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HI Vet's Letter To Obama Stirs Internet
Retired Sailor Criticizes President's Actions, Words
http://www.kitv.com/politics/223…
A letter from a 95-year-old retired World War II sailor in Hawaii to President Barack Obama has stirred up attention on the Internet."I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you," Estes wrote. "Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves."
- Speaking of your beloved 'Pacific' HBO series.********
- YUp, another racist Republican. Thanks for making my point.ukit
- amazing how you generalize********
- Speaking of your beloved 'Pacific' HBO series.
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Racial profiling? Underwear bomber shown training to kill Jews, Christians
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/un…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2…- how about just kill people...georgesIII
- how about that's not what they are taught...********
- shoppedmadmanGerald
- LOL georgesukit
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Obama’s Debt Commission Will Consider a Value-Added Tax
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/arti…
And more taxes might be coming right down your throats...- Nope, we should cut the deficit by cutting taxes...yep, that'll workukit
- CNS "News" strikes again! Excellence in reporting and analysis.luckyorphan
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“It’s taxation without representation"
More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/2…“I was born in San Francisco in 1939, served my country as an army officer from 1961 to 1963, have been paying U.S. income taxes for 57 years, since 1952, have continually maintained federal voting residence, and hold a valid American passport.”
Mr. Flynn had held an account with a U.S. bank for 44 years. Still, he wrote, “they said that the new anti-terrorism rules required them to close our account because of our address outside the U.S.”
- Great.So when are you going to leave?********
- already left, made me realize liberals are a laughing stock********
- Great.So when are you going to leave?
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Wheels already starting to come off of Obamacare
http://healthcare.nationalreview…1. People losing coverage
2. Huge fines for companies
3. Higher costs for consumers
4. A program created to fail
5. Spending increases
6. “Free-riders”
7. Spending reductions are fiction
8. You can’t keep your doctor
9. Coverage but no care- Obsession®utopian
- haha like your TEABAGGERS UNITE® isn't obsessive? Oh and I do believe 2003 would like you to return the ® glyph.mathinc
- Oh come on. The National Review? Seriously?luckyorphan
- pascii0
america has low self esteem these days ?that's the first step when you start to question yourself for starting something new. congratulations!
- that wasen't meant to be negative.pascii
- Whom might you be absolutely generalizing there?********
- hey, same thing happens here. it's all fucked up and something new steps in. that's great!pascii
- change is good. strengthens the opposite.pascii
- depends on that change.********
- if it's more fucked, it helps no one, expect those in charge.********
- BonSeff0
Wow, jazx calling someone out for generalizing.. that's rich.
- sigg0
jazx. the racist shtick is getting really old.
- Why do you think his imaginary girlfriend left him?********
- Racism, so now that minorities are being highlighted, it's RACISM? hahahah Dems are such hypocrites********
- Why do you think his imaginary girlfriend left him?
- pascii0
but when i look over the atlantic, who provides the opposite to obamas politics? are there intelligent and not polemic counterparts? because the last thing a country needs are populists and backwards-thinkers
- Short answer: no. But really, Obama is still popular, it's not like Bush.ukit
- short answer, you don't live here, so you wouldn't get it dude********
- ukit0
What can the right really accomplish anymore? Despite all the hype, hasn't the left pretty much won the "culture war?" I don't hear GOP talking about how evil gay people are or to try to ban abortion anymore.
More tax cuts would be a ridiculous idea right now. You can trim government programs but no way are you actually taking away Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid etc. People are sick of overseas wars.
What exactly does the right offer these days, serious question.
- you live in a bubble dudezenmasterfoo
- "won the culture war"? That's not how it's played.********
- what planet do you live on ukit?********
- smoke another joint and go walking in the woods man.********
- fooler20
"Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise
Let’s play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called “Imagine.” The way it’s played is simple: we’ll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we’ll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we’ll envision black folks or other people of color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.So let’s begin.
Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that’s what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation’s capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country’s political leaders if the need arose.
Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.
Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: “He’s a piece of shit and I told him to suck on my machine gun.” Because that’s what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.
Imagine that a prominent mainstream black political commentator had long employed an overt bigot as Executive Director of his organization, and that this bigot regularly participated in black separatist conferences, and once assaulted a white person while calling them by a racial slur. When that prominent black commentator and his sister — who also works for the organization — defended the bigot as a good guy who was misunderstood and “going through a tough time in his life” would anyone accept their excuse-making? Would that commentator still have a place on a mainstream network? Because that’s what happened in the real world, when Pat Buchanan employed as Executive Director of his group, America’s Cause, a blatant racist who did all these things, or at least their white equivalents: attending white separatist conferences and attacking a black woman while calling her the n-word.
