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Policies such as Affirmative action should be supplemental to, not a replacement of, personal responsibility

personal responsibility negates affirmative action, cretin; affirmative action is a payola for a voting block of morons who cannot pass an aptitude test

runner on July 16, 2009 at 11:14 PM

sorry…not covered under BarryCare.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 10:53 PM

I know…I need to hire a reader…

ladyingray on July 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

You’d have to be 20 years older to meet BB’s standard. TEE HEE!
txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:12 PM

If she was my age I’d make an exception :P

she actually had a brain unlike most chicas in my generation and under

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Aw. Guess I have to stick with blatant after all…

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM

You don’t have to. Just sayin’ I’ve been around the block a bit. Plus, he likes the cougars.

Fallen Sparrow on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

Has

not had

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:06 PM

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM

Re: the AMA, I saw this at RedState today:

AMA Splinters Over Failure to Oppose Obamacare

Concerned that the American Medical Association has taken too tepid a position on Democratic healthcare reform plans, a coalition of state medical associations and specialty organizations is breaking from the country’s largest physicians’ group to mount its own push against the inclusion of a public insurance option in any overhaul bill.

Seventeen state medical associations and three specialty physicians’ groups planned a conference call late Wednesday to discuss a draft letter that would go much further than the AMA’s more measured responses to the public option…

The draft letter, written by members of the Medical Association of Georgia, says flatly that the physicians’ groups unequivocally oppose a government-administered insurance plan, as well as use of government-funded effectiveness tests, or “comparative effectiveness research,” to dictate which medical procedures should be eligible for coverage…

INC on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

If she was my age I’d make an exception :P

she actually had a brain unlike most chicas in my generation and under

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

…rewrite it.

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

I thought part of stimulus program was to spread high-speed internet to the rural areas of this country. Where’s my connection?

TXMomof3 on July 16, 2009 at 10:43 PM

Uh, there was a mixup between federal agencies, ma’am. It’s in your gas tank.

Patrick S on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Nevermind.

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Has

not had

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

Has not had…what? :-)

coldwarrior on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

To follow up on the AMA take…local NBC news Dallas just did a story about how the national health care bill just got a bit boost because the AMA endorsed it. All the news that fit not to fact check.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Is it just me or does he slip into “preacher mode” as soon as he hears “amen” a couple of times? I half expected him to shout “G– D— America!”

cackcon on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Nice speech – but it’s like all the other speeches he makes.

It means nothing.

I mean – everytime he gets on that podium and starts to speak – it has as much relevance as watching a movie. It’s entertaining – but when the movie is over – nothing in real life has changed.

The man is all sizzle and no steak.

HondaV65 on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Back on topic, the speech itself was great. Policies such as Affirmative action should be supplemental to, not a replacement of, personal responsibility. Having our first black president call for more personal responsibility within the black community lends the argument a great deal more credibility than Bill Cosby could ever offer. Powerful stuff.

crr6 on July 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM

…slurped all the Kool-Aid down, did ya, 6? Then, tongued out the cup, I’ll wager.

Affirmative action, supplemental or fundamental, is nothing more or less than treating people as unable to do for themselves. Open doors and see who goes through them…and, if you’re interested, count noses as they walk through the door. See how many are white and how many black, brown, etc., if it makes you sleep better at night, warm in the fiction that at least you, among your race, are without sin.

Mr. Cosby’s message comes from a man who’s achieved. Mr. Obama is what he’s always been: someone on the make, mentored to positions of great responsiblity (and ability to do great harm) by people who want to think well of themselves. Mr. Cosby speaks in uncomfortable truths. Mr. Obama only joins in once it’s safe to do so.

…that for “credibility”….

Puritan1648 on July 16, 2009 at 11:18 PM

How about the NAACP getting a new “mindset” and stop blaming Honkey for any and every problem any Black person may have from now until time itself comes to an end?

Joe Bloggs on July 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM

The burning,have you thought about Arc Welders
Mask,whlie viewing!

And yes,I`m kidding,Ladyingray!:)hehe.

canopfor on July 16, 2009 at 10:59 PM

I need an
arc welders mask….

ladyingray on July 16, 2009 at 11:19 PM

He sounds like Bill Cosby. For once in his pitiful life, he is speaking the truth to the blacks. Maybe, just maybe, they will wake up and start thinking about personal responsibility.

cjs1943 on July 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM

Having our first black president call for more personal responsibility within the black community lends the argument a great deal more credibility than Bill Cosby could ever offer.

