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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>RAttler Gator and your 101:  I do not know what to say except to commiserate with you.

In my youth, when a person had had to put in an especially hard day, he would often say
that he had &quot;worked like a nigger&quot;.  

No matter what our prevailing racial attitudes were, there was that recognition that the black man sure could do a lot while putting up with a lot.  

I am glad that the derogatory word is no longer fashionable.   I am DEEPLY saddened that the image of a worker has been replaced by that of the permanently indigent.

I blame the welfare state and consequently a certain number of my fellow white men.  They are the ones who need to apologize.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RAttler Gator and your 101:  I do not know what to say except to commiserate with you.</p>
<p>In my youth, when a person had had to put in an especially hard day, he would often say<br />
that he had &#8220;worked like a nigger&#8221;.  </p>
<p>No matter what our prevailing racial attitudes were, there was that recognition that the black man sure could do a lot while putting up with a lot.  </p>
<p>I am glad that the derogatory word is no longer fashionable.   I am DEEPLY saddened that the image of a worker has been replaced by that of the permanently indigent.</p>
<p>I blame the welfare state and consequently a certain number of my fellow white men.  They are the ones who need to apologize.</p>
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		<title>By: Gary Rosen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gary Rosen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As usual, C-fudd can&#039;t challenge me on substance so he tears off on yet another unhinged, witless rant.

&quot;slinking sorts like Gary Rosen&quot;

That&#039;s rich coming from a gutless little shit who dishonestly slurred my family&#039;s military service and is too chickenshit and yellowbellied to own up to it.  One of the best things about being Jewish is that antisemites are without exception halfwitted whiners and born losers like C-fudd and his idol Pat Buchanan.

Now Fudd and Peppermint Patty are trying to blame WWII on the Poles and Czechs, the intellectual and moral equivalent of blaming Megan&#039;s Law on Megan.  Not really surprising, though, coming from a pair whose view of the world is parallel to that of NAMBLA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As usual, C-fudd can&#8217;t challenge me on substance so he tears off on yet another unhinged, witless rant.</p>
<p>&#8220;slinking sorts like Gary Rosen&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s rich coming from a gutless little shit who dishonestly slurred my family&#8217;s military service and is too chickenshit and yellowbellied to own up to it.  One of the best things about being Jewish is that antisemites are without exception halfwitted whiners and born losers like C-fudd and his idol Pat Buchanan.</p>
<p>Now Fudd and Peppermint Patty are trying to blame WWII on the Poles and Czechs, the intellectual and moral equivalent of blaming Megan&#8217;s Law on Megan.  Not really surprising, though, coming from a pair whose view of the world is parallel to that of NAMBLA.</p>
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		<title>By: cedarford</title>
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		<dc:creator>cedarford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fred, slinking sorts like Gary Rosen count on dumb people like you. Locked up in your dumb Christian Zionism, you are simply too stupid to understand your manipulation.

The simple fact is the American public will not back a preemptive war on Iran. Nor are they at all keen to have what they thought started as a strike against a terrorist attack transformed into endless war to &quot;liberate Muslims even if they kill us as we try&quot;. Or unlimited dead Americans and lost treasure to keep Israel&#039;s regional WMD monopoly and continued Settlements going.

Even Bush has seen the light, now refusing to give Israel the bombs, refueling tankers, and air overflight rights over Iraq it requested. (That would make us complicit in a sneak attack.)

Poor dumb Fred fails to understand the Neocon course cost us all our allies (except, of course, Fred&#039;s &quot;Special Friend&quot;).

