I wish I had written this....

[rightwinger]

The unspoken, yet thoroughly understood truth is racism is the fulcrum which supports the lever of attacks on President Obama.

Why do you say this? There is ample reason to dislike the results of the policies of the Big 0 without ever even approaching race.

Did people hate GWB because of race?

What you propose is a crutch and a diversion. Point to the successes of his policies that are derided by others and then you can blame racism. As long as the Big 0 is failing and creating programs to deepen that failure, racism is a far cry from any rational charge.

The fact that YOU can see only race speaks volumes.

They say it because that is all they've got - AND, race is a big reason why THEY voted for him in the first place. White guilt was played to the hilt in the campaign.

Racism is alive and well - and its greatest home is within the Democrat Party...

Where was white guilt played during the election except by the right? The GOP lost across the board at all political levels. Every Governor, Congressman and Senator was not black

Barack Obama won for several reasons:

1. Public backlash against Bush and the GOP who had been in power for 8 years. If Hillary was the candidate, she would have won by landslide too

2. A crashed economy and two endless wars. People voted for change

3. A superstar candidate who was young, energetic, articulate and yes, black


Any of the three would have been enough to beat John McCain

 

[NYcarbineer]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

Who in their right mind would wish they'd said that?

jeezus

 

[blastoff]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

Just more empty talk by people who refuse to give the president a chance. You people always give yourselves away. In your case, it was the term, "man like him".

Words of wisdom??

The unspoken, yet thoroughly understood truth is racism is the fulcrum which supports the lever of attacks on President Obama.

Um, yeah, sure. And just think how much worse it would be if Barry was dark skinned and spoke with a negro dialect.

 

[American Horse]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

The citizenry make decisions based on the information available. None can make good decisions if the information they base those decisions on is faulty or skewed. There is a move afoot to subsidize, by government largess, media that cannot attract an audience of readership, to rescue them from bankruptcy. If we do not allow those who have lost the respect of a public seeking valid information to fail in the marketplace of information, how can we expect them to be more responsive to the needs of a citizenry in search of decisive information? For the politicians to rescue them can only make more binding an implicit obligation to report information conforming to government spin, which by any standard can only be described as propaganda.

To those who despise Fox News channel, compare: in any PANEL discussion of the news, how does that panel break down along particular party lines? Is it about equal between the two political philosophies, not even considering the bent of the moderator?

Watch this weeks Sunday morning news discussions provided by the broadcast and cable networks. Are they anywhere near balanced?

Look back one week:
January 10, 2010 - “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”
On the L side - Bob Reich, Al Hunt, Judy Woodruff (and don’t forget George, former press secretary for Bill Clinton)
On the C side – George Will, Liz Cheney
(3-against-2; possibly 4 against 2 with George S posing defensive questions)

January 10, 2010 - “Fox News Sunday” Moderated by Chris Wallace
On the C side – Brit Hume, Bill Kristol
On the L side – Mara Liasson, Juan, Williams
(2-against-2 with Chris Wallace positing arguments for both sides)

Going back in time, here’s CBS as opposed to FNS April 27 2008/Sunday

Who Had the Fairer Panel: Meet the Press or Fox News Sunday? | NewsBusters.org

Emotions aside, I submit that an informed public, manifest as an electorate, has the best chance of making sound decisions.
Denied valid information by being unable to make comparisons they are more likely to make the wrong decision.

 

[Otter_Creek]

Yes everyone who did not vote for obama, and everyone who disagrees with obama is a racist.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Just more empty talk by people who refuse to give the president a chance. You people always give yourselves away. In your case, it was the term, "man like him".

Words of wisdom??

The unspoken, yet thoroughly understood truth is racism is the fulcrum which supports the lever of attacks on President Obama.

Um, yeah, sure. And just think how much worse it would be if Barry was dark skinned and spoke with a negro dialect.

Or a Magic Negro from Kenya...

 

[Rinata]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

Who in their right mind would wish they'd said that?

jeezus

 

[Rinata]

Yes everyone who did not vote for obama, and everyone who disagrees with obama is a racist.

Oh, get real. Are you really so stupid??? Apparently you are. Not voting for Obama or not agreeing with him does not make you a racist. It's the picture in your avitar that makes you a racist.

 

[Diuretic]

The quote is interesting. It speaks to a despair that seems to have taken hold of many Americans. It's also indicative of a new mentality, there's a great deal of authoritarianism coming out from the right. Anyway here's another viewpoint:

Joe Bageant: Bass Boats and Queer Marriage

Holy smoking Jesus, America is losing its middle class! "We're taxing the middle class out of existence," charge the conservatives. "The middle class is being hollowed out," wail the liberals, pouring forth great mock turtle tears (although one wonders how such a vacuum, as middle class life in America could be further hollowed).

For both political camps, high dudgeon over "the vanishing middle class" is supposed to represent some sort of "new populism." Not that the populace disagrees with them, mainly because the populace, if we are referring to the genuine America populace, hasn't the slightest notion of the definition of populism. But the word sounds like it has to do with popularity, the highest virtue in the American mind, and can even lead to the celestial heights called celebrity. So what the hell, they're willing to run with it.

