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Racists of the World, Unite
Rise up against the pasty white brie-eating media.
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If you cite specific instances, with numerous witnesses, of Justice Department officials saying they would not apply certain civil rights laws (or not apply them equally), you are a racist.
If you note that a president claimed a well-known Communist poet as his childhood mentor, you are a racist.
If you suggest that idolizing an absentee father who was a bigamist Kenyan radical might give a person a worldview a tad unusual for most Americans, you are a racist.
If you suggest that white lacrosse players should not be convicted without proof of raping a black stripper, you are a racist.
If you suggest that an over-eager Neighborhood Watch volunteer who tragically shot and killed a young black man might have acted for reasons other than racial animus — even if you still say the shooter might have committed a crime — you are a racist.
If you suggest that the prevalent definition of “hate crime,” and the use of statutes pertaining thereto as a way to increase sentences based not on the action itself but on the alleged thoughts motivating it, is a violation of equal justice under the law, you are a racist.
If you say there’s no excuse for the establishment media to take an anti-Semitic, racial-incident-instigating, false-police-accusing scofflaw, and treat him as a legitimate and respected political leader, you are a racist.
If you note that a liberal president has severely relaxed rules for food stamps and that food stamp rolls have vastly increased on his watch, you are a racist.
If you suggest that an attorney general who happens to be black has prevaricated about a gun-running sting gone badly wrong, you are not really worried about the tragic mistake or the cover-up thereof; you are a racist.
In fact, if you object to any policies or actions of said AG or his political appointees, you are a racist.
If you even dare to suggest that the federal government should be limited, you are racist.
Especially if you suggest that federal social services are inefficient, you are not just racist, but a vicious and particularly dangerous racist.
If you are a conservative white southerner, you are by definition a racist. (And if you are a conservative black person, you are by definition an Uncle Tom.)
If you shout “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” at a party convention, especially if a Latino speaker is at the podium, you are a racist. (By some lights, if you pronounce yourself a patriot in any way, shape, or form, you are a racist.)
If you defend anybody accused of being a racist, you are a racist.
If you vote Republican most of the time, you are a racist. If you support the Tea Party movement, you are a racist. If you are a conservative of any sort, you are a racist….
Okay, then: No matter what my or your long history of fighting racism may be, I am a racist and so probably are you. And, by those lights, I am damn proud of it.
About the Author
Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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spike59| 8.31.12 @ 6:18AM
Quin, I've stopped caring what kind of ignorant label the Left tries to paint on me, for a very simple reason: when they do that, they tag me as somehow different from them, and i can think of no higher praise than to be declared 'nothing like a liberal'
The Avenger| 8.31.12 @ 6:49AM
Amen Spike!!
Harry the Horrible| 8.31.12 @ 9:38AM
I've gone further.
If a politician has not been condemned by the race hustlers, poverty pimps, feminazis, and/or lavender mafia, I won't vote for him. Such a politician is lacking in either principles or courage and, in either case, not suitable for office.
Appleby| 8.31.12 @ 6:55AM
I was told when I lived in Atlanta that a White person was a racist by definition, and there was nothing at all we could do about that. One of the things that convinced me to leave Atlanta was the desire to escape the "Give A Dog a Bad Name" syndrome that caused a lot of my White friends to say "Well, if we're racists no matter what we do, why bother trying not to be?" My parents reared me to be better than that, so I had to get out of town.
P.S. Chris Matthews said this week that mentioning Chicago when you speak of Obama is racist.
Cat Shot| 8.31.12 @ 9:05AM
Food stamps = (insert whomever)? If the shoe fits, wear it.
PolishKnight| 9.1.12 @ 10:43PM
Philosophically, Appleby, who ISN'T a racist? The left are the biggest racists of all and use the term in an Orwellian fashion by bashing whites and lavishing privileges onto non-whites and overlooking and covering up black on white crime. Most of the whites who aspire to be "color blind" instead wind up engaging in white guilt and overlooking negative traits of individual non-whites in an effort to avoid charges of racism or ignore basic realities of modern politics which, again, requires racism albeit in white guilt form.
The classical definition of racism, as defined by the left, as held by whites (especially white males) against non-whites in a form of hatred and extreme prejudice is rare and may be what you're referring to and it's ugly like any other form of racism. Ironically though, perhaps it's the most honest of the lot.
