The Inauguration

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]Professor X wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:
Professor X wrote:
masonator wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:
But mostly I wish it would be over already so I wouldn’t have to hear about it anymore.

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Yes, because the first Black president is such a minor issue that we want it to end as quickly as possible.

First off, the fact that it has been such a huge deal is a bad thing, not a good one. If it was being treated the same as every other inauguration, that would be a step forward. I’m not against it getting equal coverage of past presidential inaugurations, I’m against it getting 10 times the coverage. I’m for equal coverage.

Second, the guy I wanted elected didn’t win (not McCain), so yes that makes me bitter a bit from a political standpoint.

Third, I only have rabbit ears, so almost all the channels I have have been covering it for seemingly 23 hours a day.

LOL

“First off” it is a huge deal because despite what the average young to middle aged white male experiences over the course of a life time, racism never died and many thought they would never see someone with more melanin than Bill O’Reilly get elected into office during their life time.

I do find it cute how so many want to leap frog over instances in history like this as if they aren’t extremely significant stepping stones based on their own limited perspective.[/quote]

I think it’s as significant as any other presidency. The social significance is irrelevant to me in comparison to the job at hand. I think what he ends up doing makes who he is statistically insignificant. But I’m a white middle class 20-something, I’m probably biased and invalid.

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I acknowledge the fact that this day is historic for many citizens of this country. Enjoy an achievement that should have already taken place.

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Just watching him speak, there have been few previous presidents who can give speeches like this over the last couple of decades.

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[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:

I think it’s as significant as any other presidency. [/quote]

I think that much is clear…along with how wrong you are.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Just watching him speak, there have been few previous presidents who can give speeches like this over the last couple of decades.[/quote]

He does have a silver tongue. I just can’t decide if that’s a good thing for a politician to posses.

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It will be a great day when nobody notices, or mentions, that he is black.

Apparently he is quite Irish as well.

I hope he can turn things around coz USA is in some serious trouble and some real crap has been going on for a long time. … e.g who was the idiot that thought it would be a good idea to hire ex-Enron bullshit dealers to start dealing in oil? wtf? can’t we learn lessons and move on? I’m not exactly for regulation but then you shouldnt’t have to regulate against utter stupidity.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:

I think it’s as significant as any other presidency.

I think that much is clear…along with how wrong you are.

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Making a statement for civil rights is good, and I think it’s about time, grant it I wish it’d have been more of an Allan Keys. I just don’t think it’s necessary to throw 110 million dollars of tax payer money at celebrating racial justice.

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I know one thing…we should ban poems at inaugurations unless they are truly bad ass.

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[quote]Magarhe wrote:

Apparently he is quite Irish as well.

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Statements like this are just funny as hell to me.

I’m part French. No one is worried about how french I am…unless I run for president apparently.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
I know one thing…we should ban poems at inaugurations unless they are truly bad ass.[/quote]

Agreed, that was a horrible poem. WTF was she talking about?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
I know one thing…we should ban poems at inaugurations unless they are truly bad ass.[/quote]

Sounds like it’s time to pipe in some music like they do at award shows.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
Magarhe wrote:

Apparently he is quite Irish as well.

Statements like this are just funny as hell to me.

I’m part French. No one is worried about how french I am…unless I run for president apparently.[/quote]

Actually I might hold the French part against you, not the other parts. “Cheese eating surrender monkeys”.

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I just hope we can bury the race hatchet as a population in general.

Of course you still have racism on both sides (mostly in the older generations) but obviously not enough to affect our society in any real way.

I think a lot of people, myself included, realize that racism is a dead horse.

I was born in the early 80’s and most of my easily recalled memories come from the 90’s. I remember going to school with various races and it was no big deal.

We all sat in the same classrooms, drank from the same water fountains, played tag, football and monkey bars together on the playground etc etc.

Two of my closest friends, PJ and Kyle were black. I met PJ in elementary school. We were assigned partners on a 3rd grade science project growing bean plants. Ours was the tallest. We snuck more than the allowed amount of fertilizer for it every day. We stayed friends until he went off the deep end with hard drugs in high school.

Last I heard he was high on something and tried to stab his dad for kicking him out of the house. He was given the ultimatum of joining the army or going to jail by his dad. He joined the army and was kicked out. I don’t know where he is now.

Kyle and I are still friends. He graduated from SMU with a finance degree and we meet up a few times a year. He has a posh job in Dallas now.

