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I understand since gas prices dripped below $2 a gallon car MFG plants which make SUVs the workers have gone on overtime. When will we learn? If it doesn't give me 30 MPG you can keep it. We have not seen the last of $4 per gallon.
On the local front, thanks to Moore Chevrolet for the spectacular lighted tree which reaches toward heaven in the car lot. It's Christmas lights to see.
I know the tree had to be Jeff's idea. He always has the greatest Holiday ideas. It is wonderfully decorated with little red and green figurines of Dane...way to go Jeffery!
And to go further on the "we have not seen the last...."
They just announced that the Prius plant in Mississippi is closing for a while while the auto makers market tanks. This is quite saddening as the redesigned 2010 Prius was pretty exciting. They were promising cars with 40 more horsepower from a new 1.8-liter engine, a larger sunroof and solar photovoltaic glass for assisting in temperature control without AC/Heat, and near 55 mpg.
A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black. Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial — or, in Obama's own words, a "mutt" — has reached a crescendo since Obama's election shattered assumptions about race. Obama has said, "I identify as African-American — that's how I'm treated and that's how I'm viewed. I'm proud of it." In other words, the world gave Obama no choice but to be black, and he was happy to oblige. But the world has changed since the young Obama found his place in it. Intermarriage and the decline of racism are dissolving ancient definitions. The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black. So what now for racial categories born of a time when those from far-off lands were property rather than people, or enemy instead of family? "They're falling apart," said Marty Favor, a Dartmouth professor of African and African-American studies and author of the book "Authentic Blackness." "In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois said the question of the 20th century is the question of the color line, which is a simplistic black-white thing," said Favor, who is biracial. "This is the moment in the 21st century when we're stepping across that." Rebecca Walker, a 38-year-old writer with light brown skin who is of Russian, African, Irish, Scottish and Native American descent, said she used to identify herself as "human," which upset people of all backgrounds. So she went back to multiracial or biracial, "but only because there has yet to be a way of breaking through the need to racially identify and be identified by the culture at large." "Of course Obama is black. And he's not black, too," Walker said. "He's white, and he's not white, too. Obama is whatever people project onto him ... he's a lot of things, and neither of them necessarily exclude the other." But U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield, a black man who by all appearances is white, feels differently. Butterfield, 61, grew up in a prominent black family in Wilson, N.C. Both of his parents had white forebears, "and those genes came together to produce me." He grew up on the black side of town, led civil rights marches as a young man, and to this day goes out of his way to inform people that he is certainly not white. Butterfield has made his choice; he says let Obama do the same. "Obama has chosen the heritage he feels comfortable with," he said. "His physical appearance is black. I don't know how he could have chosen to be any other race. Let's just say he decided to be white — people would have laughed at him." "You are a product of your experience. I'm a U.S. congressman, and I feel some degree of discomfort when I'm in an all-white group. We don't have the same view of the world, our experiences have been different." The entire issue balances precariously on the "one-drop" rule, which sprang from the slaveowner habit of dropping by the slave quarters and producing brown babies. One drop of black blood meant that person, and his or her descendants, could never be a full citizen. Today, the spectrum of skin tones among African-Americans — even those with two black parents — is evidence of widespread white ancestry. Also, since blacks were often light enough to pass for white, unknown numbers of white Americans today have blacks hidden in their family trees. One book, "Black People and their Place in World History," by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, even claims that five past presidents — Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge — had black ancestors, which would make Obama the sixth of his kind. Mix in a few centuries' worth of Central, South and Native Americans, plus Asians, and untold millions of today's U.S. citizens need a DNA test to decipher their true colors. The melting pot is working. Yet the world has never been confronted with such powerful evidence as Obama. So as soon as he was elected, the seeds of confusion began putting down roots. "Let's not forget that he is not only the first African-American president, but the first biracial candidate. He was raised by a single white mother," a Fox News commentator said seven minutes after Obama was declared the winner. "We do not have our first black president," the author Christopher Hitchens said on the BBC program "Newsnight." "He is not black. He is as black as he is white." A Doonesbury