You are trying too hard to disagree with your brother Obama supporters, rednecks, hippies, and hand-holding commie friends!!  peace and love. 

by desertpear on 10/26/2008 09:42:16 PM EST

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I agree that racism doesn't cover all areas shown in these videos.  It does however cover that young girl doing the monkey dance and the adults she must have gotten that notion from.  And the people in the Ohio video (being from Ohio that one is particularly embarrassing) has some more up-front racism...stuff like blacks will take over, a black running against a white is always going to be a second stringer, etc.

I certainly can agree, you can differ with Obama about economic topics, but if you express that by shaking your fist and yelling "Commie!" it makes me think there is something else behind that, besides the 3 words taken out of context of a longer statement about our decades-old progressive tax system that has long supported programs to help those lower on the socio-economic ladder.

My mom says she doesn't favor Obama because she doesn't want to see the country become more socialist than it already is.  That's fine, we can agree to disagree.  But she has no need to express it with aggression to the degree that some in these videos do.

Call it xenophobia if that's better, but there has to be something more at work to get the spittle flying like this than "I don't approve of any increase in social programs for the poor."  That's at a 2 and these people are at an 11.

by GretchenDawntreader on 10/26/2008 10:03:42 PM EST

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"Monkey President"

Yes it was a little girl, but did the parents have the integrity to correct her?  I wonder where she learned that.

There is a reason Rush Limbaugh uses race baiting tactics on his show.  He knows, better than anyone, what the conservative base wants to hear.  He is, after all, #1 on talk radio.

 

by richardshort2001 on 10/26/2008 09:44:36 PM EST

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i said i feel bad for NON-RACIST WHITE PEOPLE...that was a serious statement not meant to be sarcastic...but yet somehow you accused me of calling the people in the video racist...bobo, surely you think better of me than that...i do not pose arguments based on race, because personally i don't believe in race, however, I don't deny that racists exist.  I didn't call the people in the video racist, however their words made it seem like I WAS CALLING THEM RACIST...Look bobo, the thing is, this campaign has race issues involved, and some racist people have shown their face.  You should do yourself a favor and stop defending ALL white people, because ALL white people aren't tolerant of minorities, and a few WILL vote based on race, the same is true of a FEW blacks.  Most blacks vote on issues, as with MOST whites.  It's just  few idiots that misrepresent all of us.

Chris

by chrisandyasemin on 10/27/2008 01:11:16 AM EST

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southern ohio and northern ohio are two different worlds.  there is a video of strongsville, ohio, which is just south of cleveland.  but, when i say southern ohio, i don't necessarily mean south of mid-state.  toledo and cleveland and even sandusky, which gets a lot of out of towners, are NOTHING like rural ohio.  i grew up in toledo, and lived in cleveland for many years (before FINALLY escaping to the gorgeous liberal haven of l.a.) and it never ceased to amaze me how different rural and southern urban ohioans are from the cities of the north. 
and bobo, as a white woman, let me tell you why i usually suspect racism when someone tells me they don't like senator obama.  it has to do with the fact that almost every white person who says they aren't voting for obama says one of these reasons:  william ayers, socialism, muslim, not an american citizen.
HA.
john mccain is friends with g. gordon liddy.  where's your anger/suspicion over that?
john mccain supports the government buying up foreclosed homes.  socialism, anyone?
john mccain DOES support redistribution of wealth - only he wants to spread the wealth to those already wealthy.  it's STILL spreading the wealth.
john mccain claims to be baptist, but has never been baptised.  and while senator obama can quote from the bible, and not just the handful of verses most people know, i've never once heard john mccain speak from the heart, nor from the bible.  yet, where are the christians doubting john mccain's faith? 
john mccain was born in panama.  yeah, i know, on a navy base - but, as obama was born in hawaii, it seems to me that john mccain's citizenship is far more debatable than senator obama's.
not to mention, senator obama graduated top of harvard, was president of the harvard law review, taught constitutional law, and is an incredibly intelligent, well-spoken, rational man.  can you not, just for a moment, imagine he's white - can you not see how if he were white, he'd be considered the greatest candidate across the board?  see, it's the failure of most mccain supporters to see obama objectively, and to judge him by his policies, that makes me suspect racism.  no one is claiming ludicrous smears about the old white guy.  why is that?  and i honestly, without hesitation, suspect all these cries of socialism, communism, terrorist, muslim, arab, etc....are merely a subsitute, because most white people, no matter how dumb, do realize they can no longer get away with crying out "n***er".  only their small children, mocking a brilliant man with "monkey president" and low i.q. hicks carrying monkey dolls, or blatantly saying "i won't vote for a nigra/the black guy" or saying "the blacks will take over" can "get away" with racism.  but, the slightly higher i.q. racist whites have found other words/smears to vent their racist crap.
and i know i'm not wrong.  you, in your desire to see your candidate as president, are the one incapable of being objective about this.  and i'm not claiming you're racist...i just think you can't see the racism of many of your fellow mccain suporters, because the racist bastards are voting for the candidate you support-and i think, in the end, that is what keeps the non-racist mccain supporters from objectively seeing that many white mccain supporters ARE racist.

by betty brown on 10/27/2008 06:53:27 AM EST

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