Credit Where It’s Due
Posted by
tgirsch
SayUncle is a lot of things, but racist bastard isn’t one of them. He’s right. Racism, sexism, and religious bigotry aren’t by any means things of the past. Not by a long shot.
Uncle does still insist on calling Obama a socialist, however. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[Side note: I almost made “racist bastard” the link, but then had visions of SayUncle becoming the top google for “racist bastard” and changed it.]
UPDATE: It would seem that the same cannot be said for a lot of his commenters, however…
“Uncle does still insist on calling Obama a socialist”
He’s right. Barry Hussein Obama is a socialist.
Comment 2/22/2008
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Thanks for proving you don’t know what socialism is.
Comment 2/22/2008
“Definition:
1. political system of communal ownership: a political theory or system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the people and operated according to equity and fairness rather than market principles”
That certainly sounds like Barry Hussein Obama.
Comment 2/22/2008
I really enjoy reading your blog, it always has great insight. But I am very frustrated with the media’s lack of questions to the presidential candidates about global warming. Now that it is down to just a few candidates I would think that this would be a bigger issue.
Live Earth just picked up this topic and put out an article ( http://www.liveearth.org/news.php ) asking why the presidential candidates are not being solicited for their stance on the issue of the climate change. I just saw an article describing each candidate’s stance on global warming and climate change on earthlab.com http://www.earthlab.com/articles/PresidentialCandidates.aspx . So obviously they care about it. Is it the Medias fault for not asking the right questions or is it the candidates’ fault for not highlighting the right platforms? Does anyone know of other websites or articles that touch on this subject and candidates’ views? This is the biggest problem of the century and for generations to come…you would think the next president of the United States would be more vocal about it.
Comment 2/22/2008
In that case you need to get your hearing checked (although I suspect the problem is a bit deeper in).
Comment 2/22/2008
So what plank in Obama’s platform calls for the means of production and distribution to be controlled by the people? I don’t recall the “no more private enterprise” plank.
Why do you make things up?
Comment 2/22/2008
Obama’s questioning of social programs such as social security certainly doesn’t show a “socialist” inclination.
You’re a liar!!!!
Comment 2/22/2008
Fred, what is your fetish with Obama’s middle name? You seem to have latched onto it like some talisman that you can use to wish the man out of existance.
Comment 2/23/2008
Dan M:
Why should Obama be ashamed that his middle name is Hussein? Morris has repeatedly made it clear that he’s not trying to make any particular point by saying “Hussein” every time. It’s just an innocent use of his middle name. Nope, no ulterior motives there at all: why, anyone can see that there’s no malicious intent there, just by noticing that Morris always uses people’s full names, middle names included, when he refers to them, no matter who they are, unless he doesn’t know what their middle names are.
Wait, what? He only uses Obama’s middle name, and never anyone else’s in his comments here? Oh, nevermind…
Comment 2/23/2008
I’m not even sure how to take this, but it’s certainly on-topic:
http://sozepiggytails.livejournal.com/325098.html
Context: the LJ user is posting a mail from her Dad, who is a factory worker in Chicago.
Comment 2/23/2008
It would seem that the same cannot be said for a lot of his commenters, however…
In that case, you might want to rethink making SayUncle the top google for “racist bastard” …
:-)
Comment 2/24/2008
“So what plank in Obama’s platform”
Does he have a platform? All I’ve heard Barry Hussein Obama say is platitudes. Even Hillary Rodham Clinton reconizes that fact.
Comment 2/25/2008
“Morris has repeatedly made it clear that he’s not trying to make any particular point by saying “Hussein” every time. It’s just an innocent use of his middle name. Nope, no ulterior motives there at all: why, anyone can see that there’s no malicious intent there,”
I haven’t looked up the post, but I believe I said my purpose for using Barry Hussein Obama’s full name is to irritate liberals loons. It certainly works. Of course, there is malicious intent. I think it would be a tragedy of monumental proportions to elect Barry Hussein Obama as president. He is the least qualified serious candidate I can ever remember.
Comment 2/25/2008
So Fred, on the one hand you say Obama is a socialist, then you say he has no platform and all you have heard from him are platitudes.
That means you are lying in at least one of your two posts.
Comment 2/25/2008
Come now, Ted. Lying happens when you mean to say falsehoods. Surely we all know that Fred is just too stupid to be internally consistant, not malicious enough to lie.
Comment 2/25/2008
Dan M:
Why are you so full of hate?
Comment 2/25/2008
TG, I’m not sure whether your question is in jest.
Quite frankly, I really do hate theism; it is evil. It is inhumane in the most profound way, promoting illusions of magical tyrants over the interests of real, living people; real, feeling persons. The monotheistic religions are brutal, genocidal, unfaithful, and corrupt. They are harbors for racism, falsehood, cruelty, and the most total despotism of the mind. The worst villains of history cannot even aspire to the death toll and hegemony that religion has wrought on the world.
Fred has made clear that it is more of this that he wants in my country. Tell me why he deserves anything less than hate for that.
Comment 2/25/2008
Dan, it was a joke. “Why are you so full of hate” is another one of Fred/Morris’s favorite retorts.
Comment 2/25/2008
Right, sorry. Didn’t mean to get uptight on you there.
Comment 2/26/2008
“Tell me why he deserves anything less than hate for that.”
I don’t expect anything less than hate from liberal loons. That is all you know. Hate-mongering is par for the course.
Comment 2/26/2008
Dan M. wrote: “Fred, what is your fetish with Obama’s middle name?”
At least McCain had the dignity to repudiate similar comments by Bill Cunningham, and to recognize their intent.
Comment 2/27/2008
“At least McCain had the dignity to repudiate similar comments by Bill Cunningham, and to recognize their intent.”
Is Obama so insecure that he really gets upset because someone uses his lawful middle name? He’s going to have a lot worse things said about him if he becomes president. He sounds very thin skinned. How long will this victim card be played? Poor, poor fellow.
Comment 2/28/2008
Alton:
So, from where you sit, there’s no ulterior motive or subversive intent for using the full legal name of one candidate, and only that one candidate?
Show me where the people who consistently use Obama’s full name — something Obama himself doesn’t do in day-to-day speech — also consistently talk about “John Sidney McCain III” or “Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton” and maybe I’ll start to consider the possibility that it’s all innocent. Until then, or until you can explain why they only use Obama’s middle name, color me unimpressed with your attempts to try to shift the debate onto Obama’s “thin skin.”
Comment 2/28/2008
“So, from where you sit, there’s no ulterior motive or subversive intent for using the full legal name of one candidate, and only that one candidate?”
Of course there is ill intent. People who use his middle name want to defeat him and keep him from becoming president.
Comment 3/1/2008
And they are perfectly willing to play on the public’s fears by insinuating something that is not true to win the election. Well, that’s one reason Obama is going to be the next president, because the majority of the people in this country are sick and tired of the politics of fear and slander. And won’t it be great to have an election decided on the issues and not what someone’s middle name is.
Comment 3/1/2008
“And won’t it be great to have an election decided on the issues and not what someone’s middle name is.”
When will Obama tell us how he stands on the issues?
“And they are perfectly willing to play on the public’s fears by insinuating something that is not true to win the election.”
What are they insinuating that is not true?
Comment 3/3/2008