BigDave: 

Obama is a dictator?  Explain how you define this term.  He defers on virtually every issue to the Congress, and has given very few executive orders in comparison with his predecessor over a given 6-month period.

People are afraid to speak up against the government?  Which people?  The Right does NOTHING but trash Obama and the government as loudly as possible, the Progressive Left is squawking about Obama's performance all over this forum and other Progressive sites, and if you're referring to his mainstream Democratic and Independent supporters, why would they be afraid to speak out?  They aren't afraid of Obama--they LIKE him.  Please give an example of someone who is afraid to voice an opinion about Obama.

The media are socialist?  THIS American media who blatantly kisses up to corporate sponsors?  This media who desperately shills day and night for ratings?  They are socialist?  Please explain.

I will leave the unbelievably patronizing discussion about "slaveowners being thanked and applauded because they had the kindness to employ slave labor" for someone with a bit more outrage on the subject.  But I do find it also patronizing that you would name one historically important Black inventor (Carver) and then, instead of talking about influential authors, politicians, businessmen, scholars, war heroes, etc., you jump right to musicians and athletes who "entertain" for a living.  If you were listing off a group of white Americans who had made positive contributions to our history and our society, how far down the list would you go before you named a single athlete?

You are free to express your opinions here at this forum, even if others don't agree with almost any of them.  But please bring us something stronger than "Obama is a dictator like his buddy Chavez."  We are smart people, and we call it as we see it, including if that means calling out Liberals and corporatist Democrats when warranted.  But we are not suspectible to fact-free partisan hackery from either side.