Martin kzovich| 8.31.12 @ 7:29AM
OK we know this. But there are issues for one the passivity of the Republican Leadership. They have kept their mouths shut for too long. As I have posted in another article it is time to call out the So called Democrat Marxist Party on both their policies and the behavior in words and deed
and how destructive they are. It is also imperative to run against the Media as to run against individual or Party polticians for they are the same and this should be stated outright. Media Bias
Ha!!!!!!!!!! They wear an Obama For President bumper Sticker on their fore heads.
Ken (Old Texican)| 8.31.12 @ 8:07AM
Martin, I was disappointed during the week. It seems to me that every time "capitalism" was mentionedthat "socialism" is the only option should have been pointed out.
TLP| 8.31.12 @ 10:05AM
A Great Man once said: "I hope he fails" when breathlessly asked by a Stenographer, how he felt about our New King.
He also said something else.
He said that "If you think that by Voting for Obama, all the Racism Stuff is gonna go away? Forget it. It's gonna get MUCH WORSE."
The Great Man is Wise, as well.
He should get a Radio Show and a Newsletter, or something.
Ice Tea, perhaps.
Gary B| 8.31.12 @ 11:11AM
Very good, TLP.
C'mon Man!| 8.31.12 @ 2:46PM
You da man!
Pecos Pete| 8.31.12 @ 8:12AM
Quin: You could have included that Veterans are racist. Current members of the Armed Forces are racist. Even ... if you vote against Obama you are racist.
As a great grandfather with many family members who are NOT anglo, even I am a racist because I am a citizen tax payer, a veteran, a member of the NRA and one who will eagerly cast my vote in November for Romney/Ryan.
TLP| 8.31.12 @ 5:25PM
Actually, Veterans are Terrorists, as well as people who go to Church every Sunday. People who Fly The Flag outside their house. People who drive Pickup Trucks. And, people who have Gun Racks in their Pickup Trucks.
According to BULLDYKE BIG SIS, at Homeland Security.
Look it up.
You can't make this Sh*t Up.
Nancy in NC| 8.31.12 @ 8:40AM
If you don't agree with Obama and his goons, you're a racist.
Jack London| 8.31.12 @ 8:44AM
The Texas voter ID law has just been unanimously struck down because it targets poor black people. That's a fact.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.31.12 @ 8:52AM
So you think poor blacks are too stupid to get IDs?
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 11:56AM
well, OF COURSE he does-that's the 'chiseled in stone' philosophy behind the Left: they view non-whites as inherently inferior and incapable of managing their own lives without benevolent Massa Gubmint handing them their monthly subsistence, extra points on exams, nudges to the front of the line for job and college placement...it's been called the 'soft bigotry of low expectations', and it's the only thing keeping the Democrat Party from going the way of the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, and the Mugwumps
DTOM| 8.31.12 @ 4:44PM
To get SNAP - food stamps the website www.socialsecurity.gov states that you have to apply for food stamps in an interview and...
"When you are interviewed, you also
should have:
• Identification such as a driver’s license, state
ID, birth certificate or alien card;"
So are poor black people being discriminated against by the Social Security Administration???
There is only ONE reason for striking down voter ID requirements - that is to facilitate vote fraud.
VOTE FRAUD VOTE FRAUD VOTE FRAUD!
And whenever the democrats respond there's no vote fraud, remember this:
Al Franken, the last vote required to pass Obamacare was elected to the Senate by fewer than 600 votes. In Minnesota, they have already convicted 600 people for voting as convicted felons in that election-they have another 600 trials to go. The convicted felons voted overwhelmingly for Franken.
THAT'S THE COST OF VOTE FRAUD!
IMPEACH THESE JUDGES!!!
C'mon conservatives, we cannot take this lying down!!!!
Don't Tread On Me!!!
merlin| 9.1.12 @ 8:48AM
How about citizen petitions in each state demanding that voter rolls be purged of all who are ineligible to vote and mandating that any alien who has voted or is registered to vote be deported?
Pecos Pete| 8.31.12 @ 8:56AM
Jack: Texas will still vote overwhelmingly for Romney/Ryan. Texas will still vote overwhelmingly for Ted Cruz. Texas will still vote overwhelmingly for Republicans. Texas will still be growing economically and in freedom while NY, IL and CA descend into bankruptcy and riots.
