What About Our Daughters

Why is that when a black person endorses Obama it is always about race and yet when white people endorse each other maintaining white hegemony has nothing to do with it? Once again more ridiculousness from Limbaugh trying to pass itself off as legitimate thought.

Rush Limbo gives his followers their talking points, that's all. He injects race into everything. He couldn't even talk about football (55%+ black players) without dogging Donovan McNabb. Why? Because it bothered the drug addict that a black man was a quarterback. Nuff said.

Rush Limbaugh is an idiot. Unfortunately, he has an audience of bigots that lap up the garbage he spews.

Rush boils everything down to race. Has he talked about investigating the white conservatives that have endorsed Obama?

Limbaugh in an articulate and thoughful journalist. It is the Obama campaign who keeps bringing up the race card. It is the Obama/Odinga campaign who have employed sexist behavior and corrupt Chicago thuggery this election cycly. Obama is a fraud and will destroy our country, in economics and in defense.

"...I guess he also regrets Reagan and Bush making him a four-star [general] and secretary of state....”"

See, that right there is what I've been saying all along. If your black and successful certain people feel you spend your life thanking white people for your success as if your not worthy of it and did not achieve it based on your own merit. The moment you "step out of line" your no longer in their good graces and you are just another N___.

Should we be researching the intentions of all the white people who have endorsed John McCain? I guess when white people make decisions their motivated by logic and we are somehow motivated by race loyalty. Got it.

Angrynana - Obama's campaign didn't bring this up - Limbaugh did, so what's your point? Limbaugh "articulate and thoughtful"? On what planet are you currently residing?

Limballs is an idiot and I'm looking forward to the FCC revoking his station's license for spewing hate.

I'm voting for McCain but I do admit that I'd hold a dismal hope that the remaining SCOTUS justices would hold on until a more centrist democrat becomes president. I'm with Powell on that. I like my SCOTUS to be barely right of center. I do believe that Roe v. Wade must stand.

The only other good thing about an Obama presidency is its usage as a clever retort to the victimologist - blame whitey integrationist negro-sellouts who make up the whole of the Civil Rights Industrial Complex. Each time they struggle to present the illusion of their relevance by claiming that "racism is alive" I can always reply "but you have a black president".

Unfortunately, now that I've managed to get myself used to the idea of a leftist democrat president with a leftist democrat legislature, McCain seems unable to completely fall of the map. For whatever reason, Obama cannot close the deal and widen the margin. I'd like to see McCain win but I've already accepted his loss as a forgone conclusion. In the interests of comfort and predictability, Obama needs to do a better job in easing the concerns of middle of the road voters in the swing states.

Unbelievable....Rush Limbaugh is the most racist radical I have ever heard. This is disgusting.

Please, try not to be a fool. You can't wait for the FCC to revoke his license? Only blindly leftist people like you propose limiting free speech through governmental decree. This is a dangerously Stalinist approach to be taking just because you don't agree with a political opponent's point of view.

Don't you understand the simple fact that if we allow government to implement a "fairness doctrine," the party du jour could perpetuate its hold on power by stifling the opposition? Please, try to think things through before making stupid statements like yours.

Well Rush... Powell already endorsed a retarded ( i am sorry mentally challenged) one in G.W. BUsh............man one litlle difference of Opinion and see how your friends treat ya' -- watching morning Joe this morning on MSNBC - that raciest Pat Buchanon was hot with Powell - now calling him an affirmative action General and so so Secrataryy of State....

@ Al. Are you seriously saying that a black president is proof that racism doesn’t exist? Wow.

LOL at a Black president proving that racism doesn't exist in America. Even with all of the racist http://the9elements.blogspot.com/2008/10/racism-against-obama-continues.html" rel="nofollow">effigies of Obama popping up on front lawns in America and all of the White people that are threatened by some sort of a http://the9elements.blogspot.com/2008/10/elderly-woman-think-black-people-will.html" rel="nofollow">Black revolution. Talk about feigned disillusionment.

And you McCain supporters don't have to worry about Obama being left-leaning. When you consider the FISA bill, putting oil drilling back on the table, and supporting the $700 billion bailout, there's nothing really all that leftist about Obama's politics.

iman, I'm not saying that a black president is proof that racism does not exist. Even if a black president is existed, many African American will continue to harbor their color complexes regarding dark skinned people and a subtle prejudice towards West Indians. I'm not THAT naieve.

Rush is 100% correct. Powell never was a conservative or a Republican. He is a liberal democrat. Look at what Powell said about the Supreme Court. Republicans made Powell's career what it is. Powell is supporting a far left socialist that is about to destroy America as we know it.

Some of these comments prove exactly what continues to be a problem in our country-Racism. If someone like Collin Powell can be so easily thrown to the curb inspite of his honerable service/patriotism to this country then the rest of us are doomed.

