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Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

It’s Open Season On Black People, Including President Obama.



During an interview at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention, rocker and gun enthusiast Ted Nugent told Republican attendees to rally thousands of votes for Romney and then “ride into that battlefield and chop [Democrats'] heads off in November,” and then compared President Obama and Democrats to couch-peeing coyotes who must be shot.

He also accused President Obama of “wiping his ass with the constitution,” and said that the entire executive branch are criminals.


Nugent has been campaigning for Mitt Romney and the DNC is calling on Romney to denounce Nugent’s comments.

The Secret Service is reportedly investigating Nugent’s comments.




Monday, April 16, 2012

Why Do So Many Americans Have Guns? Is It The Fear Of A Black President.


There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American. The gun that T. J. Lane brought to Chardon High School belonged to his uncle, who had bought it in 2010, at a gun shop. Both of Lane’s parents had been arrested on charges of domestic violence over the years. Lane found the gun in his grandfather’s barn.

The United States is the country with the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. (The second highest is Yemen, where the rate is nevertheless only half that of the U.S.) No civilian population is more powerfully armed. Most Americans do not, however, own guns, because three-quarters of people with guns own two or more. According to the General Social Survey, conducted by the National Policy Opinion Center at the University of Chicago, the prevalence of gun ownership has declined steadily in the past few decades. In 1973, there were guns in roughly one in two households in the United States; in 2010, one in three. In 1980, nearly one in three Americans owned a gun; in 2010, that figure had dropped to one in five.

Men are far more likely to own guns than women are, but the rate of gun ownership among men fell from one in two in 1980 to one in three in 2010, while, in that same stretch of time, the rate among women remained one in ten. What may have held that rate steady in an age of decline was the aggressive marketing of handguns to women for self-defense, which is how a great many guns are marketed. Gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, higher in the country than in the city, and higher among older people than among younger people. One reason that gun ownership is declining, nationwide, might be that high-school shooting clubs and rifle ranges at summer camps are no longer common.

Although rates of gun ownership, like rates of violent crime, are falling, the power of the gun lobby is not. Since 1980, forty-four states have passed some form of law that allows gun owners to carry concealed weapons outside their homes for personal protection. (Five additional states had these laws before 1980.

Illinois is the sole holdout.) A federal ban on the possession, transfer, or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons, passed in 1994, was allowed to expire in 2004. In 2005, Florida passed the Stand Your Ground law, an extension of the so-called castle doctrine, exonerating from prosecution citizens who use deadly force when confronted by an assailant, even if they could have retreated safely; Stand Your Ground laws expand that protection outside the home to any place that an individual “has a right to be.” Twenty-four states have passed similar laws.

The day before T. J. Lane shot five high-school students in Ohio, another high-school student was shot in Florida. The Orlando Sentinel ran a three-paragraph story. On February 26th, seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin left a house in a town outside Orlando and walked to a store. He was seen by a twenty-eight-year-old man named George Zimmerman, who called 911 to report that Martin, who was black, was “a real suspicious guy.” Zimmerman got out of his truck. Zimmerman was carrying a 9-mm. pistol; Martin was unarmed. What happened next has not been established, and is much disputed. Zimmerman told the police that Martin attacked him. Martin’s family has said that the boy, heard over a cell phone, begged for his life.
Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest. Martin did not survive. Zimmerman was not charged. Outside Orlando, the story was not reported.

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/23/120423fa_fact_lepore#ixzz1sDodWDIU

Friday, March 30, 2012

Rick Santorum Finally Calls President Obama A Nigga.


There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the editor at NewsOne.com.   A consummate professional and arguably the leading online journalist in the country, Abena is never someone I would accuse of being a liar.  But this morning, after rolling out of bed and sitting at my desk in my gym shorts, I really thought my colleague might have been hitting the crack pipe.
“Dr. Boyce.  Rick Santorum has a video up in which he refers to President Obama as a n*gger,” she said to me.

