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Second off, it's customary journalistic etiquette to refer to a former POTUS by his title--"President Carter," not "Carter," or "silly Jimmy Carter." Whether you think he was a complete ass or not, you need to display proper respect to the office he held, at least in your first reference in a piece. After all, a majority of Americans voted him in.
Third off, the White House cannot "sit down." It's a building, and already bolted down.
Fourth off, "race, racists and racism" cannot "flap in the air," rhetorical or otherwise. Banners flap. Neither people nor abstract concepts can flap, at least not when you employ the intransitive form of the verb "to flap."
Fifth off, you're making a blanket, unsubstantiated inflammatory statement about recent tweets regarding Kanye West.
Sixth off, one cannot start a sentence composed in colloquial American English with "For, in the space of lack created," for it makes no fucking sense.
I better stop, since I need to keep this comment under 12 billion words. Please regard all as constructive criticism.
09/16/09
And to be really, really, REALLY fair, Osama bin Laden probably endorses abstinence only sex education, also. Why are you in bed with Osama bin Laden, Glenn? If that is your real name.
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All great points, but unfortunately, Glenn Beck was just twelve when Carter was elected and he doesn't strike me as someone who was paying a lot of attention to politics before it became his livelihood, so he really only knows the popular Republican memes.
Oh, and because GB grew-up somewhere in Washington State, he probably didn't recognize a lot of the people who attended his Moron March.
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How about not writing posts that don't posit that the President not getting into the fucking pig-dirt wrestling trough of petty bullshit that is the 24/7 media somehow "hurts" the United States as a viable political nation and entity, okay?
Sorry, but what the fuck? Obama doesn't want to argue with idiots on FOX about his race somehow hurts the US? He's unwilling to derail his policies to address this and get into a throw-down on cable news? WTF?
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To say it's never easy to be the POTUS is a laughable understatement. (Hope W has clued in by now.) To be the first black President is a whole new level of "difficult".
Barack Obama is not the first black man to have had to take more than the average amount of racist insult. Sadly, he won't be the last. However, every wise glass ceiling breaker knows exactly what he or she is in for. They also know how LITTLE they can say about it or be painted as a "troublemaker" and a "whiner" forever.
So let Obama contradict Carter. Carter is wise and intellligent enough to know that he HAS to. Such is probably why Carter decided to accept the responsibility of saying what everyone knows to be the case, but Barack Obama can never say.
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@uncivilly obedient:
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But perhaps one example is not enough. We are talking about the cowardly ghost of racism here. It takes perhaps more to display the pattern that has been so obvious to liberals for so long.
It isn't just that Obama is black himself. The whole hissy fit about "Big Gub'mint" has been about nothing BUT racism for the past forty fucking years.
From Nixon's campaign manager urging Nixon to exploit white rage over the Voting Rights Act to Nixon's political gain, to Reagan's kicking off his campaign at the Neshoba County Fair in 1980 ( [www.nytimes.com]) to Reagan's political advisor giving this charming anonymous quote WHILE Reagan was running for re-election
"You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[7]"
...to George H.W. Bush's wonderful Willie Horton ad in 1988, which was incidentally, championed by his son who went on to blame NOLA residents for his negligence of much needed security and rescue efforts.
We know, we know, we KNOW. We got the point about how the "hardworking Americans" were being victimized by the [unstated] lazy Americans. We know all about how "your" tax dollars are being used to support "liberals who won't work". And we KNOW all about "Big Gub'mint" controlling the lives of "working class Americans" by forcing them to deal with Civil Rights laws, because those same "real Americans" never gave a rat's ruby red rump about Big Gub'mint spending itself into oblivion under Republicans and tapping their fucking phone lines without warrant.
As long as it didn't make them deal with "those" people. We know. We know. We know. Sine 1964, the Democrats are the party of "those people".
You wanted a single example as provided by Eatsshootsleaves? I just pointed you towards forty fucking years of examples of how the "us" has been oh-so-victimized by the "them", as evidenced by the same contradictory whine uttered for four decades.
Not one of these bumblefucks was out there screaming at W over the pork-laden Culsterfuck that is Plan D of Medicare.
Not.One.Of.Them.
But NOW, government health insurance is a huuuuge problem, because one of "them" proposed it to help more of "them".
The only people convinced that this shit hasn't been as transparent as it has been for so long are the clueless ass racists themselves.
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Was every African American who protested against Bush a racist? Is everyone who is anti-terrorism also anti-Muslim? The answer is no. And I believe that this is no different.
Carter was being purely political. In his peanut farming brain he imagines that his idea will become widely accepted, forcing the media to not report the 'racist outburst' from republicans and conservatives.
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That's a discrimination I think everyone can live with tho.
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Someone really needs to explain to me how this Kanye thing has gotten to the level that it's at now. I grew up watching people interrupt eachother and act like asses on the VMA's since 93'. Nirvana called out Axel, The Beastie Boys ran onstage and interrupted R.E.M, and one of the members of rage against the machine climbed on top of a fifteen-foot stage prop for no reason. Kanye was just continuing the tradition.
Also, Taylor Swift is an adult, she's 19 yrs old. Why is everyone acting like she's 4?
09/15/09
I'm sorry, Taylor, you were saying...?
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