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Originally posted by Areal51
How's this? "26 Papers That Backed Bush in 2004 Move to Obama "
www.editorandpublisher.com...
BARACK OBAMA (26)
CALIFORNIA
Long Beach Press Telegram (B): 85,595
Pasadena Star-News (B): 27,894
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (B): 40,051
The (Stockton) Record (B): 57,486
San Bernardino Sun (B): 54,315
Tri-Valley Herald (B): 29,759
COLORADO
The Denver Post (B): 225,193
CONNECTICUT
New Haven Register (B): 72,613
FLORIDA
Naples Daily-News (B): 66,272
ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune (B): 541,663
INDIANA
Palladium-Item (Richmond) (B): 15,453
IOWA
Mason City Globe Gazette (B): 17,666
NEW JERSEY
Asbury Park Press (Neptune) (B): 140,882
NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces Sun-News (B): 21,341
NEW YORK
Daily News (B): 703,137
OHIO
Hamilton Journal-News (B): 19,432
The Repository (Canton) (B): 65,789
The Times-Reporter (New Philadelphia) (B): 22,428
OREGON
Yamhill Valley News-Register (McMinnville) (B): 10,921
PENNSYLVANIA
The Express-Times (Easton) (B): 44,561
TEXAS
Austin American-Statesman (B): 170,309
Houston Chronicle (B): 494,131
UTAH
The Salt Lake Tribune (B): 121,699
WASHINGTON
The Columbian (B): 44,623
Yakima Herald-Republic (B): 38,077
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) (B): 87,930
I suppose all of those newspapers backed Obama because he's Black, too?
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by MAINTAL This GUY is as UN AMERICAN as the Flag he refuses to wear and the refusal to gesture his pledge of his allegiance to, not putting his hand over his heart.
Well, like it or not, he appears to be the winner of the "anybody but a Republican" prize. Instead of all the vitriole, wouldn't it be a more worthwhile project to figure out why all this enmity against the right wing, and all the glory it's achieved in the last two terms? I mean you guys aren't even getting kissed any more.
Or is this another 'because they hate freedom' kinda thang?
Originally posted by MAINTAL
So it makes more sense to see this for what it is and to give Powell his transparent real reason, the once over calling a spade a spade (no pun) and telling him may have been born at night but it wasnt last night. The reason Powell likes Obama is simple.
He is Black
Originally posted by maybereal11
A flag pin makes you patriotic? I assume you are wearing yours now?
Must we all wear flag pins lest we be percieved as unamerican by the GOP?
The POTUS should not ever be chosen based on race, religion or sex.
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
reply to post by MAINTAL
And your next post sounded a whole lot less heated and a whole lot more reasonable, so If I overstepped my bounds in my previous post, I apologise.
[edit on 21-10-2008 by JohnnyCanuck]
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by MAINTAL
So it makes more sense to see this for what it is and to give Powell his transparent real reason, the once over calling a spade a spade (no pun) and telling him may have been born at night but it wasnt last night. The reason Powell likes Obama is simple.
He is Black
Two points: First, you can opine til the cows come home, and that doesn't make it fact. You wouldn't accept that standard from those you disagree with, so quit trying to ram it down other's throats.
Secondly...figuring that it's ok to bring the word 'spade' into a debate about race, no matter if you try to qualify its use or not, is a dead givaway as to your own prejudice. It's a fine example of what's been called 'the banality of evil'.
Originally posted by MAINTAL
Originally posted by maybereal11
A flag pin makes you patriotic? I assume you are wearing yours now?
Must we all wear flag pins lest we be percieved as unamerican by the GOP?
I love the slick talking semantics mayberry but you'll have to try them on someone less gullible and a LOT less experienced arguing with people that talk out both sides of their mouth.
EXAMPLE:
The POTUS should not ever be chosen based on race, religion or sex.
So you still haven't answered the question and all you have done is tried to be clever again using your wordsmithing tricks. Here let me correct this bastardization of the law pertaining to discrimination shall we.
The POTUS should not ever be NOT chosen based on race, religion or sex.
Makes a lot more sense when it isn't used deceptively doesn't it.
With your logic, it would be wrong to vote for someone predicated on our having any of those items in common and THAT is just plane asinine to suggest I can't vote for someone because they are female or religious when the REAL law pertains to reasons I would EXCLUDE them based on those reasons mayberry. Look guy, if all you are going to do is mis represent what I say, and continue to mis-represent the laws we have....
