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Air America: Republican revives racist Obama-as-monkey campaign theme

source: http://airamerica.com/blog/2009/sep/18/republican-revives-racist-obama-monkey-campaign-theme

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As the right continues to build the strawman argument that the left considers ANY criticism of President Obama as rooted in racist, reality continues to show that although not all objections are based in race, overt racism does exist in our political discourse.

Case in point:

At a Values Voter Summit on Friday, Former Minority Whip Roy Blunt told the following story about British soldiers and monkeys to illustrate how Republicans have to deal with the issues the President brings to the table:

"Almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course something happened they didn't anticipate: monkeys would come running out of the jungle and then grab the golf balls. And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. And if it was in the rough, they might throw it -- they might throw it back at you! And I can point to great and long detail about how many things they tried to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done.

So finally for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule and the rule was, you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it. And that is the rule in Washington all the time. "

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166 comments // Air America: Republican revives racist Obama-as-monkey campaign theme

  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  
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    • Obama is much worse than a Monkey obama is a lier ...Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More

      "Dreams From My Father"
      and "Audacity of Hope"
      Authorship Articles

      American Thinker weighs in on breaking "Dreams" authorship story:

      Unmasking Obama
      By Thomas Lifson

      It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice. For instance, hiding behind the eloquent orator mask is a guy who says "uhh" a lot when he is winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical mistakes.

      Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen's new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment. And it completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned from the data of his literary studies.

      The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling author. Obama's dismissal of Ayers as "just a guy in the neighborhood" has been shown to be an outright lie.

      That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of whether or not the issue of Obama's ghost written book ever breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them over to Ayers' house a couple of blocks away, is simple and compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack's literary detective work made the case, and Andersen's two neighborhood sources confirm it.

      Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public domain.
      The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is keeping the name of this editor secret.

      [Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere."
      So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you're probably reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who you were, I'd bombard you with a polite note laying out the trail for you to follow on this important story. The President of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote them [his books] myself."

      I think that's news that's fit to be printed, even if uncongenial to the incumbent Democrat president. Don't you?

      Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.
      .

    • 2 years ago
  • cmdinc
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      cmdinc  

    • this is bullshit. The only racism is when the friggen left brings it up, keeping it alive. SHUT UP and it will go away

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  

    • To those wh keep pointing out Obama is Half White I am sure you did not read his Book that he describes how and why he stoped describing him self as both races ....then you did not see the interview on David Letterman twhere he told Letterman he was Black...he only brings up the the other half in a excuse moment

    • 2 years ago
  • nkeg87
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      nkeg87  

    • I wish someone would tell the Republicans that Obama is half white.

      Maybe then the pictures will be of something that racially degrades Caucasians. Or they could do him real justice and draw half his body as a white racial slur and the other half as a black racial slur.

      /sarcasm

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • for the record i think the monkey thing was racist. hell yes !!! im not defending any of those red-neck devils.! i think he should be fired for saying some shit like that ! i dont think Joe wilson should of had a chance to call obama a liar. i would have fired his ass when i found out he fought to keep the rebel flag flying. thats a sign of hate, nothing else. ..

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • Relevations
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      Relevations  

    • I hope and pray that someday Humans will evolve into Monkeys...they don't care what color they are and have many other traits that Humans lack....
      Golden Ruler....Johnnie Hargrave

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  

    • Will you democrats EVER tire of playing the race card? (Disagreement=Racism) Where were all of you when during the presidential election, Carter was seen (which was recorded on video, btw) calling Obama a "black boy"? You all smiled, and kept your mouth shut! Not a peep- if a republican said something like that, you'd have him executed. The hypocrisy of the liberals, as well as playing the race card on a perpetual basis, is sickening. www.nbra.info

    • 2 years ago
  • Birdmanbob4
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    • Tell me someting how does any one continue going to a Chirch the day after 911 who says America had it comming!...God dam america not God Bless America ...America Chickens have come home to Roost...I think if anyone who's Pastor continually stated it's Flock that White America invented AIDS to kill off Black America ....and you continued to attend this kind of Chirch you would be a racest...the same way as if you put on a white Robe and attende groop meetings where it's Leader said Simmular things about Blacks...if you continued to go to those Meetings you also would be a Racest...the Notion that Racest are only one Color is nutty If Bush attended meetings where this Foul Hatered was Spewed he would ha tarred and Fethered the Man and run him out of town on a rail as they say...but some how Obama has gotten a pass...no one belives Obama did not here any of this Crap from Rev. Wright for 20 years that would mean Obama's friend's did not attend Chirch every time Obama missed...lets not forget Van Jones he sounded just like Wright with a diffrent race Jingle Jones belives White America poisions Balcks on Pourpos ...PS: Jones Quit Obama did not Denounce those Radical anti White Views ...if that was someone working with Bush who said the same about Blacks the media would have demanded Bush Denounce him!!!!!

