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	<title>Comments on: Steele: Obama &#8216;Was Not Vetted Because The Press Fell In Love With The Black Man Running For The Office&#8217;</title>
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		<title>By: UCSBKitty</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/steele-obama-race/comment-page-6/#comment-5655245</link>
		<dc:creator>UCSBKitty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 05:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>spawndex, you have nothing but GOP talking points...but it is clear you did not cut and paste them. Bravo!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>spawndex, you have nothing but GOP talking points&#8230;but it is clear you did not cut and paste them. Bravo!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5655245', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: cdwriteme</title>
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		<dc:creator>cdwriteme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unless Steele stays in simply for the money (token positions, book sales, etc...), I think he&#039;s eventually gonna leave the Republican party.  Maybe not.  But, as a person of color myself, I don&#039;t think there&#039;s a high enough dose of Ambien I could take to sleep at night selling myself out like Steele does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unless Steele stays in simply for the money (token positions, book sales, etc&#8230;), I think he&#8217;s eventually gonna leave the Republican party.  Maybe not.  But, as a person of color myself, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a high enough dose of Ambien I could take to sleep at night selling myself out like Steele does.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5655221', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: GSpicer</title>
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		<dc:creator>GSpicer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 05:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alectimmerman, do you really think that a Conservative, no matter his race, will ever be given the free ride the media gave Obama? It makes your question self-evident.  

I always ask why no one ever brings up Alan Keyes. Limbaugh explicitly stated blackness, and not policy, was the only consideration for Colin Powell. Alan Keyes disproves that. Same thing here, why didn&#039;t the media get behind Keyes of Steele&#039;s assertion is true?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alectimmerman, do you really think that a Conservative, no matter his race, will ever be given the free ride the media gave Obama? It makes your question self-evident.  </p>
<p>I always ask why no one ever brings up Alan Keyes. Limbaugh explicitly stated blackness, and not policy, was the only consideration for Colin Powell. Alan Keyes disproves that. Same thing here, why didn&#8217;t the media get behind Keyes of Steele&#8217;s assertion is true?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654741', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ALEXIA</title>
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		<dc:creator>ALEXIA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 03:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;OK for all of the ignorant people out there-FYI Obama is and has been a United States Citizen all of his life . He was Born in Hawii, HOwever his Father was Born in Kenya, Obams Mother was Born in America.His father being from Kenya was born to Islamic decent, so is Obama following in his fathers footsteps and trying to turn this country Islamic? yess&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>OK for all of the ignorant people out there-FYI Obama is and has been a United States Citizen all of his life . He was Born in Hawii, HOwever his Father was Born in Kenya, Obams Mother was Born in America.His father being from Kenya was born to Islamic decent, so is Obama following in his fathers footsteps and trying to turn this country Islamic? yess</em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654690', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne Ant Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne Ant Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 01:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;spawndex Says:&lt;/em&gt;

May I recommend that you switch to a Mozilla Firefox browser.  It will automatically check your comments for spelling errors.  It will not, however, check your comments for factual errors.</description>
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<p>May I recommend that you switch to a Mozilla Firefox browser.  It will automatically check your comments for spelling errors.  It will not, however, check your comments for factual errors.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654561', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: spawndex</title>
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		<dc:creator>spawndex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i love how people see everything through filters.. liberals dismiss conservitivs and ignore facts that opose thear beleafs and so do conservitavs..
tell me in the lead up to the war in iraq who was leading the charge in the senate? there&#039;s plenty of archived video footage of her... it was hillery. and the fact is the dems only began to opose it when it was time to ramp up for election sesion. but people forgot that when it was time to oust bush.
honestly i find it desturbing when a war is politicised. how are you honoring those that gave thear lives by esentialy saying that we were wrong to oust a homicidal dictator? and yes sadam had WMD the proof is burried in mass graves filled with his own people. the problem is we gave him too mutch time to despose of them or send them to iran before the war.

durring the ram up to the war in iraq there was brief media coverage of a convoy of semi&#039;s goinng from iraq to iran.. and nobody can say what was on that convoy.

and yes there were many mestakes both before and durring the war. both wars were flawed as are all wars. no war goes as planned or w/o unforseen problems. 

and obama does have 2 acomplishments in his life.. both of them being winning elections.. before taking office he had less than 1 year experiance in elected office with virtualy no votes on any substintave issues unlike every other president before him in recent history there is nothing concreet about how he would govern in office all people had to go on was his word, his associations, and what he and the media would allow to be known.

and surly some people could be willing to admit that they voted for him simply because there was no way they would vote for any republican following bush, and some voted for him because he was black, but the majority voted for him because of his speeking abilities.

and if you look at how he&#039;s running the country on social, economical issues it looks alot like he&#039;s preping for socialisim.. ovcourse nobody on the left is objective enough to admit it or they prefer socilisim and are in the closet about it..

and with respect to watterboarding and the mess it is.. the kind of waterboarding the japaneese were prosicuted for and the kind we used are 2 compleetly different things the only simmilarities they share is the use of watter and the name.

