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America's Fed Up: Obama Approval Rating Hits All-Time Low, Poll Shows [W:256]

Puigb said:
Rush? You mean the guy who called Obama the "magic negro" said Obama's election would make race relations worse? I'm shocked
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Limbaugh never coined the term or popularized it. He reported on it.
 
Grant said:
Limbaugh never coined the term or popularized it. He reported on it.
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"Barack the Magic Negro"[2] is a song by American political satirist Paul Shanklin who wrote and recorded it for the Rush Limbaugh Show as satire after the title phrase was first applied to presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic David Ehrenstein in a Los Angeles Times op ed column of March 19, 2007. It was played numerous times in 2007 and 2008 by Rush Limbaugh and appeared on the 2008 album We Hate the USA. It is sung by Shanklin to the tune of "Puff, the Magic Dragon". Shanklin impersonates black activist Al Sharpton, who regretfully sings that white people will vote for Barack Obama for President instead of Sharpton, because Obama is a magical Negro (a term previously popularized by Spike Lee[3]), not a real black man from the "hood".
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Barack the Magic Negro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Grant said:
You'd prefer the country still had slavery?
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Of course, the Republican party of Lincoln has nothing to do with the Republican party today. But I suspect you already know this, eh Mr. "independent"?
 
Gringo allstar said:
I didn't think the kool aid drinkers would reference Bush until at least the 5th post. Man you guys have really stepped up your game!

:applaud:applaud:applaud:applaud
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Nah, they had to bring up Bush fast.... Its the only way they know how to speak about what Obama has accomplished. Its Bush's fault, but Bush...etc
 
Puigb said:
Of course, the Republican party of Lincoln has nothing to do with the Republican party today. But I suspect you already know this, eh Mr. "independent"?
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What's the difference? Neither party seems to have changed much at all.
 
WCH said:
Who cares if he's the worst president in history. For this time in history when we need a strong effective leader, he's horrible. Absolutely.
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Montecresto said:
Not so much, not by those that have been the victim of racism, they just saw the election of Obama as another step in the right direction. It was the perpetrators of racism, primarily on the right, that said, ok, you've got your black president, the yoke of racism is gone, now shut the **** up! Oh, of course Bill O'riley and Rush Limbaugh didn't use those words, but that's what was heard.
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Well then, maybe you and they should stop looking at things through the victim mentality and start living by Dr. King's words rather than using color to excuse abhorrent policy and behavior.
 
Montecresto said:
Not so much, not by those that have been the victim of racism, they just saw the election of Obama as another step in the right direction. It was the perpetrators of racism, primarily on the right, that said, ok, you've got your black president, the yoke of racism is gone, now shut the **** up! Oh, of course Bill O'riley and Rush Limbaugh didn't use those words, but that's what was heard.
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It's not exactly like Obama was blameless in perpetuating the Racism thing (I refuse to call it a crisis at this point) in this country. There was that preacher of his for one that was spewing the hatred for white america, then you had the guy at his first inauguration that was bringing up black people, then there was him butting his nose in and assuming racism with the Harvard Professor deal (when he didn't have any knowledge of it). The only reason racism still exists today is because of the race baiters that continue to bring drag that dead horse out and the blame for all their woes, or to dismiss the ideas of those who oppose the first Black President. But time is the enemy of these race hacks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. What I mean is that as time moves on, you have more people who WERE actual racists die off from old age, and people who have lived around blacks their whole lives mature into adult hood.

Chief Justice Roberts said it himself: ""The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

Perhaps I'm being a little bit harsh in my commentary regarding folks like Al Sharpton and his ilk. Part of me wants to sympathize with them, as they actually saw the effects of racism back in the 60's and before. I can understand their desire to ensure that such a society never returns. However, I stop just short of completely sympathizing with them, because of the fact they did live in those times, and should be the first to realize just how far as a society we have come.
 