    • 2 years ago
  • EtVoila
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  

    • Just because there are instances of Black on White racism, does not excuse the more populous Whites groups from racism.

      Justifying racism means justifiying something that could eventually destroy our country. Divided we fail, united we win.
      And union members who are racist are cutting off their foot to spite thier arm. If we are all united, Bladk and White we can achieve so much..
      So why do think the corporations support playng the race card? They divide us, like the rich planters told the poor whites that they were superior to the blacks even if the White Planters were helping the whites to starve. Being better than someone else and simultaneously allowing your own economic interest to be harmed has been propagandized by the haves mores for a long time.
      And those who buy this corporatist lie are huring themselves. We could be force for equithy and living wages if we don't let them divide us.

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • J_Jammer
  • Maeveeo
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      Maeveeo  

    • Whats going to happen when people get fed up with this shit & decide to do something really crazy & not care anymore , then it will be a time to be scared , Really Scared , Civil war is on the way one race to take on the other , thats the bottom line , God Bless Us All ! Oh Yeah May The Best Race Win !,,,,,Good luck !

    • 2 years ago
  • royulery
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • dabne
  • Maven_25
  • dabne
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      dabne  

    • What a misleading photo and lame story to tie into racism.

      This post has nothing to do with right wing racism.

      Andrew, is this the best Current had for race bating tonight?

      Usually it's a little better.

      The only thing worse than racism is those who make false accusations of racism.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • lordsbassman
  • MirrorLake
  • carmalite
  • unclecharlie
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    • MirrorLake:

      Tools of the Left, too- you think that the 2 dozen democrats that filibustered the Civil Rights Act didn't pass on their racism? Look at Jimmy Carter- referring to Obama as a "black boy" in the last election. (which was recorded on video, btw) The democrats didn't say a peep- and we all know, silence gives consent. It is the democrats, not the republicans, that have mastered the art of playing the race card, and actually claim those who disgree with Obama are all racists. Hypocrites! www.nbra.info

    • 2 years ago
  • MirrorLake
  • Sam_the_Wizer
  • Sam_the_Wizer
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • The fear monkey is out of the bag again and you will not win any new votes with it, maybe in the past. The same old scare tactics will be used against the Repugnant party as in the last election. Maybe if you get busy with some real relief for Americans in the health care field maybe you will have a slight chance.
      But the Repugnants are floundering with the no mentality and if we can derail health care it will be Obama's waterloo. I hate to tell you it's not 1994 again, it's a new day in America and we see which side your bread is buttered.

    • 2 years ago
  • mgerlach22
  • My_America
  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  

    • When the Left runs out of good Arguements they pull the race card...media made the same mistake...the Reagan democrats who voted for Obama...Do not like when they are called Racest...they wont forget it makes them extremely Angry ...they wont forget the Media for Ignoring whats going on ...it will be a long time to regain the trust of America...Keep up this Race card bating and you will cause many years of Republican Rule

    • 2 years ago
  • tbowman131
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      tbowman131  
    • Birdmanbob4:

      you're assuming that the reagan republicans who voted for obama don't support his health care plan... which would be hard to believe since it was one of the major planks of his campaign platform...

      it's my opinion that all the people you see protesting are the same people who didn't vote for him.

    • 2 years ago
  • kitteneater
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  • keithponder
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    • U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews

      * Story Highlights
      * Dave Matthews: "I just see [racism] everywhere"; not surprised at anger at Obama
      * News media adds to anger, he says, in that it focuses on "loudest" messages
      * Dave Matthews Band aims for community, active with charitable efforts
      * Matthews calls "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King" their greatest record

      updated 9:02 a.m. EDT, Mon September 21, 2009

      * Next Article in Entertainment »

      * Read
      * VIDEO

      LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Watching the Dave Matthews Band moments before they take the stage is like watching a football team bursting out of the locker room before a big game.
      Dave Matthews says he bellieves strongly in the power of community.

      Dave Matthews says he bellieves strongly in the power of community.

      They slap hands. Bump fists. Jump up and down, exclaiming "Feel the love, feel the love!" The energy in the air is electric.

      And when they walk out on stage, the energy explodes into thousands of shining faces. People dance in the aisles. Others sing every word to every song. A few share funny cigarettes.

      For more than three hours, the jubilant atmosphere creates a sense of community between an amphitheater filled with strangers and the ethnically diverse musicians leading the charge on stage.

      But then DMB is all about community -- creating its own and giving back. BAMA Works Fund -- the group's charitable foundation -- has handed out $5 million in grants to worthy causes, including schools and victims of Hurricane Katrina. Video Watch Matthews sound off on the album -- and racism »

      And despite the unexpected passing of saxophonist LeRoi Moore due to complications from an ATV accident last summer, the band members seem to be recharged. In June, DMB notched its fifth consecutive No. 1 album on the Billboard chart with "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King."

