At The White House With President Obama

ANOTHER COMMMENT, HE LL DO FIRST
THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR A
COUNTRY LIKE HEALTHY JOB AND A GOOD
EDUCATION. WITH THIS HE CAN DO A BASIC FORM TO INCREASE ALL OF THE OTHERS THINGS.
THANKS
RICARDO.

RACISM-RACISM-RACISM!!!!!They played that card even on Bill Clinton during the campaign and it has grown disgusting to most Americans. GET THIS STRAIGHT James Earl Carter—-Americans totally did not like you and your policies when you ran America in the ground and it was not because you are white and America is growing tired of Obama’s policies not his skin color because his policies are hard core Socialist and Americans don’t want that garbage so get off your racism garbage when someone says Obama lies because they just might think he lies and not that he is black. Most White Americans admired Clarene Thomas for his patriotic Constitutional views not his skin color. Man these boneheads like Carter(the sometimes suspectec anti semite Carter) are giving America a headache!!!!!

James Earl Carter has done so much harm to our country. To me, he is a bitter old man who is mad at his country because they kicked him out of office for a real leader.

THE WAY HE HAS WITH HIS FAMILY IS
A GOOD THING FOR A COUNTRY.
BUT WHEN I WAS IN USA, I LOOKED AROUND
AND I SAW A LOT OF FAMILIES TOGHETER.
I LIKED THIS POINT OF VIEW.
HE ONLY APPEAR, IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND
POLITIC PROGRAM, I VE NEVER SAW HIM
IN PARTIES, MAGAZINES ETC.
I LIKE THIS
AND HE IS
KNOWN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
THANKS A LOT
-TODAY IS MY NEPHEW BIRTHDAY I LL GO
TO THE PARTY- 16 YEARS
OLD.

DR.BARACK OBAMA
MY NEPHEW IS BESIDES ME , AND HE BELIEVES THAT I LL GO TO USA.
AND HE WENT ONE TIME WITH ME, TO FLORIDA
-MIAMI- AND HE LIKED A LOT
HE SAID TO ME THAT HE BELIEVED IN YOUR
GOVERNMENT.
THANKS A LOT

deanbob those shouting “Racist” are trying to fuel the “fire”. They are hoping it will grow into something bigger. So Obama is trying to stop it by saying Rep Wilson’s remark was not racist.

I want to know why our president has revoked the visas of the interim Honduran govt for following their constitution and is sidinging Marxist communist leaders — Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Raul Castro, Evo Morales.

Has anyone told the Obamas that they won the election in 2008 and they don’t need to run again until 2012? Just wondering…

I am so sick of hearing the Race card being played I will never vote for a Black person again,I would rather vote for a frog.

That’s hilliarious the old #1 worse president Carter, trying to play the race card to cover for the new #1 worse president Obama.

LETS SEE IF GEORGE WILL ASK AT LEAST “ONE TOUGH QUESTION” OR IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER LOVE FEST.. ON ABC, AND ALL THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA… I WILL BE KEEPING MY TV OFF AND NOT WATCH ANY MORE OF THIS… IF HE HAD A HANDLE ON THIS HEALTH CARE THING… HE WOULD NOT NEED TO KEEP REPEATING HIMSELF ,.. HE WOULD BE JUST SITTING BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW ELSE HE COULD RUIN THIS GREAT COUNTRY..

Race as an issue for discussion indicates that people are caught up in old and outmoded ideas that suggest that because of differing physical characteristics that exist between one group of people and another, that those differences somehow translate into intelligence, civility, graciousness, or other cultural attributes. This thinking is false and is based on the false assumptions made years ago when one group/culture collided with another.
I am not so surprised that the mythology of race runs rampant in certain sections of American and, perhaps, world society, but I am a bit surprised to see that President Obama doesn’t understand it either.
Scientifically, race does not exists. DNA studies conducted under the auspices of the National Geographic Society and IBM, have proven that all of mankind came out of Africa and when they did so, they weren’t white, or yellow, or red, rather they were shades of brown unto black, with tightly curled black hair and brown eyes. In other words, your ancestry and mine, regardless of who you are, were black. That you are now white with blond hair and blue eyes, or some other color variation is due solely to the influence of the environment over centuries. As we adapted to living conditions, our physical characteristics changed. It’s as simple as that. So, get educated and learn about your forbears at the National Geographic web site and stuff the old and outmoded idea, the actual myth of race, in the garbage can where it belongs and, instead, celebrate that old rivalries based on this nonsense can come to an end. You will be the better for it, society will be the better for it and your nation will be the better for it.

