SunnyDay's Comments (33)

“SunndyDay you're lying.

Look, I'm 7th generation Texan, and you're first sentence is simply a lie:

"I went to high school in Texas and we were required to attend weekly sermons by preachers around our town".

Don't you know that other Texans read HuffPost? Didn't you think us Texans would know
you're lying??”

“Looking away is America's greatest skill. Seeing hardship and pain used to make us uncomfortable. Now we have a highly developed sense of entitlement (if I've got it and you don't obviously you don't deserve it) that makes it much easier to see struggle and pain with a total lack of empathy.

Someone who'd recently returned from a trip to Mexico said to me, "The poverty there is really disgusting! They ought to keep that kind of thing further from the resorts."”

“'I really do wonder if this country will ever be able to fix itself."

The country will be able to fix itself when the people stop sitting around with their thumb up their rears, handing over their liberties to a handful of people serving their self-interest first, stand up, and actually fix it.

There are over 300 million of us living here. This shouldn't be this hard.”

“Just can't imagine how horribly painful the bites of hoards of fire ants would be,----clearly qualifying as torture!

Just ONE Tennessee fire ant set my foot on "fire" immediately, swelled my whole foot overnight, and cause the most intense itching I've ever experienced for a solid week! Still itching after two weeks, even w/benedryl!”

“florida fire ants? abusive little critters. i would confess to anything about a second after the first one bit me.”

“In Tx they have killed calves and other livestock, wildlife, and they are a big concern to ranchers and parents.”

“Georgia fire ants and pretty nasty too.”

“If you think CNN is bad (which they are), steer clear of MSNBC, Faux News, and HLN. Those "news station" coverage of MJ has been 10 times worse!

Look at it this way, CNN, MSNBC, etc. now have a VESTED interest in continuing the Wacko Jacko Storyline that they help create. They are going to be working feverishly to rescue their scandalizing reputations from the trash heaps were they belong; because (unfortunately for them) EVERY person who gets in front of a microphone with ANYTHING to say about Michael Jackson had nothing but positive things to say about this great man.

Thus, these "news stations" now have to prove that their so-called reporting and opinions were right about Michael jackson and all the glowing, kind, and positive things said about Michael by his family, friends and fans were wrong.

One thing's for sure, it's going to be interesting watching them twist themselves into knots to get around all the lies, misleading innuendo and inaccuracies that they have pushed about Michael.”

“Check your information, slavery was legal under the us constitution a black man was considered 3 fiths of a man under us law. the us government played a major role.”

“The government did participant in the perpetuation of slavery. Those rich landowners were U.S, citizens living in states that were part of the Union. The government passed a number of Compromises to ensure that slavery flourished. How sad that so many ignorant folk have no problem demonstrating their lack of knowledge on this subject to satisfy their anger towards black folks even though they say that they had nothing to do with slavery. The issue is not with any of you, but rests with the U.S. government which is ongoing and is responsible for the actions of its citizens whether today or two hundred years ago.”

“In the 1600's, Cromwell sold 50,000 white Irish adults to the Sephardic Jewish slave traders of St. Kitts and Jamaica. A few years later, he sold 100,000 white Irish children to these same slave traders. At that time, there were more white Irish slaves in the Caribbean than English in colonial America. Arabs, African tribal chiefs, and Sephardic Jews conducted the black slave trade. There were some whites involved in the overseas shipping of the slaves. Later, in America, 87% of the slave owners in the South were Jewish, and 13% so-called Christians; note, however, the New Testament of the Christians forbade slavery. In any case, like the blacks, my white Irish ancestors in called "animals" and "monkeys" and "subhuman" and enslaved by the slave masters and plantation owners. Yet, the "white man" is totally blamed for slavery.”

“Keerist!I am sick of hearing this eternal belly aching about slavery and Jim Crowism and all the other "isms"that have been concieved in the minds of persistant gripers.
Many years ago my mother came here from Poland and settled and lived out her life as the matriarch of a large family.Not once did I ever hear her complain about the slavery her ancesters lived through called Serfdom.
Not once did I ever hear her or her compatriots mention restitution from any government body for the sufferings of her ancestors.
For Keeris sake ,let it rest and let's get on with life.”

“You need a little education. Did you know that much of the debate between the Northern and Southern colonies over the founding of this nation revolved around Slavery. The US Supreme Court settled slavery cases on several occasions, and states had laws both in support and opposition to slavery, slave trading and slave catching. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both American Presidents were also slave owners.

In many cases Africans did capture Africans for the slave trade in other cases it was kidnapping by Whites.

Prejudice that exists everywhere must be dealt with locally. BTW - Slavery is a little more than prejudice - Don't you thiink?

Sunny Day - please get a clue- From your comments - I get the feeling you are not from the United States is that correct?”

“I was an enthusiastic Obama supporter, and I'm so glad I voted for him in the general election. Being an Independent, when I voted in my state's Primary last year, however; I voted for Mitt Romney.
The problem with the GOP's obsession with the extreme right, is they refuse to accept that many Independents and moderate Republicans voted for Obama, and they have trapped themselves into a narrow corner, becoming increasingly shrill and irrelevant.”

“Interesting response and I agree.

FYI--his name is spelled "Barack".”

“I am afraid we will always have some form of a Rush Limbaugh in politics. I think it may be better to have this really tacky, dumb version taking up the space for now. He makes it easy to spot the toxic rhetoric.”

“I think Clinton will be a great SoS! And I think Shinseki will be great as well!”

“How did GWB get elected? There is no underestimating the general intelligence of the American public.”

“i am beginning to think the joe the plumber was not really a non partisan supporter who came out to the rally. it was a set up.”

“This author is an avowed "conservative".”

“SunnyDay, I admire your optimism. For myself, I think I am a perfect example of why Obama is not farther ahead in the polls -- I just don't think he's going to be "...quite different once he is in the White House." I think, instead, that he is going to be exactly what he is now because I believe people when they show and tell me what and who they are. So far, he's shown me that he is deliberative and very intelligent, but hardly a populist or progressive. And, while I definitely think he will be better for the country, I do not think he's the guy that is going to do all that is necessary to correct what the Bushies have done. I will be happy to have my expectations exceeded, however.”

“I thought the same thing”

“She was reading directly from her little cue cards, she was so annoying that I turned the tv down and put up the closed captioning, My son said, "I thought you were watching the debate?, I said I am, but she is so annoying."”

“easy...Karl Rove and the neo-con front men.”

“Eight years of BU SH - I think that ship has already sailed....”

“"Both of the Clintons have been noticably absent from talk shows, etc."

What the hell universe are you living in? You don't even need cable to have seen Bill on The View, Letterman, The Daily Show and tonight Larry King. And try reading the newspapers, also. You'll find that Hillary has been out campaigning for Obama since before the DNC.

All is jaundiced to the jaundiced eye.

You idiots won the primary. Now get on with the business of electing Obama, rather than setting up the Clintons for the loss you obviously feel is coming. So little faith in Obama, after all the talk of a "movement" greater than yourselves. It comes down to Bill Clinton's body language and turn of phrase rather than Obama's ability to connect with the American voter. I think that ability to connect is the basis of electability. Ain't nothin' nobody can do if Obama can't make that connection. And ye of little faith seem to be saying he can't make that connection.”