Barack Obama High School?

[jktoooo]

^^
You also gotta ignore someone who says stuff like "growing up white too". Sorry for letting that slide by not mentioning it in the last post.

Pure spammer if I've ever seen one.

he sure didn't grow up "black" in the ghetto or the south.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

it's this blatant racism that is all over this string that got Obama elected president because he sho as hell had no qualifications behind him.

Both posts fail.

he sure didn't grow up "black" in the ghetto or the south.

 

[Inwood]

It's good to see threads get derailed with ridiculous arguments as usual. I guess I'll be back in another few months to see if things change. Probably not.

 

[opinterph]

racial profiling is EXACTLY what you did. You characterized physical traits and then named someone a race based on physical traits ---- if that is NOT racial profiling then I don't know what is.

Identifying or classifying someone as a member of a particular race according to their physical traits relates more to anthropology than to racial profiling.

Racial profiling is the inclusion of racial or ethnic characteristics in determining whether a person is considered likely to commit a particular type of crime or an illegal act or to behave in a "predictable" manner. [Wiki]

 

[jktoooo]

Both posts fail.

wow!

that coming from someone who just racially profiled someone!

Hilarious!
lmao!

 

[jktoooo]

Identifying or classifying someone as a member of a particular race according to their physical traits relates more to anthropology than to racial profiling.

I'm glad you cleared that up.

but in my mind if you classify someone as a race based on their ethnicity, this is very much like profiling someone in a race based on their looks. This is part of the entire problem with the "race" issue and liberals.

I realize the crime issue has to be a part of this to seriously be considered "racial profiling".

But my overall point is true about Obama, If he wasn't black, he wouldn't have been elected President.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

but in my mind if you classify someone as a race based on their ethnicity, this is very much like profiling someone in a race based on their looks.

What you just described is something we ALL do, and it's REQUISITE especially in crimes. When someone was just raped we don't have time to worry about being politically correct as the police are asking for a description. "Well, he had features reminiscent of the aboriginal peoples of the eastern region of......"

It isn't a problem until you treat someone differently BECAUSE of those traits.

 

[jktoooo]

What you just described is something we ALL do, and it's REQUISITE especially in crimes. When someone was just raped we don't have time to worry about being politically correct as the police are asking for a description. "Well, he had features reminiscent of the aboriginal peoples of the eastern region of......"

It isn't a problem until you treat someone differently BECAUSE of those traits.

the problem is we have become a society that DOES treat people based on their racial traits......we walk on egg shells about it all the time.

that's the problem and is why Obama was elected president because if you didn't vote for him so many people out there were saying you're a racist if you don't vote for him.

It's reverse racism.....the society we have become.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

It's reverse racism.....the society we have become.

There's a severe irony here. You're insisting that we DON'T treat people different based on his race, yet you're reducing his win to race, you're stripping him of his individuality, outstanding character, articulation, education, and drive. What, other than his race, makes him UNqualified?

Obama is just as capable as his predecessors, and he's FAR more credible than George jr. People weren't complaining about fairness and standards when he was ushered into the White House on his father's coattails. For some odd, unexplainable reason we assumed he got there by playing by the books and being qualified.

Obama isn't some drug dealer or low-budget house-painter that walked off the street into a white house, he's a prominent public figure who's been in the national spotlight since 2004, LONG before his name was in the presidential running. He's a family man which speaks of his values, especially in a community ripe with absentee fathers.

To reduce his win to race completely dehumanizes him and turns him into the race cartoon character that you're asking not be used.

 

[jktoooo]

There's a severe irony here. You're insisting that we DON'T treat people different based on his race,

No, you don't get it.....WE DO TREAT people based on race differently. They're entitled to privileges and such. I mean my god we have affirmative action the entitles certain races (not whites) jobs. Yes, indeed we treat races differently.

yet you're reducing his win to race, you're stripping him of his individuality, outstanding character, articulation, education, and drive. What, other than his race, makes him UNqualified?

