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popeye1250 -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/27/2011 11:34:57 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u No Pops he doesn't seem surprised that a black man can be elected President of the US( though I for one was of the opinion that it was too soon,given how far we,the people of the US,have to go in this area) he does,on the other hand,seem genuinely surprised that there are those amongst us who would deny that it was/and is an issue.Such folks are either clueless or duplicitous.Which are you? Well gee Mike, I was wondering which one you were.

defiantbadgirl -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 12:36:20 AM)
Obama has done some good things and some bad. He pushed for health care reform, but he should've pushed harder for the public option. Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed. Obama wants the percentages the rich pay in taxes increased. Bailing out the auto industry was good but he shouldn't have bailed out the banks. I consider him being pro union a positive. I hate the fact that he hasn't gotten us out of these free trade deals and that US taxpayer money is used for foreign aid and policing the world. It never ceases to amaze me how people can think isolationism is a bad thing when isolationism is what made America strong. They must like seeing the once decent paying manufacturing jobs outsourced overseas. Better to destroy the middle class than be isolationists [8\|]

tweakabelle -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 2:34:45 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Well you sound like a racist and a bigot. What difference does a person's race make in politics? You sound surprised that a black man could be elected to public office in the U.S. Look at Col. Allen West the congressman from Fla. Look at my congressman Tim Scott and plenty of others. And a LOT of people here really liked Herman Cain and don't think he should have dropped out of the race! And what kind of a question is that? How would anyone know whether someone refused to vote for Obama because he was black unless they told you so? Sure, the KKK would. And look at Obama, elected president. (Although he's going to be de-elected for being stupid and for ignoring the wishes of the people.) It may be a novelty in Britain for a black person to be elected to public office but it isn't in the U.S. And "Muslim" is not a "race" it's a practitioner of a "religion." "Catholic" and "Lutherin," and Hindus are not "races" either, they're "religions." Polite, did you finish high school or were you apprenticed out? pops, I did ask you nicely to specifically point out the "bigotry" you claimed to see in Polite's post in my post #107. Thus far, you have failed to respond. The above seems to be the best I can expect by way of answer. All I can find in the above that even remotely resembles an answer to my question is: "Well you (politesub) sound like a racist and a bigot." Sadly pops that's not good enough. Apart from the complete absence of any evidence of bigotry, just sounding like "a racist and a bigot" isn't anything like good enough. Even if Polite actually sounded like that - which he didn't. Not even remotely good enough. Am I left with any other option than to apply pops' very own standards here? I fear not. And pop's very own standard is: "Tweak, you have to realize that the "Politically-Correct" Anal-Retentives use the terms "bigot" and "racist" to try to stifle any thoughts they don't agree with." (post #46) http://www.collarchat.com/m_3971165/mpage_3/tm.htm No need for me to point out precisely who is totally busted here is there? Or who is blatantly guilty of the exact behaviour he accuses others of doing is there? Or who is using "the terms "bigot" and "racist" to try to stifle any thoughts they don't agree with"?

Sanity -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 5:09:28 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Owner59 ...........that he would get our troops out of Iraq? Immediately upon assuming office

mnottertail -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 6:14:02 AM)
Well, he got us out in less time than it took the republicans to find Osama Bin Laden or WMD....so at least he tried....

Sanity -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 6:31:07 AM)
Oh yeah, I forgot about how Obama searched the jungles of Pakistan for Osama on his own, for years... and did him in with nothing but his teeth and his fingernails (The legend grows a little taller with every passing minute [:D]) quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail Well, he got us out in less time than it took the republicans to find Osama Bin Laden or WMD....so at least he tried....

slvemike4u -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 6:36:11 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u No Pops he doesn't seem surprised that a black man can be elected President of the US( though I for one was of the opinion that it was too soon,given how far we,the people of the US,have to go in this area) he does,on the other hand,seem genuinely surprised that there are those amongst us who would deny that it was/and is an issue.Such folks are either clueless or duplicitous.Which are you? Well gee Mike, I was wondering which one you were. sorry Pops,I'm not in your category....not by a long shot.

mnottertail -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 6:39:15 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Oh yeah, I forgot about how Obama searched the jungles of Pakistan for Osama on his own, for years... and did him in with nothing but his teeth and his fingernails (The legend grows a little taller with every passing minute [:D]) quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail Well, he got us out in less time than it took the republicans to find Osama Bin Laden or WMD....so at least he tried.... That is typical of your untutored unfactual arguments, their are no jungles in Pakistan. And their aint 50 million in Iraq, and there were no WMD, and there was no liberation..... ad nauseAm.

Lucylastic -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 7:24:48 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity Oh yeah, I forgot about how Obama searched the jungles of Pakistan for Osama on his own, for years... and did him in with nothing but his teeth and his fingernails (The legend grows a little taller with every passing minute [:D]) quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail Well, he got us out in less time than it took the republicans to find Osama Bin Laden or WMD....so at least he tried.... now where does all that intel come from?? the only person posting it, is you, along with its not even credible claims the legend is in your post... no one elses

Moonhead -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 8:09:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity You see, a black person could never be elected in Britain, is the thing... [;)] So this 20% of the commons I've cited are really all white politicians in minstrel drag, are they?

mnottertail -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 8:10:46 AM)
Whatever happened to Al Jolson? We may have to riffle thru your MPs old boy.

