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Comment by Heloise on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 19 May 2008 15:33:24 EDT

Hey, thanks for all the great, insightful comments. And yes "uppity" does have a racist ring to it. Why, because when whites see black women like Heloise the first thing they think is who's that uppity black bitch--just kidding. That's actually what my students seem to think of me. Read and leave comments for my latest: "Mouth Bush Erupts in Israel" should be out soon. Heloise Just waiting for Oprah to call...

Comment by Matthew T. Sussman on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:38:51 EDT

Stupid lousy bleeding throat liberals.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:33:02 EDT

Put simply Arch, the last insanely long sentences of comment 78 is why no one takes you seriously and believes you're a hypocrit of the most ultimate calibur Of course that's only my opinion...

Comment by Baritone on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:37:26 EDT

Arch, You accuse Cindy of being across the board negative about the U.S. How about your own blanket dislike of anyone or anything that smacks of being remotely liberal? You simply dismiss such people out of hand. Is that in any way a reasoned reaction? Did some roving gang of liberals beat you up when you were a kid? Did they make you gaze upon a photo of Ted Kennedy in between dunking your head in the locker room john while a recording of Streisand's "Live in Central Park" album was playing over the PA system? Believe it or not, liberals are people too. We have feelings (other than the disdain and contempt that seems to be the limit of your emotional range.) If you cut our throats, do we not bleed? Yes, indeedlidoo we do. B-tone

Comment by troll on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:40:43 EDT

Con - I suggest that you try dealing with Cindy rather than with your head full of straw men

Comment by Arch Conservative on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:14:34 EDT

Cindy, your problem is that you, unlike myself cannot realize that there are things about this nation of which you can be ashamed and other things that you can be proud of. Your assertion that I buy into some utopian vision of this nation couldn't be further from the truth. I have repeated acknolwdeged our mistakes, black marks and faults. . You on the other hand cannot bring yourself to say one positive thing about this nation. It's YOU, not I that has been brainwashed. You're intent on hating this country and demeaning it at all costs and any evidence to the contrary that this nation has actually done any good for even one individual just once in it's history is not something that you will allow yourself to entertain because you are so small minded and will be forever so. You're quite transparent. I feel sorry for you.

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 10:03:24 EDT

Having said that, Arch, there are people in my country I am proud of.

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:53:04 EDT

Your the one not making sens Cindy. What kind of person cannot find one single thing about this nation to be proud of? If that's the way you feel....if you feel nothing but disdain and shame for the nation in which you live then why don't you go liver somewhere else. I started wondering, in high school, why I was told a bunch of lies about my country in grammar school. I wonder every day when I witness effect of the lies I was told (on most people) and the unquestioning embrace of this utopian image of ourselves. How can I be proud of a country that started out by lying to me about itself? When the dominant culture stops trying to lie to me every day (because the lies didn't stop in grammar school) then I'll be proud. BTW Arch, it might help if you (and the rest of the propaganda swallowing machine) went and lived somewhere else. I'd probably be very proud of whoever was left.

Comment by troll on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:32:47 EDT

Con - Uppity has absolutely no racial connotations in and of itself. this is contradicted by fact: the term as you use it is of African American origin and its first written use was in Uncle Remus do your homework

Comment by Zedd on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:59:22 EDT

Dan, "firm position that anyone silly and/or power hungry enough to run for the office of president should NEVER be elected. My earlier comment may have been a tad frivolous, but referring to bad, nasty people as bitches really does get to me." I completely understand your sentiments. I am startled at how much they reflect my views. From where I sit, those conclusions say quite a bit about your character. Thank you. And thank you for the substance. On your loss, I felt your pain in the gut. I dread the time when I have to say goodbye to my baby girl. I hope that I wont loose her to such a tragedy. I am truly sorry.

Comment by Arch Conservative on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 07:41:05 EDT

"Michelle Obama is one up on me. Whereas, she has been proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. I, as a white woman, haven't been proud yet." Your the one not making sens Cindy. What kind of person cannot find one single thing about this nation to be proud of? If that's the way you feel....if you feel nothing but disdain and shame for the nation in which you live then why don't you go liver somewhere else. I know we're all supposed to place nice and hold hands but when you make statements like you did in your last several posts I have to call you an idiot because that's what you are Cindy.

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:30:26 EDT

Ah HA!!! You're the one that keeps taking Bing's foot out of his mouth... I KNEW it.

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:13:59 EDT

Hello? Doctor Dreadful? I'm a doctor of chiropody... ...and, bearing HIPAA in mind, perhaps I should say no more. ;-)

Comment by Clavos on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:20:32 EDT

Obama has remarkable feet??? How did you discover that, Doc?

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:58:56 EDT

Yup, that'll do it. Cheers... But, aw, Jet, but, you're really trying to seventeenth-guess the jolly old American voting public above. You could really go crackers thinking about all the ramifications. Of course in a fair world, we'd never want to elect another white guy again after the Bush debacle...

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:44:46 EDT

State of intoxication?

Comment by Jet in Columbus on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:41:25 EDT

Blacks will be afraid to vote for Obama in the name of being careful, not racist, because if he winds up getting elected and then blamed for Bush's tanked economy and we don't give him enough of a majority in congress to get out of Iraq or to actually get anything done, the REAL racists will say "See I warned you... they're all like that" and it'll be another century before another one gets elected. We just don't know what he'd really do under pressure NOT BECAUSE HE'S BLACK, but because he's inexperienced; but that won't stop the ignorant from blaming him because he's black. Same with Hillary, if she gets into office they'll say, "See I told you so" and they'll never elect another woman. We gotta be reeeeeeealy careful when we stray off voting some white guy in... ...but then you never hear someone say, "Bush is white-we better not elect any more white men" Thank god some gay guy isn't running...

