Nearly 15 trillion dollars in debt. Failed stimulus, Obamacare will cost alot. Solyndra, Raser, Geothermal etc, Fast & Furious, Divided America. Obama has outspent every president from Washington to Bush. Acorn. Bad housing market. This reporter thinks he's clever. He's not impressing anyone. I dont hear facts from him either. Obama is a community organizer. Palin has done a lot more. This interviewer has one dang question. Biden said he would be proud to serve with McCain. He said Obama aint re
@GetBigProductions1 keep hating...... the conservative party is dying....people r finally thinking for themselves instead of having fox do it for u.....remember this...jesus was a liberal....
@GetBigProductions1 lol, because they use facts to diffuse the bullshit known as conservatism... I'm an independent moderate, and I will say libs are sensationalist who aren't without fault.
How does this cameraman get away with saying, "Wait a minute, your an African American. Why are you voting for John McCain over Barack Obama?". WTF?! This racist piece of crap thinks he can call others racist when he is the one instigating that a black man must vote for Obama just because they are of the same race? If I were that black guy, I'd have knocked him across the head for implying that just because I'm black I can't think for myself and must vote for someone of my skin color. Hypocrite!
No more BS. End the FED, IRS, EPA, Dept of Edu, FEMA, Dept of Homeland Sec, Income Tax, CIA, Patriot Act, Dept of Energy, FDIC, FCC, NIH and all the rest of the Bureaucratic Agencies created by the Federal Government that do not have any power derived from the US Constitution. Fire them all. Restrain the Government. Limit their Powers.
its so fucking sad how our country is so disgusting in the midwest, south, and all these hillbillies ...... thank god I live in California, I'm never leaving SoCal <3
mindless quibbling, when did you first hear about?... uh who cares?, get to the issues if you are going to bug people. Should've asked them if they wanted a war with Iran, because that seemed to be where McCain was headed.
when it all boils down, it comes from peer pressure when it comes to opinion. that is why it seems that many feel that they have to make a vote, yet we say it's a free country.
this is exactly what they want us to look like when we vote for them, by fighting each other. it's like watching a cartoon and arguing who's going to be the hero or the villain...
If only we related our actions to how childish we are...
Best comment of all is when Michelle says ...she has NEVER been proud of America except now that her husband is bringing hope to America ...well its three years now do you have your hope ????
05:45 Sarah is a normal American? Maybe for the tea-party mob; unintelligent, spews fear & hate, full of self righteousness, but when asked the most basic history/government/current event questions they can only repeat what their brain molders/Faux news tells them.
My god....these people are so fucking racist and stupid.I wish they would admit they are scared of a black man in charge instead of trying to remember quotes they heard from Hannity.
@beaumiller81 So we may only criticize the policies and lifestyle choices of a caucasian president? Try taking a look at the unemployment rates over the past four years. The figures aren't pretty.
I like McCain, but I don't like racists who support him for the wrong reasons. I don't believe the majority of people who supported McCain were racist, but I do believe that there was a small portion that was. I don't think allowing ignorant people whom know nothing about either canadite to vote is the right thing to do, but it would be unlawful to take away their rights.
Hate destroys the soul - why does the vast majority come from the right wing (but not all). People false hate or generalized hate is the work of satan. Look at your soul if you are courageous enough and true - do not decieve yourself.
Jew, Muslims, and Christians should all get along. I have known many young Jewish Americans who want fairness, peace, and the best for me, and I the same for them..
As a Muslim American it tears at my heart, we must be better.
Karp,I call you out as a phony, a liar and a deceiver.The world waits for proof to back up your claim that Obama is the biggest spender of all time.Give me numbers not opinions.So far the stats show your man Bush owns the title of biggest spender.All the stats are here, below. Prove me wrong, let's see your numbers. We can keep calling each other asshole forever. If, however, this was a legal proceeding, the judge would have thrown your sorry ass out of court for lack of evidence.Prove me wrong.
@karp1941 Well thank for calling me sir. And get used to refering to Barrack Hussein Obama as "Mr.President"
because he'll be re-elected overwhelmingly. Say it now karp-ass! President Barrack Obama! He's the boss! He rules! He da man! You, a dumbass! Bye Bye, don't bother replying. Seriously karp, I can't waste another minute with someone as mentally challanged as you! So now, finally, FUCK-OFF!
@karp1941 I guess Hell is going to freeze over because I am sure he will be re-elected for a second term. The GOP challengers are all jokes. Realistically can you imagine any one of them be elected, seriously?
@Loejyrrab you proved you are the lesser person by that response. You are just as bad as these people in the video bc you think obama is a good president.
@qualityrkc There have been better presidents, but considering the historic mess he inherited he's done well. In 2001 the Bush depression was in full swing. 750K jobs a month were vanishing, and we were in two quagmire wars, 50K factories had closed&our domestic auto business was dead. In 2&1/2 yrs, Obama's policies have created 2.5 million jobs.We need more, but at least we're not losing anymore. The unpatriotic Repubs vowed to destroy Obama when he came in.Fuck those bastards, and you too!
how many wars are we in now?Matter of fact, regarding fiscal and foreign policy can you name one signifigant difference between Obama and Bush?You do realize that the depression occurred at the end of bushs presidency right?If there was no real change in fiscal policy then how could obama be better in dealing with the economy?Have you seen his economic team? They are all former bush apointees. Please do research and dont just spew emotionally driven bs to others.You are a partisan hack like most
@qualityrkc OK qualit,Obama resembles Bush too much for my taste.I wanted those illegal wars ended as well as Bush's disastrous tax cuts for the rich.I wanted single payer health care and I wanted,well much more. But I wish Obama's enemies would acknowledge that we were going over a cliff 2 yrs ago.Obama's auto loan program worked & saved 2 million jobs.The WallSt bailout prevented a TOTAL fiscal collapse. In 2012, I will vote for him again. No more Repub bastards.They're totally unqualified.
@Loejyrrab keep thinking your vote counts. There is a bipartisan agenda that has been put into effect throughout republican AND democrat administrations for the past 60 years. If the dems and reps were ideological opposites then why would the CFR and several individuals be visible throughout every adminstration regardless of party affiliation? This is not a democracy or a republic for that matter.
@Loejyrrab i have accurately predicted every election I have been elligible to vote in and I will continue my absolutely perfect track record by saying that Obama will be elected president in 2012 not bc of how many people like him or bc of who he is running against, he will win bc that is the plan. After Obama is done with his 2nd term Hilary Clinton will be president.
I love how McCain allways played the Lee Greenwood song "I'm Proud to be an American". Lee greenwood was a draft dodger while McCain sat in a vietnam pow prison.
America in modern times, the lifespan of anybody posting on this blog has always been a mix of socialism and capitalism. You people wo cry about the evils of socialism are a bunch of idiots. If we adopted a purely capitalistic economic system you people would complain about haveing to pay for toll roads, fire and police protection,education.and many other things we take for granted. It is to bad you can't see what a purely capitalistic system would do to this country. then again you don't know.
A white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here.The black man said:
Listen sir when I was born I was BLACK When I grew up I was BLACK When I'm sick I'm BLACK, When I go in the sun I'm BLACK When I'm cold I'm BLACK, When I die I'll be BLACK.But you When you are born you're PINK When you grow up you're WHITE, When you're sick, you're GREEN When you go in the sun you turn RED When you're cold you turn BLUE And when you die you turn PURPLE."And you have the nerve to call me colored?
Woman - "I know it popagated Low Income Housing to people who couldn't afford it in the Chicago area". LMAO!! WOW! That's SOOOOO TERRIBLE. Shame on them for helping poor people! LMAO!!!
According to the Dept of Labor, If you have a 4 year degree unemployment is about 5%. I paid less income taxes this year yet I made more money. I think Obama is doing a good job. Sorry if you high school drop outs can't find a job.
This is good. I like to see lots of americans getting together and speaking against this pest in the president chair. Michelle obama is soooo ugly when she was born the doctor slapped her mother
Just think, if McCain and Palin won the election there would be a world wide depression, unemployment would would be around 60% and Sarah Palin would of resigned from the VP office last month! Thank GOD the McCain Palin ticket lost!
@RImusclebear 60% unemployment........? Wow at least make up believable bullshit or try to squeeze in some reading while your getting my order of fries
@godscuttingyoudown Sorry for your disappointment. I have a very good job where I made more money >$100k and paid less taxes than any year before. Obama is doing a good job! And I'm gay! LOL
@karp1941 No I am actually extremely well informed and know enough about economic indicators. TARP was a good program. All three US Auto makers made a profit this year. Unemployment has been reversed. There are jobs being created every month unlike when Bush was President. I paid less federal tax this year and made more money.. I suppose you still believe the President was born in Kenya. The President is doing a good job and will be re-elected in 2012.
