And it Just Keeps Right on Rollin’ Along……..

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  • Perhaps Obama does know what he's doing - and that's the scary part!

    -- Posted by oldcoot on Sat, Jan 7, 2012, at 10:38 PM
  • I quite agree with you

    -- Posted by KH Gal on Sat, Jan 7, 2012, at 11:51 PM
  • Our best? I wonder who ran against these people.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE6t905f0Tw

    -- Posted by arsenal on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 6:30 AM
  • Anyone ever wonder what owning the Presidency is worth? Well Sheldon Adelson seems to think it's worth around 20 million of his dollars. It will be interesting to see how much the winning bid ends up being.

    -- Posted by royincaldwell on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 8:38 AM
  • I haven't bought baloney in a long time however I buy sauerkraut occasionally

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 9:55 AM
  • I WILL SAY THIS SO THERE IS A FULL UNDERSTANDING..........WHEN A JACKBOOTED RIGHT WINGER steps on my lawn asking me for MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE BE ASSURED THAT THEY ARE TAKING THERE LIFE IN THERE HANDS.....I did not SERVE 28YRS TO AGAIN BE INSLAVED IN AN IDEOLOGY that does not see me as RELEVENT OTHER THAN TO BE ABUSED,AND TREATED AS LESS THAN.IT HAS BECOME APPARENT HERE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WISH THAT,AND WILL ACT UPOUN THOSE FEELINGS.SO UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR VIOLENCE WILL GET YOU THE SAME.THE JEWS WENT MEEKLY WE WILL NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 11:40 AM
  • Lamont:

    A history lesson for you with respect to your comment that the "Jews went meekly" comment. You infer by this comment that the "Jews" deserved what they got. Here is your history lesson for the day from the "Meek Jew:"

    "According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (just in case you choose to question the facts):"

    "In 1933, there were approximately 9 million Jews in Europe. By 1945, the Nazis had reduced that number to about 3 million. Roma (Gypsies) were also sent to the concentration camps, resulting in about 200,000 Gypsy deaths. Physically and / or mentally handicapped, homosexuals, and Polish intellectuals accounted for at least another 200,000. This totals about 6,400,000 victims of the concentration camps."

    "The Nazis also killed between 2 and 3 million Soviet prisoners in labor camps or executions. Add to this the non-Jewish Poles and Soviets sent to forced labor who died due to malnutrition, unsafe work conditions, disease and "experimentation."

    The exact numbers may never be known, but hopefully this gives you some idea of the magnitude of the Nazi inhumanity."

    Note:

    "By no means all the victims died in camps."

    "*In Russia and many other parts of the Soviet Union many were killed in mass open air shootings and buried in large pits."

    "*In Poland large numbers of Jews perished in the extremely cramped ghettos that the Nazis created in 1939-40. These areas were walled off ... The Nazis allowed grossly insufficient food into the ghettos and no medication. There was a very high death toll from starvation and disease."

    A re-cap for you in case you are too stupid, ignorant or close-minded to figure this out, Lamont. More than just "Jews" went "meekly." All walks of life were "MEEKLY" sent to these camps. If the Natzis thought you were gay, you went to the camps. If you were "retarded" you went to the camps. If youe were "old and weak" you went to the camps. If you were "deformed" you went to the camps. If you were black you went to the camps. If you were young and unable to work you went to the camps. If you did not look a certain way and did not fit the profile of the "perfect race" you went to the camps.

    Nobody went "MEEKLY" or "DESERVED" to go to a camp to be beaten, raped, starved, tortured, etc. What do you do when a bunch of men with machine guns come into your "area/place you live/subdivison" and round you up---and tell you if you do not do as they (the Natzis) say your family will be killed, raped, tortured, etc., and that you yourself will be killed? What were these people supposed to do? And not that I expect you to know this, because you are pretty ignorant, but these people were told they were being taken from their homes and going to a better place---BY MEN WITH MACHINE GUNS AND WEAPONS!!!!

    So, by your small little mind and the way you think, this "meek" little Jewish gal could go out on a limb (again, under your way of thinking and say) that the slaves went "MEEKLY." The slaves allowed the big, bad white man to just round em up and made them work for free for the white man. For all those years, slaves just took it. Bull! Absolute and complete BULL!

    Lamont, I have read your crap for months. You are beyond ignorant and it is very sad. It scares me that you were ever in the military and made it as far as you claim to have made it with the way you think. What kind of an impression must you have made on young troops who were in your "control." Did you spend a lot of time in social actions telling them how ill-treated you were and how you were being held back because of the color of your skin, etc.?

    Do yourself a favor and pop open a history book or google a few things before you type another word any place on this paper/web site. Your ignorance and racism prove how history can and will repeat itself if allowed. You claim to be educated but you prove otherwise.

    Have a good day sir. This Meek Jew has better things to do with her day. Your comment about the Jews was really out of line and when we "elected" Obama with all of the bogus, illegal votes...we did go meekly but I do not expect you to be able to see that much less understand that. Ignorance, in your case, must truly be bliss. It is one thing to have an opinon and express it but it is another to regularly live in a dream world and present it as fact or reality.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 4:42 PM
  • Lamont:

    "To again be inslaved." When in your life did this being "inslaved" take place? And please, oh please, oh please, give dates, times, locations and names. The year is now 2012 Lamont.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 4:53 PM
  • oOK ...OPINION MISSY how do you get that I said they deserved it tell me where ......that is as insulting and as wrong as the day is long.I WONT EVEN GRACE YOUR GARBAGE I GREW UP IN A JEWISH,BLACK ,ITALIAN,HISPANIC,WHATEVER NEIGHBORHOOD I WOULD IN NO WAY IMPLY THEY DESERVED ANYTHING LIKE THAT AND IF YOU HAVE READ MY POST AS YOU SAY YOU HAVE YOU WOULD KNOW THAT.SO WHEN YOU JUMP GET IT RIGHT.

