I live in l.A. which next to New York is probably the most multicultural city on the face of the Earth. So we here don't make bullshit divisive observations from a safe distance. We live multiculturalism and diversity every single day.
Yeah, and there's NOOOOO racial or ethnic tension in Los Angeles.....
I live in l.A. which next to New York is probably the most multicultural city on the face of the Earth. So we here don't make bullshit divisive observations from a safe distance. We live multiculturalism and diversity every single day.
Yeah, and there's NOOOOO racial or ethnic tension in Los Angeles.....
Ok... can I post an old video of the Berlin Wall to show how divided Germany is then?
But honestly, what's your guys' obsession with racial division? It seems you don't want it to be otherwise. Because if there were racial unity, well, Republicans would be fucked.
Latino voters could provide the margin of victory for Obama in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico -- states that went for President Bush in 2004 and that account for 19 electoral votes. If either candidate sweeps the big states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, he could win without these Western states. But if the bigger states are split, each candidate would probably need the Western states for an electoral college victory.
The importance of those states was underscored Saturday, when the McCain and Obama campaigns made stops in New Mexico and Nevada.
The William C. Velasquez Institute, a nonpartisan public policy center in Los Angeles, analyzed polling data from the three Western states and Florida. It found that Latino voters provided no advantage to either side in Florida despite long-standing support for the Republican Party by Cuban Americans.
In the Western states, the Latino vote is growing in size and as a percentage of the total, and it is favoring the Democratic Party more than in previous years.
Latinos make up 32.4% of registered voters in New Mexico, 11.4% in Nevada and 9.9% in Colorado. The institute examined data from eight polling firms and found that Obama's lead over McCain in Nevada would be 42.4% to 40.7% without Latino voters -- a difference that's within the margin of error. Include Latino voters, however, and Obama's lead grows to 50%, versus 43% for McCain.
That only tells part of the story, according to Antonio Gonzalez, president of the institute. In the last presidential election, 60% of Latinos in Nevada voted for Democratic candidate John F. Kerry and 40% for Bush. This time, polls show a 7- to 10-point increase for Obama.
So if people reject your desperate desire to divide and conquer along racial (as well as social and religious) lines, you guys are fucked.
Good. Republicans have divided this country for far too long already.
You've "seen"?? What's the matter, actual interaction with "these groups" too scary for you?
if you weren't so obsessed with the sound of your own voice, you would have known (since it's pretty easy to find on these boards) that I grew up in a lower middle-class family in a pretty rough part of cleveland, in a mostly puerto rican neighborhood, and just about every major ethnic group in this country is represented in my immediate and extended family. my spanish is probably better than yours, and I sure as fuck have a better handle on black culture than your sorry ass. but I'm not here to get into a pissing contest with you - you embarrass yourself more than enough without my help.
how exactly do you 'live' multiculturalism in a way that I don't? did olbermann introduce some kinda new segment I'm not aware of? get your head outta your ass and get the fuck out of my presence if that pathetic shit is the best you can manage.
notice that the most racist thing on these boards is whomod's repeated assumption that some of us don't understand his or other cultures based on nothing more than the level of melanin we have. except that pjp is orange. and jla and g-man have never posted photos of themselves. so basically he's assuming we're all white and assuming we consequently don't 'get it'.
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama's "closing argument" speech Monday included a sweeping accusation against GOP rival John McCain: "Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy."
But the charge is debatable _ McCain has several ideas that are different than Bush's policy, which he touched on as recently as a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Do I respect President Bush? Of course I respect him," McCain said. "But I pointed out we were on the wrong track in a whole lot of ways, including a $10 trillion deficit, including saying we got to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and propose legislation to try to fix it before that triggered the housing collapse, including today when I'm saying they should be going out and buying up these mortgages and giving people mortgages that they can afford rather than bailing out the banks."
The Obama campaign says the key word of Obama's statement is "major," and the differences that McCain points to are minor details. Here are some of what McCain's campaign sees as his biggest disagreements with Bush on economic policy:
_ McCain wants to use half of the $700 billion financial rescue package that Bush signed into law to buy up troubled mortgages at full face value and then negotiate easier loan terms.
_ McCain has called for the resignation of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox because he has "betrayed the public's trust." Bush appointed Cox in 2005 and has stood by him.
_ On taxes, McCain is calling for a 10 percent cut in the corporate tax rate and doubling of the child exemption beyond the tax cuts that Bush has already passed.