How so? Cosby worked his azz off to achieve his success, Ogabe was given his on a silver platter and never ran so much as a one-man private business. The closest he comes to seeing how average black guys live is when his helicopter flies over DC.

Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM

No excuses.

Unless you’re a race pimp like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Cynthia McKinney, Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson-Lee.

The Ugly American on July 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM

Nice speech – but it’s like all the other speeches he makes.

It means nothing.

HondaV65 on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

“Mother, come quick! Mr. Obama’s lyin’ on the TV again!”

“Now, Papa, be nice. How can you tell that he’s lyin’? He hasn’t said ten words yet.”

“‘Cause his lips’re movin’….”

His speechs, such as they are, are considered accomplished, and we should give him credit for them…after all, he’s able to cram each of them so full of feel-good boilerplate communist platitudes and yet make them seem genuine…he missed his calling…he should’ve gone into business with Mr. Madoff….

Puritan1648 on July 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM

I half expected him to shout “G– D— America!”

cackcon on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

He doesn’t have to shout it, as his actions are screaming it load & clear.

Dave R. on July 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM

see which one has the stable families….

Puritan1640 on July 16,2009 at 11:02PM.

Puritan1640: Since Team Obama is always worried that his
family will be burdened by a mistake,my money
will always be on former Governor Sarah Palin
and family remaining intact!:)

canopfor on July 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM

To follow up on the AMA take…local NBC news Dallas just did a story about how the national health care bill just got a bit boost because the AMA endorsed it. All the news that fit not to fact check.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM

Ask your private doctor if he or she is a member. The AMA is representative of the majority of US physicians (less than 40 percent nationwide) and represent me as about as much as a French citizen might incorrectly think the KosKids represent me.

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM

Having our first black president call for more personal responsibility…while at the same time using the power of government to suborn personal responsibility to government programs and indebtedness?

Personal responsibility…he knows nothing of such a concept. Personal responsibility is antithetical to everything he has tried to foist upon the citizens of this nation.

coldwarrior on July 16, 2009 at 11:24 PM

Just words!

Griz on July 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM

My private doc looks like Swartzenegger. I just follow instructions for my own good health.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:26 PM

INC on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

Thanks for the info.

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM

little barry is freaking out. No wonder he is trying to re-capture his campaign magic. I can only pray that this health care bullshit doesn’t get rahmed through, or we’ll finished. Call Olympia Snowe’s office, say you are from Maine ( get some random zip code off the internet) and swamp her office. She will cave. Act Now……Act like ACORN. FIGHT THIS BULLSHIT OR WE’RE DONE AS A NATION!!!!!

texaninfidel on July 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM

That’s pretty much what I figured.

Fallen Sparrow on July 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM

I’m just guessing. I passed on it, too :)

progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 11:28 PM

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM

You’re welcome. It was the first I’d read of rumblings within the medical community.

INC on July 16, 2009 at 11:29 PM

Internalizing limitations…the fault of ‘the legacy of discrimination’? Or the natural result of the welfare state?

Liberalism: The New Plantation

bikermailman on July 16, 2009 at 11:29 PM

To follow up on the AMA take…local NBC news Dallas just did a story about how the national health care bill just got a bit boost because the AMA endorsed it. All the news that fit not to fact check.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Ask your private doctor if he or she is a member. The AMA is representative of the majority of US physicians (less than 40 percent nationwide) and represent me as about as much as a French citizen might incorrectly think the KosKids represent me.

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM

That’s what I thought would happen with the AMA endorsement. It will be seen as a boon for BarryCare. The state medical orginations that INC mentioned will get no exposure from the MSM.

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:29 PM

Having our first black president call for more personal responsibility within the black community lends the argument a great deal more credibility than Bill Cosby could ever offer.

How so? Cosby worked his azz off to achieve his success, Ogabe was given his on a silver platter and never ran so much as a one-man private business. The closest he comes to seeing how average black guys live is when his helicopter flies over DC.

Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM

Plus Cosby served in the Navy, faced real discrimination, created art that promoted racial harmony, and actually worked for his degrees (He may have plenty of honorary degrees but his doctorate was earned).

Laura in Maryland on July 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM

INC on July 16, 2009 at 11:16 PM

Thanks for the info.

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:27 PM

Yep, thanks. Sounds like the Texas Medical Association and the Medical Association of Georgia are on the same page. I can’t remember when in issues of guns, gays, and God, that the AMA has EVER taken anything but an ultra-liberal stance.

