Obama is a Race Card Shark
Mar 6, 2007 Political
Barack Obama was in Selma Alabama this past week commemorating the the civil rights movement. He made an impassioned speech and in it he talked about equality and the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws. He talked about how the black schools have less money and more problems. I thought that desegregation took away “black” schools. I know that there are likely to be more black people in schools that are located in areas where the population is predominantly black but that is not because someone is forcing black kids to go to a segregated school. I read the speech and i will admit that it was a good one and very passionate. I also have to admit that Obama did a little double speak in which he said that we needed to end discrimination but then asked that we have more of it:
I had a school in southern Illinois that set up a program for PhD’s in math and science for African Americans. And the reason they had set it up is because we only had less than 1% of the PhD’s in science and math go to African Americans. At a time when we are competing in a global economy, when we’re not competing just against folks in North Carolina or Florida or California, we’re competing against folks in China and India and we need math and science majors, this university thought this might be a nice thing to do. And the justice department wrote them a letter saying we are going to threaten to sue you for reverse discrimination unless you cease this program.
And it reminds us that we still got a lot of work to do, and that the basic enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, the injustice that still exists within our criminal justice system, the disparity in terms of how people are treated in this country continues. It has gotten better. And we should never deny that it’s gotten better. But we shouldn’t forget that better is not good enough. That until we have absolute equality in this country in terms of people being treated on the basis of their color or their gender, that that is something that we’ve got to continue to work on and the Joshua generation has a significant task in making that happen. [emphasis mine]
I want someone to look at this and honestly tell me that Obama is not saying that we need the justice department to enforce anti-discrimination laws right after he chastised them for enforcing anti-discrimination laws. Only a moonbat can think that discrimination is bad except when the moonbat is enjoying the benefits of discrimination. Just before this in the speech Obama indicates that people are upset because a small number of blacks and Latinos get a break, or an advantage when it comes to education. He then goes on to utter the words above. Obama said that it has gotten better but will not be satisfactory until we have absolute equality in terms of how people are treated with regard to skin color or gender. I guess to Obama giving someone an advantage based on skin color is the idea of equality. I guess Obama thinks blacks are being treated equally only so long as they get advantages that whites do not get when it comes to education and job selection. As soon as the justice department tries to enforce the law regarding discrimination he gets upset because the people getting the unfair advantage are black.
How can any group of people expect to be treated as equals when they constantly demand advantages that are not afforded to others? How can Obama expect the black community not to be looked at as inferior if they insist on help that is not available to others? If you need special treatment to get where others are, then you are not equal to those people. The idea for affirmative action was to give a boost to those adversely affected by slavery and the years of oppression that followed. The whole idea was inherently discriminatory and many qualified white people did not get to college so that less qualified blacks could. The time is long past for these discriminatory practices. No one alive today has been held as a slave and there are opportunities for everyone. If people want to go to college then they need to apply themselves in school and get good grades. Regardless, blacks today need to stop depending on programs that do nothing more than give the impression that they are unable to compete on a level playing field.
There is one other item that is a bit off my original subject but I could not let it go without comment. Obama indicated that part of the problem in the black community is that men are not taking responsibility when they father children:
We have too many children in poverty in this country and everybody should be ashamed, but don’t tell me it doesn’t have a little to do with the fact that we got too many daddies not acting like daddies. Don’t think that fatherhood ends at conception. I know something about that because my father wasn’t around when I was young and I struggled.
He said that fatherhood does not end at conception. Given that sentiment does that not indicate that fatherhood begins at conception and that is because life begins at conception? He could have said that fatherhood does not end at the birth of your child but he specifically used the word conception. This will be interesting to look at as he more clearly defines his position on abortion. As it stands right now, fatherhood begins at conception and, for some, ends with abortion.
As I indicated this was a passionate speech but it was full of contradictions and it was designed to pander to a certain audience. I will be happy on the day we have a person running for office who says that people of all color can make it on their own and do not need special help from the government. This will take a while because we have bred a generation of people who think that the government is there to provide for them. In this speech Obama points out Katrina and the way that the 10% funding requirement for disaster was waived for New York and Florida but not for New Orleans. I suppose this is supposed to indicate that it is because most of the folks were black. Obama indicates that this was the worst natural disaster and the federal government did not waive the fee. I will remind Obama that the government gave the most amount of money ever awarded for a natural disaster to new Orleans. 250 BILLION dollars came from taxpayers to rebuild this place. Obama laments that it is not done yet. There are people in Florida who still have not been able to rebuild the damage caused years ago by Hurricane Andrew.
Perhaps Obama can stop playing the race card and start acting like a politician.
Source (for all quotes):
Lynn Sweet, Sun Times
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Die Cheney is OK, Faggot Edwards is Not
Mar 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Did you ever notice that the left is famous for fighting for rights? They are the champions of the people’s rights and they will fight for your right to (how come the Beastie Boys come to mind) do whatever you want and to say whatever you want, but only so long as what you say or do agrees with what they think you should say or do. Confused yet?