    AND I WILL SAY IT AGAIN I WILL BLOW HIS HEAD OFF.

    I DONT NEED YOUR HISTORY LESSON,I DIGEST IT EVERY DAY FROM WHEREVER I CAN GET IT.MAYBE YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME.BOGUS VOTES HOW ABOUT THIS .0001 VOTER FRAUD IN THE US OF A, IN THE LAST 50 YRS SO TAKE THAT ACCUSATION LIKE THE REST AND GET IT RIGHT.

    WHAT I DID IN SOCIAL ACTIONS WAS MAKE SURE PEOPLE DIDNT GET MESSED OVER AND IT DIDNT MAKE A HILL OF BEANS WHAT YOU WERE TO ME.THE NEXT TIME I GET A CALL FROM LT COL EISENSTIEN WHO I GOT TO OCS ILL TELL HIM YOUR THOUGHTS.........YOU DONT KNOW HOW I THINK SO UNTIL YOU ASK DONT TRY TO GUESS.

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 7:44 PM
  • zook ......THE CONTEXT TO WHICH I AM TALKING ABOUT APPLIES TO THE QUESTIONING OF THE pRESIDENT......THAT WAS IT.I figure if you question him who else will you question???????As far as the photo ID is concerned the question becomes why now??????? Then the question becomes the process .....have you ever tried to get a real birth certificate??????? I have, it took 6 months for N.Y. TO SEND IT AND THE PROOF REQUIRED WAS SOMETHING ELSE.I dont think the ID is the issue I think the process is.

    BUCKSHOT......I am not implying a race war will be fought this has been about race and it just gets worse.When you listen to the commentary it becomes very apparent or did newt and santorium statements fall on deaf ears.Those are the kind of remarks that lay the ground work for the animosity on both sides.THE factual figures dont bear out there remarks but it does play to a certain group of people on both sides does it not?????? I for one find it telling that not one conservative rebutted the remarks and they know there not true.I said in a previous post the face of poverty has become colored and it should be rainbowed,we all have our share.YOU dont know how I voted and for what reasons if you care to ask I will tell you but dont act like you know because you dont.IF you fault those who voted for him because he was black did you also fault those who didnt because of no other reason than he was black?????? They are one and the same right?????

    TO OPINION MISSY....IN 1961 MYSELF AND SEVERAL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE USAF IN UNIFORM WERE TOLD WE COULD NOT GO INTO A RESTAURANT TO EAT.WE WERE ON OUR WAY, IN A BUS LOAD OF OTHER MEMBERS OF THE USAF FROM LACKLAND TX TO AMORILLO TX.TO THERE CREDIT NOBODY WENT IN.IN 1969 I HAD THE DISPLEASURE OF BEING TRAPPED ON A FLIGHT WHILE IN UNIFORM WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO FOUND NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO USE THE N WORD FOR 3 HRS,WHEN I TALKED TO THE FLT ATTENDANT ABOUT IT I WAS TOLD THAT THERE WAS NOTHING SHE WAS GOING TO SAY.IN 1972 I WAS DENIED A PLACE TO LIVE HERE IN MTN HOME WHICH WAS LATTER PUT OFF LIMITS BECAUSE THEY DISCRIMINATED.IN 1987 I WAS CONFRONTED HERE IN MTN HOME BY A PERSON WHO TOLD ME THIS WAS A WHITE MANS TOWN AND WHY WAS I HERE.I COULD GO ON TO WHAT TRANSPIRED TO MY PARENTS BUT IT IS NOT WORTH THE TIME IN THIS FORUM.INSLAVEMENT TAKES MANY FORMS OPINION MISSY AND I CANT GET AWAY FROM IT WITH A NAME CHANGE OR MOVING.I DONT CARE THAT YOU DONT GET THAT BUT UNDERSTAND THAT I WOULD NOT DISREPECT THE JEWISH PEOPLE OR THERE TRIALS. IT IS AND SHOULD BE HELD FORTH AS AND EXAMPLE OF MANS INHUMANITY TO MAN,AND THAT IS TO INCLUDE THOSE NATIONS THAT STUCK THERE HEAD IN THE SAND LIKE THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING.I SAID IT BEFORE IF IT'S NOT HAPPENING TO YOU ,you probally dont see it happening.So if I OFFENDED you that was NOT the intent by any MEANS.

    -- Posted by lamont on Sun, Jan 8, 2012, at 8:54 PM
  • To a certain portion of the population, it always has been and always will be about race. Sad, but true.

    -- Posted by royincaldwell on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 6:27 AM
  • Your right Mike. I really don't think anybody on these blogs has an issue with race. As far as the future, it's not when someone decides to pull the trigger, but which side does. Either way all I can see from it is blood in the streets. You know what I'm talking about.

    -- Posted by royincaldwell on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 10:35 AM
  • I see on the blogs........ judgement,discrimination, hate and sometimes love and last a little humor but not much

    Now go ahead and bash me for speaking my mind and giving you my opinion...

