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Opposition to School Speech 'Silly': Gibbs

Obama press secretary also hints at possible racially-driven censorship

By Harry Kimball| Posted Sep 4, 09 5:10 PM CDT|

(Newser) – Robert Gibbs fired back today at critics of President Obama's planned address to school children, calling it "a little bit of the silly season," the Hill reports. Noting that that Ronald Reagan and the elder President Bush both made school addresses, he painted Obama's critics as censors, making a reference to school districts that "won't even let" students "read Huckleberry Finn."

Gibbs also mentioned that the president’s planned message, to stay in school, is shared by the National Basketball Association. “If staying in school is a political message, then somebody should tell the NBA,” he said. “I think we've reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can't tell kids to study hard and stay in school.”

Schoolchildren may be confused by all the to-do. (AP Photo)

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WhitEThunderE
Sep 4, 09 5:17 PM CDT

I can't believe people are so upset over Obama's appearance and message towards the public schools... They're government funded! And what kid wouldn't want the chance to meet or hear the president of his/her own country!? Reply

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cityeyes
Sep 4, 09 5:39 PM CDT

The stupidity and bitterness of these people boggles my mind absolutely. They're completely convinced that Obama is some evil communist dead set on indoctrinating their children. Why are stupid people so loud?

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 5:41 PM CDT

don't know maybe you could ask the democrats who pulled this same stuff pre-Internet? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/

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Forderon
Sep 4, 09 5:58 PM CDT

How many times are you going to post that link godawgs? And what's your point anyway? OF COURSE the party out of power is going to criticize the sitting President. What is incriminating about that? The problem is when idiots on the right make the quantum leap from "he's giving a speech to kids" to "he's trying to brainwash our kids with his socialist agenda". The left simply criticized Bush for the cost of it. You see the HUGE difference here? The type of inflammatory bullshit in right's playbook is rarely used by the left. They're too meek to pull stuff like that.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 6:08 PM CDT

@ford no they said it was paid political advertising. Also, my main point here is that the left has been trying to make this about race, and the right doesn't want it because President Obama is black, but they all forget about how the left acts. I don't like it when the main argument is something so easy as it's because he's black. Most people on the left will not admit that there party does the exact same thing they are bitching about the right doing. so you post a link to each person that claims this all because President Obama is black or says withc certain authority that the left would never do anything like this.... Also since Bush's speech happened Pre-Internet I really think that slowed down, i mean this is a much bigger deal then it should be because of access to the Internet don't you think?

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Forderon
Sep 4, 09 6:21 PM CDT

Again, what's worse. "Paid political advertising" or "he's trying to indoctrinate kids with his socialist agenda"? What's more vitriolic. What's more polarizing? You're simply not going to win any argument where you try to equate the tactics used by the left with the tactics used by the right. Like I said earlier, it's simply not in the DNA of the left. Also, you're using one article from one writer to assume that everyone on the left thinks it's a racial issue. And can you even blame them? There are pastors praying for his death. People are coming with loaded rifles to his rallies. There is a general feeling of "we want our country back (from the black guy)" from the right. Give them a break if they're a little bit on edge. Threats on the president are up 400% compared to the last president.

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WhitEThunderE
Sep 4, 09 6:55 PM CDT

@godawgs - Pre-internet? News flash, the internet 'technically' turned 40 this week.

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Forderon
Sep 4, 09 7:26 PM CDT

WhitE, he means before the Internet turned into the "Web" as we know it today, with blogs and comment threads and the ability of stories to spread like a virus, etc.

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WhitEThunderE
Sep 4, 09 7:29 PM CDT

Ah, I was thinking Dubya, my bad.

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JonmarkP
Sep 4, 09 7:40 PM CDT

Since when is the vicious, toxic New Klux Klan silly? Stupid, yes. Toxic, yes. But not silly.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 9:34 PM CDT

@ford i didn't say that one was any worse then the other. What i was simply stating was the left and right do the same thing but the right will admit but the left has some weird problem with it. Also i wasn't talking about the authors and blaming everything on racial lines, but more along the lines of the posters here, check out the posts and anything that deals with the President and republicans usually has at least one line from someone claiming this is because he is black, but it also has at least one claiming he is a racist.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 9:35 PM CDT

@white forderon is correct i meant like pre-blog everyone on the web all the time Internet.

