I agree, he's a good talker. Others have agreed to this. So, OK, we have a consensus... Obama talks a good talk...How on earth does that qualify him for the office of president of the US? I also agree that he does not have much legislative experience. However, I also am not convinced that that disqualifies him. He's not an idiot. And for better or worse, he's got a plan. I understand your reservations about his stance on
Would you care to point out any untruths? I didn't say anything was untrue, just your opinion. Like my opinion that pizza is the greatest food on the planet. No matter how much info I present on why I think that, doesn't make it true for everyone. It's true he's a great orator. It's true he lacks an impressive resume. Empty suit is your opinion.
I hope you get well soon. Get that hand back in shape so we can do some more political/racial sparring. ;)
MM, I don't usually agree with you but I do think that Obama is a great orator. I would not go as far as to call him an empty suit. I lived in Chicago when he was a state senator there. I actually voted against him in his first election for the same reason people won't vote for him as president. He was an unknown lawyer with a middle-eastern name. Our own collective bias as a nation shows up with his name so often. I was impressed with him after th
I think it's pretty funny the double standard that exists here. Now, I don't condone Wright at all. But he gets the appropriate label of racist, but last week, Ferraro was just 'telling the truth'.
Very interesting.
I find it terrible that a private conversation is being used to destroy someone's image. I think Dog's son will someday look back on this with regret. I don't think anyone would defend what Dog said. I do think he sounds racist. And he has the complete freedom to say whatever he wants whenever he wants. But free speech doesn't mean that it's free of any kind of consequences. I can say that my boss is a dumb ass who couldn't tell the difference between a bean and a doughnut hole, but
I describe crappy customer service, and cityguy automatically sees a black person and uses it to assume that I am racist. Why did he automatically see a black person, is my question. Hey Gid, you are totally right. I attributed a comment to you that was not yours. I apologize, will you accept that fro
Well, there's also the race card to be played for many of these 'workers' as well Where does this continued notion that race is some magical card come from? It's not a card that's used to trump your way out of trouble. If that were true, the prison population in this country would look castly differen
Oh Gid, you pretty far out there. Did you say you were or weren't racist? I find a great deal of the crap spewn here about black people pretty funny. Things like the horrible service you mentioned and some things I've heard before directed at why black people, I actually experience more in the white people where I live. I remember talking about a white person who was rather ghetto and someone here said 'they were trying to be black'. But with the
Hey EOIC. I hope you are well. I can honestly that dialoguing with you and LW on this issue has really changed my view of the immigration. And while I tend to disagree with other viewpoints, I am very sympathetic to you on this. If the current bill gets passed, I think it should apply FIRST to those going through the proper channels to become citizens. I do think we need to go after Americans that hire illegal immigrants here long before w
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Interesting article. I just would like to know who said that this country. I don't think it's biblical to believe that. Especially given that this country was made wealthy by means He would not approve (brutal slavery and near genocidal treatment of Indians here). So the direction of the country and it's morals are no huge surprise. What I wonder about is if living in the new covenant we are judged as individuals and our williness to join in the w
Being African-American, I have mixed feelings on this. While I agree that there is a problem that needs to be addressed, most of the programs put in place get abused both by the minorities they are meant to help. I have seen grossly underqualified black people given a job to see them fail. For the most part, programs in the 80s and 90s worked well. But they need to grow with the changing environment. I think black people are less likely to
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I knew your name was Elie. My mind pronounced Elle. I thought maybe the moderateman thing was an internet cover or something. Sorry. It does make more sense now.
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Funny. Putting a face to your name makes you so much more a person. I actually thought you were a female (sorry about that). Good to see you even if I may disagree with you from time to time.
Dr. Guy is funny. Skyjack, tell me where it says we don't have the right to be offended? Did you make that up, Mr. Smarty Pants? Why so angry? Did smart people hurt you? You seem offended so surely you must think you have the right to be, right? Chill out. Thinkaloud makes good points. Imus' insults are protected under free speech, but we don't have to listen to it
On this, I really agree with you terpfan. Unfortunately, sooner or later, a rap artist who refers to black women as bitches and ho's will wrongly say that media is targeting them because they are black, which takes away from legit racism cases. Urgh! If our community were rid of ganster rap, we would be done with about 60% of the problems in our community. Let's hope the attack sticks and changes will eventually come.
So he called them a bunch of nappy headed hos. And? Do you think there would have been anything like this reaction if he'd referred to them as a buch of redneck whitetrash sluts?So maybe they aren't nappy headed hos (most of them). But if they're as traumatised and damaged by this incident as the mewling idiots at their school ma
Again, if Blacks don't want these comments about themselves, then they are just as responsible to stop making or allowing their own to make these comments. Once they clean up their own act, then perhaps others would have more respect for their requests to treat them with respect. Careful terpfan. Comments like that is what got this started. Not all, probably not even most blacks fit this discription. You language almost sound 'us vs them' with 'they
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But, if you want to assume that everybody is speaking just in terms of black and white, then you are just part of the problem. Read my post carefully. It speaks of more than just black and white. Can you redefine you comment on a double standard? Was that not directed at minorities? What's the doubl
Then you would love Tom Joyner. He's old school.
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