Teabagging racist-email-sending Dr.: 'I'm not a bigot, I did a counseling day for black Boy Scouts'

He LIES!

yes he is a racist!
i am so tired of 'them' reacting by giving some lameazz excuse trying to turn what they said or did into something that was 'not meant to harm'--uh-huh--he lies!
And I am glad he got put on BLAST and got Called on what he said and did.  he thinks that image is funny without a doubt!  he said so.  so now he doesn't???  uh-huh...
He is being removed because he still wants people to continue to live in some slave mentality given strength by the bush years--and they think that stuff will still float!
NOT!

the praying activist, WTm-

by Faith I am part of His Family!

Gal 3:26

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by: wisdomteachesme @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 13:46:32 PM CDT

no more racist than the lovely old lady featured in this video

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid...

(jebus, where do these people come from?)

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by: ol cranky @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:16:15 PM CDT

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Elite Bigotry

He's also probably part of the upper echelon which make up a good portion of the Repugnacan Party who believe that everything's hunky dory with healthcare (because they and their family have coverage) and don't believe there's a need to change a thing.

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by: Jon Michaels @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 13:48:47 PM CDT

But hey, he's concerned about "patient freedom"!

Like how if I get sick I'm "free" to choose between debts I'll never be able to get out from under or just living with it and hoping it's not fatal!

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by: M @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:09:33 PM CDT

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a new defense for inappropriate conduct?

based on this defense, a man who hires a woman is free to commit sexual harassment too? (you can pretty much interchange and group and inappropriate action here)

wouldn't a more accurate satirical image against health care reform that puts "financial and decision-making power into the hands of patients and taking it from government and insurance companies," include forms in triplicate plus long lines a la the DMV or, if you want to say it's ass back-wards, show somebody getting a government code treatment that is a leeching* or something along those lines?

(*yes, for the sake of argument, I'm ignoring the fact that leeching has some actual medical uses)

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by: ol cranky @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:09:32 PM CDT

People just don't get it

It's 2009 and people just don't understand that being racially ignorant and inconsiderate in this generation is just as heinous as being racially hateful in past generations. Okay so he doesn't hate black people but he wasn't raised with wolves either. After 400 years of oppression and 43 white Presidents you would think everyone would have some clue that people might get a little indignant about the first African American President portrayed in a traditionally hate-mongering stereotype joke for whatever reason. I guess that is the problem with a color blind society, it still fails to challenge those who think that a crazy uncle, a grandmother who keeps cats and a few cousins living in the next town over qualify as "diversity".

Always thinking about it...

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by: kudo451 @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:13:12 PM CDT

Jim Crow Museum

Before anyone starts in with the arguments that this depiction of Obama isn't racist, please visit the website of the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University.

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/...

Read through the site and educate yourself on the history of these kind of caricatures. The "witch doctor" caricature isn't specifically covered on the site. But, it was fairly common.

Here is a controversial David Horsey cartoon from last year:

It is absolutely, undeniably racist. Whether it is Mugabe or Obama, we don't depict black folks as witch doctors, natives, monkeys, etc.


When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:13:29 PM CDT

The racism is *especially* blatant

when the cartoonist goes for the racist stereotype over the should-have-been-obvious 1984/Big Brother/MiniTruth approach (which would have been a better fit for the supposed position being mocked anyway).

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by: M @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 15:44:27 PM CDT

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Mugabe deserves the skull necklace

It would be appropriate to show him in expensive designer duds, though.

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by: NancyP @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 18:12:52 PM CDT

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I won't bother to argue over Mugabe; he's beneath contempt.

However, the "witch doctor" tag could easily be pinned on former South African president Thabo Mbeki, whose AIDS policies led to at least 300,000 avoidable deaths in his country.

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by: Pollyanna @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 19:35:07 PM CDT

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Mbeki is no "witch doctor"

Mbeki has a Master of Economics degree from the University of Sussex. He is a highly educated, modern politician -- regardless of his AIDS policies.

Portraying a black men like Mbeki, Mugabe and Obama as primative, tribal witch doctors is extreme racism.

