With those ‘ mom jeans ‘ Barry rocks from time to time, his street cred ‘ is already gone , Mark .

I think the most racist thing is to call Obama a black man, because he isn’t. His mother is a white woman, so it’s antiwhite racism to call him black. As a white woman I find it very offensive.

This “you’re a racist BS” has got to STOP. O’Reilly is exactly right, Halperin is exactly wrong. I’m so sick and tired of all the race baiting by these idiot libs.

Obama was acting like a thug when he said whose ass to kick – black, white, yellow, pink, or orange…it was a thuggish comment. That was not anger, it was acting. The manchild spoke and made an ass of himself.

“Time senior political analyst and Game Change author Mark Halperin criticized Drudge for racializing Obama’s comments on Morning Joe.”

I think we have to give Mr. Halperin and the rest of the Hoi Poli at MSNBC a little slack, when was the last time they were in Newark NJ, North Phila, West Side Chicago, Summit NJ, Hazelton PA?

Dope would find out everybody uses it. Cracks me up when pin-head white guys get insulted over stuff like this.

Are we picking on a black man or are we arguing against the President?

Personally, i disagree with the President.

This is absurd: “street cred” or ‘street” may have originated from the urban black community but it’s now, from my experiences, a phrase used by all races of younger people who live in cities. It comes from the street “culture” that transcends race.

Anyway, at the worst it may be racialist but hardly racist. But the distinction between those two words is apparently no longer considered.

Talk about a non-controversy. A milion-and-one stories to report on and Halperin has to gin up this?

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A black man can’t show anger? And he’s calling Drudge racist?

Where’s my iced tea motherfucker!

Of course Bill O’Reilly is who I trust on racial issues! This is the same man that went to a Harlem restaurant and was “shocked” that black people weren’t saying, “Hey, m-fer give me some motherf*****g iced tea”!

For all his many faults, O’Reilly doesn’t appear as racist as racially insensitive.

The DRUDGE headline isn’t racist. “Going street” doesn’t have a skin color. Also, Mark Halperin needs to be focused on Bill Maher, not Matt Drudge.
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Bill Maher: “I want a real Black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so they can see the gun in his pants!”

Again, I’ll ask: Why does the left always see a racial side to things? Why does the left jump to conclusions? Why do they stereotype blacks in such negative ways? I go to Drudge multiple times a day so of course I saw this headline. I thought it was funny. It never crossed my mind that it had anything to do with race. The left ALWAYS sees black stereotypes in their heads. That’s on them. It happens over & over again…Norah OD, Matthews, bathtub boy, Halperin, Francis Martel, etc. It is disturbing how you lefties come up with negative stereotypes about black people so quickly. It seems to me, you are the TRUE RACISTS.

Opal:
Learn to think for yourself. Stop regurgitating left-wing blog talking points. What you wrote is beyond moronic. Are you really that effing stupid?

Lonestar, nope not “effing” stupid at all, I figured that I should write something that you could understand…you know moronic and all.

If the sun peeked out from behind a cloud, the Leftist media would shriek, ‘RACISM!’ This is the pot these children are banging with their wooden spoon and we all know why: To coddle and protect someone who (A) they adore and (B) is an epic failure.

First off, how many times did news types refer to Bush as a cowboy with the intention of mocking?

Second, a lot of people think Obama is a pos. That he happens to be a half black half white pos is irrelevant. However, he sort of brought a lot of the racist stuff on himself, how the hell can you spend twenty years attending a Black Liberation Theology Church, ministered by a black racist, and then expect people to take you seriously when you talk about a “post racial” America. What a steaming pile.

And the Drudge thing was only racist to people who’re going out of there way to be offended.

Could someone let me know where I can get the Secret Racist Decoder Ring that obviously everyone on the left has so I’ll recognize racism like they do.

Either I get one or I’ll just have to assume, as they do ad nauseum, that anything and everything said to or about BHO that is not praise uttered in hushed worshipful tones is racism.

LOL, this gives great insight into the liberal mind. Once again it proves THEY are the racists in todays society.
This is why Ann Coulter wrote the book about talking to libs. They don’t have a clue. They are all like RRK.

I can in all honesty say I agree with Bill. I never once considered anything racial until it was brought up here. Just another case of libs stiring up the race war. Bill was right when he said this was a media created controversy.

