[quote]Professor X wrote:
forlife wrote:
If I remember right, the Chief Justice left out the word “faithfully” when administering the oath…anyway, you’re right that he was the one that screwed up.
Interesting.
…waits for people to commend Obama for knowing the oath that well considering those who were ready to comment on how he fucked up.[/quote]
I voted against Obama because he is a flaming liberal, and I expect to be voting against him again in four years. And I commend him on knowing the oath of office well enough to know that the Chief Justice had messed it up.
[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
It is a good day when America inaugurates its first black president.
It shows we have matured as a culture and a nation to overcome past ignorance. You listen to enough race-baiters, America is essentially irredeemably racist. Today proves that not to be true - we see, for the first time, a black man elected, only half a century or so after segregation.
To borrow from a writer today (I can’t remember who), you won’t see a person of color elected Prime Minister in the UK any time soon, nor will you see France elect a President from its ranks of North African immigrants or their children. It is a day to reognize the accomplishment.
It also helps up open a few fresh debates on race issues that have been tabled at the urging of the grievance industry. This will be good for policy and good for our nation. Now, at least, we can have the right conversation about it, and the race-hustlers will have to find a new line of work and won’t distract from the debate like they used to.
Of course, this sets much of the politics aside. An ascendant Russia doesn’t give a damn that Obama is black, nor does a teetering, unstable economy. After the sugar high of the inauguration fades, the business at hand has little to do with race.
But today, America should be proud of itself for the fact that it can elect a black man to the Presidency.
Because I would bet she is not the image she sells to the public in real life. People do buy shit like her persona up and she is smart to capitalize off of it.
Please tell me who Paris Hilton and myself are. Because I know you know us both so well.
LOL
“But it’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.” -Rachel Dawes[/quote]
I doubt Paris cares what you or Rachel Dawes thinks. She is making more money than you.
If anything she is an actress and the whole world is her stage. What she does sincerely would be applicable to your quote but not her pr stunts.
But that isn’t really what this thread is about.
And again, I am glad people like you realize the world is not a racist place.
It hasn’t been for a long time. It took a presidential election to cause the paradigm shift, but the racial climate that allowed Obama to be elected was decades in the making.
People like you are slaves to your own fears and predetermined beliefs about people like me, who you really don’t even know at all.
But blindly stab away at the skinny jeans I don’t own, collars I don’t pop and politically correct sentiment I don’t hold!
I do wear polo shirts though. You are spot on there. Except not neon colored ones. It’s usually people like you in those…
[quote]tedro wrote:
EmilyQ wrote:
Maybe you’re right. Although as I recall Colin Powell generated quite a bit of excitement, too, didn’t he?
Colin Powell isn’t exactly conservative.
Obama’s very easy on the eye, which generates emotion as well. But does it really matter?
Of course it matters. Why then is this inauguration such a huge event? Is it because it shows that there is no longer a racial barrier to becoming POTUS, or is it because we have elected the most leftist president in history who happens to be a minority?
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The media are making it a huge event because of the latter. But I believe a lot of people consider it a big event because of the former.
If a black conservative such as Alan Keyes had been elected, the media would not have played it up the same way. But I would guess that a lot of people, including liberal blacks, would still have considered it to be a great and historic occasion albeit tempered by their dislike of the man’s policies.
No doubt the media hype is because of the latter, but a lot of the emotions are indeed because of the former. And I say that despite my own belief that this particular historic event was not worth electing a liberal as President.
Myself, I concede that this is a historic event and there is something to celebrate, although the something to celebrate happens to be outweighed by the larger misfortune of putting the candidate with the worse set of policies into office.
[quote]PRCalDude 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.
Given his attendance of a black racialist church for 20 years where whites were routinely preached against, forgive my lack of enthusiasm. [/quote]
i knew it wouldnt take long for you to pop up , lol your such a cracker
So having recognized the momentousness of the day as the first “black president” I agree with those who say the worship needs to end. He is not a king. Not a messiah. He is a servant, an employee, of the people as EVERY other president before him was. He is not here to “rule”. He is here to govern and to protect and uphold the Constitution.
Which brings me to my next point. I dislike the “coronation” aspect to inaugurations that I have seen in my lifetime. I’m not picking on Obama’s inauguration in particular; I’ve seen it in several previous inaugurations including both Bushs’. I think we need to return to more of a signing in of a citizen President and away from anointing a king.
Agree 100%. I missed the speech live, huge hangover, but when I flipped on the TV as Obama was leaving one of the commentators said something about the “sacred” office of the presidency. Nothing sacred about it at all, in fact it’s blasphemous to say that. The president is just a politician elected to run the executive branch of the federal government for four years. That’s it. We need to get back to thinking that way.
That “sacredness” deal can almost be perceived as scary. The executive branch has way too much power and it didn’t get it from the Constitution.
The reason I say “scary” is it hearkens me back to the “divine right of kings”. It greases the skids for people to accept a “ruler”. [/quote]
I absolutely agree with you Push. That’s why I had such high hopes for Ron Paul. Say what you will about this country, I think most of us would agree our problems would be solved if we would go back to a strict interpretation of the constitution.
