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Old 05-15-2008, 10:20 AM
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Comparing him to a monkey is like putting his likeness on a Union Jack or a white robe. There are certain lines that should not be crossed and that racist crossed it with both feet.
Totally beside the point but don't you mean the Confederate flag? Union Jack is the British flag...

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Old 05-15-2008, 10:25 AM
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Totally beside the point but don't you mean the Confederate flag? Union Jack is the British flag...
I sure hope so.
Otherwise my wife is gonna be jump’n on here with a few questions.
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Old 05-15-2008, 10:29 AM
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Totally beside the point but don't you mean the Confederate flag? Union Jack is the British flag...
I was scratching my head on that one, too. Glad I wasn't the only one!
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Old 05-15-2008, 10:39 AM
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The shirt was obviously in poor taste.

Since when are Americans not allowed to have poor taste?

Fact is, the current president has been displayed as a chimp on this very forum, probably by some of the very members complaining about the Obomma chimp caracature. I didn;t see Obomma complaining when the same tactic was used against Bush. Why are Dimmercrats surprised when their own tactics are turned against them??
The difference between calling Obama a chimp
and calling Bush a chimp is enormous.

One is a racial slur.
The other is not.

You would need to put a picture of a slave owner on a shirt
with a bush slogan to have the same racial schism.

It is not about the chimp.
It is about the racism that is still rampant in the US.

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It’s good old fashion brutal American racism. And there’s nothing “good” about it.

"Brutal American Racism"!!!???? Sorry, but that is an inaccurate, inciting description of this matter, in my opinion. My wife commented that Obama looked cute like Curious George two years ago, way before Geraldine Ferraro did. And she is far from being a WASP, and doesn't have a racist bone in her body--FAR to the contrary.
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I'm alittle confused here- they did the very same thing with Dubya on the last election and no one was whining back then. They did a whole Curious George cartoon thing with him.
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Well, Dubya is a cracker . . . oops!
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Bad as it sounds, it just bought Obama some more votes and free publicity.
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"Brutal American Racism"!!!???? Sorry, but that is an inaccurate, inciting description of this matter, in my opinion. My wife commented that Obama looked cute like Curious George two years ago, way before Geraldine Ferraro did. And she is far from being a WASP, and doesn't have a racist bone in her body--FAR to the contrary.
Oh my god, you're married?
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"Brutal American Racism"!!!???? Sorry, but that is an inaccurate, inciting description of this matter, in my opinion. My wife commented that Obama looked cute like Curious George two years ago, way before Geraldine Ferraro did. And she is far from being a WASP, and doesn't have a racist bone in her body--FAR to the contrary.


If you think this matter is about a guy who put out the shirt because he was thinking that “Obama looked cute like Curious George”.... Fine.... You go with that.
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Oh my god, you're married?
Yeah why, were you planning on trying to **** me?
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Yeah why, were you planning on trying to **** me?
Not really, I don't even know what you look like. Have a nice day
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Oh lord…..
Here we go….

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If you think this matter is about a guy who put out the shirt because he was thinking that “Obama looked cute like Curious George”.... Fine.... You go with that.
I've seen brutal American racism in person in the form of a 19 yo black boy hanging from a noose in his grandfather's carport, because he was dating a white girl. You want to compare a god damn tee shirt to that as being in the same league, fine....you go with that
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Not really, I don't even know what you look like. Have a nice day
Stir it up and leave--yep, sounds like I got the gender right.

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