so...last night, im watching bill maher on hbo. had a guy on the panel named andrew brietbart...i've heard his name before but wasn't really familiar with him. i associated him with the right wing tea party branch of the republicans but, never heard him speak or read any of his stuff. he more than held his own in front of a tough crowd. as i was listening to him, so much of his rhetoric sounded really familiar...down to listing a group of black candidates that the right would find suitable.
i realized about halfway thru the panel section that basically he was saying pretty much the same things you are saying.
i understand that people are always going to be informed by what they read and hear. i tend towards liberal in most things so i'm going to trend towards sites and shows that fuel my beliefs. i expect no different from you. but as i watched this guy and saw the similarity in his rhetoric and your writings, i've come to a conclusion:
you are not a reasonable person.
you will always deny even the most despicable tactics used by your side. you attempt to obfuscate and twist the debate by trying to equate the sustained, tactical hatred of your side with isolated instances on the left. but, since you keep complaining that the oiunts you brought up haven't been addressed, i will do so now.
regarding clinton's "getting us coffee" statement...that's not even the worst thing he said during the campaign. both bill and hillary made some racially charged statements during the campaign and both were excoriated by pundits on the left for them. they both lost much of the goodwill they'd built in the black community and they paid a price for their remarks. not the least of which was hillary not winning the nomination.
regarding mc cain, actually, the panama issue was originally brought up during the 2000 campaign by the republicans. wanna know what the difference is between his situation and obama's?
MC CAIN WAS ACTALLY BORN IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY!!!!!
now, of course, his citizenship was never really in question since at least 1 of his parents was an American citizen and that is all that is required to be a citizen. and they did play the race card with mc cain when the republicans said that his adopted bangladeshi daughter was really the love child between him and a black prostitute. surprised you didn't cite that...oh yeah, the republicans did that so that doesn't fit into your apologist's view of the right wing.
as far as you list of "acceptable" black candidates goes...thomas has spent so much time trying to be accepted by whites on the right, it's a wonder he hasn't had his skin bleached. watts has spent some of his carreer championing education for black kids and you know that most republicans don't want to hear any of that noise. not only that but, he fathered a baby with a white chick...fear of mndingo will be in full effect. i don't know much about cain or west except that both sarah palin and the tea party support them which means i can assume that they are for the exact opposite of what would be beneficial to the majority of this country. that leaves colin powell. i agree that this man could run as a repunblican and have support on both sides of the aisle. i think he could win. but he won't run...just like he didn't in 2000. wanna know why? because his wife feared that he would be assassinated. bet you petraeus and shwartzkopf wouldn't have that concern.
so, your points have been addressed.
now...i'm done with this dialouge. all those years ago, i considered us friendly. i always thought you to be a thoughtful, intelligent guy even if we didn't always see eye to eye. if you recall, i defended you several times against charges that you were racist. i truly thought that you were just like most white people...tired of the whole issue since it doesn't really relate to your lives. that said, i thought that you could at least see it and acknowledge it when it is blatant or even when it's a bit more subtle.
now, i feel as if i don't know you anymore. while i don't doubt that your animosity towards obama stems from political dfferences rather than racial ones, your continued denial of the obvious racist tactics and attitudes of the tea party, birthers, etc makes me wonder if you don't secretly harbor the same views towards minorities. your over reaction to knut's observation that some people are just racists is very interesting.
maybe it's just this board that has done it to you. posting here, where you find a lot of validation for you views...even though it seems as if even the people that agree with your politics don't like or respect you...has caused you to step over that fine line from advocate to zealot.
what happened to you, man.? you used to be beautiful....
Oderint, dum metuant.
You are a god damned idiot, you know that? You ought to be smacked upside your dumb-fuck head, even after all these years. Shame on you!
