The Most Offensive Comment Yet

mg: you are showing your ignorance of what Hillary Clinton DOES talk about on a daily basis----she talks about her Solutions for America's problems in great detail. If you would just LISTEN to her----better yet----listen this coming Wednesday when she and obama engage in a debate. You'll hear that she has done her homework----understands the problems America faces, and has thought of a way forward to get past them. Sometimes she even attacks obama on the dumb things that he says.

MIGuy: That person must have been wise beyond their years! It is great to talk to someone rather than at someone, like my grandpa use to say! It is good to talk with you even if we sometimes disagree I would be proud to call you my friend!

Big surprise... some greasy southern country club republican lets his lips get the best of him. All you Clinton drones got to take a look at the company you're keeping these days.

Do you have any need to hear from some no-name, tassle-toed, sissy republican with a cheesy golf club insignia on his $750 sweater. Who votes for these people.

I'm standing up with Obama to send these mothers back to the stone age. guys like this aren't part of the news, but soon enough they'll be part of history.

@russell:

I'm no fan of P.C. run amok - it stunts conversations because everyone keeps tripping over their words hoping not to offend anyone else. There is nothing wrong with offending others by stating your opinion. On the other hand, deliberately demeaning comments are insults plain and simple. I don't think the congressman chose "racist" words and I certainly don't know him to call him one. The biggest problem I see is that calling our candidates names (such as 'boy') ultimately demeans our political system. We should have a bit more respect for the offices these folks hold and thank goodness someone wants to do a job where they subject themselves to such personal attacks.

To S.B., I am white. One day my mother and I stopped at a Denny's in Bartow FL. We waited and waited for someone to come and take our order. After forty minutes we walked out and I said to my mother "if we were African American we would have a lawsuit". Were my mother and I discriminated against or were they just busy or rude. I am not saying African Americans are not discriminated against but sometimes I think it just being sensitive.

Mr. Obama, if elected, will have the power to punish those who use such insensitive words. He will be able to appoint military commanders and high officials who share his contempt for those who use such insensitive words. He will be able to correct the mistakes of the past thru reparations and other redress. He will be the most powerful man in the world.

And about the woman calling the kids "little monkeys". Give ME A BREAK ! I am white and my Grama who would be 110 now used to call the white neighborhood kids "monkeys" all the time when they'd be acting up ! It's an old generational slang that they used at that time, like "boy" was used by the men. It's like calling kids "rugrats" now. Is THAT offensive ?

I'm not exactly white.

Obama hasn't experienced any discrimination based on the colour of his skin in this race, or in any political race he's been in, which is what the discussion is about.

Of course racism exists. Of course white people and black people are racist against blacks. It's conditioned into them.

You don't know who you are talking to. I work against racism on a daily basis. I don't think Rev Wright is racist against whites and have never said any such thing because I don't think its possible. I think he hates whites.

I am well aware of the very real manifestations of racism experienced by African Americans and other people of colour.

I will tell you something though. Many of the young white men that I know who support Obama are capable of some of the most vile hatred against people of color and women. I have heard it.

Supporting Barack obama doesn't mean they aren't racist. In fact, it could mean quite the opposite and be used as a justification.

You know the "I'm, not racist but..." justification or the, "my best friend is black but..." justification. It will be the "I voted for Barack Obama" but..." justification.

Again you don't know who you are talking to. You don't know what I do or have done to fight racism in myself an in others. I do not however feel the need to put up with mysoginistic criticisms of Hillary Clinton biased press coverage and voting to assuage white liberal guilt for a candidate that CANNOT win a general election.

Obama CANNOT win a general election. he is not qualified and he has huge liablilites which the republicans will exploit and FL and MI are dead zones for him.

Dems either want to win the white house or they don't. Obama is not that candidate for many and increasingly more reasons.

Excuse the typos in my original post. Here is what I meant to say--

The comment is offensive, but no more so than the sexism and agism that have been spewed at Clinton and McCain (b*tch, monster...).

Obama has inflamed racial tension and division in this country more than anyone in recent memory. His CHOICE of Wright"s racist, "black liberation theology" which blames "evil white people" for all that ails America is part of the problem. Obama's reference to "typical white people" didn't help. Nor does it help when he suggests that small town America is bitter and clings to guns and religion to explain their frustrations. You can't just throw out crap like that and not expect any blow back.
And that is the fundamental problem with Obama--he thinks that he is above it all. That he can judge and scrutinize us without himself being judged and scrutinized.

