The word “DUH” comes to mind.

Two conclusions, clear and inescapable:

1.) Leftists are the ones fixated on RACE
2.) This is a panic move by Leftists who realize there’s no more pitchfork and no more bullets

I will raise your race card with a Obama card!

~”The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally.~ Barack the Liar Obama

As for SJL, have you ever attempted to follow the logic of her while she talks? Wow!

Is it April 1st.. It has to be April 1srt… I hope that this is not going to be the Democratic platform.

Racism died. Only whites are discriminated against. What’s the Southern Strategy? Never heard of it.

Now that is a fool.

Half the CBC are criminals who should be in jail .

Race crap protects them .

No one cares
about Obama’s color .

Obama is a rabble rousing , arrogant , smalltime union thug .

Dems know it . The race card will not get this punk reelected .

We all know there is absolutely no “white racism” in the USA. Period. Besides all forms a racism and discrimination is committed by blacks and other racial minorities. Now shut up you lying black congresswoman!!!

“Read between the lines” which lines are those SJL? The words or the cocaine?

Sheila Jackson Lee’s positions on drugs.

By the way, she wants to allow drug testing for private companies, but HE!! no for government workers.

As for the 14th amendment argument that all the MORONS continue to try and use, that is for DEBTS! It does not say that the US Federal government can give BILLIONS to other countries. It does not say that the US Federal government can operate UN CONSTITUTIONAL agencies. It does not say that the US Federal government can purchase up VAST amounts of US property for their agenda 21.

Oh the idiocy of some of our representatives!

Stupidist woman in congress – EVAH.

You should really update your headline to declare:

DEMOCRAT WOMEN ARE DUMB

honestly, I can’t believe you give this woman the time of day.

Oh, I don’t know it’s either because of astronomically escalating debt due to two wars and an increasingly global market… added to a current president who seems oblivious to market stimulants… OR it’s because our president is a black guy…

You chose, Sheila,,.by all means… surprise us…

We are never going to finally make race a non-factpr in this country if some continue to insist on making it a factor (when it suits them)….

TfT said:
Stupidist woman in congress – EVAH.

You should really update your headline to declare:

DEMOCRAT WOMEN ARE DUMB

honestly, I can’t believe you give this woman the time of day.

Oh, please. Give it a rest. She’s not dumb, she’s merely playing the race card.

got a grip said:
We are never going to finally make race a non-factpr in this country if some continue to insist on making it a factor (when it suits them)….

You mean we’re never going to confront it….until we acknowledge it’s existence.

“Sheila Jackson Lee Throws the Race Card Into the Debt Debate ”

Other groups are better at creating headlines than Mediaite.

It’s good to see all rightwing “Civil Rights” icons checking in.

I actually sat down and talked to her about 30 yrs ago when she was first running for a judgeship in Houston. We talked for about a half hour in a working class bar in Houston. Strange place to hustle votes, but she seemed sincere. Nowadays she seems like a crazy race baiter. I believe she hates white people.

It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

lobodons said:
It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

Nice.. what is all this stuff about respecting the office we so often hear… oh yeah that is only for the other side, or…. let me guess you are black so that makes it ok… rules for me rules for you… discourse is a thing of the past.. coz if you ain’t with me….. U’s a racist.

lobodons said:
It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

What drives us crazy is knowing people like you actually vote.

TheBiggestBrax said:
You mean we’re never going to confront it….until we acknowledge it’s existence.

With the thumbs down — you prove my point. Even the most liberal white person will never know the level of racism experience by a black person or other racial minority.

TfT said:
Stupidist woman in congress – EVAH.

I wish that were true. Unfortunately, Virginia “The” Foxx and Bachmann are still in congress.

Yet another Democrat plays the race card…BORING!

lobodons said:
It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

Evidently we had 60 past raises in the debt ceiling and 60 commiserate tax increases… otherwise it’s about melanin…

Who knew…

TheBiggestBrax said:
With the thumbs down — you prove my point. Even the most liberal white person will never know the level of racism experience by a black person or other racial minority.

Ohhhhh please. Are you a high school student?

I don’t think race is a factor because Republicans are equal opportunity offender. They want the economy to crash on everyone because that is the plan.

Put the deck away Sheila, get a brain.

~”The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally.~ Barack Obama

Stupidist woman in congress evah.

TheBiggestBrax said:
It’s good to see all rightwing “Civil Rights” icons checking in.

With all vast racial discrimination committed by blacks against the White populace and your endurance of centuries of slavery and Jim Crow. You as a people have come through marvelously.

“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.” – Hillary Clinton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CzteDucRHo

TheBiggestBrax said:
With the thumbs down — you prove my point. Even the most liberal white person will never know the level of racism experience by a black person or other racial minority.

All the more reason the Sheila Jackson Lees of the world should be more than a little reluctant to opportunistically pull out implications of racism.

There’s a level of cynical partisan strategy here that would make a mafia member blush.

Yoda002 said:
I don’t think race is a factor because Republicans are equal opportunity offender. They want the economy to crash on everyone because that is the plan.

We want to stop borrowing from our mastercard to pay the interest on our visa and WE’RE crazy?

Does no one understand basic math anymore?

lobodons said:
It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

Yeah I know, better get out there and start killin those cracka babies!

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies.” -Barack Obama 2006

http://geekpolitics.com/obama-on-raising-the-debt-ceiling/

timzank said:
Ohhhhh please. Are you a high school student?

Elementary my man!

Cecelia said:
All the more reason the Sheila Jackson Lees of the world should be more than a little reluctant to opportunistically pull out implications of racism.

There’s a level of cynical partisan strategy here that would make a mafia member blush.

that’s because racism have been completely eradicate. You Necks should be Happy!

TheBiggestBrax said:
that’s because racism have been completely eradicate. You Necks should be Happy!

So, to be clear, you agree with Sheila Jackson Lee?

TheBiggestBrax said:
With all vast racial discrimination committed by blacks against the White populace and your endurance of centuries of slavery and Jim Crow. You as a people have come through marvelously.

I’m sorry but neither slavery or Jim Crow serve as the moral coinage to endow Sheila Jackson Lee with an authority that goes beyond rational debate.

No matter how fond you liberals are of such imaginary dynamics.

timzank said:
We want to stop borrowing from our mastercard to pay the interest on our visa and WE’RE crazy?

Does no one understand basic math anymore?

**whispers** It didn’t bother you guys when the debt ceiling had to be raised 7 times under Bush. But, now all of a sudden deficits matter. Seems a little strange to me.

Sheila, Sheila, Sheila…you silly racist bigot. You should NOT open that BIGOT mouth of yours because many of us just may expose some of the descrimination lawsuits presently against you. Yes, Sheila, those lawsuits. The same lawsuits that several in your office are aware of and who will be witnesses against you. It is going to get ugly, Sheila, real, real ugly. You will definitely lose but, let me be the first to say it couldn’t happen to a nicer Sheila.

BTW…you may want to update your resume, Sheila. I do hope you have a good team of lawyers beeeeeeeeeecause you’a'gonna’need’em! Have a nice weekend, Sheila. Ta Ta……………

TheBiggestBrax said:
that’s because racism have been completely eradicate. You Necks should be Happy!

Actually, my neck understands that no bias will ever be completely eradicated.

My reason understands that this fact is not prima facie evidence for any argument.

timzank said:
So, to be clear, you agree with Sheila Jackson Lee?

We live in the same country, but, different worlds. I’ll never let a white person who never walk a mile in my shoes; tell me about my life experiences — and what is and what isn’t discrimination.

Yoda002 said:
**whispers** It didn’t bother you guys when the debt ceiling had to be raised 7 times under Bush. But, now all of a sudden deficits matter. Seems a little strange to me.

We weren’t on the brink of financial ruin when it was raised before. Do you not understand math? There are not enough workers and rich people combined in this country to ever pay off a debt this big, and he wants 2 trillion more?

This isn’t a race issue, it’s a very simple math problem.

Democrats proposed some tax incentives for small businesses and the Republicans voted against it. It’s almost like the Republican want the economy to get worse for political purposes.

lobodons said:
It just drives teabaggers crazy knowing there is a nig*er in the White House. (will be there till 2017 too)

Your mother should wash your mouth out with soap. How dare you talk about the President in these terms?

Yoda002 said:
**whispers** It didn’t bother you guys when the debt ceiling had to be raised 7 times under Bush. But, now all of a sudden deficits matter. Seems a little strange to me.

You think everyone agreed with Bush on his non fiscal attributes? When you get done painting with that wide brush, can you come and do my basement? I stuccoed the walls, drywalled the ceiling, sealed the floor and just have not had time to paint it yet.

Tomorrow good for you?

TheBiggestBrax said:
We live in the same country, but, different worlds. I’ll never let a white person who never walk a mile in my shoes; tell me about my life experiences — and what is and what isn’t discrimination.

I was referring to her belief that we oppose raising the debt ceiling because Obama is black. Do you agree with her on that?

Cecelia said:
Actually, my neck understands that no bias will ever be completely eradicated.

My reason understands that this fact is not prima facie evidence for any argument.

Screw bias….how about racism? If we had to just endure centuries or bias….it would’ve been a cake walk. You don’t and won’t understand. If you were around: Did you march during the struggle…or were you firing shots?

Dang, if the President wasn’t black we could borrow more money and spend like drunken sailors. But because he is black, we all need to tighten our belts and act prudently. Thank you Rep. Lee for explaining this to us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY91aQcumpY

watch the last part specially
republicans who voted for ryan’s plan need the debt ceiling to be raised…
and it adds 6 trillion dollars to the deficit

It’s gonna be this way all through the election, Obama could slit the throat of a 5 year old kid on national TV and if we called him on it we’d be racist.

TheBiggestBrax said:
Screw bias….how about racism? If we had to just endure centuries or bias….it would’ve been a cake walk. You don’t and won’t understand. If you were around: Did you march during the struggle…or were you firing shots?

How many more centuries are you going make excuses just to get free shit??

I am embarrassed that Sheila Jackson Lee represents a Houston district, BUT she is
1) From QUEENS, NY

2) Went to Yale for undergraduate school

3) Went to UVa Law School

So, Texas is NOT responsible for this woman’s stupidity. I have known her as a mom at school (the MOST prestigious PRIVATE SCHOOL in Houston) and she’s just a much of an arrogant BULLY as a parent as she is in Congress.

“Biggest Brax”, get over yourself. IF you had an ancestor who was a slave, it would have been your great, great (maybe even another great) grandparent and you are trading upon your heritage.

I am sick and tired of trying to explain to ignoramuses like you about the worldwide history of slavery. You use “slavery” in the United States as a crutch to explain any of YOUR OWN failures and to bludgeon everyone else into overlooking your lack of competence. No wonder Asian students (many of whom came to this country speaking only their native tongue) get so disgusted with affirmative action- they have worked hard in school and “elite” colleges take points away from them in college admissions SIMPLY BECAUSE they are Asian.

Sheila Jackson Lee is an arrogant, bigoted race-baiter who does not deserve the title of Congresswoman!

timzank said:
We weren’t on the brink of financial ruin when it was raised before. Do you not understand math? There are not enough workers and rich people combined in this country to ever pay off a debt this big, and he wants 2 trillion more?

This isn’t a race issue, it’s a very simple math problem.

But the economic collapse started under Bush. Do you remember Paulson having to ask for nearly a trillion dollars to bail out the banks. And received a couple trillion more under the table from the Fed.

Obama is trying to cut 4 trillion. I believe the economy is to fragile to do this. This is the same thing that happen in1936 when we were starting to get out of the Great Depression and we went back into a recession

Well said Tillie!

DavidKramer said:
You think everyone agreed with Bush on his non fiscal attributes? When you get done painting with that wide brush, can you come and do my basement? I stuccoed the walls, drywalled the ceiling, sealed the floor and just have not had time to paint it yet.

Tomorrow good for you?

It seems like a lot of you teabbaggesr were “silent” when this was going on?

timzank said:
I was referring to her belief that we oppose raising the debt ceiling because Obama is black. Do you agree with her on that?

Well every single President prior to Obama raised the debt ceiling without having to pull teeth. Where were all you conservatives howling when the debt grew exponentially? Had there been any level of outrage during the Bush Administration on the exploding debt — you would have more credibility. There a common denominator with the previous President that raised the ‘debt ceiling’ with a clean bill. Than all of a sudden a black President occupies that Office and the rules changed. What do you think I should surmise.

She’s too racially sensitive. I would suspect a lot of Tea partiers voted for Obama. Okay, maybe not a lot but some. The country is past racism, hence his election.

The country is, but black democrats – not so much. : \

Yoda002 said:
But the economic collapse started under Bush. Do you remember Paulson having to ask for nearly a trillion dollars to bail out the banks. And received a couple trillion more under the table from the Fed. Obama is trying to cut 4 trillion. I believe the economy is to fragile to do this. This is the same thing that happen in1936 when we were starting to get out of the Great Depression and we went back into a recession

Paulsen was full of shit and Bush shouldn’t have caved. And Bush’s tarp was 300 billion, not a trillion. Your boy Barry is the trillion dollar kid, hence the impending doom.

timzank said:
How many more centuries are you going make excuses just to get free shit??

stfu bitch

felixw said:
Dang, if the President wasn’t black we could borrow more money and spend like drunken sailors. But because he is black, we all need to tighten our belts and act prudently. Thank you Rep. Lee for explaining this to us.

But you guys were spending like drunken sailors under Bush. I thought Cheney said deficits didn’t matter And I thought you guys were fiscally conservative??

Cecelia said:
Actually, my neck understands that no bias will ever be completely eradicated. . .