comic strip that ran the day after the election showed several soldiers celebrating. "He's half-white, you know," says a white soldier. "You must be so proud," responds another. Pride is the center of racial identity, and some white people seem insulted by a perception that Obama is rejecting his white mother (even though her family was a centerpiece of his campaign image-making) or baffled by the notion that someone would choose to be black instead of half-white. "He can't be African-American. With race, white claims 50 percent of him and black 50 percent of him. Half a loaf is better than no loaf at all," Ron Wilson of Plantation, Fla., wrote in a letter to the Sun-Sentinel newspaper. Attempts to whiten Obama leave a bitter taste for many African-Americans, who feel that at their moment of triumph, the rules are being changed to steal what once was deemed worthless — blackness itself. "For some people it's honestly confusion," said Favor, the Dartmouth professor. "For others it's a ploy to sort of reclaim the presidency for whiteness, as though Obama's blackness is somehow mitigated by being biracial." Then there are the questions remaining from Obama's entry into national politics, when some blacks were leery of this Hawaiian-born newcomer who did not share their history. Linda Bob, a black schoolteacher from Eustis, Fla., said that calling Obama black when he was raised in a white family and none of his ancestors experienced slavery could cause some to ignore or forget the history of racial injustice. "It just seems unfair to totally label him African-American without acknowledging that he was born to a white mother," she said. "It makes you feel like he doesn't have a class, a group." There is at least one group eagerly waiting for Obama to embrace them. "To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president ... a bridge between races, a living symbol of tolerance, a signal that strict racial categories must go," Marie Arana wrote in the Washington Post. He's a bridge between eras as well. The multiracial category "wasn't there when I was growing up," said John McWhorter, a 43-year-old fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Race and Ethnicity, who is black. "In the '70s and the '80s, if somebody had one white parent and one black parent, the idea was they were black and had better get used to it and develop this black identity. That's now changing." Latinos, whom the census identifies as an ethnic group and not a race, were not counted separately by the government until the 1970s. After the 1990 census, many people complained that the four racial categories — white, black, Asian, and American Indian/Alaska native — did not fit them. The government then allowed people to check more than one box. (It also added a fifth category, for Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.) Six million people, or 2 percent of the population, now say they belong to more than one race, according to the most recent census figures. Another 19 million people, or 6 percent of the population, identify themselves as "some other race" than the five available choices. The White House Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the census, specifically decided not to add a "multiracial" category, deeming it not a race in and of itself. "We are in a transitional period" regarding these labels, McWhorter said. "I think that in only 20 years, the notion that there are white people and there are black people and anyone in between has some explaining to do and an identity to come up with, that will all seem very old-fashioned." The debate over Obama's identity is just the latest step in a journey he unflinchingly chronicled in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father." As a teenager, grappling with the social separation of his white classmates, "I had no idea who my own self was," Obama wrote. In college in the 1970s, like millions of other dark-skinned Americans searching for self respect in a discriminatory nation, Obama found refuge in blackness. Classmates who sidestepped the label "black" in favor of "multiracial" chafed at Obama's newfound pride: "They avoided black people," he wrote. "It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around." Fast-forward 30 years, to the early stages of Obama's presidential campaign. Minorities are on track to outnumber whites, to redefine the dominant American culture. And the black political establishment, firmly rooted in the civil rights movement, questioned whether the outsider Obama was "black enough." Then came the primary and general elections, when white voters were essential for victory. "Now I'm too black," Obama joked in July before an audience of minority journalists. "There is this sense of going back and forth depending on the time of day in terms of making assessments about my candidacy." Today, it seems no single definition does justice to Obama — or to a nation where the revelation that Obama's eighth cousin is Dick Cheney, the white vice president from Wyoming, caused barely a ripple in the campaign. In his memoir, Obama says he was deeply affected by reading that Malcolm X, the black nationalist-turned-humanist, once wished his white blood could be expunged. "Traveling down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction," Obama wrote. "I was left to wonder what else I would be severing if I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border."