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gropius
Sep 4, 09 10:06 PM CDT

@godawds I think I get your point but isn't this a bit different? The article you cite has Dick G. saying a measured--albeit political--"Let's see W do more for our schools than peppering our kids with propaganda," with Newt at the time replying "Why is it political for the president of the United States to discuss education?" This time around, it's the screwball right screaming "SOCIALISM SOCIALISM SOCIALISM" Ironically, of course, as cityeyes points out. It's called PUBLIC education for a reason. . .

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freethemall
Sep 4, 09 10:12 PM CDT

Copied and pasted: Yes, George W. Bush caught a lot of grief as POTUS, similar to what Obama is catching now. The difference is that he was given a chance to do his thing, even though he got fewer popular votes in the general election than his opponent. It was only after he made many mistakes, and failed to own up to them, that he became unpopular and disrespected. Obama, on the other hand, unlike Bush, inherited a huge mess, and unlike Bush, he had a clear mandate. And yet he is being totally disrespected by his political opponents, and relentlessly hounded, though he has been in office less than a year. Is it racism? Maybe it is, but I recall Clinton got similar treatment. (note: I may copy and paste this comment again, to save time and effort)

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 10:53 PM CDT

@gropius my main point t the link wasn't even the speech, which I am for. I don't see anyihing wrong with the President talking to the school children. My point is that some folks on the blogs kept saying that the left would never pull anything like this and the only reason the right was doing it was because the President happens to be black the whole socialism thing is quite dumb, and i don't use that argument at all I just couldn't taken anymore of the the left would never do that, and the President is black that is why the right is doing it posts on this site.

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BackAgain
Sep 5, 09 5:19 AM CDT

Silly? Wow yet again the left proves why real Americans are upset. Keep up the good work lefties. And cityeyes proves my point- the left is about hate and control.

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gropius
Sep 7, 09 5:42 PM CDT

@godogs, I'm admittedly a lefty but I'm having a hard time seeing your point about the left going on and on about race. Hell we've got a black President and we're _proud_ about that! If somebody doesn't enjoy the fact, we'll they'll just have to eat it because our man won fair and square--we don't have to say anything. The point is that the right _has_ gone after Obama about his race, background, etc--both overtly (truther birth certificate fiasco, Barack HOSSAIN obama probably being a Muslim oh the horror) and in code (he's not qualified to punch tickets let alone be President, etc.) And this coming not from posters in the comment board jungle but the top voices coming from the right. Sure some lefties play the race card, but plenty of lefties believe in post-economic Anarchy and that W. blew up the WTC. You needn't pay much attention to the lunatic fringe. We don't. I do have to gently point out, though, that you seem to be spending a lot of time on race here when nobody else on this thread (oh, wait I spot one conservative wingnut chiming in, on cue) is even going there.

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cas1993
Sep 15, 09 4:14 PM CDT

I think that people who dont like Obama are stupid.!!! I am Ecuadorian and I really like your president...!! In school today I read the speech and get my conlussions out of it, and I REALLY THINK IT WAS GREAT...!!! People should be more open minded.!!

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NovThird2010
Sep 4, 09 5:17 PM CDT

Obama is trying to expand his cult of personality to those who were almost literally "born yesterday." Reply

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JimW
Sep 4, 09 5:30 PM CDT

Oh I see, I guess Bush and Reagan did as well?

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cityeyes
Sep 4, 09 5:36 PM CDT

Exactly JimW. When Bush and Reagan talk to our children, it's an honor and a pleasure that every child should experience. When it's Obama, he's indoctrinating our youth. Seriously. As much as I disliked Bush (for actually valid reasons...), I wouldn't have thrown a fit had he wanted to talk to the nation's children about staying in school. Hell, I would have been completely fine with it. The fearmongering has to stop.

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Snarfeh
Sep 4, 09 11:52 PM CDT

I'm not a parent, but if I were, the only concern I would have had about Busch speaking to school children is that he would have likely caused them to backslide linguistically.

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BackAgain
Sep 5, 09 5:24 AM CDT

Thank you Now. If our school was going to run this crap my kids were coming home that day. Had he kept his message generic, educational in nature maybe but once again the left is trying to control everything and everybody. NOT HAPPENING#

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Caps
Sep 5, 09 12:36 PM CDT

BackAgain, you can now go back under the rock you crawled out from under.

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DarkFrancis
Sep 4, 09 5:21 PM CDT

It's bullshit. The President of the United States can't visit a school without the frothers getting all bedwetty about it? Wake up. Reply

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JimW
Sep 4, 09 5:31 PM CDT

I think the proper term is 'All wee-wee'd up." lol

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DarkFrancis
Sep 4, 09 6:08 PM CDT

That was one hell of a comeback, gd.