Originally posted by MAINTAL
So you still haven't answered the question and all you have done is tried to be clever again using your wordsmithing tricks.
You're welcome to try again but this time, try using facts and above all, be honest without using all the deceptive wordsmithing.
It's just so hard to keep from feeling like i am picking on you anymore.
Originally posted by Areal51
Find out what reason means. Then study it. Maybe one day the meaning of this conversation will become clear to you.
Originally posted by maybereal11
I said a Potus should not ever be chosen based on race, religion or sex. It was my opinion. I don't think there is a law forbidding those that choose to vote for someone based on race etc. is there?
Confused. So you say a Potus should not ever be NOT chosen based on race, religion or sex...Okay. Yes. Agreed.
Communist flag in his headquarters? Please explain and provide CREDIBLE sources.
Originally posted by maybereal11
YOUR QUESTION:
please answer the question I have asked four times now,
What is it you have a problem with a black person voting for another black person because he is black? Can you answer that? even if it the reason is shallow what is it exactly makes that racist?
MY ANSWER FROM PREVIOUS POST:
HOW DID THAT NOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?
Lets try this...have you ever heard of Hayakawa's abstraction ladder?
Voting for or against someone based on race or any other characteristic that is not relevant to their performance does not make sense and in critical positions such as POTUS it is reckless.
A lesson on human nature
I was talking to a friend of mine's little girl the other day. I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up and she replied, 'I want to be President!' Both of her parents are liberal Democrats and were standing there. So then I asked her, 'If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?'
She replied, 'I'd give houses to all the homeless people.'
'Wow - what a worthy goal.' I told her, 'You don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where this homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward a new house.'
Since she is only 6, she looked rather puzzled.
As she thought it over, her Mom glared at me, looked me straight in the eye and asked in an angry tone, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay HIM the $50?'
It was then I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party!'
She grabbed her daughters arm and walked off in a huff and hasn't spoke to me since but her temper is legend around here.
maybe you've heard of her too
her name is Michelle Obama
Originally posted by MAINTAL
A lesson on human nature
...maybe you've heard of her too
her name is Michelle Obama
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by MAINTAL
A lesson on human nature
...maybe you've heard of her too
her name is Michelle Obama
So, does Neal Boortz actually know you're lifting his stuff to embellish and post without attributing his original work in the first place?
Plagerism is theft, even in Blue States.
[edit on 22-10-2008 by JohnnyCanuck]
Originally posted by MAINTAL
Originally posted by maybereal11
Communist flag in his headquarters? Please explain and provide CREDIBLE sources.
Now of course their was an excuse to this given by the Obama camp but indulge me for a time here ...............
Originally posted by MAINTAL
They claim he lied about Obama wanting to teach Kindergartners sex education but when we actually LOOK at the update to the bill (SB99), that is in FACT exactly what Obama was supporting in the Ill senate. When the Democrats say Obama was talking about teaching kids about child sex predators, and we actually READ the Bill, their is NO such language in the update ANYWHERE to be found, NONE!
Originally posted by MAINTAL
The same reason he didn't support the first bailout bill Obama wanted passed because McCain didn't want to pass it with 20% of the bill going to ACORN.
Originally posted by MAINTAL
But Obama sure seems to prefer the tactic and does it so well all the while blaming McCain. It's brilliant perhaps but it is still dishonest and Obama has lied so much it is absolutley silly to listen to his baloney anymore from his Dad being a goat herder to his reluctance to show his birth certificate having to get a court order for it and all we get is some photoshopped version of his sisters on his website.
[edit on 21-10-2008 by MAINTAL]
Originally posted by MAINTAL
Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck
Originally posted by MAINTAL
A lesson on human nature
...maybe you've heard of her too
her name is Michelle Obama
So, does Neal Boortz actually know you're lifting his stuff to embellish and post without attributing his original work in the first place?
Plagerism is theft, even in Blue States.
[edit on 22-10-2008 by JohnnyCanuck]
Hey man I didn't know who the hell wrote it , or i would have linked it, i got it in a chain email and thought it was hilarious.
Thanks for the heads up johnny I was wondering who it was.
[edit on 22-10-2008 by MAINTAL]