"individuality, outstanding character, articulation, education and drive" should not be the ONLY factors to get someone elected as President. Experience, tenure and Impressive accomplishments SHOULD get one elected President, these were almost entirely missing from his resume.

Obama is just as capable as his predecessors, and he's FAR more credible than George jr. People weren't complaining about fairness and standards when he was ushered into the White House on his father's coattails. He's white so we assume he got there by playing by the books and being qualified.

Bush II was governor of Texas.....complete and full EXECUTIVE Experience. Obama was a "community organizer". That's it! and if we look at his accomplishments, my god, there is virtually NOTHING except having run a campaign that played on the ignorance of the people.

Obama isn't some drug dealer or low-budget house-painter that walked off the street into a white house, he's a prominent public figure who's been in the national spotlight since 2004, LONG before his name was in the presidential running. He's a family man which speaks of his values, especially in a community ripe with absentee fathers.

The political climate that Obama came out of is what he will most likely turn America into. For he did NOTHING to change the corrupt political climate in Chicago, for we will without a doubt see the corrupt Chicago politics take over the White House.


Had he changed the corrupt political climate there, then that would have been a significant accomplishment, but he accomplished virtually nothing.

To reduce his win to race completely dehumanizes him and turns him into the race cartoon character that you're asking not be used.

I seriously cannot think of any other reason why he won the election. He had no serious accomplishments.

in fact, name just a few that changed the political scene in Illinois. Illinois and Chicago are still riddled with corruption. a very significant number of times while Senator he simply voted "present" rather than yes or no on issues.

 

[White Eagle]

Well said fabulouslyghetto.
As for jktoooo I find his posts racial. I am of Native American (Indian) heritage and I take "half breed" as a racial slur. He "sho as hell" reeks of bigotry also. I can only assume he is a white republican. They are all like that.
How is that for racial profiling!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I mean my god we have affirmative action the entitles certain races (not whites) jobs.

Affirmative action isn't limited to race, it also works for women. The problem isn't as simple as people like you make it seem. There are statistical disadvantages for minorities and women, low pay, less likely to be hired for certain jobs. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

Doing nothing perpetuates the inequality. The most common misconception about affirmative action is that hard-working whites across the land are kicked out of their office and their job is given to thugs who come in wearing track suits listening to their MP3 players, kicking their feet up on the desk.

Affirmative action isn't THAT prevelant, and it often goes to people who are qualified and deserve the job. White men have been running the show since day 1, believe me, affirmative action is barely a chip off the pedastal.

Experience, tenure and Impressive accomplishments SHOULD get one elected President, these were almost entirely missing from his resume.

Those things don't guarantee a good leader. Lincoln wasn't experienced, neither did Mckinley, Harding, Reagan wasn't terribly accomplished. Inexperience wasn't really that much of a threat until Obama. It's an exaggerated talking point.

Bush II was governor of Texas.....complete and full EXECUTIVE Experience.

You just opened a can of worms. Can you name Bush's accomplishments as governor of Texas? What did he accomplish in his term?

Had he changed the corrupt political climate there

Terribly oversimplified. Chicago has been corrupt for decades, how can you possibly expect one man to change that system?

but he accomplished virtually nothing.

The same can be said about a majority of our presidents. Nothing said about Obama can't be said about a majority of politicians since out country's founding. The x factor is that now all of a sudden we care about experience and resumes, whereas in the past we seemed to assume they were implied.

You named Bush's experience in Texas, but didn't list a single thing he had done. Did he reduce the crime rate? Lower taxes? Anything to stop immigration? Pollution? What did he do in Texas?

 

[White Eagle]

No, you don't get it.....WE DO TREAT people based on race differently. They're entitled to privileges and such. I mean my god we have affirmative action the entitles certain races (not whites) jobs. Yes, indeed we treat races differently.



"individuality, outstanding character, articulation, education and drive" should not be the ONLY factors to get someone elected as President. Experience, tenure and Impressive accomplishments SHOULD get one elected President, these were almost entirely missing from his resume.