In any case, much overwrought political theater is being dedicated to the subject of the middle class' demise. If demise is the right word for losing its ability to engorge on commodities at obscene levels.

MUCH more at link.

 

[code1211]

The unspoken, yet thoroughly understood truth is racism is the fulcrum which supports the lever of attacks on President Obama.

Why do you say this? There is ample reason to dislike the results of the policies of the Big 0 without ever even approaching race.

Did people hate GWB because of race?

What you propose is a crutch and a diversion. Point to the successes of his policies that are derided by others and then you can blame racism. As long as the Big 0 is failing and creating programs to deepen that failure, racism is a far cry from any rational charge.

The fact that YOU can see only race speaks volumes.

Barack Obama was sworn in during the most precarious time in our economic history since 1929. He had two wars to fight. Our foreign policy was snubbed across the globe.

And less than a dozen weeks after taking office, the extreme Right Wing of the political spectrum, an odd mix of Libertarians and social and fiscal Conservatives, had formed Tea Parties with the support and financial backing of Rupert Murdock and the Fox News networks.

With all honesty, you must concede that the adherents to such reactionary politics have never had a sterling record on race relations.

Time+ inherent racism x Liberal policies= tea parties

If you subtract time from Obama's presidency by delegitimizing it with claims from the sublime (Socialism) to the ridiculous (birth certificate) you might have a point. But the fact that the tea baggers didn't wait for the ink to dry on Obama's certification as POTUS leads me to conclude that it was racism that lit the fuse on the powder keg I call the tea baggers.

When was the Stimulus passed? When was the UAW bailed out?

I don't care about race. It's never been an issue in my life in any way in any situation at any level. If the stimulus had worked, I would have been astonished since it was nothing more than a bribe, payback, campaign fund backwash graft bill, but I would have given him his props. It didn't. I don't.

If he had found a way to close Gitmo after harping on Bush for not having done so throughout the campaign, I would have been astonished, but I would have respected his creativity and ability. He didn't. I don't.

If he would have come up with something really creative on defense and the war in Iraq and the war in Afgahnistan after criticising the Bush effort throughout the campaign, I would have been astonished, but I would have appreciated his creativity, strength of charachter and wisdom. As you might have noticed, he continued Bush's policy in Iraq, reapeated the Surge stategy in Afghanistan, retained Bush's Secretary of Defense and Bush's Generals. If he had executed his implied but never actually defined plan on defense and it had worked, I would be a supporter. He didn't. I'm not.

If the plan for Healthcare Reform was a good plan, it wouldn't require a payoff for every vote, back room deals with the unions, many Senators, many Congressmen, lies about stealing money from Medicare to pay for this boondoggle and ouright lies to the American people about the costs and the taxes. If the plan he backs did what he claimed it would do, that is do more and cost less, I would support him. It doesn't. I don't.

There is ample reason to oppose this lying, divisive, partisan hack who is a product of Chicago machine political corruption and who cannot be positive about anything without creating an enemy so he can justify a new restriction on those he has targeted. Race need not be a factor in this.

In truth, race would get in the way of this.

 

[code1211]

The unspoken, yet thoroughly understood truth is racism is the fulcrum which supports the lever of attacks on President Obama.

Why do you say this? There is ample reason to dislike the results of the policies of the Big 0 without ever even approaching race.

Did people hate GWB because of race?

What you propose is a crutch and a diversion. Point to the successes of his policies that are derided by others and then you can blame racism. As long as the Big 0 is failing and creating programs to deepen that failure, racism is a far cry from any rational charge.

The fact that YOU can see only race speaks volumes.

You just don't get it, do you?? All of you bag heads think that racism is coming right out and using the N word. Well, it's not that simple.

There are a million different ways that people convey their racism on this site. Sometimes it's subtle and sometimes it's not. But the fact that you DO NOT see racism is what really speaks volumes. You all think you're so slick and that nobody will figure it out. But you're so wrong. I can see through you like an x-ray machine and others like you.

Please cite for me the successes of the policies of the Big 0.

 

[code1211]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

The citizenry make decisions based on the information available. None can make good decisions if the information they base those decisions on is faulty or skewed. There is a move afoot to subsidize, by government largess, media that cannot attract an audience of readership, to rescue them from bankruptcy. If we do not allow those who have lost the respect of a public seeking valid information to fail in the marketplace of information, how can we expect them to be more responsive to the needs of a citizenry in search of decisive information? For the politicians to rescue them can only make more binding an implicit obligation to report information conforming to government spin, which by any standard can only be described as propaganda.

To those who despise Fox News channel, compare: in any PANEL discussion of the news, how does that panel break down along particular party lines? Is it about equal between the two political philosophies, not even considering the bent of the moderator?

Watch this weeks Sunday morning news discussions provided by the broadcast and cable networks. Are they anywhere near balanced?