Al Adab| 8.31.12 @ 11:25AM
Many States which oppose the actions of this administration, States like WI, NJ, TX, AZ where the Govs are pursuing better economic policies, are soon to find themselves on the receiving end of strong arm tactics from the federal regulatory agencies. It is no secret that agencies like FEMA, EPA, etc, are about to descend on thse States in an attempt to damage them for their opposition to the national administration policies. To oppose the emperor is to endanger ones' own home.
soljerblue| 8.31.12 @ 3:41PM
Perhaps that's why the Founders gave us the 2nd Amendment.
TLP| 8.31.12 @ 5:30PM
Perhaps, if we elect Romney/Ryan?
We won't have to worry about this Sh*t, anymore.
Harry the Horrible| 8.31.12 @ 9:40AM
Big deal.
It is just an opportunity to take the issue to the Supreme Court (which has already supported Voter ID) AND to get out from under the restrictions of the "Voting Rights" act which unfairly restricts Southern States.
Gary B| 8.31.12 @ 11:15AM
Jack, Are these the same poor black people who buy beer and cigarettes? Also, I'm curious if poor white people are targeted, too. Seems to me you grow convenient facts in a window box.
JD| 8.31.12 @ 11:50AM
What Jack wrote is technically correct. The law was struck down, and the reason offered was that it "targets minorities".
That doesn't mean the rationale holds water, or the striking down was legitimate, though.
Jack London| 8.31.12 @ 12:25PM
If the legal system can't decide what is legitimate, who can? That the 1965 Voting Rights Act still has to be used today is a disgrace.
John II| 8.31.12 @ 6:06PM
"If the legal system can't decide what is legitimate, who can?"
You and I, Jackie--that's one of our duties as citizens. To paraphrase Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist," the law, sir, is often an ass--as it proved itself to be in, for example, such charming declamations of legitimacy as the Dred Scott decision and Roe v. Wade.
And when the law is an ass, citizens need to correct it--lawfully, of course.
If you weren't such a lefty mandarin and condescending racist, Jackie, you would understand this elemental principle of the Americano experiment.
But you don't, probably because you have no faith in a transcendent order , because you're a child of your times--and therefore you unwittingly believe (with many of my students) in a false god, the State--and therefore (with many of my students) you're inclined to say things like "The State gives us the right to . . . " [fill in the blank], because you believe with your hero the Professor that "the legal system" (i.e., the State) is the final source of all rights and legitimacy. Q.E.D.
Okay, maybe it was a careless slip of the keyboard on your part--but Dr. Freud has much of interest to say about such slips, and I'll be haunted for the rest of my life by my students' fairly recently acquired habit of writing things like "The State gives us the right . . ."
And now back to "Malice in the Palace" (1948), a Three Stooges episode which anticipates the presidency of Professor Algonquin J. Obama.
Bob James| 8.31.12 @ 10:50PM
Jack London,
That you would suggest the Voting Rights Act should even exist in 2012 (it shouldn't, for your edification) is a disgrace. It doesn't have to be used, as you should suggest. It's a sad sham to further voter fraud by the party of poverty, the party of socialism, the party of the destruction of these United States. The 'rats.
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 4:12PM
EXAXTLY! the only problem the court had with the ID requirement was the cost; 'free' ID's would have been perfectly acceptable
Tom Kyba| 8.31.12 @ 12:44PM
Thanks for confirming the article's point Dr. Brain.
Stan Redmond| 8.31.12 @ 1:28PM
Does Texas' requirement to show a photo ID for buying liquor, beer, cigarettes, boarding an airplane, driving, applying for employment, cashing checks, target poor blacks?
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 4:10PM
that's NOT what the court actually said:
"In reaching this conclusion, we emphasize the narrowness of this opinion. Specifically,
we have decided nothing more than that, in this particular litigation and on this particular record, Texas has failed to demonstrate that its particular voter ID law lacks retrogressive effect. Nothing in this opinion remotely suggests that section 5 bars all covered jurisdictions from implementing photo ID laws. To the contrary, under our reasoning today, such laws might well be precleared if they ensure (1) that all prospective voters can easily obtain free photo ID, and (2) that any underlying documents required to obtain that ID are truly free of charge."
in other words, the court is saying Texas hasn't proved the law ISN'T discriminatory; and the basis for the 'discrimination' is that poor people have fewer resources with which to pay for the ID's...if the ID's were provided free, the court would have no problem with them, much like in PA, whose voter ID law has been upheld
TLP| 8.31.12 @ 5:40PM
The Supreme Court, in 1996, already confirmed its Constitutionality in the Imdiana Case.
