An "Unexpected" Ally

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  • I will disagree........you have made more vile racist comments in a snide off handed way at this president than any person in america.You may not consider some of those remarks that way but others do i assure you.Tea party advocates who denergrate based on there air of superiority are not my friends. When you are against civil rights for all and a return to the 50's you need not say anymore.When you bless people like congressman West just to name one that is not what i need to see.congresswoman Waters spoke her mind that is her perogative.....funny when she berated the president you praised her now she's in your dog house.Which one is it, or is it as at serves the purpose.

    LET ME POINT SOMETHING OUT TO YOU.......when you refer to a rebuplican person of power you always use there title......when you refer to democratic person in power you never do. So given that....reverse it.I take it as disrespect would you ???????? MS WATERS.....NO......she has a title....congresswoman....and it should be used.THAT IS JUST AND EXAMPLE.i COULD GO INTO LIMBAUGH,HANNITY,SAVAGE ETC FOR WHAT?....AS LONG AS IT COMES FROM THEM ... YOU SEEM TO THINK IT IS OK........I will hold the individual responsible.aND THE RACIAL STUFF WITH THE PRESIDENT STARTED WAY BEFORE HE GOT ELECTED,IT JUST GOT WORST AFTER.....CONSUMATE DISRESPECT......LIKE IT OR NOT THEY HELD THE COUNTRY HOSTAGE.......everyone knows it both rebuplicans and democrates....wether you want to see that and admite it is another story.

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 3:55 AM
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    oh trust me, obamas wife gets a lot of poop thrown her way.

    -- Posted by shockwave on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 5:18 AM
  • I have some problems with Asians being linked in this. I read they are the second most affluent race in America and they had to come ten thousand miles to get here, not swim some river.

    -- Posted by arsenal on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 8:26 AM
  • Zook:

    you forgot the term, trailer trash. I really don't like that one.

    If we don't have a villain in the story, it seems as though we can invent one. However, common sense should prevail and we really should be examining everything individually and not wholesale. I say this for both sides.

    We are still hitting each other's dogs and assuming that each of us has a mutt instead of a pedigree.

    I still like Cain too. Whether he would make a good president or not, remains to be seen. But at least he would approach things from a business level and respect the opinions of others.

    -- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 9:00 AM
  • sorry zook i was not talking about you personally i was talking about the tea party and said you.....because you are such a big supporter, YOU DONT USE TITLES THAT IS YOUR THING.

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 9:06 AM
  • HOMER..... YOUR TIRADE WAS EXPECTED AND WHAT YOU SAID WAS EXPECTED.....WITH A 240 YEAR HEADSTART I SHOULD HOPE YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG....i guess learning to read upoun pain of death was a good thing,segregation in education was and is a good thing? i could go on but you wouldnt hear any who have met and beat the intentional aim to insure subjugation because that subjugation benifites you.

    YOU SEEM TO ALWAYS COME FROM THESE TERMS..IQ,MENTALITY,VICTIM,HATRED,JEALOUSY,DUMB,SOUNDS LIKE A KKK PAMPHLET.....BUT some of us dont care what you say hommer YOUR TIRADE IS THE SAME, AND IT PROJECTS TO EVERYONE OF COLOUR.THE HATRED YOU FEEL....LIKE I SAID BEFORE IT WAS NOT WHAT YOU SAID HOMMER IT'S WHAT YOU DONT SAY.The comments you make overflow with it...JOE LEWIS,and no comment on CAIN ,CONG WATERS IS A POLETICIAN LIKE ALL THE REST.....YOU DONT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH SANTOURUM....HE IS SAYING WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR.......GREAT...i DONT.The fact that you see nothing wrong with the way minoritys are treated says a lot about you.It speaks for itself.kinda like calling me a BOY,WILLFULL WOULD YOU SAY ???????????? KNOWING THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE TERM.....AND YOU THINK IT'S OK BECAUSE YOU(the white man said it) again that speaks for itself

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 9:37 AM
  • I read it again and see what you said MtnHomer it was my mistake, sorry for the confusion.

    -- Posted by arsenal on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 10:27 AM
  • HOMMER ....DO YOU THINK YOU ARE EXCLUSIVE TO A MULTI RACIAL FAMILY???????? MY GRAND KIDS would TAKE A BIG EXCEPTION TO YOUR CHARACTIRIZATION....So dont play that with me....I am blinded by nothing and your wordS speak for themselves,trained indeed......ending it, I have worked all my life to end it.....when I have people who still call people BOY, tell ME is that a path to ending it????????? you can end it when that kind of rehtoric and treatment stop. why is that hard to understand and it has not stoped has it. And no you were not clear go back and read it it was accusatory to say the least.Accuse yourself.IT'S none of your business but I will say this,1 daughter is married to a white,1 daughter to a puerto rican between them they have 6 children my wife is white so dont act ;like you have some kind of foot up.I Have children who are black and are white I Dont use the word step, there is no such thing in my eyes.