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pilotman
Sep 4, 09 5:50 PM CDT

little off topic... yeah i am a 'repub' but i really like Gibbs, he is a good speaker Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 5:57 PM CDT

great suit in the picture..../sarc

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Guava_Jelly
Sep 4, 09 7:52 PM CDT

good speaker yes...but his smugness is irritating

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easterner
Sep 4, 09 5:51 PM CDT

What a nice image the conservatives have created for themselves ,spineless ,burnt out racist fear mongers, cry baby birthers ,cheating republicans,backroom ponzi schemers, and schizophrenic god fearing bastards.The next time you (conservatives) want war send your home schooled little darlings instead.I have never seen so many ADULTS behave like a two year old having a temper tantrum wanting a lollipop before dinner.All this bull crap because he wants Americans to stay in school. Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 6:03 PM CDT

Well east it seems that in 91 it was okay for the dems to scream about Bush1for politicizing the department of education and using his little speech to school children as paid political advertising, but now it's okay because its a democratic president who wants to do it. Look I don't have a problem with him giving a speech to all of the kids, my main issue now is that the boards of full of people such as yourself who scream that hte left would never do such a thing, and the right is just a bunch of racists who are scared of something. So when the left does this type of stuff to Bush is it because they hate white people? I mean obviously you are racist if you don't want the president to talk to the school kids right? http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/03/arne-duncan/barack-obama-not-first-president-address-school-ch/ http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/03/flashback-1991-gephardt-called-bushs-speech-students-paid-political-a

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Wraith
Sep 4, 09 6:51 PM CDT

If Bush wasn't politicizing the department of education and using his little speech to school children as paid political advertising he was busy lying about Iraq and WMD so he could bomb brown people so again no comparison goddawg

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 9:36 PM CDT

@wraith wrong bush....

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 10:17 PM CDT

@godawgs: do you ever get tired of making the same point in thread after thread? That being: "the democrats did it too!" The magnitude of the fear/hate/bitterness that the right is currently displaying is far more intense than anything the left displayed during Reagan, Bush 1, or Bush 2. I don't think its driven by race necessarily, I think we would have seen similar right-wing activities if Clinton had won.

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 10:58 PM CDT

@odo no because in thread after theard there are the same allegations from the left that they would never do what the right is doing, and they never did that stuff and the right is just a bunch of racist rednecks who hate the President because he is black. Also we had like four threads about the same subject.

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my-name-here
Sep 4, 09 11:00 PM CDT

The big difference here that I can see, is that, yes, the dems criticized Bush and Reagan for the same sort of thing, but the it was all politicians getting their panties in a wad. Not the public and certainly not parents of the students. Does anyone know of a public outcry when Bush and Reagan addressed school children? I can't find one. Any links would be appreciated. But this does this seem crazily unprecedented.

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BackAgain
Sep 5, 09 5:27 AM CDT

Ya vs. the left tax dodging, control freaks will to bankrupt an entire nation. Give me free shit I will be happy and vote for you. What pathetic hypocritical juvenile turds you are easterner.

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hamsammichs
Sep 4, 09 5:55 PM CDT

Well when Obama surrounds Himself with men like Van Jones, it leaves one to wonder... Reply

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PosterNutbag
Sep 4, 09 6:09 PM CDT

Anthony "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).[1] Appointed by Barack Obama in March 2009, the newly created position will find Jones working with various "agencies and departments to advance the administration's climate and energy initiatives, with a special focus on improving vulnerable communities."[2] Jones is an environmental advocate, civil rights activist, attorney and author. He founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996, a California NGO working for alternatives to violence. During his tenure as Executive Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Jones signed a petition for 911Truth.org in 2004.[3] In 2005, Jones co-founded Color of Change, an advocacy group for African Americans.[4] Formerly based in Oakland, California, Jones founded Green For All in 2007, a national NGO dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty."[5] His first book, The Green Collar Economy, was released on October 7, 2008, and reached number 12 on the New York Times bestseller list.[6] In 2008, Time magazine named Jones one of its "Environmental Heroes."[7] Fast Company called him one of the "12 Most Creative Minds of 2008."[8]

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PosterNutbag
Sep 4, 09 6:10 PM CDT

What exactly is the problem with Van Jones?

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Fondue
Sep 4, 09 7:50 PM CDT

Wrong thread Nutbag.