Here’s video of two African Americans debating the issue.
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Stereotyping the President?
http://video.foxnews.com/#/v/4233008/stereotyping-the-president/

I once heard that the first person to notice the fart is the one who let it. Does the same go for those who a first to “smell” racism?

I thought Drudge was making fun of Obama, not trying to provoke a racist response. I would say Obama is about as intimidating as Jonathan Capehart.

And once again, those on the Left who saw this as racist, saw it that way because they just can’t get past the fact that Obama is African American.

They are obsessed with his skin color. O B S E S S E D.

I wrote in the other thread – Maher tells Obama to go street. Obama goes street. Drudge points it out, and he is a racist…. pitiful.

Capehart and Halprin and the rest of them do nothing but pigeonhole Obama into the Black President category. In their mind, he is not the President of the United States, he is a Black President. How does that help Obama?

And isn’t it racist to assume that he should be treated differently because he is black?

You can’t make him a joker, that’s racist (even though Bush was portrayed as the Joker thousands of times). You can’t portray him as Hitler, that’s racist. (Even though Bush was portrayed as Hitler thousands of times, and MOST of the images of Obama as Hitler are from the Left wing group LaRouch) You can’t say he went *street*, that’s racist! (But Bill Mayer saying “You know, I thought when we elected a black president, we were gonna get a black president. You know, this is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt so they could see the gun in his pants. ‘We got a motherf—ing problem here?’ You know, shoot somebody in the foot.” is not racist) You can’t call his fibs about the Iraq resolution a Fairy Tale, that’s racist. You can’t oppose him, or not vote for him, that’s racist.

Seriously. It’s time to stop. They can’t support Obama because he is failing in several areas, so all they can do is run back to their tried and true race card. It’s not his skin color that’s pissing everyone off. It’s his utter lack of experience, his policies, the debt, the economy, the job market, and his preference for parties, vacation and golf.

These lefties can’t see anything but skin color; it is absurd and getting more and more so each day. He is an incompetent President.

Lefties need to get over themselves and stop being so racist.

What, Drudge write a racist headline? NO WAY!

You mean the man who tried to throw the election by making his lead story for days the fake ATM “robbery” by a supposed black Obama supporter who carved a “B” into the face of a white girl in 2008?

Like everything else on Drudge, his lead story has an agenda, and it is often based on a lie.

Chris Van Veen says:
June 9, 2010 at 11:02 pm
If the sun peeked out from behind a cloud, the Leftist media would shriek, ‘RACISM!’ This is the pot these children are banging with their wooden spoon and we all know why: To coddle and protect someone who (A) they adore and (B) is an epic failure.

Spot on.

Hey spoo/on/your/lip..shut the fuck up, dumbass. Lies, or no reporting at all, from the losers in the liberal press is what got barry-boy elected. Mindless sheep like you with your ” do it if it feels good” way of life , are now forcing us all to pay, again, for voting with your heart and not your head. Thanks.. I only hate barrys’ white half…

I have to say the shrill denials of the existence of racism in America, the denials that one is racist or has ever been racist, are so amusing. Race has long been the fly in the ointment in America, and to deny that is simply to admit that it exists. If our civic life were a Twelve Step Program, we wouldn’t be at Step #1. So many of the posts are reminiscent of the Crackers of the 1920′s, the 1930′s, the 1940′s, the 1950′s, the 1960′s, the 1970′s, the 1980′s, the 1990′s, the first decade of 2000. The difference now is that the Crackers can cover their racism, in many cases, or their racial insensitivity, in many more cases, with a thin, vile paté of self-righteousness, often behind the utterly ridiculous mantras, “It’s not him, but his policies.” or “It’s not his race, but his competence”. Alas, the Cracker is never fully covered.

Like a Twelve Step Program also: there personal battle against the demon of racism within never ends. No one is suddenly magically purged of racism. It is a part of who we are, and frankly, most of us never confront the issue.

And, while so many took great pleasure in bleating, moaning and whining about the persistence of the racism discussion, I think our nation has been blessed with a rare opportunity to try to come to terms with this. I can readily see that many will never engage in the conversation, but many are. We’re better for it. Our Republic is better for it. And, the end, though not here, may at long last be in sight. For those of us posting here are a breed that thins with each new generation.