    The agencies you name are not exclussionary,you can join hommer so dont tell that LIE...aND I HAVE BEEN A VICTIM PROVEN IN A COURT OF LAW....You would have no idea, it didnt happen to you did it ????????? YOU WERE NOT REFUSED SERVICE ,DENIED ACCOMODATIONS,TOLD TO GO TO THE BACK DOOR THOSE THINGS DIDNT HAPPEN TO YOU....AND I WAS WEARING A UNIFORM....I WAS WEARING A UNIFORM AND ENDURED SOME WOMAN AS LOUD AS SHE COULD USE THE N WORD AS I WAS TRAPPED ON A PLANE WITH HER AS SHE DID IT FOR 3.5 HRS aND NOT ONE PERSON TOLD HER TO STOP. YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF BEING DEMEANED SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN AND I HAVE GIVEN UP TRYING TO TELL YOU BECAUSE YOU DONT SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT.....do YOU???? BECAUSE YOU DO THE SAME THINGS. Do not attempt to tell me I am asking for special treatment....I am not. I am demanding to be treated the same as, and that is not what is happening.ANY organization that demands that on behalf of MINORITY americans I believe you would find fault with.Is the kkk exclusionary I havnt heard you demean them WHY ???????? So you see again it is not what you say but what you dont.the only thing I benefited from was testing for promotion rather than relying on people like you.and so did thousands of us.PROVEN FACT AS THE NUMBERS CHANGED....BUT I AM SURE YOU HAVE AND EXPLANATION FOR THAT TOO SO GO FOR IT ....... last but not least.... dont try to tell me what i advocate ask me i will tell you i dont have anything to hide..........

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 12:16 PM
  • your funny hommer.....whites have always belonged to the naacp.It was not decades ago when a black was EXECUTED in washington,by a police officer,it was not decades ago when my business was arsoned here in mtn home.Nobody is rubbing your face in anything but for you to say those things arnt happening today,that is a farce.

    You dont like it when you are called on your stuff do you?????? to bad. you lied......there is a diffeence in why a person would join ....and wether they can.So if iI WERE TO CALL YOU IGNORANT TO A FACT THAT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE ORGANIZATION, AND ASK WHY YOU WITH SUCH A WIDE KNOWLEDGE OF EVERYTHING DIDNT KNOW THAT????????? WHAT WOULD YOU SAY????????

    iT IS FUNNY TO ME THAT YOUR ARGUMENT IS NEVER MADE WHEN THE SHOE IS ON THE OTHER FOOT.The shot at a good life should not be hampered by the colour of your skin,I dont need you to decide what i should have,i dont need you to tell me what is maturity in your eyes,i dont need you to tell me about the characterization of something you never had to live through or live with.In your zeal to do that you have not displayed the same characterization that you sopposedly stand for, if you did you would not be the name caller you are.YOU want racism to stop, good start with yourself and the name calling Hommer. What have you done to stop it???????? If you dont mind me asking ???????? I know what i did ,and continue to do.But you see hommer if I told you you wouldnt believe it anyhow because it is not what you would do.I WOULD BE WILLING TO BET WHEN RACIST DISPARGING REMARKS ARE MADE YOU JUST STAND THERE AND SAY NOTHING,WHICH SAYS IT'S OK.....I AM NOT A BOY PERIOD HOMMER...... REMEMBER THAT.DONT tell me about LAWS that are no better than the people that enforce them.Your feelings of slavery and bigotry are yours I am not holding them over your head and if you have that impression you are dead wrong.Now some people might be that is up to them.Acknowlegment is enough, actions of today is what counts and you personifie with your mouth what is wrong. I never said I favored anyone over another. I said stop putting up barriers.IT WILL NEVER BE PERFECT BUT IT DARN WELL CAN BE BETTER THAN IT IS.

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 2:28 PM
  • Wow!

    -- Posted by KH Gal on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 3:03 PM
  • HOMMER and organization is not exclusionary if anyone can join.IF THERE ARE RULES IN THE ORGANIZATION THAT KEEPS YOU FROM JOINING THAT IS ANOTHER MATTER.

    nOW WHAT ABOUT THE EXCLUSIONARY RULES IN THE KKK WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ON THAT????? You never mention that why?I didnt react anyway. I could have been ranting about your garbage. I am not I just dont like it when you arrogantly try to tell me what i should believe,what I have done,and assume that you have a leg up on the problem of racism you dont.The utopia that you seem to think exist doesnt.I still deal with it, and you dont live in a black mans skin.MY blond,beautfull blue eyed granddaughters,my black beautifull brown eyed grandaughters dont know any difference from my mouth,But the world teaches them real quick doesnt it??.WHAT A SHAME !!!!!!THE QUESTIONS HURT.

    example only;..... THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR THE N word go up and ask the person what they mean by that,and why they are calling people those names in other words get and attitude check it might surprise you. I would bet it won't. You want me to turn the other cheek when it is directed at me.Not me.. MLK might have and thats his business, aint happening here.Dont like the word and dont tolerate it from ANYONE WHITE or BLACK.I DONT ALLOW BLACK PEOPLE IN MY PRESENCE TO CALL WHITES DISPARAGING REMARKS.I WORK TO STOP RACISM ALL THE TIME. CARE TO HELP???????

    I am glad CJW knows how i will react to as I SEE IT RACIST COMMENT.......AND BECAUSE I AM NOT CALLING CONG.WATERS the names you want, doesnt mean I condone what she said and I have already stated that.So if you have the need to throw a tantrum because somone defends their race go for it.You dont see me calling anyone scumbags and i could but i dont.

    LAST......Hommer go back to your first post 2 ND paragraph and then tell US that's not a general statment ???????? YOU CAN BE WRONG YOU KNOW.......GOT A GIG TO PLAY

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 4:14 PM
  • Well Mike, when it comes to Cain, I have 2 reservations. The first is if he still stands by his position regarding communities being able to infringe on the 1st amendment, and the second is who he would choose as a running mate. If he chooses from any of those also running now, then it would prove to me that he is willing to get into bed with whoever would gain him the most politically. My best guess is another election cycle where I will once again fill my ballot with none of the above.

    -- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 6:24 PM
  • Homer, when I hear the N word being used, I don't shoot an icy stare, I step up and tell them to their face I will not tolerate that word used in my presence. It's cost me some acquaintances, but oh well, who needs to hang around with trash?