Want Iran to back off? Find a way to give Iran, surrounded by hostile nations, a security gurantee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fred, slinking sorts like Gary Rosen count on dumb people like you. Locked up in your dumb Christian Zionism, you are simply too stupid to understand your manipulation.</p>
<p>The simple fact is the American public will not back a preemptive war on Iran. Nor are they at all keen to have what they thought started as a strike against a terrorist attack transformed into endless war to &#8220;liberate Muslims even if they kill us as we try&#8221;. Or unlimited dead Americans and lost treasure to keep Israel&#8217;s regional WMD monopoly and continued Settlements going.</p>
<p>Even Bush has seen the light, now refusing to give Israel the bombs, refueling tankers, and air overflight rights over Iraq it requested. (That would make us complicit in a sneak attack.)</p>
<p>Poor dumb Fred fails to understand the Neocon course cost us all our allies (except, of course, Fred&#8217;s &#8220;Special Friend&#8221;).</p>
<p>Want Iran to back off? Find a way to give Iran, surrounded by hostile nations, a security gurantee.</p>
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		<title>By: fred</title>
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		<dc:creator>fred</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh my God, Gary Rosen, that b***h slap to c-fudd, including the closer, left me in stitches.  Best laugh I&#039;ve had in days.  His reflex to hate Jews is like a certain biological response between the sexes.  Unfailing, save for organic or psychological dysfunction.

In fact, it would be unsafe to aim a bullet at his head.  We NRA members and former military guys know what that means:  be certain of your target AND BEYOND.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh my God, Gary Rosen, that b***h slap to c-fudd, including the closer, left me in stitches.  Best laugh I&#8217;ve had in days.  His reflex to hate Jews is like a certain biological response between the sexes.  Unfailing, save for organic or psychological dysfunction.</p>
<p>In fact, it would be unsafe to aim a bullet at his head.  We NRA members and former military guys know what that means:  be certain of your target AND BEYOND.</p>
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		<title>By: FreeBirdWil</title>
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		<dc:creator>FreeBirdWil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After re-reading all these responses to the Colin Powell endorsement of Barrack Obama, I have two comments:

1.) I do not now and have never understood &quot;racism&quot;. God made people exactly like him wanted them (i.e. set out the evolutionary process by which our physical developement would &quot;paint&quot; us&quot;, and &quot;God saw that all He had made was good.&quot; Why &quot;thinking men&quot; and even governments would select a physical characteristic to reduce, enslave, exterminate, or otherwise demean one group of humans over another loses me completely. My conclusion on this is that because of the &quot;sin gene&quot; (passed by the male as a sex-linked trait to all children of earthly fathers), humans (and indeed all of creation) has been under steady decline in all areas, to the extent in which nothing (on evil behavior/thought)can be withheld from them.  The Presidential Election has nothing to do with skin color, but sinful men will use that point and any other in which they think they can profit themselves. Personally I am not pleased with either candidate of the two major parties and am struggling to make my self vote. However you vote or don&#039;t vote, please let it be based on wisdom towards what is best for our country, and I assure you a skin color determinant will be a foolish factor in such a goal.

2.) How should we deal with our enemies (active &amp; inactive). Active enemies are those we are engaged in hostilities with, have threatened us, have taken threatening steps, or harbor/support our enemies. Inactive enemies are those that oppose us philosophically so strongly as to be as big a threat as one or all of the above active enemies.  How should we deal with our enemies? Spiritually we should love them and pray for them. Physically we should &quot;kill &#039;em all and let God sort &#039;em out!&quot;.    
              OK, I&#039;m done here, thank you and goodnight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After re-reading all these responses to the Colin Powell endorsement of Barrack Obama, I have two comments:</p>
<p>1.) I do not now and have never understood &#8220;racism&#8221;. God made people exactly like him wanted them (i.e. set out the evolutionary process by which our physical developement would &#8220;paint&#8221; us&#8221;, and &#8220;God saw that all He had made was good.&#8221; Why &#8220;thinking men&#8221; and even governments would select a physical characteristic to reduce, enslave, exterminate, or otherwise demean one group of humans over another loses me completely. My conclusion on this is that because of the &#8220;sin gene&#8221; (passed by the male as a sex-linked trait to all children of earthly fathers), humans (and indeed all of creation) has been under steady decline in all areas, to the extent in which nothing (on evil behavior/thought)can be withheld from them.  The Presidential Election has nothing to do with skin color, but sinful men will use that point and any other in which they think they can profit themselves. Personally I am not pleased with either candidate of the two major parties and am struggling to make my self vote. However you vote or don&#8217;t vote, please let it be based on wisdom towards what is best for our country, and I assure you a skin color determinant will be a foolish factor in such a goal.</p>
<p>2.) How should we deal with our enemies (active &amp; inactive). Active enemies are those we are engaged in hostilities with, have threatened us, have taken threatening steps, or harbor/support our enemies. Inactive enemies are those that oppose us philosophically so strongly as to be as big a threat as one or all of the above active enemies.  How should we deal with our enemies? Spiritually we should love them and pray for them. Physically we should &#8220;kill &#8216;em all and let God sort &#8216;em out!&#8221;.<br />
              OK, I&#8217;m done here, thank you and goodnight.</p>
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		<title>By: RattlerGator</title>
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		<dc:creator>RattlerGator</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, Dave, you do have that basically right. Essentially, Colin and Alma may be asking themselves and their friends, &quot;Who is this Cracker, Sarah Palin?&quot; The problem we have in the black community is the universally accepted academic concept of the Talented Tenth (associated with W.E.B. DuBois). It took me years to realize this concept has no faith in the average man or woman (this is why DuBois opposed Booker T. Washington, who had complete faith in the average man and woman). It dictates that we be led from above. By our betters, and betters is defined as the more book-smart.