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BlahBlahBlah
Sep 4, 09 6:21 PM CDT

Godawgs, I took the bait and read your article. Good for you. You managed to prove the point that this is in fact not about a democratic or republican president talking with kids. It is however a far cry form the Democratic arguments of old. The main argument here is the right (where you make your home) is taking it to a new level by saying that the president is pushing his socialist agenda. Nice smoke screen but no. You are right about one thing, both parties do this stuff. Your party just goes off the deep end. Am I informed enough for you? Reply

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godawgs
Sep 4, 09 9:39 PM CDT

@blah first off glad you took the bait, now at least we are having a dialogue that doesn't involve this coming down to someone saying the only reason this happens is because of race. some people are always going to take something to the extreme, and when the left does it I will be sure to point it out You are much more informed then you last couple of posts, good job.

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BlahBlahBlah
Sep 5, 09 12:47 PM CDT

Well you are very welcome. However I have to stand by my prior post. I don't believe in backtracking.

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jl92008
Sep 4, 09 7:17 PM CDT

the point is not the "stay in school message" that's all good, the point is that the leave behind material tells teachers to ask "how can we all help President Obama". Last I checked we help the Country and he (Obama) works for us! If there were not so many things written about how to indoctrinate a society by starting young, maybe people wouldn't see this as a simple political positioning tactic, but that's what it is! Reply

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JaneMP
Sep 5, 09 12:23 AM CDT

I was a teacher for years and this was the kind of worksheet we did to help children feel INCLUDED. What can you do to help our speaker? Our visitor? It's just educationaleze. And of course Obama works for us--shouldn't he hear from his employers from time to time? And how nuts do you need to be to think children would sit through a policy piece with enough interest to be indocrtinated? Kids will squirm and not listen. Teens will TWEET. He has a minute or two to get the message across.

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BackAgain
Sep 5, 09 5:30 AM CDT

You said it ji9, and the fact that the left thinks it is ok is what makes them so dangerous.

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LiberalJesus
Sep 5, 09 7:22 PM CDT

Your argument holds no water. You just said the President works for us and he is asking kids to help him. He is not telling kids what to do, he is asking what he can do. We still have a very large racial problem in this country. If schools were debating whether or not to run Bush/Reagan speeches the school boards would have been called un-American. What a sorry sad bunch of GED saps. Dumb from birth and only adding to their ignorance.

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Ucantusethatname
Sep 4, 09 7:17 PM CDT

The nation's children do not need to listen to another Obama speech. Blah, blah, blah. The content from the nation's windbag has become stale and predictable. Enough. Reply

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JaneMP
Sep 5, 09 12:25 AM CDT

President Obama is the President of the United States. I never respected W but I respected the office and I would never be as rude and insulting as you are. If the president wants to address the children of the USA--THANK YOU! TERRIFIC!

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cornelison
Sep 4, 09 8:20 PM CDT

Back in the early 1960's I was a big fan of Barry Goldwater. He would have been disgusted by the antics of the extreme right. Reply

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odowd80
Sep 4, 09 10:13 PM CDT

Isn't that the truth! The right needs to stop demonizing intellectualism and start trying to attract people with well-formed ideas about the future.

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armywife
Sep 4, 09 9:17 PM CDT

wraith - the Bush godawg's link is talking about is Bush Sr, not Jr. and yes, there was some bitching from the left about Bush Sr's address, although i think it did not go to the crazy tin-foil hat lengths that the republicans are currently taking their objections to. godawg may disagree with me there, and that's just fine. here's what newt gingrich said in 1991, in defense of the 1st Bush's address to school children: "Why is it political for the president of the United States to discuss education? It was done at a nonpolitical site and was beamed to a nonpolitical audience. . . . They wanted to reach the maximum audience with the maximum effect to improve education." perhaps some of you read something sinister into the wording of the "how can you help the president?" but i just dont. they've since changed the wording, os can we drop it now, thank you every much? in fact, let's make a wager: if in 20 years a significant number of these students become socialist/fascist/commies then i will volunteer to be waterboarded. seriously, this is absurd. Reply

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jamerican
Sep 4, 09 10:31 PM CDT

The difference today is that before Americans believed their presidents to believe in the tenants of capitolism and democracy. This president has failed to convince us of this and his hitler like style with the health care plan just emphasizes to many that he is only interested in his agenda of socialism and higher taxes so there is a great deal more distrust with this current president...that is why so many people are reacting with distrust. Reply

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JaneMP
Sep 5, 09 12:28 AM CDT

It's obvious that many who oppose the President's speaking to school children never went to school--so they don't know how it works. If they had gone to school. they would have a much better understand of the horrors of NAZI Germany and the meaning of the word socialism. Poor dears--perhaps there are some remedial courses for them. Dumbie civics, perhaps.