Mbeki's parents were educated school teachers. Mugabe is a former teacher who has degrees in Education and Law.

We have to get people to stop thinking that Africans are primative tribal people. Most of them are not. We have to condemn people who do this kind of thing. It is the most basic form of racism. It is the kind of thinking that slaveowners had in the South.  

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 21:08:45 PM CDT

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Okay, he's an educated witch doctor. That's even worse.

Mbeki has been a prominent AIDS denier. Twenty years after it had been proven that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was the cause of  AIDS, Mbeki was still disputing the evidence, delaying proper medical care for his people.  Not to worry, though, his minister of health was on the case, advocating the use of garlic and beetroot to treat HIV infection.  Mbeki proved to be not just an educated and cultured witch doctor, but a thoroughly ineffective one.

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by: Pollyanna @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 22:03:35 PM CDT

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I hope you're kidding

Cuz calling Mbeki any kind of witch doctor very racist.

If Mbeki were a white AIDS denier -- and there are plenty of them -- you would not call him a witch doctor.

Because he is a black African, that's something that pops into your head due to racist conditioning and stereotypes.

Mbeki is no different than U.S. politicians who appeal to religious fundamentalists. It is politics plain and simple.

How is what you've written any different than making a caricature of Obama with a bone through his nose and wearing a loin cloth?

Mbeki is a modern politician. He isn't a native who lives in a grass hut. He may be a corrupt and pandering politician who knows what he's doing is destructive. That's enough of a condemnation. We don't have to stoop to racist insults.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 23:56:05 PM CDT

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I'm basically onboard with you...

...but the truth is I have called and do call white AIDS deniers "witch doctors."  Anyone, black OR white, who prescribes garlic and beetroot against HIV deserves the moniker.  It comes, not from a racist place, but from a quack medicine place.  Still, it is probably a term best avoided to avoid any confusion between the two.

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by: DavidinPS @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 11:46:11 AM CDT

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This is patently ridiculous.

Your statement is racist, pure and simple.

Because Mbeki is African, you call him a witch doctor. Do you going around calling white people who make claims about HIV / AIDS, or GLBTs, claims that a ridiculously unscientific witch doctors? Do you go around calling white Christians who "cure" GLBTs witch doctors?

If not, why is Mbeki a witch doctor?

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by: rfloh @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:05:43 AM CDT

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No white liberal guilt here.

Do you going around calling white people who make claims about HIV / AIDS...witch doctors?

If the claims of such people include the efficacy of garlic and beetroot as a treatment for AIDS in conjunction with attempts to ban the use of so-called Western medicine, what do you think? I'd say it's a slam dunk.

Do you go around calling white Christians who "cure" GLBTs witch doctors?

Do you know any who include the use of roots and herbs as part of the "cure?" If not, then, probably not.

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by: Pollyanna @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 03:51:57 AM CDT

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Yes, because roots and herbs have no medicinal properties.

Because so called western medicine has never used extracts derived from roots and herbs as medicinal cures. Oh no.Because western medicine has not known for a long time about salicylic acid, which white willow bark is rich in, is a very effective treatment for paik, hence aspirin. Only witch doctors know this. Only witch doctors would use roots and herbs as medicinal cures.

Actually, given that white Christians believe that teh Gay can be prayed away, yes, you SHOULD be calling them witch doctors. If not, you are a racist.

And what the heck has white liberal guilt have to do with the issue?

What does criticism of portrayal of Africans as witchdoctors have to do with white liberal guilt? Note, no one is defending Mbeki's idiocy over AIDS treatment.  

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by: rfloh @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:28:53 AM CDT

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On the other hand...

...the vast majority of people that the educated (and, I believe, clinically insane) Mugabe exploits with his rhetoric are undereducated. The wishes of African Americans cannot conceal the fact that belief in folk remedies (a euphemism for witchcraft) is a major stumbling block to AIDS awareness in many parts of Africa, that witchcraft (and its Christian sister, demonic-possession) is a major political problem exploited continent-wide. Therefore, the depiction of a wicked African politician (preferably by an African cartoonist, not that fool Horsey) as a force for obscurantism, manipulation and death may have its place within a culture of African satire.