@RImusclebear no sir you are not well informed , tarp was a waste of the taxpayers money, FORD is doing better than the other 2 and never took a government handout !!! and the president is a LIER one of his many lies he said unemployment would not go over 8% in real numbers it is about 20% !!!! so you are doing better but the rest of the country bleeds !!!
@karp1941 Look you asswipe, this country is in trouble not because of Obama policies, rather, it's the policies of the Republi-scams that have us buried in debt. In the 8 torturous years of Bush, we went from a surplus to almost complete financial ruin.The Repubs under Bush blew the nat.debt from 5.8 tril to 12 tril& presided over the closing of 50K factories.They left us with 2 ongoing occupations that will cost trillions.Repubs are not fit to lead shit. BTW, TARP was a Bush proposal.Wake up!
@Loejyrrab I know TARP was a bush proposal D.H. !!!! OBAMA and his bunch have spent more in 2 years than in the 8 years of bush , and the last 2 years of bush was the democrats budget , including obama . any taxpayer that votes for a democrat is very stupid !!!!!!!!!!!!! and fyi new unemployment numbers out today , more bad news for obama and company !!!!!!!
@karp1941 Hey dumb ass,Bush was the all time leading debt producer,running up a tab that bankrupted us.In 2001 the Nat.Debt was 5 tril. W added 7 tril more, including his TARP scam.He also presided over the closing of 50K U.S factories. Just terrific. Obama took over in the midst of a Repub depression.All factors considered he's doing very well.The stock mkt has DOUBLED on his watch.Finally,having to clean up more of Bush's turds, it was Obama who got the bastard Bin Laden! Bush was a fuck up.
@Loejyrrab no OBAMA is the biggest spender of all time !!!!!!!!!!!! , wake up things are way worse now under this clown !!!!! and he got him using BUSH tactics !!!!!!! 1 term OBAMA !!!!!
@karp1941 The stats on Bush's spending spree are tough for an asshole like u to handle.Especially since he blew the dough in Iraq, a place everyone knew had O to do with 9/11&where Bin Laden would never be found.He ran the US debt from 5.6 to12 tril, all borrowed from China.Our kids will be paying for Bush's folly for the next 50yrs, while the richest will get tax cuts.And in the end,ironically it was Obama that finally had Bin Laden blown away.Ignore the truth at your own peril.I'm done with U.
@RImusclebear Good on you Rim.Because of the brave Democrats who voted to help the Big 3 survive, we still have a domestic auto industry. GM is turning a profit and is on schedule to repay it's loans.And as you say TARP worked. The miserable Repubs looted America to near bankruptcy making TARP an absolute necessity. The bastards who caused the meltdown of our economy were ready to let the nation collapse. These Repub vermin should be in prison. Yep, Obama will be re-elected.
Its sad really...instead of evolving and solving problems we waste are time with arguing about thing that dont even matter(mainly effect the outcome of anything) .they just buy into what there freinds and family have bought into and wat they were raised to beleive in.....instead of seeing everything around them and then making your judgement on your owne
@tracer740 The scary part of this is that they wouldn't be embarrased at all. Those cretins have no shame. They are what's wrong with this country. Low to no information voters.
How different would these 'citizens' perceptions be if Sarah Palin looked like Madeleine Albright or perhaps even Shirley Chisholm? So much to consider, isn't it?
We citizens are victims of not only poor education pursuits, we have become the pawns of the Marketing industry in this nation.
and I would argue that you are reaching with comparing out flag, which has been often burned by Americans, as the same as burning the Koran. It is not the same, as you can see that the outrage one of the other...
All these people are so pathetic. On a side note I think that this is a great video and I'm happy there are those out there who care enough to go out and question people.
You act like i just looked in my backyard and said there are more racists on the right than the left...how far back do you want to take this, because affirmative action was a thing of the 90's? Where do you see this affirmative action now? Affirmative action was an idea for about three seconds in our nation's history. As for reverse racism...give me a more recent example, because if what you have is that, then you're grabbing at straws in making your point.
@caseycollison what you are doing is taking a small example and making a sweeping generalization.
if you want to use the small, newsworthy percent of conservatives who act crazy to define ALL conservatives as racist, violent or otherwise, then, by YOUR logic, ALL black people are criminals...because the small percent that end up on the news are guilty or suspect of a crime. how many does it take? 4, 6, 10?
do "I" think all blacks are criminals? no. does YOUR logic indicate YOU think that? yes.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...where have I said all conservatives are racist. I am saying you will never see the same levels of racism/bigotry, nor the same size of crowds shouting such nonsense as with what is being done on the right wing side. Also, you will not see Democratic leaders provoking ignorant peeps to take up second amendment issues, like what is seen on the right.
@caseycollison ...Again, if you showed me anything that matched stuff so hateful, or ignorant coming from the Democratics side, I might give into your fifty/fifty approach. I would never ignore such reckless politics if it came from the Democratics side...denial is something I am not a fan of, and I would be absolutely embarassed if I found myself sharing a side with someone screaming the "n" word, or spouting off that the President is a Socialist/Communitst (a contradiction).
@caseycollison socialsim: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
the social organization is the government. the control and distribution is healthcare.
this is obama's plan. therefore, that makes obama a socialist.
@TheLincolnBlogs....when did government take of the insurance companies? I missed this part, because IT HASN'T HAPPENED....even though it should happen. Our health shouldn't be up for a bunch of profiteers to look for ways to rip people off, which is what they do.
@caseycollison i didn't purport the government has...yet. my point was it is a socialist agenda to put a social organization in charge of healthcare. it is right there in the definition of socialism.
...and who is pioneering this socialist agenda? obama. interesting he, and the other writers of this bill, have exempted themselves and their families...
@TheLincolnBlogs ...you're speaking as if socialism is wrong. I am all for socialism over fascism. I do not think that we should live in a country where we discard our elderly and poor...hence, why we have programs that protect those less fortunate than others...especially in a time of stagnant wages, and in a recession. If there was not a single socialist program available this country would have gone tits up in this recession...
@caseycollison i am not surprised, really, that you are 'all for socialism', and that is great....what is truly great about america is that you CAN have your own beliefs.
i just don't need gov't telling me if i am sick. a perfect example of 'socialist-type' healthcare is the military healthcare....people deciding who is 'sickest' to treat first, instead of the ability to utilize a private physician to cure.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...so you feel the way our healthcare before was running smoothly. What makes you think that our government would pick and choose who they covered? Just because we have a single payer system, does not mean we would run it like other countries...as for the "death panels" guess what, they were being used not by governement by by multi-billion dollar insurance companies, treating people's illnesses like investments. They were a group of profiteers banking on people's deaths.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...We did not take on a single payer system, our health insurance is still privatized. Have you served in the military? I have and my family and I were treated amazing each time we went in. They had my whole body charted, and kept pretty good tabs on what was happening to me...they saw a rise in my bloodpressure and hooked me up with a specialist. That is true healthcare...preventitive, instead of reactive.
@caseycollison true socialist healthcare NEEDS citizens to pay in. therefore, if there is a really sick old person and a somewhat sick younger person...who will get treated first? the YOUNG person will, because they will be alive longer to pay into the system.
and that is fine if you don't know the old guy, but what if that is your grandpa?
@TheLincolnBlogs ...guy, I'm not going to play into your stupid scenarios. Both would be treated, and the doctors wouldn't be picking and choosing who they worked on. America has so many freaking hospitals, there is no reason for this to be a scenario.
I would say though, I am happy that my grandma is no longer dealing with the donut holes, where she had to pick between her heart medication and her necessities.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...as for the healthcare bill, which part is so socialist that you can't stand it? Part where sick can't be booted, part where children can't be denied coverage, part where elderly do not have to go for periods without medication--tell me which part? I am confused as to where the Democrats were out of line...?
'cracker' and 'honky' are used all the time. society and whites shrug it off and deem it 'acceptable' though ARE, technically, racial slurs and can be used as such. same with redneck.
what's the difference between "you stupid redneck" and "you stupid nigger"? both are said with equal disdain.
should we ban all racial slurs or just ones that hurt feelings. does banning any word AT ALL impede on 1st amendment rights?
do you ONLY support 1st amendment protection IF you agree with what's said?