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 11:34 AM
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    http://www.americavotes.org/

    A NON-PARTISAN "election campaign site

    Check it out for yourselves"

    -- Posted by wh67 on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 12:08 PM
  • SORRY BUCKSHOT AND ZOOK..... BUT THE RACIAL GARBAGE STARTED BEFORE HE WAS EVEN SWORN IN, IT STARTED IN THE CAMPAIGN.I will not tell you I am satisfied with the job he has done But I will tell you it wasnt made any easier with the racial element being played.You can ignore that if you want but history will say otherwise.You can state job performance after the fact but when you look at what happened.and continues to happen there is a very clear elment of racism.I dont think you understand systemic discimination and it's affects on our society as a whole.The effects on the individual is a daily strees that drains you,it affects your thoughts and relationships,job performance.When you can hear and see people discriminate and dismiss it as that is the way it is,does that complacency add or diminish from our society.FOR the record understand that minority's discriminate also and they are no less guilty.But bear in mind that the people that hold power over others create the most havoc.MR cain was a discriminater,his actions towards females say that not me.

    I asked a question here that was not answered....IS THERE any different between those that voted for this president because of race,than those who didnt because of race??

    WHEN SOMEONE SAYS SHOW ME TODAY I HAVE ONLY TO POINT TO THE LATEST INCIDENT IN SEATTLE.And he took and alford plea.These are not isolated cases you may want to see them that way but they are not.NOW CONSIDER THAT I LIVE WITH THAT THOUGHT DAILY.PLUS TERRORIST BOTH DOMESTIC AND FORGIEN,DOES THE COP SHOOT ME OR THE TERRORIST,WHY DOES A COP CALL ME BY MY FIRST NAME AND CALL YOU MR/MRS,SMALL THING YES BUT IT IS SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION............

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 12:36 PM
  • MISSED THE POINT ZOOK BUT'S OK....IF YOU LOOKED AT IT FROM MY SIDE YOU WOULD SEE WHAT I MEAN.

    FUBAR CLASS AND RACE ARE NOT THE SAME.....MAYBE TO YOU THEY ARE I DONT KNOW.

    WANT TO MAKE SOMETHING CHANGE,change the face of poverty to white and watch something change,change the face of welfare to white and see wether newt and santorum make the same remarks with immunity.I am at a lose to understand what white entertainers have to do with this are you trying to tell us something???

    Incident in seattle was not 30yrs ago,IT WAS LAST YEAR,the dragging death for FUN in texas was not 30 yrs ago,having to file suit against the state was not 30yrs ago.these are today, because they dont happen to you doesnt mean they dont happen.The shooting in the back of the head of a teen handcuffed face down, not resisting was not 30yrs ago.

    The MR thing is not personal what it SHOWS is a difference in the level of respect shown to the individual.For some reason some people feel that to be treated as 2nd class should be ok it is not.I am in the public eye all the time,the garbage that is said to me frequently would blow your mind,insinuations as to being a pimp,drug dealer,etc everything but what I am, a law abiding citizen who makes his living LEGALLY,who has friends who are black, white, green and yellow who see each other as equals in all endeavours and conduct ourselfes that way,everyday.ZOOK and I disagree a lot but we dont disrespect each other.

    SOME ONE wanted to question my credentials well thats tough I am not the president he was weak and felt the need to bow to that I dont.I have what I have and it cant be taken away by any one,and I earned every bit of it, nobody has ever given me anything,and NO it was not easy.ILL SAY THIS MY CLAIMS ARE VALID YOU CAN BET ON IT.!!!!!!

    -- Posted by lamont on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 3:33 PM
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    Hey! Speaking of Cops, I've had cops call me Mrs... and I've had them say "Hey" Or, Jessie, or whatever. (not that I'm arrested all the time) They are people too. There are jerks, real jerks... jacks.... compassionate, respectful, disrespectful, great cops, bad cops. Let's not stereotype them. They are not a breed, or race, ethnicity, whatever... (for Gosh sake, I'm not trying to get in trouble here)

    My point is, and Lamont, I say this very respectfully, that they are just people. A young cop might pull me over, and maybe it's his first time, he's 30 years younger than Me, and he acts stupid. That does NOT make all cops stupid. But if he's a super gentleman, that does not make all of them gentlemen.

    Possbily YOU were spoken to by some jerk of a cop who had no respect, and (again respectfully) at your age, (heheheheh) you have no doubt had opportunity to be spoken to by several disrespectful cops. Please tell me though, that you've had opportunity to be spoken to respectfully also?????

    I rambled a bit... but shoot, I get aggravated at times...

    I won't be back on this blog

    -- Posted by jessiemiller on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 8:47 PM
  • Speaking of cops I got one in our family right here in Mountain Home and she's the cutest one on the force. :)

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 9:19 PM
  • BUCKSHOT....LAST NITE I POSTED AND ANSWER DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO IT SO ILL DO THIS AGAIN.

    JYD explained the title thing very well and I agree 100%....LAMONT is my name albeit the middle one.I was raised to belive you say yes sir and no sir yes mam and no mam.I am darn near a great grandfather and I still do it.SO I Could be sensitive.I do not have a hard name to pronounce.

    I will bring up race when it fits my frame of reference there are times here when people act like it is not a player, it is and they know it. From what I can tell I am the only black who posts here,there were some, I think they got mad and quite. I am not intimadated.Think of it this way how are you going to know how I feel if I dont tell you.There have been some statements here that are so far out in left field that were passed as truth ala gingrich,santorum.....