I wish him well and hope he is a good president. Which means I hope he fails in his slaughter of the innocents and his socialistic agenda.
This statement scares me:
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works – whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified”
Bullshit. I’d rather live in a hollow log then have the government control my life. I hate how much it controls it now. Thi
I wish him well and hope he is a good president. Which means I hope he fails in his slaughter of the innocents and his socialistic agenda.
This statement scares me:
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works – whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified”
Bullshit. I’d rather live in a hollow log then have the government control my life. I hate how much it controls it now. This denial of the reality of small vs. big government to me is a sure sign he plans to grow it substantially and wants us to turn another cheek to it. He speaks well, but I am to old and jaded to fall for this crap.
Shit by any other word is still shit.
Never the less, ultimately it is the democratic stance on abortion that will forever make me dread the reign of any democrat. So I ain’t happy about his election, but I will just have to suck it up and cope. His slick talk will not fool me…Many good speakers were tyrants…Let’s hope he is not one.
No I was not fond of Bush either, before anybody else says it. He had the opportunity of a life time and fucked up royally. He grew the government not shrink it. He increased debt and got us into a nonsensical situation in Iraq. So I wasn’t happy with his presidency.
[quote]FormerlyTexasGuy wrote:
Professor X wrote:
FormerlyTexasGuy wrote:
And what is Paris Hilton’s spiritual connection?
Because I would bet she is not the image she sells to the public in real life. People do buy shit like her persona up and she is smart to capitalize off of it.
Please tell me who Paris Hilton and myself are. Because I know you know us both so well.
LOL
“But it’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.” -Rachel Dawes
I doubt Paris cares what you or Rachel Dawes thinks. She is making more money than you.
If anything she is an actress and the whole world is her stage. What she does sincerely would be applicable to your quote but not her pr stunts.
But that isn’t really what this thread is about.
And again, I am glad people like you realize the world is not a racist place.
It hasn’t been for a long time. It took a presidential election to cause the paradigm shift, but the racial climate that allowed Obama to be elected was decades in the making.
People like you are slaves to your own fears and predetermined beliefs about people like me, who you really don’t even know at all.
But blindly stab away at the skinny jeans I don’t own, collars I don’t pop and politically correct sentiment I don’t hold!
I do wear polo shirts though. You are spot on there. Except not neon colored ones. It’s usually people like you in those…[/quote]
[quote]pushharder wrote:
pat wrote:
I wish him well and hope he is a good president. Which means I hope he fails in his slaughter of the innocents and his socialistic agenda.
This statement scares me:
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works – whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified”
Bullshit. I’d rather live in a hollow log then have the government control my life. I hate how much it controls it now. Thi
Yeah, that statement is rife with a socialist ethos. Sickening when you examine it closely.[/quote]
I am going to move to Montana with you…Let’s build a compound…Oh shit, wait, Waco…Never mind, I’ll just stand there with my hand with everybody else.
[quote]scottoman wrote:
Ironic:
The first black president of The United States, raised by a white mother.
just something to think about. [/quote]
If you are 50% of two things, you aren’t 100% anything. They used to call bi-racial people mulattoes but I think that this term might be offensive now.
politics is such a cesspool…the more political discussion i participate in, the more i realize it’s best just to keep my opinions to myself. i’ve said that about 50 times already and i keep crawling back to these retarded threads
[quote]belligerent wrote:
politics is such a cesspool…the more political discussion i participate in, the more i realize it’s best just to keep my opinions to myself. i’ve said that about 50 times already and i keep crawling back to these retarded threads[/quote]
I feel your pain. So far I’ve done a pretty good job of staying out of these conversations.
[quote]dza1978 wrote:
PRCalDude 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.
x2
Yes, because the first Black president is such a minor issue that we want it to end as quickly as possible.
Given his attendance of a black racialist church for 20 years where whites were routinely preached against, forgive my lack of enthusiasm.
i knew it wouldnt take long for you to pop up , lol your such a cracker [/quote]
Raaaacist.
So when were we going to start our discussion about little Aisha?
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
belligerent wrote:
Professor X wrote:
On a day described by many to be “historical”, it sure is quiet around here.
I guess there are some of us left who are not so utterly insane that we’re going to get behind a man who is leading a nation of blind idiots over the edge of cliff simply because he is black. Call me a foaming at the mouth racist if you want, but I’m not going over the cliff with you.
You didn’t seem to mind when he was white.
And oh yeah, you’re a foaming at the mouth racist.
He’s one of the very few here who actually listened to the guy’s speech.
I’ve heard better speeches from vacuum cleaner salesmen.[/quote]
Well, he’s not a vacuum cleaner salesmen. He’s your president.
Heard any better speeches from any presidents lately?
Some people seem to think that racism is shouting the N-word to black people. And burning crosses on their lawn.
Racism is when you see a black guy, performing better than a white guy and then put his effort down.
For example: one might see a black president deliver a speech that could very well be the speech of the century. Coming from 8 years of misunderinterpretations and then have the balls to say: “I’ve heard better speeches from vacuum cleaner salesmen.”