@TheLincolnBlogs ...pretty sure redneck and the "n" word are nowhere near the same thing, or else Jeff Foxworthy is ridiculously racist. Are you saying Foxworthy is racist? Tell a redneck joke to a crowd of peeps, and then tell a "n" word joke to a crowd of peeps and see if they respond the same. As for cracker or honky...again, nowhere near the same. If that's how you feel, then you definitely prove my point that the right has some messed up views and a lot of it teeters on racism.
@caseycollison the only reason why people DON'T feel the same way about honky and cracker, etc, is because we have been conditioned and taught that was 'okay' and nigger is 'wrong' WHEN, in fact, they are ALL racial slurs.
and, off your pedestal, of course, you WOULD hear black people use cracker and honky in a degrading way, the way nigger is used by ignorant people.
that's kind of that 'reverse' thinking i was talking about. okay for one, but not the other....
there is a huge difference semantically between honky and cracker and nigger. Nigger is directly attached to a shameful period in US history when slavery was legal and is therefor much more degrading and offensive to blacks than honky is to white americans. There is a genre of american music that uses this term casually in country music ie Honky Tonk etc. Apples and Oranges.
@keereekee while i DO agree slavery was a very shameful period in our history, both honky and nigger are defined as 'slang' for their respective colors. i am arguing that, just because white people don't find honky as offensive as black people find nigger, it IS a slur, none-the-less and CAN be used in an equally degrading way.
So my question is, do we teach doing away with ALL slurs or just some?
So, not apples and oranges...maybe red delicious apples vs fuji apples--which are more bitter...
@TheLincolnBlogs ...jesus, there is not even a comparison. Should the two be used...I do not believe honky is as offensive as you are claiming. If I call you a honky, how do you feel. Do you feel like I just put you back to a time when your race was deemed less than human? It wasn't just slavery...it was the 200+ years of segregation, and hate groups numbering in the millions using this term. You cannot imagine it, just as I could not imagine it...
@caseycollison i don't care what you "believe" because that is subjective and opinion...what is FACT is that they are BOTH defined as slang.
also, slavery existed in the United States for 89 years, not 200 (emember, we were under british rule until 1776 and slavery was abolished in 1865), and segregation (separate but equal) became illegal about 50yrs ago....should either of those existed AT ALL? absolutely not.
but also remember, BLACK AFRICANS sold the first slaves to europeans.
@keereekee Yet black people can call each other nigger at will. Seems like a double standard. Black comics and rappers use it all the time. It's plain stupid andd ignorant.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...or maybe white people were not hung, raped, beaten, degraded, segregated, etc, etc under the term "honky" or "cracker"...tell me of a time when white americans were bought and sold while being coined honkies? I missed this part of History? Honestly, I do not care if someone calls me a cracker...because no one in my ancestory suffered under the label.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...while being labeled a redneck or honky? African Americans were labeled as such, while they were enslaved and receiving those abuses. This is not physics but common sense...Did your ancestors get demonized under the label redneck? Was redneck used to label a group of whites less than human, and only counted as 1/3 of a vote?
@caseycollison actually, yes. my irish ancestors were deamonized, not under the word redneck, but other slurs of hate.
and people today DO use redneck in an insulting way. some take it with pride, but i certainly have heard: 'stupid redneck', 'cousin-effing redneck' ,etc...it is a term commonly used to identify backward-thinking southerners.
and you know an image comes to mind when redneck used vs white guy...the same way black guy and nigger/nigga have two different visuals and thoughts.
@TheLincolnBlogs --Okay, I'm glad you're finally separating the two names...redneck defines a backward thinking person, where the "n" word is used in reference to the atrocities done against a race of people, as they were being defined as less than human. Not all African Americans use the word, and it is one of those things where I have seen a guy tell another guy to not use that word in his presence.
@caseycollison just because white people have not allowed the words honky and cracker and redneck to have such power, doesn't make them okay and doesn't change the fact they are slurs and can and are used with hate and disdain.
Respond to this video...and, if you want to use COMEDIANS as your example (which leads me to believe Jon Stewart is your 'news' source), i have already mentioned chris rock; BUT, you know, and it is widely known, that black comics can get away with saying far more things than white comics.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...depends on what is being said. Where is it widely known? I haven't heard a single Chris Rock sketch, where I felt offender. Eddie Murphy had to make an apology towards gays, after his "Delerious" sketch was released...tell me where Black comics are getting away with bashing whites? Give me a clip where Chris Rock has overstepped his bounderies in racism...we're on YouTube, so it should be easy. Hell, African Amercian politicians do not get away with racism...
@TheLincolnBlogs ...why are you so hung up on comedians? we were talking about politics right wing/left wing, are you saying that all of these racists in the right wing's leadership and they're followers are all a bunch of comedians?
@TheLincolnBlogs ...I was showing you that a guy who uses the word redneck is not deemed a racist, and is now hosting a family TV show. Redneck is no where near what the n-word stands for or represents. Tell me of a time when rednecks was a label to a group of slaves?
@caseycollison right, a COMEDIAN...thus my response with OTHER EXAMPLES OF COMEDIANS, because you brought it up first. it astounds me you did not make this connection.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...My cousin owns a bar called FredNecks, and it is packed every weekend with a bunch of peeps who would proudly call themselves rednecks.
@TheLincolnBlogs is chris rock racist? he uses 'nigger'. are black people racist when they use 'nigga'? is 'nigga' NOT racist? if not, can white people use it?
it seems you are scrambling pretty hard to defend a double standard, which, deep down you KNOW there is, but cannot bring yourself to swallow your pride and admit.
@TheLincolnBlogs...you're asking some pretty silly questions...tell ya what, call an African American that, and see what happens. I will let you answer your own stupid question. Your comparison is nowhere similar...if I call you a honky, am I a racist towards whites?...you'll likely say yes, whatever, because you are slipping further and further into a realm as to why people would likely call you an ignorant racist, especially if you do not know the symbolism behind a white calling a black such.
@caseycollison i do not refer to blacks as 'african-american' unless they have dual citizenship because there ARE whites from africa who live here. some notable examples: dave matthews & charleze theron. are THEY african american? it IS their heritage.
let's not forget that EGYPT is in africa. so egyptian immigrants to america: african american?
am i white? am i irish-american? where's my box on forms to show my heritage. if it's by geographics, i'm NATIVE AMERICAN; I am native to america.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...okay, I sometimes use black instead of African Americans, however, I try to use African American, because that is a politically correct term for them; they wish to be called that. I would think that for what their race has endured in this country, whatever they want to be defined as should be accomodated. Just as groups are proud of being called italian-american, irish-americans...so on and so forth. Who cares if it makes a group content?
@caseycollison exactly, SO how come only WHITES do not have that option on forms (to choose heritage). wouldn't calling white people WHITE be politically INcorrect? i mean if BLACK may not be used, certainly WHITE may not, right? where is the continuity?
@TheLincolnBlogs ...again, you can put it in other...if you are offended by this, take it up with peeps writing surveys. A person who is black and white, doesn't have a spot to put theirs...they put it in other. Are you full Irish? I'm guessing no....but if you feel a strong attachment to your %, put it in other. I'm sorry if you feel your race is being left out...Also, I've seen caucasian as our block to be checked off. I really couldn't care...if you ACTUALLY do, I don't know what to say.
Respond to this video...but i am not an 'other'. i have heritage that needs to be, and should be, represented. otherwise I am being discriminated against, as my heritage is not represented on the form.
of other is acceptable, why not just have NO boxes, and people can write what they want? that'd only be fair.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...what is your heritage. I have never seen a job app with percentages. I am a quarter this, a quarter that, with ten percent here, ten percent there, and a sliver of Native American. Should my job app cover the percentages? No, it would be a waste of paper. I've heard the white man has had a pretty hard time in this country...poor whites...I say whites, because I am not going to cover all of the percentages, because that is just silly.
@caseycollison agreed; show me a black person that is not 'just a percent' of african. and we are STILL not being truly fair. it seems people think SOUTH AFRICA, the country, is the whole continent of africa. but, if they want to use african american, they are referring to the continent. therefore, to fairly cover everyone, the ONLY BOXES NEEDED are african-american; antarctican-american; asian-american; australian-american; european-american, north american-american; south american-american.
@caseycollison so you would agree, the best solution is to put all 7 continents on the forms, then if dual citizenship, use a hyphen with american.
i don't care if caucasian references anything; it is not on a map. anywhere. if you can show that to me, on a recent map, i will extinguish my thought that it is an outdated term (if it ever was on a map or a real place).
@TheLincolnBlogs ...let me see the country of asia. Let me see the country of Africa. These are all continents. For all of the countries coming and going during the European Wars, I think our caucasian status has more to do with political correctness than anyother....