I’m not irritated by the discussion. I rejoice in it.

I’m sorry King but I’ve got to disagree. Are there still people that are racist, or have prejudicial views? Yeah sure, just look at Helen Thomas, Farrahkan and that GOP moron that was throwing around the word “rag-head.” But the reality is, this is not a racist nation. If this was a racist nation, Obama would never have been elected – end of point. There is nothing that you, Olbermann or Rev. Wright can say that change that reality.

If anyone wants proof RRK is an idiot read the above post.

King, dude, who are you calling a “cracker”? You’re pathetic. You bemoan racism, say it’s everywhere and unavoidable, but start your rant with a clearly racial slur. You are fucked in the head. I want the part of my life I’ve spent trying to reason with you back. You disappoint me..not that it matters. Birds of a feather flock together, guess birds are cracker racists too. During desegragation in schools the teachers have written on studies of how, during recess, the children all divide into groups of similar race. This is puzzling to the liberal mind, despite their best intentions, forcing people to like one another is not natural, period. Who’s to blame there, “Crackers” ?

To rejoice in your blackness, why don’t you throw off the yolk of tyranny and refuse to use anything developed by the evil “white man”. No cars, no electricity, no lights, no democracy, no internet….just sit there for a week in your cow-dung hut and swat flies. Then you’ll see how ‘Amerika’ has been good to you….

LNR: When Germany began to confront its Anti-Semitism, in the late 1940′s, it began a period of painful introspection that spanned several generations and is only now beginning to end. Despite the pain, the angst, it was a wonderful purgative process. A process in which the Italians and the Japanese, for somewhat different reasons in the latter instance, never began. Out of the three, we clearly know who has the fairest more open society. One of the phases the Germans went through was to uncritically embrace all things Jewish and Israeli. This began in the mid-1950′s and continued for a decade and a half before a new perspective set in.

Our process with slavery and the legacy of it is vastly different. We did not have a traumatic, cataclysmic event which provoked the introspection. However, we had a paradigm shift, a genuine, rare, non-PR inspired paradigm shift which began about a century after the institution of slavery ended. Since the 1970′s, each generation of Americans has been less tainted by the race question. Three decades into this process, Americans embraced things African-American in the same sense Germans embraced things Jewish a decade after the War. However, the election of President Obama is not the indicia that racism has ended, it is the indicia that a process likely to end racism has begun. It is an incubator stage. That is why it is so important, in this formative and fragile time that we being particularly sensitive to racial issues and that we take it upon ourselves to clearly and loudly denounce racism wherever it rears its ugly, ugly head. This is not a surprising thing, and it is not unwelcome.

yolk of tyranny

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How does that differ from the albumen of tyranny?

O’Reilly is totally correct. The expression “going street” has a meaning independent from racism. IMHO. And I would really doubt that the expression in this context offended Obama.

“Cracker”

Noun. Slang word used to refer to those of European ancestry. The word is thought to have either derived from the sound of a whip being cracked by slave owners, or because crackers are generally white in color.

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From the “Urban Dictionary”

Sorry. “Albumin”. Contacts!

Um, “me1ranger” you know fuck all about me, so I suggest you stick to the thread and not attack me personally.

Thanks.

I voted for the best candidate as did nearly 70 million other Americans.

And we all used our heads.

Yes, there’s still too much racism in America. Too many black Americans are discriminated against when they go for a job or promotion or a loan or when they go before the criminal justice system.

But recklessly and cavalierly throwing around the racism charge – as in this case by Halperin – doesn’t help us eliminate those wrongs.

This is a unfair charge by Halperin and he needs to be criticized for it.

King..’Cracker’ is a racial slur..period. I suggest you stop using it.

Hip..the best candidate? The one who felt best is what you meant. Barry never had a real job, never ran anything, is just a feel-good product of affirmative action, and you know it. Where am I wrong?

“That is why it is so important, in this formative and fragile time that we being particularly sensitive to racial issues and that we take it upon ourselves to clearly and loudly denounce racism wherever it rears its ugly, ugly head. This is not a surprising thing, and it is not unwelcome.”