    -- Posted by royincaldwell on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 6:54 PM
  • I didnt say blacks didnt support the tea party.....so roll that one again. That is there business I consider them as blind as you consider me.No the kkk wasnt at the polling places for PRES BUSH that i know of but for years on end they were all over this country.AND OUR GOVERNMENT DID SANCTION THE KKK THAT'S HOW THEY GOT TO MARCH DOWN PENSYLVANIA AVE aND THERE STILL TORCHING PEOPLES HOUSES IN THE SOUTH OR DIDNT YOU KNOW??

    sO after a century of exsistence the NAACP should change there name.WHY? WE HAVE INSTITUTIONS ALSO I DONT SEE YOU CHANGING ANY NAMES......right....HOMMER YOU ARE A TRIP ......Why would you try to justify your opinion with a statement like that.....THERE HAVE BEEN WHITES IN THAT ORGANIZATION FROM THE VERY START anybody that cared knew that and joined........IT would be nice if this country were colour blind, it is not.WAS the double standard ok when it benifited you? And you trying to say if we just leave it alone it will go away is garbage and most people know that.Whatever..... Hommer you are never wrong.I didnt say anything was wrong with your paragrph I said it was a general statment. Your the end all for everyone. Lets all bow to HOMMER ON 3.......you wish

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 8:42 PM
  • Wow Again!

    -- Posted by KH Gal on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 9:22 AM
  • HOMMER.....THERE IS NO EMOTIONAL TIZZY......I said WHAT i felt like saying just as you do.I just dont get into the snide remarks as you just did again.Thin skin ....call it what you wish.YOUR sarcasm has probally served you well during the years because you dont appear to know anything else.I dont like insults no matter how vieled there not called for.Doesnt make you any bigger,but usually will get you hurt.(that's not a threat).

    Last dont project at me ......discrimnation now hurts just as much no matter who its happening to.Dont tell me I will tolerate it now because it's happening to a white guy.I dont care who it's happening to it's wrong and I have been saying and fighting that all my life.Dont attempt to tell me how I feel about something, have the curtisy to ask....I know that's hard but try.WHEN I FOUGHT FOR PEOPLE I DID NOT LOOK TO SEE WHAT COLOR THERE SKIN WAS OR THERE GENDER I LOOKED AT THERE CASE PERIOD.REVERSE DISCRIMINATION USUALLY TAKES PLACE HOMMER WHEN A MAJORITY GROUP MEMBER DOESNT GET WHAT THEY FEEL ENTITLED TO.aND THAT IS A GAME ALL OF IT'S OWN.It hurts no less and it's no more right.The difference that seems to elude you is mine never stops.I live with it everyday everyhour, you see hommer I am not a chemealeon the color of my skin doesnt change,I cant hide behind a name change,do we press on, you bet.However I should not have to, nor anyone have to double there efforts to just be the same as that is the rub.I HOPE YOU GET IT.

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 9:23 AM
  • you know ...CJW how you feel is yours how i feel is mine.I MADE A MISTAKE WITH ZOOK AND STATED IT IT WAS MEANT FOR THE TEA PARTY. I DONT CARE WETHER YOU BELIEVE THAT OR NOT.

    AND yes the court of law like i said you can turn the other cheek i am tired of that.and again it wasnt your business that got arsoned ,it wasnt you profiled,it wasnt you denied housing.what you do about that is your business.I HAVE SHARED THOSE EXSPERIENCES YOU DONT WANT TO HEAR IT FINE DONT READ IT.i DONT ASK YOU TO LIVE MY LIFE I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF DONT BELIEVE THAT GET IN MY WAY.I DID NOT ACCUSE ZOOK AND IF IT CAME OFF THAT WAY I APOLOGIZED AND THAT IS ENOUGH.If zook wanted more i am sure he would have said so.

    sorry you dont like snide when it comes back at you hommer but i will not take your insults when you care to dish them out .So you know what you can do with that

    No there is no security blanket other wise we wouldnt be executed lying face down handcuffed by the police.DO you know of a white that has happened to recently???"? Dont try to tell me about the wrongs inflicted and still happening and tell me i should turn the other cheek......if that makes me a racist because i say NO then so be it.TALK WHEN THOSE THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU.

    CJW you cant lessen anything for me..you havnt lived for me.i will continue to share it is not meant to solicite sympathy it is for information purposes only try and take it that way.Not once have i solicited sympathy...I MOVED ON THOSE THINGS NEVER STOPED ME AND NEVER WILL THAT DOESNT MEAN I SHOULD FORGET THEM.

    The next time I save someones butt should i think about there color first??????? Just wondering????? I couldnt do what I have done and still do and think about the color of your skin.That is why I can ignore your accusation ......you have a great day

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 12:25 PM
  • I have always accepted it happens both ways.....I said it before.I AM AND EQUAL OPPERTUNITY BIGOT FIGHTER......I dont pick sides in that war.RIGHT is RIGHT WRONG IS WRONG....IF you miss interpreted that's on you.I will not shutup about it what happened to you is no less than anyone else who has been discrimnated against.Zook point is well taken and i do have a problem with gun owners being persecuted,and I dont like guns.That is not to say that zook or anyone else doesnt have right to own one.The judge with his predisposition to discriminate should not be a judge .The hurt these things do cannot be calculated.

    I had a case once were 2 guys got busted for mj,both e-6 one black and one white.the white guy was being discharged with no retirement,the black guy got his retirement .I WAS SO ANGRY AND I STILL AM.BECAUSE IT WAS WRONG.I WENT TO THE SEC AF WITH IT AND LOST I AM STILL P.O..AS FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED IT WAS CLEAR DISCRIMNATION.BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HURT THE MOST. THE COMMANDER WANTED TO KNOW WHY I CARED BECAUSE IT WAS A WHITE GUY.SO WHEN YOU THROW GARBAGE AT ME MAYBE YOU NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ME.