Interesting that this commenting thread so quickly turned to anti-Obama propaganda. While I am not a democratic nor a direct Obama supporter I do find issue with those that blame the ills (both present and future) on him and his administration.
I looked at the link provided (sending me to GrassFire.org) and was a bit taken back by the seemingly shallow tenants of the "cause."
Socialistic wealth redistribution including any and all tax increases and big-government welfare programs. For the past two administrations we have been on our way to widening the gap between the lower class and the upper class to the extinction of the middle. Obama does not, at this point, have the ability to widen that gap any further. With unemployment on the rise and many businesses (both big and small) depending on gov't assistance we are going to see, I think, a disappearance of the classes.
Silencing conservatives through the Fairness Doctrine and other efforts that restrict free speech. I would think that with the invitation of Rick Warren to be the spiritual council to Obama's administration, this idea is just shot. Warren has openly expressed his support for California Prop 8 as well as pro-life and other conservative views. Whose voice will be heard now? Government-run health care that weakens our system and imposes more tax burdens on citizens. This is already happening to a large extent. Although we have a right to choose our healthcare provider we as tax payers support the emergency rooms, teaching hospitals, and clinics all over the continental US. And with many companies cutting health benefits we should all keep our eyes open for what the government may be able to offer us.
Social liberalism including radical pro-abortion agenda, the end of marriage and the homosexual agenda. By definition social liberalism is a center activist. It favors no one side. What this agenda (GrassFire) seems to promote is classical liberalism which clearly favors states rights over individual liberties.
Environmental extremism, the CO2 tax,undermining coal and nuclear, and bans on exploration. I'm sorry but it seems that we as citizens can't seem to do this on our own. Perhaps the gov't does need to step in to regulate our stewardship of the earth.
Now, to show my understanding of law and to affirm that I am neither pro-Obama nor anti-Obama, I think the best I can do at this point is hope and pray that he and his administration will think smartly and with discernment with a greater goal in mind. It is important to remember that the executive branch cannot do anything without the legislative.
I am sorry but I fail to see the impact of Obama's race at this point. My concern is that he has not been asked (to my knowledge) nor has he offered proof of his nationality or his citizenship.
I am also a bit concerned by his insistence on using his middle name (Hussein) in his inauguration. I think in this sensitive geo-political time that is a bit insensitive to the rest of America.
How about forgetting what color he is and allow him to be an American until he shows he is something else.
I didn't vote for him, but he is going to be the next president. This country is making too much of just a man. Face it. He ain't nothing but just a plain man. Nothing special.
that's a nice article 2:00pm, but don't expect us to believe your hillbilly ass came up with all that.....what newspaper or website did you steal that from?
well you can call him nothing, but a plain man, but he is the next president of the united states. You can't call anyone in that office a plain man regardeless of where they came from or how they got there. I didn't vote for the man either, but I will give him the respect that is deserved of someone in that office. They are privaledged to more information that we will ever know of or than the media can ever uncover. You can say all of the mistakes that Bush or Clinton made, but we are all outsiders who have no clue of what information they have or don't have and I think we and the media need to just shut up about it and let the presidents lead the country like we voted for them to do. Whether you won or lost the election with your vote there is nothing more you can do about it now! If you want your person to win in four years try actually volunteering for your party/person and helping their effort to get into office instead of bitching and complaining about your vote or did you even get out and vote?
I voted for him and for God sake I don't understand how any one would have voted to put Bush in office a second time. There is an unwritten rule in American society. If you have 10% black blood in your body you are black. I didn't make it up but it's the way it is. This may have come about by the tendency for individuals that are of both black and white race to turn around and be obsorbed back into the black population.
He is Black because his physical features have characteristics of the black race. He didn't choose it society did.
I believe he is going to be one of the best presidents in American history. It is obvious that he has the interest of the American working class in mind.
6:08 we dont care about what you believe no more than we care about the hair on a monkeys butt. Obammy and his leftist agenda is gonna tear this country apart morally and it will fall just as the Great Roman Empire did.