Do any of you DUMFCK LIBERALS know what the Fck you're talking about?
Or, do you just TALK SH*T, like your Messiah does?
Gary B| 9.3.12 @ 9:55AM
If the Texas law was identical to Indiana, it wouldn't have been tossed out. As the AG of Texas explained, it came down to the cost. Well, it were free, Holder would bitch that poor black people would have to travel too far to get it. It's too late for this election cycle anyway. Luckily, it may not matter, unless Austin can out vote the rest of Texas.
Jade12| 9.1.12 @ 2:45PM
The cost of PA ID is $13.50.
You are going to tell me they can't afford $13.50?
They spend more than that on other stuff.
d55may| 9.4.12 @ 6:07PM
What fact? If poor black people Do not have ID's then they aren't cashing checks(welfare, SS, SSI,SSD, Pension or pay roll) They can't get a bank account or apply for welfare, SSI, SSD, SS or a job. And to drive.
They can't be admitted into a hospital, a courthouse, or board a plane.
Voter Id "targets" only those who do none of the above things, which means they are dead. It does not target "poor"black people BTW they aren't the only poor in this country. So please stop with your "facts"
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.31.12 @ 8:49AM
Liberals think racism started with Southern segregationists. They don't realize that the "scientific" racists were in fact mainly northern Progressives and environmentalists, e.g., such as Madison Grant.
In other worlds, those who did the most to advance racism in America, and influenced German racists as well, were the political fathers of today's liberals.
Louis Jenkins| 8.31.12 @ 9:08AM
A hillarious article Mr. Hillyer. You've just about summed it up, lock, stock, and barrel. I guess I am a racist, since blacks may only call themselves the n word, we white folks will be satisfied to call ourselves the r word. Can't escape the title, so wear it with pride.
I'm a racist, yeah, yeah, I'm a racist, yeah, yeah, and I'm proud, yeah, yeah.... so what else are the trolls going to claim today.
Gary B| 8.31.12 @ 11:22AM
I didn't used to be a racist, but, since Obama and the media have been calling me one for years, maybe I really am one. Well, now that I'm a racist, voting will really be easy. I'll simply choose the white guy. And, since liberals have disowned "white Hispanics," I'll choose them, too. Wow, this is really easy.
William L. Gensert| 8.31.12 @ 9:54AM
Who does Clint Eastwood think he is? Having an empty chair next to him on stage while he pretended to talk to a non-existent Barack Obama supposedly sitting in that chair was racism. It was intended to make our President seem small, inconsequential, like a black man who doesn't count -- or counts at most as 3/5 of a person.
Hint-sarcasm
Read more of my article: http://www.americanthinker.com.....z258EWUltO
d55may| 9.4.12 @ 6:10PM
WHY SAY THIS BULL?
Do you understand the 3/5 rule?
Alice Moore| 8.31.12 @ 9:57AM
Is the pasty white lib media projecting? Many years ago there was a Televangelist that railed against adultery. It was the subject of every one of his sermons. It was so ridiculous that if one admired a statue of Venus de Milo, you were going to be in Hell right alongside the orgiasts. Long story short, the Televangelist was caught in an intimate situation with a woman that was not his wife. I think the media probably participates in equivalent hypocrisies.
C. Vernon Crisler | 8.31.12 @ 6:31PM
Well, at least he wasn't caught in an intimate situation with a guy. They still had some standards back then.
d55may| 9.4.12 @ 6:11PM
Either way, it was a sin.
PolishKnight| 8.31.12 @ 10:20AM
The left may have overplayed their race card and it's amazing that it took this long for them to possibly get called.
Their whole position on race is sublimely arrogant: They accuse the right of being racists, merely for being white, and bashing whites even as they ideology they worship is based upon making the whole world into... SWEDEN! A leftist friend of mine from NJ was making fun of right wingers and I observed that the last thing most people wanted was to make the world into New Jersey.