Bush II was governor of Texas.....complete and full EXECUTIVE Experience. Obama was a "community organizer". That's it! and if we look at his accomplishments, my god, there is virtually NOTHING except having run a campaign that played on the ignorance of the people.



The political climate that Obama came out of is what he will most likely turn America into. For he did NOTHING to change the corrupt political climate in Chicago, for we will without a doubt see the corrupt Chicago politics take over the White House.


Had he changed the corrupt political climate there, then that would have been a significant accomplishment, but he accomplished virtually nothing.



I seriously cannot think of any other reason why he won the election. He had no serious accomplishments.

in fact, name just a few that changed the political scene in Illinois. Illinois and Chicago are still riddled with corruption. a very significant number of times while Senator he simply voted "present" rather than yes or no on issues.

maybe you would like to tell us what "Experience, tenure and Impressive accomplishments" did gwb have. I would love to see this answer.

 

[jktoooo]

maybe you would like to tell us what "Experience, tenure and Impressive accomplishments" did gwb have. I would love to see this answer.

I'm not going to get into this defending W. I didn't vote for him, nor have i ever really supported him, except the war on terror....and that's an entirely different conversation.

What amazes me is that Obama got voted in because of his personality and charisma, nothing more.

NO Obama zombie follower during the election campaign could name ONE serious accomplishment. The only thing they could say is "hope" and "change".

that's it.

 

[White Eagle]

You named Bush's experience in Texas, but didn't list a single thing he had done. Did he reduce the crime rate? Lower taxes? Anything to stop immigration? Pollution? What did he do in Texas?

He established the most murders by lethal injection in the country.

 

[White Eagle]

I'm not going to get into this defending W. I didn't vote for him, nor have i ever really supported him, except the war on terror....and that's an entirely different conversation.

What amazes me is that Obama got voted in because of his personality and charisma, nothing more.

NO Obama zombie follower during the election campaign could name ONE serious accomplishment. The only thing they could say is "hope" and "change".

that's it.

I didn't think you would have an answer. Your posts are just for you to see your posts.

 

[jktoooo]

I didn't think you would have an answer. Your posts are just for you to see your posts.

Like I said, I'm not into defending W. Especially with leftists.

No matter who it might be, anyone who decides to defend bush against a leftists is just going to lose, it doesn't matter, the leftist has his mind made up.

btw --- if my posts were just for me to see my own posts, then why you even address it?

geez. such lunacy here sometimes.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

What amazes me is that Obama got voted in because of his personality and charisma, nothing more.

I know right! That's an outrage! This is the first time in history the country hasn't elected someone based on their credentials, character, and experience. Unheard of, just unheard of.

Either way, he's got a school named after him. That's kick-ass.

 

[jktoooo]

I know right! That's an outrage! This is the first time in history the country hasn't elected someone based on their credentials, character, and experience. Unheard of, just unheard of.

Either way, he's got a school named after him. That's kick-ass.

I disagree ghetto.

It is wrong to vote in someone we don't know anything about. He has been secretive about his past.

He has very shady connections to shady people.

Those that voted for him voted based on what made them feel better about themselves, rather than what was LOGICAL and RIGHT.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

It is wrong to vote in someone we don't know anything about.

It's what we've been doing since day 1 my friend. Difference is, this time it's an unknown, half-black person. These standards and qualifications and requisites didn't exist for the most part until now.

He has very shady connections to shady people.

Find me a politician that doesn't and I'll paint your whole house for free, and pay for the supplies myself, you just pick out the color(s).

Those that voted for him voted based on what made them feel better about themselves, rather than what was LOGICAL and RIGHT.

Once again, that's what we've been doing all along. People voted for Bush cuz he seemed like a good drinking buddy. The very reason we've had 43 white presidents is because people vote for what's familiar to them. If you think people have been voting for the right reasons all this time, you've got another thing comin'.