Well, a good start would be to accept black people who want to be Republicans and not the chattel of the Democratic Party. Can you believe the way that liberals on TV (Joy Behar for example) cross their legs toward a black person, smiling and nodding at everything they say? The idea here is that “I can’t possibly be racist because I love black people so much.” This is the most condescending thing I can imagine. Her racism is much more subtle, but just as harmful. The Democrats offer blacks half a loaf. They should be free to love, hate, fight, f*ck, marry and bear children with anyone they choose. The full range of human experience. I think both political parties and most all of the people in the country fall short of this. But I don’t think white liberals are any less race conscious than the rest of the country. They do pay outstanding lip service to it though.

timzank said:
How many more centuries are you going make excuses just to get free shit??

Tell me what free shit that I received? It’s not excuses its reality. But you, and the rest of you Rednecks will never understand.

TheBiggestBrax said:
Well every single President prior to Obama raised the debt ceiling without having to pull teeth. Where were all you conservatives howling when the debt grew exponentially? Had there been any level of outrage during the Bush Administration on the exploding debt — you would have more credibility. There a common denominator with the previous President that raised the ‘debt ceiling’ with a clean bill. Than all of a sudden a black President occupies that Office and the rules changed. What do you think I should surmise.

Gawd you are so simple….It’s the AMOUNT stupid. It’s at 14 trillion righ now. He wants to add 2 trillion more…I don’t give a flying fu*k what color he is, it’s economic suicide.

I don’t understand why the leadership of the DNC and the Black Caucus don’t work with Sheila Jackson Lee to minimize the embarrassment and damage she leaves in her wake. When she speaks, she tends to make the credibility of the party drop. This stupid “racer” talk isn’t helping the Democrat’s position on the debt limit in any way.
I think I would consider resigning from a party that cannot keep her under control, let alone accept her in the first place.
If she doesn’t understand that criticizing Obama on his spending and reluctance to accept the measures that must be taken to solve this crisis have nothing to do with race, she needs to sit down and stay out of the way.
I have frequently wondered what kind of voter fraud has kept her in office. I refuse to believe there are that many stupid voters in the 18th congressional district of Texas.

Someone get the ‘disrespectful comments this Leftist Shrew made about Bush and then go shove them (in her face).

timzank said:
Gawd you are so simple….It’s the AMOUNT stupid. It’s at 14 trillion righ now. He wants to add 2 trillion more…I don’t give a flying fu*k what color he is, it’s economic suicide.

How the f*ck did it get to $14 trillion? just admit your a redneck man. we’ve dealt with you guys all these centuries. it’s no biggie. We’re just not in to head bowing.

TheBiggestBrax said:
Tell me what free shit that I received? It’s not excuses its reality. But you, and the rest of you Rednecks will never understand.

Get a tissue.

timzank said:
Paulsen was full of shit and Bush shouldn’t have caved. And Bush’s tarp was 300 billion, not a trillion. Your boy Barry is the trillion dollar kid, hence the impending doom.

That was the original release of TARP but Paulson was allotted up to 700 billion plus 2-3 trillion that was given under the table by the FED.

TheBiggestBrax said:
How the f*ck did it get to $14 trillion? just admit your a redneck man. we’ve dealt with you guys all these centuries. it’s no biggie. We’re just not in to head bowing.

get a job too ya leech.

Yoda002 said:
That was the original release of TARP but Paulson was allotted up to 700 billion plus 2-3 trillion that was given under the table by the FED.

So the spending doesn’t bother you? You think this will make you better off? How so?

timzank said:
Get a tissue.

Look you little woman i never cry. Not even when my die. I’m what call a soulless G. You can always deliver the kleenex.

“Read between the lines,” she continued. “What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?”

I should think 4 trillion dollars pissed away by an unrepentant ideologic Keynesian on a spending binge with government spending spiking at 40% of GDP – even as Moody’s is threatening to downgrade our credit rating for the first time ever – has something to do with it. Oh, but there’s this…

Hide from any and all criticism of the administration behind the largest race card known to man

It never gets old, Sheila, does it?

timzank said:
get a job too ya leech.

I’m continue to dialogue with some weak wimpy neck. You in the Los Angeles area? smart ass?

TheBiggestBrax said:
Look you little woman i never cry. Not even when my die. I’m what call a soulless G. You can always deliver the kleenex.

No, You’re what I call a whiner and complainer and a drag on society who has a built in excuse to justify being a loser.

timzank said:
So the spending doesn’t bother you? You think this will make you better off? How so?

Someone has to jump start this economy the wealthy multinationals are not doing it. I think an FDR approach will help. The economy is driven my consumer demand and putting people to work will help that demand.

timzank said:
No, You’re what I call a whiner and complainer and a drag on society who has a built in excuse to justify being a loser.

poot butt.

Paleoconservatarian said:
I should think 4 trillion dollars pissed away by an unrepentant ideologic Keynesian on a spending binge with government spending spiking at 40% of GDP – even as Moody’s is threatening to downgrade our credit rating for the first time ever – has something to do with it. Oh, but there’s this…

It never gets old, Sheila, does it?

Where was Moody’s when the impending economic collapse was about to happen. Yes, they were silent.

TheBiggestBrax said:
Screw bias….how about racism? If we had to just endure centuries or bias….it would’ve been a cake walk. You don’t and won’t understand. If you were around: Did you march during the struggle…or were you firing shots?

I wasn’t around.

Neither was Sheila.

Does that count?

Cecelia said:
I wasn’t around.

Neither was Sheila.

Does that count?

how about the legacy.

This woman is a piece of garbage–no better than Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson

timzank said:
How many more centuries are you going make excuses just to get free shit??

No offense but you and me, us white people, on a scale of 1 to 100, score a 0 on actually understanding what it’s like to be a black American.

To wake up every day and look at your skin color and walk down the street on any given day and know that there is someone walking by you thinking in their head, “There’s a n—–”. And when you go to work there’s coworkers who look around corners to make sure you can’t overhear them when they tell the next joke. Or there are millions of Americans who think that you are inferior.

Our father’s – yours and mine – were the Archie Bunker’s who thought that Lionel was a nice boy and all, but he shouldn’t be going dancing with our nieces, and we should keep to our own kind. And we don’t have grandmothers that tell us stories about the Rosewood massacre how white folks came to town and burned the entire place into non-existence. Lynchings, water fountains, hotels, bathrooms, restaurants, draining hotel pools, separate entrances, poll taxes – white people have no clue what it’s like to be black.

Racism is very much alive and well in America and whether Shirley Jackson Lee says it or not, it’s there. Whether it has to do with the debt ceiling or not, it’s there.

TheBiggestBrax said:
Well every single President prior to Obama raised the debt ceiling without having to pull teeth. Where were all you conservatives howling when the debt grew exponentially? Had there been any level of outrage during the Bush Administration on the exploding debt — you would have more credibility. There a common denominator with the previous President that raised the ‘debt ceiling’ with a clean bill. Than all of a sudden a black President occupies that Office and the rules changed. What do you think I should surmise.

How old are you? Have you not heard the reply often made by your parents when you say well so and so did it! So if the previous presidents all jumped off the cliff then will you jump off as well? You are right that prior Presidents raised the debt ceiling but not about conservatives not yelling about it. I have been yelling for 30 years no matter which congress and President was doing it. We have been calling for smaller government for years and neither party has been listening. Some Republicans and even some Democrats gave lib service but never did anything. It took this current economic mess to get the rest of you to listen. Same with the immigration issue. Why do you think the Tea Party has gained traction? It is because both parties have been about power and corruption. This is not about race and Obama but about Obama being the one in office when the ____ hit the fan. Obama did inherit the problem (not from Bush but from many previous administrations) but he is the worse President to have during this time as he is an idiot who does not have a clue about what he is doing unless he does and he is running us into the ground faster on purpose. The problem came to a head while he is in office and he is making it worse. Everyone who balances a check book knows you can’t keep borrowing money and spending like spoiled brats.

Wow–the RightyCranks were being so quiet today. Just waiting for a story they could dig their teeth into, I guess. I wonder what it was about today’s other stories that was keeping them relatively quiet?

Just one of life’s mysteries, I suppose.

If all else fails….Use race card….(It’s getting/is old) Morons

Was that Rep. ProObamaAgenda?

fishchef said:
No offense but you and me, us white people, on a scale of 1 to 100, score a 0 on actually understanding what it’s like to be a black American. To wake up every day and look at your skin color and walk down the street on any given day and know that there is someone walking by you thinking in their head, “There’s a n—–”. And when you go to work there’s coworkers who look around corners to make sure you can’t overhear them when they tell the next joke. Or there are millions of Americans who think that you are inferior. Our father’s – yours and mine – were the Archie Bunker’s who thought that Lionel was a nice boy and all, but he shouldn’t be going dancing with our nieces, and we should keep to our own kind. And we don’t have grandmothers that tell us stories about the Rosewood massacre how white folks came to town and burned the entire place into non-existence. Lynchings, water fountains, hotels, bathrooms, restaurants, draining hotel pools, separate entrances, poll taxes – white people have no clue what it’s like to be black. Racism is very much alive and well in America and whether Shirley Jackson Lee says it or not, it’s there. Whether it has to do with the debt ceiling or not, it’s there.

Dude you need to get new friends if this is what you are seeing around you then you are traveling in the wrong circles… yes those people will now and always exist, but they have become unimportant in our society, they are not the people now moving this country forward, Our president’s election speaks to that. The people that sit around and talk like that are what most American’s would consider to be low life and are not representative of the majority of American people. Nobody is running around burning churches, or hanging black people in their front yards.. Those days are long behind us, and the only thing keeping racism alive are those who seem to think that they can somehow reap some benefit from it.. Honestly while those who do so may gain riches in so doing they ill serve those whom they would have you believe they serve. It would also be disingenous to say that racism is a one way street, there are bad actors in all segments of our society…

Paul G said:
If all else fails….Use race card….(It’s getting/is old) Morons

The phrase ‘use the race card’ is getting old. It means that if something is racist, you can’t point it out because you’re ‘using the race card’. If racism wasn’t so ingrained in the culture of this country, there would be no reason to point it out. But it not only exists, it thrives.

Racism should be old news. It should not be a factor. But it is.

of course its about race, thats why senator obama voted against it in 2006

Ajolily said:
How old are you? Have you not heard the reply often made by your parents when you say well so and so did it! So if the previous presidents all jumped off the cliff then will you jump off as well? You are right that prior Presidents raised the debt ceiling but not about conservatives not yelling about it. I have been yelling for 30 years no matter which congress and President was doing it. We have been calling for smaller government for years and neither party has been listening. Some Republicans and even some Democrats gave lib service but never did anything. It took this current economic mess to get the rest of you to listen. Same with the immigration issue. Why do you think the Tea Party has gained traction? It is because both parties have been about power and corruption. This is not about race and Obama but about Obama being the one in office when the ____ hit the fan. Obama did inherit the problem (not from Bush but from many previous administrations) but he is the worse President to have during this time as he is an idiot who does not have a clue about what he is doing unless he does and he is running us into the ground faster on purpose. The problem came to a head while he is in office and he is making it worse. Everyone who balances a check book knows you can’t keep borrowing money and spending like spoiled brats.

Problem is that Obama, aka this guys messiah, asked for the job, got the job, and on inauguration day accepted the job and stood up and said he was going to do the job…. but somehow this is Bush’s fault, and if that ain’t workin then it’s the bat sh*t crazy tea baggers fault, and if that ain’t workin then it’s coz America is still a racist country, anything except that this guys Messiah simply is incapable of or just ain’t doin the job.

When all else fails,play the race card.Demos are losing this battle.

The only way she can get on TV is by playing the race card.

same thing when senator obama voted against it in 2006

Wow there was a whole mess of discussion here earlier… 

So when you switch over to disqus you lost the 91 comments?

gefforyk said:
Dude you need to get new friends if this is what you are seeing around you then you are traveling in the wrong circles… yes those people will now and always exist, but they have become unimportant in our society, they are not the people now moving this country forward, Our president’s election speaks to that. The people that sit around and talk like that are what most American’s would consider to be low life and are not representative of the majority of American people. Nobody is running around burning churches, or hanging black people in their front yards.. Those days are long behind us, and the only thing keeping racism alive are those who seem to think that they can somehow reap some benefit from it.. Honestly while those who do so may gain riches in so doing they ill serve those whom they would have you believe they serve. It would also be disingenous to say that racism is a one way street, there are bad actors in all segments of our society…

I grew up in Massachusetts. There were the bussing riots in Boston. My own school had it’s annual fight between blacks and whites. I personally never felt any racial abrasion. Black kids were my friends, I never felt they were any different from me, different skin color, but we all had different skin color. Nice kids, bullies, cute girls, nerds – whatever – some were black and some were white – I didn’t distinguish by skin color.

I moved to Florida in my 20′s and it was subtle and slow, but things would come out. I’m not saying everyone’s a racist – but it’s out there and especially here in Florida. Whether you catch a dirty disguted glance by an old couple looking at an interracial couple, or a couple of white kids from high school talking about some fight they got into in ‘brown-town’, using the n-word six times in a sentance. Racism has simply gone underground but it’s there, and if you don’t see it, you’re not looking.

I will say that a lot of thiings are better than when I was a kid. Two of the women who work with me – who are white – have black children (bi-racial), and even the kids that were using the n-word six times are very friendly and accepting of these kids. In general, I personally find that the younger generation is on the whole becoming more accepting of racial differences. I think this trend will continue and racism will become unimportant in this country, but we should still continue to address it.

We should still ‘use the race card’ because racism still exists.

 Hmmm….I guess

Yeah but I read yours and it was good!

 Great all my brilliant comments gone forever:)

“I am particularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one,” said Jackson Lee from the House floor.

Is this bigot even aware that she was a prominent member of a Congressional hearing on impeaching Bush?

Are you aware that what you just stated doesn’t at all disprove what she said? Just curious, I don’t necessarily agree with her. But you say that as though it’s a sufficient refutation of what she said.