Playing the victim card worked for them as long as they could get proxies to blame for the shortcomings of their policies. McCain, if he had been elected, would have been perfect. Bush certainly helped them. But Obama's like an inner city black mayor taking bribes and doing drugs. It's an embarrassment to their cause and unlike cities, they can't easily commute to the suburbs of the USA (ok, maybe Canada! Hello Mark Steyn!)
They got their One in the Oval Office and a fresh Nobel prize. Now what are they going to do?!?!
Who Knows?| 8.31.12 @ 10:30AM
“What do you tyke me for, a fool?”
“No one taught him ‘take’, not ‘tyke’.”
Separation is all there is---to see. In order to see, or in any other way sense, there must be a split. In short, self-other, me-you, me verses not me.
Consider “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel”. There are myriad ways to rearrange that sentence.
Racism (any “ism”) is the last (first, second, only etc) refuge (cave, etc) of a scoundrel (lover, killer, healer, etc).
Maybe it’s about paying attention, and learning lessons. Like Pavlov’s dog, sensitive humans CAN sooner or later get the connection between X and pain, and avoid X.
Perhaps enough people have had enough “classes”, so that the charge of racism by “others” has become meaningless, beyond even laughable. The sky IS blue---in appearance. For those who prefer red, go ahead and let them say the Universe is racist, for saying it’s blue.
Knee jerks abound.
Besides, how many humans even know why the sky looks blue----to THEM? The eye, which is truly extended brain—who’s drawing boundaries?---is flooded by light. Look up!
In the day, of the visual spectrum, only the blue wavelength is NOT absorbed by the atmosphere.
What about the “color” of race?
d55may| 9.4.12 @ 6:18PM
I don't ever think that human's will get beyond the ability to see each others color, but they can reach the point of not caring as you suggest. I think many have reached this point, but some can't let it pass because those same people won't have an excuse anymore.
MarkS| 8.31.12 @ 10:42AM
Well, Quinn, I'm sure there will be hundreds of examples added to yours by election day. By Nov. 6th every single American, even millions of those whites who voted for him, will find themselves labeled guilty of "racism" if they fail to line up like zombies behind the Messiah. I'm quite sure there are going to be innumerable people who used to readily throw that stink-bomb taken aback to find themselves now befouled by it. Of course, like a commissar caught in a Thought Crime they will be the most indignant of all, us conservatives being inured to the charge, protesting vehemently that their opposition is to his policies not his skin color. Alas, they will find as we do their defenses fall on deaf ears for their is no defense. The charge is the penalty and there are no exemptions or reprieves to it once leveled. And so the scales will finally fall from their eyes.
That's the good news- that maybe Gresham's Law will finally kick in and so devalue the term "racist" as to render it a running reverse gag on whoever tries to invoke it- like the exploding cigar. That to call someone a "racist" because you disagree with him will come to be seen as the epitome of pathetic, cowardly evasion and retreat. Perhaps, let us pray, it comes to the point that to use it will be looked on by all observers to the argument as forfeiting the contest and earn the accuser only the scorn and Bronx cheers it deserves.
2blumutts| 9.1.12 @ 12:53PM
Hey, there, armed with this article by Hillyer and your last also very good point, let's just do that--- go out and just so over-use the word "racist" that it will be pounded down flatter than a penny found on the train tracks.
cuban pete| 8.31.12 @ 10:50AM
Years ago, Gerry Faust, a highly successful high school football coach from Cincinnati was named the head coach of Notre Dame. By all accounts Faust was and is a decent man but it was soon apparent that he was in way over his head at Notre Dame.
At one point during a game in which ND was getting out played he told the players to start saying Hail Marys.
This is what the left and their MSM enablers are doing now. Their guy is clearly incapable and way over his head.
So their "Hail Mary" is to scream racism.
Gary B| 8.31.12 @ 11:25AM
Great comparison...
Houdini| 8.31.12 @ 10:59AM
Apparently being a racist just isn't what it used to be. Sigh.
spike59| 9.4.12 @ 5:59AM
no, it used to require one to actually BE a racist in order to be labeled such; now all it takes is to be anything other than a Left-winger
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 8.31.12 @ 11:10AM
The PC police on either side of the political spectrum can kiss my "dark side". I hate the PC BS it stands in the way of knowing how someone truly feels.
Gary B| 8.31.12 @ 11:27AM
Please describe the symptoms of a politically-correct conservative, who believes in the opportunities of a free market.
