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Racism in America?

Posted by federal rb on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:40:08 PM
To hear Obama and all the chattering classes out there you'd think that racism is abundant and keeping people of color from living their dreams. Is there racism out there? Sure, whites, blacks, and hispanics from the receiving end to the inflicting side also. But what everyone is overstating is the actual endemic force of being prejudiced. It is my belief that all or most of us are prejudiced. The difference is that racist people act upon on the prejudices.
 
I would not go out of my way to inflict pain or bar advancement from any minority unless that person did something that was untoward to me or had it coming to them. Much the same as any white person that had it coming to them. Isn't that a color blind approach? Everyone talks about the following anecdote as an example of racism: I saw four black men walking down a darkened street and I crossed to avoid them. Now imagine if those four black men were wearing suits, would you cross then. I think most of us wouldn't And now imagine four young white men looking haggard and mean, would you cross then? I say yes. Isn't that a color blind approach?
 
I think we are going in the wrong direction. I truly want to believe in the color blind society. I want to judge people on the "content of their characters." We will never get beyond our prejudices to this color blind society we say we want to attain, if we attribute everything that is wrong with our lives to someone of another color that is holding us back. We have to get beyond this or we will forver be marred with the us versus them mentality. Or we'll have to wait 200 years when we all become ethnic mutts. Maybe that is our only hope.
 
We have a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There are no guarantees. You just have to live, love, laugh, be a good person and make sure your children go further in life than yourself. It doesn't matter what color you are. Just take advantage of whatever opportunities are in front of you and do the best you can. The only thing that is holding us back is ourselves.
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Remember Don Imus?

Posted by federal rb on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:15:49 AM
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." 
 
Now I'm sure that Don Imus is someone's uncle and he says crazy things from time to time, but he was forced out of his job for just a few off color remarks. Now Reverend Wright says horrible things about white people and the country which we both live. And only when the controvercy was threatening to derail his campaign that Wright was removed from the Obama Campaign. His first intinct was to defuse the stiuation and keep his hate mongoring Preacher in his job. But back last year when he wasn't winning enough of the "black" vote, Obama jumped all over Imus and wanted him fired.
 
Obama is not the post-partisan, post-racial candidate he claims to be, he is just the same old calculating politician that tries to position himself for the position that he is running. He is much the same as Hillary, just in the guise of the person we all are waiting for to bring us together.
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Illuminating

Posted by federal rb on Monday, March 03, 2008 11:43:50 AM
I was watching Russert this weekend and he was talking about the Dems' debate. And one segment was rather telling without even an utterance of a word. I missed it during the debate but it was so obvious during the replay.
 
Russert was talking about his "jump ball" approach to a foreign policy question about the new Russian President Medvedev. After he finished his question, addressed to noone, the next couple of seconds reinforced a growing consensus. There was a 2 second pause while both candidates thought about the answer and without even a sound from Hillary, Barack looked to her to answer the question. Now why would he defer to her to answer a legitimate question about the new Russian Pres?
 
It must be that he is a foreign policy lightweight and couldn't come up with an answer himself. Is that what we want as our President? Someone that is all prose and no substance. I think the Clinton campaign missed a big opportunity to hit him hard at this. Instead of complaing about getting the first question all the time, she should of made it a point that she, not Barack, can answer the tough questions. Not that she did an outstanding job, but the contrast was too much not to mention.
 
And he is becoming quite the one-trick pony, with every reason not to vote for anyone but himself because of the vote to authorize force in Iraq. Al Queda is still in Iraq...Well Al Queada wasn't in Iraq when you both authorized the war in the first place. Who do you want answering the phone...We want someone that will show the judgement that I showed in opposing this war. What about National Healthcare...We need someone that will save our money from the misguided war in Iraq. Oh come on already, do you have anything else to say. I guess not or we would see more of the deer caught in the headlights look that you showed us in the debate. Rather illuminating.
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The True Democratic Process?

Posted by federal rb on Saturday, March 01, 2008 11:22:57 PM
The Democratic party has a fraudulent righteousness about being the party of the people. Of course the media are duplicitous in their fall-all-over-themselves to be the first one to congradulate the Dems as being the only true party that represents the will of the people. And while we go through this primary season and hearing how the Dems' primary is the best democratic process with their vote apportionment. There has been an education in this so called democratic process.
 