Rush Limbaugh is a waste of my senses (ears). A following so willing to embrace his radical, offensive, demeaning, hateful comments is not surprising. Perhaps he's the real domestic terrorist- spewing nothing but divisiveness and hatred.

How easily he's forgotten how many overlooked his apparent 'addiction'. Too stupid to see that he's an example of everything wrong in America. The lies and hatred he wallows in aren't enough to take him off the air. Pure white privilege. Can anyone name a minority that could confess to addiction , and not only keep their job but get more air time than ever?

I didn't think so...........

Fighter Pilot, exactly what "we" are you referring to? If Rush can endorse inexperienced former beauty queens who went to 6 colleges to matriculate one degree, why can't Powell endorse a Harvard Educated Lawyer who inspires people?

Obama is the quintessential personification of the hi-jacked republican mantra of self-reliance. He didn't allow his fracture childhood to sully his potential for success. What makes Obama a socialist? Do you even know what a socialist is?

What would some of you people say if Condoleeza Rice or Shelby Steele endorsed Obama? Racial loyalists or simply people who have made a choice to support a candidate with who velieves he has a better vision for America's future than his opponent?

It is not about race, it is about being a MODERATE republican. Not all Republicans want families to go bankrupt over medical bills, not all Republicans are against abortions, and not all Republicans are religous. Dubya and the rest of the right wing folks have completely taken over the republican party. That is why so many blacks and young people are so reluctant to join. Colin is probably just one of those logical moderate Republicans. Republicans from the northeast whether they be black or white are just not that right wing.

I just don't see it. Ever since I've heard of Colin Powell, I've always viewed him as the type of dude who would lean slightly left. Also, he seems "party-less" in that I have a hard time associating him any political party. He seems like a more rational version of Jesse Ventura.

Isn't Rimjob endorsing Sarah Palin?

So much for the consistency of the right.

How ya doin Al?

"What would some of you people say if Condoleeza Rice or Shelby Steele endorsed Obama?"

But that would never happen.

Powell is a man of substance and character whereas Rice and Steele are mercenaries and opportunists.

Completely beholden to those (white rightwingers) who promote and appoint them.

Cinco--To assume that Powell supports Obama because he is black is the most gracious possible response. Otherwise we must assume Powell supports the evil Socialist system that Obama dreams of instituting in America.

Goldenah--Do your homework. Rush Limbaugh never had any objection to Donovan McNabb being the best quarterback in the NFL. His comment was about the media coverage given McNabb by lib reporters drooling over the fact that McNabb was black. Limbaugh believes McNabb's skin color ought to be irrelevant his determining his fitness to lead the team, and was chiding the press for showing that it obviously did matter to them that McNabb was black.

Oculus Dector

You gotta be kidding.

Show us any proof that reporters drooled over McNabb being black. That's ridiculous.

Did they drool over Warren Moon who is in the Hall of Fame? Or Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams?

Since when is being a black quarterback an advantage in the NFL.

The white media STILL hasn't accepted blacks as field generals.

Limbaugh just couldn't deal with the notion that a black man could very well be the best quarterback in the league.

That was something someone with his racist sensibilities couldn't handle.

I guess Condoleeza ric will be voting for Obama too.

I've listened to Rush when he got drop kicked from ESPN. He whined on and on and on about the subject. It's obvious, except to the drug addict and his fellow worshipers, that everything is about race with him.

He picked on McNabb, because he couldn't stand the fact that he was the highest paid quarterback at the time. He talks garbage about Oprah too. Why? She's worth way more money than him, and it kills him to know this.

Limbo likes to pretends he believe in a meritocracy, but that's false since he does not believe black people even have the capacity to compete with whites. It's his daily mantra. It's not hard to miss.

It's a non-starter: he's a racist bigot.

iman, I’m not saying that a black president is proof that racism does not exist. Even if a black president is existed, many African American will continue to harbor their color complexes regarding dark skinned people and a subtle prejudice towards West Indians. I’m not THAT naieve.

LOL.

LMAO.

If that wasn' tthe funny thing I read all day. No. White folks aren't racist agains tBlack folks. No. Institutional racism doesn't exist.

No.

It's just Black folks being racist agains other Black folks.

Right.

Yes please vote for MCCain.

Your intelligence level dictates you do so.

lol.

I urge folks to read the transcript of Powell's speech at the RNC 2000:
http://www.npr.org/news/national/election2000/conventions/speech.powell.html

when i first listened to this speech in 2000, it threw me off. I always dug Powell as a General. He was sharp and way ahead of his class (he told Papa Doc Bush to allow him to take down Saddam way back in 1991, but was told not to....) but when i heard this, it made me look at him in a different light.

I actually bet money that he would endorse Obama (i can't forget who i bet...) a year ago.

So once again, you folks have been cutting up in my absence. Let's try to put our grown up caps on and avoid calling other commentators "stupid" or "dumb" okay.

