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- janne760
- great pic of miles davisKwesiJ
- fucking awesomeharlequino
- thats not davis! thats tiger woods!Meeklo
- janne760
jazx will hate me now!
- you know why, he's got no rhythm like these black musicians so he has to rely on a computer for his beatsrobotron3k
- robotron3k0
Now here is the proof Republicans don't love America.
The US Flag should never be desecrated...
The US flag should not be worn as costume.
The US flag should never be used to carry or bundle things.
2008 GOP tote bag
The US Flag should not be used for advertising
The US Flag should not be used as desk covering or decoration
- touché!janne76
- lolukit
- You either honor it and treat it correctly or you burn it. One or the other...TheBlueOne
- omgitsacamera0
Meeklo:
he's too scared to come out.
- JazKKK?robotron3k
- ohhh, he "outed" himself alright....robotron3k
- ukit0
Boris Johnson endorses Obama:
- Nice article. It's a pretty sober view of the situation at hand, good assessment. I do have a favorite quote though ...tommyo
- "He has shown terrific steel, beating off the Clintons" I guess Bill is at it again. *Sightommyo
- "he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb."dbloc
- < I sooo wish that said 'man verb' instead of 'main verb'tommyo
- _salisae_0
RALEIGH, N.C. — If Michelle Obama is her husband's "rock," his grandmother is a big part of the ground beneath it.
Madelyn Payne Dunham gave young Barack Obama a place to call home while his mother traveled the world. When he needed money for school, she went without new clothes to help pay his tuition.
And when the Illinois Senator decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Dunham provided the "Kansas heartland" pedigree he needed to appeal to conservative white voters _ and a personal anecdote about racial prejudice that helped the man with the foreign name and Ivy League resume connect with the African-American experience.
The 85-year-old former bank executive is said to be "gravely ill" after falling and breaking her hip, and some reports suggest she might not live to see the results of the Nov. 4 election. Whatever happens, she's already lived long enough to see her "Barry" achieve what she'd wanted for him, her brother says.
"I think she thinks she was important in raising a fine young man," Charles Payne, 83, said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday from his Chicago home. "I doubt if it would occur to her that he would go this far this fast. But she's enjoyed watching it."
Although he made his mark thousands of miles from the Honolulu apartment where she helped raise him, Obama and others credit Dunham _ whose birthday is Sunday _ with instilling in him an appreciation for education and hard work, and with setting an example of thrift, practicality and tolerance.
"I think there's nobody more important than her, except his mother, in shaping his character," said David Mendell, who interviewed Dunham in 2004 for the Chicago Tribune and later wrote the book, "Obama: From Promise to Power."
Mendell said Obama got "that dreamer quality" seen in his speeches from his late mother. But when he has to decide whom to trust in politics, "that's his grandmother's practicality coming out in him."
- robotron3k0
yesterday, left over at a McCain Republican Rally....
Disgraceful.
- robotron3k0
"Shame on McCain and Palin for using an old code word for black"
By Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
The "socialist" label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.
Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement; W.E.B. Du Bois, who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization; Paul Robeson, a famous singer, actor and political activist who in the 1930s became involved in national and international movements for better labor relations, peace and racial justice; and A. Philip Randolph, who founded and was the longtime head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a leading advocate for civil rights for African Americans.
McCain and Palin have simply reached back in history to use an old code word for black. It set whites apart from those deemed unAmerican and those who could not be trusted during the communism scare.
Shame on McCain and Palin.
- This has got to be one of the silliest things I've read on here. Was this from the Onion or something?tommyo
- The term 'socialist' has ZERO to do with the color of someone's skin. All this is is an attempt to fan the flames.tommyo
- Shame on Lewis Diuguid and the Kansas City Star. :)tommyo
- Yea, this seems pretty tenuous. The history he cites is true, but most people don't know about it.ukit
- Um, not really so outlandish...
http://www.sdonline.…TheBlueOne - Although you can probably add jews and pointy headed academics to the list of "socialists" that JE Hoover had..TheBlueOne
- Please TBO it's a reach and a half to act like McCain and Palin are being secretly racist my using the term 'socialist.'tommyo
- Not saying they aren't stoking racism...but calling him a 'socialist' is not racism. This is Johnny Cochran journalism.tommyo
- omgitsacamera0
Just looking at the design of Yes on Prop 8 just makes you want to rip a yard sign regardless of stance.
- Never has bigotry tried to look so normal! Dunno why they have such a problem with what other people do with their lives.tommyo
- I see all Yes signs by where the illegals/ghetto people live on the way to school. Please.omgitsacamera
- I don't care what people do with their genitals in private. In fact, I really don't want to know.TheBlueOne
- You really see 'Yes' signs? That's insane. So stupid some of these people.tommyo
- such as pro-life?********
- they slipped that on the 2004 election in Michigan and it passed...SigDesign
- There have been groups of people standing on corners with signs in my area...DCDesigns
- mikotondria30
Oh come on, other people's marriages need protecting from the gays.
If things carry on with this unprotected marriage thing, the gays will all take over and make other people - your husband included, gay. They will tempt straight people with erotic gay imagery - of rugged men, doing things, with tools, or fabric,or each other.- Funny how people say the same thing about other groups of people. Look where I am, I live in an affluent city, but all the kids want to act like they live in South Central.omgitsacamera
- ...the kids want to act like they live in South Central.omgitsacamera
- haDrBombay
- DrBombay0
Blows my mind how people care about this gay marriage thing. They can have social unions but don't call it marriage... It is the same thing but a word turns people off, fucking ridiculous.
- // Only thing worse than “the blacks” taking over. //MrOneHundred
- Rick, is this day two of IAWR? :) I really hate when people use that whole 'they just need to call it something else'...WHY?!?!tommyo
- They act like star belly sneetches or something...like people who get 'married' have stars on their foreheads.tommyo
- Come on guys, don't you know God smote New Orleans because of all the gay and negro going ons?TheBlueOne
- Well you've gone unscathed so that kind of debunks your 'god hates gays' logic. :Otommyo
- hahahaDrBombay
- almost half of all marriages end in divorce... so uh... where's the "sanctity" in that anyway?SigDesign
- http://www.divorcema…SigDesign
- tommyo0
The ONLY issue I have with gay marriage is when priests, photographers, catering etc. are getting sued for not wanting to offer their services. I think if everyone just respected the wishes of everyone else we'd be a hell of a lot better off. There will definitely be enterprising people who will have no problem performing services for gay marriages.
- DrBombay0
- Wacko bible toting redneck hillbillies!********
- I wish we could dig a big moat and turn the south into it's own island. You'd have to take a math test to get to mainland US.tommyo
- No, you guys... there are good, intelligent people in those areas, too...sheep are everywhereSigDesign
- California is a HUGE state, with plenty of ignorant and uneducated people as wellSigDesign
- the south gets a bad rap. Have you ever been to rural maine or new nampshire or oregon? rednecks aren't just southern.monkeyshine
- Wacko bible toting redneck hillbillies!
- BusterBoy0
Palin is once again spouting how she has more "executive experience" than Obama. I wonder how she can actually spout crap like that with a straight face. It's absolutely laughable.
- even more ridiculous that people accept this bullshithallelujah