Do you see the problem here?

Do you see the plantation?

The susceptibility to totalitarian instincts and the requirement to act as a herd?

And it runs contrary to the concept of America, does it not?

Peggy Noonan, George Will, Brooks, Frum et al. -- they have that same mentality. There is a vibe in the black community that is completely rattled by Sarah Palin. In actual, objective fact Sarah Palin is far more representative of black American women than (for example) Hillary Clinton ever will be. Understanding the talented tenth myth explains the apparent &quot;mind meld&quot; with the far left reaction to Sarah Palin as well as the elite reaction to her.

Admittedly, all of us (as humans) are tribal in one way or another. To the detriment of this nation, no American political bloc is as tribal as African Americans. And without black folks content on the political plantation, we would never have heard of Howard Dean and the absurdity of Bill Ayers being this close to a nominee for President would never have occurred.

The liberal left desperately needs us and we&#039;re apparently too complacent to take a step back and do an objective assessment *EVEN* as we see an ever growing population of saggy pants idiots languishing all around our communities, young men with no real concept of respect for women, females who don&#039;t know how to respect themselves, and though black adults will never admit this to you -- a recognition that we have an epidemic of black kids acting out some crazy-ass liberal and completely foreign concept of what real black kids act like.

It is bizarre to witness, it is pure minstrelsy and it is heartbreaking. Our only &quot;out&quot; is to assume personal responsibility and begin the hard work that must be done. But our entire political class is enslaved to the bitch-and-moan shackles of the liberal left, 24/7/365, and so we do their bidding instead of ours.

The result? A &quot;can-do&quot; people who consistently had to make a way out of no way during the entirety of our existence in America has been infantilized at the very moment of greatest opportunity in our history.