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by: steerpike66 @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 03:38:16 AM CDT

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and let's not get hung up on the feathers and bones

Witchcraft is just religion with practical rituals; witch-doctors are just priests in fancier costumes. Many of the things these witch-doctors say are said by evangelical Christians: shirts and ties notwithstanding.

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by: steerpike66 @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 03:41:30 AM CDT

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Prefacing this

By saying I am a white male, and apparently privilege just oozes out of my pores....

When the Continent of Africa stops acting like a bunch of ass-backwards tribal bozos, I'll stop treating them like it.  That goes for the entire continent, black, white, arabic, whatever.  

I know there are plenty of bright, intelligent, and forward-looking folks in the various countries within the continent, but they never seem to be the ones in charge, it's always the ones that are more than willing to use the sins and atrocities of the past, and the worst of thuggish strong-arm tactics to maintain and expand their power that seem to get voted in (which frankly, I'm not so sure I'd call it voting in most of those countries, but then again, after the 2000 Elections here, I'm not so sure about the US anymore either.)

Which does kind of force me to be Hypocrite here.  But comeon people, it's 2009, can at least SOME of the countries over there work on moving forward, even if they have to drag the rest of their country, kicking and screaming?

(And no, the irony of people like the Peter, and Maggie Gallagher, and groups like the KKK and WBC here in the US doesn't escape me....   I wish they'd join the current century as well....)

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by: sfalken @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 12:49:18 PM CDT

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Complex history

Africa has a complex history that includes hundreds of years of colonial imperialism.

Most Americans know about the slave plantations here and are ignorant of the fact that millions of Africans worked as slave labor on plantations and in mines in Africa. They made the colonial powers rich and suffered horribly themselves.

The unbelievable thing is that things haven't changed much. There are still ruling elite classes and vast poverty across the continent.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 13:00:07 PM CDT

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One thing that really hasn't change much is western meddling

in Africa. And countries such as France treating many of those countries as effectively colonies.

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by: rfloh @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:22:00 AM CDT

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Can people like

at least pay attention to the fact that western countries like the US, and France, are STILL, in 2009, meddling in Africa, helping to prop up corrupt, authoritarian regimes?

The US is propping up the Mubarak regime in Egypt, for example.

Quite a few of France's former colonies are still run in many cases, along the lines of dependencies. France helps to prop up a ruling authoritarian elite in many of its former colonies. In return, these countries are pretty much still colonies in all but name.

And yes privilege does ooze out of you pores. Not because you are white. Because you are American.

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by: rfloh @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:20:02 AM CDT

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Yeah, but Fritz is right

depicting Mugabe as a witch doctor is "extreme racism."

Far better to depict that fool as an overgrown cancer cell. "Cause that's what he is.

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by: kevinchi @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 12:58:34 PM CDT

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I still think

the appropriate cartoon would be a reference to either 1984 or Stalin (Lysenkoism!) -- in both cases the "authoritarian leader dictates reality" element is more strongly present, and both would avoid the ridiculous racism.

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by: M @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 14:25:16 PM CDT

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It is too bad that the cartoonist included the caption, "witch doctor."

Without it, the cartoon would have been pitch-perfect satirical political commentary.

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by: Pollyanna @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 16:52:00 PM CDT

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No.

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by: Chris From Old Europe @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 17:30:37 PM CDT

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No it wouldn't

Firstly, the denial had nothing to do with health, and everything to do with politics.

Secondly, Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe. But not because he denied that there was no cholera. The problems that Mugabe has caused extend far beyond that cholera outbreak.

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by: rfloh @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 02:24:49 AM CDT

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Without the "witch doctor" tag,

Mugabe is satirically rendered as a prototypical post-colonial Big Man. With it, white liberals get bogged down with their racial guilt. Of course, most Africans, black or white, would have no such problems with the cartoon as is.

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by: Pollyanna @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 04:06:34 AM CDT

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You don't need to have the tag to know what is meant

Why do you assume that most Africans would be OK with the cartoon?

And that you portray people with a different opinion as just having to with racial guilt is telling. I think you just defend your own racism and don't want to acknowledge it.

