1. Is it like us white folks get to go last when they shoot you by race? Arabs, asians, blacks, indians, jews, native americans, whites? Anyone I left out, feel free to jump in the list.
Even Cenk shows that liberals are racists, now the cat is out of the bag!

Dedmanrisn at 8:43PM on Sep 18th 2008

2. Possible reasons why Americans may not vote for Barack Obama as a candidate for President:

A. The color of his skin
B. He's a really lousy, conceited, unqualified, creepy pseudo-messianic socialist/marxist candidate who wants to tax you back to the stone age, quadruple federal government entitlements, turbo-charge the nanny state and seems to think that the murderous tyrants of the world will be so soothed by the sound of his voice that they will immediately set aside their plans of conquer, embrace peace and bow at the feet of the "one we've ben waiting for" in humble adoration. Or something like that.
C. None of the above

Call me crazy and an insufferable bigot, but I'm sticking with selection B.

Dave at 9:20PM on Sep 18th 2008

3. The problem with white privilege is that if you are white you don't really think it exists, if you are of a so called minority group (other than black) you are taught to ignore or accept white privilege as a matter of entitlement on the part of whites (they earned it for one reason or another). Now if you happen to be black, you see it, you feel it, and it impacts you. You can respond by sinking back and accepting it (yes, some blacks actually do this), you can scream, holler, and threaten violence (yes, quite a few blacks do this), or you can understand the issue and attempt, to educate whites and other minority groups on how white privilege actually hurts this country (but remember first you have to get them to realize it exists and to stop ignoring it).

Another problem is, the person doing the education in this area can not be black, therein lays the problem with this way of dealing with white privilege. The black person can teach the initial group of whites that must teach the other whites and minority groups, but the person that goes out to the masses must be white. This is because white privilege naturally makes it so that you can discount any knowledge or information relayed by a black person. This is why a former president of the Harvard Law Review can have his credentials, intellect, and ability to lead questioned by a person who placed 5th from last in his college class, and someone who went to 5 colleges in 6 years and had to take remedial courses to get a degree.

White Privilege is the ability of whites to not have to answer to or even deal with their deficiencies, while projecting and displaying the same faults and flaws in other racial and or ethnic groups.

Henry A. McKelvey at 10:26PM on Sep 18th 2008

4. White privilege is a concept used to inflict feelings of guilt upon members of a particular political party so as to cause them to select the less qualified of two candidates because he or she is black.

bob at 10:05PM on Sep 18th 2008

5. Yes this country and alot of other country have
people who do not like people different than them.
If you travel around in different countries you see
this, they may be the same color,also. So just why
is everyone so damm hard on the USA. Racial people do come in many groups in our nation also. So it is not only white people. Seems no one else is racist
that is not true and we all know it but not one
person ever say that. So you want the truth people
like to be around people like them. You think a liberal person think a person living in a trailer
is someone that they want to hang with , I do not
think so. I hear plenty Libs that make fun of trailer people. So do not think any group of people
is any different than another cause they are not.

jc at 10:45PM on Sep 18th 2008

6. Dave,

Like yourself, I choose "B"

May I suggest you market a line of T-shirts and bumper stickers with your astute observation? Hmm....second thought on the bumper sticker: it would too wordy and might be confused for a liberal rant.
This is because most of their stickers are at least two paragraphs long, and they have no fewer than a dozen plastered on their cars. ( Although I notice they never have a sticker that says their kid is an honor student.)

YGBSM at 10:43PM on Sep 18th 2008

7. Some won't vote for Obama because he is black. Sad, but true. However, given that there are also people who will vote for him just because he IS black, balances things out.

PS. I wouldn't vote for him regardless of skin color, and it would be new and refreshing if liberals could ever understand it's the person who matters, not their color.

YGBSM at 10:54PM on Sep 18th 2008

8. That's all very nice, Henry, but teaching Constitutional law does not necessarily qualify one for the Presidency. I'll bet you know that.

And you can dis Palin's education all you want, but she's second on the ticket, learns fast and McCain has a mother that's 96 years young, so he may not be leaving us for a while, much to the
consternation of Democrats.

Palin has life experience in balancing a budget and she's run a state. Of course Alaska isn't a big state, but neither is Arkansas. And Barack Obama talks a great game, but he's talking through his hat most of the time.

He was dead wrong on the surge and his proposed policy would likely have resulted in a bloodbath in Iraq, where, had we left hastily, millions would likely have been summarily executed. And this man thought the Joint Chiefs of Staff run Iraq when it's really Centcom and David Patreus.

That's just one example of how Barrack Obama is dangerously unqualified to be President and I'd say that no matter what his skin color was.

Dave at 11:08PM on Sep 18th 2008

9. Yes, Reverend Botts, I am still going on about Hussein Obama's lie that he was never a Muslim.
How about you documenting Hussein Obama's first 10 years of his life as other than a Muslim?


Is Hussein Obama really a liar?

Hussein Obama's website states
"Lie:
Barack Obama is a Muslim.


Truth:
Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian. Further, this myth perpetuates unfortunate falsehoods about the Muslim-American community that are offensive

Obama website says "he was NEVER a Muslim, was not RAISED as a Muslim" which is all a big LIE

1-Obama's grandfather was a Muslim. Obama's father was a Muslim. Obama's stepfather was a Muslim. His African relatives are Muslims.
2-Hussein is a popular Muslim name that Muslim fathers proudly give to their son.
3=Over 1 billion muslims believe that a baby borm of a Muslim father is born into the Muslim religion.
Hussein Obama's childhood bears out this belief.
4-Hussein Obama's mother was a Atheist, not a Christian, so there is no connection with Hussein Obama and the Christian religion till he married.
5- If Obama has always been a Christian, why was he enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim, and why did he study the Quran?
All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school and a young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school
6-In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran. He was enrolled in two Jakarta schools as a Muslim. His teacher Tine Hahiyary said that she remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)." Classmate Rony Amiris described Obama as being a very devout Muslim, saying, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam." Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, now the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was quoted as saying, "He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a 'sarong.'"
7-According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. "I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.
8-In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

"Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...."