Comment by Dr Dreadful on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:29:55 EDT

My wife said that Obama recently said in a speech that he had been criss-crossing this nation and had visited 57 states. That's a remarkable feat. Remarkable, but not impossible. Some of the states he might have visited would include: State of California State of Texas State of New York State of Grace State of Play State of Mind State of Confusion ...

Comment by Ruvy on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 23:24:32 EDT

You got so pissed off at my description of Michelle Obama and the limitations of her influence, that you all missed my points. Cindy deflected it all. Nice job, Cindy.... First of all, I never called her an uppity bitch. I granted that she may well be bitter, and may well have a right to be. But that argument ties in with my other argument supporting Obama as a candidate - that he is not embittered by racial anger as he is essentially a white man in black skin who does not have the visceral connection to the American black experience that his wife does. For your benefit, then, I'll repeat the rest of my argument below: Bing, You have legitimate ideological reasons to oppose Obama. But you do need to remember that America is not a parliamentary democracy like Canada, New Zealand or Australia (notice I didn't include that falafel dictatorship, Israel). In other words, merely because someone is elected president doesn't make his program or promises law. If his political party - or more to the point, his wing of his political party - controls both houses of your congress, then his programs will get passed. That happened once in my lifetime that I remember - the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson. A big reason for his success in getting his programs passed was his long years as minority or majority leader in the senate. He knew where a bunch of the bodies were buried - and had helped to bury one of them himself. Obama does not have that kind of experience, a point you keep making. So, you can't have it both ways, Bing. Either the guy has sufficient experience to ramrod his "bolshevist" program down congress' throat - or he doesn't. If he doesn't, then what are you bellyaching about? The worst that can happen is that the country will get sick of four years of "liberal" incompetence, just as it has gotten sick of eight years of "conservative" incompetence.

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:36:32 EDT

BTW, "In her adult life" speaks directly to the bill of goods she was (and we all were) sold in grammar school about our sanitized, superman-like government actions. Michelle Obama, is merely speaking about what any informed human being (black or white) should be recognizing by adulthood.

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 22:25:56 EDT

Arch, Michelle Obama is one up on me. Whereas, she has been proud of her country for the first time in her adult life. I, as a white woman, haven't been proud yet. I might be proud if her husband stands for more than even he is able to admit. (And I am sure Michelle Obama wouldn't marry a low achiever.) Which is only another way of saying that B-tone's potential supposition is one I hope is true. So, all of you who aren't well versed in reading, will by now have no idea what I am talking about, and that is as it should be. Go back to watching American Idol, or whatever (it is you watch), there's nothing to see here.

Comment by Baritone on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:40:42 EDT

Clav, I wasn't really comparing Michelle Obama with Hillary, it just so happens that they are currently the two most public and visible women in the country (at least till Britney rises again.) I don't disagree with you about Hillary at this juncture. The wheels are coming off of her campaign and she is wildly grasping at straws. In the process she has increasingly embarrassed herself with statements that she probably wouldn't have made when she was the assumed nominee. Yet, there are parallels between Michelle and Hillary as regards their public persona and how many people, men and women, react to them. There were people who rejected Clinton back in the early days of her husband's first term simply because she was not playing the expected role of the quietly supportive first lady, content with planning state dinners and organizing the annual Easter egg hunt. Actually, I still think she's pretty bright. But she is also likely so numbingly tired that she doesn't know what she's saying half the time. My wife said that Obama recently said in a speech that he had been criss-crossing this nation and had visited 57 states. That's a remarkable feat. As you may remember, I began responding to the election process this time around in Clinton's camp. I still feel she could be a very capable president. Nevertheless, I have moved my allegience to Obama, because, on balance, I feel that he will make a better president than Clinton, not to mention that the numbers say overwhelmingly that he is the people's choice amongst Democrats. The longer she continues in the race for the nomination, the more harm she does to herself, and more importantly, the more harm she may be inflicting on the party. As I've said either here or in another thread recently, I am anxious to see the battle begin between Obama and McCain. As long as Hillary remains in contention, Obama and McCain cannot truly engage with each other head to head. Time's awaistin'! B-tone

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:21:21 EDT

Arch, I HAVE BENEFITED FROM OUR SYSTEM. So what? Am I wrong because I tutor children who haven't? Or because I come from a background where I easily might not have? What the hell are you saying that makes any sense at all?

Comment by Cindy D on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:15:28 EDT

"I didn't say that she should never critisize where criticism is due. However the woman makes over 300k a year, her husband is in serious contention for the presidency and from all that I can tell from what we see of her on tv and in the news she has a prettty damn good life." So, criticism is not due if you have financially gained from our system? If YOU have a good life, you should be immune to empathizing with those who don't? WTF are you saying Arch? The system is designed for the RICH and when they benefit, they are wrong for criticizing it?

Comment by Arch Conservative on Obama Touts Near Twofer: Wins NC by Double Digits and Squeaks IN

Sun, 11 May 2008 20:33:11 EDT

"The choices you make do infer a racist sentiment. But, then you cry foul if someone calls you on it." They are inferred by people purposely looking to see racism in my posts because I do not share the same views on race that they themselves hold. It's all the rage for white liberals to accuse any other white person who disagrees with them of being racist. But why don't you ask Michael Steele, Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell etc who the real racists are. Ask them what names they have been called by people on the so called tolerant, inclusive left.