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Posted By Neophile 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsThe latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.
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Progressive1 year, 1 month ago
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Dionys1 year, 1 month ago
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AnteUp1 year, 1 month ago
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Yeah Dionys, right after the cross burning they're going to
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have a fellowship moment and sing "We Shall Overcome".
Excuse my meager attempt at sarcasm, Dionys - but that seems
to be McCain's attitude. He deplores racism and unjust attacks
so much - I'm sure it's just an oversight that he hasn't condemned
the robo calls the RNC is making since last night - once again
tying Obama to Ayers - the terrorist - who killed Americans.-
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vor1 year, 1 month ago
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Correction, Those were the Dixiecrats! They all became Republicans when the Democrats in other parts of the country supported the Civil Rights movement. Why do you think the Republicans have dominated the South ever since politically? My grandfather was a Democratic state rep during those years. I remember him taking me fishing and expressing his disgust that they were turning their backs on part of their constituency based solely on the color of their skin. He remained a firm Democrat. This was the beginning of my liberal beliefs.
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StevieGee1 year, 1 month ago
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I agree. She has a right to free speech. I support that. Along with rights goes responsibilities. She is now responsible for what she's said. When she get's snubbed, heckled, booed, or worse. It will be her own fault and she will deserve it. Keith Oberman has already called her the worst person of the week.
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amervtrn1 year, 1 month ago
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If you think it won't happen, you need to do the math on what Obama's Socialist/Communist Plan will cost. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Racism knows no color. There are White racist,Black racist,Brown racist, ECT. To some it is a hatred, to some it is distrust, and to others it is a tool of deceit. The last thing the USA needs at this time is an Amateur. There is no time for on the job training. More Socialist debt is definitely not what we need. Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself. Being what one "guppy" called an old f*rt, I have already survived this type situation(Carter years), and really shiver at the thought of having to go through it again. Therefore the inexperience definitely concerns me. The Socialist leaning is a big red flag. Obama's record shows nothing to recommend him. Pretty words and rhetoric may soothe the soul but do nothing to solve problems.
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miklkit1 year, 1 month ago
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You didn't like the Carter years? Blame Nixon and Ford, the republicons. Their policies resulted in the inflation that Carter had to deal with. No sooner did Carter get the economy going in the right direction again than along came Reagan, who messed it all up again. If you are going to complain, make sure you are referencing the right people.
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AnteUp1 year, 1 month ago
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And lest we forget - or there be those who don't even know -
that Reagan had the Iranians postpone letting those poor
hostages go.............until AFTER he was in the White House.
Did not want the credit for their release to go to Carter's administration!
I am sure it was just a minor inconvenience for the "detainees" - eh?
These guys have been spinning for SO long - no wonder there
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
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Yeah fist the SOB's almost get us killed in Nam, then they screw with economy so bad, that we have to freeze prices and wages.
But hey remember that "tricky Dicky Nixon" was not a crook !!!!!! Then they blame everything on Carter who inherited the freaking mess.
It seems to me that it was the early seventieas when housing took off the first time. That would have been under the Nixon administration.
Sure the escalating housing prices had nothing to do with inflation. Nor the high cost of credit.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
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Yeah I remember !!!!
Ike had us there in the late fifties as advisors.
Kennedy ramped it up, and LBJ made up the Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify our full blown presence.
I still think that war, along with this war is just a way to keep our eyes off of what they were and are doing to our country !!!!!!
We needed the civil rights acts to make America closer to what she was supposed to be.
As far as do I really remember ????? LMAO hahahahahahahahahaaa
Wish I didn't, the nightmares are hell. The faces of my friends young and alive, then not there. The pieces of childrens bodies, the stench of death everywhere.
Dust Offs were the bravest pilots of all !!!!!!! The leaders and generals were all mostly Dinky Dao # 10's, with no clues to what was actually happening.
Army B1/22 in Nam 70-71. In Cambodia in May of 1970, you know the place the liar Nixon said we weren't. Served in the area of An Khe.
Saw a lot of stupid death, to friends and non combatants.
Yeah I remember, Do you ?????
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
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Thank you for the opportunity to sink your post.