Does what she said really need to be addressed?  Are we going to play the game where her words really meant something?

Does what she said really need to be addressed?  Are we going to play the game where her words really meant something?

DisQus is better. :)

Sheila Jackson Lee probably thought O.J. was innocent.

Sheila Jackson Lee probably thought O.J. was innocent.

She said only Obama “has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one” and , as I posted, she WANTED TO IMPEACH BUSH!

Sometimes I post things and leave them deliberately sparse so that people will actually have to think and make the connections themselves.

She said only Obama “has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one” and , as I posted, she WANTED TO IMPEACH BUSH!

Sometimes I post things and leave them deliberately sparse so that people will actually have to think and make the connections themselves.

Ok then let’s play…. 

“Read between the lines,” she continued. “What is different about this president that should put him in a position that he should not receive the same kind of respectful treatment of when it is necessary to raise the debt limit in order to pay our bills, something required by both statute and the 14th amendment?”

So based on what she is saying this whole fight is because the President is black…  We are supposed to believe that it is because we sent close to 300 elected racist to Congress and the fact that this POTUS is asking to raise the debt ceiling to 16.5 trillion dollars, more than 100% of GDP has nothing to do with it…  hmmm OK I could accept that except for the fact that he has already blown a few trillion dollars and the only thing he has to show for it are those elusive jobs that were either created or saved even though the unemployment rate has continued to get worse, the real unemployment U6 is at 16.2 percent… but these facts have nothing to do with it.  How do you quantify saved jobs anyway?

Well, take heart. Using Disqus makes it alot easier for the Obama White House to keep tabs on what everyone is saying about them.

Wow! Just wow! Are you friggin’ kidding me? I give up. At this point these people are just too phucking stupid to even try to reason with. Was it all about hating the whitey when Obama voted against raising the debt ceiling when Bush was President?

“Why is he different?” Jackson Lee asked.

He is “different” because he is the first president in decades who is trying to spend borrowed money so fast that we cannot sustain the debt.  Also because about 1/3 of his phony-baloney stimulus plan was just an excuse to give money to those who supported his pollitics.

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These comments by Jackson Lee do not help. Some do continue to play the race card on both sides, but they are in the minority and that minority is growing smaller. There are other presidents who were attacked as viciously by opponents. There always have been.

I support Obama, and I know he does not need that kind of defense. Playing the race card only discredits those who do it.

Where are comments from great Soviet Leaders?

Also, was Comrade Obama racist to vote against debt limit raising when he was still lowly Senator Barack and America still had great American President Georgey Boosh?

Hopefully you didn’t give any email links that divulge anything. Hopefully!

Is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee only lowly Politburo member of fictitious American Democrupt party comrades?

I never thought the debt ceiling battle would get this nasty, and then SJL comes around and knocks me down a peg.

Yes, there is race as a deciding factor. The 2012 race. The GOP wants to make Obama a one-term President so they put the 2012 RACE into consideration. The conservatives are 2012 racists.

I guess she is asking why did republicans vote to raise the debt ceiling 7 times when Bush was in office and never made a big stink about it for Bush or any other President. When she talks about President Obama being targeted like no other President in American history maybe she is refering to the fact that republicans voted against their own bills,(bills that they personally wrote and co-authored) once President Obama got behind them. Can any Cons explain why a legislator would vote against a bill that he personally wrote just because an opposition President agreed with him and supported his idea. For a President to suport legislation written by an opposition legislator is the definition of compromise.  For a legislator to vote against his own idea because an opposition President backs it is the definition of something else.

I have been yelling about congress raising the debt ceiling for 30 years no matter which congress and President was doing it. We have been calling for smaller government and neither party has been listening. Some Republicans and even some Democrats gave lib service but never did anything. It took this current economic mess to get the rest of you to listen. Why do you think the Tea Party has gained traction? It is because both parties have been about power and corruption. This is not about race and Obama but about Obama being the one in office when the ____ hit the fan. Obama did inherit the problem (not from Bush but from many previous administrations) but he is the worse President to have during this time as he is an idiot who does not have a clue about what he is doing unless he does and he is running us into the ground faster on purpose. The problem came to a head while he is in office and he is making it worse.

If your theory of racism were true, this empty suit would never have been elected.

She’s just another ghetto thief..

She’s right!
Ahhh….bring back the Bush years, when criticizing the president made you un-American.  

Give this crap a rest

That’s right, Sheila. They raciss! Everything is raciss! The sun rose
this morning and it was raciss! The White Man don’t like it when it’s
DARK outside. He raciss!

Here is a suggestion for Rep. Lee. In the event you do not wish people
to believe you are genetically inclined to sub par intelligence, it
might be useful to avoid publicly demonstrating a complete inability to
identify the relationship between cause and effect.

That’s right, Sheila. They raciss! Everything is raciss! The sun rose
this morning and it was raciss! The White Man don’t like it when it’s
DARK outside. He raciss!

Here is a suggestion for Rep. Lee. In the event you do not wish people
to believe you are genetically inclined to sub par intelligence, it
might be useful to avoid publicly demonstrating a complete inability to
identify the relationship between cause and effect.

Tell me oh intellectual one, is Social Security Solvent to 2037 or is it broke? Think carefully here, because Obama broke the cognitive dissonance in his speech. Are those IOUs worth the paper they are written on or not?

Come on, you can do it.

Now, if there is nothing in the SS fund, don’t you think that just MAYBE, some spending restraint is called for? Maybe Obama should not increase the size of the communist party apparatchik and just maybe make it smaller?

It is all nice and good that you leftists live in this fairytale land, but sooner or later you are going to have to grow up. Being a child at 50 years old is not a good look for Obama.

Tell me oh intellectual one, is Social Security Solvent to 2037 or is it broke? Think carefully here, because Obama broke the cognitive dissonance in his speech. Are those IOUs worth the paper they are written on or not?

Come on, you can do it.

Now, if there is nothing in the SS fund, don’t you think that just MAYBE, some spending restraint is called for? Maybe Obama should not increase the size of the communist party apparatchik and just maybe make it smaller?

It is all nice and good that you leftists live in this fairytale land, but sooner or later you are going to have to grow up. Being a child at 50 years old is not a good look for Obama.

 You’re an idiot.  Are you counting the debt of the Bush tax cuts, two wars, RX drug plan that was never added to the books? 

Just how did Bush keep these expenses off the books and no one on the right said BOO.

 You’re an idiot.  Are you counting the debt of the Bush tax cuts, two wars, RX drug plan that was never added to the books? 

Just how did Bush keep these expenses off the books and no one on the right said BOO.

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Are you saying she is genetically inclined to sub par intelligence, because she’s black?
Because in reading the first part of your post, it sure sounds like you’re mocking the way African American’s speak.  That’s wouldn’t be racist, would it?

Are you saying she is genetically inclined to sub par intelligence, because she’s black?
Because in reading the first part of your post, it sure sounds like you’re mocking the way African American’s speak.  That’s wouldn’t be racist, would it?

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I think that I can follow your logic, Moody’s did not do it’s job so Republicans are racist…  Yeah that works, I can see it..   Maybe Moody’s was just slow on the up take like so many other Americans as so much money was spent in the last ten years that they just one day took a look around and said Holy S**t.  We sit here and talk about the 4 trillion dollars that is on the budget, we don’t talk about the 2.5 trillion in the expansion of our money supply…  which is effectively about a 20% tax on everything every family in america owns… I am sure that Moody’s is somehow aware of that as well. But lets go with the race card.

It has been more than acknowledged..  It is being rolled out as one of the mainstays of the Democratic platform… 

Again if you study civil rights you will see that republicans have a much stronger history than do democrats at advancing the civil rights of both women and minorities…  Your side didn’t seem to care to much until you saw them as a voting block.

This woman is bat$hit crazy. No really, just do a little reading up on her. Seriously a mental case. Playing the race card is all she’s got. She isn’t smart enough to argue any points on merit or facts.

I am not sure that I understand your point… I don’t see a front door at the republican party that says whites only, rather I see a welcome mat for all…  As far as the rest of what you say, I think that we are kinda there already.. 

We don’t have a president we have ofus the organizer. Senator ofus the organizer voted against raising the debt limit while badmouthing President Bush. Ofus the organizer must be a racist huh, shela crap for brains lee. By the way your constituents can’t be very smart in the first place if they voted for your big ugly self.

Uh…  maybe, and I know that this is a strecth…  but maybe it is because that by the time their bills had reached the floor for a final vote that they had been so deluded by amendments that it no longer accomplished their original intent???  or loaded with spending provisions that had nothing to do with the original bill…  But keep going with the black thing..  It makes more sense to say that we sent some 280 some odd racist to DC just because the president is black..

You need to adjust your paradigm just a little.  The Republicans have offered nothing but a no to everything that President Obama has tried to turn the economy around because President Obama has offered no program to the Republicans that would have any impact on turning the economy around, rather the contrary could be said about most of what this president has done.

David, I am sure that you will soon see QE3 so they can buy back some of those worthless IOU’s with some equally worthless reserve notes…

This woman is a racist herself. I’m so tired of these people who cry “racism” when they are the only ones looking at things with any bias of race.

Further, I’m tired of these idiots getting elected into public office because they come from districts that are highly uneducated. The downside to democracy is that everyone gets a say – including people who can’t read or write or think.

We really should reconsider that, especially with our education going off the cliff versus other first-world countries.

Same with the jury system.

OJ, Casey, Alvin Greene… because stupid people get a say.

Birthism was not about race…  It was about where the President was born…  It is weak, it is not a fight worth having…  but it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with Article 2 of the constitution.. 

Yup..  that is what all my Tea Party friends tell me..  they are barking mad becuase the president is black, nothing else that has happened during the last 4 or really for that matter 10 years has bothered them in the least…  Only thing on their minds is that the president is black.. 

Voter suppression laws..  you think you have already won that fight so easily just because Jackson and Maddow gave their little rant…  Just how many times did Acorn register Mickey Mouse to vote in recent elections and in how many different communities?

Obama promise the people of the united states a CHANGE and he kept the promise the United states went from Bad to WORSE he done what he promise he gave us a change  I did not vote for a change but I got One

Obama has done all in his power to make the economy worse and is doing so. The Tea Party is made up of mostly conservative people disgusted with both parties and politics as usual. The main stream Republicans don’t like it and would like them to go away but realize that their base is fed up with them and they must embrace the Tea Party or die. Rebranding? No but the same effect could be the result if the Tea Party members are not careful. It is a tug of war for sure. I am an independent and drink no Republican or Fox coolaid but you my friend spout the left talking points very well. I am not a Tea Party member and will not be but I watch what they are doing. They are an interesting phenomenon. I don’t like Obama at all and didn’t from the start. It is not about race. I feel the same way for the same reasons about Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Kerry, both Clintons and others. Are they black?

Although Bush used some sort of emergency spending clause and probably accounted for the RX plan as part of the SS program, by the way which it is..  He could keep the wars out of his budget, but not off the books as they were always accounted for and reflected in the deficits attributed to his years in office..  So Posterchild, please be careful when calling others idiots. A more likely explaination for his doing this is that he did not want to confuse the wars into the DOD budgets which also serve many other functions..  of all the games played in Washington this is a silly one to bring up.

Calling people idiots does not serve any good purpose..  Kinda like Mrs. Jackson throwing out the race card.

Obama isn’t playing the race card, because he has hope (it’s the 1/2 of him that is white).  Everybody else sees it for what it is:  ”YOU LIE” Joe Wilson, “Stop lying,” from CONGRESSMEN no less.  You show me someone in a position of office calling BUSH A LIAR on the Floor of the Senate or House — (when we KNOW he lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq).  Find me another one, and I will shut up. Nobody has been more disrespected (GOP not showing up at the White House upon invitation, early in his Presidencey).  I just hope more BLACK AMERICANS get guns to register to VOTE, since school ID won’t be enough anymore!!! 

Nice, thanks for the comment.

Obama isn’t playing the race card, because he has hope (it’s the 1/2 of him that is white).  Everybody else sees it for what it is:  ”YOU LIE” Joe Wilson, “Stop lying,” from CONGRESSMEN no less.  You show me someone in a position of office calling BUSH A LIAR on the Floor of the Senate or House — (when we KNOW he lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq).  Find me another one, and I will shut up. Nobody has been more disrespected (GOP not showing up at the White House upon invitation, early in his Presidency).  I just hope more BLACK AMERICANS get guns to register to VOTE, since school ID won’t be enough anymore!!!

This website needs to clean up its edit function…. I tried to correct a misspelling and it came up 2x so I flagged it to get your attention.

Sorry it was about the constitution just like it was when the liberals questioned McCains Birth. Or are you admitting that the liberals are all racist against white people? I wasn’t a birther but I am against Obama. I am also against Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Kerry, both Clintons and others. Are they black? No they aren’t. I hate their politics not the color of their skin.   

If it’s not FEAR-and-SMEAR, it’s RACE – that’s all they’ve got.

If it’s not FEAR-and-SMEAR, it’s RACE – that’s all they’ve got.

If it’s not FEAR-and-SMEAR, it’s RACE – that’s all they’ve got.

Another way to look at it — the debt limit was raised four times when President Bush was working with a Republican congress, the last in 2006 when it was raised to $8.965 trillion

Five years later and $14.2 trillion isn’t enough debt for President Obama.

Another way to look at it: the gross federal debt includes obligations owed by one part of the government to another, for instance money owed by the Treasury to the Social Security Trust Fund. Also, the Federal Reserve has purchased T-bonds, so logically the Treasury owes money to the FRB.

The important number is how much the federal government owes to the public, and in this case the public includes foreign investors and foreign central banks. 
At the end of FY1990, the public debt was $2.177 trillion. 
At the end of FY2000, $2.898 trillion. 
At the end of FY2007, $4.255 trillion. 
And at the end of FY2010, $8.207 trillion.