    The president is Black because of societal norms, we like labels,keeps everything neat( sarcasm).I asked the question right here on the blog ...IS THE GLASS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY I DONT THINK MOST GOT THE POINT.The presidents background has been open to the public and I agree with you race is and illusion. My education says if you are anything other than 1st generation born here you are and american by race,and the science bears that out.Now a lot of people will disagree but that is up to them.There is and element who still attempts to use the presidents geneology as a weapon to marginalize him and make him un American. What is crazy is he is exactly what america is.

    wHAT BOTHERS ME IS THE ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT VALUES.I am and american with american values some of those values are conservative some are not I resent anyone telling me what they should be based on the colour of my skin.The assumptions made by people based on what they see on television.The media uses everyone in america to make money.There is not ONE truthfull depiction of and American family and especially a black one.This tends to foster resentment,half truths,and out and out lies which I personally dispise.Unless we know each other we have not got a truthfull picture of what we are about.WE in my opinion can only do that if we talk.There is nothing wrong with asking a question,there usually is something wrong with and assumption.

    EXAMPLE......The picture ID thing...problem is the process.....who it affects more than others is a by product.ASSUMPTION.....IT'S RACIAL......could be but you cant solve it by going crazy.And it will affect a lot of white VOTERS.......WHITE FOLKS ARE POOR TOO ,AND SOME FORGET THAT.I feel the rational for it is faulty and not based on the truth,but that's poletics.The money could be better spent.

    LASTLY.....I did not imply a conspiracy by the police.They are a good example of people believing what they see on TV and falling prey to that kind of behavior,and I will add that behavior has a tendency to provoke.sO THEN the QUESTION IS ....IS THAT WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO DO??????? IF NOT THEN WHY DOES IT PROVOKE SHOULD BE THE NEXT QUESTION .......WHICH IS NEVER ASKED.

    WELL BUCKSHOT I hope that gives you a better insight into me you have a question ask....I usually answer....DO NOT ASSUME YOU WILL GET A LIBERAL ANSWER.....and even if it is it should still be considered.you want me to hear you???? THEN LISTEN TO ME......LATTER

    -- Posted by lamont on Tue, Jan 10, 2012, at 11:41 AM
  • I would say all Presidents had their chance to end racism. The only one I remember giving it a try was President Kennedy.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 10:27 AM
  • BUCKSHOT....YOUR ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINION....TAKE A LOOK AT IT ANOTHER WAY.HOW about if in general the way he spoke,they way he walked ,the way his wife dressed,the sports he played had all not been made and issue think aboout what that might have said.Bear in mind that both sides of the political spectrum was guilty.HOW about taking and objective look at the play with the birth certificate.I think some people need to get in touch with turning the other cheek does not work ,and when you still see the system discrimnating and you are still getting that is the way it is or rome wasnt built in a day,or it takes time the question becomes how long should I wait and how much time do I have??THE PRESIDENT CANNOT QUELL WHAT HE CANT CONTROL.WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THAT CONTROL.I DONT TOLERATE BLACKS CALLING WHITE PEOPLE OUT OF THERE NAME,I DONT TOLERATE THE USE OF THE N WORD BY ANYONE.WE THE PEOPLE CAN SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO DO THAT NO BUT WE DONT.IT BOTHERS ME THAT I GET THE IMPRESSION THAT IT IS OK FOR A WHITE TO USE THE COLOUR OF THERE SKIN TO GET A JOB BUT IF A BLACK OR HISPANIC DOES IT, IT IS WRONG.TELL me im wrong.Not being hired because of the colour of your skin ,have you any idea the damage done through the years on that one,or being paid less because of it.I mentioned this before you may not have been here.MY son is and eletrical engineer(BS) HIS MASTERS IS FROM WHARTON IN MASKETING AND BUSINESS.THE average black who has a masters only makes 1,500.00 more than his counter part with just a BS, But the average white makes 15,000.00 more NOW can you tell me a reason for that????? Point is the playing field is not level and the minority community does not have the power economically to change it.They are working on it.I say that discrimnation has been ok as it benefites the discriminater,problem is it doesnt benifite the society as a whole.I only heard the phrase reverse discrimination when whites saw minorities in position they hadnt seen them in before then discrimination became and issue that everybody wanted to talk about.Dont blame the president blame a society that has become adversarial to the point of being societally distructive in the name of getting ahead.NOTE>>>>>>I dont care what you have I just dont want ANYONE putting barrier IN THE WAY OF MY BEING ABLE TO GET MINE.

    zOOK......MONEY,TRAVEL,ABILITY TO GET TO CENTERS WERE YOU CAN GET THE DOCUMENTS NEEDED.EXAMPLE; I NEVER HAD A DRIVERS LICENSE GROWING UP IN NEW YORK DIDNT NEED ONE.SUBWAY,BUSE ETC get to anywhere I wanted. Can you imagine in this day and age trying to get a picture id without some form of picture id.??????? HERE IS ONE FOR YOU LOOSE YOU DRIVERS LICENSE AND THEN GO DOWN AND TRY AND GET A NEW ONE....GUESS WHAT THEY ASK YOU FOR......SOME FORM OF PICTURE ID TO PROVE WHO YOU ARE NOW FIGURE THAT OUT.MY MOTHER NEVER HAD A DRIVERS LICENSE NEVER AND SHE DIED AT 79.FOR some it will be a financial hardship to get one and for others it will be logistically impossible and for me the colour of your skin doesnt have a lot to do with that.Now understand in the south there are a lot of birth not done in hospitals black and white the same for rural america and appalachia.There is not a problem with voter fraud(.0001% in 50yrs) and this is seen as devisive to say the least.YES OBAMA PROBALLY GOT 98% of the black vote and this is seen as a way of cutting into that,may not be true but that is how it is seen.reason IS THIS CUTS TO STUDENTS WERE HE GOT THE MAJORITY ALSO.The process of getting whats needed will cut,but I think all it will do is make some mad and registration will become higher it is already starting to happen,they should be carefull what they wish for.....AND FOR THE RECORD THAT WHOLE GARBAGE IN FLORIDA WAS DISPICABLE.THAT IS THE KIND OF GARBAGE THAT NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP.NEITHER SIDE WON THAT BELIEVE ME WE LOOKED STUPID AND WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN.