@caseycollison CORRECT. CONTINENTS. so by saying AFRICAN AMERICAN, you are referring to a CONTINENT. asian-american = CONTINENT. my solution...put all 7 continents on the form. then all is equal.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...we are caucasian in reference to our European ancestrory...we call oriental people asian, why is it so bad to call a black person African American in reference to their ancestory. What makes it so wrong, if this is what they wish to be called? I have to say, this is getting pretty silly and we can stop here with the back and forth of a race of people that neither you or I are apart of...I'm sorry you are consumed with your party's rhetoric.
Respond to this video...and yes, their PEOPLE endured a lot. but so did jewish people, irish people, italian people....as much? no. but still, for those it happened to it was pretty bad.
but, nobody is alive today who was enslaved. if people continue to want 'reparations', wouldn't fully complying be shipping them back to africa, then, should they WANT to come here (unlike with slavery), they can apply for citizenship legally, and on their own free will, like every immigrant should?
@TheLincolnBlogs "As much? no." there you answered it yourself. Who are you to tell a group of people, who you have no association with, how they should feel about things that were done that you cannot fathom. The abuses they suffered is something that gets passed generation to generation. You're also talking like this was something that happened 300 years ago...a lot of their gripes are pretty recent...like their grandmother endured this and that.
...there are many African Americans alive today that endured segregation, which was almost a continuation of slavery.....they weren't owned, but weren't free. A group treated so harsh, and you're shocked that they have some compaints. I do not think all African Americans want these reparations, but I can see how they feel the pain of their great grandparents, and the stories they group up hearing.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...guy, you really aren't making sense with these tangents...pick a point and stick with it. What are you trying to get at now with the 1st amendment.
@caseycollison i have tried to 'stick to a point', which, may i remind you was, THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED THIS VIDEO USED A SAMPLE OF CHOICE INTERVIEWS TO TRY TO PROVE THEIR POINT THAT REPUBLICANS ARE BAD.
anything else, i have merely been responding to your tripe.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if the leaders are being caught shouting what they are shouting, and there is no massive surge in demanding for an apology, no one stepping up saying "Whoa, what the hell..." then they are just as guilty for allowing it to continue. If any Democratic leader screamed to a crowd "don't retreat, reload" or using a man's middle name as if it is "questionable" the left would turn on them in two seconds....I look to the leadership as well as all the dispanded KKK's.
@caseycollison "just as guilty"? so a guy walks into a convenience store with a gun. i am a customer in this convenience store. if i do not step up and say "whoa, what the hell" and commence a massive surge, you are saying "I" might as well have robbed the store myself because i am 'just as guilty' for allowing it to continue?
@TheLincolnBlogs ...I'm saying if you have the ability to call 9-1-1 and do not...then yes, you are guilty. A lady up hear went to prison for 3-5 for witnessing a woman being tortured, and instead of calling the police she went home and did nothing. Later that girl was murdered...because the woman failed to intervene when she had full capability, she was found guilty of aiding.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if a party does not condemn the actions of its own leaders, and/or followers, then they are allowing it to happen, and are just as guilty. Does that make any sense to you? You tried to some my words into a fabricated scenario, which failed in coming close to what I was saying.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...can we use history on up: Jesse Helms chirped, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced. He suggested that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist dupe and refused, even decades after King's death, to honor the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Limbaugh "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it" Look up some of Angle's quotes
@caseycollison ...then if you want to include the crap said about Muslims during the whole community center bit, YOUTUBE it, because I am not going to hand walk you through it. This is your party...we havn't even touched on the absurd crap said about gays, hispanics, and others--will you see a politician come out saying the n-word, no...but they now use Hussein to mask it. Every REDNECK republican that I speak to, uses Hussein. I just got done reading some kid's hate-banter about"Muslim Hussein"
@caseycollison ...these politicians use the whole, "I'm not saying, I'm just saying" way of getting the hate injected into misguided followers. Sarah does it, Bachman has done it...it is a joke. I will give credit for the tea baggers finally firing their leader for writing the "Abraham letter".....but he said a lot of crap, before he finally put it down on paper, making it impossible to dodge. You'd think the leaders would steer away from such crap, when Congressmen are being called n-words...
@caseycollison when you say 'tea-baggers' you deflate your argument. you end up falling into the stereotype that when a liberal cannot argue logically, they resort to name calling.
it really makes it sound like you are writing out of emotion versus lateral thinking.
so far, i have enjoyed our little 'battle', but every time you resort to petty name calling, etc, it takes away from the intelligence of your post.
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if you remember they came up with that name. They started off as the tea baggers movement. It changed a little after...I hold onto tea bagger when I call out the crazies involved, because I have no respect towards their thoughts, just as they call me a liberal pussy, smoking pot. I've had face to face conversations with these people, and they do not have a single reason as to why they hate Obama, except for a bunch of propaganda-bumper stickers
This is the problem with America partisan. It seems from the outside people are republican and democrat first American second.
n1234ick 1 month ago
@9:13 "Get a brain! Morans" LOL hahahahahahahaha, a real MORON himself.
TwistedMind6969 2 months ago
Nearly 15 trillion dollars in debt. Failed stimulus, Obamacare will cost alot. Solyndra, Raser, Geothermal etc, Fast & Furious, Divided America. Obama has outspent every president from Washington to Bush. Acorn. Bad housing market. This reporter thinks he's clever. He's not impressing anyone. I dont hear facts from him either. Obama is a community organizer. Palin has done a lot more. This interviewer has one dang question. Biden said he would be proud to serve with McCain. He said Obama aint re
JawsJaws 2 months ago
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Obama has done more to hurt us than any terrorist has. That's a fact.
JawsJaws 2 months ago
i hate liberals
GetBigProductions1 3 months ago
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@GetBigProductions1 wow, you hate liberals, you must be really smart. Good for you genius.
TwistedMind6969 2 months ago
@GetBigProductions1 keep hating...... the conservative party is dying....people r finally thinking for themselves instead of having fox do it for u.....remember this...jesus was a liberal....
migo53333 1 month ago
@GetBigProductions1 lol, because they use facts to diffuse the bullshit known as conservatism... I'm an independent moderate, and I will say libs are sensationalist who aren't without fault.
MarcusKiner 2 weeks ago
How does this cameraman get away with saying, "Wait a minute, your an African American. Why are you voting for John McCain over Barack Obama?". WTF?! This racist piece of crap thinks he can call others racist when he is the one instigating that a black man must vote for Obama just because they are of the same race? If I were that black guy, I'd have knocked him across the head for implying that just because I'm black I can't think for myself and must vote for someone of my skin color. Hypocrite!
isaias1776 3 months ago
No more BS. End the FED, IRS, EPA, Dept of Edu, FEMA, Dept of Homeland Sec, Income Tax, CIA, Patriot Act, Dept of Energy, FDIC, FCC, NIH and all the rest of the Bureaucratic Agencies created by the Federal Government that do not have any power derived from the US Constitution. Fire them all. Restrain the Government. Limit their Powers.
isaias1776 3 months ago
Mindy Greene is super clueless. Keep these @#$%tards away from New England.
djdepaolo 4 months ago 2
its so fucking sad how our country is so disgusting in the midwest, south, and all these hillbillies ...... thank god I live in California, I'm never leaving SoCal <3
iBouncer7 4 months ago
mindless quibbling, when did you first hear about?... uh who cares?, get to the issues if you are going to bug people. Should've asked them if they wanted a war with Iran, because that seemed to be where McCain was headed.
isteemaen 5 months ago
when it all boils down, it comes from peer pressure when it comes to opinion. that is why it seems that many feel that they have to make a vote, yet we say it's a free country.
Minan3 5 months ago
this is exactly what they want us to look like when we vote for them, by fighting each other. it's like watching a cartoon and arguing who's going to be the hero or the villain...
If only we related our actions to how childish we are...
Minan3 5 months ago
You just made everyone who watched this 10 IQ points dumber...you owe everyone an apology buddy.
Mannixxx 5 months ago
I like the one chick that keeps jumping in front of the camera. LOL It's like she insist on showing her stupidity. LOL
blaknite1 5 months ago
Hahahaha...Ohio.
oranjeleeuwen1 6 months ago
What a bunch of grade A Fucktards!!
japeye62 7 months ago
All these southern rednecks are crazy.