AK, that’s a lot of good rhetoric, but let’s get real — a few random folks out there are going to be racist on all sides — there are always a few people who will think (or unfortunately do) anything, again on all sides. But the vast, vast majority of tea party-goers aren’t racist — they disagree with the corruption in the government, the direction the government is going, and the fact that the President and Congress seem determined to ignore a growing number of people who are asking questions because they don’t understand how the policies being proposed are even constitutional. Bush was also depicted as the Joker, and Bush was often called a fascist by his opponents. Obama, in terms of policy, IS a socialist; let’s say what it is, and if you agree with the policies, fine, but they are what they are — government takeover of finance, auto, and insurance industries and policies that directly promote redistribution of wealth — all of that IS socialist. That’s just a fact. Bringing a gun to a rally? So what? Notice that no one has tried to MISUSE a gun at a rally. You have a RIGHT to carry a gun as much as you have the right to speak your mind and post on this board — they’re both equally in the Constitution. What ISN’T in the Constitution is socialism — although if you want to do a research project and dig into the Constitution and point out where the federal government has the power to nationalize industries and mandate everyone buy health insurance, go for it. Finally, Limbaugh and Beck are no more responsible for any (God forbid) freak extremist inciting violence than Martin Luther King was for the race riots of the 1960′s. That’s just a ridiculous statement. Limbaugh and Beck don’t encourage violence — Beck, specifically, DISCOURAGES violence. So, AK, through all of your name-calling and vitriol, you didn’t say anything that’s actually TRUE. Why?

The past few days I sensed a peak in the far-right-fringe extremism. The 75,000 man march (2,000,000 by the “University of I don’t know”-Beck, 1,500,000 by Beck, 500,000 by Fox, and 100,000 by the sponsors) was not well received by the public at large. It seems that after President Carter spoke, everything changed. He was seen as very credible by most…except the far-right-fringe. The Republicans politicians all seemed shook this past week.
And now some of the right-wing posters are actually trying to rationalize their way through this mine field. But, that’s a start! Because, before this we couldn’t get a rational thought out of them.

Today, September 18, 2009, 1 hour ago | John Locke
…That you are now white with blond hair and blue eyes, or some other color variation is due solely to the influence of the environment over centuries. As we adapted to living conditions, our physical characteristics changed…
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But isn’t the brown hair, brown skin, brown eyes, etc. dominant in reproduction? I seem to recall something of this from years ago, but I can’t remember the specifics.

Also: “You have a RIGHT to carry a gun as much as you have the right to speak your mind and post on this board — they’re both equally in the Constitution”…Bedeviled: To a presidential event? Are you KIDDING me? Do you not remember past presidential assassinations and attempts? Imagine if an AK47 carrying black man had showed up to an President Bush rally. Ha!!! He would have been taken down, and the Right would have been yelling!”

