Rick Badie / My Opinion

By Buzz Brockway

November 5, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

I think Johan Goldberg said it best today:

It is a wonderful thing to have the first African-American president. It is a wonderful thing that in a country where feelings are so intense that power can be transferred so peacefully. Let us hope that the Obama his most dedicated — and most sensible! — fans see turns out to be the real Obama. Let us hope that Obama succeeds and becomes a great president, for all the right reasons.

I’ll be praying for President-Elect Obama just as hard as I’ve prayed for George W. Bush.

By jim d

November 5, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

Now we will learn what Obama really thinks about Iraq

By Michael H. Smith

November 5, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Time to give our President elect his request: Our help.

By didiba

November 5, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

We have now ended Racism in America!!!!!!!!!!!! A brother sits in the highest office of the World. NO LAW GOES INTO ACTION WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE. He can make laws that support the brothers and sistas who have been put down by whitey too long. He can stop laws that do not enhance the BLACK MAN in America. WE HAVE NO EXCUSES MY BROTHAS AND SISTAS rise up the world is at our feet. Racism is dead take what is yours however you can as we have the LAW on our side. Is it not funny that the party that fought to keep slavery alive in America is now run by a black man.

By didiba

November 5, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

We have now ended Racism in America!!!!!!!!!!!! A brother sits in the highest office of the World. NO LAW GOES INTO ACTION WITHOUT HIS SIGNATURE. He can make laws that support the brothers and sistas who have been put down by whitey too long. He can stop laws that do not enhance the BLACK MAN in America. WE HAVE NO EXCUSES MY BROTHAS AND SISTAS rise up the world is at our feet. Racism is dead take what is yours however you can as we have the LAW on our side.

It is funny the party that fought to keep slavery alive in America is now run by a black man.

By dog

November 5, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

Does this mean we can finally get rid of affirmative action??

By LT5000

November 5, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

I have to admit I was wrong.

I thought, for sure, a war hero with years of executive experience would easily beat out an inexperienced socialist that loves to kibbitz with terrorists? Foolish me.

I guess the perfect storm that was the financial crisis was an obstacle McCain couldn’t overcome.

Any bets as to when America’s buyers remorse will set in? I predict the Obama presidency makes Jimmy Carter look competent.

LT5000

By richtfan

November 5, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Racism in America is dead. This is a joyous moment. No more Affirmative Action. No more set asides. No more minority provisions in government contracts. Do away with the minority business alliances and special status groups that exist solely to promote non-white racial groups. What a happy day this is. Wait……this means that Jesse Jackson and the rest of the race industry are officially out of a job. What will they do now? Morton Downey’s show is dead, and Sharpton now has to compete with the most merciful Messiah for face time on TV. He won’t allow that, will he?

By Michael H. Smith

November 5, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Turning to the nature of our higher angels…

It is stunning the light-speed transformation which has taken grasp of the world overnight. In watching the events taking place with our cousins across the pond in the House of Commons the right honorable members seem more readily available to enact the policy measures of our President elect than the policies of their own right honorable gentleman, the Prime Minister of the UK.

A new dawn in America: An old world smitten by its rays?

Rather striking!

By we're screwed

November 5, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

RACISM WILL ALWAYS EXIST IN AMERICA, ESPECIALLY THE SOUTH!!!

By we're screwed

November 5, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

RACISM WILL ALWAYS EXIST IN AMERICA, ESPECIALLY THE SOUTH!!!

By nana

November 5, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

I am very proud for Obama and I wish his grandmother could have seen this day. I hope he stays in the “middle” as he campaigned. I don’t think that he will. Actions speak louder than words. I too think that affirmative action, NAACP and any other programs that are geared towards giving one person or group an advantage simply because of color should be dismantled and never again to be. I wonder what Jesse Jackson will now do?

By gafarmer

November 5, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Racism will always exist in America as long as we have political operatives who prosper because of the specter of racism and the divisions it creates.

Both parties today have leaders who feed from the trough of division. Nuff said.

By Jill Canton

November 5, 2008 8:06 PM | Link to this

Sexism will prosper as long as there are preeks.

‘muff said.

By Bubba

November 5, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

Is ‘at kunda like sayin’ long as they cun keep us fightin’ ‘ginst each other we’ll nuver notice what they’re a doin’?

By Steve

November 5, 2008 8:51 PM | Link to this

Once again the south shows how out of touch it is with the rest of the country. I have no problems whatsoever allowing you to break off and form your own country. It would be a disaster, and quickly become third world, but hey, I bet you wouldn’t even notice.