Good luck, Andrew. Though we disagree on many political fronts, I would still like to offer some advice. I tried to argue with logic and reason on this blog when it was first created. With few exceptions, the people on here have no place in there mind for either of the two. You're merely pissing in the wind. Do yourself a favor and ignore the ignorance. Some of them haven't read a book in the past 10 years, and it shows in their writing. Pick and choose your battles with those on here that offer constructive arguments instead of racist bigotry.
Hair on a monkey's Butt, Apathy to other's opinion, disrespect for our country's commander and chief. Being a sucker for the right wing propaganda machine. Boy...it sounds like you're of great moral fiber. If this county comes apart, it because of all the destruction prior to the Obama administration. Then again with folks like you promoting the interest of the GOP they'll never recover from the 2008 election disaster.
When yall wake up and realize it's not the republicans or the democrats, but the elected body as one that is bending us all over, there will be a revolt. They are all power hungry crooks.
Everyone look at 6:08 AM comments. And this is who helped elect your next president. Maybe someone should tell whoever it is that Bush has already served 2 terms and wasn't even running.
You see, you didn't even know who was running for president. How do you spell stupid?
I think most of this is funny. why are we discuseing obama on a blog about car mfgers. It dont matter who is elected its the people in congress that screw everthing up the pres is just a scape gost and it looks to be working to.
6:08 knows who was running for president in 08......The same folks who put Bush in office the second time was the same voting base that voted for McCain this time. It does take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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I understand since gas prices dripped below $2 a gallon car MFG plants which make SUVs the workers have gone on overtime. When will we learn? If it doesn't give me 30 MPG you can keep it. We have not seen the last of $4 per gallon.
If the Big 3 had remembered one basic rule "produce a quality product", they would not be in the mess that they are.
On the local front, thanks to Moore Chevrolet for the spectacular lighted tree which reaches toward heaven in the car lot. It's Christmas lights to see.
I know the tree had to be Jeff's idea. He always has the greatest Holiday ideas. It is wonderfully decorated with little red and green figurines of Dane...way to go Jeffery!
And to go further on the "we have not seen the last...."
They just announced that the Prius plant in Mississippi is closing for a while while the auto makers market tanks. This is quite saddening as the redesigned 2010 Prius was pretty exciting. They were promising cars with 40 more horsepower from a new 1.8-liter engine, a larger sunroof and solar photovoltaic glass for assisting in temperature control without AC/Heat, and near 55 mpg.
Obama's true colors: Black, White... or neither?
A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black.
Debate over whether to call this son of a white Kansan and a black Kenyan biracial, African-American, mixed-race, half-and-half, multiracial — or, in Obama's own words, a "mutt" — has reached a crescendo since Obama's election shattered assumptions about race.
Obama has said, "I identify as African-American — that's how I'm treated and that's how I'm viewed. I'm proud of it." In other words, the world gave Obama no choice but to be black, and he was happy to oblige.
But the world has changed since the young Obama found his place in it.
Intermarriage and the decline of racism are dissolving ancient definitions. The candidate Obama, in achieving what many thought impossible, was treated differently from previous black generations. And many white and mixed-race people now view President-elect Obama as something other than black.
So what now for racial categories born of a time when those from far-off lands were property rather than people, or enemy instead of family?
"They're falling apart," said Marty Favor, a Dartmouth professor of African and African-American studies and author of the book "Authentic Blackness."
"In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois said the question of the 20th century is the question of the color line, which is a simplistic black-white thing," said Favor, who is biracial. "This is the moment in the 21st century when we're stepping across that."
Rebecca Walker, a 38-year-old writer with light brown skin who is of Russian, African, Irish, Scottish and Native American descent, said she used to identify herself as "human," which upset people of all backgrounds. So she went back to multiracial or biracial, "but only because there has yet to be a way of breaking through the need to racially identify and be identified by the culture at large."
"Of course Obama is black. And he's not black, too," Walker said. "He's white, and he's not white, too. Obama is whatever people project onto him ... he's a lot of things, and neither of them necessarily exclude the other."