_ McCain has proposed sweeping changes to the health care system, replacing existing income tax breaks for worker's health coverage with refundable tax credits of up to $5,000. Bush had proposed replacing income tax breaks with a standard deduction for health insurance, but it was not as large a proposal as McCain's and it died in Congress.
_ McCain differs with Bush in several ways over energy policy, points that his campaign argues would have a big impact on the economy. Among them: McCain supports a mandatory cap-and-trade approach to cutting greenhouse gases, which allows industries to either reduce their pollution or to purchase credits from companies exceeding pollution targets.
_ McCain wants to eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits.
how often does sonia get off when you give her the strawberry shortcake? or do you just do that to teach her a lesson whenever she uses her teeth too much?
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they say size does matter..
so it's because you're frustrated over having a small penis? gotcha.
if you weren't so obsessed with the sound of your own voice, you would have known (since it's pretty easy to find on these boards) that I grew up in a lower middle-class family in a pretty rough part of cleveland, in a mostly puerto rican neighborhood, and just about every major ethnic group in this country is represented in my immediate and extended family. my spanish is probably better than yours, and I sure as fuck have a better handle on black culture than your sorry ass. but I'm not here to get into a pissing contest with you - you embarrass yourself more than enough without my help.
how exactly do you 'live' multiculturalism in a way that I don't? did olbermann introduce some kinda new segment I'm not aware of? get your head outta your ass and get the fuck out of my presence if that pathetic shit is the best you can manage.
Now that was an EPIC beatdown. No way whomod ignores it and goes for the YouTube clip to deflect from this post.
WASHINGTON -- Democrat Barack Obama's "closing argument" speech Monday included a sweeping accusation against GOP rival John McCain: "Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently from George Bush when it comes to the economy."
But the charge is debatable _ McCain has several ideas that are different than Bush's policy, which he touched on as recently as a Sunday interview on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Do I respect President Bush? Of course I respect him," McCain said. "But I pointed out we were on the wrong track in a whole lot of ways, including a $10 trillion deficit, including saying we got to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and propose legislation to try to fix it before that triggered the housing collapse, including today when I'm saying they should be going out and buying up these mortgages and giving people mortgages that they can afford rather than bailing out the banks."
The Obama campaign says the key word of Obama's statement is "major," and the differences that McCain points to are minor details. Here are some of what McCain's campaign sees as his biggest disagreements with Bush on economic policy:
_ McCain wants to use half of the $700 billion financial rescue package that Bush signed into law to buy up troubled mortgages at full face value and then negotiate easier loan terms.
_ McCain has called for the resignation of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox because he has "betrayed the public's trust." Bush appointed Cox in 2005 and has stood by him.
_ On taxes, McCain is calling for a 10 percent cut in the corporate tax rate and doubling of the child exemption beyond the tax cuts that Bush has already passed.
_ McCain has proposed sweeping changes to the health care system, replacing existing income tax breaks for worker's health coverage with refundable tax credits of up to $5,000. Bush had proposed replacing income tax breaks with a standard deduction for health insurance, but it was not as large a proposal as McCain's and it died in Congress.
_ McCain differs with Bush in several ways over energy policy, points that his campaign argues would have a big impact on the economy. Among them: McCain supports a mandatory cap-and-trade approach to cutting greenhouse gases, which allows industries to either reduce their pollution or to purchase credits from companies exceeding pollution targets.
_ McCain wants to eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits.
Perfectly fine for them to do so. Myself, I see no more liberal slant than I do conservative slant. It all depends on what you're watching or listening to, who's doing to commentating, and who owns the company that is producing it. FOX is Right, CNN is Left. And it goes on and on...
yes but it's not proportionate. if you thrown in talk radio which is more conservative it still is probably around 70% liberal to 30% conservative and most people don't listen to talk radio.
Perfectly fine for them to do so. Myself, I see no more liberal slant than I do conservative slant. It all depends on what you're watching or listening to, who's doing to commentating, and who owns the company that is producing it. FOX is Right, CNN is Left. And it goes on and on...
Okay, let's assume your opinion of Fox and CNN are correct, but ABC, NBC and CBS are all center-liberal and, because they are broadcast networks, each one of them alone has more viewers than either Fox or CNN. And, of course, you have MSNBC which is openly trying to be the liberal new channel, with Olbermann, Matthews and Maddow.
So Pappas is correct. The liberal to conservative ratio in the media is way tilted to the Democrat Party.
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