The House is Set to Apologize to African Americans | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 hidden)
Obama and reparations (none / 0)
http://www.americanthinker. com/blog/2008/06/meet_obama s_reparations_model.html
hrmm, wonder why this hasnt been brought up? Do a search for Obama amd
reparations and you find all sorts of interesting articles. Do YOU
really want to be forced to pay for something that happened 150 years
ago? How far will it go? People should research exactly the influences
behind Obama and what the ultimate outcome could be if he is elected.
You think affirmative action is the worst of it? I urge you to read
everything you can find and educate yourself.

by cheryl on 07/30/2008 03:42:20 PM EST

2 Things (none / 1)
1)-Why did you have to pick the name "Cheryl"?

2)-Why don't you have a profile? And why haven't you posted here before? And why did you link to a right wing website (not right of center, right wing)?

I clicked on a random article on the homepage and the author wrote this "...On a recent broadcast, Savage, whose views I most often agree with..."

Sorry, but anyone who most often agrees with the views of Michael Savage is not someone I'm going to take seriously. And it speaks volumes about the credibility of that website.

If you're honestly undecided and concerned, we'll have a discussion. But if you picked a website to troll and plant misinformation and fear mongering about a Obama I have to inform you that you picked the wrong one.

by Tom Hanc on 07/30/2008 05:04:15 PM EST

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Technically that's an "answer" (none / 0)
But it's a terrible answer.

For example, if I ask what 2+2 is and you say "purple" you *technically* answered the question.

But it's a terrible answer.

by Tom Hanc on 07/30/2008 05:52:45 PM EST

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speech (none / 0)
We have a real problem when most of the news is presented as talking points for one side or the other. News needs to be news. Opinion needs to be opinion. Referring to an agenda driven web site is not presenting facts. Just some twisted slant. People who spread the slant as facts should not be given national platforms to operate from. It is called propaganda.

by sisco66 on 07/30/2008 06:00:00 PM EST

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why not use my name? (none / 0)
It happens to be my name? I just joined yesterday, and I thought this was a forum for free speech. Am I supposed to have some pithy name to post by? Sorry, I didnt read that in the rules anywhere.

by cheryl on 07/31/2008 10:44:06 PM EST

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All right (none / 0)
I'm willing to apologize for jumping to conclusions.
 
But 9 times out of 10 it's a conservative troll that comes to a progressive site for a first time post with no profile (and puts up something ripping Obama with a linking to a laughably bad and biased right-wing website).

Do you understand why I and others might be, at the very least, skeptical?

As for your name, I like it. My girlfriend's name is Cheryl and I have another friend named Cheryl. My comment about the name was over taking offense that someone I perceived to be a conservative troll had picked that name instead of a 'pithy' one.


So again, if I misread you and you aren't here to just find ways to spread anti-Obama propaganda while pretending to be moderate, I sincerely apologize.  Of course you're free to say whatever you want, but by the same token I and others are free to call people out on perceived BS and questionable potential motives they may have.


I'd be very happy to be proven wrong. Then we'll have another great addition to TYT and I'll look like a fool.  Welcome to TYT Cheryl. :)


by Tom Hanc on 08/01/2008 10:44:43 AM EST

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laughable (none / 0)

I'll save anyone the hassle of having to read that post he made about reparations and Obama. What does it do? It states that Obama and Randal Ronbinson both support funding poor schools(K-12). From this he basically implies that Obama believes in all of Robinson's ideas.

I'm really starting to get sick of this stupid, ridiculous idea that people are completely and wholly influenced by another's thoughts or ideas. Apparently right wingers assume that if you READ A BOOK by someone that you are simply utterly under the influence of its author. 

I have an idea. From now on, whenever you see a republican tell them that you have read a book by Theodore Roosevelt and another book by Hitler. Then ask them what they think your views are. Based on their logic that if you read a book you are brainwashed by it they will probably start quivering in the fetal position saying "Its impossible, he read books with multiple views...how do I know what he thinks...this is madness!". Then his head will explode. After a few months of this they should all be gone.

And, looking around on that site, I found a wonderful gem on one article about "deconstructing Obama" :

"I must accept that Obama's difference, in terms of his racial makeup is actually better than McCain's common identity with my own.  Whatever happened to Martin Luther King's insistence on a colorblind society?"

Seriously, thats exactly whats in one of the articles. I guess shiver doesn't understand that picking McCain for his "common identity" is in fact exactly what the article (and the NEXT SENTENCE) are allegedly against. It would be funny if so many people didn't actually believe it.

It was also stated, I believe in that same article, that the democratic party's election process became LESS democratic after 1968. Of course, looking at the facts, Humphrey won the democratic nomination WITHOUT PARTICIPATING IN PRIMARIES in 1968. Yea, that sounds like a system I would have kept. 

That site is a joke. American THINKER? rofl.

Don't talk about religion or politics, my ass!

by TheRob91 on 07/30/2008 08:46:05 PM EST

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