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM

My private doc looks like Swartzenegger. I just follow instructions for my own good health.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:26 PM

My neurosurgeon’s name is Hans Coester. He’s from Iowa. Go figure.

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM

Are you a doc?

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:31 PM

I (need) an arc welders mask…

Ladyingray on July 16,2009 at 11:19PM.

Ladyingray: Me thinks your testing me! No women,ever needs
to wear a mask,unless your invited to Pelosi`s
wild Masquarade Palimino parties!

Or,an arc welder mask,to protect your beautiful
and lovely eyes,from horrific damage of watchin
g Medusa style Obama videos!!

Now,I hope,I`ve cleared that up with you!!:)

canopfor on July 16, 2009 at 11:32 PM

Organizations like the AMA and the ABA are lefty strongholds. Very few doctors and lawyers belong to them and they certainly do not represent the majority in their respective membership.

Blake on July 16, 2009 at 11:32 PM

If she was my age I’d make an exception :P

she actually had a brain unlike most chicas in my generation and under

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

Like, what do you like mean, BB?

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:31 PM

Proud member of the TMA and been throwing AMA solicitations in the trash since 1985.

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM

battleoflepanto1571 on July 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM

I understand where you’re coming from. Did you read about the controversy in Houston where a black conservative group paid for an ad that said, “MLK was a republican.”

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM

What’s your specialty…. if you don’t mind me asking.

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM

OB. Got to go. But I will remind anyone who cares that I predicted the AMA would fold like a cardboard shack in a Texas summer storm.

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM

Hey O,

Tell them to get the hell off the Dem plantation,

tell them to stop Planned Parenthood from killing your people off,

tell them they can’t fix it by rigging elections via ACORN,

tell them that working for a living is not shameful,

tell them to take advantage of the opportunities that are there in this country.

I could go on and on.

And let them CHOOSE where to send their kids to school, and give them their vouchers back in DC.

Sapwolf on July 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM

Ogabe was trying to create his MLK 2.0 personae, trying to follow a similar speech cadence with just a bit of ’street’ inflection to give himself some cred.

The yelling was necessary too, I suppose, to pep his delivery and give it that urban church feel complete with random “hallelujahs” from the crowd.

Why doesn’t Ogabe yell like that when he’s addressing other venues, ones that aren’t composed of purely black audience members?

Bishop on July 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM

Marcus on July 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM

As an OBGYN you should have some great input on that state of parenthood in America, regardless of what hemisphere their grandpappys came from.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM

Like, what do you like mean, BB?

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM

I don’t even mind the constant use of “like” anymore (besides, even I occasionally fall prey to it). What bothers me more is the constant swearing. “F*ck” is the new “like.”
Typical sentence: “Agh, going to fucking English, do you fucking know if we need our fucking journals…no shit, really? Haha, fuck that man.”
My brain: I’m meeeeeeeeeeelting!

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM

Words don’t mean nuthin without walkin.

IMAGINE THIS:

Sarah Palin giving that same speech.

Sapwolf on July 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM

Back on topic, the speech itself was great.

Oh, I’m sure. He is, after all, the Great Orator. People haven’t been using that term of endearment for a while, now. Is there some fashion period about which aspect, that The Precedent doesn’t really have, but we want to pretend he does, we are fawning over and praising? It seems to change as he proves himself inept at one thing after another. Other than ramming a couple of bills through a Congress he owns – really awful, nation-killing bills – and other than bad-mouthing the US at every opportunity and other than … well, all the rest – what has he actually done or shown himself to excel at? Date night? Buzzing Manhattan in Air Force One and scaring people half to death? Sensitive guy you got, there.

Policies such as Affirmative action should be supplemental to, not a replacement of, personal responsibility.

No. Affirmative action is offensive to every sensibility. It has to cease. You can’t have Race as bonus question on every test and every application. It’s moronic and works against every single end. Economic mobility in the US has always been greater than any 10 other countries added up. Mobility is freedom. It’s up to the INDIVIDUAL. Your collectivist/tribal crap is third world.

