Comments on: Barack Obama is Not White

By: Dave K

Dave K — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:09:13 +0000

Good grief “Nigel” and “Sara” if you think #13 was racist you’re off your rockers. How about reading (for comprehension) #17 again where I remind people that I have previously stated (in past posts) that I started out as an “Obama” supporter. Yep, I must be a racist all right… Try reading #15 again as well. Notice I emphasized the point that I’d like to see a NAAAP (advancement of “ALL” people). It’s certainly “much more racist” to have an association that specifically states it is interested in the “advancement of “colored” people is it not?

Yes Sara, it’s like a High school popularity/charisma contest and “it has” become the “in thing” among young voters to support the “charismatic Obama” (who younger people feel they relate to better). I witnessed a gathering of HS seniors the other day talking about how Obama stands for “change” and that he’s going to “make taxes fairer”. Unfortunately, they couldn’t mention one “specific” idea they liked about him. Iâ€™d prefer to see people voting for a candidate because they believe in his/her solutions. Realistically, that’s difficult to do because his main platform is â€œhopeâ€ as opposed to “actual answers” as to what he would â€œspecificallyâ€ doâ€¦

BTW, anyone who thought that the following comment was anything but a factual statement needs to look up the meaning of the word demagogue: “I especially dislike people who use racial separation issues in an â€œambulance chaserâ€ way such as Al Sharpton who is most certainly a demagogue.”

For “watson”: I don’t even fully understand what you’re trying to say because you’re writing incoherently. However, from what I can make out it does have a racist tone to it (intended or not).

By: watson

watson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:29:05 +0000

how much is owed to the native americans who suffered from our abuse we where already here. i believe an if not for the coloreds sticking togather ,which the whites don’t,he would.i will not vote for barack an will cross over.with his back ground i don’t understand why with our country in turmoil would anyone vote for less experience an no history of dealings with all that is facing this country’

By: watson

watson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:26:28 +0000

how much is owed to the native americans who suffered from our abuse we where already here. yes barack is racist i believe an if not for the coloreds sticking togather ,which the whites don’t,he wouldn’t have the votes that he has.i will not vote for barack an will cross over.with his back ground i don’t understand why with our country in turmoil would anyone vote for less experience an no history of dealings with all that is facing this country’

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:02:10 +0000

I respect that you have an opinion, but I am disappointed that your factual meristem has entered into diapause obstructing any useful discourse you wish to partake in.

just go ahead and make up as many words as you want. it wonâ€™t make your gibberish any more coherent.
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Matt, I apologize for the gibberish…truly, I do…forget I said anything…

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:55:16 +0000

that was a pretty loud condemnation you put together right there, wasnâ€™t it, Nigel old buddy?

too bad you lack so deeply.

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Condemnation??? Sarabeth, your wisdom is profoundly humbling.

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:30:21 +0000

that was a pretty loud condemnation you put together right there, wasn’t it, Nigel old buddy?

too bad you lack so deeply.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:51:57 +0000

>I respect that you have an opinion, but I am disappointed that your factual meristem has entered into diapause obstructing any useful discourse you wish to partake in.

just go ahead and make up as many words as you want. it won’t make your gibberish any more coherent.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:38:51 +0000

Matt, you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. Thankfully, you can only vote once, and the winds of change have swept across the nation with the kind of determination that defeats people like you.

There’s an African saying that asserts: vacuity is the message of a seedless mind, and a pervasive aversion to sober thought its lone cultivator.

I adore Hillary Clinton, and love Barrack Obama. They are not above the hate or issue-deflecting that you and your kind peddle – but one thing I know they are, is great Americans. Greater that you’ll ever be even if they fail in their bids for the presidency.

So I will close comment on this by telling you that he who condems loudest, lacks deepest. So whereas I don’t expect it from you, veneration is what drives both Hillary and Obama – not the fact that one is a woman, and the other black. I respect that you have an opinion, but I am disappointed that your factual meristem has entered into diapause obstructing any useful discourse you wish to partake in. You sound like an intelligent guy, so I’m hopeful you will join us all in ‘perfecting the union’ because it is exactly the kind of divisive talk and thinking you barter that ‘We the people’ are joining Obama (or Hillary) to defeat. I love all white, black, asian, hispanic people…whether or not there’s people in their midst that don’t feel the same way about me. But I know that is where we have to start when mending the racial divide in this country…and I’m glad to tell you that my love for fellow Americans irrespective of their race has been reciprocated so much so that when I encounter bigotry, I can clearly see it as the anomaly it is – you are intelligent enough to eventually come around to it – fortunately for us, you have no choice coz the people that are not white in America will always be in America – whether or not you continue to will them away with hate and indifference.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:18:59 +0000

I am ashamed to be associated with a country that can have people who water down Obamaâ€™s inteligence, Charisma, and substance as simply and instance of â€˜meaningless speechâ€™

I am at least glad that Matt, Sarah, and Sarabeth, Jamie Beth have all tried in vain to right your sinking ships. Just because you can string some words together does not give you the right to beam your masked xenophobia on others in the guise of participatory exchange.

you should be more careful with your praise.

while i don’t question obama’s intelligence, i couldn’t care less about his “charisma,” and i have written at length here about his substance deficit.

just because obama can string words together doesn’t mean they are the right words, and it certainly doesn’t mean he should be the democratic nominee, or president.

calling out racist speech doesn’t mean anything but what it is.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:04:54 +0000

I am appalled, stupefied even, to read the vacous hate conveyed by the words of Dave K and Tom above. #13 is beleaguered with views consistent with a summary of any manifesto that is overtly endorsed by a subversive supremacist agenda. America has slowly transformed some of the blind hatred that fuels racism into questions…questions that get rural white communities in Wyoming, North Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, name it…to show up in great numbers for Obama…not for a black man…but for a candidate…Obama!! These are the kind of beautiful white folk that give this country a chance to heal from the racial divide you work so conceitedly to maintain. Unfortunately, all the fence mending that the humble average white well-meaning person has sought out to do from his/her good heart is upstaged by the empty, issue-lacking, subjective, and irresponsible remarks made by the likes of Geraldine, Tom, Dave K, and probably other unconscionable Republicans and Democrats.
Anyone with a heart, some self-questioning, and an appreciation for common good would not indulge in the wanton, civic participation-defeating recklessness propagated by the callous references to the nature of black and white people or their motivations for participating in our old but obviously fragile democracy. I am ashamed to be associated with a country that can have people who water down Obama’s inteligence, Charisma, and substance as simply and instance of ‘meaningless speech’ – shame on you Tom, or having a ‘high school election’ tone – Dave K, dispeakable!

I am at least glad that Matt, Sarah, and Sarabeth, Jamie Beth have all tried in vain to right your sinking ships. Just because you can string some words together does not give you the right to beam your masked xenophobia on others in the guise of participatory exchange.