AP: Palin's Ayers Attack "Racially Tinged" »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsThough she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret. Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as "not like us" is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
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Will13131 year, 1 month ago
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Well no he's not like me.. but then again.. I'm probably not qualified to be president.. so that's a good thing...
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and he's not like Palin.. because he hasn't gotten in the the cesspool and swam with HER..
hateful bigoted woman... Ann Coulter without the black dress..-
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 1 month ago
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The Republicans are losing the American people with their lousy understanding of the economic situation that now grips our nation, they're probably not getting in the donations they need to do a fair and balanced fight against Obama (hence the reason they're leaving Michigan; I see more states they'll be leaving soon), and they're falling even further behind in the polls: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/polls/
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Is it any wonder that the McCain campaign, thru Ms Palin, is starting this smear?
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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The one swimming in the cesspool is Obama.
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Friends with Rezco when he was in Chicago before going to Harvard.
After Harvard he hired into the firm that Rezco used.
Mysteriously all opposition running against Obama in his first election were declared ineligible by not having enough signatures. Something anyone running makes sure they have an excess of.
Kickoff fund raiser at Bill Ayres house.
Served with Ayres on several boards one of which went missing $110 million.
Went to Ayres house on multiple occasions after his feelings that he only wished he had set off more bombs was shown on TV and in the newspapers there.
Fought against the bipartisan effort to stop Chicago corruption.
Voted against born alive babies from botched abortions being kept alive. Just toss them in the garbage alive.
Went to a church and had the pastor as a friend and mentor that is very anti America and racist.
Got a sweetheart deal on his house brokered by Rezco.
Wrote letters to government officials for Rezco.
Voted present almost 130 times.
Stood silent in the senate when the Republicans tried to get better oversight on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
You are known by the company you keep and your actions. Looks like a cesspool to me. When I was young the farm I lived on had one so I know first hand what a cesspool is. He has that odor. -
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BillieMaxer1 year, 1 month ago
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Palin like her Repug partners, don't give enough credit to the average American. The people of America have been duped too many times in the last 8 years and I truly believe the majority will not let America down for another 4 years of the same.Sarah Palin is just an act and the American public is having fun with it, but they aren't being fooled by it.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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Tell me why when anything is said against Obama it is racial.
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I do not like what Obama has done and what he stands for.
Go for it calling me racist. I dare you.
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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I'll tell you whose not like me; palin! I wouldn't identify with her on any level, other than we were both born with the same parts. I knew she was a ruthless witch, & her filthy propaganda against Obama doesn't surprise me at all.
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AntiNeoCon1 year, 1 month ago
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Well I don't think the Eskimo Barbie has much clout anymore since people got a real look at her. Maybe a few right wingers worship the ground she walks on but hey, they love Rush Limball too...get my point? Let her rave on, not many are going to pay any attention now. She does make good fodder for SNL I must say.
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david_nwpa1 year, 1 month ago
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Governor Palin, whether knowingly or not, appealed to the base fears of the far white-wing, I mean far right-wing of the Republican party. She is exacerbating race as an issue, when it should not, in theory, be an issue at all. John McCain and Sarah Palin represent precisely what is wrong with America today; namely, too many people fall prey to their fears and pandering by political candidates.
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NoWayMan1 year, 1 month ago
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"She is exacerbating race as an issue, when it should not, in theory, be an issue at all. John McCain and Sarah Palin represent precisely what is wrong with America today;"
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exactly.
I think she knew what she was implying. or really, her coaches knew it, since she is obviously just a pull-string doll doing the bidding of her handlers.
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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What a couple of kooks. What she represents is what liberals HATE.
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Devout Christian.
Family values.
Working and raising a family.
Fights corruption.
Cuts spending and fires people who do not get with the program.
Lowers taxes.
Built infrastructure at lower cost. As Mayor built a building the people voted for by raising taxes from 2% to 2.5% while drastically cutting property taxes.
Liberals HATE these things. Have to raise spending and taxes not cut them.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
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Thank God for the fact that i'm not like Palin or McCain. I actually care about people instead of material possessions, and will feed stray animals rather than kill them.
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Sarah Palin is a bigot, i firmly believe that she made the comment "Sambo beat the bitch" when Obama beat Hillary in the primaries, and she's not very good at hiding her bigotry either. McCain isn't a lot better!-
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
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What a laugh.