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by: Chris From Old Europe @ Mon Jul 27, 2009 at 06:25:50 AM CDT

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With it, or without it,

some people such as you get bogged down with the idea of others being bogged down with racial guilt.

How does the cartoon without the tag satire Mugabe as the post colonial Big Man? Do post colonial Big Men go around half naked in fur, feather and bones, etc? Hardly.

If you want to satire Mugabe as the post colonial Big Man, he should be portrayed lording around in expensive clothes, expensive cars, living in palaces, playing golf, going on safari hunts, holding a tea cup with his pinky properly curled, wearing a monocle, while he declares that the country is in great shape, while his people live in abject poverty: in other words, he has taken the place of the colonists, he is now the one exploiting the people of the country. THAT would be a satirical rendition of Mugabe as the post colonial Big Man.

And I definitely am NOT going to take your word that most Africans have no such problems with the cartoon as is. My personal experience is that most post colonial people DO have a problem with such portrayals.

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by: rfloh @ Tue Jul 28, 2009 at 02:34:34 AM CDT

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you know it's a conservative cartoonist...

...when he has to write the subject's name across his loincloth for the benefit of his idiot readers.

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by: steerpike66 @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 03:46:23 AM CDT

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Fritz, how would you analyze this political cartoon?

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by: Pollyanna @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 16:59:51 PM CDT

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Hum...

I guess it depends on when Horsey drew it.

It is possible that this was done as a counterpoint to the objections many people had to the Mugabe cartoon.

"I'll show them. I'll draw me a WHITE witch doctor."

Just a hunch. I could be wrong.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 17:22:37 PM CDT

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Oh for Pete's sake!

I swear by all that's right and holy that the only people left who admit to being in the Republican party are the wing nuts -- you know...white supremacists, fundagelicals and nativists!

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by: BobbiCW @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:16:47 PM CDT

Don't forget

The birthers!

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by: kansasr @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:21:00 PM CDT

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This reminds me...

...of an elderly aunt of mine from Texas, now deceased, who said this jaw dropping statement to me without a whit of self awareness:

"I'm not a racist.  Every week I take meals on wheels up to ni**ertown."

Yikes.

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by: DavidinPS @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 14:57:15 PM CDT

Yikes

I actually had a similar experience today with my now disabled mother.  She is a huge Obama admirer and happens also to be a fan of Tiger Woods (to me golf is like an anesthetic).  Nevertheless while filling me in all about Tiger's family life etc, she casually mentioned that while his Asian ancestry comes through in his feature "he does have n****r lips though".  I was shocked as hell, but I'm not sure she even realized she said that.

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by: onthesea @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 22:47:30 PM CDT

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This is really upsetting. This one is just....

As an anglo, I am embarrassed and ashamed to see what people are doing in the name of being "white." I disown it. It just makes me sick to see the sickness in some people's minds.

Sickness. That's what it is. I'll call it that. Sickness.

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by: night owl @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 15:36:20 PM CDT

Racist attacks on Obama are going to be a feature of his administration.

That's because the US is a cesspool of bigotry. Obama will face it for the length of his time in office and it's disgusting. No one should have to put up with that. Not him. Not Gates. Not anyone. It should, in fact, be against the law, but we all know that's not going to happen.

However, condemning the endemic racism in the US does nothing to excuse Obama himself. It can't be used to screen him from being politically indicted for his own brand of bigotry - christer homohating and pandering. He's every bit as vile as the racists. They both reject the idea that they're prejudiced.

So to is the homohating and pandering of what appears to be a solid majority of Democrats in Congress?  "Fierce defender" sits in the White House and Democrats have a huge majority in the House with and 60 members in the Senate. We should be advancing by leaps and bounds into sun lit upland pastures. But we're not. They can't even muster the courage to put a temporary moratorium on bigoted discharges from Clintons DADT, much less repeal the damn thing.

Where is an inclusive tough ENDA and hate crimes and why hasn't Clintons DOMA been repealed?

When will the war end?

When do we get socialized mecicine?

When will the 10 million jobs we lost last year be restored with good union pay and benefits?

When will the bankers and bosses who looted the economy go to jail?  

