Imagine a Chia Barack Obama

[Jim Williams]

Imagine no futher - What does it mean???

www.chiaobama.com

[scott]

It means if you disagree with Obama's policies you are a racist.

[Jim Williams]

But to whom do they sell more, little old lady black grandmothers still celebrating Obama's becoming President or skinheads laughing their asses off?

[winkle]

race and politics being different issues

i suppose it means either that

or that you were a racist before he had a policy

[ovyyus]

So many false dilemma's :D

[Jim Williams]

As the old joke about Obama goes; which race?

[Ed]

It means if you disagree with Obama's policies you are a racist.

Seems like another libertarian over-simplification, trying to turn something a little more complex into a black and white issue.

Are there idiots on the left that make everything about race? Of course. But I can speak from experience with the type of people that get played by the right and really are ignorant white people. I have many in my own family.

I recently was discussing aforementioned Obama policies with one close family member. After I caught him lying to me to try to strengthen his position, he paused and then proceeded to call me a n***er lover and hung up.

Is everyone that disagrees with Obama a racist? No. Are there many that are? Judge for yourself.

I recall when people disagreed with Bush they were anti-American by both the periphery of the right and the administration, and ejected from events for wearing shirts that say "Bush is not my president". When people with semi-automatic weapons show up with Obama Hitler signs (or worse) they are left alone by the administration.

[scott]

I was simply reiterating what Jimmy Carter said http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/se ... rack-obama

[Ed]

Nicely deflected.

[scott]

I simply deflected the conversation back to my original point.

This one's for you Bill.

[ovyyus]

Deflecting...reiterating...what are we playing now?

[Jim Williams]

CNN
Friday, October 02, 2009
By Bret Baier

Print ShareThisNow some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

Distant Replay

Former President Jimmy Carter is walking back comments he made last month about President Obama and racism.

On October 1, 2009, Carter said to CNN he did not mean protesters were upset at the reality of a black president: "If you read the remarks carefully, you'll see that's not what I said. I said those that had a personal attack on President Obama as a person, that was tinged with racism. But I recognize that people who disagree with him on health care or the environment, that the vast majority of those are not tinged by racism."

Well, here is what the former president said to "NBC Nightly News" on September 15, 2009 when asked about anti-Obama protests and tea party demonstrations last month:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he is an African-American.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

So is the former president right in his new defense of those comments? You decide

[scott]

A silly shell game you seem to love Bill. Include me out.

[ovyyus]

I agree, politics is a silly shell game. IMO, it gets especially silly when both sides of a 'conversation' self-reduce to making generalized and rigid black or white statements. I guess actual conversation is more difficult.

[Jim Williams]

What does it mean??? It means someone found a way to cash in on the Presidency and Obama. It is a TV commercial. I don't care, I am appalled. It cheapens the President no matter who it is. Where's the humor in it? I emailed the TV station. I am a capitalist and I don't like it one little bit.