“What did you say?” I said, as my face twisted up like a newborn baby eating a piece of broccoli.  Even I couldn’t believe what my editor was telling me, and I thought she’d lost her mind.

Then, I saw the video.  Yes, he said it.  I’m sure the Rick Santorum campaign team is strategizing faster than Homeland Security after a terrorist attack to find any BS excuse to convince us that we’re not actually hearing what we can clearly hear.  But the evidence shows that Rick Santorum is running head first into the word “n*gger” as he describes the first black president.


I’ve watched this video 14.5 times.  I’ve meditated on it, prayed over it, laid hands on it, and sent it to my mama.   I had to take a moment to thank God that Rick Santorum, in his conservative brilliance, has finally released videotaped evidence of the kind of smoking gun that many millions of us can use to prove that he is every bit as racist as we’ve always known him to be.





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Friday, March 23, 2012

Sorry Newt, If Trayvon Would Have Been White, He Would Have Had Justice.


Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich slammed Barack Obama on Friday, saying the president's remarks about the fatal February shooting of Trayvon Martin were "disgraceful."

President Barack Obama addressed Martin's death during a Rose Garden appearance earlier Friday, framing the tragedy in personal terms by saying, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Gingrich responded to Obama's remarks during a "Hannity Radio" interview:


What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background.
Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him. That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.


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President Obama Has Had Enough Of Being Disrespected.


President Obama directly addressed a heckler on Thursday, asking the man to stop "being rude" and interrupting his speech.

While speaking on energy at Ohio State University, Obama was interrupted by a man repeatedly shouting.
"Sir, I'm here to speak to these folks," Obama said to the man. "You can hold your own rally. You're being rude."

The man appeared to be holding up a book that he wanted the president to read. Obama asked the man to pass the book forward to his staff.

"Sir, I'm trying to talk to these people," Obama said. "I'll be happy to read your book. If you wanna give me your book, I'll be happy to read it. But don't interrupt my conversation with these folks. Alright? Show me some courtesy, alright?"

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

White Millionaires Will Give Last Dime To Get Black President Out The White House.


The reclusive, super-wealthy Republican donor Harold Simmons sat down for an interview with the Wall Street Journal in which he explained why he decided to donate $18 million to conservative super PACs. To put it bluntly: he despises and fears President Barack Obama.

"Any of these Republicans would make a better president than that socialist, Obama," Simmons told the Journal (subscription required), in what is the piece's most provocative quote. "Obama is the most dangerous American alive … because he would eliminate free enterprise in this country."

An industrialist who heads Contran Corp., Simmons is not as well known as his fellow deep-pocketed, super PAC-backing brethren, Sheldon Adelson and Foster Friess. But the total number of dollars he's given makes him the biggest giver so far this election cycle. His sit-down with the Journal provided one of the first actual windows into what animates his politics.

The 80-year-old Texan takes his political advice from Karl Rove. And at another point in the interview, he insisted that if more campaign commercials had been run tying then-Sen. Obama to Bill Ayers, "we" -- as in conservatives -- "could have killed Obama." By this, he is speaking metaphorically, though the impression is left that those very ads will be featured more prominently in 2012.




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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Here We Go With This Bull Again,Whites Are Not Only Christians In America.


Evangelist Franklin Graham called President Barack Obama's religious views into question on Tuesday, stating that he does not know for sure if Obama is a Christian.

Graham, who is the son of Billy Graham and the CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Obama "has said he's a Christian, so I just have to assume that he is."

"All I know is I'm a sinner, and God has forgiven me of my sins... you have to ask every person," he said about whether he could say for sure that Obama is indeed of the Christian faith.



Sunday, February 19, 2012

Rick Santorum Is Now Running For The Pastor-in-Chief


Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum stood by his assertion Saturday that Barack Obama supports a "phony theology not based on the bible," according to the Washington Post.

Santorum also fired back at the Obama campaign for calling the statement "low." Addressing an audience in a luncheon at the Ohio Christian Alliance, Santorum said the real low is the administration's stance of trying to force religious affiliated institutions to have contraception on hand.