    WE can get past the past when all people become pro active in treating there fellow man with the same dignity and respect they want for themseleves and as they live there lives remember what you see is not always what you get.Try to see beyond,feel within,understand the how and why use the past as a reference to the future,not for the future.And the realization that everyone is the key to succes not just a chosen group.

    GOT TO GO....SOMEONE WILL MAKE SOMETHING OF THIS TOO THAT WAS NOT INTENDED.

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 2:18 PM
  • That was me who mentioned Ron Paul and Huntsman and I said they will move up in the polls....

    I like these 2 because you can actually get answers out of them when their asked a question.

    You wait Huntsman will move up

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 6:04 PM
  • I said Huntsman will move up in the polls. Never said he would make it to the first Primary or become President. Obama will be re-elected :)

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Aug 26, 2011, at 7:11 PM
  • I can only imagine what BHO's policies will be if he gets re-elected and doesn't have to worry about it. One can only hope we get enough seats in the senate to keep him from putting any more chains on the American way of life.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sat, Aug 27, 2011, at 6:46 AM
  • Your're not too bright? I'd say you are bright from the blogs I read. How about that long list of accomplishments that has made the economy soar? I just had company come gotta go.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sat, Aug 27, 2011, at 10:51 AM
  • The biggest mistake this president has made is to spend us into a position we won't get out of.The only way we can get out of our position is to stop spending and that won't happen. Go back to the level of spending in 2008.Get rid of Obama care. Businesses would like that. There are three businesses in my family and I'm told with BHO in charge new hiring will not happen. Too many unknowns. Get rid of a president who had almost a billion in contributions, a lot of it from unions, lawyers and big business. Who is he representing, surely not me a common worker of 57 years, and he needs to spread my wealth around? It's all a vicious circle and nothing will be corrected in the future without big changes, and big changes are not going to happen. Too much money involved. It just doesn't matter who you vote for anymore, just a matter of how bad it is going to be based on who is elected. The economic future for our kids and grand kids doesn't look too good from where I sit. Just my opinion and I'm the worlds foremost authority on my opinion.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sat, Aug 27, 2011, at 4:43 PM
  • Probably the unions got Reid re-elected and they have a very large voting block in Nevada and the union members vote for dems most always. To me it's ingrained.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 5:48 AM
  • http://freeliberal.com/blog/archives/003277.php

    I still like this, taxes are voluntary.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 5:53 AM
  • THANKS HEW.....I brought up the same points some months back and nobody listened.GO FIGURE . THE REPEAL OF GLASS /STEAGALL WAS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE SELL OUT OF THE LAST DECADE.It gave our country to the banks.The economy is there ping pong ball.....they do something and then speculate against themseleves and make money when there ok and when there not.

    The outrage is they are willing to sacrifice the amercan people and the country to get there way.They want a president who will play ball with them.We are busy talking about unions and tighten our belt, social security etc and they are busy figuring out how to get back to robbing us and i am not talking about the government. WHY DO WE HOLD THESE PEOPLE IN SUCH HIGH ESTEM???? Is everyone aware of the fees that have just been added at every bank if you are not I suugest you go and have them explain them to you.THEN ASK YOURSELF WITH SUCH A BAD ECONOMY WHY THEY ARE DOING THAT...........I say because they have made themselves almost indispensible,and have us so tangle in there web you almost cant get out,Please go ck it out........latter

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 8:32 AM
  • I remember the Glass-Steagall repeal as being a large one sided vote in the senate. Maybe 90 to 10 in favor of repeal. But I still see some of the largest contributors to Obama are Citi and Goldman Sachs and isn't this administration laden with the exact people that were affected by the repeal of Glass-Seagall? I'm not smart enough to figure it all out without in depth study and I just don't have time. And if I reasearch I imagine it will be either The New York Times or the Huffington Post that will tell me what to think. These crooks are just like the rest of them and they love a divided country so they can take the money and run. I've seen 6000 stories on how Sarah Palin is an idiot and she isn't in a position to hurt me, but these elected crooks are bending people over everyday and the media carrying the water for them is mute.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 10:42 AM
  • Goldman Sachs $691,930.00

    University of California $611,207.00

    Citigroup Inc $448,599.00

    JPMorgan Chase & Co $442,919.00

    Harvard University $435,769.00

    Google Inc $420,174.00

    UBS AG $404,750.00

    National Amusements Inc $389,140.00

    Microsoft Corp $377,235.00

    Lehman Brothers $370,524.00

    Sidley Austin LLP $350,302.00

    Moveon.org $347,463.00

    Skadden, Arps et al $340,264.00

    Time Warner $338,527.00

    Wilmerhale Llp $335,398.00

    Morgan Stanley $318,070.00

    Latham & Watkins $297,400.00

    Jones Day $289,476.00

    University of Chicago $278,885.00

    Stanford University $276,038.00

    This list is a little dated. He may have almost a billion to pay out to get re-elected next year. I think this is criminal.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 11:32 AM
  • Skeeter

    Why don't you google other Presidents contributors?

    Obama isn't unique in having many wealthy corporations contributing to his campaign

    Here's a little info for you which I found at the bottom of a list of Bush contributors

    Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 12:00 PM
  • Get over yourself Homer, I only posted it to show you that all these lists brought up to discredit Obama is not unique. This has been going on with both party's for years and most likely before you were even born..