I dated an Asian from Singapore from sophomore through senior year. She went to UCLA and I stayed in Texas for college.

The majority of my friends are white but there are indians, an egyptian, more asians etc etc and it isn’t an issue.

For me and I would wager most of my generation (and I live in the South), racism is something forced on us through people like jesse jackson and the old fogies telling what are now ghost stories.

The notion doesn’t exist until it is taught, even if the attempt is to teach it in a negative light.

Let sleeping dogs lie. We have a black man in the most powerful position in the country and world. He was voted in. The white majority obviously contributed. Had whites at large voted against him, he would not be in office.

The “change” happened over a period of decades. Obama merely symbolizes the change in attitude and belief. Put the nail in the racist coffin and let it die.

I just hope he is a good leader, skin color aside. I do tend to vote conservative because I feel more in tune with the conservative platform and I did vote McCain, but it had nothing to do with race.

But good luck to Obama. I really do hope he can aid the economic recovery dumped in Bush’s lap, as it is now in his own lap, with out turning us socialist.

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It will be a great day when nobody notices, or mentions, that he is black.

Apparently he is quite Irish as well.

I hope he can turn things around coz USA is in some serious trouble and some real crap has been going on for a long time. … e.g who was the idiot that thought it would be a good idea to hire ex-Enron bullshit dealers to start dealing in oil? wtf? can’t we learn lessons and move on? I’m not exactly for regulation but then you shouldnt’t have to regulate against utter stupidity.

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Obama knocked it out of the park with his Inauguration speech. I feel like America has a soul again, not to mention a leader that can actually put two words together.

And yeah, the poem sucked.

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Great speech.

Touching to see some of the older black folks in the crowd crying. Some of the Tuskegee airmen were there too…

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aretha was hilarious.

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Gotta love Aretha. What a voice - man she got really heavy though. And Bush sr. looked ancient…

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[quote]FormerlyTexasGuy wrote:
I just hope we can bury the race hatchet as a population in general.

Of course you still have racism on both sides (mostly in the older generations) but obviously not enough to effect our society in any real way.

I think a lot of people, myself included, realize that racism is a dead horse.

I was born in the early 80’s and most of my easily recalled memories come from the 90’s. I remember going to school with various races and it was no big deal.

We all sat in the same classrooms, drank from the same water fountains, played tag, football and monkey bars together on the playground etc etc.

Two of my closest friends, PJ and Kyle were black. I met PJ in elementary school. We were assigned partners on a 3rd grade science project growing bean plants. Ours was the tallest. We snuck more than the allowed amount of fertilizer for it every day. We stayed friends until he went off the deep end with hard drugs in high school.

Last I heard he was high on something and tried to stab his dad for kicking him out of the house. He was given the ultimatum of joining the army or going to jail by his dad. He joined the army and was kicked out. I don’t know where he is now.

Kyle and I are still friends. He graduated from SMU with a finance degree and we meet up a few times a year. He has a posh job in Dallas now.

I dated an Asian from Singapore from sophomore through senior year. She went to UCLA and I stayed in Texas for college.

The majority of my friends are white but there are indians, an egyptian, more asians etc etc and it isn’t an issue.

For me and I would wager most of my generation (and I live in the South), racism is something forced on us through people like jesse jackson and the old fogies telling what are now ghost stories.

The notion doesn’t exist until it is taught, even if the attempt is to teach it in a negative light.

Let sleeping dogs lie. We have a black man in the most powerful position in the country and world. He was voted in. The white majority obviously contributed. Had whites at large voted against him, he would not be in office.

The “change” happened over a period of decades. Obama merely symbolizes the change in attitude and belief. Put the nail in the racist coffin and let it die.

I just hope he is a good leader, skin color aside. I do tend to vote conservative because I feel more in tune with the conservative platform and I did vote McCain, but it had nothing to do with race.

But good luck to Obama. I really do hope he can aid the economic recovery dumped in Bush’s lap, as it is now in his own lap, with out turning us socialist.

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longer and wierder than that inaugural poem

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[quote]SkyNett wrote:
Gotta love Aretha. What a voice - man she got really heavy though. And Bush sr. looked ancient… [/quote]

She actually looked smaller than she has in the past.

I saw her once a few years back and it looked like a Krispy Kreme truck had crashed into her mansion and she had to eat her way out.

Maybe she switched to fat free.