LolonMatinez 7 months ago
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karp1941 7 months ago
Best comment of all is when Michelle says ...she has NEVER been proud of America except now that her husband is bringing hope to America ...well its three years now do you have your hope ????
a211pc 7 months ago
@a211pc no hope !!! just change in your pocket !!!
karp1941 7 months ago
05:45 Sarah is a normal American? Maybe for the tea-party mob; unintelligent, spews fear & hate, full of self righteousness, but when asked the most basic history/government/current event questions they can only repeat what their brain molders/Faux news tells them.
zidmt 7 months ago
My god....these people are so fucking racist and stupid.I wish they would admit they are scared of a black man in charge instead of trying to remember quotes they heard from Hannity.
beaumiller81 7 months ago
@beaumiller81 So we may only criticize the policies and lifestyle choices of a caucasian president? Try taking a look at the unemployment rates over the past four years. The figures aren't pretty.
aamu15 7 months ago
that lady was the wally eyes is very mean sprited and full of bigotary and fearmongering.
kwolf43 7 months ago
I like McCain, but I don't like racists who support him for the wrong reasons. I don't believe the majority of people who supported McCain were racist, but I do believe that there was a small portion that was. I don't think allowing ignorant people whom know nothing about either canadite to vote is the right thing to do, but it would be unlawful to take away their rights.
iPhTx3 8 months ago
next time leave the music off it overwhelms the verbal comments
Twostones00 8 months ago
Hate destroys the soul - why does the vast majority come from the right wing (but not all). People false hate or generalized hate is the work of satan. Look at your soul if you are courageous enough and true - do not decieve yourself.
Jew, Muslims, and Christians should all get along. I have known many young Jewish Americans who want fairness, peace, and the best for me, and I the same for them..
As a Muslim American it tears at my heart, we must be better.
May God help us all!
CAMELJOCKUSA 8 months ago
Karp,I call you out as a phony, a liar and a deceiver.The world waits for proof to back up your claim that Obama is the biggest spender of all time.Give me numbers not opinions.So far the stats show your man Bush owns the title of biggest spender.All the stats are here, below. Prove me wrong, let's see your numbers. We can keep calling each other asshole forever. If, however, this was a legal proceeding, the judge would have thrown your sorry ass out of court for lack of evidence.Prove me wrong.
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@Loejyrrab no sir , President Barry is the phony , a liar and deceiver !!!!!!
karp1941 8 months ago
@karp1941 Well thank for calling me sir. And get used to refering to Barrack Hussein Obama as "Mr.President"
because he'll be re-elected overwhelmingly. Say it now karp-ass! President Barrack Obama! He's the boss! He rules! He da man! You, a dumbass! Bye Bye, don't bother replying. Seriously karp, I can't waste another minute with someone as mentally challanged as you! So now, finally, FUCK-OFF!
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@Loejyrrab it will be a cold day in hell if barry gets re-elected , your name calling shows you lost the argument!
karp1941 8 months ago
@karp1941 Better get your coat and gloves on. Obama 2012.
Drrck11 8 months ago
@karp1941 I guess Hell is going to freeze over because I am sure he will be re-elected for a second term. The GOP challengers are all jokes. Realistically can you imagine any one of them be elected, seriously?
RImusclebear 7 months ago
@RImusclebear any one of them would be better than this clown and his bunch !!!!! Herman Cain 2012 !!!!!!
karp1941 7 months ago
@Loejyrrab you proved you are the lesser person by that response. You are just as bad as these people in the video bc you think obama is a good president.
qualityrkc 7 months ago
@qualityrkc There have been better presidents, but considering the historic mess he inherited he's done well. In 2001 the Bush depression was in full swing. 750K jobs a month were vanishing, and we were in two quagmire wars, 50K factories had closed&our domestic auto business was dead. In 2&1/2 yrs, Obama's policies have created 2.5 million jobs.We need more, but at least we're not losing anymore. The unpatriotic Repubs vowed to destroy Obama when he came in.Fuck those bastards, and you too!
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
how many wars are we in now?Matter of fact, regarding fiscal and foreign policy can you name one signifigant difference between Obama and Bush?You do realize that the depression occurred at the end of bushs presidency right?If there was no real change in fiscal policy then how could obama be better in dealing with the economy?Have you seen his economic team? They are all former bush apointees. Please do research and dont just spew emotionally driven bs to others.You are a partisan hack like most
qualityrkc 7 months ago
@qualityrkc OK qualit,Obama resembles Bush too much for my taste.I wanted those illegal wars ended as well as Bush's disastrous tax cuts for the rich.I wanted single payer health care and I wanted,well much more. But I wish Obama's enemies would acknowledge that we were going over a cliff 2 yrs ago.Obama's auto loan program worked & saved 2 million jobs.The WallSt bailout prevented a TOTAL fiscal collapse. In 2012, I will vote for him again. No more Repub bastards.They're totally unqualified.
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
@Loejyrrab keep thinking your vote counts. There is a bipartisan agenda that has been put into effect throughout republican AND democrat administrations for the past 60 years. If the dems and reps were ideological opposites then why would the CFR and several individuals be visible throughout every adminstration regardless of party affiliation? This is not a democracy or a republic for that matter.
qualityrkc 7 months ago
@qualityrkc Can't argue with logic young man, (or woman). This country is in the toilet, with enough blame to go around. Later!
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
@Loejyrrab peace
qualityrkc 7 months ago
@Loejyrrab i have accurately predicted every election I have been elligible to vote in and I will continue my absolutely perfect track record by saying that Obama will be elected president in 2012 not bc of how many people like him or bc of who he is running against, he will win bc that is the plan. After Obama is done with his 2nd term Hilary Clinton will be president.
qualityrkc 7 months ago
I love how McCain allways played the Lee Greenwood song "I'm Proud to be an American". Lee greenwood was a draft dodger while McCain sat in a vietnam pow prison.
sundevilkevin 9 months ago
America in modern times, the lifespan of anybody posting on this blog has always been a mix of socialism and capitalism. You people wo cry about the evils of socialism are a bunch of idiots. If we adopted a purely capitalistic economic system you people would complain about haveing to pay for toll roads, fire and police protection,education.and many other things we take for granted. It is to bad you can't see what a purely capitalistic system would do to this country. then again you don't know.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
I guess they must have incredible pain. Dullness hurts, right? Anyway, they make me laugh. Thanks for that!
Sateriis 9 months ago
lol Sarah Palin is a "normal" American.
WOW...that just make 51% of American dumb.
KitaroED 9 months ago
Good job on makeing this video! I have seen others and well.... GOOD JOB
rimmer0507 9 months ago
nice exploitation of these ignorants
dradexx 10 months ago
if this is the average american we are doomed!
MORTONLGG 10 months ago
this is really sad these people are average americans...but it explains a lot.
MrAndoruBinsento 10 months ago
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A white man said, "Colored people are not allowed here.The black man said:
Listen sir when I was born I was BLACK When I grew up I was BLACK When I'm sick I'm BLACK, When I go in the sun I'm BLACK When I'm cold I'm BLACK, When I die I'll be BLACK.But you When you are born you're PINK When you grow up you're WHITE, When you're sick, you're GREEN When you go in the sun you turn RED When you're cold you turn BLUE And when you die you turn PURPLE."And you have the nerve to call me colored?
TheSuperonestore 10 months ago
I think some of the older comments for this video are equally hilarious.
flashcloud 10 months ago
anybody know where these interviews where conducted
TheNewAlphabet 10 months ago
What do you know about Acorn?
Woman - "I know it popagated Low Income Housing to people who couldn't afford it in the Chicago area". LMAO!! WOW! That's SOOOOO TERRIBLE. Shame on them for helping poor people! LMAO!!!
Solowizard 10 months ago
According to the Dept of Labor, If you have a 4 year degree unemployment is about 5%. I paid less income taxes this year yet I made more money. I think Obama is doing a good job. Sorry if you high school drop outs can't find a job.
RImusclebear 11 months ago
Racist idiots.
SandCmpbll 11 months ago
fucking halfwits
MentalBadger 11 months ago
fucker get out of there..bitch they'll KILL there own kind man......;
mekosilvar 11 months ago
This is good. I like to see lots of americans getting together and speaking against this pest in the president chair. Michelle obama is soooo ugly when she was born the doctor slapped her mother
str8poolrtw 11 months ago
These comments do not surprise me at all. The right wing is wrought with self-righteous, hate filled individuals who call themselves "Christians"
sabio99 11 months ago
Just think, if McCain and Palin won the election there would be a world wide depression, unemployment would would be around 60% and Sarah Palin would of resigned from the VP office last month! Thank GOD the McCain Palin ticket lost!
