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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Real American on August 02, 2008, 08:35:34 AM
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You knew it was coming. It was just a matter of time.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/story?id=5495348&page=1
Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His Race
By MARK MOONEY
Aug. 1, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
A key strategist for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says the candidate's reference to faces on the dollar bill was indeed an acknowledgement of race and its role in the presidential campaign.
The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain's campaign manager that Obama had "played the race card... from the bottom of the deck."
Playing the Race Card
Obama's camp initially denied the remark was a reference to Obama's race.
Obama is poised to become the first black man to be the presidential nominee of a major political party when he claims the Democratic nomination on Aug. 28 -- the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the race with the history of others," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday. "It is not about race."
But Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, acknowledged on "Good Morning America" Friday that the candidate was referring, at least in part, to his ethnic background.
When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told "GMA" it meant, "He's not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He's new to Washington. Yes, he's African-American."
That seemingly obvious reference sparked the first real fireworks between the two camps as backers of both candidates accused the other of trying to subtly inject race into the presidential contest.
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If the media wasn't completely in the tank for Obama, someone would ask him how exactly John McCain is trying to scare voters based on Obama's race. Of course that would never happen. But if it did, he would have no answer because John McCain has never said anything remotely close to using race in this campaign.
The only racism I have see so far was in the Democratic primary. Bill Clinton, Geraldine Ferraro, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson....they were the ones using race.
Why are Democrats so obsessed with race?
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Oh shutup you mindless dipshit
Politicians don't run America! think tanks create the policies, think tanks are funded by a core elite group, the politicians are just the vehicle to steer the policy and yet you still fall for this contrived circus.
Your mum didn't breast feed you that much is obvious
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The funny thing was that at first, Obama even denied that he was talking about race. So when he said he "doesn't look like the other guys on the dollar bills"....what the hell was he tlaking about? His big fucking ears?
Obama is also a liar.
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Oh shutup you mindless dipshit
Politicians don't run America! think tanks create the policies, think tanks are funded by a core elite group, the politicians are just the vehicle to steer the policy and yet you still fall for this contrived circus.
Your mum didn't breast feed you that much is obvious
Why are you even posting in this thread?
Shouldn't you be on www.prisonplanet.com jacking off to the latest conspiracy theory?
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You are right, why am I responding to a dipshit like you 9 times out of 10 I just ignore your mindless posts devoid of any critical thinking even at the most child like of levels but occasionally the stupidity pisses me off. Although by implication of referencing my response to "conspiracy websites" it seems you are suggesting that think tanks don't dictate policy, that congress isn't lobbied to the tune of hundreds of billions, which is dumb even for a dimwit in this country.
You were never breast fed so i guess it's not your fault that your mental age was stunted as a child and now you can continue parroting this tunnel window politics which has been so successfully employed for so long. However on the flip side of things despite your obvious retardation, it doesn't seem to present an obstacle in being recruited into the police force or the army.
God bless America indeed, with so many dumb fucks populating it he must be shaking his head in disbelief.
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so would you have us believe that Obama DOES look like the guys on our printed money?
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Good for Obama.
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Over here in Germany it seems like McCain has no chance whatsoever. When Obama visited, the crowd went wild, whereas McCain would be lucky to not be demonstrated against. How's the situation over there niggas? From here, it doesn't look like Obama was in need of playing that dreadful card.
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Over here in Germany it seems like McCain has no chance whatsoever. When Obama visited, the crowd went wild, whereas McCain would be lucky to not be demonstrated against. How's the situation over there niggas? From here, it doesn't look like Obama was in need of playing that dreadful card.
Obama's got shit on lock. Media's gonna try and make it appear as close as possible of course, but the market is a much better indicator and the last put on a $100 contract showed Obama trading at like $66 and McCain at around $33. Still a ways away but Obama is poised to kick his ass.
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Over here in Germany it seems like McCain has no chance whatsoever. When Obama visited, the crowd went wild, whereas McCain would be lucky to not be demonstrated against. How's the situation over there niggas? From here, it doesn't look like Obama was in need of playing that dreadful card.
the thing is, playing the race card in a presidentail race would not necessarily help him. it would probably hurt him. Its sad to say, but the more Obama identifies with his own race....the worse off he is
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Over here in Germany it seems like McCain has no chance whatsoever. When Obama visited, the crowd went wild, whereas McCain would be lucky to not be demonstrated against. How's the situation over there niggas? From here, it doesn't look like Obama was in need of playing that dreadful card.