It seems that the biggest difference between the Democrats and Republicans centers on who are better liars - the Democrats win hands down.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

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by: donal1944 @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 15:56:14 PM CDT

I have to discourage my friends on the right on this

The more attacks that scream racism on the president, the more power you are giving to him making the fight against him harder.

My uncle forwarded the picture to me as well. :(

Attack his ideas, not his culture.  

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by: mmunson @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 02:04:55 AM CDT

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"Attack his ideas, not his culture"

And exactly what does a witch doctor have to do with Barack Obama's culture?

Obama was raised by white women from the Midwest. He has only been to Kenya three times in his life and doesn't speak the language.

If we were going to make fun of Obama's cultural background -- the one under which he was raised, we would have to depict him as a KANSAS FARMER in bib overalls and standing in a cornfield.

Nobody does this. Why? This is the reality of his cultural background. It is one he shares with millions of Americans -- white, black, hispanic.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 12:07:47 PM CDT

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"Perhaps someone should buy him a membership to The Valley Club."

Or the Klan, if he's not already a life member.

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by: Pollyanna @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 17:27:14 PM CDT

I had to laugh...

at that poster of Obama. I just don't know whether I'm laughing because it's so completely ludicrous, or because it was so completely divorced from reality that if I don't laugh I'd cry. Either way there's a sick, twisted irony which the designer obviously completely missed.

England's National Health Service is the planet's fifth largest employer, with 1.3 million employees, but the cost per person is still less than half that of the US healthcare system and the NHS delivers better results. According to a recent NY Times article, healthcare makes up a sixth of the US economy; running the NHS costs England a thirteenth of its economy. One reason for the lower cost is that the NHS is driven by results, not profit. Patients don't get expensive treatments when a cheaper one would be just as effective. The US system actively encourages the use of expensive and frequently unnecessary treatments, because they mean bigger profits for doctors and corporations.

So we can take as a given that the US has the most inefficient, expensive and out-dated healthcare system in the West. So when Obama tries to bring it into line with methods long-since proven elsewhere, why on Earth do they accuse him of a step backwards into tribalism?

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Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.

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by: tavdy79 @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 17:32:29 PM CDT

Oh yes...

Heaven forbid we take the profit out of health care! >shocked look<!

The GOP's god is profit even though they do obsessively declare themselves followers of a prophet.

That's the reason why the country has been slowly sinking and getting worse since Reagan.

Listen to "TransTalk" every Thursday at 4-5pm ET on http://www.falconradio.org

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by: Marlene @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 04:43:43 AM CDT

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Love the hammer and sickle too.

It's almost like it's 1952 again, isn't it?  The good old days that Conservatives want to preserve, and seem to still think that they are living in.  

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 17:45:10 PM CDT

An image to counter this one...

Here's a group of East African physicians circa the 1950s.

Kenya has had a modern medical profession since the mid to late 1880s. I know stupid Americans think that they all live in grass huts there. But, they've got hospitals and doctors just like ours -- and have had them for a very long time.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 18:03:37 PM CDT

it also indicates that..

...it's ludicrous to talk about 'Africa' as a single entity. there are unimaginable barbarisms and ignorance going on in parts of Africa whiles in others; people have health care and gay marriage. Compare Nigeria, The Congo and Kenya.

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by: steerpike66 @ Sun Jul 26, 2009 at 03:44:31 AM CDT

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Hey, I'm not a racist either.

I once agreed with a black guy when he said it looked like rain.  What more proof could you need?

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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by: QScribe @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 18:45:05 PM CDT

And I'll bet he gave a black boy scout mouth-to-mouth

Or was that mouth-to-cock?  

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by: David Ehrenstein @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 18:58:37 PM CDT

AWFULLY sorry....he got CAUGHT

These miserable lying putrid racists have no governor on their brains when the want to attack a person of color. Wheter it's Sotomayor or Obama or Michelle Obama. Anything goes.

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 19:38:56 PM CDT

He's busted for racism, so he's tap-dancing

The standard response.

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by: PSzymeczek @ Sat Jul 25, 2009 at 23:35:25 PM CDT