RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Barack Hussein Obama in '08?

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Uschi said:
because speech isn't against the law?

weren't there threats from extremist muslims, too?

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I didn't hear about muslim threats to Obama. This topic has largely been about Obama's compatibility with muslims.


Threatening a president or presidential candidate has been widely discussed on these boards, especially during the 2004 election, and quite a few over-the-top Bush-hating comments.

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Wonder Boy said:
It was attributed by the press that it was due partly to his visibility as a black candidate, and partly to "white supremacist buzz and threats on the internet".

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Which I really think is just the media's way to hype a guy they like, and possibly scare up some support by dredging up the race issue. If someone out there really made threats against Obama, why isn't Secret Service arresting them?

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Wonder Boy said:

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Uschi said:
because speech isn't against the law?

weren't there threats from extremist muslims, too?

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I didn't hear about muslim threats to Obama. This topic has largely been about Obama's compatibility with muslims.


Threatening a president or presidential candidate has been widely discussed on these boards, especially during the 2004 election, and quite a few over-the-top Bush-hating comments.

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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told New Hampshire firefighters Friday that he was frustrated his staff did not build into his travel schedule a personal appearance before their union meeting taking place in the coastal city of Portsmouth. Instead, the presidential hopeful had to address the IAFF and Federation of State and Provincial Firefighters Association this morning by telephone.

"I have to tell you, I wish I was there," Obama said over a speakerphone. "My staff had already scheduled some things and they couldn't wiggle out if it. They heard from me a little bit because I wasn't happy I couldn't be there personally."

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Captain Sammitch said:
Obama is black?

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but...he's so clean.

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PJP said:
It is about religion for me Bastard. 100%. I have no problems with a Black man or woman becoming President.

I don't believe Obama is a sincere person.

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Obama's criticism of Bush for his combative rhetoric came in answer to a question about whether the senator had the capacity to act ruthlessly when necessary if elected president.

"It's not just talking tough, because the truth is nobody's talked tougher than George Bush over the last six years. Being tough means, first of all, not having to talk about it all the time," Obama said. . . .

Without going into any specifics, Obama cited his testing in Chicago politics as a sign that he had an inner toughness. "Somebody who has arrived where I am out of Chicago politics has to have a little bit of steel in them," he said. "I have the capacity, I think, to make strong decisions even if they're unpopular, even if they're uncomfortable, even if sometimes I lose some friends."

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the G-man said:
Detente has been reached. Praise Allah!

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the G-man said:
The Chicago Tribune has an amusing report on Barack Hussein Obama, who appeared last weekend on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos":

Obama's criticism of Bush for his combative rhetoric came in answer to a question about whether the senator had the capacity to act ruthlessly when necessary if elected president.

"It's not just talking tough, because the truth is nobody's talked tougher than George Bush over the last six years. Being tough means, first of all, not having to talk about it all the time," Obama said. . . .

Without going into any specifics, Obama cited his testing in Chicago politics as a sign that he had an inner toughness. "Somebody who has arrived where I am out of Chicago politics has to have a little bit of steel in them," he said. "I have the capacity, I think, to make strong decisions even if they're unpopular, even if they're uncomfortable, even if sometimes I lose some friends."

So Obama says the first test of toughness is "not having to talk about it"--and he then proceeds to talk about how tough he is.

If Obama is being sincere, by his own standard he's a jellyfish.

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I like how you stopped the bold text so it wasn't immediately clear he said "all the time." To prove he went back on that statement you would need to show that he talked about being tough all the time, not just pull one instance out of your rob-soaked ass.
Seriously, G-man. Do you even read your posts anymore or are you just stalling until the election?

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Friendly Neighborhood Ray-man said:

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PJP said:
It is about religion for me Bastard. 100%. I have no problems with a Black man or woman becoming President.

I don't believe Obama is a sincere person.

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THE Bastard said:
I've read this thread periodically....having read all of the posts over time; some significantly later after they've originally been posted.

I know most of the personalities that post here.

I respect many of the opinions of said personalities even if I don't always agree...especially when they come from the ultimate left of left.

The deal is...I can't really tell if the dislike of Obama comes from his politics or his race.

I admit to being biased. My life experience has been such that I see a certain amount of racism in many things that involve minorities. Much of it is justified, a very small portion is not.

I see many people on this thread and others that appear to be against Obama just because his skin is a different tone than their own...even the swarthy Greek participants on this thread; who are naturally darker that the subject, by the way.

Does his race make him any less qualified than the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania...? The same gentleman that has presided over the worst mismanagement of the most violent conflict this country has seen since Vietnam...? That has been the head of what will probably be the most indited administraion since the Watergate years...?

Is he really any worse than any of the candidates on the RIGHT side of the issues...? Those with issues of character as strong as any of the previous administration...? Those that have turned on their own party's rhetoric to gain favor with a country sick of war...? Those who've lost ground with the general public for being willing to stand by their (current) hawkish convictions regardless of the the overwhelming attitude against the conflict and the administration who started it and exaggerated the truth to win support of it?

Is he really that worse an alternative than the honorable Dem. senator from Illi-York...? The carpet-bagger that has more pratical experience (thru observation and advising) governing a nation than any other candidate of either political persuasion...? The candidate whose only apparent major flaws are that she has a pussy and stayed with a man who has admitted to infidelities...?

Perhaps (as most white people will always say) I'm reading too much into the situation. Maybe you Republicans folk really like us black folk...as long as we stay in our place and don't get too uppity...like running for president. You like us just fine as nannies, gardeners, postal workers and drug dealers. But when we try to get edu-ma-cated and better ourselves...well, y'all just don't cotton to that idea at all.

Perhaps I'm wrong. I'm sure several of you will definitely chime in to tell me exactly that...and why I'm a racist for even suggesting that you could possibly be the same.

That's cool. I hope I am wrong. For your sakes.

In a year or so, there is a real possibility that the could be a finally be a black memaber of the executive office of this country...possibly even a Woman AND a Black Guy.

I'd hate to see all of you have to move back to the old country to protest.

Peace and hair grease, y'all.

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Wonder Boy said:
My primary objections to Obama has to do with his race.

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