RichTex| 8.31.12 @ 11:40AM
The modern, “progressive” definition of “racist” is “a conservative winning an argument with a liberal”. Since conservatives routinely win intellectual arguments with liberals, we all fit into that definition.
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 11:59AM
it's not exactly difficult to win intellectual arguments with liberals, since their 'logic' usually consists of "well, because...because...SHUT UP!"
Who Knows?| 8.31.12 @ 11:59AM
The ONE true insight that stands out, awakened head and broad shoulders above all the others from the GOP convention---of which there were, gracefully, many—was delivered by Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico.
Too bad it wasn’t on prime time!
If the Romney camp has any brains, it’ll make an ad with her telling how she “became” a Republican.
The insight---that she and her husband were ALREADY Republicans, and just didn’t know it.
I am plus-perfect positive that this is true for the vast majority of Americans---at least 80%. This is really quite easy to prove.
The daily ACTIONS of each human across the vegetated plains and within, even, the high-density populated cities, are 99.99% LAWFUL. Even criminals don’t break the law, most of the time.
Maybe the arrival of Romney-Ryan on the scene will be the Universe’s reminder, or reflection, of this, and a lot of “ripe” people will come home to their true political party.
Watch the slugs, squirm under the “salt” of truth!
C Smith | 8.31.12 @ 12:07PM
Where is the once nobel black man who "sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not' (cf. Psalm 15:4).
How is it that he now laps up the hatred spewed forth on his behalf, selling his birthright for a pot of pottage, and sacrificing his honor on the altar of racist libel .
Stan Redmond| 8.31.12 @ 1:34PM
Old Saying... " When the only tool you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail."
Democrat liberal saying... "When the only card you have is the race card everything is racist."
Obama's economic policies result in massive black unemployment..That's racist
Obama's taxpayer support of a holocaust against "ugly black babies" that's racist
Alan's Girl| 8.31.12 @ 2:37PM
My new bumper sticker:
IN YOUR HEART YOU KNOW HE'S MARX
spike59| 8.31.12 @ 4:13PM
BRILLIANT!
Bob James| 8.31.12 @ 11:08PM
"Cafe Press, you have a call!"
Well done!
Jade12| 9.1.12 @ 2:48PM
And we don't mean Groucho.
cicero| 8.31.12 @ 2:43PM
The vast majority of the citizens of this country have finally awoke to the reality that their attempts to alleviate poverty by government action in this country has bankrupted us all. As a result, most of us could give a good rat's ass what color any of our fellow citizens happen to be. We have decidedd that, before the situation becomes irretrievable, all should be obligated to pull their own weight. This is not racism, but reality. We just do not care what color you are, or whether you have someone in your ancient family tree who may heve been put upon by someone else. Get over it.
From now on, if you cannot contribute because of some physical or mental disability, we will help you. Having children is not a disability. Don't have them if you are not pretty damnedd sure that the father will be around to suppont you and them, and help bring them up. If you can work and pay taxes, and choose not to, that is your choice. Good luck. If your grades and acomplishments qualify you for school, great. If not, too bad. If you can't affordd to pay for school, work nights - I did. Not everyone needs a college degree to earn a living. In fact, most don't. The main benefits of college education ennure to the employees of the colleges. If you are still on your parents' health insurance by the time you are 26, what in the hell have you been doing for the past 5 years or so? But don't get me started.
John Navratil| 8.31.12 @ 6:00PM
cicero,
Poverty in this country is defined politically, not economically. It is a lack of access to the good and services available to the majority. Defined in this manner, one will expect a constant poverty rate of 15%. One can never spend enough to eliminate the bottom 15% and make all the children above average.
TinaB| 9.1.12 @ 5:56AM
Someone far wiser than you or me once said,"the poor you will always have with you," to those who were indignant at a woman with an alabaster jar of ointment who was anointing Him with her fancy oil. They claimed to be concerned for the resident poor. folk. Jesus saw right through that and silenced them.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 4:58PM
Nicely put, Tina.
Don't quite understand that "orphan" "folk" though.
TinaB| 9.3.12 @ 8:35AM
I think widows and orphans represent all those who can't, for some legit reason, support themselves, yet, or ever. Those are the folk we (His children, to whom He is speaking,) should all be aware of and helping. every day. That should be a Christians way of life, using our time, talents and treasure for service to a fallen world. Quite a task, eh? But then, the government would not need to interfere.
