The Last Gasp of the Angry White Man »
Posted By Progressive 6 months ago in Political OpinionWe're supposed to have the best democracy in the world. As it stands, we're one burning tire away from Haiti. We have to dial this health care debate back down.
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bluetexasvalley6 months ago
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b-happy6 months ago
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The only way you can call this excellent is if you are a Liberal. That's the only way.
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This guy is just using the same old stupid bias that when conservatives protest then they are angry white mobs.
But when the Liberals were protesting Bush then they were exactly that, protesters.
Doesn't get anymore biased and hypocritical than this stupid op-ed piece that tries to be journalistic but instead just shows how biased and ignorant the left has become. Look at all the angry Left Wingers that we had over the last eight years. THere were white people protesting.
There are no racists or angry people besides white people. THat is the Liberals point of view, plain and simple. How the Liberals get that mindsight, I don't know. -
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Endoscopy6 months ago
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Typical bunch of lies by a liberal filled with hate.
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The Tampa meeting was a by invitation only for good Democrats. And they listened to her and asked questions and when they found she was turning a deaf ear to what they were saying that is when the GOOD DEMOCRATS ERUPTED WITH THE CHANTS. Why was that left out of the Tampa story?????
The attack on the "No national health care" slogan flies in the face of what Barney Frank said, "The legislation is designed to in a few years have everyone on a single payer system." It also flies in the face of the bill having ALL employers forced to provide haelth care. There will be a $750 per person charge for Federal insurance and about a $10,000 charge for insurance companies. What do you think all companies will do with that??? $10,000 vs $750. What a choice. How long do you think it would take for all companies to select the federal choice on their employees. Barney Frank is right. The design of the bill is to force single payer in a few years.
Why do the Democrats keep lying about this provision???? Barney Frank is the only one I have heard of admitting it.
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beavith16 months ago
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i don't know where to begin talking about this rambling piece.
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note to the writer:
clearly, you can smell it, you just can't put it into words.
this administration smells like a banana republic because banana republics are ineffective governance too.
your thesis falls apart when you try and cull the 'right wing' from the herd as the cause of the anger. if that were so, it'd be only the 20% you weren't reaching anyway. when its 50% or more, the only ones who's rapt attention you ARE keeping are the leftish/left of center and the true lefty. and evidently, the leftish are pretty wobbly on this too.
white guy anger? nah. watching expensive pointless government is where the anger is coming from. no matter how you try and spin it.-
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Georgia506 months ago
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beav,
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Really. It cannot possibly have anything to do with a president who finds no despot or wimp regime he won't apologize to and no conservative fellow American he won't marginalize (read: demonize) in a moment's notice.
The irony being, he travels to Africa and actually delivers a speech that is LONG overdue...even if it fell on the ears of powerless people who by themselves can do nothing to fix their plight.
But the really amazing thing to observe, any time liberal filth bring up racism, is how recently they defended Obama/Wright/Phlager, etc. Their own blatant in-your-face racism was pure as the driven snow.
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antibrainwasher6 months ago
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that's what the Caribu Plumber rallies showed us, showed everyone the the world over who could watch their TV machines. The GOP is the party of red faced angry uneducated white racists. Not even one black or hispanic face.
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Don't believe me? Look at the footage. It looks like a KKK rally. Bunch of fat rural morons shouting nutter slogans. These people are loyal fans, like football fans, except their "team" is the party of jim crow cons, fronting for the 1 percenters, the party of unquenchable greed.
The people you see on TV are racist crackers, dreaming of holding the whip.-
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MeaJen306 months ago
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Seriously, racist crackers - that is offensive in so many ways. Why do you feel the need to call names, instead of just saying what you want to say. Why do you feel the need to make other people less human? Now who sounds angry, and who sounds like a bully?
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slate6 months ago
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hyperbola6 months ago
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Much more than health care is at stake. After all Obama's "plan" is crippled before it starts and was conditioned by "special interests" forcing single payer to be taken off the table.
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What we really face is a choice between guns and butter. Better said, between democracy and perpetual war/totalitarianism. Only the rhetoric has changed with Obama. The imperialistic wet dreams of our corrupt elite are continuing apace with Obama. Indeed, by cementing in the perversions of the Bush administration, Obama may do more long term damage to America than Bush.
Honest conservatives know this and honest liberals should know it too. The "angry white man" myth is how we are kept distracted, dumb and docile.