Moonhead -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 8:14:58 AM)
Great. I've now got an image of the member for the member from Tottenham doing "Mammy!" on top of the woolsack after the opening of parliament...

mnottertail -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 11:23:01 AM)
Well, we'll give the Newcastle cohort leave from the inclusion into this vexing question of the day, keep you on point for whatever the fuck this rather ignoble thread is epically failing to accomplish. (cuz thats likely where them chavs are hiding, amongst the geordies)

Owner59 -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 11:30:40 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 Gee, this is fun! I have a notebook and pen by the reclining Italian leather couch that I'll use to take notes everytime the "Dear Leader" comes on the t.v. And I have to thank Owner 59 for giving me the idea to start this thread due to the Battalians (Not "Italians") of threads he's started factual or not. Now when we're quoting Obama we know he's telling the truth,.....right? We can take him at his word right Owner?[;)] This is another good example of that alternate reality I mentioned on another thread. Zombie-like and ignoring and talking over what you just said, the alt narrative just gets repeated.

Politesub53 -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 11:47:09 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity He is just projecting popeye You see, a black person could never be elected in Britain, is the thing... [;)] Grow up and do some research on the subject. I did a post months ago naming prominent blacks, past and present, in the UK.

Politesub53 -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 11:57:07 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: TheHeretic Nor, to segue smoothly back to the topic, should it have any bearing in discussion of an officeholders prior promises, statements, and lofty pronouncements from the ivory tower to their subsequent actions, compare with how they have conducted themselves in office. For example, remember when President Obama said that if you made less than 250k a year, your taxes wouldn't go up, then raised cigarette taxes $.75 a pack as one of his first acts in office? I mentioned becoming President as an achievnet, simply because you said he hadnt achieved anything, so it is hardly off topic. As for your point about taxes, you are being pedantic. A tax on cigarettes is a tax on everybody, not just a tax on those earning more than 250K a year as your post suggests. So in that respect the poorer sections of society that smoke are hardest hit, pro-rata to wages. how that is breaking his word is beyond me, since any government in office needs to raise taxes somehow or the other to run the nation.

Lucylastic -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 12:07:42 PM)
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=3883518 The UK has a muslim baroness in the house of lords, from Iran. Theres a LORD Alli, from Guyana too three MPs and they are just from the A section(alphabetical list) you learn something every day .. have a look see, I only got to the as in the lords and the commons, see if you can find some more, all by yourself. http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/mps/ The history of non-white Members of Parliament probably begins with David Ochterlony DyceSombre, who was of mixed European and Indian descent. He was adopted son of BegumSombre, ruler of Sardhana, a semi-autonomous state in India, and would have inherited the state had it not been seized by the East India Company in 1836. He came to England and in 1841 he was elected as a Radical-Liberal to the seat of Sudbury,in Suffolk. In 1842, however, Parliament overturned the result citing 'gross, systematic, andextensive bribery' during the campaign, and he and the other Member for the Sudburydivision, Frederick Villiers, lost their seats. Dadabhai Naoroji, born near Mumbai in 1825, became the first Indian Professor atElphinstone College in Bombay, and was a partner in the first Indian firm established inBritain. He was elected Liberal MP for Finsbury Central from 1892 to 1895. Naoroji was acritic of British rule in India and prominent pro-British Indians decided to put up their owncandidate, Mancherjee Bhownaggree (later Sir Mancherjee). He was elected andrepresented Bethnal Green North-East from 1895 to 1905: the second Indian of unmixedparentage and the first minority ethnic Conservative to sit in Parliament. They were followedby Shapurji Saklatvala who was a Parsi born in Bombay and represented Battersea North forLabour from 1922 to 1923 and as a Communist from 1924 to 1929. But we all know facts done matter ....right?

tazzygirl -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 12:09:45 PM)
quote: Nor, to segue smoothly back to the topic, should it have any bearing in discussion of an officeholders prior promises, statements, and lofty pronouncements from the ivory tower to their subsequent actions, compare with how they have conducted themselves in office. For example, remember when President Obama said that if you made less than 250k a year, your taxes wouldn't go up, then raised cigarette taxes $.75 a pack as one of his first acts in office? Easy solution... quit smoking... though the act isnt as easy as the words... I know because I am quitting. However, I can spare myself that tax by not smoking. If I work in order to survive, I cannot escape payroll taxes. If I want to eat, which is necessary to survive, I cannot avoid sales tax on food. Those who are on the lower end to income pay a significantly larger amount of their income to taxes than those who are middle or upper end. I was going to post more, but I think I shall start a separate thread. [:D]

mnottertail -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 12:10:24 PM)
Well, Sudbury for fucks sake, say no more.................... LOL. Cuz I see Mr Bond is here, and I like to tweak his nose for fun, as he does mine.

popeye1250 -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/28/2011 5:01:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 quote: ORIGINAL: slvemike4u No Pops he doesn't seem surprised that a black man can be elected President of the US( though I for one was of the opinion that it was too soon,given how far we,the people of the US,have to go in this area) he does,on the other hand,seem genuinely surprised that there are those amongst us who would deny that it was/and is an issue.Such folks are either clueless or duplicitous.Which are you? Well gee Mike, I was wondering which one you were. sorry Pops,I'm not in your category....not by a long shot. That's not surprising, you've always had a very high opinion of yourself.

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