and if watterboarding is torture than we better stop torturing our marine recrutes.. because every one of em is watterboarded durring traning..

it was beleaved neccicary durring the beginning after 9/11 because we had no idea if another attack was emminent, the terrorists had been traned to resist normal interrigation, and despite pelosi&#039;s apparent lies she and every other dem with the need to know new and never objected. let us not forget that these people that we waterboarded are the kind of people who videotape the beheading of civilians and post it on the web. so in my view these people are too high a priority to shut down..

and yes there were terrorist attacks against america before 9/11 they just all happened outside of america on foreghn soil.. these attacks were happening all the way back when clinton was in his first 4 years. it was just the politicly corect thing to do to ignore it and atempty to criminaly prosicute those involved as if we wernt at was despite alquida&#039;s decloration of war against the U.S 

and steele&#039;s coment about obama is verry harsh and politicly incorect.. porly worded but the meaning it true the liberal leaning media was blatantly biased twards him.. commentators and reporters were overflowing with it. 

the media is suposed to be objective, unbiased, and report on fact not feelings, or from an ideolocical view.. but this hasnt been the case for many years thus msnbc,cnbc,and the like have the lowest ratings ever.. and the news paper industry is falling apart by the day.. partly because of the rise of the internet, 24/7 news, and also because of a heavy obvious bias.

unfortunalty its human nature for people to beleave what they want to beleave and its easy for people to ignore facts that counter thear opinions.. and its easier to follow the leader than it is to take the blinders off and lead you&#039;re own path. and most countries fail because of turmoil from within being the root cause even when an outside forct takes the killing stroke.. i just hope that the intelectual war between liberals and conservitavs doesnt cause the ultimate down fall of america.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i love how people see everything through filters.. liberals dismiss conservitivs and ignore facts that opose thear beleafs and so do conservitavs..<br />
tell me in the lead up to the war in iraq who was leading the charge in the senate? there&#8217;s plenty of archived video footage of her&#8230; it was hillery. and the fact is the dems only began to opose it when it was time to ramp up for election sesion. but people forgot that when it was time to oust bush.<br />
honestly i find it desturbing when a war is politicised. how are you honoring those that gave thear lives by esentialy saying that we were wrong to oust a homicidal dictator? and yes sadam had WMD the proof is burried in mass graves filled with his own people. the problem is we gave him too mutch time to despose of them or send them to iran before the war.</p>
<p>durring the ram up to the war in iraq there was brief media coverage of a convoy of semi&#8217;s goinng from iraq to iran.. and nobody can say what was on that convoy.</p>
<p>and yes there were many mestakes both before and durring the war. both wars were flawed as are all wars. no war goes as planned or w/o unforseen problems. </p>
<p>and obama does have 2 acomplishments in his life.. both of them being winning elections.. before taking office he had less than 1 year experiance in elected office with virtualy no votes on any substintave issues unlike every other president before him in recent history there is nothing concreet about how he would govern in office all people had to go on was his word, his associations, and what he and the media would allow to be known.</p>
<p>and surly some people could be willing to admit that they voted for him simply because there was no way they would vote for any republican following bush, and some voted for him because he was black, but the majority voted for him because of his speeking abilities.</p>
<p>and if you look at how he&#8217;s running the country on social, economical issues it looks alot like he&#8217;s preping for socialisim.. ovcourse nobody on the left is objective enough to admit it or they prefer socilisim and are in the closet about it..</p>
<p>and with respect to watterboarding and the mess it is.. the kind of waterboarding the japaneese were prosicuted for and the kind we used are 2 compleetly different things the only simmilarities they share is the use of watter and the name.</p>
<p>and if watterboarding is torture than we better stop torturing our marine recrutes.. because every one of em is watterboarded durring traning..</p>
<p>it was beleaved neccicary durring the beginning after 9/11 because we had no idea if another attack was emminent, the terrorists had been traned to resist normal interrigation, and despite pelosi&#8217;s apparent lies she and every other dem with the need to know new and never objected. let us not forget that these people that we waterboarded are the kind of people who videotape the beheading of civilians and post it on the web. so in my view these people are too high a priority to shut down..</p>
<p>and yes there were terrorist attacks against america before 9/11 they just all happened outside of america on foreghn soil.. these attacks were happening all the way back when clinton was in his first 4 years. it was just the politicly corect thing to do to ignore it and atempty to criminaly prosicute those involved as if we wernt at was despite alquida&#8217;s decloration of war against the U.S </p>
<p>and steele&#8217;s coment about obama is verry harsh and politicly incorect.. porly worded but the meaning it true the liberal leaning media was blatantly biased twards him.. commentators and reporters were overflowing with it. </p>
<p>the media is suposed to be objective, unbiased, and report on fact not feelings, or from an ideolocical view.. but this hasnt been the case for many years thus msnbc,cnbc,and the like have the lowest ratings ever.. and the news paper industry is falling apart by the day.. partly because of the rise of the internet, 24/7 news, and also because of a heavy obvious bias.</p>
<p>unfortunalty its human nature for people to beleave what they want to beleave and its easy for people to ignore facts that counter thear opinions.. and its easier to follow the leader than it is to take the blinders off and lead you&#8217;re own path. and most countries fail because of turmoil from within being the root cause even when an outside forct takes the killing stroke.. i just hope that the intelectual war between liberals and conservitavs doesnt cause the ultimate down fall of america.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654546', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Wayne Ant Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wayne Ant Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 00:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remember how George Bush managed to have his TANG records &quot;disappear&quot;, and then, as president, he decided to have his Texas gubernatorial records locked away so that historians and investigative journalists would have no access to them.  No one on the right complained about that.