Imagine that a black radio host were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of a white president is by “hating black people,” or that a prominent white person had only endorsed a white presidential candidate as an act of racial bonding, or blamed a white president for a fight on a school bus in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or said that he wouldn’t want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough—“living fossils” as he called them—“so we will never forget what these people stood for.” After all, these are things that Rush Limbaugh has said, about Barack Obama’s administration, Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama, a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois in which two black kids beat up a white kid, and about liberals, generally.
Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president’s policies, that he was ready to “suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do.” This is, after all, what Pastor Stan Craig said recently at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina.
Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been “destroying” the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to “hang ‘em high.” And what would happen to any congressional representative who praised that commentator for “speaking common sense” and likened his hate talk to “American values?” After all, those are among the things said by radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage, predicting white revolution in the face of multiculturalism, or said by Savage about Muslims and liberals, respectively. And it was Congressman Culbertson, from Texas, who praised Savage in that way, despite his hateful rhetoric.
Imagine a black political commentator suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead. This is, after all, what Anne Coulter said about Tim McVeigh, when she noted that his only mistake was not blowing up the New York Times.
Imagine that a popular black liberal website posted comments about the daughter of a white president, calling her “typical redneck trash,” or a “whore” whose mother entertains her by “making monkey sounds.” After all that’s comparable to what conservatives posted about Malia Obama on freerepublic.com last year, when they referred to her as “ghetto trash.”
Imagine that black protesters at a large political rally were walking around with signs calling for the lynching of their congressional enemies. Because that’s what white conservatives did last year, in reference to Democratic party leaders in Congress.
In other words, imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color. How many whites viewing the anger, the hatred, the contempt for that white president would then wax eloquent about free speech, and the glories of democracy? And how many would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?
To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark “other” does so, however, it isn’t viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and “American-ness” of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.
And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis.
Game Over.
- Sorry man..gonna have to timeline you on this one.********
- sorry man I've been away from my computer for 4 days enjoying life.fooler2
- Sorry man..gonna have to timeline you on this one.
- ukit0
Seems like you guys are the ones in the bubble. All this shit about taking back the country, it's media hype. Marketing.
Obama's campaign was marketing too to an extent, sure, but at least he came to the table with a long list of serious policy proposals that had been worked out years in advance. Where's the GOP policy ideas?
What are the Republicans going to be able to accomplish? Not a goddamn thing. The kinds of things their base is demanding are so ridiculous, they wouldn't stand a chance of getting passed, even if the Republicans were functionally able to win back a workable majority, which they can't.
- And workable majority means winning the House, 60 seats in the Senate, and even then Obama can just shut it down with a vetoukit
- with the Presidential vetoukit
- repubs spread 'freedom' to the brown ones in the middle east.BonSeff
- to an extent, the man had no qualifications and it's SHOWING brightly now. it's all marketing and BS.********
- Really, What was MCain? You dumbfuck.762mm
- He's already accomplished more domestically then either Bush or Clintonukit
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- Did your mother ever teach you to not go looking for trouble, generally, you'll find it if you do...********
- Perfect.luckyorphan
- JazX - a perfect little authoritarian. And a racist too. Perfect.********
- *sieg heil!********
- nothing like declaring the obvious, hahhahaa********
- Did your mother ever teach you to not go looking for trouble, generally, you'll find it if you do...
- luckyorphan0
The National Review's hit piece on HR 4872 (Health Reform Legislation) was written by Grace-Marie Turner. She is the founder of The Galen Institute, a free-market, conservative think tank that holds as its mission: "advancing free-market ideas in health policy, promoting a more informed public debate over ideas that support innovation, individual freedom, consumer choice, and competition in the health sector."
They allege that their core beliefs include: "Consumers and their physicians should have authority and responsibility over health care decisions."
However, Turner has a long list of political hit pieces supporting the "free market" and using selective information any effort to supply Americans with affordable health care.
This is a biased article that is not supported by the facts. Do not take it seriously.
- BS, take another read.********
- I did the research, JazX. You might want to try that one day.luckyorphan
- BS, take another read.
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OBAMA’S BUDGET DIRECTOR: POWERFUL RATIONING PANEL (NOT DOCTORS) WILL CONTROL HEALTH CARE LEVELS
http://www.breitbart.tv/obamas-b…Hey Poindexter, wake the F*CK up!