By Bubba

November 5, 2008 9:41 PM | Link to this

Pituwee

Wunna chaw of bacca Steven?

By Tom Becker

November 6, 2008 6:21 AM | Link to this

Racism and the Berlin Wall

Like Berlin, there will be rejoicing over the breach. But a leaner, meaner, more sinister Russia emerged after Berlin, with the same nuclear clout.

Racism will still enable lesser men to rise to the level of their incompetence over more qualified “lesser” men.

Racism will retrench in stealth, cloaked in tradition, and stoked by fear. Look for more secessionist talk, especially from the aryan brotherhood and white supremicists, who used to appear on Oprah. They’ve been awfully quiet lately.

Part of the problem is that the USA that Obama inherits will be a rifled shell of what it once was. Bush crooks and cronies searched all the nooks and crannies for any untook pennies in fear that we’ll book nannies.

We’re broke. The conservatives handed over the country in the same financial condition that the Confederacy handed over the South in 1865.

Bush’s reputation can never be untarnished, like Nixon’s. Bush is our great national disgrace. Look at him lately? His hair? His visage. His general comportment and demeanor are as ransacked as our treasury. He is a bad man.

He is a very bad man. God help us. he still has time to do even more damage.

and he will. Abominable pardons. Acts of war. Treasury treason. Is there nothing to stop this obscene president?

Except inauguration?

By Success

November 6, 2008 7:25 AM | Link to this

Now, maybe more jobs can be created and Americans who have been unemployed for a long time can finally get some work.

Maybe Obama can stop illegals from getting jobs while any American is still unemployed.

Maybe the job market can do away with the two job listings, one for regular employment and one for diverse employment. What in the world is diverse? Everybody is different. Guess this is going back to the two water fountains and restrooms (regular and diverse). The employment market that offers these two categories are aiming to discriminate. Maybe they will no longer be allowed to ask for race and gender on applications, and they STILL ask for this.

Finally, maybe the Americans who are here legally can be referred to as Americans. This means EVERY American and not have a separate group that calls themselves African American. This term segregates people and it discriminates against half of the true African Americans who happen to be white. The segregated term African American really needs to be outlawed. Obama, himself is half white.

By American Mother

November 6, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

yeah!! the first black president, is NOT black!! he is as much white as he is black!! and I do hope and pray that he succeeds IN making this a better place for all Americans!!!

I do not have a problem with his color, however his name, just bothers me!!!! I can not help it, it just sounds, so foreign(for lack of a better word???) for the president of the United States!!!!!

oh well God help us all!!

By BW

November 6, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

Racism is now finished, just by the comments above it is alive and well. When Lincoln freed the slaves, I’m sure the woodchucks said racism is dead. When the Civil Rights and Voting Acts passed in the sixites the Rednecks said racism is dead. Some fools feel that racism comes from the dictates of Washington? Racism cannot be legislatated, it’s in a persons heart.

The ignorance amazes me, “The intended beneficiaries of affirmative action in the United States include disadvantaged ethnic minorities, women, The intended beneficiaries of affirmative action in the United States include disadvantaged ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and veterans. So I guess that The intended beneficiaries of affirmative action in the United States include disadvantaged ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and veterans. deserve equal treatment.

All I’ll say about Obama is Godspeed.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I do wish I had the article I e-mailed Rick a good while back on affirmative action. I’m going to look around maybe I’ll find it.

The intended beneficiaries of affirmative action in the United States include disadvantaged ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities, and veterans.

Want some intelligence brought to this topic, then talk about the actual problems instead of creating a bigger one by using discrimination to fight discrimination: Like equal pay for equal work, addressing poverty instead of ethnicity, skin color or sexual preference and most importantly enforce the laws already on the books which would go along way to resolve all these items and many others.

This is one case where fighting fire with fire simply consumes everyone or at best we all walk away smelling of smoke.

By Jim

November 6, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Hey didiba;

You might want to check your facts, your “bro” has a lot more limits on what he can do than you think. Also, just to let you know, yours is the kind of attitude that has kept this country separated for all these years. I’m guessing you’re one of these people who believes that the government is now going to take care of your every need. Sorry, but there isn’t enough money to do it all…as y’all will soon see.

On the plus side, at least Georgia will no longer be known as the state that gave us the worst democratic president in history.