    Obama still beating Perry in the polls

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 12:21 PM
  • MsM, I'm well aware of bundling. I'm very critical of elected government employees taking money from big companies, and people they expect to profit from now and into the future. The difference is I'll call Bush on it as fast as I'll call Obama on it and you won't. Another difference is that Obama ran on ending all this and has that happened? Do you think President Obama needs 1 billion dollars in his war chest to run for re-election. Also his number of fund raising events happens more often that once in a while. I think people should look deeply into Exelon and Obama connections. Do you think Mr Obama should spent a little more time working, and a little less campaigning with our present day economy. Mr Bush is not president and that is why his contributions were not addressed.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 12:54 PM
  • I think I can give my opinion just as well as anyone else does on this blog. And the whole blog was aimed at Maxine Waters and only a slight mention of Obama.

    For some reason just the mention of Bush scares you guys ! I didn't find either one all that scary, heck I voted for both the Bush's......

    And for pity sack stop whining!

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 1:39 PM
  • SO IT'S THE LEFTS FAULT BECAUSE THE RIGHT HAS SO MANY CANDIDATES THAT THE MONEY IS SPREAD OUT....

    GO FIGURE

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 2:10 PM
  • Homer you got me, I can't name another president who raised that kind of money .

    Obama is the first ever President to reach 1 billion dollars. Guess those wealthy people like him a lot.... So a president who is so disliked is raising more capitol then any other president.

    Republican consultants in some ways admire Obama's fundraising accomplishments.

    hmmmmmm maybe those congressmen should try to pass a law setting campaign limits on donations.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 2:30 PM
  • HEW... I AM GLAD YOU SAID IT AND NOT ME....HERE...HERE......RUSH.....OTHER THAN KNOW THY ENEMY WHY WOULD ANY RIGHT MINDED PERSON LISTEN?????????? O'rielly has his moments......more good than bad.....hannity ....lets not go there.....my opinion..........rachael....to partisan........mathews....has his moments.....ed.....partisan 100%...my opinion...I call it a draw......on with the show

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM
  • No Zook not those supporters we only want to tax the rich Republicans lol !

    Hey have you heard about Eric Cantor and Hurricane Irene? Or Greg Mortenson who comes from Montana. They are both good reads...

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 7:01 PM
  • aRE THERE ANY RIGHTEST CULT WEBSITES ???????i WAS JUST WONDERING..........To be truthfull RUSH is and entertainer, as hollywood is dismissed AS NOT COUNTING I have to say neither does RUSH.However some people will follow his lead no matter what,he says what they want to hear.and what they want to say.....he really use to get to me....he doesnt count.AND HE IS A RACE BAITER.

    I wish some could make up there minds.First corporations dont like the president,then they do.Which is it??? It seems if we can use there monetary support to accuse him of graft then its ok ,if we can use there support to say he is being bought that's ok.IF IT'S IN THE NEGATIVE WE USE IT.How about maybe THEY think he is the person that will be best for the country.That is not impossible .AND GUESS WHAT /...I would possibly question that.

    YOUR RIGHT HEW.... you are not perfect,roy is not,i am not, and cannot possibly be good citizens,but Rush that is a different story he is on the right side.Boy have we heard that before through the centuries.Doesnt the christian way say the meek shall inherit the earth, well I could BE WRONG.Been there before but then again im not perfect.

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 7:59 PM
  • hommer.....if YOU WOULD OPEN YOUR MIND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND EVERYONE ELSE DOES.With that said as usual a personal attack, you always do that when a nerve is struck. I knew it was comming.Funny if I say something about race you jump .Care to say something hommer about your race baiting entertainer??????????.i REALLY DONT CARE WHAT YOU POST hommer when somone thinks they are as superior as you do,there is nothing constructive that can come out of the conversation,because you know it all,questions and answers.YOU should run for something and then you can legalize genocide of all the inferior people........so what will it be??????????????? OF COURSE ROCK IS WORSE THAN POWDER THOSE FOLKS ARE INFRINGING ON THERE PROFITS, CANT HAVE THAT.......THEY ARE BASICALLY THE SAME DRUG.Powder even cost more,who uses powder and who uses rock ??Even the courts have come to realize the disparity.

    THE MEANING IS CLEAR. YOU CANT SEE IT FOR THE TINTED GLASSES AND RUSCH SCREAMING IN YOUR EAR........I WAS NOT LOOKING FOR A FIGHT BUT YOU KNOW I AM NOT GOING TO RUN SO GO FOR IT.

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Aug 28, 2011, at 10:07 PM
  • I listen to Rush and enjoy the heck out it some of the time. Some times I can't agree with him. But with 20 million a week listening he's making his money. He's probbaly bad mouthed about as much as Palin and Bush was. You can always tell who they are afraid of.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 6:02 AM
  • HOMMER YOU WERE THE ONE WHO SAID YOU HAD NO USE FOR RACE BAITING S......... BUT I SEE YOU HAVE AND EXCEPTION....HOW DOES THAT WORK??????JUST WONDERING.FEAR.......HMMM NOT SINCE NAMM.THREATENED DONT THINK SO,SUCCESS, IF selling DRUGS AND BIGOTRY is success ill pass ,POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS ARE ALL TO FAMILAR.

    hommer your sense of logic is so self rightous,you dont know right from wrong you only know a warped ideaology which you lie about and twist to attempt to make yourself better than.You like the poleticians you disparage say one thing and do another. Rush has no saving grace except to the bigots.....so why do you listen again??????????? FACTS...TRY OXCYCOTIN IS BY FAR THE MOST ADDICTIVE PERSCRIPTION DRUG OUT THERE,TO GET IT YOU NEED A DOCTORS PERSCRIPTION.sO HOW MANY LAWS DID RUSH BREAK AND GOT AWAY WITH IT???

