Barack Obama = Mongoloid

[the fluffer]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0407/Obama_on_Virginia_Tech_and_Violence.html

Equating the VT murders to job outsourcing and Imus...

Hey Barack, why don't you schedule a special "counseling session" with the families of the victims and let them know that being called a nappy haired ho is just as bad as being senselessly murdered. Why don't you tell them with the same breath that having your job outsourced to India is just as horrific and crushing as a madman systematically executing 32 students.

I guess a point made in his speech is right, politics are broken. If this assclown can atract voters, the system is fatally flawed.

[cheeses_h_rice]

Really, he "equated" them?

Really?

Are you sure about that?

[CaptainBallz]

you have to try really hard to get offended by any of that...

Let's keep some perspective here...

[fquaye14ten]

i'm not going to listen to it. i would suspect, cira, that you're overreacting.


but that's just becuz you're a buttkissing peyton manning fan

[samram]

I don't know if it's offensive, but it's a poor analogy and stupid.

And good to see we're gonna get the outsourcing crap again.

[MSquad]

I don't know if it's offensive, but it's a poor analogy and stupid. A stirring speech for the intellectually challenged. But hey, he's got that Kennedy thing going ya know.

[fquaye14ten]

the article never once suggested it was an analogy. i didn't hear the audio clip, but i at least read the summary of the audio clip and dale jr is taking things out of context.

damn nascar fans

[fquaye14ten]

But while Obama mourns the slain students, he takes the massacre more as a theme than as a point of discussion.

"Maybe nothing could have been done to prevent it," he says toward the end.

So he moves quickly to the abstract: Violence, and the general place of violence in American life.

"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."

There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.

There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."

There's "the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,"

And so, Obama says, "there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other."

Many politicians would avoid, I think, suggesting that outsourcing and mass-murder belong in the same category.

From there, he mourns again the Virginia dead, and then says, "This is an opportunity I think that all of us have today to reflect," and then heads into his stump speech -- education, healthcare, energy policy, politics being broken -- but returning to the Virginia Tech shootings.

not sure i see an analogy. but then again, what do i know...i'm just an english teacher

:rolleyes: at cira, as usual :)

[1951Campbell]

There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.

There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."

There's "the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,"

And so, Obama says, "there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other."

Essentially, Obama is saying "whenever anything bad happens to you, it's violence, vote for me and it's hugs, lollipops, and kumbaya for all."

It is not a poor analogy, simply yet another politician spouting Oprah-esque drivel.

[fquaye14ten]

it's not an analogy, dipshit. it's categorization.

YOU LAWYER YOU

[fquaye14ten]

ps can you show me where he says "if you vote for me it's sunshine and lollipops"?

i don't see anywhere in anything i've seen that he's ever claimed to "have the answers".

i don't really care about the guy, but can we limit our lambastings to things that actually are true?

[1951Campbell]

it's not an analogy, dipshit. it's categorization.

YOU LAWYER YOU

I should have typed "it's not an analogy, not even a poor one."

Sorry, I get paid to be unclear. :D

[1951Campbell]

ps can you show me where he says "if you vote for me it's sunshine and lollipops"?

i don't see anywhere in anything i've seen that he's ever claimed to "have the answers".



Do you really think politicians bring up problems that they don't think they have answers to? The subtext is always "vote for me and the problem will be solved." Whether or not the problem will be solved is, of course, another matter.

C'mon, don't be obtuse.

[fquaye14ten]

i'm not being obtuse.

it's funny: every time you call me obtuse, it's me being far from it.

sure he has some answers, but just as Bush doesn't have answers for how to get Terrorists to stop hating America (and no one has an ANSWER for that, and if they do they're fooling themselves more than the person being addressed in that Styx song), I doubt Obama has an ANSWER for how to stop violence in America.

As a matter of fact, in that writeup, it paraphrases him as saying that the vtech thing probably wasn't preventable...that there were no answers.

Most likely he has some ideas for how to try to make things better, but I doubt that there's any politician who doesn't.

campbell, your posts are all souped up but your noodle brain shows that you are the cream of chickens