Having our first black president

Yes. He’s The Precedent. We know. He doesn’t look like “the guys on the other dollar bills” (sic). We’ve heard. He’s a pathetic failure who poses a major risk to our nation, like a 12 year old as the captain of our newest nuclear aircraft carrier. He’s going to run this nation aground, and it is not going to be pretty. And he’s really ticked off, too.

call for more personal responsibility within the black community lends the argument a great deal more credibility than Bill Cosby could ever offer. Powerful stuff.

crr6 on July 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM

So, the Constitution calling for it isn’t good enough, huh? The Precedent is not about personal responsibility in any single action he has ever taken. He is all about collectivist policy. He likes to tell everyone what they can and can’t do. Personal anything is not a part of the adminsitration, so don’t go trying to sell that joke.

progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM

Like, what do you like mean, BB?

txag92 on July 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM

I don’t really mind the constant use of “like” anymore (besides, even I sometimes fall prey to it). What bothers me more is the swearing. “F*ck” it the new “like.”
Typical sentence heard at school: “Ah, f*ck, dude, we gotta go to f*cking English…do you know if we need our f*cking journals…no sh!t? Haha, f*ck that man.”
My brain: I’m meeeeeeeelting!

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM

The mindset he wants us to have is to bow down to him and allow him to do whatever he wants. However, when he said our destiny was in our hands I thought, yep, it is, and we need to act to save our country from him. I’d suggest that if cap and trade and obamacare pass that states tell DC no, we aren’t going to put up with that. You WILL repeal that legislation or we will leave the union and we aren’t negotiating or conceding anything.

boomer on July 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Sarah Palin giving that same speech.

Sapwolf on July 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM

The Washington Monument would be at the bottom of the Potomac.

Limerick on July 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11

In real life the F word is all delivery and application

too much and it is crude

if you are timely with your f bombs
you a very effective

I just dropped one tho
thunder scared me :P

“oh fck”

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM

I can’t shake the feeling that this guy is just gunning to be featured on one of those O’Reilly segments on hate-spewing blog commenters. He just can’t possibly be serious.

crr6 on July 16, 2009 at 11:09 PM

The Precedent had surpassed Watergate by orders of magnitude long ago. Just his campaign financing is enough to throw him out. We all saw that, here. It’s no secret. He’s treated the Constitution like toilet paper, violating it over and over. He has given aid and comfort to the enemy. He’s gone after the US from every angle, many of them criminal. “I’m the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks.” Okay …

progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 11:48 PM

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM

I know. I wanted to point this out to their chihuahua minds, but then I remembered that you don’t engage them under any circumstances.

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:50 PM

What he says from 00:41 to 00:52 is what GWBush said when speaking against “…the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Oh, sorry, I forgot that Bush was an idiot, and this ONE is a genius.

AmericanDad on July 16, 2009 at 11:52 PM

I know. I wanted to point this out to their chihuahua minds, but then I remembered that you don’t engage them under any circumstances.

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:50 PM

just stay away from boys until youre older

they are nothing but trouble and looking to get some

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:54 PM

Wow. Looks like Obama is auditioning for Rev Wrights mini-me

katy on July 16, 2009 at 11:55 PM

just stay away from boys until youre older

they are nothing but trouble and looking to get some

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:54 PM

I love how you talk as if you don’t act the same…

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:57 PM

What he says from 00:41 to 00:52 is what GWBush said when speaking against “…the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Oh, sorry, I forgot that Bush was an idiot, and this ONE is a genius.

AmericanDad on July 16, 2009 at 11:52 PM

Same old double standard lefties. I’m a white southern fella with the obvious connections to old white southern history. According to the world I am judged by what my father did, not by what I do. On the other hand a black southern fella with obvious connections to old black southern families is also judged by what their father did. The difference? My judgement is negative, their positive.

Que Sera Sera. As a southerner I’m so over it. Folks can think what they like. I only have to explain myself to one entity and he is a long long way from central Texas.

Limerick on July 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM

Wow.Looks like Obama is auditioning for Rev.Wrights,mini-me

katy on July 16,2009 at 11:55PM.

katy: Excellent point Katy.I wonder if there are any tapes,
of Obama as a guest speaker at Rev Wrights church!

And,I would love to have a tape,of Obama,un-restrain
ed speech!!:)

canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM

It just pains me to hear younger folks say “like” every other word. It’s LIKE nails on a chalkboard.

txag92 on July 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM

His thing about the results of discrimination (racism) make me think of how the Democrats are “questioning” Sotomayor. Most of what they say sounds like this to me:

“Your story is so inspiring. Isn’t it inspiring that with government help, a racially handicapped ignorant Puerto Rican Latina could grow up to be a big fancy judge? Only in America. In fact, we’re so impressed, that we’re going to put your diploma right here on the refrigerator so everyone can see it. Let’s have a big round of applause for Ms. Sotomayor because she’s done such a good job. Hasn’t she, everyone? Huh? Aw.. so round and cute, too.”

