i'm confused, how did obama....

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-20-2008
i'm confused, how did obama....
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Fri, 09-26-2008 - 9:43pm
6 years ago oppose the war in iraq? was he in senate then?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 2:47am
Again, I'll let you try to dispute the facts that have been presented above.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 3:08am

I watched the debate with a friend of mine--a very intelligent person--who is an Obama supporter.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 3:13am

>>> Of course we all know he was pushed into it. What BLACK man could be intelligent enough to speak these words:

I’m not sure why you feel his color affects his level of intelligence, but Obama was also “intelligent” enough to speak these words…

When America was obtaining clear victories on the ground in Iraq, I began to suspect that I might have been wrong " - The Audacity of Hope,

And these…

"I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know." - The New York Times, July 26, 2004

And these…

"I'm always careful to say that I was not in the Senate, so perhaps the reason I thought was such a bad idea was that I didn't have the benefit of U.S. intelligence," - The New Yorker, 2004

>>> I'm curious: What color/religion are you, sahasranama?

Wow, bigotry rears it’s ugly head.

>>> Is there any chance you could be an anti-Muslim Hindu who's been brainwashed to believe Obama is a Muslim? If so, please ship your prejudices back home--we don't need them in the United States of America.

And now it fully reveals itself…naked in the blinding light of day. I’m surprised, racists usually prefer the shadows…or at least a hood.

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 3:29am

WOW.


ummm...I went back to that post to try to figure out what that poster was saying with all of those racial references.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 3:45am
Thanks. It must have taken some degree of courage to make that speech and it was a good speech. He said everything that needed to be said.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-26-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 4:09am
I was amazed and confused as well. My post referred to Obama's political motivations for making his anti-war speech and suddenly I was being accused of racism by a racist.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 4:16am
Doesn't make any sense.
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 5:01am

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I am requesting an explanation for these comments, because I have NO idea from where this blatant racism is coming.


I found these comments to be offensive (and I am not one to get riled up about political correctness, so don't think you can get off that easy).


I do not see a place nor reason for such comments, and I want to understand why you said what you've said.


In my opinion, your comments were unwarranted, and frankly, disgusting.



iVillage Member
Registered: 11-08-2003
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 5:42am
Sorry, but I don't know what you are referring to.

 Rose

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-16-2008
Sat, 09-27-2008 - 7:15am
I see, so you are taking one man's opinion as fact? Well be that as it may you have to remember that it is just his opinion. I disagree, that is my opinion. So I guess we just have to agree to disagree on that one. Obama took an anti war stand at a time when the war was widely popular, unless he has some kind of esp it was a gamble politically since many people were labeled 'unpatriotic' at that time if they disagreed with anything Bush said about the war - remember the Dixie Chicks? So you can have your opinion - an I respect that, although I disagree with you and Mendell. Interestingly many of the things Obama thought would come to pass when he made his speech against the war have come to pass - so even if it had been a political move (which I doubt) he seems to have been pretty accurate.

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