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You are not just an old f@rt as you suggest, you are a straight-up tard. Taking our tax dollars and giving them to the banks as a "bailout" is red-faced socialism, but you are not complaining about that. It is the thought that the burden on the rich may be increased while that of the working class is lessened that you find objectionable.
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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Progressive,
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When Condi gets her apology....
Oh just kidding. We know that it's ok to dump racist hatred on a Republican black woman. I'm not trying to justify what these women did, but what they did is nothing compared to the verbal abuse heaped on Condaleeza Rice by liberals.
Besides, when it comes to fried chicken, watermelon, and ribs, all I gotta say to you black folks is you better beat me to it.-
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Progressive1 year, 1 month ago
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My problem with Condi Rice has nothing to do with her color and I would never criticize her in a way that casts aspersions on her race. In fact, I think the selection of Caribou Barbie for Vice President was one of the greatest insults perpetuated upon Ms. Rice and other more qualified Republican women.
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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I know, P. I was not referring to you personally. I can see from your posts that you're above the kind of treatment Condi has received, as are most liberals in here. But when it's put out there, it gets no attention and no demands for redress.
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I'd rather have Condi at the top of the ticket, but the RNC never asked my opinion on the matter.-
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Progressive1 year, 1 month ago
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"I'd rather have Condi at the top of the ticket, but the RNC never asked my opinion on the matter."
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We finally agree on something. Though I would never vote for someone simply because they are female OR African-American, I think Condi is more qualified to lead the GOP than McCain. Despite the fact that I'm not a huge supporter of Biden, however, I'm confident Obama will be a better President than McCain or Palin.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 1 month ago
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They just hurt themselves with that junk:
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Sheila Raines, an African-American member of the club, was the first person to complain to Fedele about the newsletter. Raines, of San Bernardino, said she has worked hard to try to convince other minorities to join the Republican Party and now she feels betrayed.
"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes."-
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mark-stevens1 year, 1 month ago
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What has the Democrats done right in the last 40 years. I quit voting, because I can't stand any of them.
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Oh yeah it was Clinton giving Pakistan the bomb which inturn wound up in Iran and North Korea. Clinton also gave China the technology to shot down our satelites and hit any given block in L.A.
I can go on about all of them, as it would make a difference!!-
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splitrch1 year, 1 month ago
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The thing about the morons who did this is that even when they are in a deep hole they just keep digging. What they don't realize is that Obama has to love this stuff. They are killing themselves. He doesn't have to show anyone what they truly are. They're doing his work for him. Just when I thought ultra right wing idiots couldn't get any dumber they manage to surprise me. I hope they keep on the same path. They'll be out of power soon enough.
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ISITJUSTME1 year, 1 month ago
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Ms Raines you need to quit, quick and in a hurry. What kind of mind thinks to do things like this. This piece of crap has everything on it that is stereotypical of African-Americans and if its stereotypical then it is racist. IT IS WHAT IT IS.
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Aidenag1 year, 1 month ago
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It really is disgusting how many racists are flocking to the GOP this election. But i guess since a racists biggest issues are generally guns, white power, religion, and wanting less government, the GOP fits the mold pretty well.
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Afterall, the GOP elects 99% white people, and all they talk about is guns, Religion and Government intrusion...-
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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Aidenag,
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I think you're seeing without knowing what you see. Ours are conspicuous by their presence. Yours simply blend in. So of course it seems to an outsider that racists flock to the GOP.
What's worse to you...what these women did OR the fact that a Grand Kleagle Democrat sits in the US Senate, having never apologized for the lynching of blacks in West Virginia that took place while he recruited there for the KKK?
And even if Sen. Byrd (D-KKK) apologized, would libeals allow a former GOP KKKer to sit in the US Senate, with or without apology? (that last question is of course hypothetical...most lynch victims, white or black, were registered Republicans)-
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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Problem is, what exactly does Byrd say happened?
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"My only explanation for the entire episode is that I was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision -- a jejune and immature outlook -- seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions," Byrd wrote.
Kinda takes the wind out of his worthless apology, doesn't it? If that's all it was, it requires no apology. If he saw fit to apologize, it must have been more reprehensible than his description above allows for. As recent as 2001, Senator Byrd used the N word in the media. Merely referring to the legacy of Strom Thurmond cost Trent Lott the top senate position.