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riffran
Sep 4, 09 11:24 PM CDT

If so many people are objecting. Then instead of bitching and pointing fingers and name calling. Ask them why. nicely. You might learn something about the subject. Or might not. But by the usual right bashing all you do is to further polarize Reply

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Snarfeh
Sep 4, 09 11:53 PM CDT

I know most of the republicans have a problem with Obama's race. It's obvious, but in this case, I think it goes beyond race. I think they are acutely aware of how charismatic he is and simply fear their children "falling" for him. Reply

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riffran
Sep 5, 09 8:26 AM CDT

Sorry snarly. The only race issue is the ficticious one the left keeps manufacturing. The left started playing the race card long before obammy was in the running. Then you look at election demographics. White vote roughly fifty fifty. Black vote ninety eight or ninety nine for bama. There is a race issue alright. And the left plays it like a fiddle

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Snarfeh
Sep 5, 09 12:01 PM CDT

Ooo, Snarly. Grrrrr....I like that! Thankee. riff, I didn't vote for Obama. He was not my first choice. And I say it is karma that he is being treated like this...it's karma for the sexist shit used against Hillary that his campaigners used without him disavowing it. But the fact is, a lot of republicans are losing it because of his race. Some of the things he has done and said would have never caught the shit he's caught were he completely white. He'd still be hated by the right, but the rabid, incoherent screaming we see at the town halls would probably not be happening. No way to know, but I know white people and I know exactly how they keep their racism barely concealed *and* barely concealed in such a way as to argue it is not really there.

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BackAgain
Sep 5, 09 5:34 AM CDT

The only race problem I have with Obama is that he is half breed that denies his whiteness for personal gain, It is not about race it is about being a hypocrite and liar. Reply

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Shannonals
Sep 5, 09 8:56 AM CDT

Your joking right BackAgain? You just called the President a, "half-breed", and you think that is the only race problem you have with the President? The fact you even made that remark marks you as a racist. What ever happened to judging a man based on his mettle versus the color of his skin?

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AnnieOkie58
Sep 5, 09 11:38 AM CDT

Another off the wall comment...By the way...BackAgain..how many different nationalities are you? Do you even know? If you do know.....that make you a hypocrite and a liar for not addressing yourself as being..this and that.....you are so petty..its laughable !

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Caps
Sep 5, 09 7:39 AM CDT

And Bush was the biggest liar we have ever had in office. Reply

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AnnieOkie58
Sep 5, 09 11:24 AM CDT

After reading for many months this B.S the republican leaders are spewing...I have come to the conclusion...they like keeping their people PARANOID....gotta keep them in line someway...so why not use scare tactics...same way Bush and Cheney did for 8 years. They dont like strong minded people who can think on their own...they brain wash them with their off the wall propaganda..These republican leaders are so power hungry...that they dont care...why kind of effect their B.S has on the republican people. SAD very SAD ! Reply

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cognitivefilter
Sep 5, 09 4:04 PM CDT

how can we help the president? how about what can your country do for you Reply

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So_Cal_Larry
Sep 5, 09 9:12 PM CDT

Sometimes I believe that the White House and their spokespeople are a little silly themselves, and do not stand up to the significance of what is happening. Mr. Gibbs stood there and defended the rights of gun carriers to exhibit their military weapons at Presidential events. What utter garbage. The administration should have immediately proposed legislation putting a very large moving circle around the President, overriding all the various ridiculous state laws regarding guns while the chief federal officer of the nation, the President, is there. Again we are 'silly' about this Presidential address to the students of the nation. It wasn't silly when Dan Quayle gave spelling lessons to the nations students. It wasn't silly when President Bush was reading to the classroom children after he was notified of the second plane into the World Trade Center. It isn't silly when school districts email their teachers advising them that notice must be given of their intent to broadcast this address in their classroom, that the teacher must notify parents, and offer alternatives to parents who don't want their children hearing the President of the United States. This Administration must start exhibiting a righteous indignation to these actions which are intended to diminish the stature and authority of the Chief Executive Officer of the United States, and, its Commander In Chief. Reply

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