View Full Version : Steele Calls on Reid to Resign as Senate Leader After Obama 'Negro' Comment
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01-10-2010, 11:55
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/10/reid-mounted-aggressive-campaign-minimize-obama-negro-comment/
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Peregrino
01-10-2010, 12:23
This is hillarious. Once again truth is the casualty. Reid said what he felt was true, I agree with most of his analysis even if I disagree with the charade, it was cold, calculated, brilliant politics, and it worked. Now he's apologizing?
If I don't cut slack for ignorant whites speaking "redneck", why must I excuse ignorant blacks speaking their "dialect"? Give me a break! (On second thought - don't "give it" to me - I'm taking it.) YMMV
We are fighting two wars, the economy is still in the crapper, the barbarians are at the gates and this is the crap our political leaders are talking about.. I am starting to think the so called "doomers" might just have the end game for our country right.
This was a topic of discussion this morning between Bob Schieffer and Senator Feinstein as well as on George Stephanopoulos' round-table - the only group in more trouble than Reid is the corrupt Republican Party of Nevada which may be in such terrible shape as to allow Reid's otherwise doubtful reelection.
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 :munchin
Honest to god, aside from the first 'N' word (which I understand the reasoning) I am not quite sure how to properly address that particular segment of the population because they do not appear to know, they have yet come to a consensus or it is subject to change without notice and/or it is ever evolving.
The MSM, the Politicians and the Administration should not be wasting their precious time debating use of a word, there are more pressing matters such as Terrorism and the Dying Economy they should be indulging.
Honest to god, aside from the first 'N' word (which I understand the reasoning) I am not quite sure how to properly address that particular segment of the population because they do not appear to know, they have yet come to a consensus or it is subject to change without notice and/or it is ever evolving.FWIW, one of the first things Laura Nader taught undergraduates in her painful introductory course to cultural anthropology was that to build rapport one should call a person or a group what they liked to be called.
Because of that lesson, I take the time to find out if James wants to be called "James," "Jim," or "Jimmy" and if Margaret prefers to be called "Peggy." And if either only want their friends to call them "Jimmy" and "Peggy," I'll call them James and Margaret until invited to do otherwise.*
Then again, during the last years of the late century, a professor, apparently aware of my habit of addressing faculty members formally, invited me to call him by his Christian name. I grinned and said, "Sir, that's just not the way I roll." After all, rapport isn't a one way street.
(Besides, the guy wore Birkenstocks. There's no fracking way I'm going to develop a first-name type relationship with a professor who wears Birkentstocks. Don't get me started.)
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* If only James V. Forrestal had had this sensibility, his relationships with the navy's senior officers may not have been so turbulent. (He habitually called admirals by their USNA nicknames without their let.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1FOpscv4c&feature=related
And so it goes...;)
Richard's $.02 :munchin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX1FOpscv4c&feature=related
And so it goes...;)
Richard's $.02 :munchin
Then there's this guy who'll bring back a couple of memories.:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoYsfbq3vMc&feature=related