For the first nine months of FY 2011, the public debt has increased by another $721 billion.

Given that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE2) has ended, and probably won’t start again, the Treasury will have to borrow from the public at an even faster pace.

So you can see that growth in the public debt began to accelerate even faster after the Democrats gained control of Congress in 2007, and much faster than that after the inauguration of President Obama in 2009 and the passage of his stimulus (“porkulus”) bill.

I think you’re going to be the first person to be called an asshole on this new board.

Do you really believe that crap?

She’s not Einstein either.

As I recall, when the Democrats were campaigning in 2004 and 2006 they accused the Republicans of fiscal irresponsibility. 

But the final budget passed with Republicans in control, the deficit was $161 billion.

The next budget, with Democrats controlling both the House and Senate, the deficit was $459 billion. And it’s only gone up from there.

So who are the really irresponsible ones, fiscally speaking?

Racism does still exist but playing the race card is more often about the misuse of the accusation of racism. Do you know the story of the boy who cried wolf? This is what you have here. Too many crying wolf when there is no wolf and now when racism is involved no one is going to listen as you said. But then you are one who cries wolf when no racism is involved aren’t you. I am against Obama. I am also against Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Kerry, both Clintons and others. Are they black? No they aren’t. I hate their politics not the color of their skin.

They have to get paid. That must also explain the occasional post selling shoes or some other merchandise; it would be deleted as spam unless it was somehow authorized.

Having been Black… oh, I don’t know… all my life, I’ve have come to many conclusions.  However, I will try to keep this short.

1)   Most people, of any race, haven’t given a d**n about my skin color, because they were more interested in “what I could do for them.”

2)   When I demonstrated my skills, on the playground as a child, in the classrooms from elementary schools through college, from spelling bees, to ball games, to chemistry lab experiments; people  who wanted to win, picked me. Business owners and managers who wanted to win, picked me.

3)   In school and on various jobs, over the years (again since childhood) I have learned the value of work, the petty joys of pocket money, and more importantly the substantial joys of being on a strong team. More important than even teamwork, I learned the confidence and satisfaction of supporting my own needs.

4)   These revelations and others have formed attitudes and behaviors that have provided me with something I cannot place a value on:  A reputation for being easy to get along with, and even easier to work with.

5)   Bigotry and racism are part of the human experience, and will  not be legislated away  Rare has been the instance where I experienced racism in a forum that mattered to me.  Even racists want my money or my help.

6)   When I have perceived racism, I have made conscious decisions to confront it head on, to let it roll off my back, or to not support it with my hard-earned money.  Either way the choice has been mine.

7)   “Race-pimpery” is both an industry, and a disease. How can we (actually, they) blame “The White Man” for the substandard outcomes experienced by many Blacks when 70% of babies that escape the abortionists, are born out of wedlock?  Many are born to parents who are either indifferent to, or openly hostile to education, and civil authority.

8)   I have learned, in my middle age, things about the founding of this nation, and the role of the Black man in it; things about the achievements of Blacks before the Civil War, that I should have been taught in grade School American History.  I can only assume my parents and grandparents were not taught these things either, because they would not have allowed me to escape these truths.  (My father actually went to school with “hand me down” textbooks missing entire chapters! You know, “Separate but equal”)

9)   The historical roles in “race relations” of the Democrat (slavery, the Klan, and Jim Crow, etc.) and the Republican Party (formed by Abolitionists, elected Blacks to high offices, passed the various Civil Rights acts. etc.) is also largely unknown, and that is a true tragedy.

10)  What has become accepted by too, too many as “authentic Black” behaviors; be it thuggery, “ruffianism”,
“victimhood”, or undisciplined procreation” (among others); must be invalidated by the “Black Community” at large. Our culture has been “high-jacked”!  And, not by “White folks”.

Slavery and Jim Crow are no longer a force in contemporary Black life.  Resorting to them at the first (or even subsequent) hint of difficulty is an insult to our ancestors who actually experienced them.  It is  a hobble to our contemporaries, and our children. Yes, those very same children for whom once conceived, we have an affirmative duty to prepare for lives of achievement and the commensurate satisfaction, that maximizing one’s opportunities can provide.  It is a sin against God, to invoke atrocities generations past, to countenance relegating our children, and their children to lives of unnecessary want, strife, chaos, and often squalor.  Well, isn’t it?

Sheila Jackson Lee’s serial repugnancy, solidifies her kinship to the contemporary Crow family:

Jesse Jackson Crow, Alvin Sharpton Crow, Maxine Waters Crow, and yes, Sheila Jackson Lee Crow; and all their relatives. They are the current bane to Negroes everywhere in the USA.

Preemptively, if anyone out there is looking to brand me an “Uncle Tom”; I read the book, and I know Uncle Tom was a HERO!  So kiss my a**.

Sheila has lots of experience in racial discrimination… most of it coming from the lawsuits filed against her by her DC office staff. 

I have to say yours is the best post I have ever read.  Thank you!!!!!!

You people who keep playing the race card make me sick.  When are you idiots going to realize that “We the People” do not want our country turned into a nanny state Marxist-socialist country.  That is why we are against Obama, not the color of his skin.  Herman Cain would do a thousand times better than Obama, not because of his skin color, but because of his conservative political philosophy.  Doesn’t Obama know that socialism does not work?  Get off of that racist kick you idiots always seem to bring up when you are losing.

This idiot couldn’t even stay on point, to make a point! She represents the entire Black caucus. If they don’t get their way using logic, they resort to racism! When the hell is the Black community going to come to the realization that their own Representatives are why their not making the progress they should be making?!!

my avatar has changed with the new disquis but your response was to me.  No one is denying that racism still lingers in society, but it is nothing like it was during the 60′s.  In fact I see few barriers in today’s society for any race…  In my mind using the race card so freely as the democratic party seems willing to today serves only to strenghten and add to racism in our society…  If you call me a racist enough times when I have never considered your race, guess what.. I am going to start thinking about your race and forming new and different ideas about you and your race, this is very destructive, it is bringing back a monster from our past…  This is why people like me don’t believe that Ms Jackson serves her constituents nor her country well when she makes such assertions..It is appauling to me that the Democratic party wants to stroke the flames of this monster for political power, and make no mistake that is what they are doing…  If the Tea Party were such racist as they would have you believe how can it be that Allen West is the darling of the Tea Party, not only here in Florida, but all over the nation. You may not agree with his politics, but the Tea Party does and they admire his principles and his astute ability to articulate those principles…  It has little to do with his race.  

As far as some of your experiences since coming to Florida, I can understand what you are talking about, I have lived most of my life in Florida and in many different communities around the state.. Being white I can not say that my experience is in any way comparable that of my black friends, but I can tell you that being white there are those who mistakenly assume that I am a member of the club so to speak, and I have seen what you talk about..  But things were getting much better than they once were, and if you look around you in our Florida communities you will see great diversity and people of many different races enjoying success.  Nobody is trying to hold any race down…  for every one those you see openly display racisim you may not notice the other 10 passerbys gazing upon him/her  with disgust and disapproval…  I know that this country has had a in some regards a deplorable past, but make no mistake so has almost every country on the face of the planet. One of the great things about America, we are a self correcting and a self healing nation…  I hope that we can see the value of leaving this one thing where it belongs…  in the past. The sooner people stop trying to make it into something that it is not the sooner it will be gone… but make no mistake, there or those who reap benefit by keeping it alive and we would all do well to call them out on that very fact…

No where near as old as those who use the race-card inappropriately!

Wow.  I just read a bunch of these comments.  It’s not about race, huh?  Is it, maybe, about stupid?  These commenters, which seem to be mostly fake conservative black people, idiots, poorly read and grammatically-challenged illiterates, totally stupid tea-bagger types, are so transparent.  Only after an article about possible racism do the noble, patriotic, ”I’m not a racist, I just don’t like Obama” morons show their true selves.  Ooh, scary.   

Very well put. I have found myself attracted to conservative black candidates for 30 years now. Am I a victim of white guilt? No. Do I want to run a token black? No. I find that a conservative black person has to be for real. I find that to come to the decisions they do they really study and think about the issues and don’t come to the stand on the issues lightly or for the wrong reasons. I don’t believe they are just givng lib service to my concerns but they really beleive what they are saying. It is not easy for a black person to disagree with the majority of his/her race. There is a lot of pressure out there not to. My best friend talks of moving out of the ghetto and being harassed as being a trader because she wanted to raise her son in a better neighborhood with better schools and less crime. She was called a trader to her race and worse. She tells me she is even harassed for driving the wrong car. She tells me it is a white mans car. I don’t know what a white mans car is but evidently the blacks do. She is also harassed for her choice of a career. She wanted to better herself and is an engineer. How is that not a good job for a black woman? She tells me that the worst harassment comes from black men. I would have expected you to say it is not the conservatives holding the blacks down but instead you said it is not the white man holding the blacks down. Seems consistent with what my friend told me and it was an eye opener. But I think the liberals are capitalizing on that. Same thing happened with woman’s lib. They had it all sewed up that if you are a woman you must be a liberal. Well we conservative woman proved them wrong didn’t we. Soon many more conservative blacks like you will find their voices and have the courage to use them like we conservative woman are now. Good luck to you and thanks for the comment. It gives me hope.

And where were you when Bush wasn’t even accounting for the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq and he was the first to enact TARP?

It’s funny all of your neocons wanted to invade Iraq without considering the cost. But all of a sudden that there is a Democratic President there is some obsession with spending. Wow that makes sense.

If you haven’t noticed Great Britain inacted an austerity program and have had two consecutive quarters of negative growth. That will happen here if there is a sudden decrease in government spending because the corporations are sitting on two trillion dollars in cash and don’t plan to use it for hiring because they are trying to make Obama look as bad as possible.

Yeah I want to see you and the rest of the Teabaggers refuse your next Social Security check or refuse to use your Medicare the next time you visit your doctor.

Then and only then will I be convinced that you are serious.

Are you suggesting that African Americans are genetically predisposed to saying things a certain way?  That would be racist also, wouldn’t it?

I’d make fun of anyone who was born and raised in the United States and still cannot, or will not, try to pronounce English properly.  And if you want to write off her mispronunciations to dialectal and regional differences, I would then wonder why any member of Congress trying to make a national point would isolate herself so much that she claims to represent only some “community”.

And while we’re at it, who the heck authorized her to say she represents all blacks?  Just sayin’

Oh please it was all about race. Obama’s mother was born in Kansas therefore Obama is a U.S. citizen through her.
All of the BS that Obama was born in Kenya was racist just because his father was from Kenya. It would have made zero sense for his mother to have traveled all the way to Kenya to give birth to him. It’s interesting that the birthers chose an African country for Obama’s birthplace. It could have chosen Canada or Mexico but they weren’t ‘black’ enough or scary enough.

The birthers are sad, sad people.

As for McCain he was born on a  military base in Panama and there was some dispute over whether the base was considered equivalent of U.S. territory.

Dude Rosewood was 90 years ago, let it go…  we have today to consider, the past is just that the past, we can only carry forward what we have learned from it…  to do otherwise only keeps it alive.. I would suggest to you that minorities have done very well in America, I lived in Miami as the Cubans came in and they worked 2 and 3 jobs to cut out a life here in this country…  The white’s back them used just as ugly language to describe them as any other minority..  but the Cubans did not carry this forward with them, they did not let it define them. I think that it can now be argued that they are now the proud owners of the most important latin city in the world…….  That is what makes this country great, only you can limit yourself. 

Think it is about stupid. Stupid that you think Reid, Pelosi, Gore, Biden, Kerry and the Clintons are black. They have the same ideology as Obama and I think of them all the same. Lee, Sharpton, Jackson I don’t like either but that is about their racism as well as their socialist ideology.

Wow dude where have you been for the last two years?

First and foremost companies have had record profits for the past several years and are sitting on an estimated two trillion dollars which they refuse to reinvest by hiring Americans.

The Republicans are fine with low tax reciepts by the federal government because as anti-tax, anti-government nutjob Grover Norquist stated many years ago he wants to strink the size of government so he can drown it in a bathtub. That is exactly the reason that Republicans refuse to raise taxes.

As for Social Security over the years the government has borrowed the surplus money from the trust fund, put that money in the general fund and replaced it with IOU’s which means that the Social Security checks are dependent on the same monthly cash in-flow to the government as any other expense. 

You misspelled Oh..  just trying to help.

Do you really understand economics?

When the economy collapsed most experts agreed that it would take at least a decade to get  employment back to the level it was before the economy collapsed in 2007-2008.

Furthermore if you think that the economy is bad now guess what–not one net job was created during Bush’s eight years in office even with all of those tax cuts for the rich.

Sadly many of the jobs lost in this recession are gone forever (especially those in manufacturing) because many American based companies have sent these jobs to countries where the workers make what would be considered slave wages in the U.S.

Companies are still sitting on trillions of dollars from the bailouts and profits but the American economy will not benefit from the money. 

and I bet they voted for Bush twice and McCain in 2008.

and I bet they voted for Bush twice and McCain in 2008.

Racist people like yourself make me sick.  We are even.

Actually, that’s kind of funny.  You’re right, when posting on any site dominated by tea-baggers, one would do well to avoid any sort of literary license or deliberate and quaint misspellings.  I learned this when I discovered that most hard-right commenters are paid to write what they do.  Ooh, that is scary!  Do they, at least, pay you adequately?   Commensurate with your talent?  I do notice that the phrase “ReidPelosiGoreBidenClintonObamaFrank” seems rote, a bit like what might be learned by rats in a maze.  Florida, huh? 

Not every white person is stuck in the 50 and 60′s as the racist baggers. 

OMG. You really have a short memory and you haven’t been paying attention to what has been happening in Tallahassee the past few months.

