huffy2001's Comments (206)

“Didn't you know? Let 'em serve and die for their country...­pretty soon they're gonna wanna get married. Then they'll want HATE CRIMES legislation! And equal rights under the law! Before you know it they'll be recruiting our children..­.we'll all be gay, and all that will be left will be Republican Congressmen and Senators!”

“How, then, do you explain the low wages paid to our teachers..­. college grads all? My wife is a therapist working with the elderly. College grad. Professional. Makes a little over minimum wage. Oh, I guess if they had any real gumption..­.if they were really motivated.­..they'd go out and make some real money...ma­ybe cheating people in the stock market, or stealing tax dollars in the defense industry, or selling bad mortgages to the unsuspecting. Or disparaging the less fortunate on talk radio. UnAmerican­...that's what they are!”

“Probably never killed a doctor, either! Fanned.”

“cont...

If any of this values stuff was really for real, it would start, not end, with Head Start, daycare programs, S-Chip, food stamps, etc. Women and children would have adequate healthcare, because we wouldn't allow them not to. The country would have universal healthcare, because we wouldn't allow a soul to go without. There wouldn't be any homeless people, because we would not allow it. Instead the "values voters" worry about the wellfare of the banks, the insurance companies, Wall Street, and the number of guns they get to own. It's hypocrisy of the worst kind.

If I really believed I was going to meet my maker someday, I would do a lot more of what Jesus said to do than what the evangelical Christian establishment does in this country today. Of course, then I couldn't focus on the "I'm saved and you're not" doctrine of keeping you down, even here.”

“The thing is, the "pro-life" movement isn't and never has been about saving lives. Just like the rest of the right wing "values" agenda has never been about values...i­f you consider basic ethics to be a core value. It's all, and always has been, about power and control.

By denying women birth control, access to safe abortions, adequate healthcare, adequate childcare, etc., you keep them down, and then you are one up. By keeping the poor poor, you keep them down and you are up again. By imposing draconian religious beliefs on people, you keep them down. It's all about control.

My sister in law and her husband are radical reactionary creationist Christians. They have seven kids. Guess who gets to do all the work (yup, the one who has been barefoot and pregnant since she got married). Her last three pregnancies were all very hard, and it got to the point where we all feared for her every time she got pregnant. Finally, finally, she was forced into a hysterechtomy after her last.

Of course the kids are home schooled. You could never have them out in the world being exposed to independent thought. And, of course they live in South Carolina..­.and they love it there...'c­ept of course for all the illegals comin in over the border.

continued.­..”

“Because life begins at conception and ends at birth.”

“The difference between Colin Powell and Joe Biden is stark: Powell had been marginalized and emasculated by the neocons who were driving the war effort, and who ultimately coopted the entire executive branch. It would have been quite appropriate for him to resign in protest, and he could have preserved is reputation and standing by doing so.

Biden is at the table and has a voice. Apparently, according to Newsweek, a strong and respected voice. If he is the voice of our conscience, don't we want him at the table?

Also, Obama has asked for the dissenting viewpoints. He is probably one of the best "listening" presidents we have had since Lincoln. He is ready, willing and able to move in a better direction if presented to him. His, and apparently the rest of the Situation Room's reaction to Biden's comments are perfect examples of this.

Sorry, Arianna, you are 100% wrong on this. If he left, it would only damage Obama's presidency and increase the perceptions that he is weak (I don't believe he is...he is thoughtful), and we would lose a very important and perceptive dissenting voice at the table.”

“Fanned. Thank you.”

“Or, he could stay in office and continue to shape the debate. THAT makes strategic sense!”

“See, here is what is so fun about this. The right wing spend all of its time either;

1. Denigrating the NPP as a completely meaningless and worthless sop of/to the left
2. Objecting mightily to the recipients of it.

If it's such a meaningless honor, why do they care so much to whom it's given? Sounds like Nobel envy to me.”

“Yup. Faved.”

“When I was a child living in Missouri, my next door neighbor had a pet monkey. He called it, with his parents' considerable encouragement and enjoyment, "my little ni**er buddy."

Racism is alive and well in this country, and its face is the Republican party.

P.S., this period of my life is still very real for me. As a young white boy, I felt the hatred and prejudice. I felt, and still feel bruised by it, like you would feel if you witnessed vicious violence against another human being. It is simply beyond me how people who were actually the target of it could maintain their sanity and continue to function in this society.

My hat is off to you. And I would say...if you feel something is racist, well, you should know.”

“"Skin in the game." LOL.”

“Fanned and faved. Thank you very much...it'­s what I have been trying, in my own clumsy way, to say.”

“I would submit that a true racist would a) deny being a racist, and b) perhaps even deny the existence of racism. I take this position from my belief that racism stems from ignorance, fear and intolerance. Who, in their right minds, would embrace those traits? Therefore your inability to see it or acknowledge it merely underscores my argument.