But U.S. Rep. G. K. Butterfield, a black man who by all appearances is white, feels differently.
Butterfield, 61, grew up in a prominent black family in Wilson, N.C. Both of his parents had white forebears, "and those genes came together to produce me." He grew up on the black side of town, led civil rights marches as a young man, and to this day goes out of his way to inform people that he is certainly not white.
Butterfield has made his choice; he says let Obama do the same.
"Obama has chosen the heritage he feels comfortable with," he said. "His physical appearance is black. I don't know how he could have chosen to be any other race. Let's just say he decided to be white — people would have laughed at him."
"You are a product of your experience. I'm a U.S. congressman, and I feel some degree of discomfort when I'm in an all-white group. We don't have the same view of the world, our experiences have been different."
The entire issue balances precariously on the "one-drop" rule, which sprang from the slaveowner habit of dropping by the slave quarters and producing brown babies. One drop of black blood meant that person, and his or her descendants, could never be a full citizen.
Today, the spectrum of skin tones among African-Americans — even those with two black parents — is evidence of widespread white ancestry. Also, since blacks were often light enough to pass for white, unknown numbers of white Americans today have blacks hidden in their family trees.
One book, "Black People and their Place in World History," by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, even claims that five past presidents — Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge — had black ancestors, which would make Obama the sixth of his kind.
Mix in a few centuries' worth of Central, South and Native Americans, plus Asians, and untold millions of today's U.S. citizens need a DNA test to decipher their true colors. The melting pot is working.
Yet the world has never been confronted with such powerful evidence as Obama. So as soon as he was elected, the seeds of confusion began putting down roots.
"Let's not forget that he is not only the first African-American president, but the first biracial candidate. He was raised by a single white mother," a Fox News commentator said seven minutes after Obama was declared the winner.
"We do not have our first black president," the author Christopher Hitchens said on the BBC program "Newsnight." "He is not black. He is as black as he is white."
A Doonesbury comic strip that ran the day after the election showed several soldiers celebrating.
"He's half-white, you know," says a white soldier.
"You must be so proud," responds another.
Pride is the center of racial identity, and some white people seem insulted by a perception that Obama is rejecting his white mother (even though her family was a centerpiece of his campaign image-making) or baffled by the notion that someone would choose to be black instead of half-white.
"He can't be African-American. With race, white claims 50 percent of him and black 50 percent of him. Half a loaf is better than no loaf at all," Ron Wilson of Plantation, Fla., wrote in a letter to the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
Attempts to whiten Obama leave a bitter taste for many African-Americans, who feel that at their moment of triumph, the rules are being changed to steal what once was deemed worthless — blackness itself.
"For some people it's honestly confusion," said Favor, the Dartmouth professor. "For others it's a ploy to sort of reclaim the presidency for whiteness, as though Obama's blackness is somehow mitigated by being biracial."
Then there are the questions remaining from Obama's entry into national politics, when some blacks were leery of this Hawaiian-born newcomer who did not share their history.
Linda Bob, a black schoolteacher from Eustis, Fla., said that calling Obama black when he was raised in a white family and none of his ancestors experienced slavery could cause some to ignore or forget the history of racial injustice.
"It just seems unfair to totally label him African-American without acknowledging that he was born to a white mother," she said. "It makes you feel like he doesn't have a class, a group."
There is at least one group eagerly waiting for Obama to embrace them. "To me, as to increasing numbers of mixed-race people, Barack Obama is not our first black president. He is our first biracial, bicultural president ... a bridge between races, a living symbol of tolerance, a signal that strict racial categories must go," Marie Arana wrote in the Washington Post.
He's a bridge between eras as well. The multiracial category "wasn't there when I was growing up," said John McWhorter, a 43-year-old fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Race and Ethnicity, who is black. "In the '70s and the '80s, if somebody had one white parent and one black parent, the idea was they were black and had better get used to it and develop this black identity. That's now changing."