In 2000 thousands of eligible black voters were purged from the voting rolls because they had similar names as some felons. Given that Bush won Florida by less than 600 votes and blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic those purges basically handed him the election.

Furthermore Rick Scott and the Republican legislature are repealing a law that would have allowed felons who had served their jail and parole time to have their voting rights restored so please don’t fiegn ignorance to what subjects the previous poster was referring.

Maybe if they would not have elected Bush again after his first incompetant 4 years their 401k’s and all their homes would have been saved.  I guess your buddies like having money stolen right under their noses. 

Maybe if they would not have elected Bush again after his first incompetant 4 years their 401k’s and all their homes would have been saved.  I guess your buddies like having money stolen right under their noses. 

Obamacare is very similar to Romneycare which was passed in Massachusettes.

Maybe you need to do some research before you comment.

Do you even research anything?  You miss out on all details.  I don’t get information for maddow she is late to the republican deception.  This has been going on for months.  Republicans are despicable people.

Where was the Tea Party when Bush was racking up debt by fighting two wars off the books and passing the unfunded Medicare Part D prescription drug plan?

In all fairness, she played the race card when talking bout the Atlanta public school cheating scandal and how it was blacks running it and how it only affected black schools. 

We’ll let it go as soon those people who want to re-eact Civil War battles let it go.

We’ll let it go as soon as Confederate sympathizers stop claiming that slavery wasn’t a reason for the Civil War.

We will let it go when white conservatives stop making stupid statements exploiting the horrors of slavery to attack Obama.

Most of them don’t even know that SS and mdicare is a government run program.  They are some of the most ignorant people I have seen. Then have the nerve to turn their noses up at a Black man who is actually trying to help them. They demand that all the SS and medicare and entitlemens be stopped because they are the “real amuricans.”  Maybe when the Republicans leave them penniless and starving they will understand they have been snookered. I doubt it they will still be struting around in their white hoods hating Black people.  How ignorant can u be? 

Most of them don’t even know that SS and mdicare is a government run program.  They are some of the most ignorant people I have seen. Then have the nerve to turn their noses up at a Black man who is actually trying to help them. They demand that all the SS and medicare and entitlemens be stopped because they are the “real amuricans.”  Maybe when the Republicans leave them penniless and starving they will understand they have been snookered. I doubt it they will still be struting around in their white hoods hating Black people.  How ignorant can u be? 

Thank you for posting

LOL who is dumber than the teabaggers who elect rich white men to steal their money away. People who vote against their own self interests.  Look at those protesters in WI an Ohio.  White people who votedagainst their own self interests. LOL u must be one who likes to have their money stolen by rich white men.

Bush the bumbler who bankrupted the country.

Thank you for posting

Apologies for the angry rant. Thank you for your grace.

Apologies for the angry rant. Thank you for your grace.

Oh, you are so very welcome, hope to see more of your posts..  please keep me laughing.

Where were you when Reagan, Bush I and Bush II were running up the deficit?

Oh yeah not complaining until a black Democrat got into the White House.

No problem…thank you for reading!

I’ve always read the comments here, but never bothered to sing up for an account. Now that’s there’s Disqus..I thought I’d join in.

Of course Race is part of the debt crisis.  Racists such as Jackson Lee and other Democrats can’t help themselves.  The Liberal Racist plurality are a product, NOT by-product, of the Socialist agenda.

Hmm, curious thought.  Suppose Socialism carries the day and America fades into mediocrity and unimportance, What are all the White Socialists going to do with all the volatile Black Socialists who helped seize power?

You make a deal with the devil, you have to pay him back, with interest!

Purveyor

Just an amazingly good post.

So u think the white “socialists” are racists themselves? LOL

Amen!!! Well said!

Black men falling short of their enormous potential, for the stated reasons and others, can certainly bury themselves in misplaced contempt, while projecting it onto others. I would not call that gender specific; or for that matter, race specific. Tell your friend to keep living the truth. Bless you both, and thanks for the comment

GM1

In fact it was more than neocons only who wanted ti invade Iraq and oust Saddam Hussein. The authorization for war included many mainstream Republicans and moderate Democrats. 

The original money appropriated for TARP has all been recovered, with interest…. except that money which was spent to prop up General Motors, which will almost certainly never be repaid.

I do not understand what you mean by “Bush wasn’t even accounting for the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq”. Accounting how?If you’ve looked at the spending trends, and the trends with growth in the debt held by the public, those trends worsened in the years following the Democrat victories in 2006 and 2008.

As I recall Romney was not given a chance to vote on Obamacare..  and what I know of Massachusettes politics..  I don’t think that either the House or Senate had any representation that had previously voted in the affirmative on Romney care…  So again, what was your point?

not anger sir, just how you feel

Interesting Article, dont know if you are Black , so cant exactly call you and ‘Uncle Tom’…….but to out-right Deny that Racism is not playing into this, is outrageous! And its always a beautiful thing when a person is judged by the content of his character, rather than his/her Race!

Definition of steal: “to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force”

The only ones who take my money without my permission is the government. The “rich white men” you describe I can only assume you mean corporations. I am happy to trade my hard earned money for the goods and services they provide. If I do not like the goods or services they provide or I do not think they are worth the money they are charging I will find a suitable alternative. I have yet to have a “rich white man” steal any of my money…..oh wait…yes I have. Uncle Sam!

They steal it because the ignorance of the white people they pray on.  They are so concerned about having their gun and keeping Black man down they seem clueless the rich white man is taking their money.  Carry on clueless bagger.

Let’s review this for just a moment, as I recall Romney had no opportunity to vote on Obamacare, I do not believe that there were any republicans from the House or the Senate who had voted for Romneycare and then voted against Obamacare…  So what exactly was your point?

They refuse to reinvest as there are just too many uncertainties out there…  what will the actual cost of the Affordable Healthcare Act be moving forward, what will the anticipated regulation from the EPA cost their business, what is the taxing environment in both DC and the states going to be?  Just what kind of economy will they be investing into, will the government solve their problems and create a business environment that they can invest into…  How has the new financial regulation effected them, what are the costs…  What DC does effects these businesses in big ways, and I for one can understand their hesitation to jump in. 

Well maybe the good people of Florida still believe that felons shouldn’t have voting rights, I know that they are verrrrry important to your party, but conservatives are not big fans of felons… and as far as the 2000 elections were concerned that was settled in the courts, get over it.

I am Black, so you  call me whatever you wish.  I know who and what I am, and what I am not..If you are looking for outrage, you need not look to my rant.  Try this instead:

Will the President of the United States of America, so infantilized by lack of scrutiny and accountability, that thirty (30) months into his presidency he cannot abide criticism for his failure to act in the best interest of the country he is supposed to lead (He ain’t the King…), and his continual failure to put forth his own plan on paper, to avoid a national financial cataclysm , (instead “speechifying” a faux crisis to “not let go to waste”,please stand up!

If my writing this upsets you more than his actual “action by inaction” or that a man we know essentially nothing about, and has no known applicable experience (for instance, having been a mayor, a governor, a CEO, a general, run a concession stand…))has risen to hold the levers of power, over us., then congratulations!

You will have encountered an actual outrage!

Luck to you.

GM1

Roderick, there are superficial similarities, but differences as well.

The biggest difference is that states are allowed to do some things that are forbidden to the federal government. The Constitution is quite specific regarding what the Congress may and may not do, but it is not just the Tenth Amendment that gives certain responsibilities to the states.

States are allowed to do many stupid things, and RomneyCare was one of them. I do not buy into Romney’s arguments, nor his wishy-washy statements about global warming; and I hope he does not become the Republican nominee.

Guess things were different back in the day….like 2008…when she and much of the left were calling for Bush’s impeachment on a daily basis.

Or back in the day (like in the wayback machine…to 2006)…when all the democrats (including OweBama) voted no on raising the debt ceiling.  Guess that makes her a big, fat racist.

Maybe I am clueless….I do not own a gun (I believe I have the right to as guaranteed by the 2nd amendment). I have not kept any black men “down” (not sure how I would even do that in the first place). Maybe you can explain how I made no mention of guns or made any reference to keeping persons of any color “down” that I would be clueless as to the “rich white man” stealing my money, which has not happened. Maybe you can take me through the process of how someone can steal my money without me knowing about it. Unless you work for the government…I know how that scheme works already!

Sheila . In 2006, every last Dem Senator voted against raising the debt ceiling for that honky George Bush .
    Okay by you ?

    
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00054

Sheila Jackson Lee is nothing more and nothing less than just another race whore. I wonder daily why anybody beyond the fools that keep re-electing her cares what she has to say. That woman is living proof that you do not need to “pass” an IQ test to get elected to Congress.
Oh well, we keep re-electing Jim McDermott up here and he is just another old hippie that never escaped the sixty’s.

I take it by your eloquent rant (see clueless bagger), that you could not be more uninformed. People do not wish to cling to their guns, They simply do not want to be told what to do by a thug child and his chicago mob of unions.

No need to wonder, same reasons Rick Perry, Bachman, Palin, McConnell Boehner and all the rest of the incoherent stupid republicans who get elected year after year.  Stupidity doesn’t discriminate.

She makes sure they get their welfare checks, big screen tv’s and government living. Look at the demographics of her district.

Wow…you’re dumb.

I love it when they are always “fake black Conservatives” because Liberals can’t wrap their brain around the fact that black people actually do have brains and a free will to choose to be Conservative.  Not all blacks are Liberals contrary to Liberal thinking.

I will. She is an amazing woman who looks at slights for what they are. In the circles I run in I don’t see many racist people of any race. She described some very racist things that have happened to her and her son and coming from her I know them to be true but she looks at each incident for what it is. As for black men in her opinion being the most racist it is her experience and from her reference point.
  

So let me get this correct; if a Conservative posts it is because we are getting paid
but if a Liberal posts it is because they have something to say about a certain
topic? Oh, okay. Geesh..I only wish I was getting paid to bash Liberals all day.
Believe me that would be my ideal job. Where do I sign up?

Oh, and by the way, if you are not a teabagger that by default makes you the teaBAGGED. Have any good schwetty balls lately? Mmmm.mmmm..good, huh?

you are dumber, u have an argument or u just got insults.  LOL racism and insults are all the racists have left. 

Yes u like the clueless Bush and the thug Cheney stealing your money.  LOL I guess when the white rich government was taking your money to fight illegal wars and shipping your jobs overseas u were speechless. learn your history

U don’t have to make reference to guns and holding the Black man down.  Your representatives in congress do that for u.  Ever listen to the racsim coming out their mouths? That Bacchman sighned some dumb pledge about Black people being better off in slavery. How dumb and ignorant can someone be to believe that? 

Hey Mojo, have you ever considered running for office – LOL? It dumbfounds liberals when they can’t play the race card in response to such a fantastic posting. The more you type they are probably sitting with their head in their hands rocking back and forth. No one told them what to do in situations like this.

Hey Mojo, have you ever considered running for office – LOL? It dumbfounds liberals when they can’t play the race card in response to such a fantastic posting. The more you type they are probably sitting with their head in their hands rocking back and forth. No one told them what to do in situations like this.

I do not agree with the Bachmann pledge, nor did I vote for her. You have still missed my point. HOW IS THE RICH WHITE MAN STEALING MONEY FROM ME????? You claimed it is happening. You have yet to substantiate it with any facts. 

After reading your posts I think that it is easy to see that there is no way that you could be stuck in the 50′s or 60′s as you are obviously the product of a much more contemporary public school system…  let me guess class of 2014?

Could you please articulate a complete thought so I may comprehend and/or respond adequately?

I sympathize if you are one of the lost generations, products of the Socio-Liberal Educational programs, born of 60,s that has created educational mediocrity or failure in so many minorities?

Unfortunately exigencies determine that we can’t save everyone.  Only those willing and those who have not disposed of their opportunity.

Purveyor

What you said makes no sense what so ever..  you must be paid by the keystroke…  I am not going to address the birther issue but if you read the post this post that I am replying to there is absolutly no sense to your statement…  duh, maybe the birthers chose Kenya becasue that is where Barak O Sr. was and maybe she would go there to be with the father of her child as he was born…   maybe she as an activist felt the medical care was better there and more affordable….  you know the whold cuba argument. 

For some reason there seemed to be one character out of place in your link.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00054

You forgot about GoodMojo1 Crow!!!  I congratulate you for being a successful Black man but for every one of you there are millionss who have fallen to the wayside.  That’s what makes you a token so that the people in power can cash in on your blind allegiance and say, “Hey look my best friends black I’m not a racist.”  You fill that role well and should be very proud.  Uncle Tom was a hero because he gave you an excuse to be the sell out that you are!!!!

GoodMojo1  With whom are you angry?  You start with excellent explanations, and end with a petulant plea for  Uncle Tom’s acceptance.  You are right in many ways. You should, however, never forget that there is a vast difference between White Men and White-but-non-Black men.  The inequities that are supposedly seen by Blacks as “White oversights”, are often being seen by people from 100 countries and as many cultures, as being opposed to Black culture.  When Black Americans speak of “Whites” as a group of people devoid of any social conscience THAT is an oversight of monumental proportion.  Remember from Barrack Obama to Slavery to the Jim Crow Laws, no group fought harder agains the inequities of race than righteous American Whites(from many cultures and countries); my family numbers within those statistics.  With black neighborhoods being the same “plague” on America, and Inner-City Black behavior being uncivilized, immoral and predatory, it seems that a more candid, honest and thick-skinned discourse regarding a true Black Renaissance should be attempted.  After all NO Black initiatives AT ALL would exist without the support of millions of good WHITE citizen-taxpayers who only (like me) want a socially righteous lifestyle for all races, especially inner-city blacks.

The idea of sitting down to a cold drink with you is almost enough to get me to have one again.  How bout I sip a coke and you can tell me more.  I could stand another 10 – 20 hours of this.