The left is all about free speech, especially when they are saying something that is offensive. It is their right. Look at Julio Pino at Kent State University. The school said that this guy has a right to free speech even though his free speech was anti American and he claimed to be helping the people trying to kill us. Look at all the wackos at the Huffington Post. They wrote some vile items about Dick Cheney after what was originally reported as a failed assassination attempt. The Hufpos were happy and were so nasty that she shut down the comments. Bill Maher defended the right of those commenting and said that Huffington should not have shut down the comments because it violated their right to free speech. Then Maher made the same argument and that is, the world would be better off is Cheney had been killed.
I will just give a cursory mention about free speech. People do not have free speech any where they want at any time they want. The First Amendment says that the government will not make a law abridging free speech. Huffington owns the website and can say what goes up and what does not, just like I can at this site. You have no free speech here, you have no free speech at work. Your boss can tell you what you are and are not allowed to say or talk about. This is where many people make the mistake in this country. They assume they have free speech any where and any time and that just is not true. No regular citizen in this country is required to allow you to speak.
Maher and those at Huffington as well as the tin foil hat brigade at Kos all had their circular self gratification party going on and they were really hoping the VP had been killed. All of them were making vile remarks and expressing sorrow that he was NOT killed. Maher says this is free speech and they should be allowed to say it and he even agrees with it. So, can someone tell me, if free speech includes everything and if it is sacrosanct why are all these nimrods out there upset that Ann Coulter used the word Faggot to refer to John Edwards? Will Maher go on the air and tell people to leave her alone because she has rights and will all the moonbats defend her right to free speech? I believe it is more likely that Maher will have a show discussing how terrible she is for saying it.
This hypocrisy extends to the right as well. Wild Bill points out that the folks at Hot Air are really taking issue with Coulter for calling Edwards a Faggot and yet, Hot Air recently had a video depicting Edwards as My Little Pony (Silky Pony). The top Republican Presidential candidates have all weighed in on the issue. Why didn’t any of them have the testicular fortitude to say “I don’t agree with what she said but I will die defending her right to say it”? At least Obama had some guts when he had his dust up with Hillary. When asked about an apology for Geffen’s remarks he wanted to know why he should I apologize for what someone else said.
I don’t necessarily disagree with what Coulter said but I think that she said it in the wrong forum. I would certainly not have used the word Faggot when feminine would have suited the same purpose and been more accurate. He is not really a Faggot unless he is a closet Queer because he does have a wife and children. On the other hand, he primps in the mirror and always has that perfectly coiffed hair and he looks like a girly man so feminine would have been a good word.
In any event, the idiots who are crying about Coulter’s use of the word Faggot should try one of two things. Either clean up your own house or allow everyone the same right to Free Speech that you allow for yourself.
Source:
News Busters
Congrats to Ms. Underestimated for her mention in the article
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Has CAIR had Anything Else to Say About 24?
Feb 27, 2007 Uncategorized
The beginning of this years 24 featured some radical Muslims attacking targets in the US and they in fact detonate a nuclear device. CAIR made a big stink about all this and complained that it put the onus of terrorism on the Muslims. I know that the truth hurts but the fact is most of the terrorism in the world is caused by radical Muslims. CAIR can overlook this or disbelieve it or even try to convince people that it isn’t so but the fact is, one only needs to look at the world and see who is causing terrorism and who acts like mobs of animals when someone has the audacity to knock the so called religion of peace.
I have watched 24 from the beginning this season and it started out with Muslims committing acts of terror. No surprise there, but the story line has taken a much different tact and it is not the Muslims who are painted as the bad guys, at least not by their little lonesome selves. The weapons were supplied by some corporation that has gives the impression of an evil Halliburton like company. The US government was shown as fascists because they locked up Muslims just for being Muslims. A Muslims terrorist who has killed hundreds is presented as a good guy because he wants to begin talks and renounce terrorism (and he saved the President’s life after US government officials tried to assassinate him).
There are members of the President’s administration who are shown as war mongers just itching for a reason to invade anyone Muslim and the folks who tried to assassinate the President came from his own administration and tried to kill him because he was not as warlike as they wanted. There are Americans shown as home grown terrorists while proudly proclaiming that they are patriots. The show, which is good but not as good as seasons past, looks like it has gone out of its way to offend Americans and to respect the sensitivities of the Muslim community and the terrorist front group, CAIR.
I just want to know where CAIR has been? They have not come out and complained about the way the Americans on the show are portrayed. I guess to those terrorists in that organization, the show is depicting us accurately. Now I don’t really care how they portray us because it is a show. They had an evil President last season who I think was designed to act like a Richard Nixon character. They have had moles infiltrate different agencies and they have shown people from other nations as the bad guys. Like I said, it is a show and I enjoy it because I know it is fiction. It does not bother me in any way because they are portraying characters and, in reality, I am sure there are many people just like this in every facet of American life.