Latinos, whom the census identifies as an ethnic group and not a race, were not counted separately by the government until the 1970s. After the 1990 census, many people complained that the four racial categories — white, black, Asian, and American Indian/Alaska native — did not fit them. The government then allowed people to check more than one box. (It also added a fifth category, for Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders.)
Six million people, or 2 percent of the population, now say they belong to more than one race, according to the most recent census figures. Another 19 million people, or 6 percent of the population, identify themselves as "some other race" than the five available choices.
The White House Office of Management and Budget, which oversees the census, specifically decided not to add a "multiracial" category, deeming it not a race in and of itself.
"We are in a transitional period" regarding these labels, McWhorter said. "I think that in only 20 years, the notion that there are white people and there are black people and anyone in between has some explaining to do and an identity to come up with, that will all seem very old-fashioned."
The debate over Obama's identity is just the latest step in a journey he unflinchingly chronicled in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father."
As a teenager, grappling with the social separation of his white classmates, "I had no idea who my own self was," Obama wrote.
In college in the 1970s, like millions of other dark-skinned Americans searching for self respect in a discriminatory nation, Obama found refuge in blackness. Classmates who sidestepped the label "black" in favor of "multiracial" chafed at Obama's newfound pride: "They avoided black people," he wrote. "It wasn't a matter of conscious choice, necessarily, just a matter of gravitational pull, the way integration always worked, a one-way street. The minority assimilated into the dominant culture, not the other way around."
Fast-forward 30 years, to the early stages of Obama's presidential campaign. Minorities are on track to outnumber whites, to redefine the dominant American culture. And the black political establishment, firmly rooted in the civil rights movement, questioned whether the outsider Obama was "black enough."
Then came the primary and general elections, when white voters were essential for victory. "Now I'm too black," Obama joked in July before an audience of minority journalists. "There is this sense of going back and forth depending on the time of day in terms of making assessments about my candidacy."
Today, it seems no single definition does justice to Obama — or to a nation where the revelation that Obama's eighth cousin is Dick Cheney, the white vice president from Wyoming, caused barely a ripple in the campaign.
In his memoir, Obama says he was deeply affected by reading that Malcolm X, the black nationalist-turned-humanist, once wished his white blood could be expunged.
"Traveling down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction," Obama wrote. "I was left to wonder what else I would be severing if I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border."
Obama is white. We do not have our first black president.
Interesting that this commenting thread so quickly turned to anti-Obama propaganda. While I am not a democratic nor a direct Obama supporter I do find issue with those that blame the ills (both present and future) on him and his administration.
I looked at the link provided (sending me to GrassFire.org) and was a bit taken back by the seemingly shallow tenants of the "cause."
Socialistic wealth redistribution including any and all tax increases and big-government welfare programs. For the past two administrations we have been on our way to widening the gap between the lower class and the upper class to the extinction of the middle. Obama does not, at this point, have the ability to widen that gap any further. With unemployment on the rise and many businesses (both big and small) depending on gov't assistance we are going to see, I think, a disappearance of the classes.
Silencing conservatives through the Fairness Doctrine and other efforts that restrict free speech. I would think that with the invitation of Rick Warren to be the spiritual council to Obama's administration, this idea is just shot. Warren has openly expressed his support for California Prop 8 as well as pro-life and other conservative views. Whose voice will be heard now?
Government-run health care that weakens our system and imposes more tax burdens on citizens. This is already happening to a large extent. Although we have a right to choose our healthcare provider we as tax payers support the emergency rooms, teaching hospitals, and clinics all over the continental US. And with many companies cutting health benefits we should all keep our eyes open for what the government may be able to offer us.
Social liberalism including radical pro-abortion agenda, the end of marriage and the homosexual agenda. By definition social liberalism is a center activist. It favors no one side. What this agenda (GrassFire) seems to promote is classical liberalism which clearly favors states rights over individual liberties.
Environmental extremism, the CO2 tax,undermining coal and nuclear, and bans on exploration. I'm sorry but it seems that we as citizens can't seem to do this on our own. Perhaps the gov't does need to step in to regulate our stewardship of the earth.
