Comments on: Is It Possible To Have A Serious Discussion About Comrade Obama, Without Liberals Turning Into A Race Issue?

By: Thank You

Thank You — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:26:09 +0000

yes

By: Anna P

Anna P — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:58:08 +0000

I can accept that. But can you have a serious discussion without name calling like Comrade?

By: Ghost of Tom Joad

Ghost of Tom Joad — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:40:24 +0000

with some of them
its the ones that play the whole “first black president” card to much
i understand its a great thing the US elected its first black president, but its not the end all be all

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:28 +0000

Can we have a conversation without right wing radicals making stupid remarks when they don’t know the difference between socialism and communism?

By: snorkeli

snorkeli — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:02:41 +0000

I don’t think you can have a serious discussion with someone who claims Obama is a communist or socialist without even knowing what those words mean.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:05:47 +0000

Doubtful you can have a serious discussion with the way your question is phrased. You’ve already charged the question by calling him comrade obama.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:30:10 +0000

It’s possible, but you have to have a logical argument, and not just string a bunch of words together in an angry fashion.

By: No Winners In Politics

No Winners In Politics — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:44:05 +0000

Because thats all they can pull is “Your pulling a race card because he’s the first black president” not being racist here but the only reason he is president is because African Americans saw this as another black man growing power, they didn’t vote for him because of his ethics. Not racism,truth

By: Sandylyn…

Sandylyn… — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:45:09 +0000

im not a liberal but i do think that the majority of pro obamas do care about race. He may have some good policies but he has more bad ones. Lets flip this though. i say i dont like obama and suddenly im a racist. hes half white anyway. but i couldn’t care less about his colour. although the hype hes getting from it is irritating. any who, simple fact. most people on both sides care about race. dont kid yourself to think me and you are the majority.

By: liddle_a…

liddle_a… — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:14:18 +0000

If he’s a socialist, he’s not a very good one. He hasn’t even managed to pass a universal health care plan, something that even most conservative countries have. TARP might be socialist, sure, but it is socialism for the rich, and it wasn’t even Obama’s policy. The stimulus borders on socialism, but it failed to produce much of anything that I’m aware of. A true socialist would have been able to create countless government jobs with that kind of money. As for redistributing the wealth, I’m still not rich, and the rich people I know still are.
Does it make me a racist to say that Obama fails as a socialist? He even fails as a plain old liberal. He’s failed to close Guantanamo, failed to end either of the wars, failed to overturn DADT, failed to end the violations allowed by the Patriot Act, etc. I’m not exactly sure what he has accomplished, if anything. He certainly hasn’t done enough to earn the praise he gets from the left, nor the hatred and vitriolic criticism he gets from the right. He doesn’t appear to me to be either liberal or conservative. His words say liberal, but his actions (or lack thereof) indicate otherwise. He’s about as wishy-washy and useless as any other politician.
Seriously, is this the best the Dems and Reps have to offer us? A bunch of narcissistic ideologues who can’t even agree to disagree with one another? Who can’t work together, but can’t be trusted to work alone either? Politics is a fool’s game, where everybody loses. Conformist ideologies on both sides are as ridiculous and short-sighted as the people who hold them. No independent thought, no middle ground, no creative solutions. What a waste of democracy, when there are only two viable parties to choose from and neither one cares about the average citizen. They are so separated from reality, so concerned with maintaining their own party’s power, so concerned with pushing their agendas through with little regard to whether or not anyone will actually benefit from them. Bureaucracy and bullshit, crooks and liars, the lot of them. Big money, corruption, and special interests. They can all go to hell for all I care.