Superdelegates are party insiders that can vote for whomever they want, whenever they want. Sounds fair right? They also can switch affiliation whenever and as many times that they want. Sounds like repeat voting, right. Something right out of the Richard J. Daley playbook in Chicago. Now the Dems will say that they wanted to avoid the bruising 1980 primary fight between Carter and Kennedy and let the party representatives save the party form inner turmoil and a contested primary. Now it just takes a little perspective to analize the process.
 
So far in this primary season there has been 19 million plus votes counted just for Clinton and Obama. And that result has yielded 2,272 pledged delegates between them. There has been 437 super delegates that have taken sides already in the primary fight. That means that every super delegate is worth 5 times more than a pledged delegate. Wasn't Bill Clinton complaining in Nevada about making sure that every vote counts the same? Or lets just reverse the math, that means that every pledged delegate is worth one-fifth the vote of a super delegate.
 
Even during our country's infancy and the attempt to marginalize the southern states voice, the states with slave popuation were counted as three-fifths the vote as non-slave states. And that was called racist in retrospect. What would they call this? There has been much ado about African Americans and their sensitivity to being counted as three-fifth of a white person. Someone should ask an African American how they feel now that their vote counts as one-fifth the vote of a party insider. But of course you won't hear this discussed in the major media. They are too busy lauding evrything the Dems can do for our country (or rather to our country.)
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Hillary's ad

Posted by federal rb on Friday, February 29, 2008 1:46:49 PM
The chattering classes are all talking about the new ad from Hillary about who do you want answering the phone at 3AM. But did anyone notice that the phone just keeps ringing and ringing. It takes 7 rings for her to actually pick up the phone. Sorry, but it's already gone to voicemail and she'll get back to you tomorrow.
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Suppression

Posted by federal rb on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 3:01:21 PM
So now we cannot call a Democrat by their given name? Let's just call this political correctness for what it is...an attempt to suppress the first amendment right of others. Barack Hussein Obama, get used to it. McCain has shown tremendous courage/agitation against the right of the Republican party. Now he has to prove he can stand up against Liberals and their brethren in the Media. He failed his first test.
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Dependance and lust for power

Posted by federal rb on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:38:35 PM
This election cycle is perfectly suited for McCain. He is not the perfect (or close to) candidate for the Repubs, but idealism will get you being governed by a socialist while pragmatism will keep the Dems from taking the country in the wrong direction.
 
I have not heard the Repubs ever talk to us in terms of money spent in the elections. John Kerry in 2004 spent $309 million trying to get the job that Dems want the most. Al Gore spent $120 million in 2000.  That is $429 million given to paid political consultants, radio/TV stations and basically people that already make a good living already. Of course the lowly volunteers got some donuts and coffee. That money was spent on 2 FAILED campaigns. Why doesn't anyone mention that the $429 mil could have just about eliminated poverty in say Los Angeles. A bright blue city in a bright blue state.  If the Dems believe in redistribution of wealth, then why don't they just raise the money from their wealthy supporters and give it straight to their constituencies. They could have given 8,580 families a total of $50,000 and called it charity. And the answer to that is that then they wouldn't have had the chance at the power of the presidency. (And the ability to keep their constituents down).
 
Every plan they have is designed to keep the people addicted to the federal government in terms of money and programs. Keep the kids in failing public schools, keep everyone in a going broke Social Security system, and now mandate eveyone to join a national healthcare plan. Our healthcare system,which expensive, is the class of the world. And why, beacuse it is run privately. Someone should parallel the healthcare system and our public schools and show the difference between them. And if people cannot afford healthcare then they should be given the phone numbers of Bill Clinton and Warren Buffet. They both belive that their taxes are too low. Although I'm sure they are taking every deduction afforded to them. Bill Clinton actually said that he resented the fact that noone asked him to sacrifice in terms of paying more taxes. Well, I'm asking him to send more money to the black hole of the federal government. Or at least he and Hillary can personally start subsidizing the millions of people that they talk about that do not have health insurance.
 
The Dems must be called on the fact that they need their people to need them. They cannot have the people actually be self-reliant. They have to blame every problem they have, real or imaginary, on the government. We have to get back to our countries motto of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. I have read the constitution and it doesn't mention anywhere that I should make the same amount of money as the CEO of a billion dollar company. Or that my kid will have the same opportunites as Barack Obama's children. Someone needs to start talking about these issues.
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