By Mark

November 6, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

B.S. Racism always will exist, because blacks are the most racist people in America.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Here’s the article BW.

The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118861213090515447.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

If the link fails do a search, you’ll find it.

Suggested reading: Creating Equal by Ward Connerly

http://www.acri.org/

By BW

November 6, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Hey Mark how many Whites were lynched by Blacks?

By Tom Becker

November 6, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Racism and the Berlin Wall

Like Berlin, there will be rejoicing over the breach. But a leaner, meaner, more sinister Russia emerged after Berlin, with the same nuclear clout.

Racism will still enable lesser men to rise to the level of their incompetence over more qualified “lesser” men.

Racism will retrench in stealth, cloaked in tradition, and stoked by fear. Look for more secessionist talk, especially from the aryan brotherhood and white supremicists, who used to appear on Oprah. They’ve been awfully quiet lately.

Part of the problem is that the USA that Obama inherits will be a rifled shell of what it once was. Bush crooks and cronies searched all the nooks and crannies for any untook pennies in fear that we’ll book nannies.

We’re broke. The conservatives handed over the country in the same financial condition that the Confederacy handed over the South in 1865.

Bush’s reputation can never be untarnished, like Nixon’s. Bush is our great national disgrace. Look at him lately? His hair? His visage. His general comportment and demeanor are as ransacked as our treasury. He is a bad man.

He is a very bad man. God help us. he still has time to do even more damage.

and he will. Abominable pardons. Acts of war. Treasury treason. Is there nothing to stop this obscene president?

Except inauguration?

By Blue Devil

November 6, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

America has spoken. The Right has screwed things up so badly in Washington that this country is ready to roll the dice on a black man.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Racism will exist as long as the people in this country continue to so much as use the word race in the manner as they always have in the past. Your ancestry is not a race, your skin color is not a race, your culture is not a race, your language is not a race. Hey, look over there that puppy is not a race, that tree is not a race.

Human is a race.

Now want to talk intelligently or continue beating each and everyone and everything up with your little “social crutch” to hide a weakness, a hate, a fear or whatever other human flaw that possesses you like the demon out of hell that it probably is?

Thank You

Race rant over.

By BW

November 6, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

MHS, nice attempt to blame the Unions, the reality is that majority of lawsuits that resulted in millions of dollars in payouts, were made by women, all non-Union. Both people with disabilities, and veterans have filed and won millions in the Federal Courts.

You present a very narrow view of what affirrmtaive action covers and provide a link that addresses, a very narrow viewpoint.

As far as Unions, it was and in many cases still is a father-son trade. I find no fault with the system, the same happens in non-Union work places.

By underwhelmed

November 6, 2008 11:32 AM | Link to this

Bady-you must be the most boring person alive. Can’t you even work up enthusiasm about the most historic moment our country has seen in 50 years? You have no opinion on anything. change the name of your blog.

The person who only voted once in his 61 years should be ashamed of himself. Not given a lead spot in your blog. Of course it’s about color.

By Tom Becker

November 6, 2008 11:43 AM | Link to this

Underwhelmed needs to change his underwear.

On election day, at 3PM, I was sitting in my car outside northside hospital waiting for my wife to get her wig, which she needed because all her hair fell out during chemotherapy.

I saw a young black female about 18 maybe less, get out of a red Explorer. Her mother was being wheeled out of the hospital with a new baby. Her dad got out and helped his wife into the Suv. While he was doing that, this black female walked around to the rear of the Explorer, and, noticing the dirty rear window, wrote “Obama” with her index finger. She then turned around, her face flush with the pride of her accomplishment, and clapped her hands clean of the dirt from the glass, and what I observed was total confidence in an Obama victory. It was like getting inside info. I knew then, at 3pm that Obama would win, and I was as certain as she.

My wife’s wig looks like Katie Courik’s new do.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

I didn’t blame any such thing BW, I didn’t write the article. But there is truth in the fact unions have used their own firebrand version of Affirmative Action to keep people you would call a minority from ever entering a trade. And your wonderful unions are well known to be nothing more in reality than another DNC PAC.

Giving equal time: The Chamber of Commerce (at least the U.S. level) IMHO are pretty much another RNC PAC.

I find a great deal wrong with all of this.

As for the rest unaddressed: Nonsense.

By BW

November 6, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

MHS, try reading Supreme Court case, 443 U.S. 193

United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber

Where the Union fought for equal rights for all of it’s members because Blacks were not being treated equally.

