And here’s what he did to Hillary Clinton during our primaries — and the media let him get away with this back then:
November 3, 2008
Obama gives obscene gesture to McCain — same one he gave to Hillary Clinton
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November 3, 2008 at 1:37 pm
He knows exactly what he is doing. He just makes me ill. No way, no how, NOBAMA!
November 3, 2008 at 1:40 pm
You stay classy, Barack.
November 3, 2008 at 1:41 pm
What a classless POS. I hate him so much, the sound of his voice grates my nerves. His smug, condescending, arrogant expressions.
Obama looks very tired and not very ‘fired up’ in contrast to McCain. McCain looked positively joyous during the speech I saw him deliver yesterday.
November 3, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Classy. Can one of Obama’s staff take him aside and let him know what that gesture means? He may not want to do that when he’s meeting with foreign dignitaries, or speaking at the U.N., or giving his State of the Union address.
November 3, 2008 at 1:43 pm
And nearly half the country is still voting for him?
November 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm
If you haven’t figured it out by now, that is Dr. O’s greasy procto finger, and he’s aiming it directly at YOU and every other American taxpayer from Joe the Plumber to Jim the Accountant to Mary the Nurse and Kathy the Teacher.
There’s a military phrase for Obama’s intended message: BOHICA — look it up.
November 3, 2008 at 1:49 pm
YouTube deleted the Video.
No surprise! They are in teh tank for Obama.
November 3, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Classless commie motherf..ker. I really hope this flaming douchebag loses tomorrow.
November 3, 2008 at 1:51 pm
He did the same thing with Hillary. The crowd also knew what he was doing as well. In both cases, the middle finger gesture was received by cheers.
November 3, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Stay classy is right. Hope I am correct in thinking the majority of voters see the nasty, petty nature of the Chitown thug.
Kate
November 3, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Correct me if I’m wrong…
Didn’t Obama give the finger to Hillary right after a debate in Philadelphia when he was in the process of getting his butt kicked in Pennsylvania ?
November 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Everyone, the Lord’s will be done. Please continue to pray that the One is defeated and that McCain/Palin prevail!
Thank you PUMAs, for all of your work! We are forever indebted to you.
November 3, 2008 at 1:58 pm
The YouTube video that Drudge linked to has been deleted.
Not surprising! You Tube is in Obama’s camp.
November 3, 2008 at 1:59 pm
skree – great observation (post #3) and krissmith777 (post #7) the YouTube video is still available.
The finger gesture is NO coincidence!
November 3, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Obama is a slanderous thug. I’d like to see the SarahCuda break that middle finger off and hand it to Hillary. She’d mount it above her fireplace.
November 3, 2008 at 1:59 pm
its still on you tube. I think Obama needs some anti-itching cream
November 3, 2008 at 1:59 pm
You Tube took it down??? Dang, i didn’t save it. Anyone else? post it back PLEASE and I’ll save it.
They probably got Drudgealanched. Please post if you have another link.
this jerk talks like he’s won. heh. not gonna happen.
November 3, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I cannot believe we’re *this* to elect a grumpy, over-aged teenager to the White House.
Is this the sort of thing Obama will do in his no-preconditions talks with Iran?
AHMADINEJAD: I am going to destroy the Little Satan, Israel, and the Great Satan, America!
OBAMA: Gee, Ahmadinejad, I know you want to blow Israel to bits, and despise America, but I think you’re alright (scratches nose with middle finger).
Heaven help us.
November 3, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Lena (post # 11) here is what you are talking about:
November 3, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Bend
Over
Here
It
Comes
Again
November 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm
It makes me sick that the media lets him get away with this!
Low class, thuggish and not something I would expect from someone who is supposedly leading in the polls. Obama looks upset and worried.
November 3, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Thanks Anna Marie,
Odd. In both cases he seems quite unraveled about something. Giving the big “FU” to his opponents.
He doesn’t seem very calm, cool, and collected, does he?
November 3, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I just watched it here….and saved it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMdWxcFXQg
Watch it a couple of times. He NEVER does this hand-thing when he’s speaking. He knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.
This chicago thug couldn’t wear McCain’s jock.
WE MUST TAKE HIM DOWN TOMORROW!
Let’s roll America! NObama!
November 3, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Barack Hussein Obama is emotionally arrested at about age 16 – 18.
What a petty, malicious, neurotic freak.
November 3, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Any chance a guy this smart could do something this obvious by accident? Same question I ask folks who have seen the picture of him folding his hands instead of putting his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance–something any 6 year old knows!!
This guy’s arrogance is unbelievable!! You’re going down, Barry!!!
November 3, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hello, all — I thought of a possible way to help McCain/Palin:
Hot Air (http://hotair.com/) has opened registrations for comments. All PUMAs should go over there and cheer them up — I don’t think they’re aware of the extent of the PUMA Movement, so let ‘em know.
Go McCain/Palin! GO PUMAS!
:)
November 3, 2008 at 2:21 pm
The sad part is the “Facebook vote” thinks this is proof he is “cool.” Someone needs to tell them POTUS is not Homecoming King.
November 3, 2008 at 2:25 pm
You know I just watched the Hillary video again. It’s so obvious that these are purposeful gestures. Incredibly childish.
November 3, 2008 at 2:25 pm
AnnaMaria Says:
“krissmith777 (post #7) the YouTube video is still available.
The finger gesture is NO coincidence!”
It said it was unavaliable when I got on the site.
But Oh well, I’m at a college right now that blocks YouTube so I had to unblock the site with “LLTY.INFO”
If the video is still up then I guess the ub-blocker didn’t do it’s job.
November 3, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I wonder how the Obama bots will spin this one!? He first scratched with one finger and then pulled out the middle finger.
WOW – what a prick.
November 3, 2008 at 2:35 pm
unbelievable. all of it. what a childish clown.
November 3, 2008 at 2:38 pm
This man needs to be defeated before he flips off the entire nation!
November 3, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I remember watching the video when obama flipped off Hillary. I didn’t believe the protests that is was an “innocent gesture” then and I sure don’t believe it now!
For those who still want to say it was an “innocent gesture” I say “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”
November 3, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Whether he meant to or not, this time or last, the man is a jerk.
November 3, 2008 at 2:46 pm
McCain, Obama and Clinton are all members of the senate. Don’t they have rules of conduct? I guess civility is another one of those things that Obama wants to change.
November 3, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Try again. The link to utube is working on Drudge.
November 3, 2008 at 2:49 pm
No question about it. He Flipped OFF McCain. The Marxist Messiah does not look very happy or presidential or even senatorial.
He has no inner peace. He is filled with hate.
He looks more like an ACORN volunteer.
November 3, 2008 at 2:57 pm
ExDemocrat – how did you save the video? i’ve tried with http://www.keepvid.com and it isn’t working. i have a mac if that makes a difference. would appreciate help from anyone!
#26 JrDogman – YES! PUMAs go to HotAir and register to comment! They need a different perspective that is positive and encouraging. Plus, the registration will close and who knows when it’ll open again. Like once a year, if that. So go now!
November 3, 2008 at 2:59 pm
#30 Arkady – they’ll say “distraction.” that we’re using it as such. it’s all they have.
November 3, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Same guy who flipped off Hillary to a cheering crowd, who called Sarah Palin a pig to a cheering crowd. This is intentional. What a dickhead.
Btw, Bill Clinton robocalled today. Asking me to vote for dickhead. He was stuttering though, and Bill never stutters. He affects, but he does not stutter. Love and admire Bill. There he is, on the wall right above my computer, with his arm around my wife, ahem.. I am voting for John McCain, end of story!
November 3, 2008 at 3:04 pm
I’m phone banking this afternoon. Which state(s) do you think I should call? Advice please!
November 3, 2008 at 3:05 pm
And who could forget how flowers were left at the WTC site on September 11th of this year? McCain (the one with actual debilitating injuries) stoops down to lay flowers on the memorial. Obama? A casual one-handed toss is sufficient for him.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/11/ground-zero-etiquette-a-tale-of-two-roses/
November 3, 2008 at 3:07 pm
PatriotMission Says:
he “trained” the little acorn volunteers. This POS wants to be leader of the free world? GOD help us, for only HE can!
Go to 2 Chronicles 7:14 and read GOD’s promise to Solomon, and those people who call HIM by name. I have been praying this everyday, all day for the past week.
Chins up, and PRAY people!
November 3, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Or even the not-saluting-the-flag bit where he’s on stage with Hillary, she puts her hand over her heart, he doesn’t.
Long story short, this is not isolated. This is not accidental. This is pattern, and habitual disrespect from him (and only him) throughout this campaign.
November 3, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Regarding what seems like YouTube deletions, this seems to happen when a video is popular (precisely what happens with a direct link from Drudge). I think it’s just a glitch that occurs when a lot of people go to the video at the same time. Just try back again in a minute or two.
(Note: This is coming from someone who genuinely did have a video criticizing the Obama-messiah removed.)
November 3, 2008 at 3:12 pm
HotAir still has the video:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/03/video-obama-scratches-mouth-with-middle-finger-earns-banner-treatment-on-drudge/
Thanks PUMAs! We love you!!!
November 3, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Compare this to John McCain’s code of conduct. No question who is the better man. I’ve been hoping and praying (and voting – just once) for McCain.
November 3, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Merriam-Webster
“Megalomaniac”
Pronunciation:
\ˌme-gə-lō-ˈmā-nē-ə, -nyə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin
Date:
1887
1 : a mania for great or grandiose performance;
2 : a delusional mental disorder that is marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.
November 3, 2008 at 3:15 pm
What a vile person.
November 3, 2008 at 3:18 pm
The video is still up and I have it saved on my hard drive if it needs to be re-launched.
November 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I’ve heard from recovery therapists that when a person begins abusing drugs or alcohol at a young age, they often stop maturing both intellectually and emotionally. Wouldn’t that make Uhhhbama about 15? It shows.
November 3, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Meeriam-Webster
“MEGALOMANIAC”
Pronunciation:
\ˌme-gə-lō-ˈmā-nē-ə, -nyə\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin
Date:
1887
1 : a mania for great or grandiose performance;
2 : a delusional mental disorder that is marked by feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.
November 3, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Does this video make anyone else feel … weird? I can’t stand watching it .. it feels like there’s something bad oozing out of my screen. I can’t explain it — it’s nothing obvious. Am I the only one feeling this? I promise I’m not nuts.
November 3, 2008 at 3:22 pm
No, it’s OK. In the backwards terrorist states whose support he’s been courting, that gesture means, “Let’s hang out sometime. I highly favor you.”
November 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Despicable!!!!!!!
November 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Just when I thought he couldn’t get any more disgusting. He is just completely gross.I pray we never have to look at him again after tomorrow.
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
November 3, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I would like to take this slick pig and put lipstick on him!!!!