As a person from the outside looking in on America I am stunned by this statement; (Obama’s policies not his skin color because his policies are hard core Socialist and Americans don’t want that garbage). Why then do Americans depend on welfare to survive when they become unemployed? Persons who make these statements must now call on their government to disband ALL government sponsored services in the USA, re: Armed forces, Police, Govt health services if any, social security , and any other service maintaned by USA tax payers.

the president should rethink his policy on health care. He should first get the doctors he needs. this will take 8 years or better. Go after the insurance and drug companies. Do not touch Medicare. Congress passed a law the companies do have to pay retiree their benefits that they retire with because now they have medicare. If he cut medicare benefit senior will be on welfare in a few years. Seniors have loss alot in the market, taxes are higher. His ideas are great but you cannot do everything at once. I worked for fortune 500 company no way would I or any of my associate would have impletmented a project without knowing what it was going to do at the end result. Where are the doctors? How will we paid for this? Are hospital set for this impact? What will we do to our seniors and middle class? This is so corrupt going after the senator seat in Massachusetts. What kind of democracy is this? Ann

I WILL BE KEEPING MY TV OFF AND NOT WATCH ANY MORE OF THIS… IF HE HAD A HANDLE ON THIS HEALTH CARE THING… HE WOULD NOT NEED TO KEEP REPEATING HIMSELF ,.. HE WOULD BE JUST SITTING BACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW ELSE HE COULD RUIN THIS GREAT COUNTRY..
Posted by: OLGA | Sep 18, 2009 9:57:09 PM *********** Olga, you still own a television? There’s most of the problem. Please free yourself and throw that nut box in the trash where it belongs. Garbage in/ garbage out.

OK, some people legitimately have concerns about changing healthcare as we know it. Some don’t like it only because it’s being done by a democratic President and democratic Congress. Some don’t like it because the President is African American. I’m concerned that the sqeaky wheels are getting the grease. They’re the Nazi’s. They want control over every thing and they’re fighting hard to get it. They’re not realizing they are the ones ruining this country. I’ve always admired George Stephanopoulos’s unbiased reporting and discussion. I’m worried that he and ABC believe Fox News claim that they are number 1 and now they are competing with them by leaning toward extremist views. ABC sees how the ditto head Fox News viewers follow everything Fox, Limbaugh, etc. say. Their followers are unquestioning of them and believe whole heartedly every word that comes out their mouths. ABC wants to be like them and I am scared of that.

Whenever you have two sides to any issue there will be opposing arguments and causes. The debates we see presently are no different than we have seen in the past. When people get passionate about an issue, sometimes words are the trigger point for a new argument. We have seen that recently in the news.
When people feel their life is negatively impacted, they have a tendency to lash out at others. When that happens there is a new face that presents, and race is just a fabric of the old cloak we have worn for years. People are frustrated everywhere, they are insecure about their future, and they look to those who make promises to deliver on them.
Remember, Pres. Obama is not even through 20% of his term and people are reminded everyday of the campaign promises made and delivered. We have a short term memory, and those who may be impacted the greatest may have the shortest when it comes to patience.
If the U.S. (citizens) can see what the picture will look like when done than maybe they could feel more empowered to help the cause. Until we can be still within ourselves, and contribute as we can w/o creating tension elsewhere, we will all be better for it. Have a great weekend.

The race issue won’t go away because it will always be an excuse for some of his supporters to show why things aren’t being supported. A convenient and simplistic approach but that is his support base. He has the worst president of the 20th century bad mouthing Americans calling people that disagree with his policies racists. I am not sure about the rest of you but that doesn’t seem to help him much. I don’t dismiss that there are racists in this nation as well as every nation on Earth, but it is the issues that take precedence here, not the color of his skin. I have not agreed with him much at all since I read up on him during his campaigning. I read his campaign website. He does not speak for me at all not does he represent the views of now what seems to be about 50% of the nation. I along with many others impatiently await the next election. There must be something better.

I have to give Obama credit. He’s staying as far away from the ‘race card’ as he can. Smart! He also says, “I think there are people that are ‘anti-government’, but he never says, “there are people who are anti-socialists’, or ‘anti-marxists’. Or comes right out and says, “There are people who don’t like my policies’. He’s one smooth cookie.

Wow – The President gave him a whole fifteen minutes to cover all of those extremely important issues. A news show and only 15 minutes.
Now, did I hear correctly that he’ll be on Letterman for a whole HOUR?

“I challenge you to provide a list of cities in which the largest race riots occurred in this nation. You will find that there are in the North and in the West. Not the South.”
Forget about race riots and think about where lynching of African-Americans mainly occurred.