- is that the size of your brain that you're measuring or your penis?********
- is that the size of your brain that you're measuring or your penis?
- ukit0
I see you guys can't answer my simple question about what Republicans hope to accomplish. I'll let the lack of response speak for itself:D
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The Right is fighting the last war, when Reaganism triumphed over a fractured and unbalanced Left. The Left had at that time solved it's major core social policy issues, consolidating the changes FDR began. The Left was left arguing fringe issues of highbrow identity politics when the Soviet Union crumbled. It utterly missed the moment and could claim little or no rhetorical stake in the sudden triumph of the West, despite the fact that it was primarily liberal social and economic policies & approaches that gave the US the large advantage it had over the USSR in the 50's-70's.
But when there were serious issues facing the United States in the early 80's the Left couldn't formulate an argument because it was too busy focusing on identity issue politics and rolling around in the leftovers scraps of it's prior positions that had lost relevancy to the context of the times.
Fast forward 20 years and now the Right has no answer to the primary challenges of the world. In fact it's gadflies and tea baggers are out with rhetoric straight from the 1989 playbook, it doesn't yet understand the Left understands the narrative of the time, that it is struggling with the immediate issues of the moment while the Right is fighting the ghosts of Lefties two deades past.
The current vibrant left is getting back to the social justice issues, freedoms issues..it;s the only one tackling the real problems we are facing - the decline of US hegemonic power relative to it's allies and enemies, the climate change challenge, immigration, the healthcare and financial disasters, the infrastructure problems, etc.
The Left has to realize THIS is it's moment. What it does and what it says in the next 12 months will be crucial. The smart ones on the Right KNOW this and that's where the ferocity from that quarter is coming from. They are railing against the side that has it's feet planted in the zeitgeist because the best the Right can come up with is rehashing the 19th century States Rights issues gussied up with some stale three decade old rhetoric about taxes and gun rights. Has nothing to do with the very real challenges the world faces at the moment. The Right has no answers, and it's blatantly obvious with their attempts to argue on emotion and use anger and distraction as primary weapons in their rhetoric.
- Excellent stuffukit
- in other words, it's all cyclical, so enjoy your day in the sun.********
- Of course it's cyclical. Thanks for stating the obvious.********
- It's like playing chess with a pigeon with you.********
- actually not, it's like toying with children with you guys. Anything that you disagree with and you throw a tantrum********
- HYPOCRITES!********
- what it does in the next 12 months is definitely crucial. they'll lose major seats in Nov. Thus the push...zenmasterfoo
- Saying everything hinges on now is an Al Gore tactic that failed him. Most adults see through that as hype. Once law most of these are extremely difficult to undo.zenmasterfoo
- most of these are extremely difficult to undo.zenmasterfoo
- I know, pathetic right?********
- Uh-huh.********
- vespa0
It would be so amazing if we got Nick Clegg & the Lib Dems in. It actually seems like a possibility this time!
- luckyorphan0
Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…"Activists for Latino and immigrant rights -- and supporters of sane governance -- held weekend rallies denouncing the new law and vowing to do everything they can to overturn it. But where was the Tea Party crowd? Isn't the whole premise of the Tea Party movement that overreaching government poses a grave threat to individual freedom? It seems to me that a law allowing individuals to be detained and interrogated on a whim -- and requiring legal residents to carry identification documents, as in a police state -- would send the Tea Partyers into apoplexy. Or is there some kind of exception if the people whose freedoms are being taken away happen to have brown skin and might speak Spanish? "
- Sums up the whole problem with that bill. I'm looking forward to JazX and Fred answering this.luckyorphan
- Vengeance or putting a stop to supporting a welfare state?********
- How is this stopping the "welfare state"? Or is this a Nazi thing.,.get rid of the jews and undesirables and save the resources for the strong********
- resources for the strong?********
- ********0
Desperate Obama throws race cards into the game
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…Barack Obama wants to join the sordid ranks of the race hustlers, like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, if not necessarily the race baiters. Maybe there's only a small distinction between hustling and baiting, but once the toxic stuff is let loose, it doesn't matter what you call it.
- there's your racists, right there!********
- So point to me on this KKK doll where the black man violated you with his big, giant penis********
- More good work from the Washington Times. Consider the source, JazX.luckyorphan
- Of course, Newt Gingrich should be held to the same standard, right? He's toured the country with Sharpton for years.luckyorphan
- and you just quoted the washingtonpost moron. not exactly Dem friendly********
- and furthermore, you all source blatantly liberal newspapers consistently, so f*ck off********
- there's your racists, right there!