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 11:27 AM
  • WHAT IT SAYS IS BASED ON THERE FEELINGS OF RACISM AS PERPETUATED ON THEM THEY FELT THAT VOTING FOR A BLACK WAS THE THING TO DO....IT ALSO GAVE THEM AS SENSE OF PRIDE.THE KIND OF PRIDE THAT ONLY COMES ONCE IN A CENTURY IF THEN, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.I HAVE BUT ONE REGRET BUCKSHOT.....THAT MY MOTHER AS HARD AS SHE WORKED FOR EQUAL JUSTICE DID NOT LIVE TO SEE IT.

    If you dont understand what happened I dont know what to tell you. What your trying to imply may be true but it wont change the feeling blacks got from his election. GET REAL THERE ARE BLACK RACIST ETC I HAVE FREELY STATED THAT, WHAT YOUR TRYING TO IMPLY IS THAT AND ENTIRE CULTURE IS RACIALLY CORRUPT....DONT TRY TO DO THAT, I AM NOT BUYING.AS ZOOK HAS STATED THE RIGHT FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN THE LESSER OF 2 EVILS AT LEAST YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE A CHOICE. FOR ALL OF OUR HISTORY WE HAD NO CHOICE NO MATTER WHO RAN, FOR ONCE WE FELT LIKE WE HAD A CHOICE.

    I for one do not understand why when that happens there always seems to be a problem.You expect that we should feel ok with a white in charge but you cant be ok with a black in charge unless he has a white to account to.I worked for a col once that if you qestioned my authority and went to him with the same thing I am discribing he would refer you right back to me.We can be the BOSS.......

    NOW I gave you my rational on the vote you will think as you wish,IF YOU HAVE A PRECONCEPTION MY ANSWER WILL MEAN NOTHING.I hope it will make you think about how we got to that. because maybe if we hadnt had all the previous racism we wouldnt have had a BLOCK VOTE.........SO MAYBE YOU SHOULD BLAME WHITE PEOPLE FOR HIS ELCTION......AND bear this in mind there are not enough blacks in AMERICA TO ELECT HIM therefore a lot of white folks had to vote for him. Dont try to twist what happened or what I said out of context your smarter than that and so am I.

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 8:17 PM
  • I PERSECUTED NO ONE,I STATED THE REASON THINGS HAPPEN I DIDNT STATE THEY WERE RIGHT,SO LETS KEEP IT STRAIGHT.

    OK YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY HERE IT IS.

    In the 1950 when blacks in the south were trying to raise themselves from the poverty they were in they dedicated there time and efforts to what they had....FARMS...(40 acres and a mule)the banks were controlled by republicans. The republicans refused all black farmers loans but made sure that all white farmers had capital.Results massive loss of property and those folks became share croppers on the land they had owned.A decade latter in the 1960 the democrates appeared to be the only ones who reached out to help,at that point the roles reversed.Now I have never said that the republicans have done nothing for civil rights but I DO SAY THAT THE REPUBLICANS WANT TO CONTROL HOW IT'S DONE AND WANT PEOPLE TO BE SATISFIED AS THEY DOLE OUT THERE RIGHTS OF WHO WE CAN MARRY,WERE WE CAN GO,WHAT WE SHOULD DO WITH EDUCATION AND SOME OTHER THINGS.ME PERSONALLY I DONT LIKE THE WAY I AM TALKED TO BY MOST REPUBLICANS THERE IS AND AIR OF I AM BETTER THAN YOU IT GETS RIGHT UNDER MY SKIN.

    NOW YOUR PARTY DOES NOT REPRESENT THE GOALS OF EQUALITY AS VERBALIZED.....POVERTY IS NOT BLACK,AFFERMATIVE ACTIONS IS NOT BLACK,EQUAL HOUSING IS NOT BLACK,EQUAL TREATMENT IS NOT BLACK WHY DOES YOUR PARTY PORTRAY US THE WAY THAT THEY DO.NEWT AND SANTORUM DID YOU NO FAVOR.Some in your party may have liked and believed what they said but the thing is nobody rebuked it so the insult becomes a sore that festers.I know it's not true and said so but not even here on this blog did anyone say were did that come from????So that leaves the impression you believed it and you condoned it.

    MY MOTHER would have been proud BECAUSE HE IS CONSIDERED BLACK......SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY ANGRY ABOUT HIS PERFORMANCE......YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF WHAT I TALKED OF EARLIER.I FOLLOW A LOT OF THINGS AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT I DID NOT THINK HE COULD WIN.I REALIZED HE HAD A CHANCE ABOUT 45 DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION.IT WAS NOT SOMETHING I EXPECTED TO LIVE AND SEE.MY MOTHER WOULD HAVE CURSED THIS PRESIDENT,,,SHE RAISED STRONG CHILDREN AND SHE WOULD HAVE CONSIDERED HIM WEAK.

