tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post1699407690826141417..comments2024-03-16T05:00:38.826-04:00Comments on Egnorance: Who's racist?mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-14721517855774442992013-09-24T05:50:45.097-04:002013-09-24T05:50:45.097-04:00Bachfiend
Correction: I read in The Australian th...Bachfiend<br /><br />Correction: I read in The Australian that about 50,000 came by boat last year. Some of our towns have population less than 50K.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-31859577635939429042013-09-23T23:36:17.440-04:002013-09-23T23:36:17.440-04:00Georgie,
And anyway, the recent Australian electi...Georgie,<br /><br />And anyway, the recent Australian election wasn't a wipeout of the liberal Labor Party by the conservative Liberal Party. Tony ('Mad Monk') Abbott holds a swag of marginal seats. It would have taken just 30,000 people in 11 seats to have voted the other way, and he wouldn't have won the election.<br /><br />I've been expecting the Labor Party to lose this election for the past 3 years. To win, they' needed a swing their way. Impossible with the Murdoch press campaigning against them, and for Abbott, for over 3 years.<br /><br />And despite this, the Liberal Party didn't lift their primary vote much, with their wins coming from preferences from minor parties.<br /><br />One of their policies was to 'stop the boats' with refugee seekers arriving via Indonesia. The immigration minister has announced that refugee boats will no longer be announced as they arrive, so it'll be difficult to know if their policies are working.<br /><br />Not that refugees were much of a problem in Australia. Several thousand a year.bachfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752055891882312204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-60988213912854023952013-09-23T17:52:42.193-04:002013-09-23T17:52:42.193-04:00Georgie,
You need to get out of the bathtub and s...Georgie,<br /><br />You need to get out of the bathtub and stop playing with your toy plastic battleships in your delusional navy.<br /><br />My comment was in response to Egnor's hyperbole in claiming that Obama is the worst president in history. He isn't. George W Bush was much worse, coming to power in much more benign circumstances and dissipating the advantages so quickly.<br /><br />Whether Obama is a good president is certainly open to debate. <br /><br />A book recommendation: Matt Taibbi's 'Griftopia'. It's very funny, criticises both Democrats (including Obamacare) and Republicans. If it's not true, it's still worth reading as fiction, just for its entertainment value.bachfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752055891882312204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-33964979615712638342013-09-23T15:53:34.452-04:002013-09-23T15:53:34.452-04:00Yes. Where would Obama's mission succeed throu...Yes. Where would Obama's mission succeed through racial strife be without, among others, ACORN, the New Black Panthers, Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod and Common?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-72851131147135926202013-09-23T14:47:30.108-04:002013-09-23T14:47:30.108-04:00But the explanation is obvious. Obama uses racial ...But the explanation is obvious. Obama uses racial strife to advance his agenda, and he (and his minions) stoke strife when there's not enough to do the job. <br /><br />For Obama, racial strife is a feature, not a bug. megnornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-45745882457818374042013-09-23T14:35:27.884-04:002013-09-23T14:35:27.884-04:00A comprehensive poll taken by NBC News and the Wal...A comprehensive <a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/130724-July-NBC-WSJ-poll.pdf" rel="nofollow">poll</a> taken by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal this summer showed that Obama failed in the one area in which even the opposition hoped he would succeed: bridging the racial divide. In the month of his inauguration, sixty-three percent of blacks held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July 2013, those figures had fallen to thirty eight percent, a calamitous decline, rarely addressed, never explained.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-42749120351109736432013-09-23T09:16:27.902-04:002013-09-23T09:16:27.902-04:00@KW:
[You’re effectively claiming that the Obama ...@KW:<br /><br />[You’re effectively claiming that the Obama presidency is yet just another case of affirmative action resulting in an unqualified black man rising to a position of authority.]<br /><br />Yep. <br /><br />And his election was plainly the result of racism (Adm Boggs' point above).<br /><br />I have a close friend who is a Lutheran pastor. We have worked together on pro-life causes for years. I saw him the morning after Obama was elected. I was rather upset, and he had tears in his eyes. I told him that I knew how he felt-- we had just elected the most pro-abortion president (a pro-infanticide president) in history. <br /><br />My friend was stunned. He was tearful for joy. "We just elected our first black president. This is so wonderful".<br /><br />I told him that the man's race was irrelevant. He stood for everything we were fighting against. He didn't care. Obama was black-- that's all that mattered. <br /><br />Obama's election was the single most racist thing this country has done since Jim Crow. mregnorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-17192986855392075032013-09-23T08:44:58.964-04:002013-09-23T08:44:58.964-04:00Racism is when 98-100% of wide sample of voters vo...Racism is when 98-100% of wide sample of voters vote for a person of the same race.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-63857754666994096352013-09-23T08:24:08.485-04:002013-09-23T08:24:08.485-04:00Invoking George Bush is the Idiot's Response t...Invoking George Bush is the Idiot's Response to Criticism of Barack Obama.<br /><br />Obama's "recovery" is a mired growth rate, rampant crony capitalism, and policy uncertainty that has frozen business investment. <br /><br />Hopefully, in 2016 American voters will have the good sense that Australian voters so recently exhibited.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-12701650865172338142013-09-23T08:21:16.118-04:002013-09-23T08:21:16.118-04:00Claiming that Obama’s election was racist is racis...Claiming that Obama’s election was racist is racist. You’re effectively claiming that the Obama presidency is yet just another case of affirmative action resulting in an unqualified black man rising to a position of authority. It’s not the country’s misguided love of black people that has led to the problems we’re facing now, it’s the unprecedented obstructionism that has lead Republicans to oppose everything this president has tried to do, including implementing Republican ideas like the health insurance mandate. <br /><br />When Republicans continue to refuse to admit the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency, yet in the same breath go on to argue that Ted Cruise is a natural born citizen because his mother was American, the racism is obvious.<br /><br />-KW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-6212390098572155152013-09-23T07:03:29.580-04:002013-09-23T07:03:29.580-04:00You're right. Racism did cause America to ele...You're right. Racism did cause America to elect the worst president in American history, twice. Instead of looking for a half-competent Afro-American, who would have been several hundred percent better than the eventual candidate, the Republicans eventually nominated George W Bush.<br /><br />Bush ran the economy into the ground, fought two wars on the credit card, including an illegal invasion of Iraq, failed to fund medical treatment and rehabilitation of returning injured troops and oversaw the GFC.<br /><br />Not a bad record record for someone with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.bachfiendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752055891882312204noreply@blogger.com