If barack obama is such a great leader....why are we always moving from one crisis to the next

eddiewinslow, please just do us all a favor and call Spooge's wife a skank.

 

eddiewinslow, aren't you colored? Your vote doesn't count for **** bro. It doesn't matter how big your wallet is. deal with it.

 

It's really kind of interesting going back and looking at eddiewinslow's posting history. He used to be normal and then he transformed into an internet character just like a month ago.

 

Didn't you say you were Indian? India, one of the poorest most overpopulated large countries in the world? A billion people and a $.28 minimum wage?

 

Which president of the last century has been exempt from this?

The difference today is that the media, in general, is milking for information more every year. There's no evidence of any increase in the average number of scandals during his 5-6 years.

Also, there's been about 30 years of destabilizing the economy. In this, he's as bad as his last 4 predecessors.

 

Should I evacuate?

 

Maybe he is extending his entrepreneurial skills and is now getting paid to post.

Or he is working on a novel and is delving too deep into character development.

 

eddie has to be playing the Stephen Colbert routine. He can't be this dense?!?!

 

Lots of people have shown themselves to be even more dense than this.....most of them are in congress.

That reminds me of an old joke that applies here.

What's the opposite of progress? Congress.

 

I'm certainly not an Obama supporter, but it is unfair to say that he caused racial tensions relation to the Zimmerman case.

Those tensions have been simmering, and in many cases boiling, since the 1600s.

 

wrong

Obama unnecessarily fanned racial flames before he had the details. "if I had a son he'd look like Trayvon..."

He was duped by the media bias like so many others. ...either that, OR he needed those black voters in Florida energized and united before the election...

 

LOL he's only "half-black" when it's convenient.

 

You didn't read the initial post. The OP said that Obama was the CAUSE of racial tensions. That is incorrect and shows a poor understanding of history.

Anybody who paid even the slightest bit of attention in any world history class would know that "racial tensions" in the country started when the first European invaders clashed with the native population.

To say that he may have FANNED the flames is at least plausible...(although I disagree) but to say that Obama is the CAUSE of racial tension in the country is just idiotic.

 

Obama: 'Perpetual Cycle Of Brinksmanship ... Has To End'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...a-perpetual-cycle-of-brinksmanship-has-to-end

 

From this thread? We all should.

 

Well, if anything is evident about Barack Obama's presidency up until now...
...it would be the revelation (as it were) of the "racial divide" in America in 2013.

The President is in a unique position, and consequently has the nation in a unique position, in regards to "race relations".

I find myself having to remind friends (black and white) that less than 15% of the entire electorate (even fewer, accounting for disqualifications due to mitigating societal factors) could be classified as "black". Even if (as it seems) every eligible voter who identified him/herself as "black" voted for Barack Obama in each of the past two presidential elections, that total would be somewhere around 6 million votes per cycle. That means, in a nation of over 300 million people, there were an awful lot of folks who weren't "black" who voted for him. He is not simply a "black" president, including all the caveats and inferences that designation implies...at least as far as the voting public is concerned.

And much of the problem lies in that reality.

There are references cited from different sources about some things said in regards to race relations (and, in all fairness and without any disrespect, we‘re speaking of black/white relations) from the two most important Presidents regarding this issue: Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson. The remarks made by both men (which in aggregate and paraphrased) are presented often times as evidence that they were racially biased and insensitive toward black people. All of their wrangling and wrestling with the racial issues of their day was merely political expediency—under different circumstances, they would ignore anyone of color’s social grievances if at all possible.

They were as bigoted and racist as anyone else. They just did a better job of hiding it, in essence, is how the argument goes.

Allowing, as I tend to do from time to time, for the human element to factor into my dissertations, and also understanding the times that both men lived in, it wouldn’t be a total surprise to find that such a sentiment was true for both of them, on average. Nobody has to be reminded of how the Founding Fathers owned slaves while constructing potentially the most free society in the world. And I can almost guarantee that Franklin D. Roosevelt did not imagine that he was creating the welfare program exclusively for black people to mooch off the rest of society, some 20 years or so before most Negroes could actually qualify for it.

There’s always been a “pecking” order of some sort or another, and that order had virtually nothing at all to do with anything other than whether or not you were black. The saying goes among us black folk that we have to be twice as good as a white person at something to get half as much credit for it. And no matter how divergent we are as a people, we are generally all seen as the same archetype, until we prove to another person’s standard that we are not less than they are.

Actual overt behaviors can be traced as far back as slavery (or even to segregation), and can be stopped, as our laws and amendments have attempted to do. But the emotional and psychological consequences for everyone (black and white) are not so easily dismissed and overcome. And the attempt to trivialize those consequences are largely why they persist.

As long as we’re (or rather, I’m) talking about generational psychological disorders (and the vein has largely been in the “whining” nature of black people), it is particularly disheartening to find so many white people who would suffer from that “whining” nature as well. I’ve never understood it, personally (and that may be because despite my best efforts, I’ve been conditioned to think a certain way by the Al Sharptons and Glenn Becks of the world), but there does seem to be a rather tangible feeling among white people that, someday, somehow, someway…the n****rs are going to rise up and take over and kill all the white men, rape all the white women, and sell all the white kids off for gold chains and 22” rims for their ‘98 Oldsmobile Coup De’Villes.

Or a SNAP or a WIC card. Whichever is easier to peddle on the street corner (my favorite corner, by the way, was Jutland and Bellfort in SE Houston if anyone wants to visit)…

Quentin Tarantino notwithstanding—if all I could imagine was a world like the one hinted at in “Django Unchained” if I wasn’t careful, I can’t say as a white person that I’d be totally comfortable either…

…except, of course, for the fact that there isn’t much in the way of evidence to support that hypothesis. The 1960s did their best with the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam, but the “better angels of our collective nature” eventually won out.

What I’ve come to regard Barack Obama’s presidency as, in a contextual sense, is one of transition, not necessarily transformation. His election and (perhaps more importantly) reelection, was a way to take the nation’s temperature, after a fashion, on race.

And as the President himself has said on many occasions, our racial healing is a process. And that it is a process that involves everyone (black and white). And anything worthwhile that takes time will not be done neatly, and will perhaps be accomplished despite the personal faults of any men involved in the facilitation of it, if the gaol and ambition is in keeping with justice.

My son and his friends are proof of that, for me. My son has more white and Hispanic and Asian friends now than I may ever have. And they all seem to care not at all about the color of one another’s skin, even as they awkwardly sort out the nonsense of racial stereotypes in class projects and sleepovers and house parties that the cops have to break up…

(…and that reminds me to give that boy another lecture about how many “brothers” are locked up, and how he’s just about black enough to get locked up with them…)…

 

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Do you actually view Obama as "black", though? He's half white/half black, and was raised by whites and an Indonesian man. Mostly in Hawaii and abroad.