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Georgia501 year, 1 month ago
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When I say we're waiting on an apology from Sen. Byrd, I mean one that is unqualified, unconditional, and not the least bit watered down by what Kan membership meant. I get the whole group think thing and being swept up by bad influence. But millions of similarly situated low income whites avoided the KKK like the racist plague they were. Byrd didn't. And his political career came directly out of his Kan membership.
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"Byrd says he viewed the Klan as a useful platform from which to launch his political career. He described it essentially as a fraternal group of elites -- doctors, lawyers, clergy, judges and other "upstanding people" who at no time engaged in or preached violence against blacks, Jews or Catholics, who historically were targets of the Klan." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
After WWII, Byrd opposed Truman's efforts to integrate the armed forces, saying he would never fight beside a black man: "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels."
This despite the fact that blacks have fought and died in every conflict since the Revolutionary War, and fought with distinction--wherever permitted--in WWII.
And remember...this is not merely about Byrd, but the screeching that would necessarily attend any Republican with a similar past.
Cast iron double standard.
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps.">>>>
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What a bunch of despicable women. In the first place, 'food stamps' mostly feed children. They don't like children to eat? Is that the deal with this morally bankrupt bunch?-
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Beau78901 year, 1 month ago
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I'm glad you gave the description of the illustration, jordan. I'm sure there are some who will argue that picturing Obama on a food stamp makes some sort of statement about Democrats and a "welfare state," separate from a racial slur. If that were the only image, I'd say that's a weak but possible argument.
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But the images of ribs, watermelon and Kool-Aid are undeniably racist, and simply repulsive.-
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Bacalao1 year, 1 month ago
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Each of those alone isn't racist. unfortunately this "lady" put them all together.
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here we get the cry of the underground racist..... "I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else.". I much prefer when someone ask me in a more openly racist manner why am I "voting for that N****r".I would rather an honest racist than a closet one.
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not2needy1 year, 1 month ago
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Cruel bunch of bigots! Ignorant vastards!
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FTA:
Sheila Raines, an African-American member of the club, was the first person to complain to Fedele about the newsletter. Raines, of San Bernardino, said she has worked hard to try to convince other minorities to join the Republican Party and now she feels betrayed.
"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes."
The Obama campaign declined to comment. It's the campaign's policy to not address such attacks, said Gabriel Sanchez, a California spokesman for the campaign.
Don't black Americans realize that the republican party is full of nothing but a bunch of bigots??
Even the people on Propeller who claimed to be the party of Lincoln have stifled that idiocy because they know it's as phoney as a 3 dollar bill.-
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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One nincompoop said she didn't see the choices in the picture as 'racist.' Well, here's a look of the racist characatures of black Americans over the years, using watermelon and chicken:
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jordan111 year, 1 month ago
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No. The women who sent out that flyer are being called racist because of the pictures they chose to depict food stamps. Water melon and chicken have been used to characterize black Americans in an unfavorable light since the 1800s. And you know it!
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http://www.authentichistory.com/diversity/african/...-
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
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Well, one idiot admitting to his lunacy is a start. LMAO hahahahahahaahaa
You ever seen a human body stripped of its skin ???? You can't tell what skin color the person had. Only that a human being had been dealt with cruelly. Or a person burned to crisp ??? Again no telling !!!! Just the sadnees that a soldier from America had died horribly.
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erectoraz1 year, 1 month ago
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LIGHTEN UP GRANDPA, I WAS JUST MAKING A POINT. THE WORD RACIST IS BEING TOSSED AROUND LIKE A FRISBEE THESE DAYS. I AM SICK OF BEING CALLED A RACIST BECASE I THINK OBAMA HAS BAD JUDGEMENT AND NO EXPERIENCE TO BE PRESIDENT. IF YOU ARE GOING TO CALL ME RACIST FOR THAT .....THEN I WILL START ACTING LIKE ONE...GET IT???
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maidofthemist1 year, 1 month ago
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I think I get your point and in a way you're right you may not agree with Obama and don't be a racist, but you can always voice your opinion in a civilized, classy and more intelligent way. In this case I think it's obvious that the watermelon and the fried chicken pictures were put there to demean Obama's image. To me that's a very childish and immature way to voice your rejection
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't think anyone is a racist for not voting for Obama.
