http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091503689.html

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/32873629#32873629

Carter should stick to rabbit hunting and UFO watching.

The guy is maybe the worst POTUS in history and he is making excuses for the guy that could take his place in that............

 

I was also wondering how long it would be until the race card was pulled in the deate for Obama Care too.

The guy is maybe the worst POTUS in history and he is making excuses for the guy that could take his place in that............

 

I was also wondering how long it would be until the race card was pulled in the deate for Obama Care too.

I wouldn't say history , I would say recent history though .

The interview of the Today Show is what alarmed me with the sociology professor, Eric Dyson. In essence, he was affirming Carter's comments and he was able to see all the racial undertones in Joe Wilson's comment.

 

My question is, what are you allowed to critique or disagree with now without being labeled a racist?

I wouldn't say history , I would say recent history though .

I think a very good argument can be made for history as a whole.

People like Carter and Dyson are the one's that have a problem. They, and many like them, simply aren't ready for a black president. When they have to use race as the reason that people have a problem with Obama's policies, they need look no further than their own mirror.

The interview of the Today Show is what alarmed me with the sociology professor, Eric Dyson. In essence, he was affirming Carter's comments and he was able to see all the racial undertones in Joe Wilson's comment.

 

My question is, what are you allowed to critique or disagree with now without being labeled a racist?

 

I'd agree with you that sometimes the Racism argument is without any merit.

 

It might very well be without merit concerning Joe Wilson.

 

 

However he was a pupil/disciple of Strom Thurmmond, he is from South Carolina which is the deep south, and he has this in his background:

 

Criticism of Strom Thurmond's daughter

In 2003, Essie Mae Washington-Williams' revealed that she was the daughter of Wilson's former employer, the late Senator Strom Thurmond, and Thurmond's black maid. Wilson was among those who publicly doubted her claim that Thurmond had a child out of wedlock. Wilson said even if her story was true, she should not have revealed it because "it's a smear" on Thurmond's image and was a way to "diminish" Thurmond's legacy.[23] After Thurmond's family acknowledged the truth of Washington-Williams' revelation, Wilson apologized but said that he still thought that she should not have revealed that Thurmond was her father.[24]

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)

 

I don't think all the above leads one to some conclusion that Wilson is a racist but there is "history" that is a little different than just some guy off the street.

 

FWIW I think that it's time to put this one to bed and move on to the more important issues this nation faces. :thumb:

Edited September 16, 200917 yr by Hatz
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Wow. That interview speaks for itself.

People like Carter and Dyson are the one's that have a problem. They, and many like them, simply aren't ready for a black president. When they have to use race as the reason that people have a problem with Obama's policies, they need look no further than their own mirror.

 

I don't think the problem is disagreement over the policies but the way Joe Wilson acted. For that matter, what I got from some of it was the way the population has been so quick to equate anything the disagree with as Nazi, Communistic, or whatever "boogie man" they can create.

 

As to Carter being the one with the problem about a "black President" I think you are totally off on that one.

 

BTW, I think the Dems were doing the same during the last administration in some of the wild accusations made at Bush.

So, as usual, we decide not to discuss the subject/issue. We decide to attack the person who made the comment.

So, as usual, we decide not to discuss the subject/issue. We decide to attack the person who made the comment.

 

I saw no racism in it.

 

 

Look, the people have spoken, Obama is dropping every month in the polls. A person had an outburst out of frustration.

I saw no racism in it.

 

 

Look, the people have spoken, Obama is dropping every month in the polls. A person had an outburst out of frustration.

 

So that means it's okay for my teenager to have an outburst at a school assembly when she is angry or frustrated by the speaker talking? I would be okay to tell the School Board to not suspend her because she was just having an outburst out of frustration?

 

 

I expect more from my leaders. I expect more from my children as well.

You need look no further than our last president to find one worse than Carter.