      We caught up with Matthews just as news hit the Web that former President Jimmy Carter believed racism was the root of some of the negativity directed toward President Obama in recent weeks. The 42-year-old singer-songwriter offered a unique perspective, as a man who split his childhood between the United States and South Africa during apartheid. The following is an edited version of the interview.

      CNN: President Carter said he thinks that a lot of the animosity directed toward President Obama is race related.

      Dave Matthews: Of course it is! I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here -- I just see it everywhere. There's a good population of people in this country that are terrified of the president only because he's black, even if they don't say it. And I think a lot of them, behind closed doors, do say it.

      Maybe I'm paranoid about it, but I don't think someone who disagreed as strongly as they do with Obama -- if it was Clinton -- would have stood up and screamed at him during his speech. (Shakes his head) I don't think so.

      CNN: Everything has gone to such a frenzied pitch.

      Matthews: I think a lot of it has to be on the press. We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

      There's no way that Walter Cronkite, as a young journalist, no way Ed Murrow would be hired to do news today. Not a chance.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
  • nkeg87
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    • I agree with him.

      "“I believe that some of the right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African-American president,” Clinton told CNN’s Larry King in an interview to air Monday evening. “But I don’t believe that all the people who oppose him on health care – and all the conservatives – are racists. And I believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now, would be opposing him then. Therefore, while I have devoted my life to getting rid of racism, I think this is a fight that my president and our party – this is one we need to win on the merits.”

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • nkeg87:

      The Clintons are very smart.

      Being good people, on the other hand, could be totally different....but they are smart.

      Winning on merits is far better than wining because you silenced people via a misused word.

    • 2 years ago
  • unclecharlie
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      unclecharlie  
    • nkeg87:

      Clinton's hero, Senator Fulbright was a good ol' boy racist who voted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act. Jimmy Carter was seen (which was recorded on video) referring to Obama as a "black boy". Of course, not one democrat spoke out against Carter's racism. Not one!www.nbra.info

    • 2 years ago
  • oden
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      oden  

    • sadly to say different colors typically mean different social structures and not all moral codes are created equally. the root of the problem isnt really color but how the communities themselves build their own moralities. color is just an easy indicator, because we associate with what we identify with. as wrong as it may seem, its the truth. we generalize because its easy, and sheeple are predictable.

    • 2 years ago
  • clayjj05
  • macfan
  • oden
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      oden  
    • clayjj05:

      ^ i think he was referring to "have fun" with the "these people" comment. also, theres a spell check on this and its automated, but i dont think it can do anything for your poor grammar or stupidity.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • clayjj05:

      Thank you oden for finally saying it. Someone had to. what he wrote doesnt even make any sense.
      Sometimes I wonder if its a kid.

      And to Clayjj05....keep up the good fight. Fuck "these people"

    • 2 years ago
  • rickm8
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      rickm8  

    • Okay, so bush gets trampled as a retarded red neck and a reference to mans closest genetic match is overtly offensive? Blow me you PC bastards.

    • 2 years ago
  • tbowman131
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      tbowman131  
    • rickm8:

      bush isn't african american and equating the 2 shows a massive gap in your understanding of race relations in this country over the past 200+ years.

      being pc is not a bad thing

    • 2 years ago
  • rickm8
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      rickm8  
    • rickm8:

      So its fine to generalize about white america while a reference in anyway to a bit of racism towards a black is insulting?

      Its against our basic liberties to decide whether we can or cannot be racist, its the first amendment...

    • 2 years ago
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • Ihatethemall
  • bailey78
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • slarabee
  • J_Jammer
  • Ihatethemall
  • J_Jammer
  • J_Jammer
  • metalcookiesxy70
  • Kamal_Elliott
  • TheEmpireGuy
  • macfan
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  • jaystyx
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      jaystyx  

    • Racism only hurts the Republican’s cause. They may strike a chord with some people, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that the vast majority of Americans are turned off by these kind of attacks. If the GOP opposes Obama, they need to make arguments with substance rather than just playing off the fears/ignorance of the stupidest Americans.

      There are moderate conservatives out there, but Republicans will lose them forever if they cant straiten up their act.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • jaystyx:

      Yeah they are getting tired of the attacks. The attacks by the left claiming we are all racists for not liking obama and his social programs that will bankrupt this nation and the people in it. Come back and let us all know what you think about paying taxes after you have been doing it a couple years.

    • 2 years ago
  • jaystyx
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      jaystyx  
    • jaystyx:

      Need I remind you that Obama was not the first president to balloon the national deficit. You can thank Reagan and every Republican that followed him for that.

      You can agree or disagree with Obama, but don’t be a hypocrite.

