Why did Obama hang this picture in the White House?

[Eight]

Democrats and their race issues are really tiring.. it's their biggest selling show in the Bigtop every time though... I moved away from an area that was overrun with Black criminals. It was all nice but there was a mass movement of them up from Los Angeles at one point and they really hate whities and love their criminal stuff so I split to an area where they are very rarely seen and even less heard... it's nice really...

 

[plyka]

Quote from ChkitOut:

I don't believe liberals WANT to move past our ugly racial past. Its like they can't just let it die, they want to keep the fire burning. I don't get it.

It's very simple, it is the establishments greatest tool, calling all their enemies "racists." It resonates with the American people, and so anyone they don't like, individuals or ideas they despise, they must get the people to consider them racists. It's not a Republican or a Democratic thing, although I admit that the liberals are more apart of the establishment and thus use this tool more often. It's an establishment thing.

The largest anti-establishment movement in the country today is the tea party. Although to some extent it has been commandeered by the REpublicans. Still, the tea party is very anti-establishment.

And you see the first tool used to combat these anti-establishment types: THEY ARE ALL RACISTS! Then they move on to calling them other names, like "terrorists" or "anti-american" or whatever.

 

[plyka]

Quote from 377OHMS:

This post is way beneath you.

You know we nuked them so that we wouldn't lose hundreds of thousands of US troops during an invasion. Given the atrocities the Japanese committed in China and S.E. Asia I'm surprised at you. Far more Japanese would have died in an invasion as well.

My grandfather was captured on Sumatra and related the horrific treatment of prisoners that occurred all across asia. Extreme inhumanity was the norm.

You should retract or qualify your post. Not angry here just surprised and a little disappointed.

Quote from Lucrum:

What a fucking moron you are lil' Ricky.


How is it you're not crying about the Japanese "terrorist" attack on Pearl Harbor?

Or the German's "terrorist" attacks on London?

Or the British "terrorist" attacks on German cities?

Quote from Max E. Pad:

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Rules of engagement for war were far different back then, every country was carpet bombing cities and killing civilians, there was no such thing as trying to save civilian lives. You cant really call it a terrorist act when we were doing what everyone else in the war was doing.

You guys are all giving excuses as to why the terrorism the USA did in WWII is/was a good thing. That's not the issue. Perhaps nuking a couple cities while killing and maiming hundreds of thousands and well as affecting millions with radiation disease and other things --perhaps all this was a good thing for the USA's purpose. Perhaps it was completely legitimate from the USA's point of view, or even legitimate in a rational point of view.

But it doesn't change the fact that it was terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic and it has a definition. What the USA did fits that definition. Whether that terrorism was necessary or even good is irrelevant to the definition.

 

[Arnie]

I think one very big reason Obama won in 2008 is because he transcended race. A lot of whites voted for him because he wasn't another Jess Jackson or Al Sharpton. He starts to lose that image and he is toast. The economy won't matter.

One a side note, he could win a lot of redneck votes with this painting

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Ricter:

"ter·ror·ism

noun /ˈterəˌrizəm/ 

The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims"

Please indicate which part of nuking civilians in order to compel a government's surrender violates the above definition of terrorism.

It clearly fits the definition ,but of course these morons like to make up their own definitions when they don't agree with something

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Lucrum:

What a fucking moron you are lil' Ricky.


How is it you're not crying about the Japanese "terrorist" attack on Pearl Harbor?

Or the German's "terrorist" attacks on London?

Or the British "terrorist" attacks on German cities?

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[Lucrum]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

It clearly fits the definition ,but of course these morons like to make up their own definitions when they don't agree with something

So why aren't you, Ricter and your other bleeding heart buddies crying about the Japanese, British and German "terrorist" attacks?

Is someone incinerated from a low yield nuke somehow any more dead than someone incinerated in a firestorm created by conventional weapons?

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from Lucrum:

So why aren't you, Ricter and your other bleeding heart buddies crying about the Japanese, British and German "terrorist" attacks?

Is someone incinerated from a low yield nuke somehow any more dead than someone incinerated in a firestorm created by conventional weapons?

If you haven't noticed I criticize aggressive foreign policy all the time and have stated that is the # 1 reason I would vote for Paul

 

[drillmega]

This thread is developing into something interesting.

I wonder how long it will take the JakeIsraelLover to start moaning about the "greatest tragedy of them all".

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

If you haven't noticed I criticize aggressive foreign policy all the time and have stated that is the # 1 reason I would vote for Paul

I haven't noticed, no doubt I've been blinded by your constant hypocrisy.