Now if they say he doesn't have enough experience for them. I take that at face value. I felt the same way earlier.
Obama has proven to me he is the cooler head and one who is not going to rush to a stupid judgement, like McCain has through out his campaign.
I mean come on, McCain picked Palin who has less experience than Obama,
is a less than adequate Governor, has shown a history of going for earmarks for her state. Doesn't even have a clue about what is really going on, yet thinks she is right on !!!!!! She is the female George Bush in this race, completely off target and irreverent.
McCain suspended his campaign when the bail out vote was happening, so he could get her done. LMAO hahahahahahaahahahaa, then wanted to suspend the first debate.
I mean these are signs of the way the man thinks. He doesn't think things through.
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amervtrn1 year, 1 month ago
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It is what I am counting on.1980 During the campaign most polls showed the two major candidates locked in an even contest. The election produced a different picture. The Republican team of Ronald Reagan and George Bush was swept into office in a landslide victory with about 51% of the popular vote (and 489 electoral votes) to Carter's 42% (49 electoral votes) and Anderson's 7% (no electoral votes). Here is the faith in McCain.
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AnteUp1 year, 1 month ago
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I am ~ for those who can't bring themselves to tell friends and family
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that they are going to vote for Obama? I don't understand their reluctance
but I say.....DO IT!!
Remember the bumper stickers that appeared as they soured on Bush?
"Don't Blame Me................I Didn't Vote For Him" or "I Voted For The Other Guy!"
The time may come when they will be proud to say they helped to elect Obama.
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amervtrn1 year, 1 month ago
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If you think it won't happen, you need to do the math on what Obama's Socialist/Communist Plan will cost. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Racism knows no color. There are White racist,Black racist,Brown racist, ECT. To some it is a hatred, to some it is distrust, and to others it is a tool of deceit. The last thing the USA needs at this time is an Amateur. There is no time for on the job training. More Socialist debt is definitely not what we need. Research what and who you vote for, check your resources, do not buy into the hype, think and reason for yourself. Being what one "guppy" called an old f*rt, I have already survived this type situation(Carter years), and really shiver at the thought of having to go through it again. Therefore the inexperience definitely concerns me. The Socialist leaning is a big red flag. Obama's record shows nothing to recommend him. Pretty words and rhetoric may soothe the soul but do nothing to solve problems. It not about race, its about survival.
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amervtrn1 year, 1 month ago
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One question are any of you over thirty? Have any of you done the math, economics, or history research? I don't think so, otherwise you'd be disputing the facts instead of attacking the messenger.
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To the Cannuck: after Canada's election screw up clean up around your own front door.
No Socialist/Communist Obama Plan
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cleare1 year, 1 month ago
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i'm 51, have formal education in both macroeconomics & american history. i currently work in a historical society library & research center. i have been politically active since i was 14. i also spent nearly 15 years of my professional career specializing in military research.
you are the one operating with skewed facts, misrepresentations and warped assumptions. you seem to swallow any neo-con talking point whole and then regurgitate it on propeller threads. instead of attacking the messengers who consistently neg your comments, why don't you ask yourself why your comments, indeed your presence is so unpopular. maybe the positions you support suck. -
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Keep America free ?????? LMAO hahahahahaaaahahaaa !!!!!!!!
Not under Nixon, Reagan,Bush , Bush has this country been free.
Man I know you are wiser than that.
Unless to you freedom means the president can have an enemies list !!!!!! Break all the laws he pleases, while rewarding his corporate sponsors with tax payer paid government contracts.
Commit treason and be absolved, commit all kinds of crimes and walk away with a pardon from the president you just appointed.
No man !!!!!!! I'm sorry that is not freedom that is Fascism and and a fiefdom set up for the "Neocon Royalty" You'd have been one of the ones backing King George during the American Revolution.
Take a good hard look at what you are backing, no better than Uncle Ho in Vietnam long ago.
Same lies, same ideas, Government for the Government with the citizens there to provide labor and funds. Give them an idea of being represented by the all knowing Government.
I'm sorry, but I didn't buy it then and I don't buy it now.