    • 2 years ago
  • wayseeker
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • jimmy carter and bill cosby told america they are racist.
      maybe we are racist against people who steal our money. maybe we are racist against your war on drugs right here at home ruining lives. maybe we are racist of a war that claims to help the innocent while we kill them.maybe we are racist of people who buy jets while people starve in the streets while coulda been mayors worry about them stealing cans from the fu(king recycle-ing bin
      whats the name of that kind of racist group because i will join it. i think they call those low down dirty mo-fos PATRIOTS. we are a country of the people by the people. ..says nothing bout color..

    • 2 years ago
  • acontradiction
  • hpseaton
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • Roy Blunt, our fabulous representative.

      He represents Missouri's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, which takes in most of Southwest Missouri, the most conservative part of the state, anchored in the city of Springfield.

      That just happens to be where I live.

      Maybe I should copy this article and send it to the Springfield News Leader, our local paper.

      On second thought, maybe not. I don't want my house to get burned down. (That kind of stuff still happens around here)

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • pjacobs51:

      On second thought, maybe not. I don't want my house to get burned down. (That kind of stuff still happens around here)

      BULLSHIT, I know Springfield pretty good. I bought my last Peterbilt at a dealer in that town. I stop at the truck stops in that town and have been for 20 plus years. I never heard about or saw in papers anything like that happening. Care to provide proof?

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • pjacobs51:

      Normal Heart' Stirs Up the Heartland - Springfield, Mo., is divided over its university's staging of a play about AIDS
      By ROBERT KOEHLER
      December 03

      "I don't think this play is a great play as a play ," Richard Dreyfuss said when he starred in the 1985 Los Angeles premiere of "The Normal Heart," Larry Kramer's angry depiction of the early days of the AIDS crisis. "I think it is great as a fire. It's supposed to kindle something in you."

      Dreyfuss was referring to the play's call for greater public attention and education on the AIDS epidemic. But on Nov. 15 in the small Ozark city of Springfield, Mo., the fire Kramer's play was meant to spark took on an utterly different, more ghastly meaning.

      That night, as the theater department of Southwest Missouri State University opened its production of "The Normal Heart" in the face of strong local opposition, a suspicious fire gutted the house of a vocal supporter of the school's right to stage the play.

      The ideological clash followed recent attempts in Congress to limit public funding, through the National Endowment for the Arts, of material deemed offensive or pornographic. The "Normal Heart" controversy has raised, as well, issues of artistic and academic freedom, the limits of censorship and expression, and the role of the arts and education in the public sphere. A number of film and theater celebrities have joined in the debate on behalf of the university.

      The home, rented by SMS theater performance major Brad Evans, was targeted by an arsonist, Springfield fire investigators have confirmed. The investigation, conducted by local and state authorities, is ongoing but no suspects have been identified.

      http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-03/entertainment/ca-284_1_normal-heart

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • bailey78
  • samthesixth
  • hunzedog
  • macfan
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • hunzedog:

      Are you sure this is racest? I thought it was useless banter. Are you a racest ? I'm not I hate every one the same. I have said that from The getgo. I don't care who you are .Please Don't fuck with my world.and I won't fuck with yours thats a great way to live don't you think? if you do not bother me I will not bother you I have lived like that for a long time now and it seams tobe working. Now if only I could get about twohundredandnintynine more people to do it all would be swell.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • bailey78
  • Ihatethemall
  • carmalite
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      carmalite  
    • hunzedog:

      No, but you should be a realist. How much did Halliburton steal from the taxpauers? 9 MILLION went missing and not a single Republican, except John McCAin wanted to find out how to get it back.

      Republicans support companies stealing from the taxpayers because they support CORPORATE welfare.

      Acorn did nto steal 9 million, but Halliburton did. And they fired the corrupt empolyees. If Republicans really really care abour corruption, they would get the 9 million and put it in the revenue. But they only care when poor people mess up, they give licence for their friends to steal as much as porrible

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • Oh goddamn grow up people the man has been in office less than a Year and all anyone does is bitch that he aint doin enough he is doing just fine by what I see. Why do those that bitch the most do the least to help the Nation. If you don't like the way thing are Vote him out in the next go round . Ya'll are a bunch of cry babies that are mad because a black is Presadent Get over it.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • bailey78
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  • macfan
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  • macfan
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      macfan  
    • bailey78:

      No when a white person calls a black
      person monkey that racist how conpare
      a mother calling her kids monkeys to this
      yeah that more likely a white mother her
      white kid's monkey J_Jammer you don't
      know any thing do you.

    • 2 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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    • bailey78:

      So any time someone calls a black person monkey they are racist.

      right?

      Black people have the market on the monkey term and if there was a zoo and they had to hire people to be in outfits they couldn't and shouldn't hire a black person (discriminatory) to be the monkey because it would be racist?

    • 2 years ago
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