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ORIGINAL: DedicatedDom40

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

He's trying to bankrupt it.

I hate to break it to you, but thats already been accomplished by the actions of the private sector.  And it only took a mere 10 years to accomplish after a REPUBLICAN congress passed legislation in 1999 and 2000 and a DEMOCRAT president signed the legislation..

I simply do not understand the negrophobia-driven paranoia about a $10 trillion debt created by government when the unregulated private sector elite has built $700 trillion in gambling debts while playing around in Wall Street's gambling parlors.  And they have tied that debt, systemically, to our financial system.  This is what Warren Buffet calls "Financial WMDs".   The vast majority of your tax dollars spent on bailouts so far have gone to pay off the gambling debts of private companies, helping pay off the bets held by the bookie department of these large banks.

I don't blame Obama for spending 1 trillion to keep a 700 trillion bomb from detonating.  Obviously, the $700 trillion bomb will completely wipe us out, while $1 trillion will not.

I simply do not understand all the "sky is falling" paranoia over 1/70th of the problem (or 1.4%) that was created by government. Methinks the other 98.6% of the problem created by the unregulated private sector is wee bit more critical to our survival.

Same goes for healthcare reform.  Even if reform costs us $1 trillion, its still only 1/70th of the WMD's hanging over our heads that was created courtesy of an unregulated private sector.

I guess its good that the small minds among us are busy sweating the small stuff (1.4% of the problem).  It keeps them busy, away from messing with the real threat.

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they are pushing the...teabagger movement to the point they will be running third party candidates against the GOP candidates in the mid terms.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
No, not if that president hates the country. You know, as in, "Not God Bless the USA... God Damn the USA!!!"

Which, that is a direct quote from President Obama's spiritual advisor of over twenty years, the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
No, not if that president hates the country. You know, as in, "Not God Bless the USA... God Damn the USA!!!"

Which, that is a direct quote from President Obama's spiritual advisor of over twenty years, the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright.

And you are aware, those are two *different* people, right? Not all black people are the same.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Just as you quoted me, I wrote that Wright was Obama's spiritual advisor of over twenty years, clearly indicating that I am fully aware that they are different people, Loki.

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Hey, they report things in a highly slanted fashion, they re-edit video footage to make GOP events seem better attended than they really are, and they can't seem to do basic math, or understand the concept behind percentages.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
I believe that most reasonable people are troubled by Obama's relationship with Wright, whether they admit to it or not. Ignoring the implications of that relationship would be asinine, but facing facts is never asinine.

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ORIGINAL: Loki45

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
I believe that most reasonable people are troubled by Obama's relationship with Wright, whether they admit to it or not. Ignoring the implications of that relationship would be asinine, but facing facts is never asinine.

And I believe that due to having seen stories of people being married for 20 years with one not knowing the other is gay, or wanting a sex change, or cheating on them for 10 years, it *is* possible that Obama never knew any of this. It's certainly true that he never agreed with it.

So your comparison is asinine, (In)Sanity.

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ORIGINAL: SL4V3M4YB3

Yeah there have been entire threads devoted to it. Where it has been pointed out Obama distanced himself from those comments and the religious nut himself retracted most of it.

Not to harp on about it or anything though.

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After attending Wrights' services religiously for over twenty years, Obama finally began trying to distance himself from the "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright during the run up to the presidential elections last year.

Say it with me - it was P-o-l-i-t-i-c-a-l e-x-p-e-d-i-e-n-c-y.
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You are right, Sanity. If Obama had been completely honest, he would have said that there are systemic inequalities between races in this country. He would have acknowledged that it is pretty hard to spend your life fighting against them without getting very angry at times. Then he might have pointed out that angry people don't always say the wisest things, even if their cause is just.

But those conservatives who want to pretend that every racial problem in this country were settled by the 1960's don't want to hear that. They would rather pretend there is no reason for anger on the part of civil rights activists because everything is just hunky dory.

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If someone is hateful (and thats the issue, calling it "angry" is obfuscation) then no, they don't belong in positions of power and responsibility, regardless of color or party.


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As I recall, Rev. Wright was never nominated for office, nor was he offered any position of responsibility. This is a pretty obvious attempt to keep confusing Obama with Wright and hoping that something will rub off.

As far as I've seen, Obama has been pretty level headed on racial matters.