I&#039;m sorry.  That was O/T.  And out loud.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember how George Bush managed to have his TANG records &#8220;disappear&#8221;, and then, as president, he decided to have his Texas gubernatorial records locked away so that historians and investigative journalists would have no access to them.  No one on the right complained about that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry.  That was O/T.  And out loud.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654529', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Popatop</title>
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		<dc:creator>Popatop</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 21:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Vetted????

&lt;strong&gt;01. Occidental College records -- Not released
02. Columbia College records -- Not released
03. Columbia Thesis paper -- &quot;Not available&quot;
04. Harvard College records -- Not released
05. Selective Service Registration -- Not released
06. Medical records -- Not released
07. Illinois State Senate schedule -- Not available
08. Your Illinois State Senate records -- Not available
09. Law practice client list -- Not released
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- Not released
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth -- Not released
12. Record of your baptism -- Not available

RIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vetted????</p>
<p><strong>01. Occidental College records &#8212; Not released<br />
02. Columbia College records &#8212; Not released<br />
03. Columbia Thesis paper &#8212; &#8220;Not available&#8221;<br />
04. Harvard College records &#8212; Not released<br />
05. Selective Service Registration &#8212; Not released<br />
06. Medical records &#8212; Not released<br />
07. Illinois State Senate schedule &#8212; Not available<br />
08. Your Illinois State Senate records &#8212; Not available<br />
09. Law practice client list &#8212; Not released<br />
10. Certified Copy of original Birth certificate &#8212; Not released<br />
11. Embossed, signed paper Certification of Live Birth &#8212; Not released<br />
12. Record of your baptism &#8212; Not available</p>
<p>RIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654376', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jvojvo</title>
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		<dc:creator>jvojvo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 16:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>why defend the obvious?

Obama&#039;s got a halo around his head - can&#039;t everyone see it?

that&#039;s like saying Bush was just a bad speaker, and that&#039;s why everyone disapporoved of him.

duh...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why defend the obvious?</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s got a halo around his head &#8211; can&#8217;t everyone see it?</p>
<p>that&#8217;s like saying Bush was just a bad speaker, and that&#8217;s why everyone disapporoved of him.</p>
<p>duh&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654102', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Jane E. Schneider</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jane E. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 16:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&quot;Get him away from his teleprompter and he doesn&#039;t have an original thought. Don&#039;t take my word for it...listen to him when he is not giving a speech.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;

I have listened to him when he is not giving a speech.  Apparently you&#039;ve never seen him in interviews, or responding to the press&#039;s questions.  He speaks thoughtfully and intelligently.

Again I ask, don&#039;t any of you trolls remember Bush&#039;s halting, simplistic, garbled words?  The man shamed the English language.

And I would never take the word of anyone who uses the &#039;teleprompter&#039; line.  It&#039;s just too ridiculous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;Get him away from his teleprompter and he doesn&#8217;t have an original thought. Don&#8217;t take my word for it&#8230;listen to him when he is not giving a speech.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I have listened to him when he is not giving a speech.  Apparently you&#8217;ve never seen him in interviews, or responding to the press&#8217;s questions.  He speaks thoughtfully and intelligently.</p>
<p>Again I ask, don&#8217;t any of you trolls remember Bush&#8217;s halting, simplistic, garbled words?  The man shamed the English language.</p>
<p>And I would never take the word of anyone who uses the &#8216;teleprompter&#8217; line.  It&#8217;s just too ridiculous.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654090', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
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		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I still preferred the bulletted list to the unabomber inspired manifesto...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still preferred the bulletted list to the unabomber inspired manifesto&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654064', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ReasonResonance</title>
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		<dc:creator>ReasonResonance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 15:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not that I have any reason to respond, I&#039;m retired, myself. Plus I have a cold so I didn&#039;t feel like socializing. As for the rest, although it bears the precision of a copy-paste, it could be a contender for the word salad award. I&#039;ll leave that for others to judge.

