Comments on: The Next President

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:18:39 +0000

The close-mindedness and negativity – and stupidity frankly of Majawill is only slightly amusing (he/she/it is a good insight into the angry far-right wackos out there – I call them RWOTIs – right-wing out there idiots). But rerally, I’m sure Maja is just trying to “rile” those of us hoping for common sense to finally prevail in this country.
Americans did well Nov 4th. Almost all people around the world applauded Americans or at least gave a sigh of relief. America will now be held in much higher esteem and can be proud of itself again. True patriots (and not the blinded sheep) arise. Critique Obama as he should be on issues, unlike the past 8 years where most media were either embedded with Bush or censored/controlled in some way. We at least have On Point – the great new American news institution!

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:34:49 +0000

Nice try Majawill, however you have been leaving snarky comments on this forum for months your not fooling anyone.

Your still a vile troll.

By: Majawill

Majawill — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:48:27 +0000

I apologize to the forum that I stooped to your level.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:43:08 +0000

One more thing, this forum needs a moderator.
I could go on going tit for tat with Majawill, but that’s not a good thing to do.

Also Majawill’s constant use of hateful speech and his attacks on people here deserve to called into check.
As mine would be ass well.

Majawill if you reply to my pst I am sure you will find some more bile and hate to through my way.

However it for me it stops now.

Your like the playground bully and bullies need to be egnored.

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:32:12 +0000

Majawill you now show your true colors. Bigotry and hate.

You don’t know me and for the record I have had dyslexia all my life and it is not a self-diagnosis. You want to poke fun of lack of grammatical skills go ahead. It shows how immature you are, that you have a mental age of 9, talk about being challenged.

You now say I’m mentally retarded, very funny.
Are people who are suffering from this problem lesser than you? Is this what your implying?

I do not need to prove anything to you, who are you to judge anyone.

Your snide remarks which are full of hate and bile are not helping anything are they. It must be hard to be you, so full of hate that your about to explode.

I don’t know what you do for a living but whoever you work for must be proud to have such a fine example of a bigot on staff.

I feel sorry for your wife, your children if you have any, as they will be brought up learning not to embrace humanity but to have contempt for it. Your poor wife has put to up with your all this negativity, anger and bile.

By the way I graduated in the top 10% of my class in college and I have a masters degree.

By: Majawill

Majawill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:47:07 +0000

Jeff, you’re no doctor so allow me to disagree with your self-diagnosis of dyslexia and suggest that what you actually suffer from is a severe case of mental retardation. Good luck with that.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:05:07 +0000

Considering that past, perhaps the most incisive comment on Mr. Obama’s election actually came long ago. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed the Hawaii Legislature in 1959, two years before Mr. Obama was born in Honolulu, and declared that the civil rights movement aimed not just to free blacks but “to free the soul of America.”

Mr. King ended his Hawaii speech by quoting a prayer from a preacher who had once been a slave, and it’s an apt description of the idea of America today: “Lord, we ain’t what we want to be; we ain’t what we ought to be; we ain’t what we gonna be, but, thank God, we ain’t what we was.”

Apologies to Mr.Kristof, from the NY Times.

“Lord, we ain’t what we want to be; we ain’t what we ought to be; we ain’t what we gonna be, but, thank God, we ain’t what we was.”

These last lines are not grammatically correct are they Majawill. However they have more power, soul and clarity than any of your derisive comments.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:37:06 +0000

****NO MORE RELIGIOUS MORONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-Thank God!****

Thank you!!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:05:22 +0000

A bumper sticker slogan: “If you drive a big enough truck, you don’t need to be polite.” This has been the underlying governing principle of the GOP for a very long time, and has been especially naked during the past eight years. Think of it as our foreign policy principle, and as the way the administration has treated ordinary Americans. Those in positions of power have tremendous responsibility to use power wisely, and so few are able.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:32:09 +0000

Asking me to pay more tax so a bloated government can waste some more seems unfair.

If you don’t like it move to another country.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:31:46 +0000

Asking me to pay more tax so a bloated government can waste some more seems unfair.

If you don’t like move to another country.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:30:17 +0000

Majawill sorry for my spelling mistakes I’m dyslexic and sometimes I forget to spell check and proof read everything.

Spoiled sport, OK does this work for you.