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"I actually care about people instead of material possessions, and will feed stray animals rather than kill them."
She hated people so bad she cut spending and taxes.
She hated people so bad that she fought corruption including taking on people in her own party.
Too many wolves are not stray animals. They will if let run unchecked over kill the Moose and Caribou and then die by starvation. Do you want a few packs of wolves delivered to your door? You could take them in.
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lfergie8121 year, 1 month ago
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They had an anti-Palin rally in Alaska with a bigger crowd turnout than Palin got.
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http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/alaska-wo...
And this was verified by Snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/politics/palin/rally.asp
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Mutainia1 year, 1 month ago
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It's easier and easier to called a racist now IF you are white. There was a time where using the N-word would have gotten you labeled a racist. Now it's questioning the motives of a man who is half black OR, being critical of a faith called Islam.
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Candida1 year, 1 month ago
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I'm not convinced that her comments were racist, but it was filthy propaganda. Guilt by association stinks. I've been on a board of directors with all kinds of people. I worked with them, did fund raising with them. I didn't select them, and I have no idea of their backgrounds, nor do I know what they have done since I quit the board. They could be murderers for all I know. Should I be held responsible for their actions? That's ridiculous.
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This whole thing should not be an issue for two reasons:
1. Ayres was a university professor, a respected member of the community, when they were on the board together.
2. Their association was rather tenuous, and it's ridiculous to hold a person responsible for the actions of others he works with, especially when those actions took place in the distant past. Would you accept responsibility for all the action of everybody you've ever worked with?
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larrykqc1 year, 1 month ago
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It must be very PC to accuse a truth-teller of being a racist.
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Barack (Barry) was educated as a Musim. Then, he disavowed his religion when Michelle told him he would be more successful as a Christian. He started at his South Side church, but disavowed it when it became public that his pastor was a racist. He took the Arabic name Barack when he disavowed his white up-bringing. His father was an Arab - only 10% african. But, Barack disavowed his race to become more popular as an African-American (he is not).
When a person ignores his race, his religion, his name. and his violent friends - Ayers and Resko, he is racist - one who uses race to overcome another.
Palin, a much stronger person than Obama, was simply telling the truth. obama has no defense. Obama is the racist. He has no abilty but to live in deception. .Someone said that he would be another Carter. His lies are so much more. He will cost his party 50 years of success. Then he will disavow his party.-
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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By Any Measure, Sarah Palin is a Radical Political and Religious Extremist
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It’s hard to believe that the corporate media is headlining Sarah Palin’s warmed-over-from-the-primaries Sean Hannity smears against Obama. But then again, according to the site Think Progress, the Mainstream Media Stand To Receive $1.44 Billion From McCain’s Tax Cuts.
While Palin, as the aerial presidential campaign wolf hunter, retreads disproven slander that Obama was somehow in league with an act committed by Bill Ayers when Palin was in the second grade -- so to speak -- and Obama was also in elementary school, the mainstream press ignores Palin’s extremely radical ties to extremist political and religious movements.
..."Palin Who Pals Around with the Alaska Independence (Secessionist) Party, Gets Blessed by a Nutcase Minister Who Protects Her from Witch Doctors, Listens to Speakers Who Believe Jews are Damned, Calls the Iraq War Divinely Inspired (and More of Unacceptable Anti-American and Extremist Beliefs and Behavior) is Now Following the McCain Effort to Reawaken Old Discredited Smears on Obama. Palin is Just a Rabid Pit Bull. Forget the Lipstick." And that’s not even the half of her UnAmerican beliefs, not even a fifth of them....
...Meanwhile, Palin – who is a believer in a renegade theology called "The Third Wave" that believes God has chosen certain people (her) to lead America into preparation for Armageddon, indeed that her ascension to the presidency is a prerequisite for End Times – is getting the kids gloves treatment from the national press...
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Ratskii1 year, 1 month ago
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Firstly, the school that Obama attended was a regular public school. Claiming that he attended a Madras is factually incorrect. A majority of the students were Muslim, but the Muslim religion wasn't taught there any more than the Christian religion is taught in American public schools.