My point in the begining was to educate some of these Yahoo’s that affirmative action effects many groups, not just Blacks.

We could spend days discussing the issue because it covers such a wide range of groups. But things to do, places to go.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

Is what you bring up not one of the things I mentioned previously in the fact of ENFORCE THE LAWS ON THE BOOKS. Enforcing laws is not affirmative action. That is plain old justice as it should be, though, far too often it is not served.

If affirmative acts take place no other actions will be needed: Equal pay for equal work, address poverty in the things that produce it, and above all enforce the law.

By Tall

November 6, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

Tom Becker, you’re naive and a fool. If you think the Republicans alone are repsonsible for this mess, guess again. This has been in the works for more than thirty years. After the stock market crash in 1987, voices were raised back then about the amount of debt being incurred by Washington. It’s been ignored ever since. The Clinton administration balanced the budget with the help of an unexpected technology boom that led to lower unemployment and higher tax reciepts from the stock market boom.
The C level executives of FRE and FNM spent millions on lobbyists and donated heavily to the campaigns of Barney Frank and Obama. You can blame the conservatives all you want, but the Democrats share far more of the blame. Just wait until the policies of Pelosi, Reid, Frank and Obama are in place. This country will NEVER recover from them.

By LIES LIES LIES GET OUT

November 6, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this

Nice try Tall, but….

Try to prove that C level executives of FRE and FNM spent millions on lobbyists and donated heavily to Frank and Obama.

YOU CAN”T BECAUSE THOSE ARE LIES.

The republicans have been asleep at the wheel and we can only hope the Democrats save the day.

By I almost forgot

November 6, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.

By Pi$$onaDAWG

November 6, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

The race problems are over. Blacks will stop killing one another and home break-in against Latinos are a thing of the past. HAHAHAH. The BNIC will “CHANGE” the WORLD and all the NWA’s will start acting & living with CLASS. If the US of A is luckey the NWAs will try to get a J.O.B.

By NOWICUNVME

November 6, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

All I have to say is the mentality, or lack of, to make it a more accurate and appropriate term, of Red State Georgia is unbelievably remarkable! Racism will always exist heavily down south and most definitely here in Georgia. Affirmative Action, NAACP, ACLU, EEOC could never ever change the inbred beliefs and teachings of racism, hatred and bigotry.

Get a job. Get a job. Get a job? This good old Peachy State of Georgia is an “employee at will” state. A “right to work” state. How many of you guys knew that? I have never in my entire life seen a more evident and profound system of oppression until I came to Georgia. Do you know what this really means? Basically, when you are employed in the state of Georgia, you can be terminated for absolutely no reason at all. NO REASON AT ALL NEEDED TO FIRE YOU AND TAKE AWAY YOUR LIVELIHOOD After they fire you, they want to to challenge your unemployment benefits so you really hit rock bottom pitts. Can someone please enlighten me on this subject because it’s just mind boggling to me. Who would enact such a ridiculous law? Why would this law still be in effect going into 2009? Am I the only person that feels this way? What happened to if you report to work every day, on time, neat and presentable, and do an excellent job, quite possibly better than your co workers you could at least expect some type of job security?? Not here in Georgia!! No reason, good reason, bad reason. It’s all the same here in Georgia. Basically, if you’re not an Uncle Tom, or the “token” you are indispensable.

Georgia has a long long way to come. I understand that some of the ignorant clusters will never understand or agree that minorities are just as free and equal as everyone else in this country, but I do have to say that some of the minorities born here in Georgia, don’t really show or express themselves in an equal manner either.

It would be interesting to hear exactly What the H is the problem here in Georgia, and why are people so far behind the times here?

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

You just crossed the legal line of the law.

It’s all the same here in Georgia. Basically, if you’re not an Uncle Tom, or the “token” you are indispensable.

That implies the firing relates to someone’s ancestry (and in a derogatory term), in such a case that person, if they can prove it can sue the living bank account right out from under the law breaking employer!

Right to work law is NOT the right to ignore or break other labor laws.

However, the right that would assure legal workers that only legal authorized employment exists in this state, is not in the laws of this state and it should be.

By racism is still alive

November 6, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Why does everyone think racism is no longer alive in the USA????

I saw that 99% of the black people voted for Obama. The stats don’t lie, racism is not dead. It has only turned around, it is no longer the whites that are the most racist, it is the black that are the most racist. But the whites, and Washington have allowed it to continue. How many black folks out there would be screaming mad if we had a NAAWP. National association for White people?

