Letters to the Editor
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Hey PTG
Ain't nobody ever warned you against posting drunk??
Or has your rage so overtaken your feeble mind as to leave you literally an incoherent mess?
Get some sleep kid, you clearly need it.
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the one good thing I've noticed about Barack Obama's middle name
Is that it provides for us a Rorschach test. When people like Ann Coulter insist on using it at the pitch level of a scream, B. HUSSEIN!!!! she calls him...it reveals quite clearly the color of her heart.
My brother's name is Michael. I won't tell you his first or last name, except that his initials spell out something terrible. PMS. My brother was pretty mad at my mother for a long time, and he dropped his middle name from a lot of his correspondence. Yet he didn't drop it altogether. When he had a son, this beautiful stunning laughing little child he named him Michael. Michael is now six years old.
When we find something unlikeable about ourselves and accept it and even find it builds our own character we become stronger and more interesting, bigger hearted people. I have Johnny Cash's song, A Boy Named Sue running through my head right now.
peace out.
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his middle name is Michael
I meant to say.
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sometimes I tend to carry a metaphor too far
but I can't help but add that I imagine the color of Ann Coulter's heart to be very white....absent the ordinary redness which would be too...red for her. perhaps a pale, albino, emaciated little aorta....
okay I won't go any further...
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One thing that disturbs me
to no end is the idea- that seems to have come up here a lot - is that the only people who would care about racism or race baiting would be African Americans. (Or the affected minority - only women care about feminism, etc.) I know a couple of people have personally shared their stories to the contrary - like deloresflowers- love your posts!
But the overwhelmeing consensus from the blinkered Clinton apologists seems to be that you can only care about these things if they're directed at you!?! And then the appalling conclusion- so what we don't need 12% anyway!
Jeebus on a pogo stick.
We are all so dimished by this state of affairs. The party is dimished by this. Our discourse is polluted by this bigotry.
I'm white and I suppose elitist if you go by my zip code but I have no pedigree or even a distinguised degree and raised in the poor working class. But this white girl was horrified when the Clinton campaign started this stuff up. I was , I think like many ready to believe (wanting to believe?) the Jesse Jackson stuff was out of context, then came more - all of the unelectable stuff and Ferraro as the cherry on top.
The thing I like about Obama is I like him- his policies and approach- the first time in my life I've voted for, not against a presdiential candidate. I'm just holding my breath here, hoping, praying, I don't have to hold my nose and vote for HRC. Because at this point I just don't know if I can do it.
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Hypocrites
I don’t have a problem with 90% of the black voters rallying behind Obama. It’s no surprise that they should feel a sense of pride that “one of their own” has attained this lofty position. Certainly the situation would be similar if the candidate was Hispanic, Jewish, or any other minority.
What I have a problem with is the way his followers twist themselves into pretzels justifying their position. Why do they feel the need to demonize the Clintons, calling them racists, and denigrating Bill Clinton’s fabulous terms as President? He was called, by blacks, “America’s First Black President” for a reason; a lifetime of working for those who didn’t have a voice in our system.
The reason is guilt, and the term is hypocrisy.
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Thank you, NYShooter
Once again you've managed to address the heart of the truth with brevity, simplicity, clarity, and no B.S. I believe you mentioned not long ago that you emigrated to the U.S. from Russia and spent your adolescence with adoptive black parents whom you loved deeply. This certainly gives you an unusual perspective, not to mention solid credibility, in matters having to do with race. Thank you for speaking up.
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What guilt and hypocrisy?
You can't live off of a reputation forever, if your actions don't match. You can't let your serogates go around saying racists things on your behalf and deny you had anything to do with it!
Clinton has proven that winning is more important than anything. More important than the party, the voters, the rules. We've already seen the result of power for powers sake over the last seven years. Isn't that enough?
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@Celia - more hypocrisy
"You can't let your serogates [sic] go around saying racists things on your behalf and deny you had anything to do with it!"
This is exactly what Obama has done. A deep game, all right.
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Historically stupid . . .
dataguyx, did you mean "RPhillips, who is historically young and stupid"? Or maybe "RPhillips, who is historically young or stupid"? "RPhillips, who is historically young stupid", doesn't sound quite right.
NAZI are the letters of a series of German words which more or less translate as "National Socialist Party", which I think Hitler's Germany was--socialist. It was certainly collectivist. The evil Dr. Goebbels has become the father of propaganda, and he discussed the big lie technique, but it has been appropriated by every authoritarian, totalitarian government and "ism" since that time. I am not so sure the Marxist coterie in 1920s Germany which invented political correctness were not perhaps at least co-originators of the tactic.
Another story which illustrates political correctness or "the big lie" is "The Emperor's New Suit". You know, a gullible king is persuaded that he's walking around in a new suit, but he's really naked. No one is willing to tell him the truth, however, and everyone admiringly repeats the agreed upon lie that he is wearing a wonderful new suit. Until a little girl blurts out the truth and reveals the scam by stating the obvious truth, "That's not a new suit, he's naked!"
We need someone to do that to Obama, reveal the real BO. It won't be the media, obviously, nor will it come from college campuses, supposed seats of learning and guardfians of at least the search for truth.