No offense, but this is exactly what I have been talking about in regards to the media. The media is so blatantly pro-Obama in its coverage that it is really misleading everyone about how close the race actually is. According to the latest polls, Obama and McCain are in a virtual dead heat. One prominent poll shows Obama up by one point, another shows a tie. This race is going to be close to the very end just like in 2000 and 2004.
You guys have got to stop letting the left wing media and their pro Obama biases mislead you.
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http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/471470
Hold off on that Obama coronation
Aug 02, 2008 04:30 AM
Michael Barone
Just when you think you've got the presidential race figured out, something comes along to upend your carefully wrought conclusions.
Mainstream media provided lavish coverage of Barack Obama's trip abroad the week of July 21 and predicted he would get a bounce in the polls. Some of his supporters believe he has put the election away. Other observers employ the hackneyed and meaningless phrase, "it's his to lose."
The poll numbers tell a different and more nuanced story. The two national tracking polls showed Obama getting a bounce while he was in Europe, especially after his speech before 200,000 or so Berliners. Gallup showed him rising from a 46 per cent to 42 per cent lead over John McCain on July 22 to a 49-40 per cent lead on July 26. The Rasmussen tracking poll showed him rising from a 47 per cent to 45 per cent lead on July 23 (reflecting the previous days' polling) to 49-43 per cent on July 26.
But over the next several days, Obama bounced back down. Gallup showed him leading by a statistically insignificant 45 per cent to 44 per cent as of July 31. That's the closest the race had been in Gallup all that month. Rasmussen had him down to 48-46 per cent on the same day. The world tour bounce has begun to look like a bubble.
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the media here in the UK have most definitely been kissing obama's ass from what i read in the papers when he visited. but the way the media does it - it reports that its the PEOPLE that are wildly in love with him and praising his politices, kissing his butt etc etc etc. in reality they are the ones kissing his butt through biased reporting. its a clever technique - molding the publics consciousness toward a certain opinion by reporting about that opinion as if its already a fully developed idea in people's minds.
and where do the majority of people (who happen to be overwhelmingly stupid) get all their information from? its the television and the newspaper. its obvious that what appears in the media is an extremely thin slice of reality. i'm not professing to know much more but you don't have be a genius to figure out that the media is completely biased on so many levels. i could care less about obama though, seems like he's smarter than bush (so is my toe - maybe the american public would give my toe two terms in office if i drew a face on it) but at the end of the day its politics its all the same. the real intentions behind the policy making continue to be out of sight...
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McCain has been playing the race card. Whenever he attacks Obama's "inexperience". See, "inexperience" is a loaded word.
For example, when McCain says,
"Your taking a risk voting for someone so inexperienced".
The message that is being sent to white voters is...
"Your taking a risk, voting for a NIGGER".
And Americans fall for this trick because you can never underestimate the intelligence of Americans.
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The funny thing was that at first, Obama even denied that he was talking about race. So when he said he "doesn't look like the other guys on the dollar bills"....what the hell was he tlaking about? His big fucking ears?
Obama is also a liar.
You're so mindless and brainwashed. Damn, it's people like you that ruin this country for the educated non-ignorant type.
If the media wasn't completely in the tank for Obama, someone would ask him how exactly John McCain is trying to scare voters based on Obama's race.
What about the whole propaganda circling the internet about Obama being a Muslim? Who the hell do you think comes up with that? Republicans. Racist Republicans.
The problem with America is, Obama is smart, and most people are stupid (usually McCain supporters). Real American, you spend most of your time here trashing Obama, yet you NEVER defend McCain. Do you actually agree with Bush's/McCain's policies, which put the US into a recession into the first place? Do you actually think drilling for more oil is the solution to the energy crisis? Do you actually think Obama is wrong on the Iraq war? You need to educate yourself severely. Get out of the US once and awhile.
The media is so blatantly pro-Obama in its coverage that it is really misleading everyone about how close the race actually is.
Pro-Obama? You mean pro-common sense? Theirs less to criticize Obama with, because his party hasn't been making foolish economic and foreign policy mistakes for the last 8 years. McCain is Bush Part 2, but older, a little more senile, and a lot less entertaining. To an educated person, Obama's policies make a lot more sense then McCain's. The US is falling behind in the world because of idiotic conservatives obsessed with war and oil. Let's bomb Iran, lets drill offshore. Stupid ideas, from stupid people, like McCain.
You guys have got to stop letting the left wing media and their pro Obama biases mislead you.
Brain dead? What about Obama is so dangerous to America, and what about McCain is so great? Seriously, stupid people never learn. They didn't learn in 2004, and apparently you haven't learned in 2008. Instead of your conspiracy theories and secret agenda's, please state why McCain and his policies are so superior to Obama and his policies. Do you really like McCain, or do you just hate Obama?