“It is a new low,” he told reporters at the luncheon. “The president has reached a new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before. And if he doesn’t want to call his imposition of his values a theology, that’s fine. But it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them.”











Read More http://www.theroot.com/santorum-obama-bible-theology-americans

Monday, February 6, 2012

Speed Traps In The Sky; Another Way To Catch You A DWB.


A bill to speed the nation's switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday.

The bill passed the Senate 75-20, despite labor opposition to a deal cut between the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House on rules governing union organizing elections at airlines and railroads. The House had passed the bill last week, and it now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.

The bill authorizes $63.4 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration over four years, including about $11 billion toward the air traffic system and its modernization. It accelerates the modernization program by setting a deadline of June 2015 for the FAA to develop new arrival procedures at the nation's 35 busiest airports so planes can land using the more-precise GPS navigation.













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Friday, February 3, 2012

Another GOP Congressman Disrespect President Obama, He Ain't No Kill But Stop Pushing Him.


The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington isn't usually a politically-charged event, since it's hosted by lawmakers from both parties.

But President Barack Obama Thursday told attendees that his Christian faith influences his economic policies, including his call for the wealthy to pay more in taxes, and his health care overhaul.

Apparently the President's sentiments did not sit well with Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-11th District).
"Congressman Gingrey quietly left Thursday's prayer breakfast because he was disturbed and offended by the president's use of prayer and reflection time for partisan politics and class warfare," a spokesperson for Rep. Gingrey said in an email to 11Alive News.

"Rep. Gingrey found the breakfast to be inspiring until President Obama began politicking, which the congressman found to be inappropriate," the Gingrey spokesperson added.

President Obama said his tax policies coincide with the teaching of Jesus that "unto whom much is given, much shall be required."

"While he commends the president for his attendance, Rep. Gingrey wanted to hear what was in his heart and not campaign rhetoric," Gingrey's spokesperson said. "He was disappointed that the president seemed to be unaware of the reason so many gathered there today."

Obama didn't mention Mitt Romney or the other Republican candidates. His remarks came a day after Romney created a flap by saying he's "not concerned about the very poor" or about the "very rich."

Obama said his faith also guides some of his foreign policy decisions, including supporting foreign aid or sending U.S. troops to Africa to target a violent rebel group.





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Monday, January 30, 2012

How Much More Disrespect Does The President Have To Take...Enough is Enough.


One prominent conservative talker is admitting what conservatives are really thinking.

Llimited resources versus barack obama who i saw last night wow a huge crowd in washington at this big dinner. i mean, a bunch of us sitting next to each other, very prominent conservatives, former bush cabinet members , we're looking at each other going, i don't know if mitt romney can beat him.

So prominent conservatives are scared. now they are doing what they do best when they're scared. playing ugly politics. here's the head of the republican national committee , reince priebus.

In a few months, this is all going to be ancient history and we're going to talk about our own little captain scatino who is president obama abandoning the ship here and is more interested in campaigning than doing his job as president.

Comparing the president to a man charged with manslaughter? a man charged with this reckless cruise ship disaster where 17 people died and 16 are still missing. and here's tea party freshman alan west in florida over the weekend.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the american people somewhere else. you can take it to europe. you can take it to the bottom of the sea. you can take it to the north poll, but get the hell out of the united states of america . yeah, i said hell.





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Friday, January 27, 2012

Bill Mahar calls it Like it is DISRESPECTFUL.


The media has been abuzz for the past two days over the allegedly confrontational conversation between Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and President Obama. Some analysts saw dark racial undertones in the way Brewer challenged the president, and on his show tonight, Bill Maher waded into this controversy and got into a loud argument with the panel over whether Brewer was being “disrespectful” towards Obama.





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First Arizona Governor, Now Arizona Police Disrespect President Obama.


The Secret Service has launched an investigation into Peoria, Ariz. Police Sgt. Pat Shearer after a picture appeared on his Facebook page showing seven young men holding up a shirt with President Barack Obama's face on it, riddled with bullet holes.