I think your the typical right wing jerk who thinks the world should be the way you want it. Your selfish, self centered and arrogant. You use insults and try to degrade people, such as you did to me.

Well I think it’s over for people like you. You lost, Obama is not Clinton, he’s smarter and understands this moment.

Heres a tip why not take a few days search your soul and ask yourself if you want leaders who believe in talking snakes and that the earth is only 5000 years old.

I have seen your attempts at creating hate, diversion and I am left wanting.

Who are you to judge anyone, who asked you?

Look at what 8 years of your kind of ideology has brought this country. Look you arrogant SOB, look and take heed of this moment as it is a referendum on the failed Republican neoconservative movement.

By: AV

AV — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:16:53 +0000

It’s kind of silly that white voters now seem to be pounding themselves on the chest. It suggests that it was actually difficult for them vote for him. But we voted for the best candidate, right? Was it that hard?

rogier, the best candidate based on issues, according to this: berkeleycarroll.org/news/detail.asp?pageaction=ViewSinglePublic&LinkID=3614&ModuleID=183

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:44:13 +0000

Thanks to Tom for the incredulity at the first caller’s claim NEVER to have been proud even fleetingly of our country in 38 years. I can onky think that it was her way of pointedly coming to the aid of Michelle Obama who was legitimately misunderstood and quickly made clear that she was of course proud of her country at various times, despite its obvious imperfections. This caller really went out of her way to emphasize her view of America as comprehensively deplorable until Tuesday. I tuned in to hear a discussion of this amazing day in America that symbolizes much (though of course not total) binding up of our social wounds. Instead, from the first caller we hear an implicit angry condemnation of every moment, twist, and turn of the country’s history. (After all, one can be proud of episodes in the country’s biography that did not occur during your lifetime.) Even though I share her enthusiasm for the moment, her blanket condemnation the country really ruined the mood for me, and disappointed me because I am such a huge fan of Tom and On Point, and am as ecstatic as almost all Americans are at the result of this amazing election season.

By: Ann-marie

Ann-marie — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:41:49 +0000

The biggest irony of the day is reporters running over each other to interview the family of the sperm donor in Kenya who rejected and abandoned Obama when he was only a toddler. I guess a child is only worthy of love when he becomes famous. Nice.
Obama’s real family (the Dunhams) and hometown (Hawaii) have beome victims of McCain’s successful effort to rewrite Obama’s personal narrative. It is a sad political ploy that I hope McCain faces the nation and apologizes for. That would require honor and decency, two things that we all know that McCain lacks (cheating on an injured wife was clue #1).

I for one cried when I heard the news that Obama’s grandma passed away 1 day before her grandson’s election. Her history of climbing the ladder from clerk in the bank to President of the Bank is simply inspiring. I wished that the media had spent at least 1/4 of the time on her as they did on Bill Ayers. It made me even more sad to realize that Obama had lost the two most important women in his life, at such a young age. We all expect so much from Obama day 1 after the election, we overlook the fact that he just lost the center of his family 2days ago and may need some personal time to fly back home to Hawaii and grieve.

When Obama gave his acceptance speech hoping his 2 girls live up to age 106, I couldn’t help but to recall that they now have a higher than normal chance of getting breast cancer. My hope is that we find a cure before those girls reach their 30’s.

My only wish from an Obama administration is to return funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the level at least prior to George Bush, if not higher. George Bush’s presidency has been the ONLY time in our country’s history where funding for Science and medicine have been DECREASED. With the exception of the dark ages, they only time in WORLD history that science has been smeared and assulted for religous reasons. We need to return to the country with the most ELITE scientist in the WORLD.
NO MORE RELIGIOUS MORONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-Thank God!

By: topic

topic — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:34:56 +0000

I also did tell people I need a exit plan if McCain/Palin got elected, but I was purely joking. It’s just a way to express my frustration of the last 8 years, and I really don’t know how many more years I can take like the last 8 disastrous years.