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McCain be high off that Cialis. Don't trust him, no sir.
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McCain be high off that Cialis. Don't trust him, no sir.
if you vote for McCain....youre really voting for his VP. He wont make it through a 4 year term lol
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I saw that Obama 'make you scared of me' speech, I didn't find anything racist about it, he was just stating the obvious; McCain is running a fear campaign.
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Word Matt you got it in one, it is the media which moulds minds and with a conglomerate of 6 corporations controlling the entire media, it's much easier to create a uniformed message.
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they both idiots lol.
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I won this debate.
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I won this debate.
To win a debate, you must be sufficiently educated in the subject, which you are not. And apparently not even educated enough to make a logical arguement. Being ignorant may mean you think you always win, but in reality you always lose.
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To win a debate, you must be sufficiently educated in the subject, which you are not. And apparently not even educated enough to make a logical arguement. Being ignorant may mean you think you always win, but in reality you always lose.
So says someone who claims to be a Mitt Romney fan, yet is supporting Barack Obama for president. Anyone with a brain knows that their politicial beliefs are the exact opposite of one another.
You are officially a moron.
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What about the whole propaganda circling the internet about Obama being a Muslim? Who the hell do you think comes up with that? Republicans. Racist Republicans.
By the way, idiot........the Obama is a Muslim rumor has been out there since the beginning of the year. It was spread by Hilary Clinton supporters during the Democratic primaries.
McCain has only been campaigning against Obama for a little over a month, so he wouldn't have been behind it. Nice try though.
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To win a debate, you must be sufficiently educated in the subject, which you are not. And apparently not even educated enough to make a logical arguement. Being ignorant may mean you think you always win, but in reality you always lose.
So says someone who claims to be a Mitt Romney fan, yet is supporting Barack Obama for president. Anyone with a brain knows that their politicial beliefs are the exact opposite of one another.
You are officially a moron.
It's a joke, you know sarcasm. But of the Republicans Romney and Paul were the best choices. Such a simple mind.
McCain has only been campaigning against Obama for a little over a month, so he wouldn't have been behind it. Nice try though.
Nice over simplification. For the most part only uneducated Racist right wingers are the ones who think Obama is actually a Muslim. Man, education would help you. I never said McCain spread the rumor.
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The funny thing was that at first, Obama even denied that he was talking about race. So when he said he "doesn't look like the other guys on the dollar bills"....what the hell was he tlaking about? His big fucking ears?
Obama is also a liar.
well said...Obama's a bitch nigga. He aint got no fuccin parameters. Oppurtunist shuld be his last name. All he does is play that race card..fucc bein blacc..Im blacc and it's just a color to me...aint no goddam difference..we all got ears and eyes REGARDLESS OF COLOR so stop feedin that race shhit cuzz. The good thing about McCain is the nigga ain't flip floppin like a bitch..he ain't tellin' niggas bullshit stories just so they side wit him..he actually tellin niggas what he truly believes in..and not that I agree wit everything the muthafucca is sayin but he ain't playin no fuccin game and I'm a give him that. Nigga did 5 years in a vietnamese prison camp and they even granted him permission to leave at one point but he stayed cuz of his homeboys. That's like a nigga doin' 30 years for u in a regular ass prison. What Obama do..I heard he spent his teenage years doin blow. 8)
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Even more shocking, Obama has played the race card again! This time is is portraying John McCain as racist and anti immigrant and a close friend of Rush Limbaugh! Nevermind the fact that McCain and Limbaugh hate one another, and that the quotes used in the commercial are completely out of context!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/from-the-fact-1.html
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Even more shocking, Obama has played the race card again! This time is is portraying John McCain as racist and anti immigrant and a close friend of Rush Limbaugh! Nevermind the fact that McCain and Limbaugh hate one another, and that the quotes used in the commercial are completely out of context!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/from-the-fact-1.html
Someone needs to approve your posts before you're allowed to say anything.
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Someone needs to approve your posts before you're allowed to say anything.
Typical liberal wanting to censor viewpoints he doesn't like. Then again, you are Canadian and you government does exactly that.
I thank God everyday that I am an American and that we have the first amendment guaranteeting freedom of speech.
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Someone needs to approve your posts before you're allowed to say anything.
Typical liberal wanting to censor viewpoints he doesn't like. Then again, you are Canadian and you government does exactly that.
I thank God everyday that I am an American and that we have the first amendment guaranteeting freedom of speech.
Wait a minute... GW Bush was wanting to monitor the internet and censoring it. You stand with the president of the first amendment?