    In all fairness I will say that the right never gave this man a chance the racism,inuendo's AND ALL THE REST STARTED BEFORE HE GOT TO SAY GOOD MORNING AND IT HAS NEVER STOPED .When your stated objective from day one was to make him a one term president then you cant tell me you have the country's concerns first because you drew a battle line before there was a battle you intiated it.

    Blacks dont denergrate all black republicans just those who make it there business to act like there succes is the norm when it is not.They represent a group that was fortunate.I told someone here to read SEC POWELLS AUTOBIOGRAPHY I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME HE IS WELL RESPECTED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY.......BECAUSE THAT IS WERE HE CAME FROM AND HE NEVER FORGOT IT.I ESPECIALLY LIKE THE MAN our heritage is exactly the same down to where our parents were from and some other things,the key is he never forgot as have others, for your info my MOM would have spit on MR CAIN ....I TOLD ZOOK straight out there was something wrong with that guy.ILL give you a hint he had a draft deferment in georgia in the 1960's........Yeah how?????? YOU ask the questions if there honest I will give my perspective.....that doesnt make it right,but I did teach the subject,more important I have lived a very good life,MY FAMILY HAS WORN THE UNIFORM FROM TUSKEGEE TO THE LEYTE ROAD,TO VIETNAM.THERE ARE DOCTORS, LAWYERS, BANKERS, MUSCIANS,TEACHERS IN THE FAMILY.DONT FOOL YOURSELF I HAVE CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS AND I STRADLE THE FENCE, BUT WE ALL DEAL WITH MUTUAL RESPECT AND NOT WHAT WE SEE OR HEAR ON TELEVISION.

    THAT WAS A BRIEF OVERVIEW NOW YOU CAN GO LOOK THAT STUFF UP AND MAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.....I DONT GET ANGRY WITH HONEST QUESTIONS I DONT LIKE DOUBLE EDGED SWORDS AND WILL CALL THEM AS SOON AS I SEE THEM.....LATTER

    -- Posted by lamont on Wed, Jan 11, 2012, at 11:55 PM
  • BUCKSHOT YOU SAID YOU HAD QUESTIONS.....YOU DID NOT SAY YOU WERE GOING TO USE THIS OPPERTUNITY TO RAIL AGAINST THE PRESEIDENT........NOW in my opinion you just validated what we call .....having to be better than to be the same as.....you totaly ignored the fact that the attempts to marginalize started before he was sworn in.If he would have done as he should have and not worried about trying to bring about consensuse he in my opinion would have been better off.For me once MC CONNEL HAD MADE HIS DECLARATION I WOULD HAVE PIVOTED and done what I NEEDED TO DO AND THE HECK WITH YOU GUYS.GIVEN THE TAX SITUATION ,AND THE LACK OF REVENUES IN THIS COUNTRY I WOULD SAY GEORGE BUSH DID A LOT OF RUNNING OVER THAT WE HAVE PAID AND CONTINUE TO PAY DEARLY FOR......ANYHOW I WILL NOT GO INTO THIS THIS WAS NOT MY INTENT IT WILL CHANGE NO MINDS........you ignored the rest of the post to get to this and I will not play,it has all been said before and it is about his RACE ALWAYS HAS BEEN,LIMBAUGH,HANNITY AND OTHERS HAVE PROVEN THAT DAILY WITH THERE RACIST COMMENTS THAT NO ONE REBUKES.

    WHEN YOU WANT TO GET BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PREMISE HERE LET ME KNOW......

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 10:40 AM
  • The Republicans don't have anyone that can beat Obama.

    Poor Rick he slide down in the New Hampshire Primary......... Maybe because he has some issues going on. HA !

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97j8qi1RFYg

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 11:12 AM
  • ONE LAST THING ..... READ THE HISTORY BOOKS FROM A BLACK PERSPECTIVE and remember the books you studied in school were written by white people for white people about black people....in other words there slanted to what you want to believe not what is......I AM RATHER DISAPOINTED THAT THE ONLY THING YOU GOT WAS WHAT YOU POSTED,NOT A THING ABOUT ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE....... SO I WILL GIVE YOU THIS ...... THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DOES NOT REPRESENT THE ISSUES THAT CONCERN US THE MOST.THEY WANT TO TELL US WHAT THOSE ISSUES ARE OR SHOULD BE.....I DONT NEED YOU TO TELL THEM ANYTHING.....I NEED YOU TO GET OUT OF THE WAY......

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 11:33 AM
  • Ha ha Whatever Buckshot61 I guess you didn't like my little video..... I sure got a kick out of it...