All of these racist programs need to end!

By Impeich

November 6, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

In response to the comments of didiba: Let me guess, you are one of the “new” voters that the democrats got registered in the last year to steal this election? Can you even read the crap you are typing? With your own post, you prove that racism is not dead! In your post you are actually calling on Osama oh I’m sorry Obama to pass discriminatory laws against whites. That is racism. Just because you are black, it is still racism. Of course because you are black you can get away with it! You mention “take what is yours however you can…” Many people in this country have been taking for a long time and it had nothing to do with a black man being president. It did, however, begin with a democrat though! Hopefully, even with a democratic congress, Osama, my bad again, will be held in check (which by the way is what the congress is suppose to do - hold the president in check - of course you weren’t in school that day to learn that one) with the laws he tries to get passed. He cannot just sign a law. The congress makes laws and he signes them into law if they pass each of the houses of congress (again a civics lesson you must have missed). Next time you vote a man into office know what he stands for and as the white man has been accused of doing so many times, don’t just look at his skin color! GOD Bless America! GOD Bless president elect Barack Obama! Notice I typed GOD not allah! Hopefully this won’t upset Obama!

By seth weathers

November 6, 2008 5:22 PM | Link to this

63 and he’s never cared enough about his country to participate in the right to vote until now? Hmm… sounds like there is more to play here than a candidate who made sense – what were the issues that made sense to him?

it makes me wonder about someone’s intelligence and understanding of this country and politics if they have never gotten around to voting until 63

By impeich

November 6, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

To Tom Becker: Are you kinding? Remember what your beloved Clinton did when he left office? All the wonderful people he pardoned? How he and his staff & his wife left the white house? Glued drawers shut on file cabinets, stole china! Any of this jog a memory? If Gore would have been president when 9/11 hit, we wouldn’t be worried about Obama because Osama would be president! Bleeding heart liberals!

To NOWICUNVME: The groups / ideas you mention in your post: naacp, aclu,eeoc & affirmative action are nothing more than racist policies / groups. To this you can add the uncf. Can I, as a white man, receive money from the uncf? No I can’t! What about historically black universities? Can I get accepted to one even though I am white? Probably not! Are there any colleges that are known as “historically white” colleges? No, because that would be racism! Can I start an organization called the NAAWP? No, again racism! Shouldn’t the aclu change its name to the baclu? black american civil liberties union! When was the last time a lawyer from the aclu took on the case of a white man who was being discriminated against? Never! Also, you mentioned the fact that in Georgia you can get fired for no apparent reason! As you wrote “What happened to if you report to work every day, on time, neat and presentable, and do an excellent job, quite possibly better than your co workers you could at least expect some type of job security?” Somehow, I think most of your friends that are getting fired are not doing as you wrote! I really think there must be something that they are not telling you as they whine about getting fired from their menial job! Of wait, your friends are probably not who you are talking about as they are probably relying on the government for a free handout!

By impeich

November 6, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

Mr. Badie, may I ask, is Mr. Sample a man of color? From what I read it seems, as Seth Weathers wrote, that something more to his voting choice than a candidate that made sense…You will never get me to believe that the 90% of black voters that voted for obama did so because of his positions on issues or what he said! It was because he is black! Racism is alive & well!

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

What if an employer hires a black guy instead of me, because he simply does not like me?

That is legal and it is the employer’s right.

But if the employers says I didn’t hire that “white guy” because I don’t like him?

Then I got a good case for a law suit. Do I need a union or a lawyer?

What if I’m in a good union and the BA doesn’t like me and never sends me out on a job?

That’s my though luck!

Unions can hurt more than they can help in many cases.

And, the AFL-CIO stopping the issuing of no match letters proves that very fact where they are blocking out legal workers and U.S. citizens from getting jobs the illegal alien unauthorized workers are hired to do in their (the legal workers) place.

By nana

November 6, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

I totally understand why black people are proud of Obama being elected. I am proud for them. As I’ve said before it is truly sad his grandmother did not get to see this happen. I do have to wonder though about the man this article is written about as well as many more that have been featured in newspapapers and television that have never voted before. Was it truly what Obama was saying or was it the color of his skin?? Or the hollywood hype?? Hmmmm…I do hope that Obama does bring everyone together and continues on his “centrist” platform. I don’t think it will happen as actions speak louder than words. But we will see. God Bless America and President-elect Obama.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

No problem understanding why Obama being elected President is personal to blacks, even though he is half white. I’ve seen white guys elected President forever. Blacks have never before now seen one black guy or half black guy elected. Hell I even cried! Why? Because it meant America was finally living up to the high ideals set forth in our Declaration of Independence. Now as I said to a U.S. citizen of Asian ancestry who doubted he would ever see anyone of Asian ancestry elected President, when I say this is America where anything is possible I can even believe it. And prove it!