You cannot argue the fact that this country grew out of a groundswell of racism. For over a century we as a country tolerated slavery. We fought a civil war over it. During my lifetime people of color were beaten, lynched, raped, subjected to police batons, fire hoses and police dogs simply for wanting to eat at the lunch counter, attend university, drink from the drinking fountain and get a good job. I had those images burned into my retinas...­and I can still see them.

Denying a truth, no matter how ugly, does not invalidate it or redress it. Only by acknowledging it, ferreting it out wherever it is, confronting it, calling it by name and overcoming it can you do that. The right wing's desire to deny it can only mean a couple of things: a) they are so immersed in it they can't see it, and b) they like it that way.”

“I left the Republican party years ago when when it became the party of intolerance and conservative, right-wing, reactionary Christianity that had nothing to do with Christ. When it became the party of anti-science and anti-reason. When the likes of Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay coopted it for their own purposes.

I grew up as a transplanted northerner in the south. It was an eye opener when I heard the mother of my next door friend use the N word in normal conversation. He had a pet monkey whom he called his "little Ni--er buddy." I was admonished by grown ups and teachers and members of our church not to walk through "Ni--er" town on the way home from school. The racism was so thick you could cut it with a knife.

I married into a staunch repug family who loves Rush, hates Obama, and embodies racism and intolerance. Oh, the outrage when they talk about affirmative action, and all those poor undeserving white candidates are displaced by those undeserving, lazy Negroes.

Where #1 daughter homeschools her 8 children because they cannot tolerate any outside thought or ideas...wh­ere everyone of those kids is going off to BJU for college. Where the hatred of immigrants (illegal and legal...th­ough they would never admit it) is palpable..­.all,of course, in the name of Christ.”

“Couldn't agree more. Great post.”

“The other day a man I know asked in a meeting I attended, "Is it still called the White House?" And then he laughed an guffawed and you could see how tickled he was with himself. And you could see the one black face in the room shrink away in disgust. Have a clue, pal. Racism is rampant in this country.

Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. It simply means you are ignorant and insensitive.”

“Fanned and faved”

“COSIGN”

“Rush's outbursts about the school bus? Showing up with guns at the president's speeches? Carrying signs depicting him as a medicine man? Showing him in "joker" white face? Challenging his citizenship? Calling him a "halfrican American." Saying he hates white people and the white culture? Asking if his brother is still in the hut? Sending a card with watermelons on the White House lawn? And on and on and on...

The other day a man I know asked, is it still called the White House? And then he laughed an guffawed and you could see how tickled he was with himself. And you could see the one black face in the room shrink away in disgust. Have a clue, pal. Racism is rampant in this country. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. It simply means you are ignorant and insensitive.”

“But Rush's outbursts about the school bus? Showing up with guns at the president's speeches? Carrying signs depicting him as a medicine man? Showing him in "joker" white face? Challenging his citizenship? Calling him a "halfrican American." Saying he hates white people and the white culture? Asking if his brother is still in the hut? Sending a card with watermelons on the White House lawn? And on and on and on...

The other day a man I know asked, is it still called the White House? And then he laughed an guffawed and you could see how tickled he was with himself. And you could see the one black face in the room shrink away in disgust. Have a clue, pal. Racism is rampant in this country. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it's not there. It simply means you are ignorant and insensitive.”

“Rush's outbursts about the school bus? Showing up with guns at the president's speeches? Carrying signs depicting him as a medicine man? Showing him in "joker" white face? Challenging his citizenship? Calling him a "halfrican American." Saying he hates white people and the white culture? Asking if his brother is still in the hut? Sending a card with watermelons on the White House lawn? And on and on and on...”

“When did you ever see a person of any color ever feel free to bring any kind of gun into a presidential venue before? Really? When? In Bush's day, just wearing the wrong T-shirt was enough to get you carted off and arrested.

When did you ever see a whole movement of people claiming the president of the United States was illegitimate because he wasn't a citizen? When? Bush, whether you agree or not, came into the White House under a truly valid cloud of illegitimacy, yet the country recognized him as president without any angry mobs and talk show hosts and members of congress trying to bring him down.

When have you ever seen a group of people brandishing signs of the president as medicine man? Or a talk show host calling him racist. Or another calling him "halfrican American." Or saying that in the president's America black kids got to beat up white kids with impunity? Even though for generation black people were targeted with impunity. Their mothers, sisters and daughters were raped with impunity and their fathers were hanged with impunity, and their churches burned, and with impunity they were denied a place at the lunch counter. When?

Don't get me started. You have no idea what you are talking about.”

“That, I agree with. It is simply despicable. But Rush's outbursts about the school bus? Showing up with guns at the president's speeches? Carrying signs depicting him as a medicine man? Showing him in "joker" white face? Challenging his citizenship? Calling him a "halfrican American." Saying he hates white people and the white culture? Asking if his brother is still in the hut? Sending a card with watermelons on the White House lawn? And on and on and on...

These things. These are racist.”