when trayvon was in the hoodie, zimmerman would be afraid. well, i don t think richard cohen is a racist. i think his intent was to smear conservatives with this racist
skeptical social conservatives. i ll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of the world s most wanted terrorist. one year ago from bases here in afghanistan our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and denied a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. the trip wasn t without controversy, some critics accusing the president of playing politics with the anniversary of bin laden s death, questioning whether ro