You’re an a$$hole.

I read this post and about the only thing you said that makes any sense at all is that you are a self proclaimed “Righteous American White”  I don’t think there is anything else of substance to take away from this self proclaimation of yours..  I am proud of you and I am sure that our country is greatly enriched and glorified by your very presence..

I read this post and about the only thing you said that makes any sense at all is that you are a self proclaimed “Righteous American White”  I don’t think there is anything else of substance to take away from this self proclaimation of yours..  I am proud of you and I am sure that our country is greatly enriched and glorified by your very presence..

Was it something I said 2012freedumba$$$$!!!!!

My job was one of those and yes I understand economics a bit better than you seem to. When broke you can’t keep spending money and you can’t keep borrowing it without cutting back. Every household knows this even if they don’t want to admit it. You can’t just keep raising the debt limit without cutting back on the spending. You also cannot keep asking more of the children (citizens) who work and struggle so you can give it to the other children who don’t want to get a job or those who leach off the system. As far as my job it went out of the country because the company I work for can no longer afford to have plants in the US due to excessive regulation. I know this because I was part of the management team who studied the benefits of jobs here vs jobs overseas. You make the point that companies are sitting on trillions of dollars of bailouts and profits. True but they study the balance sheets and find it not profitable to hire no matter what until they can determine the fall out of all the new regulations. Many of us warned that the stimulus you talk of would not work. History already proved it wouldn’t. Bush started it but Obama carried it to the extreme. The cuts to Medicare and SS are also not the answer. It is the usual ploy by politicians when the people call for cuts. Cut the social programs that will effect the people the hardest and they will quit calling for us to be responsible. Fair taxation in the form of the fair or flat tax will save some and bring in more revenue. Required ID for all entitlements and requirement that everyone be legal citizens or legal immigrants will also save. Causing self deportation of illegals due to the inability to cheat the system and get jobs illegally will also save. Get rid of Obama care and enact true reform will also go along way. All of these will get more than cutting SS or Medicare or Medicaid. I despair the needed reform because it is not the Republicans or the Democrats that have the right idea. They, the politicians from both sides, have been playing this game against the people for many generations.
      

If you again read GoodMojo’s original and well articulated post, and then carry his logic not yours forward he would probably consider you little more than a chain that you in your own desire to prove your goodness,  “righteousness” and superior morality will wrap around his hands and legs thus enslaving him to your vision of who black people are…  your hubris blinds you to your own prejudice..  Read his words and understand that this is a proud and accomplished man who does not need your help and laments the damage people such as yourself have done to his communities..

thank me for lurking.

No Socialist aren’t racist….  I give you an exerpt of a soft article published by PBS on the wonderful record of Woodrow Wilson, the great American Socialist/Progressive president.. Who seemed concerned that the races were just getting along to well, he feared that they would marry, have children together and in his utopian dream of America, this was just not acceptable. Some might say that maybe he was the father of racism in our modern society… but only conservatives would say that as our progressive friends… bless their little hearts… would have this erased from history if it were in their power to do so…

“Woodrow Wilson’s record on race relations was not very good. African Americans welcomed his election in 1912, but they were worried too. During his first term in office, the House passed a law making racial intermarriage a felony in the District of Columbia. His new Postmaster General also ordered that his Washington offices be segregated, with the Treasury and Navy soon doing the same. Suddenly, photographs were required of all applicants for federal jobs. When pressed by black leaders, Wilson replied, “The purpose of these measures was to reduce the friction Ö It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest.”"

Or how about we take a look at Margaret Sanger…  you must remember her Hillary Clinton recently listed her as having had a very inspirational influence on her life… 

“At a March 1925 international birth control gathering in New York City, a speaker warned of the menace posed by the “black” and “yellow” peril. The man was not a Nazi or Klansman; he was Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, a member of Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League (ABCL), which along with other groups eventually became known as Planned Parenthood.” Oh! there’s that wonderful Planned Planned Parenthood again, still killing 30% of the black unborn today.. I wonder if they would care to share the concerns they had from their onset of the black and yellow peril to the communities they serve today? But not to worry some things are best left unsaid.

and of course maybe we should consider Margarets own stated goal of;

“Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.”

Can anyone spell the word eugenics? Somehow I don’t think that she was talking about bright pink bouncing little white babies when she made this statement.. 

Not only are socialists racist, time and time again history has proven them to be dangerous as well… Nazi Germany and it’s quest for the super race? oh, and by the way Hitler was inspired by none other than Ms Clintons herion Margaret Sanger.. what followed next was the extermination of 6,000,000 Jews. Now please forget these other fine contributions of our socialist brothers. 30,000,000 in Russia, 60,000,000 in China, and untold more in modern day Africa… Of course socialists are racist… 

Conservatives did not bring you racisim no matter how progressives want to paint the canvas with their distortion of history.  Not only did the progressives give birth to this unholy offspring..  but they continue cash in on it by propagating it in our society today.

It’s amazing to see all you white folks fawning over this “allege” black man who’s nothing short of a “boot licking Uncle Tom” trying to ingratiate with his white overseers and letting them know: I’m a different kind of negro.

trose, is that you Skippy?

It was a Miller Lite influenced rant.  I was trying to say that it should be cool with liberals for blacks to be Republicans.  Instead, they are always called Toms, as if they ‘belonged’ to the Democrats.

Hey J-Cat !!!

SJL is the queen of the Welfare Queens. She should be thanking this white taxpayer for his support of her minions.

If we ever learn to convert hypocrisy into energy the world will finally have a use for progressives.

SJL: “Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?”

Because he’s an anti-American piglet who would like nothing better than to have a state of emergency placed on his plate so he can start the era of Obama rule. Sorry dumb ass, but he’s not hated because he’s black, he’s hated, and he happens to be black, and the only people that care what color he is are minority pimps like you.

I figured I’d take a stroll on over and see what’s going on.

CFT: “we keep re-electing Jim McDermott up here and he is just another old hippie that never escaped the sixty’s”

Look at his district though. Basically the city of Seattle, which year after year tries and almost succeeds in out liberaling and out homoing San Francisco. There’s a statue of Lenin in Fremont, for Christ’s sake.

I swear we are wasting our time and breath.  You present a powerful historical document that should stun  your opponent into reality and say—”Wow, I did not know this was true,”  Rather, he dismisses or flat out doesn’t care about the truth.

That is one of the traits of the radical, the revolutionary, as they must see themselves.  They want the world their way, period.  They want retribution and re-distribution.  Democrat/Socialists, Gays, Minorities, etc. We no longer can use objective truth as a debate point against such.

Good luck

Purveyor

Mr. McLinden, I do not know where or why you felt assailed in my earlier post.

“Race-pimpery” is both an industry, and a disease. How can we (actually,
they) blame “The White Man” for the substandard outcomes experienced by
many Blacks when 70% of babies that escape the abortionists, are born
out of wedlock?  Many are born to parents who are either indifferent to,
or openly hostile to education, and civil authority.”

It seems clear to me that this entreaty was aimed at the Black People of the nation who use any and all tired reasons to excuse inexcusable behaviors.  If you are White, or Black, or Paisley and this does not apply to you…

As for “with whom am I angry”, that list is long and distinguished, and I sir, am at the top of it.
The “short version”:   I am angry with people of all ethnicities and creeds whose morals disappear in a fog of “human nature”, whenever doing the right thing is less than convenient.  I reiterate:   This is not conditional upon race.  As an example, I am equally disgusted by the Ku Klux Klan and The “New Black Panther Party”.

I suppose I could be angry at you for finding offense where there is none intended ;(a hallmark of the “ghetto mentality”), but I give people the benefit of the doubt.  Is that “mighty White of me?”   Just kidding… ;)

In closing, as I said I have read “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and my perceived, pronounced petulance notwithstanding, the fictional Uncle Tom, and all the real Uncle Toms of that time; don’t need me to plead for their acceptance.  Their sacrifices, perseverance, and gallantry, often at risk of their own lives, are much of the reason I can speak my mind today.  They are the reason I am able to have versions of this same discussion on a barstools surrounded by those aforementioned Whites, Blacks, and Paisleys whenever I see fit. In relative safety (complete safety is a myth) I might add.

Don’t insult their memories with cheap-assed acceptance.  We owe them gratitude, honor, and respect.

Peace and luck,

GM1

Herman Coon I mean Cain is that u? 
who are u trying to convince yourself or others.  LOL

LMBAO

Outstanding post. Black becoming a state of mind is not helpful. Getting in the game and playing it to win works. Very few people give a damn what color you are, myself included. I just want to know if you’re an a$$hole.

You, sir, are not an a$$hole.

Very good!!!

I’m waiting the hard right wingers to express their contempt to not being a thankful negro and not strung up on a tree (in their front yard I might add).

Seems to me you are the racist. Coon? Seems that if a black person is conservative the racist attacks are condoned by the left.

Seems to me you are the racist. Coon? Seems that if a black person is conservative the racist attacks are condoned by the left.

What are your Negros like?

Billy, you should probably change your handle to “Billy Blue Monday” as with your attitude, you must have the blues all the time.  You are not worthy of washing Uncle Tom’s drawers. Your math is also shaky.  The last figure I read Blacks comprised around 12.9% of a population of around 311,000,000.  That’s in the 40,000,000 neighborhood.  It’s become increasing apparent that there are more than 40 Black Conservatives.  You have to read more than Ebony, Jet, and Essence to find that out though. So is there hope for you?  You decide.  Meanwhile, from time to time as I drive by the “Liberal/Democrat Plantation of Low Expectations”, I’ll wave at you.

If you don’t find the stones to leave, your coming progeny will be on that same psychological land, worked like figurative “slaves” for votes,  just to keep getting government checks.  You were bright enough to get on the computer, use it for something to benefit those close to you.  Learn something!  Try this:

http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/

Your venom for Blacks who don’t toe your line, may be too much for you to overcome.  If not, there is more where that came from.  Find it!

GM1

The republicans claim nothing he has proposed will work because they don’t want it to. Republicans want the economy to stay in the tank to use it as an issue in the election.  Say no to everything and then say look nothing has been done vote us back into office.  The problem is the only people that will fall for that logic are people that will vote against the President no matter what is going on.

From an “allege”(sic) black man:

I have never licked a boot.  I ate a cake shaped like a boot once, and it was good!

Brax, are your jaws not yet tired from servicing your Democrat masters?  If you were doing it well, at some point  it should end.  That  “progressive”ass you’re kissing though, will never, ever end. Unless you too educate yourself.

I offered this same link to Billy;

http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/

I wonder if either of you have the courage to do the research, and confront your misguided beliefs.

I did sometime back, which is why I don’t care what you think now.  I have seen the truth, and the truth is good.

Luck.

GM1

I don’t need an argument.  Your comments speak for themselves.  They say you are incredibly dumb.

The race card is all you losers have left..you can’t even defend the POS in the WH with any coherent arguments or facts.

ROFLAMFAO!!!!

Hmm…”schwetty balls.”  Is that like “Chutzpah?”  That Michelle Bachmann thing?  The tea-bagger’s form of Oy My God?  It’s good to watch Ms. Bachmann, eh, and learn?  I don’t know where you sign up to bash liberals, but bash away sweetheart, we’re used to it.  Being an old-fashioned pinko socialist liberal has been a good life.  Of course, it doesn’t do any good to point out the good things we gave you, and hey!  You win! You’ll probably succeed in demolishing Social Security, Medicare and all that awful socialist stuff.  So save your blogging pennies, you’ll need them.  Old age isn’t all that great, but I’m glad I’m old now and not after people like you get your way.  Because, as has been said, “Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”  Sharpen your teeth, if you have any, and prepare to gnaw; dog food is tough to chew when you’re an old man.        

Agreed, I thought that maybe Insideguy was listening to you a little the other day…  but as I can see from his subsequent posts he does not show much interest in learning history or even about the contemporary movement he associates himself with.. His posts are more about bashing conservatives.  I just post for outlet, give support and thought to others with similar concerns, but I know that progressives here or anywhere for that matter will only listen to their brethern.. they really place little value on the free exchange of thought. But you never know when you might plant a seed with some of these people.  There are a few very impressive people posting here with much greater understanding of history and economy than mine…  I enjoy reading their posts.  I was totally blown away by an earlier post from Goodmojo1 From the heart addressing concerns that although shared by many only a man of color could credibly voice.

Agreed, I thought that maybe Insideguy was listening to you a little the other day…  but as I can see from his subsequent posts he does not show much interest in learning history or even about the contemporary movement he associates himself with.. His posts are more about bashing conservatives.  I just post for outlet, give support and thought to others with similar concerns, but I know that progressives here or anywhere for that matter will only listen to their brethern.. they really place little value on the free exchange of thought. But you never know when you might plant a seed with some of these people.  There are a few very impressive people posting here with much greater understanding of history and economy than mine…  I enjoy reading their posts.  I was totally blown away by an earlier post from Goodmojo1 From the heart addressing concerns that although shared by many only a man of color could credibly voice.

Goodmojo1?

I’ll take your word and look for it.

INSIDEGUY, when I see his posts elsewhere, meaning, NOT around me and a few others he sounds like a rabid lefty. In fact, he has gotten more so since I met him. Unfortunately, I think he is an example, we are an example, of an ever widening chasm. People don’t listen and think about the point being made. Rather, they are formulating a response. I guess that may one of the better lessons from my college days—I learned to listen and assimilate ideas. Nice to make your acquaintance.

When was the last time you changed your diaper?

The reason you can say leadership failure is because the RepubliCons are sabatoging the economy so they can make Obama look bad and win in 2012.  They’re willing to sacrifice our country’s credit and good name so they can once again act like they’re coming to the rescuue.  When Reagan, Bush1, Bush2, and Clinton raised the debt ceiling we never had this problem.  At least Reagan was smart enough to compromise and raise taxes!!!  

