Comments for "Obama plays the race card again"

@f4m: I hear a lot of people saying that same thing, but there is really no comparison. If Obama is elected it will be the return of Jimmy Carter. If McCain is elected, the majority of decisions will probably make sense, and some things will be maddening. Obama will be something that the country will have to recover from over a period of 10 years (if we're lucky), but McCain will likely keep us moving in generally the right direction.

@f4me: I could not disagree with you more. On every single thing you said.

@f4me: Viet Nam is nothing like Iraq, as much as liberals in the media would like us all to think. They are not even close.

It seems to escape the media's notice, but we are *winning* the war in Iraq. the insurgents are mostly wiped out and/or disbanded, with scattered violence here and there. Statistically, it is safer to walk the streets of Bagdad than it is to walk the streets of L.A.

There are always complaints by individual people or soldiers of lack of this or lack of that, but this president made sure to hammer congress repeatedly so that they would not leave the soldiers out to dry. This president actually respects the military, unlike some past presidents who dispised them and cut them back to nothing.

I guess you would look at my last comment posted as a "bad thing", because I strongly disagree with each statement you made.

Clinton was a *good* president? Huh? Good to whom? Do you actually think *Clinton* was responsible for the economic resurgence of the 1990s? If so, then you have selective memory.

The economic prosperity of the 90s was due to the fact that the American people threw out the Democrats in both houses on congress and voted in Newt Gingritch and the Republicans. They had their Contract with America, and it was *brilliant*.

The Republicans basically forced Clinton to do things that he would never in a million years do otherwise. Like reforming welfare from a system that fostered dependency on the system to something that encouraged people to get back to work.

No, it was not Clinton who brought prosperity, it was the Republicans in the Congress.

But many times I wonder where have all those brave Republicans gone? Now we seem to have nothing but spineless ones in their place, afraid of losing whatever power they have left.

Silly Congress men and women. Don't they realize it was their courage that brought them power?

@T: The question really is, why is the media saying that Iraq is so dangerous? It's always good to focus on what the media is *doing*, not what they are *not doing*.

@JE: It is illegal for the military to operate within the USA borders. The National Guard does that. A lot of people think we *should* deploy the National Guard for stuff like that -- and on the border (which they did a great job of helping to clean up).

@T: The USA is as safe as it's ever been. There is no great rise in violence in L.A. The point is the overblown media on Iraq.

WHO is being racist? The only person injecting race into the race is Obama. He keeps going on about how "Republicans are going to scare you about how I'm black".

Would you care to tell me one single Republican who did that?

No one has, but he's going to carry on as if they did, because he thinks that injecting race issues into a compaign -- where none exist -- will make people like you angry enough to vote for him.

Yes, he is a strong and confident black man. And John McCain is a strong and confident white man. In those two sentences there is not a single thing said about either man that would make either one qualified to be president. Stop using "black man" and "white man" to qualify who you're going to vote for.

I don't even like "strong and confident man" and "strong and confident woman", because that too tries to qualify someone according to gender.

If you can't justify your support for a candidate other than race or gender, then you need to examine your own feelings and motivations, not mine or anyone else's for pointing out shameful campaign techniques.