November 3, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Dear Hillary,
If you hand PA over to Obama you will have done great harm to our country. Please, don’t be a party shill. And you endorsed Al Franken. This is unbelievable.
Your country comes first.
Now would be a good time to STAB the Marxist Messiah in the BACK.
DO IT NOW, or we can never forgive you.
McCain/Palin
Go PUMAS
November 3, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Thanks O, for the classy send off. Right back at you.
November 3, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I’m flipping him off at the ballot box tomorrow.
November 3, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hi All,
I think you are mistaking a fidgeting movement for a gesture. I wrote a post about it on my blog, which is about the perception of gestures, in case you are interested.
I do not mean to sound condescending, but it takes an increased sensitivity to insults to interpret the movement in this video as ‘giving the finger’. It just doesn’t match with the nature of the movement or with what he is saying.
November 3, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Looks like its his surrender signal; its his classy way of “throwing in the towel”. . .
November 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Obama is an asswipe.
November 3, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Sheesh America … wake up and see who the real BO is. What an arrogant SOB.
November 3, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The fact that he did it twice while discussing his opponents is no coincidence. Anyone who says otherwise in intellectually dishonest.
November 3, 2008 at 4:01 pm
He tries to sneak in these codes. He scares me. Literally.
Are there enough PUMAs to help?
Are PUMAs REAL? Seriously, or are they made up by trolls from the Republican party infiltrating all these forums and blogs?
Are they (PUMAs) reliable, or have they done like most Americans, forgotten, short-term memory, short attention span, decided to move on?
Or are they like my 4 cats, sweat, smiling, and quiet until they jump on you and claw your back when you step on their tail? (ACCIDENTALLY!)
PLEASE tell me, please confirm that Democrats for McCain are real, and large in number, and still as POed as I am about how Hillary was treated??
I’m really really really scared, really worried! I want the old Democrats back! The ones we knew, the ones who were reliable, this Republican wants the Democrats to get their party back, but I’m scared.
I remember what was done to Hillary here in Iowa, and it appalled me, I was shocked and angered, and it was not even my own party!
We owe you!
November 3, 2008 at 4:06 pm
He’s a child in a really nice suit. PERIOD.
November 3, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hey! Where’s rebecca? Where’s Keith? Where’s XO?
If this was in the bag like they keep saying then THE ONE would not be so stressed out.
Forget the polls. Read his ACTIONS!
November 3, 2008 at 4:27 pm
For everyone obsessed with “interpreting” the video and suggesting it’s just a “gesture” I have a simple test for you.
Try doing it yourself.
NOBODY scratches their cheek like that and it’s downright ridiculous feeling to even try it.
Prove it yourself and then tell my how many times you’ve done this before, accidentally.
That pig won’t fly.
November 3, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Guess what happens when he does the “hand gestures” to Putin or other world leaders…
November 3, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It doesn’t make sense for him to do it on purpose. I think it’s some kind of “Freudian slip” he makes that reveals his true feelings about his opponents Hillary and McCain.
November 3, 2008 at 5:02 pm
This is a very scary guy….I hope the coal statement wakes the folks in Pa Ohio and Va up….I get very afraid if Obama gets in on day we will wake up and find we do not live in a democracy but a dictatorship…when he made the comment about Mayor Bloomburg changing the law so he could run for a 3rd term….I could see the writing on the wall.
November 3, 2008 at 5:16 pm
so, you’re all still cool with john mccain calling his wife a cunt, right?
just checking.
November 3, 2008 at 5:18 pm
This made me sick–flat out, sick. Anyone who doubts it was deliberate should simply try it themselves. I also looked at the one from the primaries he did to Hillary, and there was a definite reaction from the crowd and counter reaction from him (smugly smiling, pausing). I had ignored this whole finger thing that first time because I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but they were both undeniably deliberate. This made me cry, to think that a person this vile and disrespectful is one day away from potentially obtaining the honor of becoming the President of this great nation. I am ashamed, mortified, humiliated, and shocked at this pathetic excuse for a human. We must soundly defeat him tomorrow then work diligently to make sure he will never again disgrace us with his presence on the national stage. Abhorrent and beyond contempt.
November 3, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I have heard it is a gang sign….nice move.
November 3, 2008 at 6:01 pm
It DOES make sense for him to do it on purpose. Because he knows everyone will say, “Calm down, calm down, it was just an itchy chin” and people who disagree OUT LOUD (because come on, guys, does anyone really, REALLY think he didn’t know what he was doing *directly into the camera*? Don’t lie to YOURSELVES, at least)will get called over-sensitive.
You can hear it in his voice — he’s about to deliver the opposite of what he’s saying in some fashion. And HE STOPS TALKING — people usually talk through unconscious gestures.
It’s like he got dared, and he took the dare. And now he’s counting on MCCAIN supporters (because the Obots know he did it on purpose, even if they say otherwise) to be the “bigger men” and convince people not to get angry.
Well, I’m angry.
No deal.
November 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm
What a bunch of whiney losers? On Tuesday, when the Republicans have been purged from office, you can take your guns and go back to your double-wide trailers and suck it for eight years. Ha!
November 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm
When I have an itch that needs scratching, I use multiple fingers and predominantly my index finger. Like tomorrow when I scratch that itch in the voting booth.
November 3, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Hmmm, I am most curious what McCain did to warrant the big bird. Or perhaps, this little coal industry tape was a lil some’n some’n Hillary had in her back pocket. And maybe the bird is for her. Either way, it skewered him good and the petulant child emerges.
November 3, 2008 at 7:23 pm
bigyaz Says:
November 3, 2008 at 6:49 pm
What a bunch of whiney losers? On Tuesday, when the Republicans have been purged from office, you can take your guns and go back to your double-wide trailers and suck it for eight years. Ha!
The only thing that is going to be purged tuesday is your socialist, lazy, gimmy gimmy ideas for this country. This is a great country and the hard work of everyone here isn’t going to support your bum.
November 3, 2008 at 7:26 pm
“Hey! Where’s rebecca? Where’s Keith? Where’s XO?
If this was in the bag like they keep saying then THE ONE would not be so stressed out.”
It’s in the bag. Every poll is not wrong.
November 3, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Hmm… Is it just me, or does the Messiah look tired, haggard, and just a little depressed and frustrated? Perhaps he has been talking to his pollster?
November 3, 2008 at 7:39 pm
>>so, you’re all still cool with john mccain calling his wife a cunt, right?
just checking.<<
Urban legend. It in fact didn’t happen. Sort of like the person who supposedly shouted “kill him” at a rally. Didn’t happen, no one was ever found that heard that either.
One person simply says such a thing, posts it, and pretty soon it’s a fact because “I read it on the Internet” or because ONE reporter says it happened.
November 3, 2008 at 7:41 pm
President Obama does not mean the end of America as you know it. If he does a good job he will be in for 8 years if not we can vote him out in 4. He is not going to alter the constitution(which would be impossible) so he is not going to be a dictator. You have been sold a lot of misinformation by very smart people and it has simply backfired. McCain has lost control of his campaign and will probably apologize for his behavior as soon as its over.
November 3, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Disagree – a LOT of damage can be done in 4 years, esp with no balance……
Like the loss of our 401Ks, restructuring of health insurance to the point prices skyrocket, we lose our choices, etc. Indoctrination of our kids in schools by “the one”, loss of businesses as they move to other countries because of extremely high business taxes here (compare our taxes to other countries)
A lot of damage can be done, some maybe could be undone, other damage could not be, at least not very soon or easily. One president in 4 years can screw up our systems SO badly. And with a filibuster-proof senate, and a whopping majority in the house, there’s little he could not “accomplish” or break.
Did you see, the MSM is now agreeing with me – the markets have an Obama win built in, that’s what they have sort of followed the polls! If McCain gets in, the markets will jump.
November 3, 2008 at 8:24 pm
OT: true story of my friend and a customer
CUSTOMER(black woman with obama shirt): can you help me out?
FRIEND: (jokingly) sure on one condition, you have to vote mccain
CUSTOMER: WHAT??? I would never vote for that cracker
FRIEND: hold on wait I was just joking
this really happened
November 3, 2008 at 8:33 pm
This is such a little thing, but little things are sometimes revealing.
As someone on another site said today: Small men make lousy presidents.
November 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm
So you think we should just lay down and submit to Barry for 4 years of socialism?
Because that is what it will be. This Great country called AMERICA we live in could absolutely be altered if this angry black man gets elected.
It makes me literally sick
to think people have really bought into his sly, venomous talk. The finger gestures
were on purpose…Come on folks… Don’t be ignorant.
What type of US President uses childish gestures like that?
NONE.
It’s shameful and disgraceful.
November 3, 2008 at 8:59 pm
F. Blowers–
Frankly, no one knows what Obama will do. You can’t say this isn’t the end of America as we know it, because there’s simply NO indication what Obama will do–he’s a blank slate. He hasn’t fought or taken a stand on any of the day’s important issues, and his career seems remarkable solely for his evasiveness.
However, I think everyone agrees America will still be recognizable if McCain is elected. The far, far safer route is to send Obama back to the Senate and make him show his true stripes first. If he’s the post-partisan centrist, make him SHOW it.
November 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm
This is the one! This is the one! I know our last 1000 thousand gotchas never caught on but I’m sure this will be the one that brings down Obama. Maybe we can cancel the election.
I’m seeing a pattern of desperation but this is getting a bit beyond. Obama has a mannerism of touching his cheek with a varying amount of fingers and does it often. For one example, speaking about his grandmother in Charlotte tonight he did a similar gesture but with more fingers.
But keep trying, you still have time yet.
November 3, 2008 at 9:28 pm
what a disgraceful human being, period! this body language is so apparent – not only is he rudely disrespecting mccain, (as everyone with a brain knows he did it to hillary too), but he is disrespecting all of us and our country! he is flipping off each and every one of us! we should respect all of our service men and women, past and present. between barry, biden, and murtha, it really floors me to see how “we the people” are being grossly mistreated and disrespected by politicians. we cannot stand for this type of behavior from politicians!
November 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Dear bigazz, when you libs lose on tuesday and take to the streets trying to raise hell, remember who owns the guns.Oh, and your check will be late this month.
November 3, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Hes not tired his grandmother died today. You guys going to say vile shit about her too?
Why are you all so angry?
The One?!?!
You stupid redneck fucks are why the entire world thinks america is a racist, bloodthirsty bully. Contrary to popular belief the vast majority of Americans dont share this crazy right wing ideaology.We are not a christian nation, we have legalized abortion, ALL people get equal rights.
Tomorrow Barack will win and you can all reap the benefits of the decision your educated fellow americans made for you because you are too fucking stupid to know whats best for you.
November 3, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Those that refuse to open their eyes will forever be blind… Obama is so vile, has such an empty soul, he is not fit to lead. May his crotch rotttttt and fall away!!!!