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 5:57 PM
  • Its more fun to have a sense of humor then being a grumpy old man

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 6:59 PM
  • BUCKSHOT ..... WHATEVER........... YOU SAID YOU HAD QUESTIONS YOU DIDNT SAY YOU WANTED TO RANT ON THE PRESIDENT.... So I need to stop this from my side now. My answer to your initial and only question in no way was a defense of the president.But that is all you extracted.To bad because there is so much more there that you have ignored.YOUR intial question was not about how the president polled ........go back and read it.......You asked why people went for the democratic party??? is that not true?? THAT doesnt sound like why the president???????????? you may think my views are in the minority of blacks so please go check it out and not with black republicans.I took your question at face value and you twisted it to something else.YOU may take this as I dont want to discuss real issues. I wont discuss issues when someone comes in closed minded to the other side.THAT IS NOT A DISCUSSION AND THAT IS WHAT YOUR PARTY DOES IN MY OPINION.IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION THAT IS NOT ABOUT THE PRESIDENT FEEL FREE.DOESNT MEAN ILL ANSWER BUT I WILL CONSIDER IT.THERE ARE BLACKS TO THE RIGHT OF ME AND BLACKS TO THE LEFT OF ME AND THAT IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE...... CHOOSE YOUR POISON

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 7:01 PM
  • I ANSWERED THE QUESTION VERY CLEARLY BUCKSHOT....REPUBLICAN BANKERS IN THE 1950 SET THE TONE FOR NO TRUST IN REPUBLICANS WHEN THE CHIPS WERE DOWN,IT IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND MOST ALL SOCIAL SCIENTEST WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING I DIDNT NOT JERK THAT ANSWER OUT OF A CLOUD.

    I will say it again your question was not about the president.What you want is for me to rail against him that wont happen.I can critercise and I have, but he is not all wrong in my eyes.aND FOR THE RECORD I AM NOT KNOWN TO SONG AND DANCE I THOUGHT YOU WANTED INSIGHT,I GAVE YOU THAT. IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR BUT YOU DIDNT EVEN CONSIDER IT,SO WHY DID YOU ASK ????? HERE COMES THE TRUST ISSUE AGAIN I TRUSTED AND YOU SHOWED ME I SHOULDNT.KINDA WHAT THOSE BANKERS DID.........LATTER

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 7:49 PM
  • CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG I SAID IT SET THE STAGE FOR THE CHANGE.The civil rights act kinda sealed the deal.The opposition to it did nothing for the republicans and as you stated a democratic president signed it into law.Voting rights act gave the impression of power and still does.THERE is a trend the party that appears to understand our concerns gets the vote it is that simple.You were not here but I have defended republicans to include pres Eisenhower.Truman was blackmailed but he did what he had to do.I THINK YOU BELIEVE I AM ANTI REPUBLICAN I am not.I AM ANTI PEOPLE WHO DO NOT ACT IN FAIRNESS,WHO DO NOT CONSIDER THE ENTIRE PICTURE,WHO HAVE THERE MIND MADE UP BASED ON SOME STEREOTYPE.

    NOW YOUR RESEARCH IS GREAT however it does not take in the things I talked about,what I told you is true.is it measurable by statistics NO BUT IT DOESNT MAKE IT ANY LESS REAL.CK ROOTS.COM AND SOME OTHER SITES.do YOU KNOW THAT THE LAWSUITE AGAINST THE U.S GOVERNMENT IS JUST NOW BEING PAID.YES to the farmers who were disenfranchised.

    We will not vote for people who insult us I dont think that is hard to understand.POINT BEING IN MODERN TIMES WHICH PRESIDENTS HAVE SYMBOLICALLY OR OTHERWISE ADDRESSED THE BLACK COMMUNITIES CONCERNS.TELL ME WHO YOU HAVE HAD (other than Ike) THAT HAS DONE THAT IN A CONSTRCTIVE WAY IN THE LAST 50YRS.AND WITH THAT LYS THE ANSWER.

    NOW THAT YOU HAVE A BASIS SET, THINK ABOUT IT AND PUT IT ALL TOGETHER.It is not a pretty picture and It should never have happened,but worst is that it continues.YOU CANNOT SIT SILENT AND THEN BE A CRITIC.CONSIDER THIS NUMBERS ARE NOT EMPERICAL WHEN DEALING WITH HUMANS ,THEY ARE INDICATORS ONLY.

    HERES ONE FOR YOU....MILITARY DESEGRAGATED IN 1948......DO YOU REALLY THINK IT ENDED THEN ?????

    I WOULD THINK YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THAT.

    DO YOU KNOW WHY IKE GOT 39%.. THE 99TH..he LATTER sent federal troops to little rock and said you will obey the law of the land and I will as press enforce it.

    AS SUPREME COMMANDER He told the Gen,who didnt want the 99th that he would take them and he would use them.....that endeared him to the blacks who were in the 99th and looked at as hero's by us so in turn IKE was embraced.It's not hard to figure out.iF you read all the record both sides and from a black perspective, you will get what really happened.Pay attention to the so called little things they werent little in our book..........latter

    -- Posted by lamont on Thu, Jan 12, 2012, at 10:35 PM
  • Zook you keep forgetting that what Clinton did while in office, offended many people and that's why we won't allow it to happen again. Also when Hilary was standing by her man before he was elected, the public was Naive in thinking he wasn't a womanizer, so don't keep saying womanizing was accepted because it wasn't.

    And just remember the candidates should also be elected on their accomplishments and with that said Obama will still beat them.

    If the media has been digging up dirt on the candidates, I'm sure fox news has been fulfilling their job in the same area to keep their audience listening. If there's dirt out there on Obama it will be found. They've been trying for the past 3 years plus ridiculing everything he does. That's politics, it comes down to who can find the most dirt or tell the biggest lies and pay out the most money.

    Before I end this I have to have my last laugh. Todd endorsing Newt, like that's a big deal ! Ha!

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 9:03 AM
  • Yeah I seen on the news this morning, where obama wants to cut down big Government, which the Repubs have been tooting their horn about for the last few years. Now that Obama wants to do something about it and help small businesses, the Repubs in congress as usual will drag their feet because their #1 goal is to block anything Obama wants to get past........ At the most 2,000 jobs could be lost, but if you want to cut spending someone will get hurt.