Maybe one of my great nephews could become President someday.

Only thing I have against Obama is his liberal elitists politics. I just hope the President elect can find the political center. With his first pick of Rumbo and rumors of two Kennedys’: Heaven help us…

Back in the U.S.S.A.

By A politician is a politician

November 6, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

And there is absolutely nothing historic about a politician getting elected to the presidency. Why does anyone even care what color/sex the President/Vice Presidet is? Or, say it ain’t so, is it possible that you voted based on color and not issues?

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

Nope!

By whitey

November 6, 2008 7:25 PM | Link to this

Oh, goodie. And now that the illegal alien, marxist messiah has been elected and has promised to take care of everyone, I will immediately cease giving to charities. My taxes will be raised so high I won’t be able to afford it.

I also will not be giving tips to wait staff. You wanted “wealth redistribution” - you got it. Just remember that when I redistribute your wealth back into my pocket to pay my higher taxes mandated by the messiah.

By Living with Socialism

November 6, 2008 8:57 PM | Link to this

Hey all you dim republicans, guess what? We’ve been living in a socialist society for the past 8 years. Wealth redistribution has been alive and well. You’ve just been too busy watching Big Brother reruns to notice.

A study by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts disproportionately benefited the wealthiest households.

Those tax cuts boosted the aftertax incomes of the top 1% of households by 10%

The tax cuts boosted the aftertax incomes of for middle-income households by 2.3%

The tax cuts boosted the aftertax incomes for the bottom 20% of households by 1.6%

Let us review:

Top 1% - $1,000,000 avg income - 10% increase Middle Class - $57,000 avg income - 2.3% increase Lowest 20% - $17,000 avg income - 1.6% increase

That’s wealth distribution to the wealthiest Americans.

To all the millionaires participating on this blog, my hearty congratulations.

To all the boneheads that are criticizing President-Elect Obama’s fiscal proposals, STFU and appreciate the tax cut you are going to get.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 9:13 PM | Link to this

Can anyone give me a wealth Creator n’ Chief? I mean one that serves the U.S. Citizens first, keeps our jobs and money at home in our U.S. Citizen pockets - not sent to Mexico, China and India?

Lose your STFU jerko!

By NOWICUNVME

November 6, 2008 9:19 PM | Link to this

Proof positive examples of why if you haven’t experienced any type of racism, or lived it, you could never understand it. All of the organizations mentioned, NAACP, ACLU, EEOC, have never discriminated against any particular group. These organizations were started because racism was still widespread and rampant even after the Civil Rights Movement. When has the advancement of Whites ever been an issue? Moorehouse College and Spellman Colleges do not turn away White applicants. A young white male just graduated from Moorehouse this past May 2008 graduation. The question is, how many whites apply?? These organizations are meant to include everyone, not exclude anyone. That is the difference. Has anyone ever been to a NAACP meeting? There are White members too! Just like the 60% of White voters who voted for Obama. In actuality, the votes didn’t appear to be split by race, they appeared to be split by state. When they showed Times Square in NYC, people crying, people screaming, people listening intently, those faces were practically all White! Why is it that only the White voters for Obama could have voted on the issues and what they believed he could offer this country, but not the Black voters? Obama won because everyone loved Obama. Everyone wanted Change. Just like Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Will Smith, Michael Jordan etc. etc. etc. Yes, I know they are well known icons but you need to see and understand and realize that when you don’t see color at all, only then can you see the real picture; the real concepts; Color should never be an issue, period. What type of person are they? Are they true to their word? Are they good company to be around? Do they have good morals and ethics? These are the important and relevent issues of a persons true character. Not the color of their skin. I don’t give a hoop and a holler what color you are as long as you treat me with respect and possess at least some of the traits mentioned above.