&lt;strong&gt;Petie... the only cut and paste was the links, I&#039;m sorry that you didn&#039;t take the time to absorb the information I put forward; rather obviously skimming through and developing a response as you read thereby not really thinking about what I posted. We&#039;ll just blame that on the cold... I like your setup there, very lackadaisical... I can envision you sitting in front of your computer pretending to yawn and stretch your arms before really getting into the nitty gritty... Bravo

As for your concerns about President Obama&#039;s record thus far compared to his &quot;campaign promises&quot;? Some are well deserved if not particularly objective. 

&lt;/strong&gt;You are correct, sir.  They are.  Period.

Here&#039;s my take:

Obama announced a 16 month deadline for Iraq as conditions allow and always said that events would influence his plans. I don&#039;t know where you got the &quot;favors Palestine&quot;.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;--- watch the video in the first link... you can research as suggested to glean more information, we&#039;re never too old to learn, right??  

 He said he would change the personnel and policies governing national security and that&#039;s what he&#039;s doing. There are some things that I would prefer to see handled with different priority but I&#039;m basically pleased with the young Administration, and I&#039;ll tell ya why.

Obama has done exactly as I had hoped based on his history and the campaign. 

I&#039;m sorry Petie, this part just made me laugh... his history?  Please, do tell.  Which part of his history is he pulling from?  

He&#039;s made rational, even when I disagree, decisions based on real-time events. I didn&#039;t vote for a dogma. I voted for a capable person who, apparently, has the ability to get things done. And he&#039;s done it without anger, bluster, or drawing lines in the sand.

&lt;/strong&gt;Come on, Petie... everyone knows John McCain is a hothead; As far as a Dogma, McCain crossed party lines on many different occasions... but I forgot, his arms didn&#039;t go all the way up and he was old.

After that point it just seems to trail off into a bunch of vague conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios. The fact of the matter is that America has to pay up for past excesses. However, since you mentioned fuel prices, you can&#039;t blame that on the &quot;libruls&quot;.

Ok Petie, here&#039;s where you lost me... I don&#039;t remember placing blame on a particular party; maybe it&#039;s the cold talkin&#039; again.  I never said Republicans were great; and I don&#039;t attempt to disassociate present administrations from those in the past.  Both parties have done their fair share of mucking up siht.  You&#039;re retired, so you should have plenty of time to do a little lookin&#039; at what California is going through right now.  Poor Arnold, that meathead, he shoulda stuck with movies.  Look at the mess California is in, and their debt ratio isn&#039;t near what the country&#039;s is.  If you are naive enough to think that we won&#039;t be entering a period of hyper-inflation; you haven&#039;t taken the time to look into it.  These aren&#039;t conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios; peel the blinders off your head, man!  Look it up.
Here&#039;s a starting place.  Look into China&#039;s military growth rate.  Who in the hell do they have to worry about attacking them?  Look into their stockpiling of steel.  Look up how much of our country they own now.  

The oil industry was established with the guile and culpability of the whole GOP deregulation movement. The whole industry is designed to rape the economy at a whim. And that&#039;s exactly what they did last summer with the insane trading and appear to be setting it up again. You can&#039;t blame it on &quot;libruls&quot;. You can&#039;t blame it on &quot;Arabs&quot;. You can only blame it on the unregulated American oil industry that the GOP assembled.

Nobodies stirring the pot on this aspect, petie.  It&#039;s information provided as is to hopefully help whoever&#039;s reading to question their facilitated and crammed down your throat mantras... whichever side of the line they fall.

I appreciate your response and the concessions you made on some things... It&#039;s funny that we&#039;ve come to a time nowadays that no one wants to take the time to read anything over a paragraph and it gets coined word salad.  Just one more thing.  Did you notice how many people didn&#039;t respond to my little snippet?  I hope that means that some of these poltroons actually gained something from it.  

That&#039;s the biggest problem with the world today... everybody is formulating their rebuttal before they even finish reading... no one takes the time to process information anymore... 

Oh holy hell, Petie! POST # 136?? Really? You pass a wide swath over the second half of my post as conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios and you post that??

Well, spawndex, you fail to mention that there was not a single American terrorist victim, aside from the anthrax attacks, between 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan. In fact, no government can be traced to a single death before or after 9/11.

What a weak argument Petie.  Why don&#039;t you just watch a couple of dirty dozen movies or something... You don&#039;t sneak in and kill a couple of people before you mount any kind of attack... why rouse suspicion? They aren&#039;t foxes in the hen house... 

Little did we know that 9/11 was just a small taste of the horrors to come and it would be our fault. That&#039;s what the trolls can&#039;t let themselves admit. All the shit after 9/11 is America&#039;s fault.

Another weary soul with a short attention span... Directly post 9/11; Oh the horror! The horror!  a couple of years into it... Oh.. is there still a war? a couple of years later... how come this is taking so long??? Can&#039;t we just leave already?? Mommy, I&#039;m tired!!  


And the second that Bushco abandoned the mission to catch Bin Laden, and the first bomb fell in Baghdad, it turned into a effing Crusade. All pretense of a punitive mission against the worst terrorist, which the Arab World understood and respected, was pissed into the sand.