The reason you can say leadership failure is because the RepubliCons are sabatoging the economy so they can make Obama look bad and win in 2012.  They’re willing to sacrifice our country’s credit and good name so they can once again act like they’re coming to the rescuue.  When Reagan, Bush1, Bush2, and Clinton raised the debt ceiling we never had this problem.  At least Reagan was smart enough to compromise and raise taxes!!!  

Typical teabag strawman response, make up a connection that wasn’t there then attack your made up position. Where did I ever mention the debt ceiling, nowhere. Corporations took millions in stimulus money and still moved jobs overseas because they only cared about maximizing profits and not about creating jobs here, so that blows your little theory out of the water.  Corporations and millionaires don’t depend on creating jobs to expand the tax base in order to cut their taxes, they depend on the republicans they have bought and paid for in their back pockets to make sure they never pay their fair share of the tax burden.  I’m glad you realize Social Security is funded so you won’t be supporting Republican attempts to privatize it when they claim SS is going broke and we need to fix it now.  Next time read what I write and resist the urge to make your own fantasy strawman diatribe to debate against.    

Hey GoodMofo1 I have no problem with you being a conservative.  The problem I have is that you hate your people so much that you think you can look down on them because they are not as successful as you are.  But you’re right I shouldn’t have said millions.  My bad I meant thousands.  That still doesn’t change the fact that you are a man who uses the very same sterotypes that have hurt your people to put  them down.

Even after they have paid their debt to society?

So they should never be allowed to become full citizens again?

Interesting.

As for Bush I did get over it but America never will.

Billy, it is you who have stereotyped yourself. By presenting yourself as unwilling or unable to hold our people to a standard, and a high standard at that; you have relegated our people to mediocrity.

There are 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute.  That’s 86,400 seconds in any given day, the anyone can choose to stop living a “stereotyped” existence.This only applies to a minority of Blacks, but never has a majority of people been required to wreak havoc.   I believe in some radical sh*t like:

Keeping one’s junk covered, and avoid conceiving children out of wedlock.

Once a child has been conceived, there should be only a miniscule chance that baby will join the  estimated 50,000,000 lives snuffed out for the convenience of irresponsible parents.

Choosing to conceive a child out of wedlock, is both stupid and immature.  Statistically, you are choosing for your kid to grow up in an unstable home, more likely than a home founded on a committed heterosexual marriage, to be living on government subsidy, with no stable husband or father to contribute financially or fill a father’s role in the socialization of sons and daughters.

It is a man’s role in society to protect the innocent and the weak, to help the weak be stronger, and to demand they be stronger,, if that’s what it takes.

It is natural; for you to want to help those you feel are “downtrodden”..  However, you are not helping them.  You are enabling people who could do much better, for themselves, to be comfortable with their “status quo”.  Good healthy shame is very underrated. We work so hard to make sure no one feels shame these days, that we fail them miserably, by not setting high standards of behavior.  At home, at school, in church, or in our communities. 

Billy, you seem like a smart guy.  If you pay attention and escape the noise you’ve probably heard all your life; you’ll realize that the people you are defending have a problem; your shared attitudes.  Not mine.  People need challenges to excel. Children don’t learn to walk very quickly , if you carry them everywhere they go.  I challenge you to challenge those you have influence with, to shake off negative attitudes that foster those negative stereotypes.  Be part of a solution.

GM1

It’s absolutely true. 

Now THIS is racist!  Shame on you!

Just a couple of days ago I was playing hearts online and some guy sitting at the table was all *n* word this and *n* word that at the other players.  All sorts of racial slurs.  Then went on to use them on Obama.  I asked if he was a member of the Tea Party and he said you bet I am and went on about that.  My suggestion is if you don’t want the rest of us to think you’re a party of racists then tell your members to STFU!

Racists just can’t help themselves.  The saddest part is that they don’t even think they’re racists.

Glenn Beck is gone now, so you don’t have to be his stooge anymore.

Can you believe that Sheila Jackson Lee has pulled out the old racist phrase? Americans voted for BHO as President and now she says we are racist, because most do not want their taxes raised. You know is must be a democrat if the race card suddenly appears. If you don’t do what I want then you’re a racist. I am so sick and tired of anyone screaming racist.

be confidant…this POTUS is many steps ahead of those that are trying to bring him down…he got them again on the debt fiasco…or better said they did it to themselves.

Just a few issues with your post. 1st you are correct that corporations care about profits. That is why they are in business. They are not Unicef in order to just provide jobs. They provide jobs when there is a demand for their product or service and need folks to carry out that work and service their customers. Corporations move jobs overseas because they find more friendly business friendly climates in other countries. The US has one of the highest tax burdens for businesses in the world. Take a look at Boeing. They tried to open a plant in SC bringing tons of manufacturing to hard working Americans, but instead they are told they can’t because SC is a right to work state and the jobs will be non union. You can see that Boeing’s next step would be Mexico or another country where the cost of doing business allows them to be more competitive.

2nd, you bring up an expanded tax base. I think you miss the point on this one. you are wrong to think corporations or businesses don’t care about an expanded tax base, just not for reason you describe. They want an expanded tax base so they will have more potential customers. They more the American people have of their own money the more they can spend on the products and services they desire. When the American people (all Americans, including the “rich”) have more of their own money they will spend. This creates demand. Demand leads to a need of more supply. When a business has more demand and more revenue and needs to push more products they need workers. This is how the tax base is grown. Now which economic policy is better at fostering this environment. Tax people at a higher rate so they have less money or taxing at a lower rate so they have more?

Tax increases or tax cuts do not create jobs in and of themselves. I wish politicians would be honest about this. What tax policy and a good solid monetary policy does is foster an environment for  economic growth and that is good for everyone. And yes during times of economic growth some people get more rich than others. Some people take a risk and it pays off big time, and some take the same risk and fall flat on their face. Guess what, that is called life. I am not a “rich” person, but I like the fact that there are people in our country who are. It let’s me know it is possible. If I work hard and push myself to attain that level of success I want to know I will not be punished.

I know i got off point a little, but these are economic truths. If the president really wanted additional tax revenues he would lower taxes since every time tax rates have been lowered in the country the actual revenues to the fed went up. It happened in the 60′s when JFK lowered taxes, it happened in the 80′s when Reagan did it, and it happened in the 2000′s when Dubya did it (Dubya SPENT too much which caused some of issues we have today). So if the Dems really want more revenues then they would be fighting to lower taxes.

Lastly in my little ramble. Why is there so much hostility in this country towards the rich. You are singling out a group of people to vilify based on a single shared characteristic. Hmmmmm…..that sounds like something…..something people find bad…….what could it be…….isn’t racism similar to that…..vilifying and attempting to treat someone differently based on a single shared characteristic? You know there was a time when we as a people actually looked up to those who succeeded in this country. We learned about them in school. You speak about them paying their fair share. What is their fair share? At what rate would be fair? No lib has been able to answer this. Do we take 1/2 of what they earn. Is that fair? Is it fair that 50% of what I guess you call the tax base pays no Federal income tax, in fact some get checks every year. Is that really fair? Is it fair for the guy who works 2-3 jobs pays taxes so someone who lives off welfare all year gets a check? I keep hearing fairness in this argument. I am pretty what is actually fair by the definition of the word would be everyone pays the same rate. That is actually fair.

Problem with that logic is that nothing the president has done has worked. That argument would work better for you if anything he did actually made things better instead of worse.

welp, only 5 cards in poker.. libs do seem to have 3…Race,Welfare,Gay.. ofcourse reps still got the Gun Control card..Constitution card.. Corporate card and sometimes brings out the War card.. think the medical card is still on the bottom of the deck.. need a few more wild cards in this deck or a resuffle on some points..you repubs ever give up this political correct stance, call bluffs and you might have a party..

im just trying to figure where these cards really fall in the book of Hoyle..

Unfortunately, your lengthy, historically accurate and reasoned Post was not read and cogitated on.  There was no transitory point where Mr. Mayhem indicated such.  (over his head)

Rather, Mayhem did what he and others of his ilk do, form a quick retort claiming Republicans are in bed with Corporations, ad nauseum.  A unique and decisive response, wouldn’t you agree?  LOL

Mayhem is one of many who is best left to his own misery.  Maybe respond to his insinuations, but, he is a lost cause.

“You never expect the Spanish Inquisition”

PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

Unfortunately, your lengthy, historically accurate and reasoned Post was not read and cogitated on.  There was no transitory point where Mr. Mayhem indicated such.  (over his head)

Rather, Mayhem did what he and others of his ilk do, form a quick retort claiming Republicans are in bed with Corporations, ad nauseum.  A unique and decisive response, wouldn’t you agree?  LOL

Mayhem is one of many who is best left to his own misery.  Maybe respond to his insinuations, but, he is a lost cause.

“You never expect the Spanish Inquisition”

PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

Let’s always make it about race…… When we get to the pearly gates, I wonder if that excuse will fly?

Fact: Clear example of Black Theology in everything this ID OT says.

Fact: That is the fact!

So this stupid bitch playing the race card for the millionth time somehow constitutes news?

Congress has never disagreed with a white president. 

 There you go again.  What part of a solution are you?  The mistakes of a few do not represent the whole.  You are a prime example of that and yet you still can’t see it.  I pray one day you see the light just as Paul did.  You could be a great role model yet you refuse because you have been brainwashed to think that Blacks are lazy, single parents, and always want a handout.  The majority don’t want your help they just want you to get out of their way! 

Ok, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, here you have it: One [more?] person stepping up and saying, “…what appears obvious to [her] is not in fact accurate.” As a matter of fact, I’ll go a step farther and declare the assertions made by Representative Lee are racist hyperbole in the extreme.

Contrary, my friend mojo…..I’s never stoop to name calling, its a sign of weakness! The beauty of life is knowing ones-self, so I congradulate you, and in no way does your rant outrage me…as I posted, quite interesting. As you stated ‘he cannot abide criticism for his failure to act in the best interest of the country he is supposed to lead (He ain’t the King…), from my view, there are many ‘who are not King’ yet seem to feel that they are…..it is your right to rant, just share your outrage, and try not to be so personal with your attack, that as well, show a weakness…enjoy, and be blessed!

Billy Sunday

It would seem you are willfully missing my point.  That is a situation I can do nothing about.
You claim I have been “brainwashed”, and hold the masses accountable for the actions of a few (forgive the paraphrase).  I can only surmise you did not read this:

“This only applies to a minority of Blacks, but never has a majority of people been required to wreak havoc.”

Or, did you conveniently ignore it for argument’s sake?

Not only have I not been brainwashed, I have a history.  I have a history of feeling that it was more productive to make excuses for my own shortcomings than it was to work them out and fix them. I learned from my own mistakes how wrong I was. Believe you me, recovering from those mistakes is an ongoing, lifelong process.

You seem to take issue with my admonitions to all, to better themselves.  Whatever level your upset is with my positiion, I assure you it is misplaced.  I am a Black man, who by the grace of the Almighty God, has made it to early middle age.  I am the product of a family which had very definite ideas concerning how to behave, what responsibility means.  We were and are all human and mistakes are made  I carry those experiences and that knowledge today.  I cannot remember one time in my experience, or my observation; that trying to escape responsibility for my own actions, or allowing others  to escape theirs, has done anyone any good.  Character matters.  Doing the right thing, when doing the wrong thing is easier or more popular matters. Learning the lessons of history matters.

Martin Luther King (A Republican) invoked the Declaration of Independence in his “I Have a Dream” speech:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” – Wikipedia

All men are created equal, but all choices are not.

Both when the Declaration was written, and during King’s life, personal responsibility was much more the order of the day than it is now.  As I asserted in my last post to you; I bellieve we continue an abhorrent disservice to people, in this case Black people (but can this not be extrapolated to all human kind?), by allowing people to be comfortable in the results of their own unproductive, or counter-productive actions.

I love people. I love Black people.  Because I love them, I am no longer comfortable allowing them, though a minority of our number, to not look to themselves for a solution.

You asked, “What part of a solution am I?”  I don’t know .. But I see decades of excuses has failed to produce positive results. Past time for another approach.

Peace,
GM1

I see some black people are finding it hard to contain their racism and hate. Like you.

Greetings GibbJabb,

“Interesting Article, dont know if you are Black , so cant exactly call you and ‘Uncle Tom’..”

Forgive me if I sensed you might be looking for another insulting moniker.  I tacked that part on to the end of that post because I knew it was coming; and, of course, it has. 

I am somewhat distressed you feel my attack was personal, I assure you, it was not.  At least, not at your person.  I believed then, as I do now; that I was attacking the performance, rather the non-performance, of the President of the United States of America.  Not you.  I think I was abundantly clear.on that.

“..but to out-right Deny that Racism is not playing into this, is outrageous!”

When I observe something I find “outrageous”,  I have a bizarre tendency to feel “outraged”.. I think it is a very human quality.  For instance, I find the knee-jerk reaction of Obama supporters everywhere to any opposition to the president’s policies, to be rooted in RACISM to the exclusion of all else; to be outrageous! 

When I thought of all the rigamarole surrounding Obama since he announced his Presidential candidacy in February of 2007, the disgusting fawning media soft-balling him questions (What’s your favorite color?), The absence of any real investigation into his background. The quashing of negative info when it popped up (Ayers, Dohrn, Rezko, Wright, etc.) The embarrassing shenanigans of the Congressional Black Caucus.  The three issues (out of a great, great many) with current presidential performance alluded to in my last reply to you…  Well, that was an explosive mixture detonated by SJL’s video performance.  The subsequent outrage resulted in that rant.