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Obama Wants Focused Political Attacks
Feb 24, 2007 Political
Away from him and toward the current administration…
Borat [now that is just funny] Obama has been locked in a battle with Hillary Clinton and he says that this has got to stop. He has vowed not to get involved in dirty politics and the back and forth that he believes does no good. That is, of course, unless he can take swipes at the opposition party. Obama took issue with the Vice President with regard to the war on terror in Iraq. This all stems from Tony Blair’s decision to draw down some of his troops. Cheney said it signaled that things were going well in some parts of Iraq and that this was the goal for the entire country. Hussein Obama had a different view:
Obama, speaking at a massive outdoor rally in Austin, Texas, said British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision this week to withdraw 1,600 troops is a recognition that Iraq’s problems can’t be solved militarily.
“Now if Tony Blair can understand that, then why can’t George Bush and Dick Cheney understand that?” Obama asked thousands of supporters who gathered in the rain to hear him. “In fact, Dick Cheney said this is all part of the plan (and) it was a good thing that Tony Blair was withdrawing, even as the administration is preparing to put 20,000 more of our young men and women in. Breitbart
The problem is that Hussein Obama has very little experience and it shows. The issue of the UK drawing down is that the area they were responsible for is in pretty good shape. This has been a plan all along and the Brits intend to keep just under 5000 troops in the area. Additionally, some of their troops are being moved to Afghanistan. Hussein Obama believes that Tony Blair had conceded that Iraq can not be handled militarily and that Bush and Cheney are unable to see this. Why is it that he can espouse this point of view but is unable to see that if we leave before the place is secure we will be admitting defeat and inviting them to follow us over here.
I understand that with his family background it might be hard to see military strategy beyond strapping on a bomb vest, but the fact is we need to use overwhelming force to deal with this problem. This was the biggest mistake from the onset, not enough troops. Hussein Obama does not want to get in a pissing contest with the other Democrats in the race (read Hillary Clinton) because he says that takes away from the message. He does not have any problem trying to make the current leadership look stupid for personal gain so I hope is not insulted that I am not part of the no tit-for-tat crowd. I am more than happy to point out all of their failures and inexperience. I do not mind insulting them and I could not care less who likes it.
Hussein Obama has very little experience and he would be lost trying to run this country. He has no idea beyond his little world of liberal entitlement. In all reality, the only thing he brings to the race or has going for him is the color of his skin. If he does not get the nomination he will probably be selected as a running mate for that very quality.
He is very naive and if he thinks Clinton will be nice he is out of his mind. The more enamored people become with him the more she will dig up dirt and look to destroy him. She believes herself to be the heiress apparent and the primary to be a formality. She is not going to take kindly to Hussein Obama’s rise among her one time supporters.
Then we will see what kind of war time President he would make sans the bomb vest, of course…
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Legal Aliens are not Citizens
Feb 21, 2007 Uncategorized
A group of aliens who are here legally are trying to get the right to vote in New York. Activists are pushing hard to give non citizens the right to vote claiming that the poor aliens are disenfranchised. They are not disenfranchised because they are not legally allowed to vote so a right is not being denied.
“More than 50,000 adult noncitizen taxpayers in those two districts are disenfranchised by citizenship voting laws,” said Cheryl Wertz, of New Immigrant Community Empowerment, referring to today’s special election for council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island. NYP
Let me try to clear this up for these ingrates. You pay taxes here because you have a job here. Paying taxes does not give you the right to vote being a citizen does. You are paying taxes because we were nice enough to let you come here and earn a living. If you would like, you are free to leave here and go back to whatever third world crap hole you came from and earn 50 cents a day selling your sister in peep shows.
The US Constitution discusses voting in several places and each of the places starts with the words “The right of citizens of the United States…” Understand? Citizens have the right to vote and non citizens do not. It is really quite simple and if you were not so busy trying to get something to which you are not entitled then you might have a bit more time to study for a citizenship test so you can become a citizen.
I really am tired of groups of people who are not citizens of this country telling us what they want and making demands. I am tired of ILLEGALS sneaking across the border and then demanding health care, schooling and a million other things that taxpayers foot the bill for. I am now tired of people who are here legally making demands. Just who the hell do these people think they are? They are not entitled to vote in this country and we should not let them. Any politician who passes a law allowing non citizen aliens to vote should be fed through a meat grinder feet first and fed to pigs.
Here is an idea for the aliens. The Big Dog says you have three choices. You can stop making demands and give up your silly idea about voting here, you can become a citizen and earn the right to vote, or you can go the hell home and vote in your own country. Either way I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to, Are we clear? I said are we clear? Just thought I would throw a little Jack Nicholson in there…
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