    AND PERFECT INTOLERANT HOMMER LISTENS TO HIM TO FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON.and he didnt call him a race baiting scu..........why????????

    HEW.....notice the smug answer...what a joke

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 9:51 AM
  • HOMMER YOU CANT HELP YOURSELF, PROJECTION IS A WAY OF LIFE FOR YOU........YOU TALK ABOUT NAME CALLING LOOK IN THE MIRROR.......you dont like it when you get called on your garbage......tough..... join the real world.Intolerant is name calling?????? hmmmmmmmmmm THEN WHAT IS race baiting scum......??

    1 slap to be sure.......they cried in there bunks

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 1:02 PM
  • The GOP was good enough for Martin and it's still good enough for his relatives.

    Glenn asked me about the philosophy and the strength to love that my uncle Martin had. I've been sharing that with Glenn and I'm hearing and seeing Glenn embrace those principles." The "Glenn" that Alveda King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece, referred to in a recent interview conservative talk show host and provocateur Glenn Beck.

    King's bold declaration that she'll proudly stand with Beck on the Lincoln Monument at his "Restoring Honor" rally on August 28 was tepid compared to an even more defiant press release she sent out to urge conservatives to boycott what she brands "America's abortion industry." In the release she said that the protest "is in my genes." That was, of course, another not-so-subtle nod to the legacy of August 28, 1963 Dr. King-led march on Washington. None of this should really surprise anyone familiar with Alveda King's history.

    Alveda King has been on the campaign circuit for more than a decade pushing a discriminatory, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, hard right family values message. In 1998, she barnstormed the country speaking at rallies against gay rights legislation. Alveda wasn't the only King family member to stump for a hard right agenda in opposition to abortion and gay rights. Her cousin, Bernice King, MLK's daughter, has preached the heck and damnation line against what she considers heathens. In her view, that's liberals, progressives, feminists, gay rights advocates, and modern day civil rights leaders. In case anyone missed the King family connection, her group was named "King for America.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 5:45 PM
  • How about this hommer......what comes out of Rush's mouth is race baiting.....i dont care who he hangs out with......just as you dont care who REV Jackson,or REV Sharpton does. See hommer the way it comes off is, if jackson or sharpton says it it's race baiting,if Rush says it it's ok......you really think people are that stupid.KINDA LIKE YOU WITH "my golf buddy is black" AND ????????? I dont care about his conservative talk show.....does that add up to being uncivil like the rest of you ,seems to be a common thread.SNIDE,SMUG,INSULTING,BIGOTED,INSENSITIVE REMARKS, REMARKS MADE AND DIRECTED AT PEOPLE AND GROUPS AND EXPECTING THAT BECAUSE YOU SAID IT IT IS OK....THATS THE POINT hommer you get it, you think it's cool? it's not.YOU could be the greatest person in the world however based on your remarks I dont know who would know THAT.......I CERTAINLY WOULDNT AND THAT'S FROM DAY ONE.

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 5:48 PM
  • SKEETER ....PLEASE DO NOT THINK THAT I AM TALKING ABOUT POLETICS....CONTRARY TO SOME PEOPLES THOUGHTS...WE ALL DONT LOOK ALIKE,EAT ALIKE,TALK ALIke,WALK ALIke, OR VOTE ALike.......I personally dont know if DOC. KING was a democrate or a republican,really doesnt matter both party's have changed some for the good and some for the bad.As a fundmentalist what MS KING does is not unexpected AND SHOULD BE APPLAUDED THAT IS HER BELIEF.pLEASE DO NOT ANNOINT HER. The black community hasnt.

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 6:07 PM
  • I don't think I've ever said anything bad about gays or homosexuals. Where in the world did that come from? And the talking down to me as if I had.Very immature. I'm one who could care less. I posted the King words as something interesting to read as I have never heard of this. Her links to Glen Beck. Now you have to admit that is strange in the least. And yes MLK was a GOP supporter from what I read but who knows with all that is out there. And Lamont please don't annoint her the black community hasn't , I'm not sure what you are saying. Does the black community have to annoint her for something? And do you know what color I am?

    -- Posted by skeeter on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 7:06 PM
  • no i dont SKEETER AND I WOULDNT CARE IF YOU WERE PURPLE......IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU WERE SAYING.....SEE A KING IS WITH BECK SO YOU SHOULD BE TOO ....THAT'S ALL, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS and just because she is does not make her more than she is.

    NO I made no calls IGNORAMOUS I am part of that community ,I dont speak for it but I am aware of there likes and dislikes.aND IGNORAMOUS, as you say, times have changed and the republican party with people like you have assured that the bridge of understanding is collapsing. Thought I would use the terminology that you initiated.DO you talk to your" friends" THE SAME WAY YOU DO HERE ????? I know and assciate with the same kind of people and they are friends and we dont talk to each other like you talk here,and no matter what, you dont see anything wrong with it .....that is truly amazing!!!!!!!!!!talk about being self centered.......BY THE WAY IS RUSH WEAK WILLED ?????? A STRAIGHT ANSWER WILL DO.

