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AMERICAblog: McCain now flip-flopping on affirmative action

  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Well, thank God for that! End the racial "quota" scenario. Stop treating blacks as second class citizens. Stop denying whites and asians into medical school because of the "quota" equation. Stop the "set asides". Forty years is long enough; now the fault rests with the parents for not preparing their kids for the real world..
  • dad · 1 year ago
    better yet let's end the affirmative action of privilege. far more are bumped their place by the unaccomplished children of the wealthy.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    OK, I'll go with that, too. Good point...
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McCain vs. McCain
    a lose/lose situation.
  • Dave of the Jungle · 1 year ago
    The Straight Talk Express is suffering from repetitive U Turn syndrome.
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    McSame is starting to sound more and more like McWorse.
  • sherifffruitfly · 1 year ago
    Perfect way to get every white person in America on his side.
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    Would this also mean that McWorse is advocating the start of an affirmative action program for the Presidency? One would think over 200 years of the same old minority running the country is enough. . .
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    McCain is afraid of black people.
  • dad · 1 year ago
    mccain is afraid of the republican base.
  • BostonJoe · 1 year ago
    McCain wants a set a side for poor kids. No matter what their race. Obama wants a set a side for all minorities and the poor. He is on both sides of the issue!!! Way to go Barak!!!!
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    it's Barack.
    can you get anything right?
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Hey, Busboy looks like you finally got some competition for blog wingnut here.
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    On every blog site that's progressive, there will be at least one wingnut who sets themself up to troll it. They set themselves up to get the attention. Wingnut, go back to redstate or freakrepublic or let us post there. Go ask them then come back and report. Until that, FUCK OFF!!
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Git 'em!
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Yeah, GG, each wingnut is assigned a blog. I drew the short straw and got this one; replete with socialists, communists, losers of life's lottery and anarchistic sociopaths. I've asked for reassignment; but, there aren't enough 'wingnuts' to go around... I think I'm getting "Stockholm" syndrome, because I'm actually starting to like some people here....
  • dad · 1 year ago
    :)
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    I think he may be a better wingnut in the artisty of BS wingnutia than you...
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    Small-town Pennsylvanians still unsure of Obama and McCain.

    "My thinking has changed and mellowed since I was Senator Obama's age. I'm more realistic and less idealistic."

    "I don't think Obama believes in the U.S."

    "I liked her [Hillary] views on education, and she's a woman. Obama just doesn't have the experience she had."

    "I really liked Bill, and I felt Hillary was a very hard worker. McCain has that same sort of government experience."

    "My problem with Obama is not a problem of age. It's a matter of his commitment."

    "His mother taught him his values, and she was a flower child of the '60s. I question his values."
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    If they vote McShrub in there, then obviously the American people need to experience more pain, followed by growth to go to a higher level. That's how it works. What will be will be. Quite frankly, I've said they probably deserve McShrub for their own future growth. We will suffer, probably dramtically with things unfolding. I accept that now. Obama is what's best for us because of our past growth. He's what we deserve but McShrub is what they need, if so.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    So, Mirth, what's with posting that "out of context", 'pap' piece? you just trying to stir up trouble in paradise?....
  • dad · 1 year ago
    mccain: beliefs he can change in.
  • Steve_in_CNJ · 1 year ago
    another sneering Associated Press attack piece against Obama:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25869729/

    "After the harsh anti-Americanism that has thrived in Europe for most of this decade, it was jarring to see a U.S. politician receive such adoration from the public, press, and the continent's leaders, who seemed almost to swoon in his presence"
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    Well, we have to understand that the press receives instant "analysis" credentials simply by their place in line at the barbecue service at the McCain homestead. . .or their preference for donuts.
    One wonders how (or why) the AP "reporter" or GOP stenographer found Obama's reception so "jarring" in "Old Europe." Didn't the Republicans explain to him how irrelevant the Old Country is anyway?

    As for swooning, nothing becomes a "reporter" stenographer more than a plate of food and a reminder of being "my friend" at the McOK corral. There is one thing for sure, however. . .the press does not want America to have a real leader. . .maybe the public needs to start asking "why?"
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    :::throwing a greasy rib bone at andrea mitchell:::
  • Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago
    Did anyone else notice how when Obama and Sarkozy in France were standing at the podiums, that Sarkozy came off as a goof ball at first and Obama looked very dignified. Obama lsorta ooked over at him and was like, as if to say, are you going to be alright? Then Sarkozy sobered up and got more serious. Quite a contrast. Not dealing with bush anymore, asshole. It feels great to have the world have to treat us with respect again after all these years bush.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Yeah, Sarko evidently thought he was dealing with another Bush-style, "talking with mouth full," "unsolicited backrub," idiot.

    Then he realized we're not all uncouth rednecks.
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    OT:

    The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-onth...
  • jr · 1 year ago
    "John McCain is very popular among African-Americans"-cable news