The photo, uploaded to Facebook on Jan. 20 with the caption, "Another trip to the ranch," shows the group in a line, four holding firearms, with the perforated t-shirt between them bearing Obama's likeness above his 2008 campaign slogan, "Hope." The picture was removed on Thursday, after the Secret Service began looking into the matter.






Thursday, January 26, 2012

Class Warfare could Be next Civil War.


Following up on President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address, Dr. Boyce Watkins writes at News One that he agrees with the president that tackling economic disparities is a matter of national security. America, he argues, has become a nation of profligate consumers who do not care for their fellow man.



Wednesday, January 25, 2012

GOP Speak Their True Feeling about Black People.


Most of the "Sh-- People Say" videos that have sprung up in recent weeks involve actors mocking -- and, often, exaggerating -- the types of statements they associate with various groups. But when it comes to things Republican politicians says about and to the black community, there's no need for a script or embellishment. Jezebel has pulled together real-life clips of quotes from everyone from Romney to Cain that make more of a statement than any spoof could.

Many of these gems will (unfortunately) sound familiar:

"Not all cultures are equal."

"I don't want to make black people's lives better."

"Who let the dogs out?"

"I didn't say that ... people said I said 'black' ... I didn't."

"We have the ability when we recognize that something is wrong to change it ... we no longer have slavery. That's a good thing."

"A third of the black people in this country, at least, are thinking for themselves."

"I know this from my own experience that blacks are not the greatest swimmers."

And there are more where those came from. By the end of the 2012 presidential race, there will probably be enough for a feature-length film




Read More http://www.theroot.com/buzz/stuff-republicans-say-black-people

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

President One of Five to have 50% gain in Stock Market.


President Obama just joined an exclusive club.

He is one of only five presidents to see the Dow Jones Industrial Average gain 50 percent or more through his first three years in office, according to a report from Bespoke Investment Group. Obama, who has overseen a 60 percent gain in the Dow since taking office, joins two Democrats, Bill Clinton and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and two Republicans, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D. Eisenhower in the club.



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Letter Asking For Help, Has to be Sold to Help.




An unemployed Maine carpenter was forced to sell a handwritten letter from Barack Obama that he received after writing to the President asking if America's future was as bleak as it seems, because he was broke.

Charles Oliver, a 53-year-old former Marine, was forced to sell the letter on eBay to meet expenses, the New York Post reported.

"The reason for this letter, sir, is to ask my president one specific question. Mr. President, are we as Americans going to be alright?" Oliver wrote.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Congressman call President Obama " Tar Baby". Wtf.


For some members, yes. But others won’t be attending the president’s annual address to Congress at all.
Denver’s Fox 31 reported Monday that Rep. Doug Lamborn, a three-term Republican congressman from Colorado, will not attend the State of the Union.

The station reported that, according to Lamborn’s office, the congressman “does not support the policies of Barack Obama,” including the president’s recent recess appointments and his administration’s rejection of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.

Lamborn last made headlines in August, when he compared the idea of working together with Obama to “touching a tar baby.”


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Rick Santorum support claim that President is a Muslim.

Rick Santorum said Monday he doesn't see the need to correct audience members who make misstatements. His comment came after a woman critical of President Obama at a forum misidentified the president as Muslim

The woman told Santorum, "He is an avowed Muslim and my question is, why isn't something being done to get him out of our government?" Santorum responded: "Believe me ... I'm doing everything I can to get him out of the government."



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Sunday, January 22, 2012

House Speaker cries foul before even hearing what he has to say.


House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Sunday panned as "pathetic" the 2012 agenda President Barack Obama plans to roll out Tuesday in his State of the Union address.

Boehner said he already "read a lot about what the president is going to talk about Tuesday night and it sounds to me like the same old policies we've been seeing: more spending, higher taxes, more regulations -- the same policies that haven't helped our economy. They've made it worse."

"If that's what the president is going to talk about Tuesday night, I think it's pathetic," the speaker said on "FOX News Sunday."




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