Daggett on July 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM

I love how you talk as if you don’t act the same…

Emily M. on July 16, 2009 at 11:57 PM

yes — I carry my banner openly (mostly schtick)

I’ve never been the “love em and leave em” type

And I never did that to girls in HS
Dated the same girl for 3 years (total mistake)

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:02 AM

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:02 AM

Lol. Well, there’s only one guy I like at that school anyway. I’m hoping to meet more intelligent people at the college next year.

Emily M. on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Good speech. Even more so because he could have taken the easy way out and simply spewed platitudes. Good for him.

Hmm, reading many of the comments here remind me of the knee-jerk responses I’ve come to expect from the left.

Sailfish on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Well it horizontal time,good night,H/A crew:)

canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM

progressoverpeace on July 16, 2009 at 11:48 PM

Good stuff, but you’ll have to ratchet up the hysterics a teensy bit more of you want to be a featured blog commenter in an O’Reilly segment. Maybe call Obama a war criminal or something.

crr6 on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM

Emily M. on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

youre going to college?

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM

canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

G’nite, Canada.

Limerick on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM

rizontal time,good night,H/A crew:)

canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 12:04 AM

you know that can be taken multiple ways

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:06 AM

youre going to college?

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM

I’m doing dual enrollment. I’ll take several of my classes at the local college, and do the rest online. NOT going back to the hellish high school.

Emily M. on July 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM

The Pres. is home from vaca and the massive Obama thug machine has its orders, get Obamacommiecare and cap and trash passed.

The administration will be twisting and breaking arms.

Its time to fire up everyone’s network, melt the phones and overload email accounts.

Speakup on July 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM

canopfor on July 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM

What a phony balony…

I was seriously waiting to hear …

“Can I get an good a-men in heea….thas rot….y’ll know what I’m talkin’ ’bout”

katy on July 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM

Emily M. on July 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM

good stuff

beware of the college boys

they are even worse!

whatever — you’re a smart chica
i dont have to tell you about boys trying to get what they want

you’re smart enough to see a douchebag when he comes around

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:09 AM

blatantblue on July 17, 2009 at 12:09 AM

I should hope so.
Anyway, I’m gonna go read. Night.

Emily M. on July 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM

Good stuff, but you’ll have to ratchet up the hysterics a teensy bit more of you want to be a featured blog commenter in an O’Reilly segment. Maybe call Obama a war criminal or something.

crr6 on July 17, 2009 at 12:05 AM

What if I say that he’s really creepy? Nah …that’s Newsweak’s description.

progressoverpeace on July 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM

He talked down to the gathering. I doubt many were offended though. Bill Cosby he’s not. Cosby told it like it is, in plain English. The One danced around the real issue, fatherless homes, absentee parenting.

FireBlogger on July 17, 2009 at 12:10 AM

OT: Indonesia Bombings. 6 dead.

gh on July 17, 2009 at 12:13 AM

A new mind set…..
Maybe take a lesson from other minorities…. Asians for example.
Home schooling for another.

Kini on July 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM

BHO say lots of words here that end in “s”, so there’s lots of whistling.
Other than that, good preachin’.

jgapinoy on July 17, 2009 at 12:22 AM

“the Promised Land”…huh?

Other than that it sounds like he’s taking a page from the stuff that got Bill Cosby in trouble a few years back.

Dr. ZhivBlago on July 17, 2009 at 12:22 AM

talk about talking out of both sides of the mouth.

mizflame98 on July 17, 2009 at 12:26 AM

Obama = all style, no substance

Sarah = all substance, less style

Obama = talker

Sarah = do’er

Sapwolf on July 17, 2009 at 12:31 AM

OT: Indonesia Bombings. 6 dead.

gh on July 17, 2009 at 12:13 AM

Ouch. I have a good friend who is in Bali right now. I don’t think they’d strike Bali, but it makes me nervous anyway.

Daggett on July 17, 2009 at 12:40 AM

A new mind set…..
Maybe take a lesson from other minorities…. Asians for example.
Home schooling for another.

Kini on July 17, 2009 at 12:14 AM

Too much effort. Nothing a little midnight basketball won’t solve.

Caper29 on July 17, 2009 at 12:41 AM

she actually had a brain unlike most chicas in my generation and under

blatantblue on July 16, 2009 at 11:15 PM

I have a request to all out there who have, had, or are planning to have children out there.