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.

The evidence is overwhelming that Hussein Obama was a Muslim and was raised as a Muslim till around the age of 10-12yrs old. There is no evidence that Husseim Obama was a Christian until the time he got married to Michelle.

Hussien Obama is a LIAR. Why does Hussein Obama lie about his heritage? Why does he continue to lie?
Read his web site and read the evidence. Hussein Obama was born a Muslim and was raised as a Muslim. Hussein Obama never was a Christian until he CONVERTED from being a Muslim to being a Christian when he met and married Michelle.

And Hussein Obama wants America to elect a liar as the next President of the USA

Robert OKane at 11:38PM on Sep 18th 2008

10. the possibilty that obama is a muslim is more than equaled by the possibility that mccain is a chinese double agent brainwashed by the vietcong.
re: alaskan independence barbie is indeed the wife of a card carrying member of a separatist party.
re: 7 years and a trillion dollars after 9-11, our iraq oil is being sold to red china.

lets take a poll:
how many of you believe that rove-n-cheney are above cutting a deal for the loan in exchange for putting their operatives in the executive.

just so that its not such a trick question, lets all remember that mccain's father was commander of the pacific for a part of the vietnam war and so must have known of the Gulf of Tonkin scam.

Louis IX KingofFrance at 11:59PM on Sep 18th 2008

11. Why I am a Brain Dead Liberal by David Mamet 3/11/08 Village Voice

An interesting part of his article:

"I found not only that I didn't trust the current government (that, to me, was no surprise), but that an impartial review revealed that the faults of this president(Bush)—whom I, a good liberal, considered a monster—were little different from those of a president whom I revered.(JFK)

Bush got us into Iraq, JFK into Vietnam. Bush stole the election in Florida; Kennedy stole his in Chicago. Bush outed a CIA agent;
Kennedy left hundreds of them to die in the surf at the Bay of Pigs. Bush lied about his military service; Kennedy accepted a PulitzerPrize for a book written by Ted Sorenson. Bush was in bed with the Saudis, Kennedy with the Mafia. Oh.

And I began to question my hatred for "the Corporations"—the hatred of which, I found, was but the flip side of my hunger for those goods
and services they provide and without which we could not live.

And I began to question my distrust of the "Bad, Bad Military" of my youth, which, I saw, was then and is now made up of those men and
women who actually risk their lives to protect the rest of us from a very hostile world. Is the military always right? No. Neither isgovernment, nor are the corporations—they are just different
sign posts for the particular amalgamation of our country into separate working groups, if you will. Are these groups infallible,
free from the possibility of mismanagement, corruption, or crime? No,and neither are you or I. So, taking the tragic view, the question was
not "Is everything perfect?" but "How could it be better, at what cost, and according to whose definition?" Put into which form, things
appeared to me to be unfolding pretty well.

Do I speak as a member of the "privileged class"? If you will—but classes in the United States are mobile, not static, which is the
Marxist view. That is: Immigrants came and continue to come herpenniless and can (and do) become rich; the nerd makes a trilliondollars; the single mother, penniless and ignorant of English, sends
her two sons to college (my grandmother). On the other hand, the rich and the children of the rich can go belly-up; the hegemony of the
railroads is appropriated by the airlines, that of the networks bythe Internet; and the individual may and probably will change status more than once within his lifetime."

I have found a few brain dead liberals who post on the internet who need to look at this. Some of them are acting like "Capitalists" and getting people to donate money so they may buy a Presidential
election, while at the same time complain and find fault of others
who collect less money, who also want to buy an election.

Robert OKane at 12:17AM on Sep 19th 2008

12. okane,
call up mamet and remind him that eisenhower got us into vietnam by picking up the slack for france.
eisenhower none the less is still my favorite republican president.

Louis IX KingofFrance at 12:46AM on Sep 19th 2008

13. Robert OKane....You sound more like a Muslim then you claim Obama to be. His faith is his faith. Palin's church believes in praying the gay away. Her husband is associated with a group who believes Alaska should be it's own country. McCain...well McCain flip flops so much about everything that we just can't believe what he says. McCain might say that he is a Christian today but if he thinks it might get him ahead in the polls he would declare another religion....you know like he has stated that he was a "Deregulator" but now he for regulations. All I am saying is listen to the issues and make your decision based on the issues. If we want to examine the associates of the candidates then all of them have dealings with people who are not so Great...but hey they are politicians and that is what they do!

Issues R Important at 12:55AM on Sep 19th 2008

14. Okane (Judy from NYC, Terry?),

Okay bud, keep posting it. It's been debunked countless times, that's all you look like, is a fool.

As far as faith goes Robert. Can a child seriously declare a faith with complete knowledge?

Faith isn't what your parents are or grandparents are. Faith is what is inside of you and what you believe for yourself.

And for the record, there is nothing wrong with Muslims.

Botts at 1:12AM on Sep 19th 2008

15. 12. okane,
call up mamet and remind him that eisenhower got us into vietnam by picking up the slack for france.
eisenhower none the less is still my favorite republican president.

Louis IX KingofFrance at 12:46AM on Sep 19th 2008
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Better yet Louis I called up Ike and he said Harry Truman was aiding the French against the big bad communists as France tried to re-establish Vietnam as a colony. Look it up Louis, but then again you were never to good at history, you lost your head over it.

Robert OKane at 1:22AM on Sep 19th 2008