Anyway, my friends saw me today jokingly said “well, now you can put away your suitcase now”. I feel like I can breath again.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:58:46 +0000

I’m a young white college student who has lived in the DC-Baltimore region most of my life. I can honestly say I never thought I would see such a day. I didn’t know how much it meant to me until Obama took the stage last night and I knew it was real. I cannot imagine what this meant to people who have lived through our country’s troubled racial past and have been the target of racism. I, myself, was brought to tears. Obama did renew my hope.
However, I can only cross my fingers in regards to major change in the future. A consistent problem within Democratic party has been the inability to organize a consensus for specific principles in order to mobilize action. Maybe this has been because the party must cover such a broad spectrum of political views, but this has been an area where the Republicans have consistently outperformed Democrats. At this time we need unity more than ever, not only within but between the parties. Still, even if Obama does nothing from this day until the next election, he has already done something groundbreaking. This event has changed the lives of many many people. I know I will not be the same.
I agree we cannot forget that racism is real. It is not an excuse. It is institutional and works in millions of insidious ways. College has been a difficult experience for me because I had to face even more personal forms of racism when I believed such things to be a thing of the past or the south. Students will flat out make racist statements, including the n-word, even within the classroom. On other campuses people have hung nooses, distributed hate emails and put up racial slurs and symbols. After 9/11 a friend I grew up with who was of Indian descent got hit in the head with a rock thrown from a jeering crowd who must have made the assumption purely based on brown skin and black hair. While I am not the target of these comments, they hurt all of us. I hope this amazing election does mark, if not an end to racism, a change in tide.
Patriotism does not mean blindly accepting and agreeing with everything your country does. Patriotism means being devoted to your country and to making it a better place. For me, patriotism means that unlike the statements I heard from people from both parties that they would move out of the USA if the election didn’t go their way, I am invested in my country even when politics do not follow my beliefs and will continue to work to make my home land the best place I can. That is why this country is great; it is a work of the people, conflicts can be resolved by progress. Indeed, conflicts keep us current and full of life.

By: topic

topic — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:30:45 +0000

To Edward:

I don’t understand what is wrong with pro-choice if this is a free country??? This should be a country with free choice of religion and a choice of “free of religion” for atheists.

Pro-choice is the core value of the freedom we are talking about here in this country. If pro-choice is regulated with sensible laws, why not? If a religious person who doesn’t believe in abortion, she has a choice not to. Pro-choice law would not FORCE abortion on any women, but the pro-life does put FORCE and PRESSURE on a woman if she can’t choose how to live her own life. You are one of these people like to tell how others should live their life by your values and your personal believe.

Shame on you! You are one of those people believing protecting the unborn, and don’t give a SH** and don’t respect the born and their choices.

Remember, your belief on anything, any issue should starts at strengthening your personal life first, then sharing your goodwill for others. But when your goodwill is unwanted, or when you neglect the consequence of forcing your goodwill on others, that leads the road to hell for others.

How about I try to force my non-belief on you?? Telling you what to do and what not to do or believe??

By: Majawill

Majawill — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:12:51 +0000

To me the working class is anyone who works. Since I work, I have no problem understanding the plight of the working class. I cannot comment on how you spend the money you make, but some part of the current economic crisis is a result of people signing up for mortgages they couldn’t afford. Do they deserve a bailout from me? I live within my means: no debt, no cable, no flat screen, and vacations with the in-laws.

The overwhelming majority of federal income taxes are paid by the very highest income earners. The top 1% of income earners pay about 32% of all income taxes. The top 5% pays 51.4%. The top 10% of high income earners, pay 63.5%. The top 20% of income earners pays 78% of all federal income taxes. What’s fair?

My wife and I have busted our butts all of our lives. We paid our student loans and we save as much as we can for our family. We deny ourselves lots of things the neighbors have in order to have a more secure future. Asking me to pay more tax so a bloated government can waste some more seems unfair.

By: Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:08:34 +0000

Majawill: I’m having a hard time understanding who you’re talking about. My wife and I work our butts off, make what I thought might be a decent living compared to our town’s median income and have nothing to show for it. I have no insurance because none of the employers I’ve gracefully worked for can afford it, when I do occasionally get insurance, the coverage is so crappy and so expensive, it’s not worth it. I’m not willing to live on the fringes people have to live on to get some assistance, and can never get enough together to show any collateral. Everything I have, I’m in debt for. This is where many people are at right now. You need to have real conversations with the working class. We’re not all taking ‘it’ from ‘you’, the ones with monopolistic greed have screwed the people who keep them rich, it doesn’t make sense anymore!