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  Miss-Opinion

  11 months ago

  Well I don't believe McCain cares about anyone to be honest, white black brown, whatever. He cares about power, advancing his out dated and oppressive views on to this country. The only color he would remotely care about is green and his wife has a bunch of it.
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  CraigHickman

  11 months ago

  Say it again.
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  D.

  11 months ago

  Damned if he did, damned if he didn't.
  
  Personally, I don't think he should've gone. No matter what he said, no one would've really listened, and he would've taken heat for not talking about the "right" issues.
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  RonnieB

  11 months ago

  I disagree. If McCain is going to speak to collectives of Hispanics/Latinos, he should do the same for the NAACP.
  
  He was treated with all the regard due an elected official and statesman. Do his policies resonate with most members of the NAACP? No. But he gets respect for showing up and making his case.
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  D.

  11 months ago

  Does he really? Maybe from you, but just look at the comments here and tell me if that's really the case.
  
  Were I him, I would've found a group of sympathizers (the NBRA?), and spoke to them.
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  RonnieB

  11 months ago

  He probably didn't win any converts, but yes, he got some respect.
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  taritac

  11 months ago

  Jill Tubman said:
  

  The man is not the friend of African-Americans by any means and I’m kinda insulted he was allowed to speak. He had more to gain from the appearance than the NAACP’s members.

  
  The NAACP has to be non-partisan if it wants to keep its non-profit status, so it has to invite both McCain and Obama and not endorse either. They can only advocate policy positions. Remember, they were recently investigated about this issue after the 2004 election.
  
  Indeed, the "Remember everyone [POW], I was a [POW] POW during the [POW] Vietnam War, so I didn't [POW] know about [POW] MLK [don't question me because I'm a POW] " excuse simply does not wash.
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  eclecticbrotha

  11 months ago

  McCain's got jokes. Obama should quit now and spare himself the humiliation.
  
  All BS aside, the latest media meme about Obama is officially: "he won't let us laugh at him." I just had to sit through Tweety and Dana Milbank criticizing Obama having "thin skin" about the New Yorker cover. Apparently in MSM land you can't type "tasteless and offensive" in your response unless you're enraged and foaming at the mouth. Meanwhile, McCain tells the most vulgar and offensive jokes known as a way to avoid answering questions. I guess this isn't an election campaign anymore its "Last Comic Standing."
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  Lily

  11 months ago

  And we're not the judges.
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  TRW

  11 months ago

  Yeah, apparently, the First Amendment is one sided. The press is allowed to publish something that you find offensive, but you are not allowed to say you think it is offensive because it was satire. Ergo, sit back, shut up, and take it or be painted as a humorless, thin skinned, whiner.
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  99 Percent Sure

  11 months ago

  Matter of fact, his skin was way thicker than mine. In fact, it seemed to me that most of us were more peeved than Obama, if one is to go by his demeanor on LKL. He was more obviously pissed on the night he became the presumptive nominee, and Miss Anne refused to concede.
  
  Granted, he may have ranted and raged behind the scenes, and he'd had plenty of time to regain his composure before he appeared on LKL but I happen to believe that he's truly "No Drama Obama," and that, as he says, he doesn't get too high with the highs nor to low with the lows.
  
  They can't stand it because he is the personification of cool, calm and collected under the most excruciating pressure, ergo, he doesn't fit their stereotype of the deferential black man. They act as if he should be obsequious to them because he's done so well, as if he's accomplished what he has because they let him, rather than because he's worked so hard..
  
  Obviously, they didn't observe his great humor during the last few debates with Miss Anne, nor have they bothered to watch his appearances on the entertainment/talk shows - which are the proper venues for showcasing his humor - and where he has shown his drollness, and well-timed humor.
  
  During one debate, when Miss Anne was ranting about his great speeches and oratorical skills, he said, "I thought they were pretty good my self."
  
  When he was on Jimmy Kimmel, he was very funny; he even delivered a great zinger to Tweety when he was on Hardball The College Tour.
  
  Given what he is trying to accomplish, and given how dire our economic situation is, I don't get why they expect that he would be running around skinning and grinning, like their boy Macabre McCain is.
  
  In the words of the fictional President Shepherd in the American President:

  Everybody knows American isn't easy. America is
  advanced citizenship. You gotta want it
  bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna
  say, "You want free speech? Let's see you
  acknowledge a man whose words
  make your blood boil, who's standing center stage
  and advocating, at the top of his lungs, that which you
  would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
  
  I've been operating under the assumption that the
  reason [McCain] devotes so much time and energy
  to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn't get it.
  Well, I was wrong. [McCain's] problem isn't that he
  doesn't get it. [McCain's] problem is that he can't sell
  it.
  