Go Sarah and John!!!!!
November 3, 2008 at 11:06 pm
FILMS CAN BE DOCTORED THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME IN MOVIES..BESIDE WHY IS IT JUST COMING OUT NOW…IF THIS WAS A REPUTABLT SITE I MIGHT GIVE CREEDENCE TO IT…AFTER WHAT HE WENT THROUGH WITH PALIN AND MCCAIN HE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THEM BOTH THE FINGER….
November 3, 2008 at 11:15 pm
You people are sick! Seeing something that’s not there. How come the other clip’s are’nt played like the 1st clip. Could it be that the other photos are obviously doctored photos. Enough of this chicanery. Unbelievable how hateful many of you can be and are hateful. Bet many of you blame others for your own pathetic problems. And who listens to that over sensationalized liar Drudge, the guy makes up everything he writes, what a joke!
November 3, 2008 at 11:15 pm
One of the things I have always known, but was able to verify during this election is that there are a bunch of mentally sick people in this world. Just about all of you fit the bill. I have never thought to hate or express hate for any candidate. Yes. God’s will, will be done. That being the case, do we really need to pray about it, or accept it! I hope when this is over, the majority of you expressing hate will recommit yourselves to whatever asylum you came out of! How could you interpret that gesture as a flipping of the finger. Thanks for the intelligent people in this world.
November 3, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Hey onerase,
quite the contrary – you trolls are the ones who are angry and racist. you’re the one calling us angry redneck f’s. …you don’t realize what makes this such a unique and great country – yeah, it ain’t perfect, but we’re a “maverick” country, we have proud traditions and values. will someone please show these anti-american communists the door!
November 4, 2008 at 12:26 am
I hope America wakes up. This man NOBAMA makes me sick. All that he has gotten away with. All his revolutionary extremist ties, does not seem to bother alot of Americans. His disreguard for the Pledge of Allegience is appalling. Hic CHANGE he can keep. Country First MCCAIN/PALIN 2008
November 4, 2008 at 12:35 am
Dorks…
November 4, 2008 at 12:54 am
I have never read so much drivil. I give all you red neck racist the middle digit.
Tomorrow we elect our first black president. I hope all you racist bastards leave for Alaska. Your certainly not worth dying for.
November 4, 2008 at 1:11 am
I love OBAMA!!!! I hope America makes the
right decision tomorrow.
November 4, 2008 at 1:41 am
Just when I thought this person was getting a little more class, but no matter how hard he work on fines, he will not get to THE WHITE, THE WHITE HOUSE
Homero
November 4, 2008 at 2:27 am
FUCK YA’LL REDNECK MOTHA FUCKS, GO FUCK A GOAT HAHAHAH
November 4, 2008 at 2:44 am
Anyone that cannot see that Obama’s use of all 3 fingers to wipe his mouth is nothing more than a habit. There is no hidden meaning. I have the same habit. There are some real sick people willing to believe the worst.
November 4, 2008 at 2:58 am
Just “really” read the insults and garbage some of you are sending. You should be ashamed of yourself (Tom, Homero, etc..)OBAMA has more class that all of you together……,
He will be a great President I will be very proud to say that a “none” WHITE President will save this country. Tomorrow will be the beginning of a great day, and I’m part of that.
November 4, 2008 at 3:43 am
eh. every year elections get dirtier and dirtier. where’s americas class.
November 4, 2008 at 3:46 am
THINGS CAN’T GET NO WORSE THEN THE PAST 8 YEARS AND HALF OF YOU KNOW IT OR SHOULD I SAY MORE THEN HALF IT’S A RACE THING AND NOT JUST A RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE FACE IT WHOEVER WINS I JUST HOPE THEY DO RIGHT BY US ALL RED, WHITE,BLACK AND BLUE BECAUSE IF THEY ATTACK US AGAIN THEY SEE NO COLOR OR DID YOU NOT NOTICE 9/11
November 4, 2008 at 4:36 am
FIRST OF ALL PEOPLE THAT SPEND HOURS LOOKING THROUGH VIDEOS TO FIND SOMETHING TO CRITIC ANOTHER PERSON NEED TO GET A LIFE. TO ALL THE OBAMA SUPPORTERS: FORGET ABOUT THESE ILLITERATE ARROGANT CLOSE-MINDED BABOONS! JUST GET OUT AND VOTE! WE’LL HAVE THE LAST LAUGH : )
PS. TO THE ILLITERATE BABOONS: YOU CAN ALL MOVE TO ALASKA WHEN THIS IS OVER, THAT IS IF YOU CAN STAND THE SCREECHING SOUND OF PALIN’S VOICE.
November 4, 2008 at 5:01 am
Wow you people are crazy. He was doing that like maybe he was tired his grandmother died and just nervously touching his face as a habit. You think like children no one but a Republican could come up with this kind of bull$hit. ……Just Pathetic .. God Bless and Protect you President Obama
November 4, 2008 at 5:59 am
Funny how the Obama trolls all showed up en masse in the middle of the night like that. Are they all night owls or foreigners?
November 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
I am in AZ and McCain makes me ill. He is a hypocrite and a money whore that scares all intelligent people with his lies and daily flip-flops for a few of your racist votes. The majority of the cruel comments on this page are from vile,racist pinheads that Id love to give the finger to. It shouldn’t be like this. We all are in this together, and will need to be united.Obama knows this. Shit,even McCain knows this. But people like the racists here will make any progress impossible. It makes me sick! I pray that Obama wins, but most of you deserve Bush/McCain. Sharing this great country with a-holes like these idiots makes us all lose!
November 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
what a bunch of losers you all are. hateful, war mongering, high school dropouts. this will be an election for intellects, not the hicks you all represent. finally have someone that understands economics, that understands human relations, that understands environmental issues, not a hachet man (woman) who flunked out of 5 colleges or graduated at the bottom of their class.
November 4, 2008 at 6:35 am
Who is this lady? Yet another racist minority? The Pope is against abortion? To bad he can’t keep his priests off of young boys. How about aborting child molestation in the church, DeeDee. How much did you get paid from the McCain campaign? Long-live the Bush and Reagan administration? Translation, long-live the men who aided terrorists by funding Oliver North or thanks for ruining the surplus that Clinton built. Are banks love you for it. You sound very ignorant lady.
November 4, 2008 at 7:24 am
funny that ppl are voting for him because of his so called smooth talking, and not for the things that he has done. ask any of his supports what has he done for this country so far? tell ya what no one can tell ya a thing because he has not done anything yet. i think most people are voting for him because he is black not because he is the best person for the job.
November 4, 2008 at 7:29 am
It’s their night job. They are paid.
So if he “always does that” then why was it only captured during the primaries when referring to the LADY known as Hillary??
And then again when congratulating McCain??
If it’s a habit, then it would be seen in most speeches he’s given, it would be all over the place. I’ve only seen it twice.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Besides, this is but 1 thing out of hundreds.
I want to KEEP my 401K and my CHOICES and the FREEDOM I have with it – and the FREEDOM to make 10-20% on it, as opposed to the lame government investments. I WANT control over MY money. I earned it, I worked for it. it’s MINE.
I want to CHOOSE my health insurance, not see companies go belly-up because they must compete with a government run insurer, which is what Obama’s plan would do. I want a choice, I want control.
Read and learn the constitution – the feds are NOT supposed to be in ANY of this. They are interfering with STATES’ rights.
We are a federation of states.
November 4, 2008 at 7:44 am
Now, after Obama becomes President, will all the MCain supporters live up to their “country first” mantra and support the new leader of the free world? Only way we are going to get out of this mess left by Bush/Cheney is to ALL get behind the President to help make America great again
November 4, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hey, this finger isn’t just for McCain. Throw in Bush and Cheney and company, and all the idiots who still have the W ‘04 stickers on their bumpers. Long live the true America with ruination and disgrace for all neo-con trash.
November 4, 2008 at 8:16 am
I never knew flicking people off was a big deal. it’s not a big deal, even if he flicked him off.
November 4, 2008 at 8:38 am
wow what a bunch of bigots and fools to actually think he is “flipping off” McCain when he is, in fact, honoring McCains service to our country. Are you people that blind.
November 4, 2008 at 8:43 am
Well, lets be fair,
When McCain called Obama “That One” during the 2nd debate, which could have been interpret as a condescending message,yet Obama stayed focus on the purpose of the debate and McClain became more continued to focus on the negative! As he still does.
November 4, 2008 at 8:47 am
Well, lets be fair,
When McCain called Obama “That One” during the 2nd debate, which could have been interpret as a condescending message,yet Obama stayed focus on the purpose of the debate and McClain became more aggravatd and continued to focus on the negative! As he still does.
November 4, 2008 at 8:48 am
[...] (of note: his audience laughed and cheered each time he did it, so we know what they thought). Now he’s doing it again while referencing [...]
November 4, 2008 at 9:01 am
it was a simply mistake but all you racist on fox the man lost his grandmother of course he looked tied and for mccain did you hear palin got punked how dumb could mccain be.
November 4, 2008 at 9:09 am
The majority of these comments indicate a level of hatred for someone who you perceive to be “not like us” that is disturbing. It would be interesting to have a camera crew follow any one of you around and see in how many different ways you use that same digit in a day.
You sound like your fears are overwhelming your intellect and common sense. You might do well to remember which party put our country in this fearful situation. It certainly wasn’t the democrats.
November 4, 2008 at 9:14 am
Obama has no experience. He has only been in office for 16 months, and he thinks he’s going to lead an entire country? He wants to completely get rid of our military. If we get attacked again, were going to be in huge trouble. We need a leader who is prepared to lead us and prepared to fight for American freedom. McCain-Palin 08
November 4, 2008 at 9:17 am
He didn’t care that much about his grandmother. She was ill for days, and released from the hospital DAYS before he visited. Then, he was only with her a short time.
He’s COLD, he has a cold heart.
He would have made an impression on millions had he stayed there longer and had his minions doing speeches for him, and issuing commands from his grandmother’s bedside.
But no, a quick visit, then gone again.
He never cared, he’s not for family – just look at his OTHER relatives!!
November 4, 2008 at 9:20 am
Actually, yes it was the Democrats – look at the history of Fannie and Freddie, and the contributions. Even B.C. himself admitted as much.
McCain attempted to stop the mortgage meltdown (I’ve seen the letter) and Bush did the same in ‘01.
the markets are low now assuming a Barry win! Even the MSM – MSNBC has said so. Watch the swings – they follow the polls! Barry’s win is built into stock prices now. They dropped because businesses FEAR Obama!
Yes, market watchers are now saying if Mac wins, the markets rise again, if Barry wins, they stay the same, perhaps drop a bit more. Figure it out!
