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Is this Racist?[W:300]

Is this story from Nebraska Racist?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 16.3%
  • No

    Votes: 36 83.7%

  • Total voters
    43
Re: Is this Racist?

No, they worked together on one issue. Then they decided to try to repeal the ACA dozens upon dozens of times. They knew it wasn't going to happen, but they wanted to put on a show. It sure wasn't working together like adults. House Republicans instead chose to act like petulant children.

You mentioned the re-election in your post. I asked if they were working together before the re-election. Obama and the other party.

Congressional reps are elected by their constituents. Not all of the constituents who sent the House Republicans to DC think Obama and his policies are swell.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

No, they worked together on one issue. Then they decided to try to repeal the ACA dozens upon dozens of times. They knew it wasn't going to happen, but they wanted to put on a show. It sure wasn't working together like adults. House Republicans instead chose to act like petulant children.

Petulant children?

If you want to see what petulant children really look like you'd have to look at the Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate who fled to Illinois and hid out to try to prevent the GOP majority in the WI state legislature from passing legislation that they didn't like.

That was truly a sickening display of disrespect for the democratic process. That would have been like the GOP members of Congress hiding out in Canada when the time came to vote on Obamacare.

Shameful.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

:agree: Calling half the people in this country his "enemies," - and he was referring to Republicans - because they didn't agree with him, sure set a fine example for a POTUS who is supposed to represent all the people, as he swore when he took the Oath of office. The Oath also states that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

He seems to have a bit of a problem with both parts of the Oath, unfortunately.

Greetings, tres borachos. :2wave:

Hi Pol!

None of them will admit it, but Obama has been thumbing his nose at the Republicans since before he took office.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

:agree: Calling half the people in this country his "enemies," - and he was referring to Republicans - because they didn't agree with him, sure set a fine example for a POTUS who is supposed to represent all the people, as he swore when he took the Oath of office. The Oath also states that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

He seems to have a bit of a problem with both parts of the Oath, unfortunately.

Greetings, tres borachos. :2wave:

I'd say Reagan pandering to white racists in Mississippi was more "dividing" than anything Obama ever did, but whatever floats your boat.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

We should expect they work for the whole country. I know, that's too much to ask anymore.


But they do! Just a couple months ago a couple local politicians were at Cinco de Mayo talking about this great immigration reform they were working on and then not too long after they were on tv advertising how tough they were on immigration and wouldn't vote for no amnesty. They can do it all and be everything to everyone! :2razz:
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Petulant children?

If you want to see what petulant children really look like you'd have to look at the Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate who fled to Illinois and hid out to try to prevent the GOP majority in the WI state legislature from passing legislation that they didn't like.

That was truly a sickening display of disrespect for the democratic process. That would have been like the GOP members of Congress hiding out in Canada when the time came to vote on Obamacare.

Shameful.

Oh, you mean like what happened with recess appointments?
 
Re: Is this Racist?

:agree: Calling half the people in this country his "enemies," - and he was referring to Republicans - because they didn't agree with him, sure set a fine example for a POTUS who is supposed to represent all the people, as he swore when he took the Oath of office. The Oath also states that he will, to the best of his ability, "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

He seems to have a bit of a problem with both parts of the Oath, unfortunately.

Greetings, tres borachos. :2wave:


So you didn't have any problem Romney insulting 47%. Oh right, as long as it is the half that you don't care for :roll:

By the way, please provide a link where Obama is calling half the people in this country his "enemies"
 
Re: Is this Racist?

So you didn't have any problem Romney insulting 47%. Oh right, as long as it is the half that you don't care for :roll:

By the way, please provide a link where Obama is calling half the people in this country his "enemies"

Romney isn't President. Why did you mention his name when quoting her post?
 
Re: Is this Racist?

blah blah blah


I suppose if you look for racism everywhere you go you will find racism everywhere you go.

Apply that to your claim that the north is as racist as the south.

By the way, according to the poll most of the people on this thread believe it's not racist.

And most people on DP seem to be either conservative or libertarian. Ask the same question on redstate.com and you'd get solid support there. Ask the same question on, say, the Daily Kos...and you'll get slammed. Ask the same question on a black forum and you'll rhetorically get your ass handed to you.

BTW, your poll did NOT ask if the float depicted in the photo was racist - your poll DID ask if the STORY was racist...and it was a news story. If you had asked if the float itself was racist - AND if we had an equal number of liberals and conservatives on this blog - and THEN if the poll showed that most thought it wasn't racist, do you know what that would mean?

Nothing.

Why? Because you're conducting a poll on the internet, and as such the sampling makes any such poll absolutely worthless.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

You mentioned the re-election in your post. I asked if they were working together before the re-election. Obama and the other party.

Congressional reps are elected by their constituents. Not all of the constituents who sent the House Republicans to DC think Obama and his policies are swell.