  This is a country made up of people with hard jobs
  that they're terrified of losing. The roots of freedom
  are of little or no interest to them at the moment. We
  are a nation afraid to go out at night. We're a society
  that has assigned low priority to education and has
  looked the other way while our public schools have
  been decimated.
  
  We have serious problems to solve, and we
  need serious men to solve them. And whatever your
  particular problem is, friend, I promise you, [John
  McCain] is not the least bit interested in solving it.
  He is interested in two things and two things only:
  Making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame
  for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how
  you win elections.

  Sorry, I got carried away, but I love that portion of the script's dialogue, and I think it is so appropos in this campaign season.
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  Town

  11 months ago

  Black people must smile and grin at every opportunity. If they don't, they hate white people (Michelle) or they have thin skin (Barack). Actually I don't know how they can fix their lips and fingertips to say that Barack Obama has "thin skin" because anyone else would have gone postal after having the kitchen sink...no, the bathroom toilet thrown at them for 6 months.
  
  Yes mister black man, let me push a hot iron on your skin and when you say "Ow", I will accuse you of not having a thick enough skin.
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  rikyrah

  11 months ago

  testify, town.
  
  testify.
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  99 Percent Sure

  11 months ago

  On Hardball, Tweety Matthews, Michelle Barnard and Joan Walsh were all fawning over him for even appearing at the convention.
  
  Tweety's lead headline was that McMumbles received a standing ovation, though most every other news outlet, including Clinton News Network, says the applause was 'tepid.'
  
  But hey, what do I know? One man's standing ovation is 10 men's tepid, I guess.
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  CraigHickman

  11 months ago

  He got a standing ovation.
  
  When he praised Barack.
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  99 Percent Sure

  11 months ago

  Ah! The distinction is important.
  
  Thanks, Craig.
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  cheryl aka jill tubman

  11 months ago

  Yes, this is VERY interesting. Interesting that Kevin Myles danced around that and so did the press apparently.
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  TruthSeeker

  11 months ago

  "But hey, what do I know? One man's standing ovation is 10 men's tepid, I guess."
  
  ....it's the liars exchange rate.
  
  Now I need a nap.
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  isonprize

  11 months ago

  not "Tweety" Matthews ! Too funny...
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  Booky

  11 months ago

  Campbell Brown and Cindy Cowley and Dana Bashwere doing the same thing over at CNN. They kept talking about the "warm " welcome he recieved, like they were surprised or something. I bought fell out when they played the clip of him talking about Martin Luther King Jr. They coveniently forgot to mention that he voted against the King Holiday and only recently apologized (flip/flopped) for that vote.
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  Town

  11 months ago

  Maybe they thought Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan would materialize on the stage next to John McCain screaming THE CHICKENS............HAVE COME HOME........................................TO ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST.......while the NAACP audience mean mugged and cheered them on? Campbell Brown and Cindy Crowley are kinda ridiculous.
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  TruthSeeker

  11 months ago

  On CNN they showed one man in the audience reading a paper....another woman with her arms crossed and a pissed off experession.
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  TRW

  11 months ago

  This takes me back to January when he did that speech about MLK and apologized for voting against the holiday for all those years. Instead of pressing him about the actual reasons for voting against the MLK holiday, which he explained as lack of knowledge about MLK because he was in Vietnam at the time he was popular, the press fawned all over his "courage" for admitting his mistake in front of a Black audience.
  
  I think that it is fine if he realized that he made an error in judgment, I just don't accept his BS excuse. Don't tell me that you didn't know about MLK when there is a thing called legislative aides, libraries, and oh yeah, your local NAACP chapter to clue you in. Just be straight with me. But whatever, the press continues to carry on with this McCain love affair.
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  Violette

  11 months ago

  Last time I checked, MLK was active before Vietnam. The Birmingham bus boycott began in 1955, and McCain had no knowlege of that? Not buying it.
  
  After the war, McCain had, oh, a good twenty years or so to catch up on world events.
  
