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   pilotx said, 2 months ago

   What?
   Nothing.

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   boghos68 said, 2 months ago

   Stultitia ipsa loquitur.

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   blackman2732 said, 2 months ago

   I love the book he’s reading. Shameless self-promotion attempt.

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   readerlady said, 2 months ago

   Typical attitude of those who disagree.

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   nighthawks said, 2 months ago

   that WOULD be a fairly scary halloween costume

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   LameRandomName said, 2 months ago

   Sure you don’t want to hang a swastika on him too?
   Maybe drape some white sheets over the back of the bench?
   As long as we’re playing into media stereotypes, you might as well hit them all, right?

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   SherlockWatson said, 2 months ago

   If you want people to stop using exaggerated stereotypes (though from what I’ve seen on the news, this one isn’t really exaggerated), get Rush Limbaugh to stop first.

   BTW, do these people know that “teabagging” is the name of a sexual activity?

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   ForeverAllstar said, 2 months ago

   Just because someone disagrees with the president does not mean that they automatically recieve ancillary membership to the ku klux klan. Since I work out in the mornings I am forced to watch the news with the old people, and the more I watch the more I feel this socialized medicine may not be the right thing either.

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   benbrilling said, 2 months ago

   Great presidents are made, not born.

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    rvernon said, 2 months ago

    ForeverAllstar, I take it you don’t watch much CNN or MSNBC. You probably get your news from Fox. Reason I say that is, during the protest march last week, Fox is the only channel I watched that refused to show any of the “Birther” and outright racist signs protesters were carrying. All the other networks showed them.

    I don’t think Bell’s saying anyone who disagrees with the President is a Birther/racist nutjob, but I think it’s disingenuous to deny that those people are a pretty big part of the anti-Obama opposition. The cartoon’s talking about THOSE people. If you’re not one of them, why assume it’s talking about you?

    It’s like a few months back, my GF complained that Candorville was saying “all liberals are obsessed vegans.” But no, it was a joke about PETA. I said “Are you in PETA?” She said no. I said “Well why do you think it’s talking about you then?”

    Same thing here.

    And “LAmeRandomName,” I’m pretty sure Bell doesn’t want to hang a swastika on him. He’ll leave that to the Obama-fearing “Birthers” and the nuttier anti-Obama protesters, since they seem to be having so much fun with the Hitler imagery.

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    Ira Nayman said, 2 months ago

    FA, please. I’ve seen images of the White House garden filled with watermelons, Obama in stereotypical African dress and, of course, Obama as a monkey. You can’t deny that, for some of Obama’s opponents, race is clearly a motivating factor.

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    Badto Thebone said, 2 months ago

    When I was watching the “Teabaggers” in Washington D.C. there were several people in 1770 era costumes with teabags hanging from the hats.

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    Ron said, 2 months ago

    That’s it - keep marginalizing the new movement…
    That way, in 2010, when it bites you in the backside, you’ll be real surprised saying, “What the heck was that?”

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    Ron said, 2 months ago

    And what sexual activity would tea bagging be, SherlockWatson?
    You seem to have a dirty enough mind to know what it is, so go ahead and explain it to everyone.

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    4deerinmyyard said, 2 months ago

    DeeBerg, try Urban Dictionary.

    Indeed it does, Boshog; indeed it does.

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    rvernon said, 2 months ago

    DeeBerg, if talking about what the extreme anti-Obama protesters actually do is “marginalizing” them, then maybe they’re doing the wrong thing.

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    pschearer said, 2 months ago

    The fact that some people oppose Obama irrationally has nothing to do with the many real reasons to oppose his policies.

    I looked at scores, maybe hundreds, of pictures of people with signs at the 9-12 Tea Party in D.C.. I saw a very few signs with any racist content (one of them being the Witch Doctor poster well played up in some media), but the VAST majority expressed views in favor of freedom, of limited government, and against increased taxation and socialized medicine. But one poster said it best: “It makes no difference what this sign says, you’ll just call it racist”.