Hamster Buddha said:
It's not exactly like Obama was blameless in perpetuating the Racism thing (I refuse to call it a crisis at this point) in this country. There was that preacher of his for one that was spewing the hatred for white america, then you had the guy at his first inauguration that was bringing up black people, then there was him butting his nose in and assuming racism with the Harvard Professor deal (when he didn't have any knowledge of it). The only reason racism still exists today is because of the race baiters that continue to bring drag that dead horse out and the blame for all their woes, or to dismiss the ideas of those who oppose the first Black President. But time is the enemy of these race hacks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. What I mean is that as time moves on, you have more people who WERE actual racists die off from old age, and people who have lived around blacks their whole lives mature into adult hood.

Chief Justice Roberts said it himself: ""The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

Perhaps I'm being a little bit harsh in my commentary regarding folks like Al Sharpton and his ilk. Part of me wants to sympathize with them, as they actually saw the effects of racism back in the 60's and before. I can understand their desire to ensure that such a society never returns. However, I stop just short of completely sympathizing with them, because of the fact they did live in those times, and should be the first to realize just how far as a society we have come.
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It really is too bad that people like Jackson, and Sharpton turned their experience into an extortion racket rather than using it to actually help their community...As for the age old excuse of using race to deflect criticism, it is just plain lazy.
 
sangha said:
Actually, the "tingly" remark was something Matthews said about bush* after his "Mission Accomplished" speech

Ironic, huh? :lamo
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Unless Mathews has made multiple 'tingly' remarks, I believe that it was in his commentary on an Obama speech. I can't see Mathews getting tingly over Bush in any way, shape or form.
 
So Obama is the worst president ever because of a poll?

If not, then what metrics are you guys using to make this worst or 2nd worst claim?
 
bubbabgone said:
No No No.
It's because no one is worse.
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Worse based on what? What criteria are you (or whomever) using the make the claim that Obama is the worst president?
 
Tettsuo said:
Worse based on what? What criteria are you (or whomever) using the make the claim that Obama is the worst president?
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Economy, honesty, divisiveness, partisanship, USA stature among allies and enemies, Constitutionalist ...

It might be easier if you just list his achievements.
 
eohrnberger said:
That does reenforce the offered diagnosis of a neurological disease which is affecting Mathew's brain, his mouth and his legs.
:lamo
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yeah ... that choice of a post by Sangy was bizarre. I wonder if he really knew what he was doing. Ya know, act in haste etc.
 
bubbabgone said:
Economy, honesty, divisiveness, partisanship, USA stature among allies and enemies, Constitutionalist ...

It might be easier if you just list his achievements.
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

The Obameter Scorecard
Promise Kept 239 (45%)
Compromise 130 (24%)
Promise Broken 116 (22%)
Stalled 7 (1%)
In the Works 38 (7%)
Not yet rated 2 (0%

So overall, he kept 69% of his promises so far.

That's pretty good. He also cut an out of control deficit in half... and it's still going down.
 
eohrnberger said:
That does reenforce the offered diagnosis of a neurological disease which is affecting Mathew's brain, his mouth and his legs.
:lamo
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We truly should start referring to Matthew's lower-central physical area as "loins".
 
Tettsuo said:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

The Obameter Scorecard
Promise Kept 239 (45%)
Compromise 130 (24%)
Promise Broken 116 (22%)
Stalled 7 (1%)
In the Works 38 (7%)
Not yet rated 2 (0%

So overall, he kept 69% of his promises so far.
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That's pretty good.
He also cut an out of control deficit in half
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... and it's still going down.
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Maybe all those kept promises and broken promises are what's killing us.

He tripled the deficit first.

Face it dude, this is over 6 years after a recession and we're still struggling. That ain't no accident.
 
bubbabgone said:
Maybe all those kept promises and broken promises are what's killing us.

He tripled the deficit first.

Face it dude, this is over 6 years after a recession and we're still struggling. That ain't no accident.
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Yeah B, :2wave: and that Foreign Policy isn't doing so well either. Wonder how many more broken promises went with that issue.
 
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