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What Is In The Water In Anti-Obama Tennessee?

Huffpo ate the rest of my reply.

Tennessee: 81% white, 17% black

Vermont: 98% white, less than 1% black
Massachusetts: 88% white, 8% black
Connecticut: 86% white, 11% black
New York: 75% white, 18% black

I hope you won't make the tragic mistake of commenting on other people's intelligence again. posted 06/30/2008 at 14:18:09

Huffpo ate the rest of my reply.

Tennessee: 81% white, 17% black

Vermont: 98% white, posted 06/30/2008 at 14:17:53

"If you do not grow up in a diverse environment, your clan instincts will dominate"

Tennessee: 81% white, 17% black
Vermont: 98% white, posted 06/30/2008 at 14:13:17

We're all thanking our inbred redneck stars that you don't have this problem. posted 06/30/2008 at 13:58:09

Hell yeah ... I moved here a year ago from New York City (you want to talk about unfriendly people, whoo-boy!)

Nice to see another TN Yankee sticking up for the Volunteer state. posted 06/30/2008 at 13:49:09

Just because the state GOP chair has a wild hair up his ass doesn't necessarily mean there's something about the character of the people here that predisposes them against Obama -- or blacks, as the article infers.

I live in a rural town about half an hour out of Knoxville. I have an Obama bumper sticker on my car. No one's given me any guff for it and in fact I see others all the time. I talk politics with folks all the time and most of them haven't even made up their minds between Obama and McCain.

I'd like someone to explain to me why all types of discrimination and hate-talk are verboten here, yet posters are allowed to call whole states full of people they've never met crackers and rednecks. Some of you have a lot of nerve, presuming to make definitive character judgments about people based on their politics. Talk about voting against one's own interests. posted 06/30/2008 at 13:39:02

McCain: "Obama's Word Cannot Be Trusted"

Saying his opponent "cannot be trusted" is disrespectful campaigning? Who gets their party's nomination and goes on the stump saying "You know, either one of us would be great for the job, it's a toss-up, really." posted 06/29/2008 at 13:07:14

Top Republican VP Pick Jindal Lets Public Schools Teach Creationism

No, I've been on huffpo since the day it launched, I'm a democrat, and I voted for Barack Obama in the primary here in Tennessee.

I know it's shocking that someone might veer from the standard liberal line but I don't see a problem with chemical castration. Again, I have no problem with it. If it's proven that someone has been wrongly convicted all you need to do is stop administering the injections. posted 06/27/2008 at 21:46:07

What's wrong with chemically castrating sex offenders? It's reversible, and probably better than they deserve.

We'll see how you feel if a paroled rapist moves into your neighborhood. posted 06/27/2008 at 17:53:32

I'll Trade You the 2nd Amendment for the 4th

Though I agree in principle with the Supreme Court's ruling on the DC gun ban I wonder about the explicit and implicit language of the Constitution and what may have been missed here.

The second amendment states flatly that the right to bear arms "shall not be infringed." Period. Yet military-grade weapons are strictly regulated and obviously no one would be comfortable with their neighbors stockpiling nuclear or biological weapons. So we're okay with infringing on this "right" at least little bit.

I just wonder where and how and on what basis the Court draws that line, and also how it jibes its overturning of a city's handgun ban with the 10th amendment. posted 06/28/2008 at 01:12:30

Obama On FISA: Security Trumps Suing Phone Companies

Yeah sorry, but I did. Three times. $75, $20, then $5 for the million-dollar minute or whatever it was. And voted for him in the Tennessee primary. And worked with Brooklyn for Barack when I still lived in New York. I stood on corners registering people to vote. Don't tell me what I did. posted 06/25/2008 at 20:14:55

You don't get it. He PROMISED to filibuster this bill. It was that important. Now he says he'll let it go through. Now "security," the definition of which he has borrowed from the guys in charge now. Which means he's caving. Which is unleaderlike, unpresidential.

What do you mean "of course he will not erode your rights"? Are you vouching for him personally? George W. Bush said he was for a humble foreign policy in 2000, which sounded good to me at the time.

Look, I hope he wins. I'm pretty sure he will. But he won't get my vote. I already feel duped, having given him over $100 and voted for him in the primary. If I'd known he'd pull this crap I'd have voted Kucinich. posted 06/25/2008 at 20:09:38

"If he can't say no to F ISA - he would never have said no to the war."

Right on. I supported him in the primary, hope he beats McCain, but he lost my vote today. posted 06/25/2008 at 19:44:14

I'm voting for Bob Barr. I wish I could ask the Obama campaign for my money back. I won't vote for anyone, Republican, Democrat or Anti-Masonic, who thinks security trumps liberty. posted 06/25/2008 at 19:40:13

Court rejects death penalty for raping children

I'm against the death penalty as a matter of principle but if we must have capital punishment I would rather apply it to rapists than murderers.

Rapists inflict lifetimes of pain and suffering upon their victims, murderers rob them of their lives entire, I don't understand how a judge can say definitively that one crime is more heinous than the other. posted 06/25/2008 at 12:39:10

Media Pundits on Obama and Public Financing -- Shut the F**k Up

Public financing of elections is a stupid idea. I don't want my money going to any candidate except the ones I agree with on issues and want to win. So I don't care about Obama turning down public funds. What upsets me as a supporter is a) his disingenuous rhetorical tack that he's somehow bucking the system by opting out, and b) that he's saying "I need to opt out of public financing so we can have public financing when I'm president."

I say limit all contributions from individuals and PAC groups to $100 each and let the best candidate win. posted 06/24/2008 at 16:22:49

Obama And Race: Most Whites Open To Black President, But Hate Groups Growing

The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to painting conservatives and southerners as racists and anti-Semites. Hate groups are its bread and butter, and they rely on exaggerating the existence and prevalence of white separatist groups in order to stay in business.

Nine of ten white Americans is comfortable with a black chief executive, what more proof do you need that white nationalist groups are more marginalized than ever? posted 06/22/2008 at 16:27:26

McCain: I 'Didn't Love America' Until Held Prisoner (VIDEO)

Dan Abrams is a fool and his show sucks. It's the dumbest format for a show on any news network, it basically a nightly political "Best Week Ever".

The question of who loves America more is probably the most idiotic thing we've ever had a public debate about, but there's no comparison between the two statements. I'm not voting for John McCain but he endured hell for this country and I find the quote here to be quite a lovely sentiment. Michelle Obama said her husband's political success inspired the first feelings of pride in her country she's had as an adult. I believe her when she says she was exaggerating. But it was a gaffe, and what McCain said was not.

What McCain said struck notes of humility and honor, while Mrs. Obama's comments did have just the twinge of arrogance about them. posted 06/20/2008 at 05:27:23

Should Obama Drop Out of the Race?

"Hillary leads in electoral votes"

You have all this political experience and yet you don't know that electoral votes aren't distributed during the primary process?

The claim that Hillary has "won more electoral votes" is an bullshit benchmark invented by her supporters to mask the fact that she is leading in nothing this primary season. The idea that Obama would not carry big, heavily Democratic states that Hillary won like California and New York is ludicrous. It also ignores consistent polling data that shows Obama competitive in many traditionally Republican states like Texas, the Dakotas, Montana, and winning bellwether states like Colorado, Nevada and Missouri, most of which flip to McCain against Hillary. posted 03/30/2008 at 22:40:08

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