We need the Government to regulate business by maintaing propper controls and balances /check points against the Tyranny of a Royalty/Communist/Fascist.... Regime like Bush and his cohorts of the last fourty years have done. -
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JohnGault1 year, 1 month ago
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Funny to see you on this topic Spadecaller, after watching your little slide show putting McCain and the KKK together is just as vile as this lady was.
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I don't know why you and the neocons don't get along your just the mirror image of each other.
Both don't like the first amendment
Both advocate or condone violence against opposing viewpoints.
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CHAM1 year, 1 month ago
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My recollection of the race was that Obama was the vastly superior choice for President, but he had a fatal flaw that everyone could see.
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I believe that I said that people will find all kinds of excuses to vote against him, but they all share the same reason and you can see what it is.
McCain is not worthy of shining Obama's shoes and he knows it, so do many of those who will vote for McCain.
Anyone who claims race is not a significant part of this race has their head so far up an orifice that you can't see their ears.
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amervtrn1 year, 1 month ago
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As I have said before, opinions are like a*sholes, everybody has one, some have two. It is not racist to be against Socialist/Communist. Those who have seen it in action know the facts. Those who believe the fairy tale will find out what a horror story is. If the USA is unfortunate enough to put the inexperienced amateur PR rock star in office, just remember I warned you.
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Dionys1 year, 1 month ago
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"It is not racist to be against Socialist/Communist"
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Absolutely true. Which is why I cannot support Bush/Cheney/McCainCo in their socialist/communist agenda of redistributing the country's wealth into the pockets of undeserving corporations and companies who are too lazy to get off their asses and work, much less accept culpability for their own actions.
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epiphannyy1 year, 1 month ago
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Just goes to show you that you don't have to travel to the deep south in order to find ignorance and racism.....just going to southern California is far enough. It shames me, to be honest, that in my hometown area that this sort of ignorance is alive and well. I expect it where I live in the deep south. But in southern California, where diversity is the norm and tolerance is expected and usually practiced, and where I know the citizens know better than to claim they have no idea that putting a picture of a black man on a "food stamp" surrounded by pictures of red kool aid, ribs, fried chicken, and watermelon is racist....its nothing short of disgusting.
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At the very least, this woman needs to lose her position within this organization. It should be demanded that she publicly apologize for the hurt she inflicted upon her own members and all others who have now learned of this happening.
The backward ignorance and racism fueling these tactics should have died in the 60's when the civil rights movement sorted this all out. The fact that they haven't shows how very little we, as a country, have actually moved beyond the culture of racism and how much further we sincerely need to go. Especially since this didn't happen in Montgomery, Alabama or Polk County, NC.....it happened in the Inland Empire of Southern California. THAT, in and of itself, indicates that we have a very long road yet to travel indeed. -
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Mutainia1 year, 1 month ago
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Did this really come from the GOP, or, did it come from someone CLAIMING it to be from neocons in the hopes it keeps the stereotype going that the GOP are a bunch of racists? Victimhood pays royally in this day and age, why else to Muslims try to make it a RACIAL issue if one is bringing up troubling verses from the Quran?
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frctm51 year, 1 month ago
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Like a trapped animal that knows it is going to die soon, the Republicans are getting more desperate. It won't change the election outcome but will reveal their true colors as they perish in flames and enter the ash heap of forgotten history. Good bye. This is the product of your greed, deception, and arrogance. You won't be missed.
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Tcaros1 year, 1 month ago
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I don't think McCain will garner much support from minorities in this election.
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The McCain campaign "team" would like to bait Obama and his supporters right now.
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Poulenc1 year, 1 month ago
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One need look no further than some recent threads to see anti-Obama racism in action.
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The way it works is that a purported new story--like a condemnatory article claiming to have interviewed a furious Michelle Obama--is posted. Then the vultures begin circling, each one pushing the racism envelope a little further, thus giving greater permission to all to express their rancid bigotry.
One poster, who appears on this thread, does a kind of minstrel act involving Obama "impersonation"--benign satire or something way nastier? -
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epiphannyy1 year, 1 month ago
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RIChris,
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As usual, you have nothing but inflammatory distortions to add. Show where Obama supports such activity. You say this "SHOWS OBAMA ABOVE THE FRAY"..yet NOTHING in that link SHOWS OBAMA AT ALL.