November 4, 2008 at 9:22 am
Actually, yes it was the Democrats – look at the history of Fannie and Freddie, and the contributions. Even B.C. himself admitted as much.
McCain attempted to stop the mortgage meltdown (I’ve seen the letter) and Bush did the same in ‘01.
the markets are low now assuming a Barry win! Even the MSM – MSNBC has said so. Watch the swings – they follow the polls! Barry’s win is built into stock prices now. They dropped because businesses FEAR Obama!
Yes, market watchers are now saying if Mac wins, the markets rise again, if Barry wins, they stay the same, perhaps drop a bit more. Figure it out!
November 4, 2008 at 9:26 am
While it’s not “news” I thought I would share a political comedic video that I have uploaded on youtube as a trailer to my forthcoming feature film, THE HILLS HAVE THIGHS: AN APPALACHIAN COMEDY.
I hope you like it. During tough times and hot political fights, I have always appreciated a good laugh whenever I can grab one.
a summary of the video is as follows:
Limosine liberal, San Deigan transplant Tree Tree Davenport considers herself “imprisoned” in Appalachia as she manages The Shamrock House, a local Resort owned by her employer-mega corporation. Come with me as I crack a window into the soul of this un-centered woman who just doesn’t “Get it”. An Obama-obcessed progressive with a penchant for Mammy Dolls and other self-described “Negroabilia”, This character showcases the amazing talents of actress Mollie Smith Gross, star of THE HILLS HAVE THIGHS. Hope you enjoy!
here’s a link to the trailer on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7zdgtY9z0
here’s the encoded html:
Have a great day and thanks for allowing me to share!
James “Bubba” Cromer
Former Independent Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1990-1998
Producer, Writer & Director
THE HILLS HAVE THIGHS: AN APPALACHIAN COMEDY
website–
http://www.thehillshavethighs.com
November 4, 2008 at 9:30 am
Lets be fair,
When Sen. Obama was called “That One” in the 2nd debate, He took it in stride, Knowing Sen. McCain was being condescending. Yet, ignorance is bliss so you have to continue to pray for those who would do better if they knew better. I
will continue to pray for Sen. McCain and others to overcome the state of being ignorant
November 4, 2008 at 9:33 am
http://theamcpages.com/misc-files/TimeToVoteAgain.mp3
Enjoy, from a local radio station……………
November 4, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hey – amazed – that was proper use of English.
You assume he prefaced it with “of the two Senators on this stage, which one…….”
The proper reply would be either “this one” or “that one” since he was referring to them as Senators – the role, not the person.
Talk about reading into things! the “that one” comment wasn’t a slip, wasn’t improper or demeaning! Sometimes in English, parts of statements are assumed.
November 4, 2008 at 9:41 am
First and foremost I thought this country had come so far but I now realize we have to as this election goes on it is clear the lines have been drawn in the sand and the reality of it is most people will not vote for obama because he is black
That is the harsh reality of this country it won’t matter that sarah palin does not kno what the job of a VP is, it won’t matter that john mccain supports a war in iraq that our “American” children are dying in for no reason at all other than to line the fat pockets of our current president it won’t evan matter that john mccain made an ass out of himself by saying ” Mr Obama if you wanted to run against george bush you should have ran four yrs ago.” Meanwhile he supports 90% of GW’s policys. The choice is clear but the color barrier is evident now more than ever
November 4, 2008 at 9:51 am
well, you can take the MORON/Lier/scumbag/racist- outa the hood but,,,,,and YES I VOTED FOR MCCain!!!!!
November 4, 2008 at 10:03 am
Check again – that’s a deceiving number. Fact is, Obama only voted about 4% fewer times for “Bush policies” than McCain. That number 90 includes ordinary procedural votes, like call to order sort of things. The 90 is meaningless.
Barry voted for the Cheney bill, Mac against it!
I’d easily vote for a honest, QUALIFIED black president, no problem, either party, no kidding. just not THIS black. A GOOD black president would be good for this country, as would a good woman president. Would do some good.
Palin was quoted out of context on the VP job thing – she was kidding and said so LATER, like a sentence or two later, but was that included? No. She knows, actually more than Biden does! READ the constitution! Biden was wrong on which articles describe the job, Palin was technically correct in that the “president” of the Senate is in fact the head of the senate! That was the original intent of the founding fathers, apparently SARAH has actually READ the constitution and understands the intent. I’d say, she’s a Federalist…..
November 4, 2008 at 10:05 am
Those who hate Senator Obama, have the same mindset of those who opposed integration during the civil rights struggle of the 50’s and 60’s, and have the same mindset of those who opposed racial equality, and who fought against the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
The Republican party and its supporters, should be proud of the fact that it has the endorsement of members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Skinheads, and other white supremacist organizations. Those who hate, will look in areas where there is nothing, and find additional reasons to hate.
November 4, 2008 at 10:22 am
I think this is very wrong the way we talk about people. I want the world to be a peaceful place no person whether African American or Caucasian or Latino or American Indian is perfect lets just all come together and try to the make the best of what we have. There is no need to open past wounds. Let’s just face it whoever makes president just will have to get in there and do the job the best he knows how. Lets just grab hands and unite and remember love heals all hurt and with love this world can be a better place.
November 4, 2008 at 10:25 am
“Show Me State Mom of 5 Says:
November 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm
So you think we should just lay down and submit to Barry for 4 years of socialism?
Because that is what it will be. This Great country called AMERICA we live in could absolutely be altered if this angry black man gets elected.
It makes me literally sick
to think people have really bought into his sly, venomous talk. The finger gestures
were on purpose…Come on folks… Don’t be ignorant.
What type of US President uses childish gestures like that?
NONE.
It’s shameful and disgraceful.”
To:Show me state mom of 5
You are a racist fucking whore. You are probably religious too. I hope that you, and all five of your fat, white, redneck, nascar loving ignorant children get killed in a horrific and painful way. You are a dirtbag cunt, Rot in hell race-hater.
November 4, 2008 at 10:26 am
The Republicans racist??? Check out these facts ->
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) appointed two notorious segregationists to the
United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina
segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made
Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname
“assistant president.” Byrnes was Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry
Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed
segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black
was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan with a notorious record of racism
himself. Look it up.
Hugo Black had a lengthy history of hate group activism. Black was a member
of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s and gained his legal fame defending
Klansmen under prosecution for racial murders. In one prominent case, Black
provided legal representation to Klansman Edwin Stephenson for the
hate-induced murder of a Catholic priest in Birmingham. A jury composed of
several Klan members acquited Stephenson of the murder, reportedly after
Black expressed Klan gestures to the jury during the trial. In 1926 Black
sought and won election as a Democrat to the United States Senate after
campaigning heavily to Klan membership. He is said to have told one Klan
audience “I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real
Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars
and stripes, that I want your counsel.” In the Senate Black became a stauch
supporter of the liberal New Deal initiatives of FDR and a solid opponent of
civil rights legislation, including a filibuster of an anti-lynching
measure. Black led the push for several New Deal programs and was a key
participant in FDR’s court packing scandal. Roosevelt appointed Black, a
loyal ally, to the U.S. Supreme Court. During the Senate confirmation of
Black’s nomination, the issue of his strong Klan affiliations caused a
public controversy over his appointment. Following the confirmation
Roosevelt claimed ignorance of Black’s Klan past, though this claim was
dubious at best. Black’s first Senate election, which occurred with Klan
support, had been covered nationally a decade earlier in 1926. Black’s Klan
affiliations were a well known part of his political background and recieved
heavy coverage in the newspapers at the time of his appointment. On the
court, Black became a liberal stalwart. He also continued his career of
supporting racism by authoring the opinion in favor of FDR’s Japanese
internment program in the infamous Korematsu ruling.
2. Senator Robert Byrd (D) – WV – Byrd is a former member of the Ku Klux
Klan and is currently the only national elected official with a history in
the Klan, a well known hate group. Byrd was extremely active in the Klan and
rose to the rank of “Kleagle,” an official Klan membership recruiter. Byrd
once stated that he joined the Klan because it was effective in “promoting
traditional American values”. Byrd’s choice of words speak volumes about his
bigotry considering the fact that the Klan is a notorious hate group, and
the racist “values” it promotes are anything but American. One of the
earliest criticisms of Byrd’s Klan ties came in 1952 when he was running for
Congress. Byrd responded by claiming that he had left the Klan in 1943 while
noting that “(d)uring the nine years that have followed, I have never been
interested in the Klan.” Byrd was lying, however, as he engaged in
correspondence with a Klan Imperial Wizard long after he claims to have
ended his ties with the hate group. In a letter to the Klan leadership dated
3 years after he purported to have ended his ties with them, Byrd wrote “I
am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining
counties of the state. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am
anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd continued his racist
diatribe “It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in
every state of the Union” and followed with a request for assistance from
the hate group’s leadership in “rebuilding the Klan in the realm” of West
Virginia.
Byrd’s racism extends far beyond his Klan membership. In a letter he wrote
on the subject of desegregating the armed forces, Byrd escalated his racist
rhetoric to an appalling level. In the letter, Byrd vowed that he would
never fight in an integrated armed services noting “(r)ather I should die a
thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again,
than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a
throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds”.
Byrd led the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, according to
the United States Senate’s own website, filibustered the legislation to the
bitter end appearing as one of the last opponents to the act before a
coalition of civil rights proponents led by Republican Minority Leader
Everett Dirksen invoked cloture so that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could
pass. At the time, Byrd was in the the midst of a 14 hour and 13 minute
filibuster diatribe against the key civil rights measure. Throughout the
1960’s, Byrd was was one of the staunchest opponents to civil rights in the
U.S. Senate. Byrd’s racist history drew attention recently when he went on
national television and repeatedly used the n-word, one of the most vicious
racial slurs in existence, in an appearance on national television. Byrd
uttered the slur on Fox News Sunday with Tony Snow on March 5, 2001. Despite
the appalling nature of the remark, it went largely ignored by the
mainstream media and the self appointed “civil rights” leadership. Whereas a
similar remark by anyone other than a leading Democrat Senator would
assuredly prompt the likes of Jesse Jackson to assemble protest rallies
demanding resignations, the Jackson crowd was eerily quiet following Byrd’s
remarks, issuing only low key suggestions that Byrd should avoid making such
bigoted remarks.
3. Senator Ernest Hollings – (D) -SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator
from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. He
rose out of the Democrat Party’s segregationist wing in the 1960’s as
governor of South Carolina. While in office as governor, Hollings personally
led the opposition to lunch counter integration in his state. The New York
Times reported on March 17, 1960 that then-governor Hollings “warned today
that South Carolina would not permit ‘explosive’ manifestations in
connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services.” According to the
article, Hollings gave a speech in which he “challenged President
Eisenhower’s contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain
types of demonstrations” against segregation. In the speech Hollings
described the Republican president as “confused” and asserted that
Eisenhower had done “great damage to peace and good order” by supporting the
rights of minorities to protest segregation at the lunch counters.