    If they found all that dirt on Obama that you speak of he would of been impeached his first year in office... You sure can give the Repubs credit for trying.... They tried their best!! to discredit anything he did !

    Buckshot61 I think you've been drinking more then Cherry Kool-aid.

    So how is Obama trying to gain more power? Explain please and leave out your rhetoric, we all know its an election year.

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 10:44 AM
  • ZOOK YOU MAKE SOME GOOD POINTS.......SO LETS REMEBER THAT.....THE MEDIA ANY MEDIA TO INCLUDE FOX HAS THE RIGHT TO PRINT OR SAY WHAT THEY WANT.I for one am not knocking that what I am knocking is when they endorse the racially biased statements by ignoring them. Any candidate that cannot debate this president without racial overtones should not be a candidate.....my opinion.

    WHY IS IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE MILITARY WAS BUILT UP FOR IRAQ HIS PROPOSAL IS TO BRING IT BACK TO PRE IRAQ SIZE FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT???THE ONLY REASON WE BUILT UP WAS BECAUSE WE STAYED SO LONG AND THE ROTATIONS WERE DRAINING US.....This overhead statement about social programs,IS SSI,MEDICARE,MEDICADE,CHIP,ARE YOU SAYING WE SHOULD SCRAPE THOSE TO BUY GUNS????I CANT GO ALONG WITH THAT.social programs can be reigned in by simply ensuring the cost and the administration ie...do it right...the fraud and waste dealing with inelgibles that we havnt dealt with would change that.The government quite raiding the SSI SOME OF THESE THINGS BECAME PROBLEMS LONG BEFORE THIS PRESIDENT.IF I WERE HIM AND I HAD TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN SAVING THE ECONMY AND THE WORLD ECONOMY AND BUILDING BOMBS I WOULD SAVE THE ECONOMY.....THAT IS MY FEELING.MOST people are for cutting anything that doesnt affect them,feeling that will never happen to me,well things are happening to them and attitudes are changing,slowly.NOBODY wants a welfare state what they do want is the jobs returned to this country and finally they are going to give tax incentives to those companys that do that.But shame is they shouldnt have to Remember I talked about national allegiance.

    I CANT REMODEL when I CANT MAKE THE MORTGAE PAYMENT.SO THE ACCOMPLISHMENT IS WE ARE STILL SOLVENT........LATTER

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 12:32 PM
  • Great facts as usual Mr Buckshot, but you are usually always way out in front. The country has really gone to heck the last few years. We need a leader who is a little more in love with the country and a little less in love with himself. Just my opinion.

    -- Posted by skeeter on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 5:13 PM
  • I see were back to the insults again......call me when it stops

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 5:26 PM
  • Nice copy and paste job there Buckshot61/Homer look alike) I should do a copy and paste of Obama's last book.........

    Gosh I am all broke up and starting to cry I haven't earned your respect. WOW ! give me a break who cares if I haven't earned your respect....

    I have my opinion of you also But I can't tell you here.... :(

    Obama 2012 !!

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM
  • NO WAR.... JYD....I WAS ASKED ABOUT A SUBJECT I ANSWERED........NO WAR FOR ME..... WHAT I KNOW AND WHAT I FEEL WILL NOT CHANGE.WHAT HAS BEEN AND IT'S IMPACT IS REAL IT IS THAT SIMPLE.

    The love I feel for my country does no overide the fact that it is not perfect.TO NOT CRITERCISE CONSTRUCTIVELY IN AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT BETTER WOULD NOT BE LIVING UP TO OUR REPONSIBLILTY'S.I DONT THINK THAT TO IGNORE WHAT GOES ON RACIALLY WILL CHANGE IT.I THINK THAT YOU AND I ARE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WILL,WE DONT HAVE TO AGREE, WE JUST HAVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION,CONVERSATION'S FOSTERS UNDERSTANDING........DOES FOR ME ANYHOW

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 7:23 PM
  • DONT TWIST IT........A CONSENSUSES CAN ALWAYS BE REACHED,AND THEREFORE WE CAN BE AS HARMONIC AS POSSIBLE....AND YES I DO THINK IT IS BETTER IN A LOT OF AREAS AND WORST IN SOME...... I HAVE MY GOALS ETC AS YOU HAVE YOURS ...ONE OF MINE IS I DONT WANT MORE THAN I NEED.....THAT DOESNT MEAN I AM NOT CAPABLE OF GETTING IT, AND HAVE BUT NOT AT ANYONES EXSPENCE.BUT THAT IS MY CHOICE.

    IN THE BUSH YOU LEARN THAT YOU LIVE AND DIE TOGETHER, TO BAD MOST AMERICANS DONT HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE IT WOULD MAKE FOR A BETTER SOCIETY WITH MORE EMPATHY FOR EACH OTHER,THIS ADVERSARIAL SOCIETY DOES NOT BENEFITE US ALL......THAT IS MY OPINION..........WHO DECIDES WHAT IS CHILDISH AND NEGATIVE ??????

    -- Posted by lamont on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 9:07 PM
  • buckshot61/Homer look alike

    Talk about being childish, you seem to have more time to spend on these blogs then anyone else, and most of your comments are well I won't say, I don't want to embarrass you.. However you seem to have an answer with anyone that doesn't "THINK" like you.

    OK bring it on its your turn to comment and attack me. Lets play your game!!

    -- Posted by MsMarylin on Fri, Jan 13, 2012, at 11:25 PM
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