The American Conservative: Perpetual War for Perpetual War
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/08/10/the-amer...
U.S. Army Col. Timothy R. Reese says it’s time for the U.S. to “declare victory” in Iraq and “go home.” It was time to declare victory and go home in January 2007, when the Bush administration decided to ignore the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group and charged off on its cockamamie “surge” strategy.
...The original stated objective of the surge was political reconciliation in Iraq. By September 2007, when it was clear that the political objective was not in sight, Gen. David Petraeus pulled a bait-and-switch and announced that the military objectives of the surge were being met. Petraeus hagiographer Thomas E. Ricks slipped Freudian in February 2009 when he confessed that Petraeus’s goal was never to end the Iraq conflict but to trick Congress and the American public into extending it indefinitely by achieving short-term results though bribing Iraq’s militias.
Lasting military presence. That’s been the objective of the neoconservatives all along. In their September 2009 manifesto Rebuilding America’s Defenses Cheney’s pals at the infamous Project for the New American Century argued, “While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” The neocons’ Pax Americana vision has translated into the Pentagon’s “long war,” a strategy that does not seek to win wars but rather to create a sequel to the Cold War in which Islamofacism substitutes for communism and puny Iran, whose defense budget is less than one percent of ours, replaces the Soviet juggernaut. -
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slate6 months ago
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It's not only racists it's bigoted towards men alone,,,,,,, liberals hate men in general especially if they are white men.
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How many women have you seen in the protests? About 50%? You see women, men, and minorities in these protests yet all the liberals see is white men.
Liberal bigots are the ruling class now, they think since they won one presidential election in 8 years they can bring about their 'form' of hope and change,,,,,, which includes lambasting white guys.
You hope and changers can kiss my butt,,,,, your power will be short lived and you are the ones afraid, that's why you are in attack mode, since you see that even with all the voting power on the hill you can't silence citizens and keep them from voicing their Constitutional right of dissent of your policies.-
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hyperbola6 months ago
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A pretty racist sounding statement slate - having a bad day?
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Sounds like you have been sucked into the phony "angry white man" distractions that are manufactured to keep us distracted, dumb and docile. So much easier to "rant" about injustice than to think rationally about the real issues.
I would have thought that apart from the rhetoric, you would actually be a fan of Obama's real actions. Not very diffeent from Bush after all.
Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/08/10/liberals...
The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or “extraordinary rendition,” restore habeas corpus or halt the warrantless wiretapping and monitoring of citizens. It will not push through significant environmental reform, regulate Wall Street or end our relationship with private contractors that provide mercenary armies to fight our imperial wars and produce useless and costly weapons systems.
The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of pre-emptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding. And if we have not learned by now that the system is broken, that as citizens we do not matter to our political elite, that we live in a corporate state where our welfare and our interests are irrelevant, we are in serious trouble. Our last hope is to step outside of the two-party system and build movements that defy the Democrats and the Republicans. If we fail to do this, we will continue to undergo a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion that will end in feudalism. -
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lloydm656 months ago
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Most of this by the left is not anger,its sadness.They heard many more promises than Obama made.Their perception was/is black president nirvana,utopia.Free everything,checks in the mail,reparation,and such.Well its monday,and the dream is just that a dream.After Obama the white male will pick up this shattered nation put it back its track,it will be morning in America once again.PS everyelse is welcome we can use all the help we can get,
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Bopi3656 months ago
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More puk nonsense where up is down and down is up
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as in ...puks are angry ...no libs are angry...no you are....no you are ( I'm the rubber and you're the glue ctc..)
typical and extremely childish.
Just tell me one thing... is there actually a legitimate reason that that puks feel disrupting these town hall discussions is a viable option . Or is the option to get a disproportionate amount of press coverage thru ignorance. -
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MeaJen306 months ago
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This whole article just makes me sad. It is so full of racism, guilt and divisiveness. Why does a person who disagrees with policies of a politician obviously have to be racist? Why is it that only white men can be angry over this administration? Why is it that citizens are being marginalized, and compartmentalized simply for exercising their right to disagree with the policies of an administration? Why is it wrong for ANYONE to voice their opposition to a policy/bill that they do not want. Why is that veiled racism? Why is wanting a country that is the best country in the world to continue on the same path wrong? People die trying to come to this country, because we have freedom, we are allowed to dislike the policies of our president, we are allowed to voice those opinions, and we don't have to fear our government. If we take away this right, if we stop all debate what do we have left?
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