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Secondly, most of what you write simply doesn't make any sense. You are doing nothing more than engaging in name calling. Pure foolishness. -
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sinophil491 year, 1 month ago
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larry - What the heck are you talking about? There are several websites where you can get information on Barack Obama's background. Both Time and Newsweek magazines have printed biographical information on Obama. You are just a ranting, raving idiot.
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Please read something reliable before you post this nonsensical drivel and expose your stupidity to the world.
Barack is the name of his Kenyan father. His mother was a white Christian. Barck did not give up any race or religion. He was searching for a religion and chose the church of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, because Wright was a social activist who used religion to try to improve the welfare of the poor blacks in the Southside of Chicago. That message resonated w/ Obama who deliberately turned down lucrative offers from law firms to work with the poor at a salary of $20,000 per year.
His background of being exposed to white culture when he was raised by his white mother and his white grandparents and being exposed to black culture by - well, being black - puts him a a unique position in American politics to bridge the great divide that still exists between the races.
You do not need to be afraid of a black person being the president of our country, or for that matter, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Jew, a Catholic, a Mormon, or whatever. Don't be afraid to embrace diversity. -
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
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Do yourself a favor
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp
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Progressive1 year, 1 month ago
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slate1 year, 1 month ago
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Yep, and the more desperate they get, the uglier they get.
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Neocon Desperation Is Showing
The neoconservatives and their Republican allies did all they could after Thursday’ s vice presidential debate to turn Sarah Palin’ s peppy, personable but ultimately goofy performance into a turning point for another four-year lease on the White House.
But there was desperation in the air. Reading the neocons’ glowing reviews of Palin’s upbeat recitation of her talking points was a bit like watching a few diehard fans try to start a “wave” when the home team is hopelessly behind.
Palin may have reminded viewers of a badly programmed Stepford Wife, who lacked fluency on complex issues both foreign and domestic – and kept circling back to scripted talking points that had been drilled into her brain by McCain’s neoconservative advisers, like Randy Scheunemann....
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slate1 year, 1 month ago
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Maybe you guys can help me out how this works.
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• Talking about how Obama kicked off his political career from the living room of an unabashed member of a home grown terrorist group is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama told a group in California that Middle America is just a bunch of Bible thumping, gun totting rednecks is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out his association with a man that helped him secure a sweetheart deal on his house is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama was wrong on the surge is now considered bigoted and racist?
• Pointing out that Obama is lying when he now says that he didn’t mean sitting down with the president of Iran without and preconditions is now considered bigoted and racist?
• That pointing out that Obama’s energy policies are flawed is now considered bigoted and racist?
• That Obama is less than truthful when he claims he will cut taxes for 95% of Americans and yet increase spending by a trillion dollars a year is now considered bigoted and racist?
• In fact, ANY and EVERY stance that’s not pro-Obama is now and will be in the foreseeable future considered bigoted and racist?
I appreciate your time to explain these things to me in a non -accusing way, if that’s possible in today’s political climate.-
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ConsAreNonGrata1 year, 1 month ago
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RedstateLib1 year, 1 month ago
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Here is the facts :
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1. If you say anything against Obama you are a racist.
2. If you call Palin a Bi#ch, a CU, a WHO%E or a Prostitute you are just pointing out facts in the best interest of all Americans. But you are in no way a sexist.
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Well Slate, perhaps we need some affirmative action, especially in education, for the small groups Palin claims to represent. Perhaps we could start with Palin herself. Anybody who believes in young-earth creationism at age 46 has shown they missed out on being educated and haven't had enough intellectual power to know surreality from reality.
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Revenge of the Mutt People
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/02/revenge-...
Many years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned by the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribe in northern Idaho. The place stank of the dead and rotting brood sows we chopped out of farrowing crates -- bred to death in the drive for pork production. And it stank of the massive ponds that held millions of gallons of hog feces and rotting baby pigs, and every square inch was poisoned by the pesticides used to kill insects that hogs attract and the antibiotics fed to hogs from hundred pound sacks. The Coeur d'Alene Indians refused to suffer those kinds of conditions; they wouldn't even manage the place. They contracted it out. As my friend Walter Wildshoe said: ?Only a white man would work there.? ....