To be totally bipartisan, we could also mention the high-ranking Democrats who also feel the same way, judging from their recent criticism of his policies!
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Really? You can't think of something better to respond with than that? Perhaps you could start another thread and ask the question there.

You brought it up, maybe you should start another thread on Obama's liberal agenda and stick to the topic here whether the float was racist or not.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

No, they worked together on one issue. Then they decided to try to repeal the ACA dozens upon dozens of times. They knew it wasn't going to happen, but they wanted to put on a show. It sure wasn't working together like adults. House Republicans instead chose to act like petulant children.

That which was covered by the Biased Lame Stream Media (to the point of ad nauseam) sure made them look that way.

If you take a slightly closer look, and you'll see lots of house passed bipartisan legislation on jobs and many other important issues, lying in wait in Dingy Harry's desk. Party of No? Yeah, that'd be Dingy Harry's desk.

It take 2 parties to be uncompromising, and the BLSM is only telling you about one of them.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

So you didn't have any problem Romney insulting 47%. Oh right, as long as it is the half that you don't care for :roll:

By the way, please provide a link where Obama is calling half the people in this country his "enemies"

Unfortunately, Romney wasn't planning on unintelligent people hearing his words during a private meeting with supporters.

As I am sure has been explained a thousand times, he was only rightfully trying to insult those people who are Obamabots and wouldn't change their vote under any circumstances. Kind of a why waste resources comment.

Not quite as damning as Obama's "cling to bibles and guns" insult he made during the campaign in '08.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

To be totally bipartisan, we could also mention the high-ranking Democrats who also feel the same way, judging from their recent criticism of his policies!

Senator Dianne Feinstein has been very vocal in her criticism of Obama.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Unfortunately, Romney wasn't planning on unintelligent people hearing his words during a private meeting with supporters.

As I am sure has been explained a thousand times, he was only rightfully trying to insult those people who are Obamabots and wouldn't change their vote under any circumstances. Kind of a why waste resources comment.

Not quite as damning as Obama's "cling to bibles and guns" insult he made during the campaign in '08.

unintelligent people?

I believe the proper term is low information voters.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

unintelligent people?

I believe the proper term is low information voters.

And the GOP is filled with them.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Obama invited the divide.

Yeah, how DARE he incite the racist invective against him and his family? How DARE he even breathe while the House refuses to even vote on bipartisan bills passed by the Senate? How DARE he sit in the Oval Office when he's done nothing for America except:

- getting us out of the Great Recession
- getting us out of Iraq
- getting us out (eventually) of Afghanistan
- getting Qaddafi out of power without America having to invade
- getting Putin to back off what he tried to do in the eastern Ukraine
- keeping America out of Syria since the rebels seemed to be every bit as bad as Assad (and he was right)
- gave America 52 straight months of private-sector job growth (a record)
- the DJIA has more than doubled on his watch
- the deficit has been cut by more than 50%
- government has grown less than under any president since Eisenhower
- deportations of illegal aliens are at a record high
- and - oh yeah - he got bin Laden, too.

How DARE he claim that he's done anything right at all! He's only destroying America, don'tcha see?

TB, all you really need to know about the attitude of the Right should have been made plain to you by the cheers and celebration of the Right when Obama wasn't able to get the Olympics to be held here. The Right has wanted him to fail from day one. It never made a bit of difference to them if what he wanted was the right thing for America - they simply wanted him to be a complete and utter failure, and they would do their utmost to make sure of it.
 
Re: Is this Racist?

Which just goes to show your ignorance. I'm sorry, guy, but you just don't realize how bad it has been, how bad it is to this day. It's not as bad is it once was, but anyone who thinks that racism is as bad in the north as in the Deep South either has never lived there or is being disingenuous.



See, that's the problem, guy. You are an educated individual, and as such you see what I do - you know very well why it's racist. It was built by those who knew that the black community would see that as a racist attack, but they built it anyway. That makes it racist.

But you want to pretend that it's not racist. And you would be RIGHT if you were showing the picture of that float to anyone who had no clue about American race relations and the role racism has played in American history. Problem is, you're NOT showing the picture to those who are ignorant of American race relations or the role racism has played in our history.

To put it another way, if you went to, say, Nepal, and called the locals n***ers to their faces, they probably wouldn't blink an eye - they would not understand the history of or the offense presented by that word...but if you say that word here, those hearing it would receive a whole different meaning.

Problem is, you KNOW all this - you KNOW that the photo is in and of itself NOT racist to those who don't have a clue about American race relations, and you KNOW that the float would obviously be seen as racist by most Americans. You can pretend otherwise all you want...but most people see right through your claims...including those who agree with you, who think that you and they are the only ones who understand what the dog whistle's actually saying.
Well said Glen. This nonsense of promoting racism while pretending it isn't is a tired old game racists have been playing for decades.
Feigned ignorance and very real ignorance team up to produce this exact kind of post.
 
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