Now, to show my understanding of law and to affirm that I am neither pro-Obama nor anti-Obama, I think the best I can do at this point is hope and pray that he and his administration will think smartly and with discernment with a greater goal in mind. It is important to remember that the executive branch cannot do anything without the legislative.
I am sorry but I fail to see the impact of Obama's race at this point. My concern is that he has not been asked (to my knowledge) nor has he offered proof of his nationality or his citizenship.
I am also a bit concerned by his insistence on using his middle name (Hussein) in his inauguration. I think in this sensitive geo-political time that is a bit insensitive to the rest of America.
who cares what he is.....as long as he is the opposite of Bush....Jan 20th 2009 cant come soon enough....go bama
How about forgetting what color he is and allow him to be an American until he shows he is something else.
I didn't vote for him, but he is going to be the next president. This country is making too much of just a man. Face it. He ain't nothing but just a plain man. Nothing special.
Hell, I'll elect a Sheep as long as it's better than these thugs over the last 8 years!
that's a nice article 2:00pm, but don't expect us to believe your hillbilly ass came up with all that.....what newspaper or website did you steal that from?
well you can call him nothing, but a plain man, but he is the next president of the united states. You can't call anyone in that office a plain man regardeless of where they came from or how they got there. I didn't vote for the man either, but I will give him the respect that is deserved of someone in that office. They are privaledged to more information that we will ever know of or than the media can ever uncover. You can say all of the mistakes that Bush or Clinton made, but we are all outsiders who have no clue of what information they have or don't have and I think we and the media need to just shut up about it and let the presidents lead the country like we voted for them to do. Whether you won or lost the election with your vote there is nothing more you can do about it now! If you want your person to win in four years try actually volunteering for your party/person and helping their effort to get into office instead of bitching and complaining about your vote or did you even get out and vote?
I voted for him and for God sake I don't understand how any one would have voted to put Bush in office a second time. There is an unwritten rule in American society.
If you have 10% black blood in your body you are black. I didn't make it up but it's the way it is.
This may have come about by the tendency for individuals that are of both black and white race to turn around and be obsorbed back into the black population.
He is Black because his physical features have characteristics of the black race. He didn't choose it society did.
I believe he is going to be one of the best presidents in American history. It is obvious that he has the interest of the American working class in mind.
6:08 we dont care about what you believe no more than we care about the hair on a monkeys butt. Obammy and his leftist agenda is gonna tear this country apart morally and it will fall just as the Great Roman Empire did.
ghostofaviking
Good luck, Andrew. Though we disagree on many political fronts, I would still like to offer some advice. I tried to argue with logic and reason on this blog when it was first created. With few exceptions, the people on here have no place in there mind for either of the two. You're merely pissing in the wind. Do yourself a favor and ignore the ignorance. Some of them haven't read a book in the past 10 years, and it shows in their writing. Pick and choose your battles with those on here that offer constructive arguments instead of racist bigotry.
11:11
Hair on a monkey's Butt, Apathy to other's opinion, disrespect for our country's commander and chief. Being a sucker for the right wing propaganda machine. Boy...it sounds like you're of great moral fiber. If this county comes apart, it because of all the destruction prior to the Obama administration.
Then again with folks like you promoting the interest of the GOP they'll never recover from the 2008 election disaster.
When yall wake up and realize it's not the republicans or the democrats, but the elected body as one that is bending us all over, there will be a revolt. They are all power hungry crooks.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/with-economy-in-shambles-congress-gets-a-raise-2008-12-17.html
Everyone look at 6:08 AM comments.
And this is who helped elect your next president. Maybe someone should tell whoever it is that Bush has already served 2 terms and wasn't even running.
You see, you didn't even know who was running for president. How do you spell stupid?
I would have voted for Bush a third term if I could have.
I think most of this is funny. why are we discuseing obama on a blog about car mfgers. It dont matter who is elected its the people in congress that screw everthing up the pres is just a scape gost and it looks to be working to.
6:08 knows who was running for president in 08......The same folks who put Bush in office the second time was the same voting base that voted for McCain this time. It does take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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