Governor Hollings’ support for segregation continued throughout his term and
included his attendance at a July 23, 1961 meeting of segregationist
Democrats to organize their opposition to the civil rights movement.
Hollings was one of four governors in attendence, all of them Democrats. The
others included rabid segregationists Orval Faubus of Arkansas and Ross
Barnett of Mississippi. The New York Times reported on the meeting, noting
that among the strategies discussed were using the segregationist White
Citizens Council organization to mobilize political opposition to
desegregation.
In more recent years Hollings, a senior Democrat senator, has made
disparaging racial remarks and slurs against minorities. Senator Hollings,
who was a contender for his party’s presidential nomination in 1984, blamed
his defeat in the primaries by using a racial slur against Hispanics. After
losing the Iowa Straw Poll, Hollings stated “You had wetbacks from
California that came in here for Cranston,” referring to one of his
opponents, Alan Cranston. A few years later Hollings reportedly used the
slur “darkies” to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly
referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the “Blackbow Coalition,” and
called former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, who is Jewish, “the Senator from
B’nai B’rith.” Hollings gained international criticism for his remarks about
the African Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely
remarked “you’d find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather
than eating each other, they’d just come up and get a good square meal in
Geneva.” Hollings was also the Governor of South Carolina who raised the
confederate flag over the state capitol in the early 1960’s in what was
considered at the time to be an act of defiance to civil rights. The press
ignored Hollings and his role in the flag issue at the same time the
political correctness police were smearing George W. Bush during his
campaign after Bush correctly remarked that the flag was a state issue to be
decided upon by South Carolina and not the national government.
4. Representative Dick Gephardt – (D) -MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat
Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches
to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro
South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during
his early years as a congressman. Newsmax.com further reported that Gephardt
had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of
his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions
about his past affiliation with this group.
DEMOCRAT OPPOSITION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
There were 26 major civil rights votes from from 1933 through the 1960’s
civil rights era shows that Republicans favored civil rights in
approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of
the votes! These facts are often intentionally overlooked by the left wing
Democrats for obvious reasons. In some cases, the Democrats have told flat
out lies about their shameful record during the civil rights movement. Again
facts – look them up.
Democrat Senators organized the record Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. Included among the organizers were several prominent and well
known liberal Democrat standard bearers including:
- Robert Byrd, current senator from West Virginia
- J. William Fulbright, Arkansas senator and political mentor of Bill
Clinton
- Albert Gore Sr., Tennessee senator, father and political mentor of Al
Gore. Gore Jr. has been known to lie about his father’s opposition to the
Civil Rights Act.
- Sam Ervin, North Carolina senator of Watergate hearings fame
- Richard Russell, famed Georgia senator and later President Pro Tempore
The complete list of the 21 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of
1964 includes Senators:
- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama
- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas
- Holland and Smathers of Florida
- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia
- Ellender and Long of Louisiana
- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi
- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina
- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina
- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee
- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia
- R. Byrd of West Virginia
Democrat opposition to the Civil Rights Act was substantial enough to
literally split the party in two. A whopping 40% of the House Democrats
VOTED AGAINST the Civil Rights Act, while 80% of Republicans SUPPORTED it.
Republican support in the Senate was even higher. Similar trends occurred
with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was supported by 82% of House
Republicans and 94% of Senate Republicans. The same Democrat standard
bearers took their normal racists stances, this time with Senator Fulbright
leading the opposition effort.
It took the hard work of Republican Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen
and Republican Whip Thomas Kuchel to pass the Civil Rights Act (Dirksen was
presented a civil rights accomplishment award for the year by the head of
the NAACP in recognition of his efforts). Upon breaking the Democrat
filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republican Dirksen took to the
Senate floor and exclaimed “The time has come for equality of opportunity in
sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be
stayed or denied. It is here!” (Full Text of Speech) It was Republican
Dirksen, not the divided Democrats, who made the Civil Rights Act a reality.
Dirksen also broke the Democrat filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act that
was signed by Republican President Eisenhower. THAT’S FACT!!
March 20, 1854 Opponents of Democrats’ pro-slavery policies meet in Ripon,
Wisconsin to establish the Republican Party
May 30, 1854 Democrat President Franklin Pierce signs Democrats’
Kansas-Nebraska Act, expanding slavery into U.S. territories; opponents
unite to form the Republican Party
June 16, 1854 Newspaper editor Horace Greeley calls on opponents of slavery
to unite in the Republican Party
July 6, 1854 First state Republican Party officially organized in Jackson,
Michigan, to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
February 11, 1856 Republican Montgomery Blair argues before U.S. Supreme
Court on behalf of his client, the slave Dred Scott; later served in
President Lincoln’s Cabinet
February 22, 1856 First national meeting of the Republican Party, in
Pittsburgh, to coordinate opposition to Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
March 27, 1856 First meeting of Republican National Committee in Washington,
DC to oppose Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
May 22, 1856 For denouncing Democrats’ pro-slavery policy, Republican U.S.
Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) is beaten nearly to death on floor of Senate
by U.S. Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC), takes three years to recover
March 6, 1857 Republican Supreme Court Justice John McLean issues strenuous
dissent from decision by 7 Democrats in infamous Dred Scott case that
African-Americans had no rights “which any white man was bound to respect”
June 26, 1857 Abraham Lincoln declares Republican position that slavery is
“cruelly wrong,” while Democrats “cultivate and excite hatred” for blacks
October 13, 1858 During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen
Douglas (D-IL) states: “I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and
positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas
became Democratic Party’s 1860 presidential nominee
October 25, 1858 U.S. Senator William Seward (R-NY) describes Democratic
Party as “inextricably committed to the designs of the slaveholders”; as
President Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, helped draft Emancipation
Proclamation
June 4, 1860 Republican U.S. Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) delivers his
classic address, The Barbarism of Slavery
April 7, 1862 President Lincoln concludes treaty with Britain for
suppression of slave trade
April 16, 1862 President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District
of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote
no
July 2, 1862 U.S. Rep. Justin Morrill (R-VT) wins passage of Land Grant Act,
establishing colleges open to African-Americans, including such students as
George Washington Carver
July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes
Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever
free”
August 19, 1862 Republican newspaper editor Horace Greeley writes Prayer of
Twenty Millions, calling on President Lincoln to declare emancipation
August 25, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln authorizes enlistment of
African-American soldiers in U.S. Army
September 22, 1862 Republican President Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation
Proclamation
January 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, implementing the Republicans’
Confiscation Act of 1862, takes effect
February 9, 1864 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton deliver over
100,000 signatures to U.S. Senate supporting Republicans’ plans for
constitutional amendment to ban slavery
June 15, 1864 Republican Congress votes equal pay for African-American
troops serving in U.S. Army during Civil War
June 28, 1864 Republican majority in Congress repeals Fugitive Slave Acts
October 29, 1864 African-American abolitionist Sojourner Truth says of
President Lincoln: “I never was treated by anyone with more kindness and
cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man”
January 31, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with
unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
March 3, 1865 Republican Congress establishes Freedmen’s Bureau to provide
health care, education, and technical assistance to emancipated slaves
April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100%
Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition
June 19, 1865 On “Juneteenth,” U.S. troops land in Galveston, TX to enforce
ban on slavery that had been declared more than two years before by the
Emancipation Proclamation
November 22, 1865 Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi
for enacting “black codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
December 6, 1865 Republican Party’s 13th Amendment, banning slavery, is
ratified
February 5, 1866 U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation,
successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40
acres and a mule” relief by distributing land to former slaves
April 9, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s
veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on
African-Americans, becomes law
April 19, 1866 Thousands assemble in Washington, DC to celebrate Republican
Party’s abolition of slavery
May 10, 1866 U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due
process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats
vote no
June 8, 1866 U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due
process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans
vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no
July 16, 1866 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew
Johnson’s veto of Freedman’s Bureau Act, which protected former slaves from
“black codes” denying their rights
July 28, 1866 Republican Congress authorizes formation of the Buffalo
Soldiers, two regiments of African-American cavalrymen
July 30, 1866 Democrat-controlled City of New Orleans orders police to storm
racially-integrated Republican meeting; raid kills 40 and wounds more than
150
January 8, 1867 Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s
veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867 Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew
Johnson’s veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
March 30, 1868 Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President
Andrew Johnson, who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God,
as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men”
May 20, 1868 Republican National Convention marks debut of African-American
politicians on national stage; two – Pinckney Pinchback and James Harris –
attend as delegates, and several serve as presidential electors
September 3, 1868 25 African-Americans in Georgia legislature, all
Republicans, expelled by Democrat majority; later reinstated by Republican
Congress
September 12, 1868 Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and all other
African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by
Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
September 28, 1868 Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana murder nearly 300
African-Americans who tried to prevent an assault against a Republican
newspaper editor
October 7, 1868 Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign
theme: “This is a white man’s country: Let white men rule”
October 22, 1868 While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep.
James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as
the Ku Klux Klan
November 3, 1868 Republican Ulysses Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour
in presidential election; Seymour had denounced Emancipation Proclamation
December 10, 1869 Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs
FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office
February 3, 1870 After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97%
Democrat opposition, Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote
to all Americans regardless of race
May 19, 1870 African-American John Langston, law professor and future
Republican Congressman from Virginia, delivers influential speech supporting
President Ulysses Grant’s civil rights policies
May 31, 1870 President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act,
providing stiff penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights
June 22, 1870 Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to
safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the
South
September 6, 1870 Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s
suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell
February 28, 1871 Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing
federal protection for African-American voters
March 22, 1871 Spartansburg Republican newspaper denounces Ku Klux Klan
campaign to eradicate the Republican Party in South Carolina
April 20, 1871 Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing
Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed
African-Americans
October 10, 1871 Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black
voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto
murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by
thousands
October 18, 1871 After violence against Republicans in South Carolina,
President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists
who formed the Ku Klux Klan
November 18, 1872 Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to
Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”
January 17, 1874 Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending
Republican efforts to racially integrate government
September 14, 1874 Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in
attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican
Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed
March 1, 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public
accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S.
Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition
September 20, 1876 Former state Attorney General Robert Ingersoll (R-IL)
tells veterans: “Every man that loved slavery better than liberty was a
Democrat. I am a Republican because it is the only free party that ever
existed”
January 10, 1878 U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B.
Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated
it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its
approval in 1919
July 14, 1884 Republicans criticize Democratic Party’s nomination of racist
U.S. Senator Thomas Hendricks (D-IN) for vice president; he had voted
against the 13th Amendment banning slavery
August 30, 1890 Republican President Benjamin Harrison signs legislation by
U.S. Senator Justin Morrill (R-VT) making African-Americans eligible for
land-grant colleges in the South
June 7, 1892 In a FIRST for a major U.S. political party, two women –
Theresa Jenkins and Cora Carleton – attend Republican National Convention in
an official capacity, as alternate delegates
February 8, 1894 Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland
join to repeal Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled
African-Americans to vote
December 11, 1895 African-American Republican and former U.S. Rep. Thomas
Miller (R-SC) denounces new state constitution written to disenfranchise
African-Americans
May 18, 1896 Republican Justice John Marshall Harlan, dissenting from
Supreme Court’s notorious Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” decision,
declares: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates
classes among citizens”
December 31, 1898 Republican Theodore Roosevelt becomes Governor of New
York; in 1900, he outlawed racial segregation in New York public schools
May 24, 1900 Republicans vote no in referendum for constitutional convention
in Virginia, designed to create a new state constitution disenfranchising
African-Americans
January 15, 1901 Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic
Party’s refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
October 16, 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt invites Booker T. Washington
to dine at White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
May 29, 1902 Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned
by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by
86%
February 12, 1909 On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth,
African-American Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary
Terrell co-found the NAACP
June 18, 1912 African-American Robert Church, founder of Lincoln Leagues to
register black voters in Tennessee, attends 1912 Republican National
Convention as delegate; eventually serves as delegate at 8 conventions
August 1, 1916 Republican presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes,
former New York Governor and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, endorses women’s
suffrage constitutional amendment; he would become Secretary of State and
Chief Justice
May 21, 1919 Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women
the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in
Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no
April 18, 1920 Minnesota’s FIRST-in-the-nation anti-lynching law, promoted
by African-American Republican Nellie Francis, signed by Republican Gov.
Jacob Preus
August 18, 1920 Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote,
becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had
Republican-controlled legislatures
January 26, 1922 House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer
(R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with
filibuster
June 2, 1924 Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by
Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924 Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential
nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924
Democratic National Convention
December 8, 1924 Democratic presidential candidate John W. Davis argues in
favor of “separate but equal”
June 12, 1929 First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De
Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking
protests by Democrats across the country
August 17, 1937 Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman
and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by
FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940 Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed
forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
October 20, 1942 60 prominent African-Americans issue Durham Manifesto,
calling on southern Democrats to abolish their all-white primaries
April 3, 1944 U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas Democratic Party’s
“whites only” primary election system
August 8, 1945 Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic
bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two
days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert
Hoover writes to a friend that “[t]he use of the atomic bomb, with its
indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.”
February 18, 1946 Appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, federal
judge Paul McCormick ends segregation of Mexican-American children in
California public schools
July 11, 1952 Republican Party platform condemns “duplicity and insincerity”
of Democrats in racial matters
September 30, 1953 Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor
and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief
Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
December 8, 1953 Eisenhower administration Asst. Attorney General Lee Rankin
argues for plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education
May 17, 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren, three-term Republican Governor (CA)
and Republican vice presidential nominee in 1948, wins unanimous support of
Supreme Court for school desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955 Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of
interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956 Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s
decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa
Parks in decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
October 19, 1956 On campaign trail, Vice President Richard Nixon vows:
“American boys and girls shall sit, side by side, at any school – public or
private – with no regard paid to the color of their skin. Segregation,
discrimination, and prejudice have no place in America”
November 6, 1956 African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King
and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957
Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957 Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd
Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus
to integrate public schools
June 23, 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower meets with Martin Luther King and
other African-American leaders to discuss plans to advance civil rights
February 4, 1959 President Eisenhower informs Republican leaders of his plan
to introduce 1960 Civil Rights Act, despite staunch opposition from many
Democrats
May 6, 1960 President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act
of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate
Democrats
July 27, 1960 At Republican National Convention, Vice President and eventual
presidential nominee Richard Nixon insists on strong civil rights plank in
platform
May 2, 1963 Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for
arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their
civil rights
June 1, 1963 Democrat Governor George Wallace announces defiance of court
order issued by Republican federal judge Frank Johnson to integrate
University of Alabama
September 29, 1963 Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District
Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate
Tuskegee High School
June 9, 1964 Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil
Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV),
who still serves in the Senate
June 10, 1964 Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes
Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to
stop opposing racial equality
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering
majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern
Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists-one of them
being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois
Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act
passed.
June 20, 1964 The Chicago Defender, renowned African-American newspaper,
praises Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) for leading passage
of 1964 Civil Rights Act
March 7, 1965 Police under the command of Democrat Governor George Wallace
attack African-Americans demonstrating for voting rights in Selma, AL
March 21, 1965 Republican federal judge Frank Johnson authorizes Martin
Luther King’s protest march from Selma to Montgomery, overruling Democrat
Governor George Wallace
August 4, 1965 Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes
Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans
vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose
August 6, 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and
other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from
voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats
vote in favor
July 8, 1970 In special message to Congress, President Richard Nixon calls
for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and
benefits
September 17, 1971 Former Ku Klux Klan member and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo
Black (D-AL) retires from U.S. Supreme Court; appointed by FDR in 1937, he
had defended Klansmen for racial murders
February 19, 1976 President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin
Roosevelt’s notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000
Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981 President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House
Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase
African-American participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982 President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting
Rights Act
August 10, 1988 President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988,
compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property
during World War II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991 President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991
to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996 Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit
racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With
America, becomes law
April 26, 1999 Legislation authored by U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI)
awarding Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is
transmitted to President
January 25, 2001 U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee declares school
choice to be “Educational Emancipation”
March 19, 2003 Republican U.S. Representatives of Hispanic and Portuguese
descent form Congressional Hispanic Conference
May 23, 2003 U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduces bill to establish
National Museum of African American History and Culture
February 26, 2004 Hispanic Republican U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-TX)
condemns racist comments by U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL); she had called
Asst. Secretary of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic Congressmen “a
bunch of white men…you all look alike to me”
November 4, 2008 at 10:28 am
You ignorant people will come up with whatever pathetic excuse you can to not vote for this man. McCain is not our future, and Sarah Palin isnt either! Our future is in the Obamas of the country, white and black. Those willing to recognize the demographics are changing….look on campuses throughout the USA…we are a changing people…our races are merging…Barack Obama is the symbol of our future and you are afraid…fear will destroy you all!…but America will not stand for your petty fear!
November 4, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hey Bill, Sen.McCain was the one that said “that one” to Sen.Obama . Why couldn’t Sen. McCain have said, Senator Obama or Barack since Sen Obama was considerate enough to address Sen. McCain by name?
November 4, 2008 at 10:34 am
Amen Austin, well said.
You republicans screwed us for the last eight years. Enough people were pissed off at the Bush Administration that the time was perfect to mobilize the thinkers in this country and to take it back. Obama has that genius of charisma, he is able to destroy apathy and get people excited for good. Ive never seen a candidate in my lifetime that could do this. He is phenomenon, and the perfect leader for this troubled time. John McCain? Hes a joke, couldnt inspire himself. Hes just there as a placeholder so Obama doesnt have to run unapposed. The Republicans picked the sorriest dude they had so they wouldnt feel as bad about losing.
God Bless Obama, help him turn our country great again and get rid of all this right wing, we are the best, racist hate.
November 4, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yes Obama, I would expect that of you. All blacks are the same. They never show the ideal way of expression and not the finger. But all blacks are the same. They do it all the time and the talk. I’m surprised his gramma that he said trained him would allow his black butt to act like that so again all colored do the same acts and things they have done for years.
He will never get my vote and never will no matter how may calls he makes on the phone. A black is a black is a black. I’ve seen too many over the years to come complete circle and be like regular people pleased and thankful. Remember Michelle was never never proud of America until Barack started to campaign. Wow! What a demenor on her part. And she is thankful now? No way, only feels important that maybe Barack Hussein can beat McCain. But she don’t have the skills for compassion either. Both are in the same catagory. Her underbite makes her look like a horse. Wouldn’t they have corrected that when she was young. It is so noticable. So your dirty finger gesture Barack shows how low you can go. And you tho’t McCain did all the dirty tricks. Not compaired to you. And your preacher who gave the God Dam America talk and you stood there and said nothing. You got guts. And not a good person at all. I’m afraid you have hurt America. No one could be so dumb and think they are always right.
November 4, 2008 at 10:39 am
Those facts dont mean anything, for every one of them there are three that aply to Republicans. Wikipedia history wont help you sound smart. Obviously Dems arent racist, we have a minority candidate. Show me three minority Politicians that are republican. Its a sea of old white men. THe reason America sucks right now. Hail to the chief, President Barack Obama.
John McCain can dig a hole and die somewhere, but Palin can come to my house.
November 4, 2008 at 10:48 am
God I hate this man so much! But there are so many they get drunk on his water of hope and change and do not pay attention to anything else, it is worse than Karl Rove.
November 4, 2008 at 10:57 am
OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! That is most obvious!! Most people did stuff like that in High School!! This guy never grew up!!!
November 4, 2008 at 10:58 am
>>Obviously Dems arent racist, we have a minority candidate<<
LOL! Chosen by WHO? The Majority of Democrats?
Hardly……. just do a time-travel visit to Iowa in January……. or Texas…..
November 4, 2008 at 11:06 am
You’re all idiots! Hate him all you want, you will all be calling him Mr President in a few hours. You’re nothing but a bunch of redneck, backwood white trash. His name is Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America! Get used to it fools.
November 4, 2008 at 11:08 am
Do you notice how all the Obama supporters who defend him can only call McCain supporters racist? They have NO arguments for why you should vote for Obama except for you are a racist if you don’t. They don’t talk issues or record because they don’t know what the issues are and they don’t want to talk about Obama’s record because that would mean admitting he voted with George Bush 86% of the time and when he didn’t, he voted present. To me, a racist is someone who advocates hate against others and a man who sat in Reverend Wright’s church and listened to the hatred spewed there without protesting is more of a racist than a person who votes for the leader they think will do more for this country with no thought of skin color. One of Obama’s own spokesmen, Representative Nader, said last night that Obama stayed in that church because he didn’t have the political courage to leave. If his own supporters think he doesn’t have enough political courage to leave a racist church, will he have enough political courage when he is facing our enemies? I think not. McCain for President! I am one of many, many Democrats voting for McCain.
November 4, 2008 at 11:22 am
Maybe the “finger” isn’t for Hillary or McCain. Maybe it’s for all the stupidity about simple things that have been said during this entire election. Being proud of this country gets very difficult when idiots don’t talk about the issues that concern this country; The major topic of conversation is about who did what to whom. Keep talking, the votes will be counted and whatever the outcome, hopefully all of this elementary, childish and petty behavior from both sides will stop. We have men and women fighting for their lives in Iraq and you people are making issue with this nonsense. If McCain wins or if “That One” wins, I will still be an American that is proud to represent my patriotism in INTELLIGENT conversation
November 4, 2008 at 11:24 am
If I hear something I don’t like in a church, I leave and find another. I’ve done it – got fed up with a fellow who preached fire and hell and brimstone and you are all dam#$% and all that. I thought, gee, this is uplifting worship! And left. Takes no guts to do that.
