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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:08 PM Original message |
I am sick of these fucking double-standards in American politics. |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. minorities have the Presidency so they should shut up |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Right. |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:05 AM Response to Reply #1 |
26. Surely you saw minority backlash in the 90s take shape and form into the RACE CARD |
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billh58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
48. The underlying motive |
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Hansel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
3. The very comment that he was elected because of white guilt is racist |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. excellent commentary. |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:24 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. That depresses me. |
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BootinUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. There will be good days and not so good. |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:13 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. I think it is good news that there is at least one mature Southern gentlemen who is willing |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:59 AM Response to Reply #28 |
42. You GO, girl!!! I'll see your 30% and raise you another 30 |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
5. President Carter was attacked when he spoke out against human rights violations |
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mscuedawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. I want to know how Steele goes to sleep at night... |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Michael Steel is posing as a white woman? Wow. The things you learn on the DU. |
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mscuedawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. A bit off...oh my!!! |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Ignorance is bliss, so, he sleeps just fine. He is deluded into |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Maybe I'm wrong but I think Steele does the rest of us a service |
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mscuedawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Well said Genna...thank you for your words! |
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noiretextatique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. right on, drunken irishman |
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HopeOverFear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. Agreed. Obama's election was the stick that poked the beehive of racism |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
44. Actually, more like a giant, festering, malignant cyst popping |
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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
14. Carter did more than suggest racism plays a role |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. No - that's not what he said. |
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Indigent (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:12 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. The OP made Carter's statement seem milder |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #27 |
53. If you believe that every criticism of Obama can be defined as "intensely demonstrated animosity" |
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justgamma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 10:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Sunday "news" shows will all be asking |
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burning rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-16-09 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. You have to "think yourself into their mindset." |
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Number23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
18. If you think it's just the likes of Limbaugh and Beck saying this, think again |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:10 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Oh I know they have. |
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Solomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 08:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
32. There's almost as many racists on the left as on the right. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:10 AM Response to Reply #32 |
43. They're just so MUCH BETTER edjumacated |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
19. Standard corporate puke operating procedure is to slander the opposition with your own sins |
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majority (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 01:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. we have |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 02:11 AM Response to Original message |
21. Astonishing, isn't it. But if it swims, quacks and looks like a duck, then it's a duck. What |
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Lilyeye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 05:26 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I agree. But what bothers me even more is when I see people on DU say it. |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #24 |
36. Me too! nt |
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Lilyeye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
23. I agree Irishman. |
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genna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:04 AM Response to Original message |
25. But you have to admit it is good FINALLY for one man to say PUBLICLY RACIST |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:50 AM Response to Reply #25 |
41. I have always had a great deal of respect for President Carter. |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 06:52 AM Response to Original message |
30. Well some of us are more used to double standards than others |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:40 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Very true! n/t |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #30 |
40. great post! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #40 |
54. Notice that no one wants to talk about that double standard. |
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billh58 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #30 |
55. LGBT supporters of |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
34. A guy can go on CNN and call him an Indonesian muslim (as if that's an insult to begin with) and a |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:23 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Fancy that! |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:31 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. They only hate him because he's a Democrat... |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:33 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I know..... I think one of these days it's just gonna happen. I think one of the pukes is going to |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. At least one of them already did: |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 01:07 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Shit, I completely forgot about that one. OK I stand corrected. nt |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. OMG |
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Uzybone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 10:06 AM Response to Original message |
35. K n R |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
47. K&R n/t |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
50. Carter is a great man and a fine human being... |
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mzmolly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
51. Hear hear my fellow drunken Irish friend! |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 05:55 PM Response to Original message |
52. I guess the people who ... |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
56. Well said, Drunken Irishman. |
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EffieBlack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
57. Hear hear! nt |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
58. These are the sorts of things Dems should push back on & push back hard... |
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firedupdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-17-09 11:21 PM Response to Original message |
59. Amen Drunken Irishman.....n/t |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
60. thanks |
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NYC_SKP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-18-09 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
61. Big Kick an Rec... n/t |
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