Skippy| 8.31.12 @ 6:44PM
Proud to be a racist in Obamaland.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 4:59PM
Your point being ... ?
Skippy| 9.3.12 @ 2:53PM
The point is that being called a racist is a source of pride, when the accuser is an Obamazombie.
It indicates that the charge is based on panic and desperation rather than facts.
wombat1| 8.31.12 @ 7:40PM
If I were a genuine racist, hating people for the color of their skins, I could not ask for better support and cover for my agenda than the yodeling, frothing, spoiled-brat tantrums that the Leftocracy is inserting into every nook and cranny of the public discourse, to try to keep the Obama reelection effort afloat, but equally out of sheer damned spite.
After all, what better friend did the wolves ever have been the Boy Who Cried Wolf?
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:03PM
Simmer down and take your meds, Wombat.
"Leftocracy"?
"Sheer damned spite"?
Wake up and smell the reality: ALL humans are "colored." Just different ones. That some, of one color abuse others of others is stupid and reprehensible. Period.
This isn't friggin' "rocket surgery," pal.
It's just plain common sense and decency;
wombat1| 8.31.12 @ 7:41PM
Oops, " Been" should've been than. Dragon is illiterate in English, apparently....
Alej| 8.31.12 @ 8:40PM
Good analogy, wombat1 - I wish there was an "edit" feature on this forum, too.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:05PM
Yeah. I made a couple of "flubs" I'd like to go back and correct too.
LOL
BD57| 8.31.12 @ 7:52PM
Short version - - - "If you oppose Obama, you're a racist."
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 2:23PM
Yeah, that's about it.
And that's pretty friggin' dumb, don't you think?
Butch| 9.1.12 @ 5:25PM
It's completely dumb NOT to oppose Obama, unless you're on the take.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:37PM
Take your pills, Butch.
spike59| 9.4.12 @ 5:57AM
yep, the stetement, "If you oppose Obama, you're a racist" IS pretty frigging dumb...and we've been hearing it from the Left since 2007
Richard Lyle Prescott| 8.31.12 @ 10:48PM
So I tune in to American Spectator in order to be informed and the first thing I read is this faux self-pitying "they all call us racist" strawman piece. And judging by the comments "they" would be right - at least for some of the commentators. I hope the next piece I read has positive marginal value - this one didn't.
TinaB| 9.1.12 @ 5:57AM
Waaaah, waaah, waaaaaaah.
Butch| 9.1.12 @ 5:29PM
Well, brother Prescott is not a racist. Good for you. Assume you'll be taking a pleasant stroll through the ghetto tonight?
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:38PM
"The ghetto," eh, Butch?
Oh, but you're not a racist, right?
LMAO
Have a gander in the glass, guy.
Skippy| 9.3.12 @ 3:03PM
"The ghetto".
(Modern definition.)
An urban environment created by white liberals and black race-hustler/poverty pimps.
It was designed and maintained in order to corral black families into a geographic area in which they would be fed just enough to survive and denied access to the mainstream of society.
After 50 years of anti-social engineering, the "ghetto" is a source of reliable Democrat voters and other degenerates.
The nice folks who are doomed to reside there in poverty and perpetuity know little but dependence and have been denied quality education or an opportunity to rise above the low expectations of the white liberals and black racists who feed off the eternal misery and hopelessness of their pet negroes.
Carroll | 8.31.12 @ 11:31PM
We, as voters, can only choose from who's available AND electable.
EVERY potential conservative nominee was simply too green.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 3:28PM
Yeah.
And ain't that a shitty deal?
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 3:31PM
If you write stupid, contrafactual nonsense like this ... yeah, you're a racist, Sonderegger.
Duh.
Crawl back in your hole and read something vaguely factual and honest and decent, eh?
Shit.
Butch| 9.1.12 @ 5:33PM
Note to Soros: Your hired troll is so stupid he's responding to hacked sales pieces.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:40PM
?
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 3:33PM
Hey, Sonderegger, I give you credit for acknowledging the total, nasty hypocrisy of this piece.
I criticized you rather harshly elsewhere here. Perhaps I was too "knee-jerk"?
Hope so.
Butch| 9.1.12 @ 5:34PM
Twice!