And it is a self-inflicted wound; truly heartbreaking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, Dave, you do have that basically right. Essentially, Colin and Alma may be asking themselves and their friends, &#8220;Who is this Cracker, Sarah Palin?&#8221; The problem we have in the black community is the universally accepted academic concept of the Talented Tenth (associated with W.E.B. DuBois). It took me years to realize this concept has no faith in the average man or woman (this is why DuBois opposed Booker T. Washington, who had complete faith in the average man and woman). It dictates that we be led from above. By our betters, and betters is defined as the more book-smart.</p>
<p>Do you see the problem here?</p>
<p>Do you see the plantation?</p>
<p>The susceptibility to totalitarian instincts and the requirement to act as a herd?</p>
<p>And it runs contrary to the concept of America, does it not?</p>
<p>Peggy Noonan, George Will, Brooks, Frum et al. &#8212; they have that same mentality. There is a vibe in the black community that is completely rattled by Sarah Palin. In actual, objective fact Sarah Palin is far more representative of black American women than (for example) Hillary Clinton ever will be. Understanding the talented tenth myth explains the apparent &#8220;mind meld&#8221; with the far left reaction to Sarah Palin as well as the elite reaction to her.</p>
<p>Admittedly, all of us (as humans) are tribal in one way or another. To the detriment of this nation, no American political bloc is as tribal as African Americans. And without black folks content on the political plantation, we would never have heard of Howard Dean and the absurdity of Bill Ayers being this close to a nominee for President would never have occurred.</p>
<p>The liberal left desperately needs us and we&#8217;re apparently too complacent to take a step back and do an objective assessment *EVEN* as we see an ever growing population of saggy pants idiots languishing all around our communities, young men with no real concept of respect for women, females who don&#8217;t know how to respect themselves, and though black adults will never admit this to you &#8212; a recognition that we have an epidemic of black kids acting out some crazy-ass liberal and completely foreign concept of what real black kids act like.</p>
<p>It is bizarre to witness, it is pure minstrelsy and it is heartbreaking. Our only &#8220;out&#8221; is to assume personal responsibility and begin the hard work that must be done. But our entire political class is enslaved to the bitch-and-moan shackles of the liberal left, 24/7/365, and so we do their bidding instead of ours.</p>
<p>The result? A &#8220;can-do&#8221; people who consistently had to make a way out of no way during the entirety of our existence in America has been infantilized at the very moment of greatest opportunity in our history.</p>
<p>And it is a self-inflicted wound; truly heartbreaking.</p>
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		<title>By: NahnCee</title>
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		<dc:creator>NahnCee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How is Obama&#039;s financial Affirmative Action and &quot;spreading the wealth around&quot; any different from the concept of R E P A R A T I O N S ?

In the man-on-the-street interviews with demonstrators chanting &quot;O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!&quot;, they are out-right using the word &quot;socialism&quot; now.  I wonder how many of them even understand what &quot;socialism&quot; is, other than to vaguely grasp that it means a direct transfer of entitlements and money from the hard-working and well-off to the not-so-hard-working and poor (I wonder how many of the sad Katrina victims are still sponging off the government and the taxpayer years later).

I really think this is the sort of &quot;affirmative action&quot; that both Obama and Powell envision -- a direct transfer of dollars rather than an opportunity to educate and then work for self-betterment.  And that, my friends, is &quot;reparation&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How is Obama&#8217;s financial Affirmative Action and &#8220;spreading the wealth around&#8221; any different from the concept of R E P A R A T I O N S ?</p>
<p>In the man-on-the-street interviews with demonstrators chanting &#8220;O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!&#8221;, they are out-right using the word &#8220;socialism&#8221; now.  I wonder how many of them even understand what &#8220;socialism&#8221; is, other than to vaguely grasp that it means a direct transfer of entitlements and money from the hard-working and well-off to the not-so-hard-working and poor (I wonder how many of the sad Katrina victims are still sponging off the government and the taxpayer years later).</p>
<p>I really think this is the sort of &#8220;affirmative action&#8221; that both Obama and Powell envision &#8212; a direct transfer of dollars rather than an opportunity to educate and then work for self-betterment.  And that, my friends, is &#8220;reparation&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Gary Rosen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gary Rosen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Cedarford’s arguments boil down to “evil neocons and Jews.”

That&#039;s all he&#039;s ever boiled down to, because he&#039;s a classic antisemitic misfuck and nitwit who blames everything on the Joooos.  There are too many lies and deceptions in his posts to deal with them all, I&#039;ll just pick two:

1) Why did Cheney &quot;convert&quot; to &quot;neocon&quot;?  Was he bought out by the Jooooos, or did 9/11 cause him to look at the world in a different way?  Apparently C-fudd is jim-dandy with a bunch of savages murdering 3000 civilians on American soil.