RImusclebear 11 months ago 15
@RImusclebear 60% unemployment........? Wow at least make up believable bullshit or try to squeeze in some reading while your getting my order of fries
godscuttingyoudown 11 months ago
@godscuttingyoudown As I stated before Palin is extremely ignorant, just like the people who support her!
RImusclebear 11 months ago
@godscuttingyoudown Sorry for your disappointment. I have a very good job where I made more money >$100k and paid less taxes than any year before. Obama is doing a good job! And I'm gay! LOL
RImusclebear 9 months ago
@RImusclebear if you think obama is doing a good job , you must be living under a rock !!!!
karp1941 9 months ago
@karp1941 No I am actually extremely well informed and know enough about economic indicators. TARP was a good program. All three US Auto makers made a profit this year. Unemployment has been reversed. There are jobs being created every month unlike when Bush was President. I paid less federal tax this year and made more money.. I suppose you still believe the President was born in Kenya. The President is doing a good job and will be re-elected in 2012.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
@RImusclebear no sir you are not well informed , tarp was a waste of the taxpayers money, FORD is doing better than the other 2 and never took a government handout !!! and the president is a LIER one of his many lies he said unemployment would not go over 8% in real numbers it is about 20% !!!! so you are doing better but the rest of the country bleeds !!!
karp1941 9 months ago
@karp1941 Look you asswipe, this country is in trouble not because of Obama policies, rather, it's the policies of the Republi-scams that have us buried in debt. In the 8 torturous years of Bush, we went from a surplus to almost complete financial ruin.The Repubs under Bush blew the nat.debt from 5.8 tril to 12 tril& presided over the closing of 50K factories.They left us with 2 ongoing occupations that will cost trillions.Repubs are not fit to lead shit. BTW, TARP was a Bush proposal.Wake up!
Loejyrrab 9 months ago
@Loejyrrab I know TARP was a bush proposal D.H. !!!! OBAMA and his bunch have spent more in 2 years than in the 8 years of bush , and the last 2 years of bush was the democrats budget , including obama . any taxpayer that votes for a democrat is very stupid !!!!!!!!!!!!! and fyi new unemployment numbers out today , more bad news for obama and company !!!!!!!
karp1941 8 months ago
@karp1941 Hey dumb ass,Bush was the all time leading debt producer,running up a tab that bankrupted us.In 2001 the Nat.Debt was 5 tril. W added 7 tril more, including his TARP scam.He also presided over the closing of 50K U.S factories. Just terrific. Obama took over in the midst of a Repub depression.All factors considered he's doing very well.The stock mkt has DOUBLED on his watch.Finally,having to clean up more of Bush's turds, it was Obama who got the bastard Bin Laden! Bush was a fuck up.
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@Loejyrrab no OBAMA is the biggest spender of all time !!!!!!!!!!!! , wake up things are way worse now under this clown !!!!! and he got him using BUSH tactics !!!!!!! 1 term OBAMA !!!!!
karp1941 8 months ago
@karp1941 The stats on Bush's spending spree are tough for an asshole like u to handle.Especially since he blew the dough in Iraq, a place everyone knew had O to do with 9/11&where Bin Laden would never be found.He ran the US debt from 5.6 to12 tril, all borrowed from China.Our kids will be paying for Bush's folly for the next 50yrs, while the richest will get tax cuts.And in the end,ironically it was Obama that finally had Bin Laden blown away.Ignore the truth at your own peril.I'm done with U.
Loejyrrab 8 months ago
@Loejyrrab KEEP DRINKING THE KOOL-AID ASSHOLE , YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH !!!!
karp1941 8 months ago
@RImusclebear Good on you Rim.Because of the brave Democrats who voted to help the Big 3 survive, we still have a domestic auto industry. GM is turning a profit and is on schedule to repay it's loans.And as you say TARP worked. The miserable Repubs looted America to near bankruptcy making TARP an absolute necessity. The bastards who caused the meltdown of our economy were ready to let the nation collapse. These Repub vermin should be in prison. Yep, Obama will be re-elected.
Loejyrrab 9 months ago
@RImusclebear or nothing would be different at all
qualityrkc 7 months ago
@RImusclebear what a stupid comment !!!!
karp1941 7 months ago
Palin is extremely ignorant just like the people who support her!
RImusclebear 11 months ago
Its sad really...instead of evolving and solving problems we waste are time with arguing about thing that dont even matter(mainly effect the outcome of anything) .they just buy into what there freinds and family have bought into and wat they were raised to beleive in.....instead of seeing everything around them and then making your judgement on your owne
WrathofBong420 11 months ago
That blonde is such a dunce!
omahabee 1 year ago
So here we are 2 years later. Have these people's heads exploded yet?
tonewheel 1 year ago
DUDE YOUR A LOSER GET A LIFE & GO MAKE SOME MONEY .. STOP TRYING TO START TROUBLE A**HOLE... #GETALIFE
MrGmbswagchamp 1 year ago
How embarrassed must these people feel when viewing their own biases fueled by their ignorance and fear?
tracer740 1 year ago 14
@tracer740 The scary part of this is that they wouldn't be embarrased at all. Those cretins have no shame. They are what's wrong with this country. Low to no information voters.
Loejyrrab 9 months ago
How different would these 'citizens' perceptions be if Sarah Palin looked like Madeleine Albright or perhaps even Shirley Chisholm? So much to consider, isn't it?
We citizens are victims of not only poor education pursuits, we have become the pawns of the Marketing industry in this nation.
tracer740 1 year ago 2
Hahaha was that at a Republican Rally? or was that the Redneck Convention?
Ever noticed how the majority of extreme ignorant hate mongers in America are usually Republican Party supporters.
No surprise really cosidering they get hate propaganda pushed in their faces by FOX News and other Republican TV Networks on a daily basis.
But Obama wont fix things either, because he works within a political and social system which actively opposes change.
Fail to evolve and your fate is sealed.
AUSSIEDAVEROCKS 1 year ago 2
Why would John McCain have do defend people at his rallies when King obama can't defend his own preacher?
muta157 1 year ago
@2:35.....
scary woman ahahha
surfsoccerart 1 year ago
and I would argue that you are reaching with comparing out flag, which has been often burned by Americans, as the same as burning the Koran. It is not the same, as you can see that the outrage one of the other...
caseycollison 1 year ago
All these people are so pathetic. On a side note I think that this is a great video and I'm happy there are those out there who care enough to go out and question people.
myxmalfunction 1 year ago
How did these people get so damned ignorant! What an abject disgrace!
buddhabreath 1 year ago
You act like i just looked in my backyard and said there are more racists on the right than the left...how far back do you want to take this, because affirmative action was a thing of the 90's? Where do you see this affirmative action now? Affirmative action was an idea for about three seconds in our nation's history. As for reverse racism...give me a more recent example, because if what you have is that, then you're grabbing at straws in making your point.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison what you are doing is taking a small example and making a sweeping generalization.
if you want to use the small, newsworthy percent of conservatives who act crazy to define ALL conservatives as racist, violent or otherwise, then, by YOUR logic, ALL black people are criminals...because the small percent that end up on the news are guilty or suspect of a crime. how many does it take? 4, 6, 10?
do "I" think all blacks are criminals? no. does YOUR logic indicate YOU think that? yes.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...where have I said all conservatives are racist. I am saying you will never see the same levels of racism/bigotry, nor the same size of crowds shouting such nonsense as with what is being done on the right wing side. Also, you will not see Democratic leaders provoking ignorant peeps to take up second amendment issues, like what is seen on the right.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison ...Again, if you showed me anything that matched stuff so hateful, or ignorant coming from the Democratics side, I might give into your fifty/fifty approach. I would never ignore such reckless politics if it came from the Democratics side...denial is something I am not a fan of, and I would be absolutely embarassed if I found myself sharing a side with someone screaming the "n" word, or spouting off that the President is a Socialist/Communitst (a contradiction).
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison socialsim: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
the social organization is the government. the control and distribution is healthcare.
this is obama's plan. therefore, that makes obama a socialist.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs....when did government take of the insurance companies? I missed this part, because IT HASN'T HAPPENED....even though it should happen. Our health shouldn't be up for a bunch of profiteers to look for ways to rip people off, which is what they do.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i didn't purport the government has...yet. my point was it is a socialist agenda to put a social organization in charge of healthcare. it is right there in the definition of socialism.
...and who is pioneering this socialist agenda? obama. interesting he, and the other writers of this bill, have exempted themselves and their families...