.... My point here is that we rural and small town mutt people by an early age seem to have a special capacity for cruelty, compared say, to damned near every other imaginable group of Americans. For instance, as a child did you ever put a firecracker up a toad's ass and light it? George Bush and I have that in common. Anyway, as all non-whites the world round understand, white people can be mean. Especially if they feel threatened -- and they feel threatened about everything these days...
... About half of the Americans killed in Iraq come from communities like Winchester, Virginia or Romney, West Virginia or Fisher, Illinois or Kilgore, Texas or . . . . About 45 percent of the American dead in Iraq come from communities of less than 40,000, even though these towns make up only 25 percent of our population. These so-called volunteers are part of this nation's de facto draft -- economic conscription -- the carrot being politically preferable to the whip. The carrot does not have to be very big out here where delivering frozen food wholesale to restaurants out of your own car entirely on commission is considered a good self-employment opportunity... -
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bonaroo1 year, 1 month ago
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Slate,
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"Maybe you guys can help me out how this works."
Pan handling for information is such a Republican trait. I expect to see a lot more of you standing on the street corners with a dazed look in your eyes asking " Hey buddy..... can you tell me what the hell just happened??????-
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jimdoze1 year, 1 month ago
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"Hey buddy..... can you tell me what the hell just happened?"
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And, then along comes Obama, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Franlin Raines, CRA and ACORN to say, "here's what happened, Buddy. We've been sticking the American economy up your keister for a while... even as you protested... and, now we're going to blame you for it. And, guess what, we've got the mainstream media on our side and we're gonna do it... and, if you try to call us on it, we're going to call you racist... and, we're gonna get away with it! Just look at the poll numbers."
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slate1 year, 1 month ago
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Maybe because that like you, the Obama camp has made it personal for a long time and he's now giving back in kind.
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You have been around and seen the very personal attacks leveled towards Palin yes?
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idov1 year, 1 month ago
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As soon as you criticize Obama for consorting with a terrorist Ayers, who beat the rap on a technicality and never paid his debt to society, they play the race card. They even played it against Bill Clinton. It's meant to throw you off the scent of exposing the flaws in the character of a man who would be president and is not qualified. On the other hand they can throw out any smear at Sarah Palin, starting from the claim she didn't carry her last baby and any threat such as gang rape if she enters New York, and that's considered fair ball from their side. Right now the fat is in the fire, we're in the home stretch, and they can take phoney "race" garbage and stuff it. No one's going to be influenced by that in the least.
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As far as Ayers goes he stomped on a flag as late as 200l and Obama knew about it and said not a word. Ayers wife Dohrn praised Charles Manson back in the day and has never apologized. That's the kind of people he associates with, and good for Sarah for not shutting up about it. -
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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Here's the campaign strategy humor in this news:
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Rove trainee: We need to get her (Palin) out there. The hardcore CONS love her. Let's get her out there
Rove trainee 2: What is she going to say? She has problems when we let her answer questions.
Rove trainee: No questions. She just slings mud from now on.
Rove trainee 2: Will it work?
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lloydm651 year, 1 month ago
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Man I don't believe what I'm reading,Do you believe for a minute a white republican could say,and do what Obama is saying and doing hell I know your not all black,but it sure as hell sounds like it. If a white candidate told a nine year old America wasn't much he would have been booed off the stage if a white man made comments about being careful with the flag,and national anthem,so as not to offend some friends ,William Ayres,and ugly wife comes to mind.Of there's Farrakhan,and Kadafi wouldn't want pi$$ them off,after all they will probably be some of his top advisers.Calling white people raciest from a black stand point is moronic,( that's dumb ass in black speak)at least thirty five percent of whites will vote for Obama.while maybe five percent of blacks will vote fore McCain.
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lloydm651 year, 1 month ago
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Hey you have to understand the black mind.I live just out side Dallas Tx. the Dallas ISD overwhelmingly Black ,and Hispanic.But wait they still get all the benifits of the minority.I guess they just can't handle being in the majority,putting with all those white minority folks with one hand doubled up in afist,and the other hand streached out palm up.
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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The best thing to do is vote out any Republican on the ticket in Texas. There's a group of corrupt politicians working for Bush there. The state has a history of prejudice and corruption that goes back to Lyndon Johnson. They have badgered Congress on important legislation and they are trying to block the probe into Palin firing her sister's ex-husband.
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