This is case in point what I&#039;m talking about.  You didn&#039;t see much in the news from either side about Afghanistan... so... it wasn&#039;t happening; right?  That&#039;s what you&#039;re saying, that if it wasn&#039;t being crammed down your throat by the media, it couldn&#039;t have been happening.. Peel the scales off, Petie.  You insult yourself at your long tooth stage...

conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions, my foot... you make a lack of knowledge and a slim grasp of the bigger picture sound intelligent, but you&#039;re just regurgitating formula-fed media scat... 

You call my rhetoric word salad because you lack the attention span to take it in and absorb it.  Weak, I Say to YOU, Petie!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not that I have any reason to respond, I&#8217;m retired, myself. Plus I have a cold so I didn&#8217;t feel like socializing. As for the rest, although it bears the precision of a copy-paste, it could be a contender for the word salad award. I&#8217;ll leave that for others to judge.</p>
<p><strong>Petie&#8230; the only cut and paste was the links, I&#8217;m sorry that you didn&#8217;t take the time to absorb the information I put forward; rather obviously skimming through and developing a response as you read thereby not really thinking about what I posted. We&#8217;ll just blame that on the cold&#8230; I like your setup there, very lackadaisical&#8230; I can envision you sitting in front of your computer pretending to yawn and stretch your arms before really getting into the nitty gritty&#8230; Bravo</p>
<p>As for your concerns about President Obama&#8217;s record thus far compared to his &#8220;campaign promises&#8221;? Some are well deserved if not particularly objective. </p>
<p></strong>You are correct, sir.  They are.  Period.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s my take:</p>
<p>Obama announced a 16 month deadline for Iraq as conditions allow and always said that events would influence his plans. I don&#8217;t know where you got the &#8220;favors Palestine&#8221;.<strong>&lt;&#8212; watch the video in the first link&#8230; you can research as suggested to glean more information, we&#8217;re never too old to learn, right??  </p>
<p> He said he would change the personnel and policies governing national security and that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing. There are some things that I would prefer to see handled with different priority but I&#8217;m basically pleased with the young Administration, and I&#8217;ll tell ya why.</p>
<p>Obama has done exactly as I had hoped based on his history and the campaign. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry Petie, this part just made me laugh&#8230; his history?  Please, do tell.  Which part of his history is he pulling from?  </p>
<p>He&#8217;s made rational, even when I disagree, decisions based on real-time events. I didn&#8217;t vote for a dogma. I voted for a capable person who, apparently, has the ability to get things done. And he&#8217;s done it without anger, bluster, or drawing lines in the sand.</p>
<p></strong>Come on, Petie&#8230; everyone knows John McCain is a hothead; As far as a Dogma, McCain crossed party lines on many different occasions&#8230; but I forgot, his arms didn&#8217;t go all the way up and he was old.</p>
<p>After that point it just seems to trail off into a bunch of vague conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios. The fact of the matter is that America has to pay up for past excesses. However, since you mentioned fuel prices, you can&#8217;t blame that on the &#8220;libruls&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ok Petie, here&#8217;s where you lost me&#8230; I don&#8217;t remember placing blame on a particular party; maybe it&#8217;s the cold talkin&#8217; again.  I never said Republicans were great; and I don&#8217;t attempt to disassociate present administrations from those in the past.  Both parties have done their fair share of mucking up siht.  You&#8217;re retired, so you should have plenty of time to do a little lookin&#8217; at what California is going through right now.  Poor Arnold, that meathead, he shoulda stuck with movies.  Look at the mess California is in, and their debt ratio isn&#8217;t near what the country&#8217;s is.  If you are naive enough to think that we won&#8217;t be entering a period of hyper-inflation; you haven&#8217;t taken the time to look into it.  These aren&#8217;t conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios; peel the blinders off your head, man!  Look it up.<br />
Here&#8217;s a starting place.  Look into China&#8217;s military growth rate.  Who in the hell do they have to worry about attacking them?  Look into their stockpiling of steel.  Look up how much of our country they own now.  </p>
<p>The oil industry was established with the guile and culpability of the whole GOP deregulation movement. The whole industry is designed to rape the economy at a whim. And that&#8217;s exactly what they did last summer with the insane trading and appear to be setting it up again. You can&#8217;t blame it on &#8220;libruls&#8221;. You can&#8217;t blame it on &#8220;Arabs&#8221;. You can only blame it on the unregulated American oil industry that the GOP assembled.</p>
<p>Nobodies stirring the pot on this aspect, petie.  It&#8217;s information provided as is to hopefully help whoever&#8217;s reading to question their facilitated and crammed down your throat mantras&#8230; whichever side of the line they fall.</p>
<p>I appreciate your response and the concessions you made on some things&#8230; It&#8217;s funny that we&#8217;ve come to a time nowadays that no one wants to take the time to read anything over a paragraph and it gets coined word salad.  Just one more thing.  Did you notice how many people didn&#8217;t respond to my little snippet?  I hope that means that some of these poltroons actually gained something from it.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s the biggest problem with the world today&#8230; everybody is formulating their rebuttal before they even finish reading&#8230; no one takes the time to process information anymore&#8230; </p>
<p>Oh holy hell, Petie! POST # 136?? Really? You pass a wide swath over the second half of my post as conspiracy theories and doomsday scenarios and you post that??</p>
<p>Well, spawndex, you fail to mention that there was not a single American terrorist victim, aside from the anthrax attacks, between 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan. In fact, no government can be traced to a single death before or after 9/11.</p>
<p>What a weak argument Petie.  Why don&#8217;t you just watch a couple of dirty dozen movies or something&#8230; You don&#8217;t sneak in and kill a couple of people before you mount any kind of attack&#8230; why rouse suspicion? They aren&#8217;t foxes in the hen house&#8230; </p>
<p>Little did we know that 9/11 was just a small taste of the horrors to come and it would be our fault. That&#8217;s what the trolls can&#8217;t let themselves admit. All the shit after 9/11 is America&#8217;s fault.</p>
<p>Another weary soul with a short attention span&#8230; Directly post 9/11; Oh the horror! The horror!  a couple of years into it&#8230; Oh.. is there still a war? a couple of years later&#8230; how come this is taking so long??? Can&#8217;t we just leave already?? Mommy, I&#8217;m tired!!  </p>
<p>And the second that Bushco abandoned the mission to catch Bin Laden, and the first bomb fell in Baghdad, it turned into a effing Crusade. All pretense of a punitive mission against the worst terrorist, which the Arab World understood and respected, was pissed into the sand.</p>
<p>This is case in point what I&#8217;m talking about.  You didn&#8217;t see much in the news from either side about Afghanistan&#8230; so&#8230; it wasn&#8217;t happening; right?  That&#8217;s what you&#8217;re saying, that if it wasn&#8217;t being crammed down your throat by the media, it couldn&#8217;t have been happening.. Peel the scales off, Petie.  You insult yourself at your long tooth stage&#8230;</p>
<p>conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions, my foot&#8230; you make a lack of knowledge and a slim grasp of the bigger picture sound intelligent, but you&#8217;re just regurgitating formula-fed media scat&#8230; </p>
<p>You call my rhetoric word salad because you lack the attention span to take it in and absorb it.  Weak, I Say to YOU, Petie!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654057', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jvojvo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 14:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yes, I get the guilt thing.  Some people have a conscience when they do something wrong. 