In that respect, like I said before, Georgia has a long long way to go. Unfortunately, most employers don’t openly discriminate and will never admit it even if they did. Besides, in Georgia you would need and OJ Simpson dream team and money to get a lawyer to take a case without direct proof of discrimination, because Georgia has that outrageous law where it’s legal to fire you if the boss doesn’t like you or the color shirt you wore today. I’m not bluffing either. Do the research. I didn’t believe it myself until I heard it straight out of the mouths of lawyers, DOL workers, and EEOC. If you can’t prove discrimination based on race, ethnicity, age, disability, religion or veteran status, you have no legs to stand on in Peachy Georgia. Now that’s an Abomination.

By Did you just call me jerko?

November 6, 2008 9:31 PM | Link to this

Take it back!

That was not very nice.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this

Where do you get this color blind stuff BW? I embrace every color and I’m not color blind in the least. And, I have better CREEK legs to stand on in this Peachy Georgia than you do from your Michigan tribe. That also gives me plenty of insights on genocide and ethnic discrimination/hatred. Not only me but many of the people that you think to call white who are not Lilies. Many of us are mixed. Very little ethnic purity remains in this country.

Man you are without any doubt the most bigoted guy I’ve ever come across. Georgia nor the South holds any monopoly on discrimination or hate.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

Not about to take it back. What you said was not nice. Don’t tell people to Shut The “F” Up. That is being a real “rude jerk”.

By MHS has insight

November 6, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this

And, I have better CREEK legs to stand on in this Peachy Georgia than you do from your Michigan tribe. That also gives me plenty of insights on genocide and ethnic discrimination/hatred.

Smith, does that mean that you can see Oklahoma from your house?

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this

Cute. Can you see Michigan from your house?

I can sure see the ground some of my ancestors once walked on.

By WhoCares

November 6, 2008 10:43 PM | Link to this

Jimmy Carter has got to be loving this. Now maybe he will shut up and hope history declares Obama even more worthless than he is.

By MHS has insight

November 6, 2008 10:55 PM | Link to this

MHS—You can see the ground that your ancestors walked on: good on you. So what does that mean? Are they whispering in your ear about the atrocities they suffered? Are they lighting a path to nirvana for you?

btw—I’m not BW

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 11:03 PM | Link to this

Going hard left with his first pick is not a good sign. Is he breaking the olive breach? Makes me re-think the Senate run off entirely. The election is over, commitments were fulfilled, the run-off is a new game and now?

Rahm “the knife” Emanuel is the opposite equivalent of Tom “the hammer” Delay.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

Go figure it out for yourself, whoever.

By MHS has insight

November 6, 2008 11:20 PM | Link to this

Will do, blowhard.

By Michael H. Smith

November 6, 2008 11:24 PM | Link to this

Okay gasbag.

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 6:50 AM | Link to this

Palin and that towel. I spent all night howling at the moon. My wife locked me out of the house. My neighbor had to turn a hose on me. I had to climb through a window to blog this morning.

I wonder if Sarah fastened the towel in the front or the sides. UC, there’s 2 different types of chicks: front towel fasteners and side fasteners. Now, the front fasteners are the promiscuous ones, because the towel droops slightly at the fasten site, and it’s all cleavage and nips. The side fasteners are the slow cooker chicks, you know the ones you gotta wine and dine and use foreplay on. (and cuddle)

I hate side-fastener chicks. Palin needs to divorce her husband and run away with the Almann Brothers. She wouldn’t be our Veep, or even our queen, then, she’d be our Goddess.

We’d be a Hooterocracy, dedicated to the proposition that Sarah Palin’s a babe.

By LT5000

November 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

While Blubbering Badie Pontificates….

Today’s Illegal Immigrant News:

Suspect identified in home invasion, rape

Police believe Isreal Santiago Hernandez, 38, was part of a three-man crew who burst into a trailer off Buford Highway on Oct. 22, 2007, and forcibly sodomized a Hispanic woman in front of her family, who were bound and held at gunpoint.

The DNA matched Hernandez, who’d been imprisoned in South Carolina on drug trafficking charges after his alleged crimes in Gwinnett.

*But investigators were discouraged to find Hernandez had already been released to immigration officials and deported to Mexico, said Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli. *

LT5000

By Cindy

November 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

LT5000,

It sickens me at the thought of illegals being granted amnesty. It’s not enough that they TAKE what they want…GIVE the outlaws rights…wtf?

Cindy

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Cindy. Think it through: the war on terror….in the face of illegal mexicans filling up all the empty spaces where the islamic jihad might hide. I want the mexicans here. they are not terrorists. if there was an influx of al queda, the mexicans would spot them immediately, and rip them a new p-hole. (i mean a-hole).