If you listen to someone for 20 years, you must agree with what they say? Correct? Or you like what you hear? Otherwise, you leave!
If you don’t like the radio station, turn off the radio or change stations. Simple, if I like something, I turn on the radio. But he made an EFFORT to travel to get there for 20 years…… would you make such an effort to go to a church where you didn’t agree with the minister/priest/pastor?
November 4, 2008 at 11:30 am
What a bunch of slimeball republican bastards you are.I am giving you the “flip” of the finger!
November 4, 2008 at 11:47 am
Are you nuts? C’mon. Talk about reaching. “The demeanor to be President”?? Barak Obama has, from the beginning of this endless campaign, shown nothing but grace and class and “good sportsmanship”. To say that he is flipping off McCain here, to stop the film on that one frame is disingenuous and wrong. When is this country going to look beyond such ridiculousness and make decisions based on issues and policy? We should be so lucky to be represented by a man who has proven himself, based on his campaign and how he has run it, to be integrous and willing to work that much harder if it means taking the high road.
November 4, 2008 at 11:48 am
I live in one of the UNAMERICAN states (Florida) I’m white, I’m 59. I spent 1970 in Vietnam. I’m also tired of trying to find another job in construction. Back when George Sr. was running for Pres. (soon after leaving as head of the CIA.) I had a dream-vision of Big brother watching every time I sneezed and writing it down somewhere. I was almost wrong about George Sr. He didn’t completely ruin the country, instead he was pretty mediocre. But his offspring W. is another matter. For starters look at HIS service to our country. TDY I think not, try awol. He privatized a lot of state jobs in Texas, my wife had 17 yrs in with the state when this happened. No bad reviews no bad anything. Did she get to work the last 3 yrs to get full retirement. HELL NO! Then Jr. decided to run for Pres. With a little help from Kathy Harris (you NEVER hear her name any more) he got elected. Yes 9-11 would have been bad for anyone in office at the time. Did he get the people who were responsible for the bombings. Ya some of the little people, did he get Bin Laden Hell NO!. We are still waiting for that. Did he avenge his father HELL YES! in a totally different country. Did we win the war on terror HELL NO!. Did his buddies get rich off the Wars YOU BETCHA! Do we want to continue with this kind of leadership HELL NO! I could have lived with John McCain if he hadn’t picked a women who wants to return the women of this country to the privileges they had at the start of the 1900’s. Sarah you could not run for any office except baby factory and I see you and your daughter do pretty good in that department. Do we want 4 more of the same HELL NO! Tonight we will have a new President, He won’t be John McCain. We will have change, it will not be overnight but the United States will regain the stature we once had.
November 4, 2008 at 11:53 am
He knows and the dems have flem flamned alot of americans. This is “Lipstick on a pig” I’ve never heard so much double speak since I read Orwell. No matter what happens win or lose Barrack can get up tomorrow and smear some lipstick on Michelle, She “never been so proud”
November 4, 2008 at 11:54 am
How can anyone vote for one who lied about his age, his involvment with 5 crooks, who secured a marriage licence when he was not divorced, who deserted his first wife when she was so crippled, who was an adulterer, and had other affairs when married to her, who uses church attendance as a political ploy (attending a Baptist Church while an Episcopalian). Even Bush and Clinton had more moral values than McCain.
November 4, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Clinton is the one that made those jobs leave with all do respect sir…by signing the bill that allowed them to….
McCain and Palin 2008
November 4, 2008 at 12:30 pm
This entire string is a sad commentary on America. History shows that the ideas of the two major parties flip-flopped years ago. Just look at the Presidential Electoral Vote map from the 1948 election. Notice a stark contrast in the colors from the past 4 elections? Instead of posting a revisionist’s history why not post the true facts. The reason for the change in party lines. Look at the economic factors that sparked the shift in parties. And look at who and what caused the South to shift in political association. Remember the dates you refer to were at a time when Blacks had little of no voice. Remember what year Blacks finally earned the right to vote and correct the slant you have on history with the “why” as well as the “what”. I will not try to provide you all the information, just the sobering truths behind the facts that should be considered.
To the blacks who try to use hatred as a defense, your hatred is no different than theirs. Stop allowing yourself to sink to their level and play tit for tat. Your ancestors fought hard to be equal in society, not equal in malevolence and ignorance. Stop veiling ridiculous actions in chants for “Obama ‘08″, it diminishes the historic accomplishment we may all witness.
To the irresponsible McCain supporters, you few who spend your time trying to make small the accomplishments of an educated citizen of the United States, grow up. Responsible McCain supporters vote the issues and understand that we do not all have to agree. Adults realize that self expression and individuality is what this country was founded upon and that to attempt to limit one’s self-expression limits us all. True lover’s of America offer compassion or understanding, not judgment when a citizen makes a choice, whether we agree with the choice or not. Your desire to silence those with whom you disagree shows your true hatred of this country and the doctrine upon which it was founded.
Let’s stop espousing rhetoric and start stating facts; who in Washington is really a maverick and successful? Politics in DC is the same as politics in the office, except with higher stakes. It is just a game to be played for a desired result. If you don’t play the game, you get no results! A MAVERICK just would not play the game. This election, I pray, will be decided by a conscious review of the issues near and dear to the overall success of the country, not religious or anti-religious moral persecution, not pro-life versus pro-choice, not black or white, not young or old, but real concerns like feeding your family or keeping your home. Both candidates plan on spending more than 1 trillion in health care. McCain will spend 1.6 trillion, Obama 1.3 trillion, the formers plan will reportedly cover 5 million and the latter’s will cover 38 million. Use real issues and do your homework, my numbers may be wrong but at least I have done some homework. Look at factcheck.org for an non-partisan look at the ads run by each. It is entertaining.
Finally, am I white or black? I will bet the majority of you will be incorrect. And unfortunately only a minute amount of you will not care! I wish you all the best and harbor no ill will for any of you, only the clear head and heart to stop the ignorance and mean spirited degradation of your fellow country men/women. Soldiers do not choose for whom to die, you should not try to make it seem that way!
November 4, 2008 at 12:31 pm
WHO are you people who want to see McCain win? Have you all lost your friggin minds? McCain is Bush all over again. If that happens we need to just pack it in because we’re f-cked! As far as the middle finger goes… get over it. Its about time we have a REAL person to run this country versus the lying sack of sh*t that has completely ruined us for the past 8 miserable years.
MCCain is only going to finish the job Bush started. IS that what you want for your country? to be pile driven into the ground. WAKE UP… you people are probably the idiots that voted Bush in for the 2nd term and to all of you blind republican idiots, I flip you off, with pleasure… again and again and again. Obama will win this and this country will change… get used to it, its going to happen.
Everyone needs to stop with the color issue. GROW UP people, a WHITE man freed the slaves… get the F- over it. Incase you haven’t noticed we are currently in the year 2008. That freedom is a part of HISTORY, LEAVE IT THERE. There is no more room for racism. We all bleed the same color, we are all equal, It is what it is. Put a big H on your chests and HANDLE it.
November 4, 2008 at 12:34 pm
For Gods sake people, he is doing what we subconsciously do ourselves when in thought. He’s not flipping off anyone.
Unbelievable what the mind can conjure up when emotional.
November 4, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I agree that there is still so much racism and ignorance in our country and it is evident that “ignorance breeds fear”!!! Fear of change, fear of having an intelligent, very educated, knowlegdble black man as the next president, and he WILL be the NEXT president:) I think the people that are NOT voting for Obama because of his name or the color of his skin are truly as stupid and ignorant as they come, do they not know that his mother is a white? Im sure if you look where these morans are from you’ll see that they probably never graduated high school and are probably from some little hick bungin town who are very vulnerable to adobt the ways of supremists groups who obviously have no sense or education, which breeds hatred. Don’t be fooled and please don’t be dumb, America is the greatest country in the world and out of the candidates, Obama and Biden are far more educated and ready to lead. If you have any doubt look @ how old the “white haired dude” is!! When he dies of a heart attack then they’ll be a stupid moose hunter, sportcaster,governor whos doesnt know the job of a VP and has never experienced much out of her state of 5,600 people…yeah she’s ready to lead!!! LOL. She needs to worry about maintaining her out of control family and be a soccor grandma.
November 4, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Coincidence or message? You decide.
November 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I can’t for the life of me understand why so many people are voteing for this poor excuse of a man.They are poor and unschooled, I bet 75% didn’t even get though high scool.People like them are poor and will always be poor, the people who work for a living will only allow so much welfare to be handed out. Obama is hopeing to take money from the people who work hard and give it to the ones who won’t work at all. It is descusting. I am one who believe Bill Gates worked hard and used his brain to get his money and I feel he should keep it and spend it as he pleases, not give it to lazy drunks and drug addicts.
November 4, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Comes as no surprise to me at all. This classless, narcissistic media creation with NO EXPERIENCE of the meaningful variety. This is what we may get and get used to it, you Fraudbama cultists. You think things were bad with Bush? Wait until no economic sense Fraudbama enters office. MARK THOSE WORDS!
And to those who for some odd reason outside of the scope of this article suggest that Palin who doesn’t know the job of VP (which is generally no more than smile, sit back and entertain minor events)and never experienced anything outside of her state of 5,600 (????!!!), certainly has gotten MUCH smaller in a few days, exactly what has your Messiah ever governed???? What has he EVER accomplished SOLELY on his own and not CO-sponsored on major legislation. PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT!! Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones–REMEMBER THAT!!!
November 4, 2008 at 1:16 pm
This is a joke right? This has got to be the lowest, stupidest thing I’ve seen from the republican hate mongers. And they say Obama supporters are dumb. Anyone who can’t see through his hatred, sure is dumb. Yeah, this goes right there with the fist bump stupidness! No wonder the country has been so screwed up the last 8 yrs. Republicans can’t tell what’s a real issue and what is, but sure do stupid well. Hey, are these the so called ‘real Americans’.
November 4, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Americans…lets hope you get it right this time. Hopefully more vote for an actual President when their country is in the toilet, than those who vote for the American Idol. Unbelievable. Vote for Obama, at least he’s not going to kick the bucket mid-presidency and leave some feeble bimbo in charge. Best of luck to you, we’re just enjoying the oil revenues up here- keep that war going!
November 4, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I’m thinking that your perceiving this as an obscene gesture says more about your childishness than it does about Obama.
And I certainly hope that tomorrow you will pledge your full support to our new president. You wouldn’t want to be ‘un-American’, now would you?