Look back one week:
January 10, 2010 - “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”
On the L side - Bob Reich, Al Hunt, Judy Woodruff (and don’t forget George, former press secretary for Bill Clinton)
On the C side – George Will, Liz Cheney
(3-against-2; possibly 4 against 2 with George S posing defensive questions)

January 10, 2010 - “Fox News Sunday” Moderated by Chris Wallace
On the C side – Brit Hume, Bill Kristol
On the L side – Mara Liasson, Juan, Williams
(2-against-2 with Chris Wallace positing arguments for both sides)

Going back in time, here’s CBS as opposed to FNS April 27 2008/Sunday

Who Had the Fairer Panel: Meet the Press or Fox News Sunday? | NewsBusters.org

Emotions aside, I submit that an informed public, manifest as an electorate, has the best chance of making sound decisions.
Denied valid information by being unable to make comparisons they are more likely to make the wrong decision.

I watch both of the discussion panels on these shows. When Stephonopoulus (sp?) took the position, I thought that this was a bad move, but he has done a very good job. Having George Will on the Conservative side really requires more on the liberal side. He's just that good.

Chris Wallace is as incisive as his dad. I always appreciate those time when Brit hume and Juan Williams get under each other's skin. If one of them actually attacked the other, it wouldn't surprise in some of their discussions.

Both of the panel portions of these shows are outstanding.

The interviews that lead them off are a waste of time. Very rarely will a guest stray from their talking points. Boring. Predictable.

 

[geauxtohell]

Words of wisdom. Author unknown.


"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."

In other words, the electorate is too stoopid to make the right decision on election day.

Maybe we should just have kings again.

Everytime I worry about the Democrats going around the bend, the GOP manages to do go even further.

Was the electorate to blame for the election and re-election of George W. Bush?

 

[B L Zeebub]

I remember how I felt through the Thatcher years in the UK. We had no credible opposition, not credible person to lead that opposition, a fractured and pre-historic base ect ect ect.

So I know how you Republicans feel, as you gaze into the barrels of a two term President,and I must sayI love it

 

[SwingVoter]

Republicans need to stop worrying about Obama, and stop nominating complete duds like the Bushes, Dole, and McCain. Reagan was one of the best presidents in history, but since then the GOP's national candidates have been pathetic.

With the union exemption and the soft treatment of terrorists, Obama has likely lost my vote and future campaign contributions. But if we get Pawlenty, Jindal, or another "I'm afraid people won't think I'm compassionate or nice" Republican, I'll have no choice but to vote for Barry again.

 

[SwingVoter]

I remember how I felt through the Thatcher years in the UK.

How did you feel in the Callaghan years with even worse inflation and unemployment than we had with Carter?

 

[rdean]

Barrack Obama will be a great president once he realizes the folly of trying to work with Republicans in a bi partisan manner.

The belly laugh of the week. Thanks!

Obama will be a great President just like Billy was, once Billy got a new Congress.

President Obama will have his new Congress, just like Billy, come 2011.

Hey, if you are going to quote me, quote the whole thing:

Barrack Obama will be a great president once he realizes the folly of trying to work with Republicans in a bi partisan manner. Republicans are simply too stupid and their leaders are willing to sacrifice the country over their ideology.

Add the natural racism inherent in such a political party and it becomes obvious why the entire world views the Republican Party as a greater danger than al Qaeda.

Bin Laden only caused a small amount of violence and destruction compared to what the Republicans have done invading two countries, destroying our military and leaving the destruction of Katrina intact.

Add in all their domestic debacles, stir with their anti education ignorance and throw in a pinch of fake religious values and there, you have a recipe for disaster. Gee, who couldn't see that coming?

Worse, after years of destroying this country, ruining the world economy and making enemies all over the world, they still believe they have all the answers. Perfect examples of "delusion".

Republicans will read this and say, there goes rdean. Loony and crazy as always. Oh well, just like the radical Muslims, the American Right has "Gawd".

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I stand by those words. The entire world sees the Republican Party as the party of ignorant rubes who are more dangerous than Bin Laden. Worse, every sick thing those mindless lemmings spout only backs up that perception.

Gawd, conservatives are dumb.

 

[B L Zeebub]

I remember how I felt through the Thatcher years in the UK.

How did you feel in the Callaghan years with even worse inflation and unemployment than we had with Carter?

We learned our lessons from that period and created new labour, until the repubs learn the lessons from the well earned Obama victory, they will stay a weak opposition and unelectable.

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Barrack Obama will be a great president once he realizes the folly of trying to work with Republicans in a bi partisan manner.

The belly laugh of the week. Thanks!

Obama will be a great President just like Billy was, once Billy got a new Congress.

President Obama will have his new Congress, just like Billy, come 2011.

Hey, if you are going to quote me, quote the whole thing

Because there are many morons such as yourself who wouldn't understand to what part of your mindless diatribes I am responding, I edit for brevity.

Don't like it? Tough titties.

 

[Midnight Marauder]

The entire world sees the Republican Party as the party of ignorant rubes who are more dangerous than Bin Laden. Worse, every sick thing those mindless lemmings spout only backs up that perception.

Gawd, conservatives are dumb.

Such ignorant hubris!