I can see your point. But regardless, if this was a racist nation Obama would never have been elected. Most American’s don’t view the world through racial eyes. What is forced upon us is the silly political correctness that appears to over compensate. I’m all for individual people denouncing “racism” whenever they think they see it. But the moment the “denouncing” violates individual liberty, it is wrong.

My anecdotal evidence suggests racism is alive and well despite the election of 2008. My father-in-law uses the N-word like it will prolong his life. Both of my brother-in-laws do as well (among other slurs, usually against Latinos). My wife’s uncle sends racist jokes via text to her family members on a weekly basis, including one that featured beer bottles dressed up like KKK members lynching a beer bottle made to look like a black man. My uncles and cousins use racial slurs as casually as they say baseball or NASCAR. It exists all around me in my family and my wife’s. The difference is that it is no longer overt. It is much more private than it used to be. People say things in their homes rather than shout it in the streets. I know at least a dozen people who say things daily similar to what AC says here all the time, and sometimes worse.

Paul, I’m sorry your family is like that, but I can honestly say my world is nothing like that. Maybe it says more about the people around you than the country at large.

And King, you are clearly racist against white people so how about taking your own advice and take that first steip of admitting you have a problem.

Well geographically these people are all over the U.S. Midwest, South, and East. I don’t think that somehow only my family and my wife’s family is like this. Like I said, racism is alive and well, it’s just not as overt as it used to be. It’s like smoking: you can only do it in your home now.

What is racist about enforcing our immigration laws, my big-hearted liberal friends? They’re meant to keep Eastern Europeans and Swedes from coming here illegally as well..

I have to say the shrill denials of the existence of racism in America, the denials that one is racist or has ever been racist, are so amusing. Race has long been the fly in the ointment in America, and to deny that is simply to admit that it exists. If our civic life were a Twelve Step Program, we wouldn’t be at Step #1. So many of the posts are reminiscent of the Niggers of the 1920’s, the 1930’s, the 1940’s, the 1950’s, the 1960’s, the 1970’s, the 1980’s, the 1990’s, the first decade of 2000. The difference now is that the Niggers can cover their racism, in many cases, or their racial insensitivity, in many more cases, with a thin, vile paté of self-righteousness, often behind the utterly ridiculous mantras, “It’s not him, but his policies.” or “It’s not his race, but his competence”. Alas, the Nigger is never fully covered.

Like a Twelve Step Program also: there personal battle against the demon of racism within never ends. No one is suddenly magically purged of racism. It is a part of who we are, and frankly, most of us never confront the issue.

And, while so many took great pleasure in bleating, moaning and whining about the persistence of the racism discussion, I think our nation has been blessed with a rare opportunity to try to come to terms with this. I can readily see that many will never engage in the conversation, but many are. We’re better for it. Our Republic is better for it. And, the end, though not here, may at long last be in sight. For those of us posting here are a breed that thins with each new generation.

I’m not irritated by the discussion. I rejoice in it.

Well, Michelle, I am still puzzled how a White boy like me, who puts mayonaise on a barbecue brisket sandwich can be prejudiced against Whites, but please keep your delusion. Enjoy it. Glad I could give it to you.

For some reason me1ranger my racist relatives have no problem with the Swedes and Eastern Europeans coming here illegally.

Well, you could explain that better than me, but I’m not the only one here that’s noticied it. You are called on it daily.

The truth of the matter is, there are those in thise country who have an interest in keeping the race war alive and there is NO way they will let it come to an end. I’ll let you all decide who they are.

Sorry to hear that, Paul. My stepmother is from Norway and she had to wait 10 years to gain her citizenship. She was proud to do it. When we lived in Brownsville, Texas for a few years, nothing upset her more than seeing the area overrun with illegals. This from a socialist..it’s about fairness and the rule of law, that’s color blind..or should be.

I can read between the lines Michelle, and that is totally absurd.

Well it isn’t me1ranger.

“Me1ranger” you are wrong so frequently it is hard to know where to start.

Obama did hold a real job, although you don’t know it because you get your “news” from Hannity, apparently.

Obama worked for the Chicago firm Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Gallard. He helped represent clients in civil and voting rights matters and wrongful firings, argued a case before a federal appellate court, and took the lead in writing a suit to expand voter registration.