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 8:24 PM
  • Hommer you forget what you read.....I said what I share has happened.....past tense....if you think for one moment I let any of that crap stand in my way your wrong......I am in that age group that blazed the trail..... I just had a person who I mentored tell me. HE retired after 26 CMSGT if it wasnt for guys like you standing tall I would not have gotten what I got......you dont hear well....just what you want.......are you insinuating that someone is doing for me.....because if you are, you are working on a premise that holds no truth.THEY probally dont talk anything like that around you hommer you PROBALLY wouldnt understand ....SO WHY DONT YOU ASK THEM?..THE things I speak of didnt happen to you.....well like it or not it did HAPPEN to me.THOSE I mentored I didnt care wether they were black ,white ,green,or,purple.I dont disrespect people just to do it.I bow down to no one.YOU see hommer when the movement was at its peak I was in the namm for the 2nd time.So if you know your history you figure out how old I am.PUT IT THIS WAY OLD ENOUGH TO BE YOUR FATHER.....SO DONT TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. I LIVED THAT WHICH YOU CALL HISTORY....I WAS A VICTIM

    DID YOU CALL HIM TO FIND OUT ???????FROM WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ADDICTION ......HE HASNT BEEN CLEAN LONG ENOUGH TO PASS JUDGEMENT AND FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, WE SAY IN THE BUSINESS IF YOU THINK YOUR OK.......YOUR NOT.

    LAST but not least I HAVE LIVED A GREAT LIFE AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW GREAT.My FEELING IS even if I TOLD YOU you would not believe it.RACISM WILL NOT GO AWAY BECAUSE YOU DONT TALK ABOUT IT AND IF YOU THINK IT WILL YOU ARE SORELY MISTAKEN.WHEN YOU TOLERATE THE DIMINISHING OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING YOU DEMINISH YOURSELF..................THINK ABOUT THAT

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Aug 29, 2011, at 10:21 PM
  • MtnHomer: I'd not seen that of which you wrote, only that MLK had been a republican. Thanks for the facts as I found it interesting. By the way Rush has Vice President Cheney on today and that should be good.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 5:54 AM
  • Forgot to mention Byrd was fond of calling certain white people the N word too, from what I remember, maybe in 2007 or 8?

    -- Posted by skeeter on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 5:59 AM
  • DONT PREACH TO ME HOMMER......"THEYRE ACTUALLY OUT DOING FOR THEMSELVES" WHAT WOULD YOU CALL THAT HOMMER???? i call it insinuation.

    i Can pass judgement on him just like you do....he is a race baiting bigot.YOU SEEM TO THINK YOU CAN THROW THOSE TERMS WITH IMMUNITY and RUSH FITS THE BILL SO WHY ARNT YOU CALLING IT????

    the chances that he beat his addiction are not good but,if he did good for him.

    i dont like your name calling hommer you are not entitled....and with me it started day one.YOU have put down everyone on this blog almost daily.I DONT CARE WETHER YOU LIKE WHAT I AM SAYING OR NOT YOU DO THAT,AND YOU COME OFF LIKE A BIGOT BECAUSE YOU DONT LIKE IT BECAUSE I REMIND YOU OF WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN THIS NATION.iF NOT REMINDED HOMMER WE ARE DOOMED TO DO IT AGAIN.LISTEN TO WHAT IS BEING SAID RIGHT NOW IT IS STARING YOU IN THE FACE.THE ACTIONS OF PEOPLE,EXECUTIONS,DENYING THE VOTE,I COULD GO ON BUT YOU DONT SEE THOSE THINGS OR THERE OK WITH YOU.SHOULD THE JEWS FORGET THE HOLACOST????? They dont stop talking about it.There holacost continues today and so does dicrimination.THE GERMANS DONT LIKE HEARING ABOUT IT EITHER, AND WE DONT LIKE HEARING ABOUT DISCRIMINATION.IT HAS NOT STOPED BECAUSE WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT.

    IF you percieve I have gone out of my way to diminish then i will take a look inward however if the remarks you post come off bigoted to me i will say something,and i will make no apologize for it.

    LAST......i think for myself,always have, the democratic party doesnt think for me....i may lean that way but i dont neccessarily vote that way.....IF sen MC CANN had not picked GOV PALIN he would have got my vote.Truthfully i dont like the republican tone,MONEY IS NOT THE END ALL FOR ME,PEOPLE ARE,BUSINESS DOES NOT COME BEFORE EDUCATION THEY ARE HAND IN HAND FOR ME.DONT TELL ME WHAT I AM....... YOU DONT KNOW,........ASK ME I MIGHT TELL YOU

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 8:44 AM
  • HOMMER........THANKS FOR THE BLURB BUT YOU ARE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.....I TAUGHT THE SUBJECT FOR 13 YRS EVERYDAY....one of very few in the military who did If you remeber i was the one who got on to dumbfounded about who did what.IN OTHER WORDS FOR ME TODAYS REPUBLICANS LEAVE SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED.....THAT IS WHY I DONT BELONG TO CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONS....I dont need them.....I am capable without them.....to include the democratic party.

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 8:54 AM
  • DIDNT CALL YOU A BIGOT I SAID YOU COME OFF LIKE ONE ...... AND YOU DO...I DID NOT START THE NAME CALLING YOU DID.AND I WILL SAY JUST LIKE YOU WHEN I DONT YOU STILL PERSIST...IF YOU FEEL YOUR NOSE IS BEING RUBBED IN IT... TOUGH.....I GET IT EVERY DAY.....BUT THATS DIFFERENT RIGHT ??????

    INCIDENT northen idaho, this morning.......both should be charged ...... reality it should not have happened.......but discrimination is dead.......right......have a great day

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 10:34 AM
  • *

    Wow, 143 Comments. I'm not even going there.

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 11:03 AM
  • Since you guys are talking about Limbaugh

    This is in the news

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/29/rush-limbaugh-obama-hurricane_n_940572....

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Tue, Aug 30, 2011, at 2:14 PM
  • Guess Maxine is done with going after Obama:

    NOBAMA 12

    Ah, the Swamp Queen is doing what she does best: Throwing the weight of government around to intimidate private businesses and shake 'em down.

    Shake, shake, shake:

    The Congressional Black Caucus is trying to help by organizing job fairs across the country. Congresswoman Maxine Waters also wants to help by putting more pressure on the big banks to help with mortgages.