You dont think anything through, Cindy, you just blog to annoy decent folk. Well let me tell you something, Cindito, you mechanical lover, the day you write from your heart, no holds barred, ignoring all the hurt you feel from all the failed relationships that occured after you continually obeyed your boss’s directive to never wear underwear, you know, just in case, well, then that’s the day I’ll respect you.

Fair ‘muff?

bwa

By Tom Turner

November 7, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Why must you interpret everything in terms of race? It’s really become beyond boring.

By Tom Becker

November 7, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

Tom Turner, U R a fool. Y must everything revolve around race? Because an entire race of human beings walked through history based on their race, and until forty short years ago, were not allowed to vote.

Shame on you for being a fool. Now never speak again to anyone about anything, you’re an idiot.

How can a whole country think it’s only about shopping?

I give up.

By Cindy

November 7, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Did you see the part in my previous post that said “LT5000”? I wasn’t talking to YOU Tom Pecker or any of your other loser alias’s.

Gaining your respect isn’t on my “To-To” list today. And tomorrow’s not looking any better for it.

By Cindy

November 7, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

“To-DO” list.

By Michael H. Smith

November 7, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

I’m definitely against granting amnesty and this phony so-called creating of an earned pathway to citizenship.

The people who have waited for years, obeyed all the laws, came legally, worked hard to become Americans, i.e. things like learn English, speak English, engross themselves in American culture and naturalize have earned U.S. citizenship by taking the only pathway that should ever exist. The legal one.

I disagree with our President elect on this issue very strongly. The illegal aliens (regardless of their nationality) should be compelled to return home and begin the legal process to get on the legal pathway “back there” in their home country and get in the back of the line if they want to become U.S. Citizens - with no special promises made to them that they will receive any preferential treatment or any expedited status to receive a visa and return to this country.

If there is any need to feel compassion, to give charity, then let such heartfelt needs begin at home, with U.S. citizens expatriated from the economy of their own country.

By Mark

November 7, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

BW

This generation of whites had nothing to do with lynching blacks. So why are blacks still using it as a crutch? You can’t change the past, so get over it…

By BW

November 7, 2008 2:20 PM | Link to this

Mark, maybe not your generation, but it was still hsppening during mine and if it happened to my group I wouldn’t be the one needing a crutch.

MHS, a little paranoid are we? Except for answering Mark just now, this was my last post…By BW November 6, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

MHS, try reading Supreme Court case, 443 U.S. 193

United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO-CLC v. Weber

Where the Union fought for equal rights for all of it’s members because Blacks were not being treated equally.

My point in the begining was to educate some of these Yahoo’s that affirmative action effects many groups, not just Blacks.

We could spend days discussing the issue because it covers such a wide range of groups. But things to do, places to go.

By Mark

November 7, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

impeich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5p3OB6roAg

By Michael H. Smith

November 7, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

BW you haven’t brought-up anything new to talk about. I’m well aware of what Affirmative Action has done pro or con. Discrimination used to fight discrimination is not the answer. Those thoughts including references underpinning them were posted. No further need to discuss the point. We disagree.

Since reiteration is in vogue:

The AFL - CIO lost all credibility in stopping no match letters, in affect preventing the law from being enforced on illegal alien unauthorized workers which negatively impacted the employment and income of every legal worker in this country, the AFL - CIO pretends to represent.

No need to discussion unions any further. We disagree.

By NOWICUNVME

November 7, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

Mark or whoever you are. The KKK still exits no? Judging from some of the comments you have posted on this blog, you could quite possibly be the Grand Poobah or an Imperial Wizard yourself. How many times are you going to post that ridiculous UTUBE video?? It’s Howard Stern for crying out loud!! Just because the man has a radio program doesn’t mean that all the meth, acid and picking up hookers hasn’t affected his judgements. What’s your excuse for being a useless imbecile?

BTW, I’m still waiting for you to name the time and the place you punk a%# coward weasel! Talking all that junk with no back up whatsoever. Can’t stand jive punk turkeys like you! You just don’t know how much I would love to run into your sorry behind at the local Walmart!

By Lee

November 7, 2008 8:03 PM | Link to this

So, now we find that obama’s first hire was a guy who had his hand in the mortgage cookie jar.

“President-elect Barack Obama’s newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot “red flags,” according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com.”

“According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.”

So much for “change we can believe in.”