Wow – The President gave him a whole fifteen minutes to cover all of those extremely important issues. A news show and only 15 minutes.
Now, did I hear correctly that he’ll be on Letterman for a whole HOUR?
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Actually he gave all of the major networks the same amount time with the exception of my beloved FOX who he replaced with an international spanish network. I guess we have make up lies about the whole thing since we were uninvited. “I’m afraid and so are you!”

Yesterday we saw a ‘FAUX News’ and Limbaugh attempt to connect the ‘incitement to violence’ with Nancy Pelosi’s plea to stop this sort of stuff. I heard both myself.
They don’t just take the facts and twist them…they simply, straight-faced lie! They do this knowing that educated people like you I can simply check the original statements and immediately know that they are lying. Why?
Because, they know that the uneducated far-right-fringe (20% or so) will not check it out and they will be incited to violence!

ncdad57 SAID “…To those of you that weren’t raised in the south, please don’t be misled. Most white children,especially males,are raised steeped in a culture that is still quietly,but most certainly,racist……..
You are absolutely right. As a southerner I can attest that even though things are better hidden, it is still there on the top of many people’s agenda. Look at Alabama as an example. Only 10% of the state voted for Obama. Compare that to other states and you will see what I mean. It is no coincidence that the south was always democrats until after the civil rights movement was signed into law. It very shortly became Republican and that is not a coincidence. Change is slow – but it is definitely happening. Some day the whole issue will be looked back on by everyone as just plain silly.

I saw an old Will and Grace episode that was poking fun at people who did not support the president (Bush at the time) and equating them to be un American, un-patriotic and not supporting the troops.
Just because we do not like the President’s policies and exercise our constitutional rights to say so, one is called a racist. I voted and supported Obama. I do not agree with the health reform bills presented thus far. I do not agree with the GOp proposals either and think the solution lies in combinations of them all. I do not support the public option!
I am not a racists, I am not a Nazi, fanantic or unpatriotic for opposing the bills in their current forms.
this is from what I recall, Very AMERICAN!
lets not play the race card, patrioti card, etc. everytime we dissent from our elected leaders.

Blessed are the peacemakers…each person in our land has value, potential, and the right to occupy a spot, and breath. Racism is vainglory and pride, and leads others to apathy and despair. You want to fight racism and improve American society, incorporate these attributes in your life: Humility, charity, kindness, patience, temperance, and lastly, diligence.

PEOPLE are not happy with the fact that we are well aware that Obama is trying to transform our country into a socialist nation. It has nothing to do with race for all but maybe 1% of our country. We aren’t for 80% of the country to have to be under the gov’s healthcare when only a very small % don’t have healthcare ins. The only people that need assistance are the poverty level people. I know I can’t afford healthcare ins. on a 4-digit annual income. They say Medicaid is for the poor. That’s not true. I am definitely a poor person who lives within my income. I am content with what I have & I don’t begrudge those who have aquired their dream. When I try to get healthcare assistance from Medicaid I’m asked 3 questions: Are you disabled, are you pregnant, do you have a child under 18? No to all 3, “I’m sorry you don’t qualify.” is what I am told. Pregnancy is not an illness or a disease, it is a woman choosing to have unprotected sex, & we the taxpayers have to pay for their GYN & baby doc. then we pay for her child for the next 18years while people in the low poverty level can just die. Why are we rewarding these women’s bad behavior while there are people who genuinely need healthcare assistance. I thank God I’ve not been sickly for the past 35 years. I am thrown to the wolves & they will continue to throw me to the wolves. I’m 62 & don’t qualify for assistance now that I’m having some problems. I use natural health remedies
& don’t want the drugs & other quick sick fixes the docs use. I don’t want that poison in my body & the side affects are worse than the sickness.

He is nothing that he campaigned for… I’m sorry I voted for him, what a waste of an historic moment.