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...you're speaking as if socialism is wrong. I am all for socialism over fascism. I do not think that we should live in a country where we discard our elderly and poor...hence, why we have programs that protect those less fortunate than others...especially in a time of stagnant wages, and in a recession. If there was not a single socialist program available this country would have gone tits up in this recession...
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i am not surprised, really, that you are 'all for socialism', and that is great....what is truly great about america is that you CAN have your own beliefs.
i just don't need gov't telling me if i am sick. a perfect example of 'socialist-type' healthcare is the military healthcare....people deciding who is 'sickest' to treat first, instead of the ability to utilize a private physician to cure.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...so you feel the way our healthcare before was running smoothly. What makes you think that our government would pick and choose who they covered? Just because we have a single payer system, does not mean we would run it like other countries...as for the "death panels" guess what, they were being used not by governement by by multi-billion dollar insurance companies, treating people's illnesses like investments. They were a group of profiteers banking on people's deaths.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...We did not take on a single payer system, our health insurance is still privatized. Have you served in the military? I have and my family and I were treated amazing each time we went in. They had my whole body charted, and kept pretty good tabs on what was happening to me...they saw a rise in my bloodpressure and hooked me up with a specialist. That is true healthcare...preventitive, instead of reactive.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison true socialist healthcare NEEDS citizens to pay in. therefore, if there is a really sick old person and a somewhat sick younger person...who will get treated first? the YOUNG person will, because they will be alive longer to pay into the system.
and that is fine if you don't know the old guy, but what if that is your grandpa?
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...guy, I'm not going to play into your stupid scenarios. Both would be treated, and the doctors wouldn't be picking and choosing who they worked on. America has so many freaking hospitals, there is no reason for this to be a scenario.
I would say though, I am happy that my grandma is no longer dealing with the donut holes, where she had to pick between her heart medication and her necessities.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...as for the healthcare bill, which part is so socialist that you can't stand it? Part where sick can't be booted, part where children can't be denied coverage, part where elderly do not have to go for periods without medication--tell me which part? I am confused as to where the Democrats were out of line...?
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs so you are going to give up your Social Security and Medicare when the time comes right? They are both socialistic systems.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
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@TheLincolnBlogs so you are going to give up your Social Security and Medicare when the time comes right? They are both socialistic systems.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
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@TheLincolnBlogs so you are going to give up your Social Security and Medicare when the time comes right? They are both socialistic systems.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
'cracker' and 'honky' are used all the time. society and whites shrug it off and deem it 'acceptable' though ARE, technically, racial slurs and can be used as such. same with redneck.
what's the difference between "you stupid redneck" and "you stupid nigger"? both are said with equal disdain.
should we ban all racial slurs or just ones that hurt feelings. does banning any word AT ALL impede on 1st amendment rights?
do you ONLY support 1st amendment protection IF you agree with what's said?
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...pretty sure redneck and the "n" word are nowhere near the same thing, or else Jeff Foxworthy is ridiculously racist. Are you saying Foxworthy is racist? Tell a redneck joke to a crowd of peeps, and then tell a "n" word joke to a crowd of peeps and see if they respond the same. As for cracker or honky...again, nowhere near the same. If that's how you feel, then you definitely prove my point that the right has some messed up views and a lot of it teeters on racism.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison the only reason why people DON'T feel the same way about honky and cracker, etc, is because we have been conditioned and taught that was 'okay' and nigger is 'wrong' WHEN, in fact, they are ALL racial slurs.
and, off your pedestal, of course, you WOULD hear black people use cracker and honky in a degrading way, the way nigger is used by ignorant people.
that's kind of that 'reverse' thinking i was talking about. okay for one, but not the other....
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
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there is a huge difference semantically between honky and cracker and nigger. Nigger is directly attached to a shameful period in US history when slavery was legal and is therefor much more degrading and offensive to blacks than honky is to white americans. There is a genre of american music that uses this term casually in country music ie Honky Tonk etc. Apples and Oranges.
keereekee 1 year ago
@keereekee while i DO agree slavery was a very shameful period in our history, both honky and nigger are defined as 'slang' for their respective colors. i am arguing that, just because white people don't find honky as offensive as black people find nigger, it IS a slur, none-the-less and CAN be used in an equally degrading way.
So my question is, do we teach doing away with ALL slurs or just some?
So, not apples and oranges...maybe red delicious apples vs fuji apples--which are more bitter...
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...jesus, there is not even a comparison. Should the two be used...I do not believe honky is as offensive as you are claiming. If I call you a honky, how do you feel. Do you feel like I just put you back to a time when your race was deemed less than human? It wasn't just slavery...it was the 200+ years of segregation, and hate groups numbering in the millions using this term. You cannot imagine it, just as I could not imagine it...
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i don't care what you "believe" because that is subjective and opinion...what is FACT is that they are BOTH defined as slang.
also, slavery existed in the United States for 89 years, not 200 (emember, we were under british rule until 1776 and slavery was abolished in 1865), and segregation (separate but equal) became illegal about 50yrs ago....should either of those existed AT ALL? absolutely not.
but also remember, BLACK AFRICANS sold the first slaves to europeans.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@keereekee Yet black people can call each other nigger at will. Seems like a double standard. Black comics and rappers use it all the time. It's plain stupid andd ignorant.
RImusclebear 9 months ago
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Yes, I suppose you are right but its really offensive when other races call blacks "niggers".
keereekee 9 months ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...or maybe white people were not hung, raped, beaten, degraded, segregated, etc, etc under the term "honky" or "cracker"...tell me of a time when white americans were bought and sold while being coined honkies? I missed this part of History? Honestly, I do not care if someone calls me a cracker...because no one in my ancestory suffered under the label.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison just because whites were not enslaved, by NO means proves that they are not beaten, degraded or raped.
also, ron jeremy is white; he's hung.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...while being labeled a redneck or honky? African Americans were labeled as such, while they were enslaved and receiving those abuses. This is not physics but common sense...Did your ancestors get demonized under the label redneck? Was redneck used to label a group of whites less than human, and only counted as 1/3 of a vote?
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison actually, yes. my irish ancestors were deamonized, not under the word redneck, but other slurs of hate.
and people today DO use redneck in an insulting way. some take it with pride, but i certainly have heard: 'stupid redneck', 'cousin-effing redneck' ,etc...it is a term commonly used to identify backward-thinking southerners.
and you know an image comes to mind when redneck used vs white guy...the same way black guy and nigger/nigga have two different visuals and thoughts.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs --Okay, I'm glad you're finally separating the two names...redneck defines a backward thinking person, where the "n" word is used in reference to the atrocities done against a race of people, as they were being defined as less than human. Not all African Americans use the word, and it is one of those things where I have seen a guy tell another guy to not use that word in his presence.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison just because white people have not allowed the words honky and cracker and redneck to have such power, doesn't make them okay and doesn't change the fact they are slurs and can and are used with hate and disdain.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
Respond to this video...and, if you want to use COMEDIANS as your example (which leads me to believe Jon Stewart is your 'news' source), i have already mentioned chris rock; BUT, you know, and it is widely known, that black comics can get away with saying far more things than white comics.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...depends on what is being said. Where is it widely known? I haven't heard a single Chris Rock sketch, where I felt offender. Eddie Murphy had to make an apology towards gays, after his "Delerious" sketch was released...tell me where Black comics are getting away with bashing whites? Give me a clip where Chris Rock has overstepped his bounderies in racism...we're on YouTube, so it should be easy. Hell, African Amercian politicians do not get away with racism...
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...why are you so hung up on comedians? we were talking about politics right wing/left wing, are you saying that all of these racists in the right wing's leadership and they're followers are all a bunch of comedians?
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison YOU brought up JEFF FOXWORTHY!!!!!
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...I was showing you that a guy who uses the word redneck is not deemed a racist, and is now hosting a family TV show. Redneck is no where near what the n-word stands for or represents. Tell me of a time when rednecks was a label to a group of slaves?