He is self-righteous. He is arrogant. He is condescending. He is a hypocrite and yes, he is bitter. He surrounds himself with radical, bitter people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. Old school liberal/malcontents who feel that society owes them something and who scoff at patriotism (or in Wright's extreme case--invoke God's damnation on our country). Even Obama's wife seems bitter--confessing that she has never been proud of this country, until just now.

This country deserves and needs so much better.

Democrats and Republicans---UNITE AGAINST OBAMA!!!!!

wow, boy what was he thinking im sure hilary would have had him fired if he called her that girl!

dl: Read both my post before you do like Obama a go shoot you mouth off! I said in my previous post that it was the wrong thing to say because it was used by many to demean blacks especially during and after slavery, I said that he should not have said it!! In my second post I was just giving a amen to the fact that when I was growing up black elders and white elders called me boy I am sorry if you think that my experience makes you so angry and bitter and if that is the level of your intellect then be my guest and call me anything you like, as long as you call me to supper! Read before you post!

Thanks Amazed, I'll look for it. Sounds very informative.

A step forward - I hope you know what you're asking for! These discussions, and I've tried to participate in many online, always seem to devolve into the worst kind of name calling. It's very unfortunate.

I was really impressed with Obama's speech on race, because he hit on the issues that frustrate both sides, BUT that was a speech, not a dialog. People tend to climb on their superior, high horses when ever race comes up and throw around the "bigot" accusation in the most irresponsible way whenever anyone disagrees with them. It's hardly ever productive, particularly in this format.

But hey, I'm willing to read along.:)

Setting the Record Straight writes:
"Belle Starr, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. I grew up in South Carolina in the 1950s and I can tell you that I got called "boy" plenty of times ..."

My facts are straight enough, thanks. What I said is that referring to someone your own age as "that boy" (50 years after official segregation ended) is NOT the same as CALLING somebody "boy" to his face, as a substitute for his name -- and that Davis' use of "that boy" may well NOT have been intended as a RACIAL insult.

I did NOT say anything about segregation not happening, or the other stuff you suggest.

since when does the "Old South" have a monopoly on racism?

Teri B.: I wish you had caught this really good lecture on C-Span yesterday morning: it was by a lecturer who did a study/wrote a book about what reaction the MEDIA has had to any women candidates for President, from 1874 (Shirley Chisholm) to Present. It was so fascinating ! The top 2 things the Media ALWAYS reported on in THAT WHOLE TIME was that women "were not fit to become President" because:

1). They were too emotional
2). They couldn't handle a "crisis"
3). They were concerned only
with "trivial" things

This great lecturer debunked all of these myths, and gave the rationale for what was the TRUTH. Hope the show comes on again. I think all women should see it.

Well, Obama said he wanted to open up the dialogue about race. Let's talk race.

The Obama campaign also was going to disenfranchise one of ts delegates for calling her neighbor's children monkeys. They happen to be black. She explained that she also calls her own grandchildren monkeys, but the Obama thought police would have none of it. She was RACIST and she was not going to be a delegate. Not until the public outcry against these 1984esque tactics surficed.

I'll defend the comments. They were about Obama's age and inexperience. They had nothing to do with his race. Calling everyone who criticizes Obama racist is totalitarian. It will not fly in a general election.

It is offensive and has to stop. Obama is young and inexperienced. Someone called him a boy. So what.

Hillary is called much worse on a daily basis and the MSM publishes it on its comment threads and doesn't report on it as unusual at all.

Amazed: What you say is true all my friends white and black were called boy by our elders and no one took offence! But that was before PC took over!

By the way, Rich. I am ALL FOR a 1/2 black, 1/2 white President, or an all-Black President, but this obama isn't the one.

okay and I have a question...why is it that all the networks have tried to interview people on the street and have had a hard time finding people really pissed off about what Obama said...but yet somehow the Clinton campaign found a bunch in time to put out an ad and they all seem to have been found at the same time of day?... It's amazing how you can find so many people so angry at obama walking on the sidewalk...especially when you set up your camera directly outside Clinton campaign headquarters...lol