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Dream on. Ted Kennedy killed a woman and carried on as if nothing happened. We got tons of future Maine mayors down here in Texas. If you really cared you would come down here and give em a ride to the next mayorial election. You could feel all warm and fuzzy about yourselves.Originally Posted by manfrommaine
A nutcase will do nutty things.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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You know the messiah is in trouble when they have to go this far to play the race cardThat's probably because Maine doesn't HAVE ANY BLACK PEOPLE living there..
You know those snooty New England states.
And you're trying to say the Al Bore and the Scary Kerry are just every day working type people..and not snobby elitist..
CRACK ME UP..
Now, calling Obama skinny is racist
When "Skinny" Means "Black"
The Journal stumbles over racial subtext.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at 6:06 PM ET
In the Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick asked, "[C]ould Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Most Americans, Chozick points out, aren't skinny. Fully 66 percent of all citizens who've reached voting age are overweight, and 32 percent are obese. To be thin is to be different physically. Not that there's anything wrong, mind you, with being a skinny person. But would you want your sister to marry one? Would you want a whole family of skinny people to move in next door? "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," an "unnamed Clinton supporter" wrote on a Yahoo politics message board. My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.
Chozick insists that she didn't intend her playful feature about Obama's physique as potential electoral liability to carry any racial subtext. "I can't even respond to that," she told me. "That's ridiculous." Bob Christie, Dow Jones' vice president of communications, phoned me in a flash to reaffirm that message. I believe Chozick and Christie when they say that the Journal never intended skinniness to serve as a proxy for race. (Full disclosure: I was a reporter in the Journal's Washington bureau a dozen years ago. I know neither Chozick nor Christie. Fuller disclosure: I phoned my former Journal colleague, Michel Martin, an African-American journalist who is now host of NPR's "Tell Me More," which frequently addresses matters of race, to ask whether she was offended. She was not. )
But I firmly disagree that a racial reading of Chozick's story is "ridiculous," and I would counter that any failure on Chozick's part to recognize such is just a wee bit clueless
http://www.slate.com/id/2196756/?from=rss
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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…but NOBODY I know in Maine ever calls a black man a "boy".And Gore and Kerry were - and are - elitists, but they were less snobby, and less moronic than the chimp in the white house. Mainers figured that out...No racists in Maine, Gore and Kerry more likable than Bush- this guy’s living under a rug.
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
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Very revealing information and insinuations contained here, seeking souls!!!!!! Give it a good read and make up your own minds!!!!!!!!!!!
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Showing the arrogance and snobbishness of liberals is fun to do. Watching the reaction of the libs is even better
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
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Showing the arrogance and snobbishness of liberals is fun to do. Watching the reaction of the libs is even better
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Wish I could rep you - will have to later
Liberals do make most rational people want to get as far away from them as possible
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Gunny's nightmare
I got out of NE as soon as I could. I got very tired of the bigotry, the elitism, and the snobbery. Not to mention the friggin' traffic and a cop around every corner (its a damn Police State). Even though I was raised there, I knew that something was wrong, that rational people didn't behave that way.
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I live near Gettysburg PA. I am one of those "bitter" rural voters, and the Dems hold their monthly meeting in a phone booth
Very quite, and peaceful
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Gunny's nightmare
Great place, Gettysburg. I have vivid memories of my 2 year old daughter spilling a carafe of hot coffee at a restaurant downtown, most of it absorbing onto my lap. That night she kept me up until 1 am until I grabbed the Bible and the car keys, drove her out to one of the ceremonies and was seriously considering human sacrifice.
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It is a wonderful place to visit. I am about 30 miles away and the countryside is greta to look at
Very few libs around to screw it up is the best selling point
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
Not so junior as all that
You know the messiah is in trouble when they have to go this far to play the race card
Now, calling Obama skinny is racist
When "Skinny" Means "Black"
The Journal stumbles over racial subtext.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Monday, Aug. 4, 2008, at 6:06 PM ET
In the Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick asked, "[C]ould Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Most Americans, Chozick points out, aren't skinny. Fully 66 percent of all citizens who've reached voting age are overweight, and 32 percent are obese. To be thin is to be different physically. Not that there's anything wrong, mind you, with being a skinny person. But would you want your sister to marry one? Would you want a whole family of skinny people to move in next door? "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," an "unnamed Clinton supporter" wrote on a Yahoo politics message board. My point is that any discussion of Obama's "skinniness" and its impact on the typical American voter can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.
Chozick insists that she didn't intend her playful feature about Obama's physique as potential electoral liability to carry any racial subtext. "I can't even respond to that," she told me. "That's ridiculous." Bob Christie, Dow Jones' vice president of communications, phoned me in a flash to reaffirm that message. I believe Chozick and Christie when they say that the Journal never intended skinniness to serve as a proxy for race. (Full disclosure: I was a reporter in the Journal's Washington bureau a dozen years ago. I know neither Chozick nor Christie. Fuller disclosure: I phoned my former Journal colleague, Michel Martin, an African-American journalist who is now host of NPR's "Tell Me More," which frequently addresses matters of race, to ask whether she was offended. She was not. )
But I firmly disagree that a racial reading of Chozick's story is "ridiculous," and I would counter that any failure on Chozick's part to recognize such is just a wee bit clueless
This HAS to be somebody's idea of a joke.
However, the Journal did run a correction yesterday, that the comment "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," was "elicited" by the reporter on a blog site, whatever that is supposed to mean. So I guess they are sort of taking her to the woodshed for that, though it's impossible for me to see how the racist/skinny connection can be made by anyone.
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It is NOT a joke Mundame. This is how far the liberal media will go to defend Obama. They are clearly in the tank for him, and have given up trying to cover up their bias
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
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