Comments on: Barack Obama reads the top ten list on David Letterman

By: stellapurdy

stellapurdy — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:46:53 +0000

Well said headache! She carpetbagged her way into New York State because of the huge democratic contingent and morphs into whatever personality she thinks will sway the vote her way. And I don’t think she could beat McCain, which in itself is a pretty frightening thought.

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By: headache

headache — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:22:38 +0000

The one thing I like about Obama is he has lived a relatively normal life. I’ve had enough of candidates who have spent their entire lives making decisions based on electability instead of a genuine moral compass. I’ve also had enough to candidates who have lived seemingly perfect lives, middle class, two parents who paid for all their school, etc.

It’s nice to have a candidate who has been broke, who has come from a less than stellar home life, who has had real problems.

Politics was never intended to be dynastic or even a career. It was supposed to be a citizen’s duty.

As I’ve stated many times, I have near polar opposite beliefs politically speaking that Obama, but I have to respect a candidate who wants to make things better even if I don’t agree with how.

He stands in stark contrast to a woman who I feel cannot be trusted. She will say whatever she has to because she has a burning need to BE president, to have the power, to show her husband and everyone else that she is better than all of them. I have no doubt she will then turn around once she’s sworn in and do whatever the hell she wants just because she can.

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By: stellapurdy

stellapurdy — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:34:27 +0000

What kills me is all the people who listen to Rush Limbaugh, or Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck and decide that their opinion is gospel without taking into consideration that those people are ENTERTAINERS! THEY’RE CELEBRITIES THAT ARE PAID FOR THE SCHTICK THEY SAY ON THE RADIO!

It’s not real, people. Can you right wing idiots get that fact into your head for crissakes?! Good God haven’t you learned after the 7+ years of Bush?

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By: Scott F.

Scott F. — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:07:46 +0000

Me – I will concede that much, in that I can see where the idea comes from. I just hear too many of these theories to imagine that they’re not relatively common. This is no different than when they were claiming crack was created by the government to keep blacks in poverty in the 90′s.

I wasn’t trying to lump white people as whole into the suffering category either, I guess I could have made that clearer. I was just trying to say that when you bring up things like Tuskegee, and Rose brought up Law 116, that those things weren’t confined to blacks, or even minorities. That was ALL connected with the eugenics movement, the belief that a certain genetic type was preferable and that all ‘undesirables’ should be sterilized.

The largest single group targeted wasn’t a racial minority, it was the mentally insane and retarded. Here in Indiana our state JUST apologized like a year ago for having a mandatory sterilization law for the mentally retarded for more than 2 decades at the turn of the century.

Still – Incidents like these went away a long time ago. Seriously, even racists have seemingly moved beyond the whole black/white thing – they’re too busy hating arabs and Mexicans.

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By: me

me — Sat, 03 May 2008 19:43:29 +0000

Scott F, I think you should go back and read what I wrote. I don’t have hatred for this country. I love America as I stated in my last post. The problem that I have with people like you and Hannity is that you seem to feel that only you can define what makes a good and patriotic American. It’s funny how when one black person does or says something, it somehow represents how all blacks feel. I was not defending Rev Wright, I don’t agree with his statements about Aids being invented by the government. I also don’t consider Jesse and Al to be my leaders, or in any way representatives of my interest. All that I was trying to say is that it is easy to see how some blacks might at least entertain some conspiracy theories, considering what the government has proven itself capable of doing. Can you at least concede that point? In addition, I’m sure you are not attempting to compare the way this country has treated blacks and other minorities to the way it has treated whites….are you? In all you seem like a somewhat reasonable person. I will look into the information you provided on German American’s.

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By: Scott F.

Scott F. — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:42:55 +0000

I never said that blacks were never persecuted, but stop trying to put a corner on the market. How many white people were tested on and sterilized just for being mentally retarded? Those numbers make Tuskegee look like a Sunday picnic. I know you’re being sarcastic, but honestly, that shit WAS a long time ago. How many people involved in any of the things you mentioned are still alive? Hell, how many of their children or even grandchildren are?

By your logic, the modern government in Germany MUST still be killing Jews in concentration camps, because that happened there at one point in time right? Well, that was at the same damn time as Tuskegee. Modern America is about as close to America in the 30′s and 40′s as modern Germany is to the Nazi’s.

This guy said these things recently, not 50 years ago. For most white people, these ideas went out of style a long time ago. It’s frankly a little frightening how many of you are apologizing for this man. I can assure you that if this had been a white man saying these kinds of things about blacks, I sure as hell wouldn’t be defending him.

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By: rose

rose — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:25:30 +0000

@ Scott F
What is your excuse for TUSKEGEE? or the LAW 116 in 1937 where poor PuertoRican women were targeted for sterilazation without giving them other alternatives and w/o fully explaning that the procedure was permanent? Or using the same Puertorican women as guinea pigs to test birth control pills w/o knowing the effects it might have? Are these examples factual enough?

@me

You dare bring up Tuskegee? That was sooo long ago! Just like LAW 116.We just need to get over it and leave it in the past. Let us concentrated on those Rev. Wright YOU TUBE videos that were film 3 years ago! That is current news. More important. Or lets watch Rev Wright video from last week and continue to put his words into Obama’s mouth and heart. That would be more American of us .

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By: Scott F.

Scott F. — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:04:01 +0000

Me – you’re obviously not an unbiased observer in all this, and even more obviously have been fed bullshit propaganda. German Americans weren’t interned during the second world war? BULLSHIT. White Germans were interned 6 months BEFORE the Japanese were, before we were even involved in the war.

It was thought they were going to sabotage shipping and industrial targets on the east coast (the same worries about the west coast were what got the Japanese interned). Shortly after an explosion took out four ships in a New York harbor, German immigrants were rounded up and interned. I visited one of those very camps in Georgia, so I can assure you they did exist.

In fact, one of the unknown statistics of the second world war, is that we had more German JEWS in internment camps than we did Japanese. Look it up if you don’t believe me.

That’s my problem with all this hatred blacks throw toward the government, half the time you don’t even know what you’re talking about. If you’re gonna gripe, at least make sure it’s factual.

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By: me

me — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:51:54 +0000

It blows my mind that some in white America can’t understand why some black people might actually think that the American government is capable of unthinkable injustices towards minorities. Please google TUSKEGEE!. In addition, During World War II, America interned Japanese Americans but not German Americans (whites). I’m a black man, and I love America. Some people seem to feel that criticizing America means you are un-American. For most whites, America has been the perfect parent. For black people, America has been the parent that has abused you in the past but now has asked for forgiveness. Even though you forgive and love the parent, the abuse will always stay in the back of your mind.