Certain groups in our history have been treated horribly by white men - American Indians, blacks and Jews. 

White women, and women in general are still discriminated against just because they are women.  Gender discrimination in the form of less pay, etc.

Electing someone out of a guilty past action is an invitation for an ass beating of some kind.  People barely know how to forgive each other, much less an insane group allowed to mistreat and murder due to out of control ego and greed.

It&#039;s a problem - the whole thing.  Our freedoms according to the intention of the Constitution of the United States are slipping away from us.  

We&#039;ve gone soft electing Obama for the only reason of being embarassed by Bush, and not having another powerful choice other than Hillary - ye gads - she&#039;s a woman!  No way were the men of this country (and some women who don&#039;t understand the power in women), black or white going to allow a female President...a woman is surely worse to have as President than a black man.

Cough!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yes, I get the guilt thing.  Some people have a conscience when they do something wrong. </p>
<p>Certain groups in our history have been treated horribly by white men &#8211; American Indians, blacks and Jews. </p>
<p>White women, and women in general are still discriminated against just because they are women.  Gender discrimination in the form of less pay, etc.</p>
<p>Electing someone out of a guilty past action is an invitation for an ass beating of some kind.  People barely know how to forgive each other, much less an insane group allowed to mistreat and murder due to out of control ego and greed.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a problem &#8211; the whole thing.  Our freedoms according to the intention of the Constitution of the United States are slipping away from us.  </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve gone soft electing Obama for the only reason of being embarassed by Bush, and not having another powerful choice other than Hillary &#8211; ye gads &#8211; she&#8217;s a woman!  No way were the men of this country (and some women who don&#8217;t understand the power in women), black or white going to allow a female President&#8230;a woman is surely worse to have as President than a black man.</p>
<p>Cough!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654038', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: DNC - Freaking Lemmings</title>
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		<dc:creator>DNC - Freaking Lemmings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Skin color makes absolutley no difference as a qaulification for public office.   However, many in America feel guilt about our slave history and saw that a vote for a black man would atone for those sins.  It doesn&#039;t and now look at the mess we are in.

We elected a man who refused to take a position in the Illinois legislature; voting present and never for or against a piece of legislation before him.  We elected a man who never in his US Senate stent authored or co-authored a single piece of legislation.  We elected a man with very questionable ties to a domestic terrorist, questionable teachings from a nut-job Preacher, Acorn voting fraud ties and questionable favors and gifts along the way.  We elected a man with plans to suck the life out of individual achievers, with plans redistribute wealth, and with socialist ideology.

