And, you know, the more I interact with our servicemen and -women, from the top brass down to the lowliest private, I’m just — I’m grateful to them… http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....-text.html

This Fraud in Chief not only doesn’t respect our military – he bashed the warriors who have died and served this great nation. I almost threw a salt shaker at the TV when he said it. Or was it pepper…

“Brave Warriors…….Gutless Politicians!!”

Now….let’s modify the roles a little. Take this hypothetical scenario.

If a white dude who became…oh…a public figure. And in his childhood he witnessed his grandparents brutally attacked by a gang of black teenagers. Now, in the office where he works there is a gift from the NAACP to the state of a sculpture of MLK. But to the statesman, it offends him so much because it reminds him of the horror he witnessed, even though intellectually the two aren’t connected, he just finds it so distracting in the sense that it always reminds him of that event. So he carefully boxes it up and puts it away.

When the newsies get ahold of that, they would have the proverbial field day. But it’s OK for O-blobba to do it because, after all….”It reminds him of the trauma his ancestors had to endure”.

One, I think it’s doubtful he’s that connected to his past.
Two, I think it was a passive/aggressive act to piss off whitey
Three, I think his inner child is very much on his sleeve and it shows to anyone who has eyes enough to see it.

The double standard is obvious to us..but the group is growing. We know that to disagree with any black person makes us “racists”. I haven’t worried about that for years. In the rare case where I get into an argument with a black person, I just keep my cool, respond with factual points as to why they are wrong and of course the argument degrades to my being called racist.

IN this nation, for all the scientists we’ve had who have proven how empirical thought works since the beginning of the last century and beyond, we have lost that very ability to discuss factual proof and even how to be self-critiquing; How to be self-critical.

To say, “Dang that’s my fault. I did that”.

Thanks to much of the media style of delivery and our love of comedy, etc, I think it has worked its way into the mainstream thought process to actually find lying to be an acceptable practice and quite expected….yet overlooked at the same time.

To me, and to everyone here, it is a monumental disaster. The constant lying. The bald-faced as well as the little ones.

And, I cannot, in public, mention being a conservative without someone calling me a racist, a nut-job, a nazi, a war-monger, etc.

Fortunately, I have many friends who think as I do and where I work, we are predominantly conservative. It’s when I go to other places like restaurants and such. But my passive aggressive behavior causes me to turn up Rush when I’m at a stoplight and my windows are down.

To me, it’s simple. Every year, there is a bill introduced to pay reparations to descendants of slavery. Although ludicrous on the face of it, international precedent has been set by Germany paying reparations to the Jewish nation.

It is entirely conceivable that the black stick will do his part to keep anger high amongst blacks and also force guilt upon white apologists so that “everyone” will think it’s a good idea to give all descendants their million dollars. After all, it’s only money and he can print as much as he wants. As long as it doesn’t come out of his pocket and 2)as long as it makes him popular among the voters “who count”.

Doesn’t matter that if the million dollars they all get will be worth about $2.15 by the time they get it and they can buy diddly squat….so in that sense I’m all for it.

But his rhetoric is squarely along the lines of the “financial crisis” and using those words that agitate the people the most. The emotional, non-analytical thinker people, that is.

Too much ‘blow’ back in his college days. Who knows……maybe still.

The same question can be asked of Arabs post Mohammed. The world stopped the moment he was born.

But they do seem to enjoy the booty created by the West, don’t they?

Do you think they know that once they steal it, it will be gone forever, because they are incapable of keeping it running.

Ditto for this country in 20 years, btw. I’m thinking that Henrietta may have trouble keeping the planes flying, the cable networks operating and the 20 trillion lines of software functioning. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe if she could only get some training…..

Twice now I’ve heard an Arab person say – You’ve been in our country for 500 years. Newsflash – the US isn’t that old. And to hate all people of a color or race, simply because of what someone else did decades/centuries ago – is simple hate. It has nothing to do with nationalism or religion. At. All. As long as you hate and teach your children to hate – it’s just going to keep on going as it is now Us against Them. Gandhi said it best – If there is to be peace in the world, it will begin with the children.

Never owned a slave – actually come from people who never owned slaves (more recent immigrants than the ‘original sin’ era) – won’t apologize, and most certainly won’t pay – but more than that I won’t be condemned in a stereotypical generalization that should never, ever be used by a person who claims to want to unite this country. Some change.

Just another lie to go with all the rest.

I would say you are dead on topic.

Here is something off topic: Can anyone list 3 man made creations in Africa, that are worthy to society , sans Arabs and Egyptians of the north???