2) &quot;Iran’s history is that they do not act as initiating belligerants.&quot;  Aside from the numerous terrorist groups supported by Iran including Hezbollah, beloved by C-fudd for smashing in the heads of little Jewish girls, the &quot;moderate&quot; Rafsanjani threatened Israel with nukes long before anyone even heard of Ahmedinejad.  C-fudd couldn&#039;t tell the truth if you put a gun to his head (not that it would hit anything significant).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Cedarford’s arguments boil down to “evil neocons and Jews.”</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all he&#8217;s ever boiled down to, because he&#8217;s a classic antisemitic misfuck and nitwit who blames everything on the Joooos.  There are too many lies and deceptions in his posts to deal with them all, I&#8217;ll just pick two:</p>
<p>1) Why did Cheney &#8220;convert&#8221; to &#8220;neocon&#8221;?  Was he bought out by the Jooooos, or did 9/11 cause him to look at the world in a different way?  Apparently C-fudd is jim-dandy with a bunch of savages murdering 3000 civilians on American soil.</p>
<p>2) &#8220;Iran’s history is that they do not act as initiating belligerants.&#8221;  Aside from the numerous terrorist groups supported by Iran including Hezbollah, beloved by C-fudd for smashing in the heads of little Jewish girls, the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Rafsanjani threatened Israel with nukes long before anyone even heard of Ahmedinejad.  C-fudd couldn&#8217;t tell the truth if you put a gun to his head (not that it would hit anything significant).</p>
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		<title>By: Wadeusaf</title>
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		<dc:creator>Wadeusaf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The general has always been a social liberal, fiscal conservative so the only surprise ever was when he revealed he was a GOP&#039;er and not a Democrat. I think he was  ill used and abused by the denizens of Foggy Bottom, and ego along with a dose of honesty stands in the way of saying it ain&#039;t so. I have always viewed the man as being more conflicted then decisive. 

 He went with making history, for transitioning (to what?), and sticking it to the people who did not protect him from his own shortcomings at DoS.
  
Well, that is how I see it, and how I have always seen General Powell. He did however, finally, make a decision rather than waiting to have it made for him.

 His perception displays a puddy-like quality not becoming of a seventy one year old.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The general has always been a social liberal, fiscal conservative so the only surprise ever was when he revealed he was a GOP&#8217;er and not a Democrat. I think he was  ill used and abused by the denizens of Foggy Bottom, and ego along with a dose of honesty stands in the way of saying it ain&#8217;t so. I have always viewed the man as being more conflicted then decisive. </p>
<p> He went with making history, for transitioning (to what?), and sticking it to the people who did not protect him from his own shortcomings at DoS.</p>
<p>Well, that is how I see it, and how I have always seen General Powell. He did however, finally, make a decision rather than waiting to have it made for him.</p>
<p> His perception displays a puddy-like quality not becoming of a seventy one year old.</p>
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		<title>By: JMH</title>
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		<dc:creator>JMH</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Obama could set back race relations decades&lt;/i&gt;

He already has.  He has exposed a one-way-street mentality that says it&#039;s okay for Blacks to be racist, small minded and bigoted while expecting not only open-mindedness, but outright favoritism from Whites.  Of course, that attitude has been around for a long time, but Obama&#039;s campaign has exposed it as wide-spread, not limited to a few malcontents but pervasive in our society.  

On the other hand, this may be what&#039;s necessary to move race relations forward again, forcing us out of the local maxima of affirmative action that we&#039;d been stuck in for a generation.  So while Obama himself is most definitely not a post-racial candidate, he may be the catalyst that takes us to a post-racial world.  Or not.  We&#039;ll see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Obama could set back race relations decades</i></p>
<p>He already has.  He has exposed a one-way-street mentality that says it&#8217;s okay for Blacks to be racist, small minded and bigoted while expecting not only open-mindedness, but outright favoritism from Whites.  Of course, that attitude has been around for a long time, but Obama&#8217;s campaign has exposed it as wide-spread, not limited to a few malcontents but pervasive in our society.  </p>
<p>On the other hand, this may be what&#8217;s necessary to move race relations forward again, forcing us out of the local maxima of affirmative action that we&#8217;d been stuck in for a generation.  So while Obama himself is most definitely not a post-racial candidate, he may be the catalyst that takes us to a post-racial world.  Or not.  We&#8217;ll see.</p>
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