    "If they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're going to tax them out of business," said Waters.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Thu, Sep 1, 2011, at 5:48 AM
  • SKEETER.... ARE you implying that job fairs are a shake down???????? I am asking ???????CONGRESSWOMAN WATERS IS A POLETICIAN and like the rest talks more trash than anyone.....is her trash talking any different than,say RYAN or COBURN ,OR VITTER,OR BACHMAN.CANTOR told us they got elected to create jobs......he forgot to tell us when????????????...not one jobs bill yet....why ??????.....5 week vacation....from what??????? each other.!!!!!!!!!!

    LOAN MODIFICATIONS........ANYONE WHO HAS TRIED TO GET ONE WILL TELL YOU THAT IT IS A NIGHTMARE.......they slow leak you,they want you to put yourself in compromising position that make you more vunerable.The loan modes are a scam.

    Thieves like bamk of america do everything they can not to do them.

    HEWBET....I can tell you the way its run is the same and that is the problem....THE POLETICIANS DONT WANT THE MILITARY IN THERE BUSINESS AND WE DONT WANT THE POLETICIANS IN OURS.......POLETICS ALWAYS COST LIVES,NEEDLESSLY.....it did in NAMM AND IT HAS IN IRAQ AND AFHGANASTAN.....We NEED TO END IT AND COME HOME ...........NOW !!!!!!!!!!!! it is not worth another life for us or them.

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Sep 4, 2011, at 12:41 PM
  • No Lamont I was trying to say that a week ago MS Waters was after Obama and a week later she is after every bank that made a loan sayig she is going to tax them out of business. Wall Street and banks were a major contibutor to Obama and now she is going to tax them out of business. I don't know about the rest of you but it's nice to be able to go to the bank. And to have the mind set that she can tax them out of business. Seems to have worked in other areas. This next quote is what got me. That's how we started this mess-loans to people who could not pay them back. Now we want to do it again.

    "If they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're going to tax them out of business," said Waters.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Mon, Sep 5, 2011, at 6:37 AM
  • Again cong WATERS TALKS TRASH LIKE ALL THE REST.....she is saying what some want to hear... she does not have the power nor the influence.Me personally I dont care what she says she is and oppertunist period.Hommer that is not a defense that is the TRUTH and like you I can voice my opinion, some would consider you part of the problem.Does that make it a fact??????? I get a little tired of your attempts to denergrate me hommer it is getting old.I am sure you have better things to do ,dont you???????...but then again YOU DONT HAVE ANYTHING DECENT TO SAY TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT DISAGREE WITH YOU, that's your perogative have at it............smile

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Sep 5, 2011, at 4:53 PM
  • DIVSIVE SCUMM......I WONDER WERE RUSH FITS IN THAT????????? THATS RIGHT HE'S EL RUSH BO.....THE ORATOR OF TRUTH.........HA!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Sep 8, 2011, at 11:01 PM
  • SEE......HMMMMMMM......REV KACKSON DID YOU GET ELECTED TO SOMETHING?????? REV SHARPTON DID YOU GET ELECTED TO SOMETHING????? OH I SEE YOU DIDNT.BUT NON THE LESS YOU DO QUALIFY TO BE DIVISIVE RACE BAITING SCUMMBAGS,BUT YOUR COUNTER PART EL RUSH BO HE QUALIYS AS THE ORATOR OF TRUTH.( unelected)

    Wonder what the truth sayer has to say about the 7 white guys who ran down a black man for the FUN of it,and then BRAGGED about it.Of course that should not bother anyone ,that is the way it is.......Hmmmmmmmmmm truth sayer oh truth sayer show us the way.......WHAT????????? DOUBLE STANDARD.....OF COURSE NOT WE KNOW YOUR JUST TELLING THE TRUTH...........

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Sep 9, 2011, at 12:21 PM
  • IM NOT ANGRY AT ALL HOMMER >I see your clairvoyance is working overtime.you have a problem with me pointing out things that have been said...you do it all the time....did you or did you not use the term scumbag in reference to rev sharpton and jackson?????? are you now calling cong waters the same? did you or did you not state that el rush bum tells the truth,and that he was not a race baiter beause his 2nd is black???? I did not say those things I am just parphasing YOUR COMMENTS. we..... HAVE YOU GOT A MOUSE IN YOUR POCKET HOMMER?????? Nothing said here was meant to rub your nose in anything, if you feel that way you ought to figure out why?????IF YOU DONT LIKE THE DOUBLE STANDARD DONT APPLY IT.THE world has chastised el rush bum for his race baiting so there must be something to it......and a lot of them are conservatives,very conservative.....have a good day

    -- Posted by lamont on Sat, Sep 10, 2011, at 2:53 PM
  • IM NOT ANGRY AT ALL HOMMER >I see your clairvoyance is working overtime.you have a problem with me pointing out things that have been said...you do it all the time....did you or did you not use the term scumbag in reference to rev sharpton and jackson?????? are you now calling cong waters the same? did you or did you not state that el rush bum tells the truth,and that he was not a race baiter beause his 2nd is black???? I did not say those things I am just parphasing YOUR COMMENTS. we..... HAVE YOU GOT A MOUSE IN YOUR POCKET HOMMER?????? Nothing said here was meant to rub your nose in anything, if you feel that way you ought to figure out why?????IF YOU DONT LIKE THE DOUBLE STANDARD DONT APPLY IT.THE world has chastised el rush bum for his race baiting so there must be something to it......and a lot of them are conservatives,very conservative.....have a good day

    -- Posted by lamont on Sat, Sep 10, 2011, at 4:09 PM
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