Vetted?  No.  Brought in on a wave of disgust with government and questionable actions by the Bush administration; Yes.

Get him away from his teleprompter and he doesn&#039;t have an original thought.  Don&#039;t take my word for it...listen to him when he is not giving a speech.

Hey, I&#039;m a republican and I was embarrassed by Bush. It&#039;s time both sides put this partisan crap aside and that we as voters elect qualified people to get us out of this mess.  We should ALL stop voting along party lines and find out who these people are before we vote for them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Skin color makes absolutley no difference as a qaulification for public office.   However, many in America feel guilt about our slave history and saw that a vote for a black man would atone for those sins.  It doesn&#8217;t and now look at the mess we are in.</p>
<p>We elected a man who refused to take a position in the Illinois legislature; voting present and never for or against a piece of legislation before him.  We elected a man who never in his US Senate stent authored or co-authored a single piece of legislation.  We elected a man with very questionable ties to a domestic terrorist, questionable teachings from a nut-job Preacher, Acorn voting fraud ties and questionable favors and gifts along the way.  We elected a man with plans to suck the life out of individual achievers, with plans redistribute wealth, and with socialist ideology.</p>
<p>Vetted?  No.  Brought in on a wave of disgust with government and questionable actions by the Bush administration; Yes.</p>
<p>Get him away from his teleprompter and he doesn&#8217;t have an original thought.  Don&#8217;t take my word for it&#8230;listen to him when he is not giving a speech.</p>
<p>Hey, I&#8217;m a republican and I was embarrassed by Bush. It&#8217;s time both sides put this partisan crap aside and that we as voters elect qualified people to get us out of this mess.  We should ALL stop voting along party lines and find out who these people are before we vote for them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654025', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jvojvo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and so the story goes...

trashing Palin doesn&#039;t negate the Obama problem!  trading one minority slap for another.  Woman versus black man - nice try.

So Palin didn&#039;t graduate from Harvard you say, and she&#039;s not a smooth talker or speech giver - so she&#039;s an idiot.

Hmmmm...

What do we call people who call women idiots?  Certainly not racist ignoramuses.

A white girl who knows how to use a gun is much spookier than a Black man who comes from Harvard.  I get it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and so the story goes&#8230;</p>
<p>trashing Palin doesn&#8217;t negate the Obama problem!  trading one minority slap for another.  Woman versus black man &#8211; nice try.</p>
<p>So Palin didn&#8217;t graduate from Harvard you say, and she&#8217;s not a smooth talker or speech giver &#8211; so she&#8217;s an idiot.</p>
<p>Hmmmm&#8230;</p>
<p>What do we call people who call women idiots?  Certainly not racist ignoramuses.</p>
<p>A white girl who knows how to use a gun is much spookier than a Black man who comes from Harvard.  I get it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654017', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: reptillicus</title>
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		<dc:creator>reptillicus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WoW!  THAT&#039;S THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!!!
...
Does this poor guy not realize, that he was appointed Chairman of the Republican National Party *only* because HE IS BLACK ??  And the Repubs tried to counter the election of Obama with  such a feeble and transparent attempt to show how open-minded they really are? (NOT!)  As usual, listen to what they say and BELIEVE THE EXACT OPPOSITE!  I just wonder if these poor schmucks actually believe their own rhetoric... (Nobody else does, that&#039;s for sure.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WoW!  THAT&#8217;S THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK!!!<br />
&#8230;<br />
Does this poor guy not realize, that he was appointed Chairman of the Republican National Party *only* because HE IS BLACK ??  And the Repubs tried to counter the election of Obama with  such a feeble and transparent attempt to show how open-minded they really are? (NOT!)  As usual, listen to what they say and BELIEVE THE EXACT OPPOSITE!  I just wonder if these poor schmucks actually believe their own rhetoric&#8230; (Nobody else does, that&#8217;s for sure.)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654016', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: buddah21</title>
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		<dc:creator>buddah21</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The idea that a Black man can get a pass like the one being asserted here is so ridiculous I wonder if the people entertaining it have their eyes open. Look at the state of black men in America and tell me that President Obama has somehow used his &quot;magic negro&quot; powers to hypnotize the populace. 

If Sarah Palin can be anywhere on the radar, at any time in the history of this country as a potential president then you don&#039;t need to talk about President Obamas vetting. Your concern should be for the sanity of the part of the poulation that would allow a dithering idiot like Palin so close to the White House.