But the firm also handled routine legal matters and real estate. Obama spent about 70% of his time on voting rights, civil rights and employment, generally as a junior associate. The rest of his time was spent on matters related to real estate transactions, filing incorporation papers etc.

King, you ridicule and stereotype large groups of white people, especially those living in the south. You often put parentheses around the word (White) to emphasize your insults. You excuse this by saying that since whites have never faced the ‘yoke of oppression’, it’s perfectly okay to insult and stereotype them. Yet when you’re asked to comment on an outright racist like Louis Farrakhan, you claim you won’t comment because he’s not ‘present’. And yet you never see any hypocrisy in yourself. Truly amazing.

Hey hip..does barry supply you the knee-pads or do you have to bring your own? He never ran anything, ‘cept maybe a bullhorn. Never hired, fired, or had to make payroll. A civil rights lawyer, give me a break! Forcing banks to give loans to people who can’t afford it is what got us into this mess in the first place. I’m so often wrong..pound sand chump. And wipe your mouth..you got something dribbling out there.

Those are some puerile and filthy comments me1ranger.

Voters in 2008 had to make a choice. War interest was fading and the economy was bad. They were increasingly worried about the latter. Their choices were a man who repeatedly said he didn’t understand the economy and a man who appeared to grasp the dire economic situation (this is totally separate from his policies, which obviously many disagree with). For the majority of moderate and independent voters, not strict partisans like most of us here, it was an easy choice.

Unfortuately for Obama, he’s lost a huge number of those independents, so 2012 will be difficult for him.

That may be true Michelle, and of course a lot will depend on the Republican nominee, but what I said above is the reality of the 2008 election and why Obama won. Hate him and his policies all you want, but moderates and independents felt more comfortable with him handling the economy than they did McCain.

The point is, me1ranger, I have demonstrably proved you are a liar.

You said Obama “never had a real job.”

I just proved to you he did.

But go ahead and keep changing the goalpost.

Anything to denigrate Obama, right?

Paul,
For the record, I didn’t vote for McCain. I live in Utah, so I could get away with not having to cast that vote.

Hip..I did say a “real” job. Lawyers..come on..but you’re right. He was also a guest lecturer in Chicago, that too didn’t meet my requirment of a real job. I meant a leader, proven under fire. Someone who’s been up and down, not an affirmative action poster boy. And as far as the violence goes..didn’t your boy barry start that with “ass to kick” “boot on the neck” statements? Are you scared of him too? You should be..we all should be.

I live on the Gulf Coast. Went to the beach where oil was washing up and saw two boats out there laying booms. Two boats, total. Kick ass, Barry!

Affirmative action poster boy? Please. That is so incredibly condescending. A black man can’t get into Ivy League schools on merit? What a farce.

With that fancy education, could he send us more than two boats?

Working 80 hours a week in a law firm is not a “real job?”

Got ya.

Sure, lawyers are just dumb idiots. So are teachers and university lecturers.

I think America would be better off if we all just were plumbers.

Now that’s a real job.

We don’t need dumbass educated liberals like Apple’s Steve Jobs who create computers that we export all over the world bringing in billions to the US economy.

Hey Paul, Can you get barry to release his school records or maybe his thesis so that we can see how his entrance into these fine intitutions was “merit” based. And once again, I only criticize his white half. Don’t pull the race card on me, buddy. You were a big fan, like I was, of Condie Rice, weren’t you.

I get why people said Obama had a thin resume prior to the 2008 election, but even after more than two decades as a U.S. Senator, McCain still said he didn’t understand the economy and how it works.

Two boats, Barry? Really?

Of course Bush also benefited from a form of affirmative action as a legacy. Otherwise he never gets into those schools.

Paul,
Can you honestly say that a white dem with the same exact resume as obama would have beaten Hillary for the nomination? I want your honest opinion.

Hang in there writer..barry is on his way, again. This time he means business!

That’s a pretty tough hypothetical Michelle, but honestly, yes I do. It is certainly not out of the question.

Kick ass!!

The movie?

On behalf of Democrats everywhere, I wish to thank Michelle for her interest in our nominating procedures. When the Republicans have a nominee in 2012 and Michelle then finally knows for whom she will dutifully vote, I hope she will get back to us and dazzle us with the details of his or her resumé so that we will better know how we fell short.