Please take the time to teach your children well.

If you don’t, you are simply compounding the problem.

Try to teach as many people as you come in contact with about this.

Chaz706 on July 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM

Of course I despise him. But give credit where credit is due: telling simple truths to black people is the right thing to do.

guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 12:44 AM

I am shocked..SHOCKED that he forgot the key issue for all NAACP overcomers: the sense of entitlement that is the raging bacterial infection of the big government ‘mommy-state’.

(..got health care on my mind….sorry.)

LEBA on July 17, 2009 at 12:49 AM

I am shocked..SHOCKED that he forgot the key issue for all NAACP overcomers: the sense of entitlement that is the raging bacterial infection of the big government ‘mommy-state’.

(..got health care on my mind….sorry.)

LEBA on July 17, 2009 at 12:49 AM

Actually LEBA… your are on target.

The reason the Black community (and others) are so down in the dumps right now is because the government keeps them there with welfare and whatnot.

It’s worse than the chains of slavery… at least with slavery you can usually see the chains. Welfare is often just that: slavery without chains, and a cage without bars.

Chaz706 on July 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM

“No one has written your destiny for you.” with the exception of government who will tell you what you will drive, what house you will live in, what doctor you will see and what shovel ready job you will have.

shick on July 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM

Chaz706 on July 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM

Yup. Not the belief that they are inferior (as ingrained in them by the white folks, according to NAACP and BO), but the constant message that they deserve to be lifted up by the government…and the steady stream of modest ‘income’ from entitlement programs. In this case, 2 plus 2 equals zero incentive or productivity. It’s a real brainwashing that I, as a former public school counselor, saw daily.

LEBA on July 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM

what shovel ready job you will have.

shick on July 17, 2009 at 12:51 AM

That reminds me of Futurama.

Fry: “What if I don’t want to be a delivery boy?”

Leela: “You’ll be fired…”

Fry: “Fine.”

Leela: “…out of a cannon, into the sun. Look, lots of us have jobs we don’t like, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.”

Fallen Sparrow on July 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM

Of course I despise him. But give credit where credit is due: telling simple truths to black people is the right thing to do.

guntotinglibertarian on July 17, 2009 at 12:44 AM

The simple truth is he does not practice what he is preaching. The liberal policies of a far left radical like Obonehead are designed to put all blacks on the reservations like the native americans. Except this reservation is called a housing project and they have cable.

DeweyWins on July 17, 2009 at 12:58 AM

We need a new catchphrase.

Brennan on July 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM

I’m surprised he didn’t break out into the sweet sounds of the muslim call to payer. Oh, I forgot, he’s a Christian who never goes to church. My bad.

texaninfidel on July 17, 2009 at 1:02 AM

LEBA on July 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM

I leave you with one last quote before retiring.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Abraham Lincoln

Chaz706 on July 17, 2009 at 1:08 AM

Who said Palin Didn’t Have style? Speaking of The Governor of Alaska,

MSNBC quoted a speech she gave recently praising mother bears. Then they stuttered and called her supporters ‘twits’.

I think that Governor Palin speaks from the heart and about what she understands. Working through life in Iowa and Alaska is a different task than a prep school in Hawaii, the adoring schools in California, NY and Boston and as an ivy league attorney in Chicago.

Sarah Palin spoke about basic life values.

And the thing above?

This was a fine personal responsibility speech from The One. I would however, love for him to show me many gangbangers or other black kids who have low self esteem today. They sure don’t act it. And how exactly does that whole thing of living in a nice house make a kid a success?

I would really enjoy a speech about the attitude of entitlement from Him or anyone else in our politics today. Or one talking about all the special treatment and gimmies for various groups that are takeaways from the whole society and struggling majority kids in particular.

It seems that the white kids have (maybe) better parents and a more acute sense of free enterprise. The One offers minorities the government and victimhood. Gee. Who is going to win in that situation? Unless the government gets really brutal…

IlikedAUH2O on July 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM

LEBA on July 17, 2009 at 12:56 AM
IlikedAUH2O on July 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM

Alright… I lied.

This is the Lincoln quote I wanted to find:

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

PS: good to see you on the boards AUH20!

Chaz706 on July 17, 2009 at 1:13 AM

President Obama tells the NAACP convention that America needs a ‘new mindset’ to makes things better for the children.

This from the guy spending our children’s future, leaving them debt ridden with a diminished capacity to repay.

FloatingRock on July 17, 2009 at 1:15 AM

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