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leftwingpatriot said, about 1 year ago
How much power does he really have?
Eryx
said, about 1 year ago
He’s more black than he is a Socialist.
luckylouie said, about 1 year ago
When people call Obama a Socialist, all they do is prove that they don’t have the vaguest idea what Socialism is, other than “some political belief that I don’t like”.
Orion said, about 1 year ago
As usual, the only people concerned with race are…Liberals. The rest of us couldn’t give a rat’s tiny hiney.
Orion
Richard S. Russell said, about 1 year ago
I’d like to make the case that Obama is a socialist, too, but as a denizen of the reality-based community, I recognize that there’s no case to be made. As it happens, that’s what REAL socialists say as well:
thedailyshow(dot)com/watch/thu-march-8-2012/the-socialist-network
leftwingpatriot said, about 1 year ago
@Orion
The conservatives just spread lies about his religion, birthplace, patriotism, and economic philosophy.
Robert B said, about 1 year ago
@Orion
As usual, the only people concerned with fighting racism are…Liberals. The rest of us couldn’t give a rat’s tiny hiney.
Fixed that for you.
gmartin997
said, about 1 year ago
Austin nailed it. He took the words right out of my mouth.
Harrison_Bergeron said, about 1 year ago
@Robert B
No, you’re concerned with promoting it, not fighting it. You make race the issue when it isn’t, you use race as a weapon. You demand racial discrimination in jobs and education, you hold people accountable to different standards based on their skin color. The overwhelming source of racism in modern American society are those racists who call themselves “liberals”.
Harrison_Bergeron said, about 1 year ago
But the strip is essentially correct. Obama is no socialist. He’s a fascist, plain and simple.
Buzza Wuzza said, about 1 year ago
Words have changed their meanings so much since I first hit voting age. Republicanism has become a totally different thing, as has Socialism. Now those words really define the battle between hardcore Christians and “Godless” people.
nurbz said, about 1 year ago
Doesn’t matter which colour they are…they are all puppets on a string to the FED…or dead like Kennedy.
Doughfoot said, about 1 year ago
@Orion
“As usual, the only people concerned with race are…Liberals. The rest of us don’t care.”
That’s on the same order as “The only people who are about poverty are poor people and others who should mind their own business.”
Amazing that some folks actually feel self-righteously proud that they don’t have to worry about their race or racism.
But in a sense, Orion, you are correct. I think the Right would be just as hostile to Obama if his father had been a visiting Whatever. Anything to create the appearance of “Otherness,” and useful in whipping up their fury over this inoffensive man. His African heritage just makes it easier. Racism operates chiefly under the surface these days, rather than as a consciously held and acknowledged ideology.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, about 1 year ago
@Orion
Really?
Then why are all the Republican candidates male WASP’s?
babka
said, about 1 year ago
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn’t like about Bush’s former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He [Karl Rove] expressed the White House’s displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn’t fully comprehend — but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
Rove said that guys like me were ‘’in what we call the reality-based community,’’ which he defined as people who ‘’believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’’ I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ’’That’s not the way the world really works anymore,‘’ he continued. ’’We’re an empire now, and when we act, WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, CREATING OTHER NEW REALITIES, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
—Ron Suskind (senior national-affairs reporter for The Wall Street Journal from 1993 to 2000), “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush”, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, October 17, 2004.