Remember: Buy gold. Use gold to buy seeds!

I think one should ask themselves this question:

Would Drudge have used the term ‘going street’ if Obama was not black?

Thank you for your honesty Paul, but forgive me if I think you might be wrong.

King, I haven’t bought any gold, but I did notice yesterday that it was at a historic high.

Just think of all the seeds you haven’t been able to buy, Michelle. Would you like a tissue?

paulmdoro says:
June 10, 2010 at 11:59 am

Mr. Obama said he had “undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action” in his own academic career

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/us/politics/03affirmative.html

“I must say, however, that as someone who has undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs during my academic career, and as someone who may have benefited from the Law Review’s affirmative action policy when I was selected to join the Review last year, I have not personally felt stigmatized either within the broader law school community or as a staff member of the Review.” ~Obama

Michelle the thing is neither one of us will ever be able to prove it. We can only speculate.

Bush also benefited from affirmative action, just of a different variety, the “We are only accepting you because of your last name” kind.

Affirmative action only allows doors that have been previously closed to some, to be opened. Once that door opens, you are still required to do the same hard work that everyone else does. It isn’t a free pass. Affirmative action has been more of a benefit to white women than anyone else.

Thanks Sara, now where’s that little sissy that called me a liar..

Stephen Hogan says:
June 10, 2010 at 12:36 pm

Google “gets street cred” and “goes street” and see all the references. People use it all the time. (including in reference to Matthews and McCain.)

Remember, it was Bill Maher pushing Obama to go street in the first place. Once he did, Drudge reported it. Had Maher not made those references to a black man with a gun, I doubt Drudge would have even thought to use the Obama goes street line. Just a guess.

I didn’t catch Maher saying that, but I’m not surprised. I try not to pay attention to him. He’s an arrogant fundamentalist.

You a have a point, but we’ll never know for sure.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-disappointed-that-obama-isnt-a-real-black-president-with-a-gun-in-his-pants/

“The Real Royal King says:
June 10, 2010 at 9:53 am

Well, Michelle, I am still puzzled how a White boy like me, who puts mayonaise on a barbecue brisket sandwich can be prejudiced against Whites, but please keep your delusion. Enjoy it. Glad I could give it to you.

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You offer this as proof that you are “a White boy”. Sorry, but the only thing that proves is that your palate would gag a maggot.

First off, Obama isn’t kicking anyone’s ass. The best he can do is shout obscenities from behind the Secret Service ‘holding him back’. He can barely throw a baseball 60 feet and shoots basketball like a girl. No offense ladies.

Second, Sticks and Stones. America’s left and media have become a bunch of pansies. What many mothers fail to recognize is that by running to rescue of their little ‘babies’ anytime someone offends them, not only do they fail to learn to handle the situation properly themselves, they end up acting more and more like spoiled brats.

Keep it up Media, you think GWB was an embarrassment, wait till Obama starts throwing temper tantrums. He’s closer than you think.

Obama is just trying to show off for the 33% that favor him in the polls. Ever imagine who those people are? Now might understand why he’s trying to act like a tough adolescent. He’s speaking to his base.

Here you go mothers, unsolicited parenting advice. Take heed.

Stephen Hogan says:
June 10, 2010 at 1:09 pm

I didn’t catch Maher saying that, but I’m not surprised. I try not to pay attention to him. He’s an arrogant fundamentalist.

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I loathe Maher for the most part, so you’ll get no argument from me, but in what sense do you mean “fundamentalist”?

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You offer this as proof that you are “a White boy”. Sorry, but the only thing that proves is that your palate would gag a maggot.

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Well, hi there, Janet. What can I say? Chacun à son goût?

Here in Texas, we do barbecue in this sweet, sticky terrible tomato-based sauce. Mayonaise cuts it. If I were in the Carolinas, I’d just add more of that vinegary sauce.

You might ask why I wouldn’t use mustard. That goes back to a dreadful accident during a primary school field trip to the French’s plant. I simply can’t bear to describe it.

However, you’re correct. I’m not all that White anymore. The wondrous Texas sun! My brother-in-law and I are going to get big sombreros and serapes, head over to Phoenix and see if we can get arrested.