Let's see a Republican, talk radio host, prescription medicine junkie, (cause he is too conservative to buy weed), who has a history for saying racially provocative things doesnt like Powell endorsing Obama, and this surprises who?

I had to comment on the black president means that racism doesn't exist. I went to a predominately white high school,11 black seniors 450 people total in my class. I had been told many times that "you're not like the other blacks, you're different." that's other peoples way of saying "I like you because you don't scare me like those other black kids in the other neighborhoods."

Please believe that Obama is considered a "different" type of black person. He's the kind of black man who is non-threatening to other ethnicities. There are plenty of non-blacks who will be voting for Obama and will continue discriminating against the black people they come in contact with in their everyday lives. An Obama presidency will NOT cure racism and discrimination in America.

ANSWER THE QUESTION! It has nothing to do with race, right? So why is Colin endorsing Obama? Because he's black- if there were another reason, then he'd answer. Blacks are statistically the most racist and violent to all other races, including themselves. Pity the fools.

The reason whites won't vote black is because we're waking up to the murder rates- over half of U.S. violent crime is committed by the 16% black population- and slavery is no longer an excuse. Asians and others come here and make successful lives without even speaking English. People are waking up to these enabled children and we're tired of it. You need to grow up and become Americans and demonstrate human behavior. Respect is earned, not given. I'd rather be a bigot than a hypocrite. Most of you blacks and liberals are illiterate and incapable of crafting a cohesive thought. Facts are like kryptonite to you and your terrorist friends.

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@ I think #32 and 33 answered my question. Yes racism will still exist.

to wake up , put your hood on and go back to sleep .

Obama is half WHITE also. What does skin color have to do with it? The saddest commentary is that I believed this great nation was moving beyond issues of skin color. Sad and rude awakening for me. My fear is that Limbaugh's comment give gravity to the twisted thoughts of the not-so-enlightened and to all of those that do not have the intellectual capacity to see the obvious: The GOP has continued the rhetoric of fear, intolerance, and xenophobia to further its cause. It's the route they have chosen because it's the only way they stand a chance.

#33 - There are white idiots also. What's your point? The bottom line is this... People like YOU that can somehow justify an argument rooted on skin color... are not all that bright. You might THINK you are, but you are downright dangerous. And...What does OBAMA have to do with murder rates in the USA? Only YOU can make a connection between a Harvard-educated man and murder rates based on SKIN COLOR. You really believe the nonsense in your twisted mind. Unbelievable.

Some of the comments made here are examples of how far we still have to go in this country- and it really is a long ways.

I think wake up may be a troll- your comments aren't meant to help with any solutions , you've become part of the problem.

But if you continue to comment here maybe you'll gain enlightenment, and understanding.

Is it about race?
Only one person knows for sure…and that’s Powell.
Powell claims that he’s not happy with the “rightward shift” of the Republican party.
Any merit in his accusation???
Listen to Republican Senator Michelle Bachmann
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESdA52S4Dbg" rel="nofollow">Click to watch Senator Michelle Bachmann’s interview
So...what do you think??. Is Powell just imagining that the Republican party is shifting to the right?

'Scuse me but I thought Powell comprehensively explained his reasons for supporting Obama.

Limbaugh, Bachmann and others are shifting into "Willie Horton" mode out of desparation.

You heard it first here.

The right is going to get real ugly on race over these last two weeks.

And you black conservatives out there are really going to have to reevaluate your loyalties.

I love the line that Powell is endorsing Obama because he is an inspirational leader.

Really?

Inspiration can't pay the bills and hope won't replenish your 401K.

From what I can see, neither one of the candidates are being forthcoming with us.

We are pretty much S-O-L.

Since when is hate mongering "thoughtful"?

I find it so unbelievable disgusting that in the year 2008 we are talking about race. The reason being is because we have a black candidate on the presidential ticket. Why is it now that we have a black candidate it is so much racial tension going on?
Hmmmmm??????
I have been voting for over 20 years and each year that we have election I vote on the issues at hand, and whom I think will be the best candidate. Guess what guys this year is no different, I will vote again on who I think should be elected determined by the issues. I am a African American Black Woman and I will again vote for the issues, this time it just happen to be a black man that will get my vote and for me that is a little icing on the cake …… for those of you that think other wise that people are voting because Obama is a black man, you seem to forget he is also half white man……so I will vote for that side of him if that makes you feel better………  GET OVER IT PEOPLE!!!!!!

@unbelievable
"so I will vote for that side of him if that makes you feel better"

Okay, that's funny.

So Gov. Palin entered in beauty pagents to pay for college. She didn't have communists radicals supporting her through school. She has been a mayor, gov. , and has a business with her husband. Obama has moved from job to job and the one thing he counts as his executive experience failed. He did nothing to improve education in Chicago.

"So Gov. Palin entered in beauty pagents to pay for college. She didn’t have communists radicals supporting her through school."

HUH????

Are you saying that The O had Commie Rads supporting him through school?

Please provide evidence.