Don&#039;t be angry because Obama has poked a hole in the ignorant negro theory. Move on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The idea that a Black man can get a pass like the one being asserted here is so ridiculous I wonder if the people entertaining it have their eyes open. Look at the state of black men in America and tell me that President Obama has somehow used his &#8220;magic negro&#8221; powers to hypnotize the populace. </p>
<p>If Sarah Palin can be anywhere on the radar, at any time in the history of this country as a potential president then you don&#8217;t need to talk about President Obamas vetting. Your concern should be for the sanity of the part of the poulation that would allow a dithering idiot like Palin so close to the White House.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t be angry because Obama has poked a hole in the ignorant negro theory. Move on.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654008', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: debbieqd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steele&#039;s statement exactly nails the problem with the Republican Party: We won&#039;t look backwards to examine our massive failures, but we won&#039;t let the Democrats move forward. Party of &quot;NO.&quot;  Party of &quot;OBSTRUCTION.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steele&#8217;s statement exactly nails the problem with the Republican Party: We won&#8217;t look backwards to examine our massive failures, but we won&#8217;t let the Democrats move forward. Party of &#8220;NO.&#8221;  Party of &#8220;OBSTRUCTION.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654003', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: buddah21</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/steele-obama-race/comment-page-6/#comment-5654002</link>
		<dc:creator>buddah21</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is how Michael Steele got his position. Republican hacks:

Hack1: Hey that Black thing seems to be working really well. How can we cash in on that? 

Hack2: Do we have one we can use?
 
Hack1: Yeah that Michael Steele has been real loyal let&#039;s try him.

Hack1:Oh hey we&#039;ve got that little Indian guy in Louisiana too.

Hack2:Right I forgot about him.

Hack1: Let&#039;s try both of them. We&#039;ll show how inclusive we are. Why I&#039;ve got 3 negros,2 asians and an arab in my district.

Hack2: Yeah once we get one for the face of our party that&#039;ll show&#039;em.

Problem is most Black people view Michael Steele and Repugnicans as completely out of touch with Black America. I might sooner hire a Catholic Preist to babysit than join that bunch of racist idiots. 

And where is Bobby Jindal now? He flopped in prime time and now they don&#039;t need him. They have no use for him. 

Wake up Steele that &quot;houses n@#$%^,&quot; act is all to obvious to everyone but you and your masters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is how Michael Steele got his position. Republican hacks:</p>
<p>Hack1: Hey that Black thing seems to be working really well. How can we cash in on that? </p>
<p>Hack2: Do we have one we can use?</p>
<p>Hack1: Yeah that Michael Steele has been real loyal let&#8217;s try him.</p>
<p>Hack1:Oh hey we&#8217;ve got that little Indian guy in Louisiana too.</p>
<p>Hack2:Right I forgot about him.</p>
<p>Hack1: Let&#8217;s try both of them. We&#8217;ll show how inclusive we are. Why I&#8217;ve got 3 negros,2 asians and an arab in my district.</p>
<p>Hack2: Yeah once we get one for the face of our party that&#8217;ll show&#8217;em.</p>
<p>Problem is most Black people view Michael Steele and Repugnicans as completely out of touch with Black America. I might sooner hire a Catholic Preist to babysit than join that bunch of racist idiots. </p>
<p>And where is Bobby Jindal now? He flopped in prime time and now they don&#8217;t need him. They have no use for him. </p>
<p>Wake up Steele that &#8220;houses n@#$%^,&#8221; act is all to obvious to everyone but you and your masters.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654002', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jvojvo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/steele-obama-race/comment-page-6/#comment-5654001</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At this point, it doesn&#039;t matter who says what about Obama.  ANY person talking trash about him is an ignorant racist - people seem mighty protective - mostly strangers who don&#039;t know anything about him - ah almost everyone.  I don&#039;t know much about Steele, I&#039;m not a republican or a liberal - but I do believe this...

Obama&#039;s vetting was like a walk in the park for him.  It didn&#039;t matter what came up, the media down played anything negative or controversial about him - and the media worshipped him compared to others running, and the media, Oprah and people who are affected by smooth talking Ivy leaguers in general fell to the floor instead of using their heads. 

At this point, anyone who criticizes the almighty will be called racist and ignorant.

It&#039;s time to realize, no one knows much about Obama other than that he can shell out a speech similar to a Babtist preacher and have a huge following just because of it.  And, he&#039;s asking for money in the passing around of the collection plate - which he received on the internet during his campaign and he is now receiving from Americans via all of the bailouts.

Oh, and his wife can be accused of being a fashion icon.

Media - get a grip!</description>
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<p>Obama&#8217;s vetting was like a walk in the park for him.  It didn&#8217;t matter what came up, the media down played anything negative or controversial about him &#8211; and the media worshipped him compared to others running, and the media, Oprah and people who are affected by smooth talking Ivy leaguers in general fell to the floor instead of using their heads. </p>
<p>At this point, anyone who criticizes the almighty will be called racist and ignorant.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to realize, no one knows much about Obama other than that he can shell out a speech similar to a Babtist preacher and have a huge following just because of it.  And, he&#8217;s asking for money in the passing around of the collection plate &#8211; which he received on the internet during his campaign and he is now receiving from Americans via all of the bailouts.</p>
<p>Oh, and his wife can be accused of being a fashion icon.</p>
<p>Media &#8211; get a grip!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5654001', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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