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison right, a COMEDIAN...thus my response with OTHER EXAMPLES OF COMEDIANS, because you brought it up first. it astounds me you did not make this connection.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...My cousin owns a bar called FredNecks, and it is packed every weekend with a bunch of peeps who would proudly call themselves rednecks.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs is chris rock racist? he uses 'nigger'. are black people racist when they use 'nigga'? is 'nigga' NOT racist? if not, can white people use it?
it seems you are scrambling pretty hard to defend a double standard, which, deep down you KNOW there is, but cannot bring yourself to swallow your pride and admit.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs...you're asking some pretty silly questions...tell ya what, call an African American that, and see what happens. I will let you answer your own stupid question. Your comparison is nowhere similar...if I call you a honky, am I a racist towards whites?...you'll likely say yes, whatever, because you are slipping further and further into a realm as to why people would likely call you an ignorant racist, especially if you do not know the symbolism behind a white calling a black such.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i do not refer to blacks as 'african-american' unless they have dual citizenship because there ARE whites from africa who live here. some notable examples: dave matthews & charleze theron. are THEY african american? it IS their heritage.
let's not forget that EGYPT is in africa. so egyptian immigrants to america: african american?
am i white? am i irish-american? where's my box on forms to show my heritage. if it's by geographics, i'm NATIVE AMERICAN; I am native to america.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...okay, I sometimes use black instead of African Americans, however, I try to use African American, because that is a politically correct term for them; they wish to be called that. I would think that for what their race has endured in this country, whatever they want to be defined as should be accomodated. Just as groups are proud of being called italian-american, irish-americans...so on and so forth. Who cares if it makes a group content?
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison exactly, SO how come only WHITES do not have that option on forms (to choose heritage). wouldn't calling white people WHITE be politically INcorrect? i mean if BLACK may not be used, certainly WHITE may not, right? where is the continuity?
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...again, you can put it in other...if you are offended by this, take it up with peeps writing surveys. A person who is black and white, doesn't have a spot to put theirs...they put it in other. Are you full Irish? I'm guessing no....but if you feel a strong attachment to your %, put it in other. I'm sorry if you feel your race is being left out...Also, I've seen caucasian as our block to be checked off. I really couldn't care...if you ACTUALLY do, I don't know what to say.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i will proudly mark caucasian if you can show me where caucasia is on a map.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...it's in relation to Europe, your ancestory is from Europe, true?
caseycollison 1 year ago
Respond to this video...but i am not an 'other'. i have heritage that needs to be, and should be, represented. otherwise I am being discriminated against, as my heritage is not represented on the form.
of other is acceptable, why not just have NO boxes, and people can write what they want? that'd only be fair.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...what is your heritage. I have never seen a job app with percentages. I am a quarter this, a quarter that, with ten percent here, ten percent there, and a sliver of Native American. Should my job app cover the percentages? No, it would be a waste of paper. I've heard the white man has had a pretty hard time in this country...poor whites...I say whites, because I am not going to cover all of the percentages, because that is just silly.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison agreed; show me a black person that is not 'just a percent' of african. and we are STILL not being truly fair. it seems people think SOUTH AFRICA, the country, is the whole continent of africa. but, if they want to use african american, they are referring to the continent. therefore, to fairly cover everyone, the ONLY BOXES NEEDED are african-american; antarctican-american; asian-american; australian-american; european-american, north american-american; south american-american.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...just as causasian and asian is in reference to the continents that their history comes from
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison so you would agree, the best solution is to put all 7 continents on the forms, then if dual citizenship, use a hyphen with american.
i don't care if caucasian references anything; it is not on a map. anywhere. if you can show that to me, on a recent map, i will extinguish my thought that it is an outdated term (if it ever was on a map or a real place).
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...let me see the country of asia. Let me see the country of Africa. These are all continents. For all of the countries coming and going during the European Wars, I think our caucasian status has more to do with political correctness than anyother....
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison CORRECT. CONTINENTS. so by saying AFRICAN AMERICAN, you are referring to a CONTINENT. asian-american = CONTINENT. my solution...put all 7 continents on the form. then all is equal.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...dead horse is being kicked at this point, it is a stupid thing to whine about.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if you do not agree, I do not care. This really does not matter, and none of this has to do with reverse racism
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...we are caucasian in reference to our European ancestrory...we call oriental people asian, why is it so bad to call a black person African American in reference to their ancestory. What makes it so wrong, if this is what they wish to be called? I have to say, this is getting pretty silly and we can stop here with the back and forth of a race of people that neither you or I are apart of...I'm sorry you are consumed with your party's rhetoric.
caseycollison 1 year ago
Respond to this video...and yes, their PEOPLE endured a lot. but so did jewish people, irish people, italian people....as much? no. but still, for those it happened to it was pretty bad.
but, nobody is alive today who was enslaved. if people continue to want 'reparations', wouldn't fully complying be shipping them back to africa, then, should they WANT to come here (unlike with slavery), they can apply for citizenship legally, and on their own free will, like every immigrant should?
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs "As much? no." there you answered it yourself. Who are you to tell a group of people, who you have no association with, how they should feel about things that were done that you cannot fathom. The abuses they suffered is something that gets passed generation to generation. You're also talking like this was something that happened 300 years ago...a lot of their gripes are pretty recent...like their grandmother endured this and that.
caseycollison 1 year ago
...there are many African Americans alive today that endured segregation, which was almost a continuation of slavery.....they weren't owned, but weren't free. A group treated so harsh, and you're shocked that they have some compaints. I do not think all African Americans want these reparations, but I can see how they feel the pain of their great grandparents, and the stories they group up hearing.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...you could put that down in the "other" box if you want.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison you're right...they do THAT on the 1st amendment.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...guy, you really aren't making sense with these tangents...pick a point and stick with it. What are you trying to get at now with the 1st amendment.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison i have tried to 'stick to a point', which, may i remind you was, THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED THIS VIDEO USED A SAMPLE OF CHOICE INTERVIEWS TO TRY TO PROVE THEIR POINT THAT REPUBLICANS ARE BAD.
anything else, i have merely been responding to your tripe.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if the leaders are being caught shouting what they are shouting, and there is no massive surge in demanding for an apology, no one stepping up saying "Whoa, what the hell..." then they are just as guilty for allowing it to continue. If any Democratic leader screamed to a crowd "don't retreat, reload" or using a man's middle name as if it is "questionable" the left would turn on them in two seconds....I look to the leadership as well as all the dispanded KKK's.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison "just as guilty"? so a guy walks into a convenience store with a gun. i am a customer in this convenience store. if i do not step up and say "whoa, what the hell" and commence a massive surge, you are saying "I" might as well have robbed the store myself because i am 'just as guilty' for allowing it to continue?
hmmm....
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...I'm saying if you have the ability to call 9-1-1 and do not...then yes, you are guilty. A lady up hear went to prison for 3-5 for witnessing a woman being tortured, and instead of calling the police she went home and did nothing. Later that girl was murdered...because the woman failed to intervene when she had full capability, she was found guilty of aiding.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison haha...that was a seinfeld episode, too!
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if a party does not condemn the actions of its own leaders, and/or followers, then they are allowing it to happen, and are just as guilty. Does that make any sense to you? You tried to some my words into a fabricated scenario, which failed in coming close to what I was saying.
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison what leaders. what have they said?
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...can we use history on up: Jesse Helms chirped, "Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life which must be faced. He suggested that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist dupe and refused, even decades after King's death, to honor the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Limbaugh "Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it" Look up some of Angle's quotes
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison ...then if you want to include the crap said about Muslims during the whole community center bit, YOUTUBE it, because I am not going to hand walk you through it. This is your party...we havn't even touched on the absurd crap said about gays, hispanics, and others--will you see a politician come out saying the n-word, no...but they now use Hussein to mask it. Every REDNECK republican that I speak to, uses Hussein. I just got done reading some kid's hate-banter about"Muslim Hussein"
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison ...these politicians use the whole, "I'm not saying, I'm just saying" way of getting the hate injected into misguided followers. Sarah does it, Bachman has done it...it is a joke. I will give credit for the tea baggers finally firing their leader for writing the "Abraham letter".....but he said a lot of crap, before he finally put it down on paper, making it impossible to dodge. You'd think the leaders would steer away from such crap, when Congressmen are being called n-words...
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison when you say 'tea-baggers' you deflate your argument. you end up falling into the stereotype that when a liberal cannot argue logically, they resort to name calling.
it really makes it sound like you are writing out of emotion versus lateral thinking.
so far, i have enjoyed our little 'battle', but every time you resort to petty name calling, etc, it takes away from the intelligence of your post.
just food for thought.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...if you remember they came up with that name. They started off as the tea baggers movement. It changed a little after...I hold onto tea bagger when I call out the crazies involved, because I have no respect towards their thoughts, just as they call me a liberal pussy, smoking pot. I've had face to face conversations with these people, and they do not have a single reason as to why they hate Obama, except for a bunch of propaganda-bumper stickers
caseycollison 1 year ago
@caseycollison you're right...propaganda bumper stickers only come from the right...i forgot about that.
TheLincolnBlogs 1 year ago
@TheLincolnBlogs ...glad you agree
caseycollison 1 year ago