November 4, 2008 at 1:21 pm
hmmm…. amazing how obamabots are programmed into thinking Barry/Biden are “intelligent”. Really?, i mean how many times can you be totally wrong with facts and simple math and economics, and flip-flop your position in one campaign:
- “57 states” w/ one left to go.
- FISA flipflop
- breaking promises – public campaign financing
- save energy crisis w/ tire guage and tune-up
- kill coal production
- blindly claiming FDR addressed the public after the Great Depression on “TV”!
- tax break for 95% of americans, …,wait the percentage of taxpaying citizens is much lower than 95%
- vote for tax hike on people making $43k/yr (does Barry consider this middle class?)
- “my muslim faith” comment (freudian slip, woops)
- falsley claiming his uncle liberated town in WWII
- Rev Wright -20yrs, but “I never heard him say anything like that”
- flag pin or no flag pin
- voting present
- paying more in taxes is “the patriotic thing to do”
- Obama riches-to-welfare tax plan: you are not rich if you make under, … 250k, 200k, 150k, 120k, …going once, going twice, …
- and on and on and on…
so what was Barry’s GPA when he went to all those uppity schools we rednecks can spell? Um, yeah, why would he want to hide that if he was soooo intelligent. ..and Biden is so smart, he plagarises everybody else, and still winds up with the ole foot in his mouth – never fails.
Obamabots – please help yourself and the rest of us, and go get a job!!!
November 4, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Judy:
Can you point to anything that Rev. Wright said that could be interpreted as being racist?
Rev. Wright simply said that when a country sows seed of aggression and inflicts terrorist acts against another country, then those acts of aggression will come home to “roost.” Certainly, I do not condone Rev. Wright’s statement of “God _____ America.” However, if America gets out of the will of God, then it will dam its self. Remember the Roman Empire? I certainly will agree that what Rev. Wright said was not patriotic, but I disagree labeling him as a racist. Rev. Wright has many white friends, and has even allowed white ministers to preach at his church. Rev. Wright has rendered service to many people, but black and white. Therefore, how can he be racist?
Rev. Wright served his country with distinction as a United States Marine in Vietnam, and later as a Naval corpsman. When Bush and Cheney took their college deferral, to keep from going to Vietnam, Rev. Wright gave up college to serve his country. If anyone has earned the right to be critical of his country, and to challenge his country to rise to a higher level of human responsibility, that is Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
November 4, 2008 at 1:30 pm
You critics are a bunch of fools. Look at Palin’s winking. In morse code it reads, “I really suck.”
November 4, 2008 at 1:32 pm
BillD:
Mye, how the party of Lincoln, has really lost its moral compass.
November 4, 2008 at 1:35 pm
When I first saw the still photo of the finger, I gave it the benefit of the doubt that it was not intentional. BUT then I saw the video, and the timing of the flip off with the context of what he is saying is obvious. What is most scary is that the words coming out of his mouth are a direct contradicton to what he really is thinking. Also, consider how in his campaign, he broke his agreement with McCain to limit campain funding. McCain stuck to the agreement anyway, yet Obama raised and spent every dime he could swindle out of people with his smooth talk. Obama is going to be Trouble with a capital T.
November 4, 2008 at 1:36 pm
God Almighty, Obama cannot even wipe his mouth without McCain supporters perceiving an illusory slight… it is true that drowning men grasps at straws. 8 years of the current Republican Administration’s misguided policies and domestic propaganda has severly blinded some American’s ability to conceptualize a politician who comphrehends the meaning of the phase: To speak the truth.
November 4, 2008 at 1:50 pm
you guys are really reaching for something to criticize Obama on.
hey remember when McCain called his wife a c*nt?
Yeah his anger problems are classy…
November 4, 2008 at 1:51 pm
It’s a shame that white America is still living the hate filled life.Wake up people and take your hoods off.
November 4, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I hope he did mean to give all you idiots the big f#&* you! You deserve it after all the lies and nasty rumors you’ve spread in this campaign. Thank god that it looks like reason will prevail in this election and we will elect somebody who can think rather than the dumbest candidate like the ones who won in 2000 and 2004. You can thank your hero, W, the biggest joke we’ve ever had as a president, for the landslide that is happening today.
November 4, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Obama doesnt need to put a finger up to insult McCain. He is quite capable of doing that for himself! Americans should be insulted that McCain expects us to take his campaign and choice for Vice President seriously. Obama has shown nothing but class and character thus far which is why he will prevail.
November 4, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Thats hilarious!!,why is everyone so upset about this?? Hillary deserved the universal salute!! Basically,George “W” did the same thing to the American People right after 9-11 and before he lied to us about going into Iraq!! American people need to wise up!
November 4, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I tell you. If Obama did half the things that McCain/Palin did during this process he would not be as far as he is. Every little thing that he does he is scrutinized. Obama has shown us that he is the SMART guy, the man with integrity, good judgment, charisma and the most PRESIDENTIAL!!!!Obama should be very proud of himself for running a wonderful campaign and not getting down and dirty with the Republicans. You go Obama!
Why do the Republicans seem to always cheat? Doesn’t it make you go “HMMM?”
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 baby!!!!
November 4, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Grow up you ignorant backwards thinking idiots. This is what you use as an argument for not voting for him??? Maybe it is time to realize the same old tactics of feeding off people’s fear and ignorance is over. The comments on this site are quite shocking. To know that comments such as the ones mentioned above are only the tip of the ice berg is sad. Good to know the ‘ignorant american’ lives on. No wonder you get screwed over by the majority of your governments. How do you think ‘W” got in twice, their campaign team played on your ignorant views of the world. Now you are left with a country that is close to broke and ‘W’s” friends walk off nice and rich. Stay ’stupid’ america…
November 4, 2008 at 2:19 pm
wow ! nit picking at anything , would anyone like to go into the bathroom after him and see if it looks like palin .
November 4, 2008 at 2:21 pm
You people are so pathetic. McCain is the douche who should have been killed in Vietnam. It was because he was stupid and made poor decisions that he got caught and it was his poor decision to go into Iraq and now you want him to be President? He’s a dumb f*&%. Obama is 100 times more intelligent and he has Buffet in his back pocket. How many of you can say that? All you white trash that feel so insecure because a black man came up and may be president are just that…filthy white trash with no ambition. It’s unfortunate that he’s actually going to help you poor mother f*&%$#s because I wouldn’t. Oh and I am white, but I think as an outsider would and not a dumb hill-billie f*&^% looking for handouts by my own race.
November 4, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Agreed Kim. But the majority of middle America is dumb as shit and believe anything their friends will say.
November 4, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Interesting photo. Not voting this election but I have to pose a concern here.
I have photos of Obama scratching/stroking his cheek with the longest finger on his right hand in other situations w/out McCain or Hillary- could be a nervous habit. The gesture itself is such a juvenile expression (being a public school teacher.) that I am sure it does not apply. I mean we do have a sitting VP who fired off the big FU to a colleague in public which makes me wonder if the same such outrage appeared in here – in the very forum within which I witnessed a threat on Senator’s Obama’s life? Hmmm.
November 4, 2008 at 2:35 pm
THIS ONE FRAME OUT OF A VIDEO WAS NOT WHAT IS BEING SAID IT WAS. PEOPLE ARE STILL TRYING TO PIN SOMETHING ON OBAMA. AFTER TODAY YOU CAN ALL VANISH.
November 4, 2008 at 2:49 pm
xD I’m laughing my fucking ass off at this video AND the comments! Why should anyone care whether or not he flipped McCain off? It’s funny as hell to think he may have; it’s funny as hell to think he has a retarded way of stroking his chin.
Either way, someone smiles in the end! :D You guys just need to be positive. Why not hate both the candidates and to hell with it?
November 4, 2008 at 2:50 pm
It’s obvious this is yet another tasteless ploy by the McCain camp… Anyone who claims they see more in this gesture than a man wiping his mouth is ignorant, and in search of ANY reason to bash a great man. Do you seriously think Palin is prepared to run the country? (God forbid anything happens to McCain) A woman who can not tell you the newspapers she claims to read daily? (Palin- “I read which ever ones they put in front of me.”)
Wake up people and quit finger-pointing and griping over “who moved my cheese.” (Read the book!)
*Well said Kim #162
November 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Oh my but you folks are going to have a tough time after today. All of your angry commentaries are going to be tossed right back in your face to remind you that you are now the “Back of the Bus” folks…
Obama all the way…
Cory
November 4, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I LOVE IT! GO-BAMA! Truthfully, I do not believe it was a hidden gesture or a “code” of disrespect. However, it’s EXACTLY how I feel about the whole election! I respect Sen, McCain. Who wouldn’t? But…….
November 4, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Give me a break, this is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of, Obama is going to kick Butt……..
November 4, 2008 at 3:01 pm
How can you read this as an obscene gesture? I guess no one in public life can use their middle finger to touch their face? The desperate hatred of some people is so chilling, you frighten me.
November 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm
The true meaning of the gesture was this:
Obama was scratching his chin.
Anybody who reads more into it than that is in need of help.
November 4, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I pray for every last one of you RACIST you let the media make perfect ASSES out of you every chance they get….I often use my center finger to rub my face or even point with…it only becomes OBSCENE WHEN SOME SIMPLE MINDED PERSON THINKS THAT WAY….JUST LIKE THE KNUCKLE BUMP…THE MEDIA MADE IT INTO SOME TYPE OF TERRORIST SIGN…I PRAY YOU ALL BURN AND GO TO HELL.
November 4, 2008 at 3:25 pm
ya know its pretty sad when people seem to think that some whos skin just happens to not be white ,but yet bleeds the same color red as everyother humanbeing on this planet cannot be president, that is so,so sad and if people dont wake up and accept people for what they are despite the color of theyre skin,things will get really bad if people dont change and stop the obsurd raceism!
November 4, 2008 at 3:32 pm
sad,sad,sad! grow up people unless u want the racism to get thick,now is the time for blacks and whites to merge and stop racism in its tracks, lets go barack!
November 4, 2008 at 3:41 pm
good someone needs to flip off the crooked foul snake republicans like bush and mccain who dont give a rats azz about anyone!
November 4, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Austin,
Yes, I do think his sermons were racist. Blaming 9-11 on the white suppression of blacks is racist. Saying the only way for his congregation to get to God is by eliminating whites is racist. I don’t know how many of his comments you have heard, but there is a strong racial theme throughout. I am not a racist. I deplore hate from any individual directed at another. I would vote for a strong African American candidate in a heartbeat. But I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he was white, green or purple. His ideas are bad for America and bad for the world.
November 5, 2008 at 1:50 am
sure sure sure (sarcasm) his ideas are bad
u guys dis vid is preaty funny
but at da same time
preaty petty
hahahahahaaa he didnt do dat intentionaly it was jus a scratch
‘n even if it was
he still stomped Mccain hahahahahhahahaaa
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‘n is ten times betta den Mccain will eva be