You want a fair contrast? Obama has been shown recently hushing his own crowds who merely "boo" McCain's name when it is mentioned. He won't even accept BOOING from his supporters without responding. However, just yesterday, Palin not only didn't "repudiate" (McCain's new favorite word) her crowd when they actually ASSAULTED Obama supporters, but suggested they be brought back in by security to "learn a thing or two" from the crowd.
Obama shuts down BOOING at multiple events........Palin actually ENCOURAGES ASSAULT at her events.
THAT is a fair comparison on the two campaigns and where they stand with regard to the "fray" so to speak. The McCain rallies have drawn people shouting DEATH THREATS and making LIBELOUS STATEMENTS calling Obama a "terrorist" and other equally worthy of "repudiation" by McCain yet have received NONE. Two times he has corrected people on the stump about Obama being "dangerous" and an "Arab" but the MANY other chants at EVERY RALLY HE AND PALIN HOLD, he remains silent. He won't "repudiate" DEATH THREATS, but he cries about someone drawing a parallel between the atmosphere he has fostered with his campaign, death threats and all, to the George Wallace campaign that ended with the deaths of four little girls at church. His whining tries to make it sound as if he's accused of being "a part of that violence" when he knows that is not what was said or implied. Its just another "Obama is calling Sarah Palin a pig" diversion to avoid his own lack of response to having MULTIPLE DEATH THREATS being shouted at each and every rally he holds. -
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cleare1 year, 1 month ago
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i grew up in the inland empire and i'm saddened to see it make the national news in this disreputable way. but, i'm not surprised really. it has always been a very segregated collection of communities. when i went to high school, there was only 1 african-american girl and 1 family of hispanics in the entire student body.
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just goes to show that racism knows no geological boundries.
to be fair though, i don't think mcsame would approve of these outrageous pieces of "funny money".-
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Bucotch1 year, 1 month ago
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Segregation is self inflicted. People segregate themselves. It's when the segregation wants to rule the situation or space that conflict occurs. All people have prejudice. Racial prejudice affects everyone. Inasmuch as racial prejudice manifests itself in that people are “pre-judged” based on superficial characteristics, we must honestly conclude that all people “suffer” from this on various levels. When we don’t know an individual well, we consciously or unconsciously begin to characterize him or her based on what we see. Again, this is due to our ignorance of the person’s real character and personality. We will form opinions, often based along stereotypical lines: “all people of such and such race are. . .” We can fill in the blanks with such expectations that certain races are intellectually superior, others are full of avarice, another is more artistically or athletically inclined, still another has members who are apt to be dishonest, etc, etc. . . These ideas have been formed from society, media, and our own upbringing.
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Om1 year, 1 month ago
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We know that nothing the GOP can do or say, short of a cynically conjured national energency, that will turn this election around. They have made their dirty bed and must now sleep in it. George Bush is the worst President in American history. Palin/McCain have said nothing/done nothing to convince the American people that they would do things differently. All the smears, phone bank hatred, thinly veiled race scare tactics, phony patriotic invectives, and the so-called plain talk express will fail. The American people recognize the song and dance. The GOP has created this incarnation of socialism for the rich, endless warfare, loss of American prestige worlwide, hypocrisy, failed economic policy, unemployment, high gas, inflation, erosion of the dollar, lack of vision, no energy policy, failing health care system, and class warfare. Palin/McCain do not represent change or the majority of the American people. They have tried to ursurp this mantra from the Obama campaign. When you run out of ideas and are losing in the polls, you revert to fear, phony patriotism, and disengenious religious platitudes. Obama/Biden will move the country forward. You malcontents and hate-mongers who will whine, cry and litigate when the Democrats win, please move to another country.
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bamababy1 year, 1 month ago
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Deplorable, that in 2008 we still have peolple in this country "hating" because of race, gender, sexual orientation,etc, you get the point. These people ( or so called people, should be hung from the nearest tree, or burned at the stake. There is no room for racil hatred, no room at all. McCain will never repudiate this, never. He probably is laughing his *ss off as I write. So terribly disturbing, they will be the one's after the Senator becomes President, reaping what is sown...
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