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:41PM
No. Just once. You weren't paying attention, Butch.
Finzi Holst| 9.3.12 @ 1:59AM
Drop the word "knee" and you are onto something.
Your comments add nothing. It is obvious you are a troll.
spike59| 9.4.12 @ 5:55AM
'strawman?' the Left has called the following references 'racist':
-food stamps
-the PGA
-Chicago
-border security
-crime victims
-wealth redistribution
the boy cried wolf one too many times long ago
Oldefarte| 9.1.12 @ 1:58PM
If you state factually that the majority populations of all US prisons are black, you are racist. If you factually proclaim that the majority of criminal [physical] acts commited are by blacks, you are racist. If you state that blacks are mostly lazy and do not take advantages of the free public school systems opportunities in order to become educated and capable of earning a decent income in life, you are racist. If you state that blacks """"stupidly""""" vote for black political candidates while disregarding their qualifications for office, you are racist. If you do not become brainwashed by Hollywood's propaganda within their movies, you are racist. If you're non-black and breathe, you're racist!!!!!
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 2:22PM
Huh?
That's a classical example of "sputtering irrational crap," Oldefarte.
What the hell was/is your point, son?
Make it -- clearly -- or shut the hell up.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 2:18PM
Holy cow!
Quinn, do you actually have absolutely NO sense of yourself?
Do you NEVER look yourself square in the eyes in the mirror in the morning?
Do you NEVER listen to yourself?
Newsflash, pal: You're a poster-boy for racist assholes!
Your protestations to the contrary ring totally hollow.
My suggestion: Rethink things, become a nicer person, and then come back and write something worthwhile. Your style isn't bad; just your notions.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 2:19PM
Oh ... sorry... "Quin," not "Quinn," apparently.
My bad.
lol
Butch| 9.1.12 @ 5:38PM
So you call someone "a poster-boy for racist assholes," then apologize for misspelling his name?
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 6:07PM
Yeah.
Absolutely.
What's your point?
spike59| 9.4.12 @ 5:49AM
i'm guessing the point is that, not only are you a leftist moron, you're a rude leftist moron
Jade12| 9.1.12 @ 2:52PM
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Ralph Novy| 9.1.12 @ 5:07PM
Yes.
But at whom are you aiming that?
Ian Cognito | 9.2.12 @ 3:34PM
Well said - comprehensive Quinn. We need to take this topic front and center. It's been 60 years since the first Affirmative Action laws were penned and white men are the over arching target of the Progressive Left. What do they fear from these men? They fear they will expose the mediocrity of the sanctioned "minorities" they have placed at the head of the Opportunity line - college admissions, employment quotas, gov't contracts, et al. White men "ran the USA" when it sat in first place world wide. Why is it Progressive Liberals wish to reside somewhere less than first?... to hide glaring deficiencies found in quota hires that render the USA in the middle of the pack. The USA can not effect a resurrection of its desperate economy without enabling the best and brightest - regardless of skin color, sex, or sexual behaviors.
Belianis | 9.2.12 @ 10:15PM
The one undisputable accomplishment of the regime of the American Ceausescu:
setting race relations back to the time of Bull Connor, with Obscenity as the black Bull Connor.
Mickle | 9.2.12 @ 10:42PM
If you note that the president often wrote and spoke movingly about the great influence that a particular preacher had on him, and that the preacher is a white-hating, America-bashing radical, then you are a racist.
florin| 9.3.12 @ 1:05PM
Sept. 3rd: Last night I watched a documentary about Pope John Paul's visit to Poland and saw how the Communist media blocked out most of the visit and it reminded me of the mainstream media blocking out much of the RNC coverage and all of the minority speakers, showing they have utter disdain for minorities considering their ideas to be of no importance. But, in Poland, the millions who came to see and to hear Pope John Paul laughed at the Communist run media and told them that: "we are here!" and we will go back to our towns and communities and tell them what we heard from a Pope who will help us regain our freedoms from your oppression...hopefully the Republicans who heard and saw the leaders of their party will do the same...speak out about the falsehoods the Dems are spreading, the outright lies from the lips of Obama and his minions. Speak out clearly and strongly and relentlessly or we will give Obama another 4 years to destroy our country and our freedoms.
Mickle | 9.4.12 @ 3:40AM
If you say that a president does not harbor the traditional views about what makes America great, you are a racist.