You offer this as proof that you are “a White boy”. Sorry, but the only thing that proves is that your palate would gag a maggot.

HAHA, k that made me laugh out loud Grammie!!

Paul, your family as you describe them is truly beyond belief to this Southern white woman whose Grandfather was born into a slave owning family in the pre-emancipation South in 1861.

I was an adult before I had contact with a black person in any way other than as a domestic (sometimes “loved” and “cherished”) or as menial laborers and servants. I look back in amazement now that I (and very very few others I associated with) never once questioned in any way the world we were born and raised in.

Although your familial situation is definitely pitiable it is not representative of society at large and you are mistaken if you extrapolate your peculiar situation to those, as you appear to, who don’t share their beliefs and attitudes.

BHO is the President of the United States. He is NOT the BLACK President of the United States. He is, as others before him, the most powerful man in the world so why are we constantly concentrating on whether criticism is just racist?

At what point do we put this aside and debate policy and ideology as opposed to all this other manufactured crap?

Do any of you on the left honestly believe that I was AOK with Carter or LBJ but not BHO b/c only racism informs my opposition to him? If you can answer “yes” to that then you are hopeless and the real racist.

I never said criticism of the president is racist. I said racism is alive and well, which it is. If you believe otherwise it’s willful ignorance, or you never leave your house. My wife and I have family in Wisconsin, Michigan, Delaware, and Alabama. There are racists on both sides in each of those states. Not for a second do I believe that this is only true for our two families across the entire United States of America.

Paul,

Do you see racism in whites only or do you also see it in other groups? I can tell you during my time in the Army, I met far more racist blacks than whites. I also saw racism amongst the various Latin groups. Primarily, Mexicans being racist against Puerto Ricans. You do realize that racism, no matter what TRRK says, is no exclusive to whites. You should read the book Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell.

I have to say, Janet, you are getting less convincing about your open-mindedness by the moment. Perhaps this would be a good time to go over to the Koldys PHOX Phan Klub and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait some more for someone to make a nice Olbermann-bashing or Hounds-slandering screed with which you can whole-heartedly agree. The affirmation would do you some good.

Do I know some people like you described? Of course, though I must admit none that share Klan humor with me etc.

Does racism exist? Yes and it will probably exist between groups as long as groups continue to exist.

That, though, is completely different from the constant drumbeat of RACISM ACCUSATIONS that permeates every aspect of public life. If every criticism I make of a man who has tremendous power over me and everyone else in the world has to first be argued ad infinitum through a charge of racism we are doomed.

This nonsensical crap is guaranteed, IMO, to actually cause an upswing in racism. If we can not treat BHO just as we treat every other high official just b/c he is black then we would be fools to ever consider blacks for any high office in the future.

As you say, you have not stated that criticism=racism but you do seem to believe that it is a primary motivation for many. After all you are commenting on a thread called :

Bill O’Reilly Can’t See How Drudge’s ‘Obama Goes Street’ Headline Is Racist”

In this thread and others you consistently insist that racism thrives. From that I infer that you do believe that that is a/the primary motivator for any criticism of BHO and that is the basis for my comment.

I can speak for my family and it bears no relationship to yours. Like you, I can’t believe that my family is some unique rarity of enlightenment. My Mother died 6 years ago at age 100. The internist she chose after our family internist of 40 years retired was a black man. Hardly the act of a racist. I could go on but, damn, then I’m forced into that catch 22 that if I have to give examples then I’m racist. It is a no win situation!

I do not believe nor have I ever said that your criticism of BHO is racist. I think there is a tendency to go a little overboard with the “every single time someone in America criticizes Obama they are called a racist” claims.

You may have missed this from my comment directly preceding yours:

“As you say, you have not stated that criticism=racism but you do seem to believe that it is a primary motivation for many.”

Of course it isn’t racist….it is just the right-wing bringing up race yet OUTRAGED if anyone points out it is about race.

Makes perfect sense….right?

Right

There is a group on both the right and the left who scream racism at every turn. Niether are right most of the time.

Grammie says:
June 10, 2010 at 4:44 pm
You may have missed this from my comment directly preceding yours:

“As you say, you have not stated that criticism=racism but you do seem to believe that it is a primary motivation for many.”

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Yes, we must have missed that. It all makes so much sense now.