Another thing you people can’t prepare to fight against another country you all
are to busy fighting amongst one another. There are bigger things in life to be concern about than color. I think some people think being prejudice is cute!!! well guess what it is not, it makes you look like a very foolish ignorant person, it doesn’t make you look any better than anybody and doesn’t make you any smarter… makes me wonder who is really raising the kids. You all need to focus on the importance of life, people ared dying from cancer and other health issues, let’s be more concerned about those issues instead of acting if you all are insane in the membrane!!!!

No “they” play The RACE card on their CARDS. You can “think” or “not think”, but When you SEE RACISM …. It is what it is……..besides, the President is a much BIGGER MAN than those on the right, who questions his legitamacy using RACISM to fear the ignorants of our society. He would never validate this, but no rational person believes that Race is NOT a factor with this President.

Race? What? I believed Martin Luther King when he said to judge a man by the CONTENT of HIS CHARACTER. So this Elitest and KINGMAN of a president and Newsweek says I’m racist for being born white when I have a hispanic wife and in my distant ancestory I am related to Alex Haley and also have a black-brother-in-lay and an asian cousin. Not to mention many relative of Christian and Jewish backgrounds.
Go eat rocks Obama! I didnt like the foundation of your character and that of the main body of the Democratic party, what you stand for, you take and use people to gain power. Sadly they dont even reconize that you used them. Your true content is starting to show along with other liberals, you hate America, you have since the Hippie era of the 60′s. I dont perscribe myself to any party, I vote who I beleive who will best represent me, thats where I the PEOPLE get my power. Read Washingtons 2nd farewell address people, DONT JOIN A PARTY AS THEY WILL USE YOU AND DESTROY YOUR FREEDOM!

So once again we have the sexist (Palin) vs. the racists (aka people who dare to have a different opinion than Obama… And Republicans are supposed to be the party of bigotry and intolerance… Evel Kinevel couldn’t make a leap that high. If your looking for racist, bigots, quotas, and people who think they know better than you how to run your own life. You will have found a home in the Democratic (Peoples Socialist Republic) Party. Forgive those who believe in freedom and personal responsibility if they choose to opt out from being exploited in such a way. This is not a totalitarian state… Yet!!!!

Mr. AK, was the basis for the opposition to Bill Clinton, race? Were those who mocked Rice, Thomas, Gonzales, & Powell racists? Citing fringe beliefs as representative of people concerned about government expansion is a cheap shot & doesn’t answer the mreits of their position. Polls show most Americans oppose the government health plan. I guess we are all birthers. We are not robots for Rush or Beck are as the Obama lovers who see him as some sort of savior. I opposed Hillarycare & I oppose Obamacare for the same reason as do most people. The race charges by that idiot Carter & that gossip harridan Dowd are baseless. Where is their proof that most oppose Obama’s programs because he is black? A few signs at rallies? It is pure unmitigated BS.

“No matter what the President says or does. It will not be good enough. He will be critized for everything. His speech to the kids in school was not wanted. But yet other past Presidents, who were white of course did not get bashed like President Obama did. Gee, I wonder why?”
First, liberals tried to stop former Republican presidents, from giving their speeches to school children. They went thru legal channels. So the racial baiting there, is a waste of time.
Secondly, parents weren’t concerned about the President giving a speech, they were concerned about the content, and the hand out of questions, afterward, to students. Questions like…what can I do to help the president?
Those types of things are political, and for most parents, seemed to be a way to indoctrinate their children. Would the Obama’s be so welcoming, letting a Republican politician speak to their children, and offer a hand out with a question as to how, their children could help the Republicans? I doubt it.
Obama initially wanted to politicize this. In my opinion, let’s keep politics out of the class rooms. That goes for any president, and also, remember…this was not cleared thru proper channels of most schools. From what I’ve heard, they took this directly to the schools, and side stepped the administrations. That was wrong from the start.

Why do you allow Peggy Noonan on your show? She masquerades as an intellectual yet clearly doesn’t even know the definition of ‘boorish’. Perhaps if she looked in the mirror, she would see an example of one who very much defines the word.