  The Vietnam War can be blamed for many serious things (PTSD, neurological disease, certain cancers), but ignorance about MLK isn't one of them.
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  TRW

  11 months ago

  Exactly. But don't, clue anyone in from the mainstream press. Instead of pointing this out, they gave him a back slap for trying to reach out to Blacks at all.
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  cheryl aka jill tubman

  11 months ago

  Tru dat. I think the press has totally given McCain a pass on his feeble, transparent excuses around his record on civil rights and MLK.
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  eclecticbrotha

  11 months ago

  "....the press fawned all over his "courage" for admitting his mistake in front of a Black audience. ..."
  
  Translation: they were amazed that the crowd didn't kick on his ass a lil bit.
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  Sepia

  11 months ago

  Translation: they were amazed that the crowd didn't kick on his ass a lil bit.
  
  Or yell, "Where's my muthaf---in' ice tea!"
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  mitch

  11 months ago

  Same response people say to Obama about Trinity UCC. Come on people make decisions based on their own personal situation. A lot of people back in 1980 was not keen about givng a Black man a national holiday. That was cutting edge for the day, and in some cases, it still is. I am sure his aids poll his constituency and felt that it would be best for him not to cast a vote in favor. It's very simplistic and easy to understand. I am might not agree with the logic, but I understand it. And, I am able to understand this being that I am as progressive as they come, and probably will vote for the green party this year.
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  eclecticbrotha

  11 months ago

  Uh oh. Keith O's back and apparently he didn't find the New Yorker cover funny.
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  eclecticbrotha

  11 months ago

  That MLK video would have been much more effective if it would have listed more of McCain's horrible civil rights record instead of just focusing on two pieces of legislation about Dr. King.
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  Karmi

  11 months ago

  If he hadn’t addressed them, you would’ve probably bashed him for that…
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  Debrann

  11 months ago

  I give McCain the "panderer" of the week award. I am sure many black people believe McCain can not and will not cut it as president.
  
  There is too much at stake for America to vote Republican again! Pay attention people, the world is watching.
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  BlackAmericanPrincess

  11 months ago

  Kinda off topic but have yall heard about Jesse referring to Blacks as "niggers" in his remarks about Barack? I just saw it on yahoo. Apparently he said something to the affect that Barack was talking down to niggers.....
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  TRW

  11 months ago

  Yup. I sure did. So not only did this Reverend reference castrating another Black male, he criticized said Black male for talking down to "niggers." Thanks Jesse.
  
  I'm interested to hear the feedback on this for the supporters of Jesse's sentiments that Barack was "talking down" to Black people, when it has been revealed that Jesse describes said Black people as niggers.
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  BlackAmericanPrincess

  11 months ago

  The feedback should be interesting indeed...
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  isonprize

  11 months ago

  Wonder what Jesse Jr has to say about Jesse Sr re: this latest foolishness? Jesse has always been for Jesse. But this was just ridiculous. I mean, he was in a TV studio, and a FOX studio at that.
  
  You would think by now that he had his shots against 'open mike syndrome' Seriously, why would he think they WEREN'T recording everything he said.
  
  On the other hand, I've heard some talk that Jesse took one for the team with this mess. There are some folks who hate, hate, HATE JJ. So, the theory goes, if Jesse is seen as disparaging to Barack, JJSr haters will be more willing to support Barack with their votes and their money.
  
  Things that make you go HHhhhhmmmm.
  
  O/T Where is Arsenio Hall???
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  Town

  11 months ago

  Why would Jesse Jackson throw himself on the pyre for Barack Obama? I don't see it. I don't see JJ taking one for the team unless something's in it for him, and I don't see anything it it for him.
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  rikyrah

  11 months ago

  only tinfoil hat that I can rationalize is that he wants JR to get that Senate Seat Appointment if Barack wins.
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  eclecticbrotha

  11 months ago

  Pay attention to how O'Reilly held off on releasing the rest of the tape until he knew McCain needed another good distraction from the 48 hours of horrible campaigning he's been doing.
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  micheline

  11 months ago

  Bingo
  
  That was the same with the Father Pfleger tape. It was released when Scott McClellen was promoting his book.
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  RonnieB

  11 months ago

  Unfortunately, he spoke to very few of the priority issues of the NAACP. I think he missed a great opportunity to speak emphatically to his plans for dealing with the foreclosure crisis, health care, predatory lending, etc etc… -- Kevin Myles
  
  McCain's inability to speak to these issues in the presence of everyday people, is precisely why so many African Americans are not Republicans.
  
  I give him one kudo for showing up.
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  Jay

  11 months ago

  But'um wait, I thought we buried the n-word?
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  adriana01

  11 months ago

  Why does this surprise y'all? McCain had the gall to speak at the National Council of La Raza and at LULAC.
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