To be continued:

Continued form above:

I was a liberal thinker when Bill Clinton was in office, and always
wondered why they just didn’t leave ol’ Bubba Clinton alone.  Sometime
during and after that, I had an awakening.  While I was grateful for
some of Dubya’s actions as POTUS (9/11 aftermath, for one), I was ready
to impeach him for his out of control spending. I
felt his “small footprint” war strategy was an inappropriate use of our
armed forces.  I felt then, as I feel now, both arose from futile
attempt to curry favor with people who were always going to
hate him.  Why bother?  I and most Conservatives I know
accepted Bush for his positives but were not fans. 

The corrupt liberal media (yes, I said it) waged a 24/7/365 assault on
the man, regularly attacking him personally and mercilessly.  The
liberal hordes played there roles to perfection.  The burned Bush in
effigy, called him “murderer”, and “war criminal”, made pictures of him
styled as Hitler, they made movies depicting him as a buffoon, or worse,
depicting his assassination.  Eight years he took it. He never lashed
out  That required some “stones” and grace.

January 20, 2009:   Introducing the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama!

I had not voted for the man, because from what I knew of his limited
political voting record, and his radical ties, he did not believe
anything I believe.  I had not wanted to vote for
John McCain either, because with all due respect for his military
service; his Conservatism is unreliable.  But, with
Republican primaries being “open”, which allows liberals to jump parties
and vote on a Republican ticket; there is some suspicion that the libs
and their media lackeys picked McCain for  us.  His only saving grace
was Governor Sarah Palin, because I like governors for presidential
candidates. 

I think the executive responsibilities of a governorship are the best
training ground for a president.  I don’t believe McCain was ever a
“Fleet Officer” in the Navy which would have been a real plus for me. 
I’ve already discussed Obama’s lack of verifiable “bona-fides”. And Joe
Biden is a prevaricating plagiarist and a mobile “gaffe generator”. 
Executive experience would not have helped him, in my eyes.

So I had a new POTUS.  He just happened to be a “man of color”.  I
didn’t have a good feeling about him for reasons mentioned and
unmentioned.  But, I prayed for the best, and hoped I was wrong.  When I
saw video of him boarding Air Force One, the first time, I pumped my
fists into the air and cried like a baby.  Like a lot of us, I never
expected to see such an event in my lifetime.

Not long after, came “Bailout #2″ (I had hated Bush’s “Bailout #1″). 
Both times, he (Mr. Obama) “misrepresented”  practical economics as I
have studied them.  His “misrepresentations” have continued unabated to
the present day. On the “health care debate”, there was no
debate.  “Debate” implies that more than one viewpoint was
being considered.  There were not.  Time and time again, the POTUS went
on TV, and said “The GOP has no ideas”   Day after day after
interminable day,  he rolled with the same lie.  I know because I had
read H.R. 700 and several other GOP health care reform bills before the
push began in earnest.  See this link:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52896

End of part #2.  To be continued again:

“Republicans are equal opportunity offenders.”  “They want the economy to crash.”  What a moronic statement.  Good grief.  Lets see….since we’re bankrupt, lets spend more money.  Does that make sense?  Do you run your checking account that way?

Strange….I usually think of the President as being half white.

Sheila Jackson Lee is demonstrated proof that one only has to have a lot of gall and a big mouth to run for, and be elected to office  Intelligence isn’t a requirement.

Bush was a RINO spending like a Democrat, but Obama has out far, far exceeded whatever Bush had done.  Obama was going to fix everything Bush did, correct?  So what happened?  At what point does Bush stop being blamed for Obama’s failures?  This economy is 100% Obamas, not Bush. Such a simple concept….if you don’t have the money, then stop inventing new programs to spend money on!  Even an idiot can understand that! 

Not exactly correct.  What we have now is a Marxist inspired President intent on ruining the economy so that Big Government can “fix it”  via Socialism.  If the Washingto politicians had any balls, they would bring Obama up on charges of attempting to overthrow the Constitution! 

Are you implying that Blacks don’t use racial remarks against other races?  Get real. It was racist to vote for Obama because he’s half Black, as much as not to vote for Obama because he’s half black. Don’t be sounding so pure and innocent with your postings.  We know better. 

Part #3: See Parts #1 & #2 Below:

I hate a liar.  So I began to watch more closely.  Diplomatically put,
the President has a “tortured relationship” with truth and honesty. 
Straight up:  He lies as easily as he breathes.

Now, you would think some media watchdog would at least find this to be an unsettling trait….

Crickets…

Fast forward to the current “debt crisis”  The President, our President went on televison the other day and insinuated that “there may not be enough funds in the coffers if the debt ceiling isn’t settled”,   to pay Social Security checks, or pay the Armed Forces.  That is an outrageous and despicable lie.geared to scare primarily the elderly and as much more of the population as possible,. to pressure the GOP into raising the debt ceiling.  Now I’ve begun to dislike the man. 

Say hello to a fictional man named “Rufus”.  Rufus has been living above his means for a long, long, time.
Now that his proverbial “debt train is at top speed, and rushing toward a financial derailment”, Rufus gets an idea.  Not a new idea, but one he’s had before:   He’ll get his wife to call VISA, and request his limit be raised.  That’s it!  They’ve done it before…  She balks though, because she knows moneys tight and she told Rufus she knew it.  She also knew they were living beyond their means, and must gain control of their spending.  Each credit card limit increase, had only made their financial hole that much deeper.  Hubby maintained his proud charade, and insisted she call. 

This time though, they look at Rufus’s financials and determine that raising  his limit is not an option.  Well, Rufus is aghast!  He’s made promises!  His wife is expecting that “second honeymoon” South American Yacht Cruise, his daughter is expecting to go to Harvard, and his son is expecting that vintage Porsche 930 turbo for passing the bar exam. He can’t say no to any of them, for it might make him appear unable to handle  his business! 

The President has no such cover on this one.  There is going to be tax receipts totaling $38 Billion  more  that the total required to service the debt, pay the “entitlements” (SS, Medicare,, etc.), pay the military, and various other expenses.  Bottom line:   If the debt ceiling is not raised, things could get “a little scary”.  Some choices would have to be made aboout what to cut; but there are many other things to choose from that only politicians would be afraid of.  The President could choose those first.

The man cannot be believed.

I’m too tired now to go into Mr. Obama’s total lack of regard for the U.S. Constitution, the “Rule of Law”, the “Separation of Powers, the people who provide us with jobs…

You “be blessed” too!

Peace,

GM1

No one should ever have the right to use the N word, White, Black, or any Ethnicity.  It is a word of oppression.  As a Black man, it saddens me to see Black’s live a ignorance, hating others who do not share the same skin color as them.  We need to see people not by the color of there skin, but by there character, and integrity.  

As far as integrity and character for Rep. Lee; its not looking so good after her statements, calling everyone who disagrees with raising taxes (saving less then 10 billion on a 2 trillion dollar plus debt per year spending issue.)  No worries Americans,  
-The US is about to lose its AAA credit rating, which will be voted on in less then 3 months or so.  Big companies that are barely haning on will fold with the new Obama tax increase.
-Health Care cost will continue to rise.
-Food cost will increase by 15 to 20 percent by the end of 2012 year.
-Unemployment rate will be at 10 percent by 2012( its more like 20 percent for those who have degrees but have to settle for minimum wage), 
-gas prices are going to continue to rise.
-We are about to have another house market crash in the next 7 months,
-And Lastly, we have Obama shaking hands with the CEO of GE, congratulating him on 13.2 billion in revenue but was exempt from paying taxes. 

The President is doing a great Job.  Can’t blame this on Bush, its been about 3 and 1/2 years of Obama and things are getting worse. 

It’s funny how the left consider their selves as the ones who have helped the black and latino communities go forward, when in reality leftists like Francis Fox Piven are responsible for the dire and poverty going on in the black and latino communities. Destroying the family structure by replacing the father with the state, giving incentives for people to have more kids and live off the state and not stand on their own two feet… good job leftists, you have really “helped” us, maybe you leftists can be of better help and f&^% off!

I agree with representative Jackson Lee.  I have never seen or heard of such disrespect for a president in all my life.  I am ashamed of the way our president is treated.  It’s seems that there was a memo sent out informing all republicans to fight him on every issue.  They must have agreed not to give anyone a job or help improve the living conditions of needy Americans.  There is so much hate for the president that republicans themselves are willing to suffer.  It can only be linked to one thing…he’s Black.  Nevermind, that he is educated and very capable of doing the job…they just don’t intend for him to be successful.  He was attacked because he wore sandals and showed his toes…the First Lady ate a hamburger, issue was taken.  Maybe if the republican would remember his mother was White, they would agree with that half.

I am a leftist, I suppose. I am not fixated on RACE, though my guess is you are white!  How do you explain that this president and only this president has faced such ardent refusal to grant that which has been granted to all presidents previously 60 times?  What is the difference?  You can’t say that it is because he is liberal. I am liberal, and he hasn’t done enough to restore respect for human dignity in this nation.  I suppose you could say it is because he is brighter than past presidents, especially Ford, Nixon, Bush…sorry, I can’t remember the name of Democrat presidents.

I have an average IQ and have no trouble following her logic. Perhaps you are from Texas?

Only whites are discriminated against? WOW. And 93 Labor Party kids in Norway deserved to die for their liberal views? May God turn your skin black and transport you to one of Mexico City’s slums.

“Big companies that are barely haning on will fold with the news tax increases?” Really. Have you read the profit reports for big companies lately.  Apparently not!  And, corporations don’t fail because of taxes. IF they are not profitable, they don’t pay taxes. Heck, even when they are profitable they do not pay taxes!! GE is my first example. And BP and EXON get tax credits!” If corporations aren’t profitable, they should close–survival of the fittest is the golden rule of capitalism.

This comment, in an of itself, is racist. Your dehumanization of the President of the United States suggesting that he could slit the throat of a 5 year old kid is despicable. Your vilification of President Obama says that the people of the United States in an election there years ago elected a potential child killer and is an insult to the electorate. The violent imagery in your comment supports the vile, hateful, and vitriolic attitudes that contribute to the crisis at hand. I hope your children, if you have them, do not hear you make such comments in their presence. You fool. Go to confession. 

Don’t you people understand, these things were happening way before Obama was “ELECTED” as President!! It’s was just hidden and waiting for him! Don’t you know Bush and his people already knew he was going to win long before he did!! Just be “REAL” about it and admit it! That’s what’s wrong with this world now!! People (of all races) not wanting to face the truth and deal with it!! MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL, EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE WRONG!!

To ChrisNH and others like him,the people on the right!!!
It is funny that in the histroy of this COUNTRY, RACE has been cause by people who think like ChrisNH(the right-wing)
Now when ever things are done that any FOOL can see RACE is behind it, people like ChrisNH and (right-wing)people
say that people on the left are fixed on RACE. We are not fixed on RACE CHRISNH we just point it out because people like YOU(right-wing) let it go on. You on the right will always be the same! GOD could tell you to change, but your heart is so full of RACE and HATE that you can not,and will not change.
The only thing that can be done is to put you in the hands of the LORD and be thankful that Jesus was not right-wing. 

To ChrisNH and others like him,the people on the right!!!
It is funny that in the histroy of this COUNTRY, RACE has been cause by people who think like ChrisNH(the right-wing)
Now when ever things are done that any FOOL can see RACE is behind it, people like ChrisNH and (right-wing)people
say that people on the left are fixed on RACE. We are not fixed on RACE CHRISNH we just point it out because people like YOU(right-wing) let it go on. You on the right will always be the same! GOD could tell you to change, but your heart is so full of RACE and HATE that you can not,and will not change.
The only thing that can be done is to put you in the hands of the LORD and be thankful that Jesus was not right-wing. 

I like this!! Mostly the part about being from Texas!!!!!!

I like this!! Mostly the part about being from Texas!!!!!!

I hop every American do not forget OBAMA inherited GEORGE MESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I usually don’t post but I can’t help it. Let us let politics go for a minute and seriously look at the issue here. Morally and humanely the debt ceiling needs to be raised just to keep this country going. Point made plain and simple. Now back to politics! It is no question that because this man is black that he has been met with opposition. No one wants to plainly say it cause it is true. Yes, I’m black and I am not afraid to say what some should say. I get so tired of some people in this so-called democratic country. You complain when things don’t go the way you want them to go and you complain when the problem is so obvious. I can’t put all blame on President Obama because he walked into this mess but no one sees that. The problem was already there people. You can’t fix what was obviously already broken. Stop laying blame and work together to get the problem resolved. Right wing or left wing or whatever! Race is an issue here. It will always be an issue in this country whether we want to address it or not. If you ask me and I’m sure this comment won’t be popular but all white people and black people aren’t racist and some can work together but for those that want this country to be led or run by more “competent” whites we won’t move forward ever. I commend Rep Lee for standing up and making her voice heard. Some of the other democrats should follow suit and stop being yes men. People follow the majority because they are afraid to be left standing alone. I’m sick of reading racist posts and listening to racist commentators and nothing being done to reprimand them for it. Apologizing for saying what you mean doesn’t hold water. The apology is without merit. I feel for our country and our President because it has been a witch hunt from the start. They won’t work with him because this will be his undoing come next election. This has never been about the betterment of our country it has been about leadership differences. If President Obama had been white seriously would we be here ranting and raving about this mess. I mean come on….does anyone have a brain out there? How about a conscious? Most importantly does anyone have Jesus!             

Kudos to Rep. Lee for making this complex issue understandable to us little folk. Obama has met with nothing but opposition, a stark contrast to media favorites like George W. Bush, who got a free pass for practically everything and encountered very little criticism. Democrats and Republicans have always worked harmoniously when dealing with a white president. But put a black man in office and they fight like cats and dogs. It’s time to call a spade a spade, people!

OUR GOVERNMENT FAILED US ALL TOGETHER!!! NO MATTER WHAT SIDE YOUR ON…THEY FAILED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!

you’re so right,”leadership failure” is due to the demons that so call lead before “Brother Barack Obama!”   

how nicely put Kim!