Obama is not even in yet SO how do you know what he will do with gun control.

Democrats love power and will do everything to remove the only tools that the second amendment stands for.

After all your boy Obama said the Declaration is stained and the Constitution is flawed.

Lets’ give him time to rule OK.

Reading AJ’s anti Conservative crap has become boring.

All of you forget the Brainwashed uneducated kids, the treasonous media and the people looking for Santa and a free ride.

It no longer matters what the Republicans do.
The numbers are not there and there is fraud enough to fix any state.

All Civilizations collapse you are looking at the beginning of ours because we lack the brains and courage to use force to fix it.

I am not offended by “Okie” or other such local terms. I am also not Politically Correct. I was responding to Terrye’s earlier post about such terms being highly offensive (giving the example of his father being offended when called an “Okie”). My point is, and always has been, that I have no problem with the parody; however, it was not a good political move to associate yourself with it.

I really, really don’t understand people being offended when they are called what they actually are. i.e.; caucasion, negro, mongolian, etc. I’m 5’11″, am I supposed to be offended if someone refers to me as a 5’11″ guy? That’s what it amounts to.

Seriously? You want to use that as a moral stand? The left smeared every Swifty that wasn’t supporting Kerry. And the list was a lot larger than the few Kerry drummed up. To this day, the left smears Vietnam veterans that actually stayed in Vietnam and didn’t run home with questionable medals the first chance they got. When the left says someone is being swiftboated, I immediately know the truth is being used against someone. The left has their own definition of swiftboating.

Sorry, not good enough. He should have just explained the parody and said it was stupid to include it on a cd gift.

Or, he could have just pulled an Obama — and claimed ignorance about the song and thrown it under the bus.

By the way, it is also my belief that there are stupid politicians in both parties; as well as stupid politicians of conservative, moderate, and liberal leanings. It isn’t about beliefs, convictions, or idealogies. It’s about how you present yourself and express those ideas.

I’m hoping something good might come out of all parody stuff…..

maybe it will strengthen Michael Steele’s run to lead the GOP.

Well, you asked specifically about examples of Obama and I just rattled off things from the top of my head. There would be different perspectives from people on all of them. You didn’t ask for examples of Obama’s surrogates which were so awful that he often fired people openly for it…..then slyly hired them back after things quited down. What about the Obama ad making fun of McCain for not being able to use a computer because of the torture he received as a POW? But, McCain was no angel either. I think Romney was the most professional.

The LImbaugh ad example was a direct Obama ad and the most obvious one that came to mind. Limbaugh was not only critical of McCain during most of the election. But, his remarks about “stupid Mexicans” was paraphrasing the Nafta opponents stand (and their implied put down of Mexicans), and his remarks about “shut your mouth and get out” was about Mexican immigration laws. Obama totally abused this in a “deceptive” and “racist” way. “Clinging to guns and religion” was an attack on voters. Mudsling millions of voters is ok with you? I would think that worse than attacking the candidate.

“Palling around with terrorists”? May not have been a smart comment either. But, it was true (and, I’m not just talking about Ayers).

“Sex Education for kindergartners”? I guess that is open to interpretation. I read it and found several portions of it sexually inappropriate for some of the proposed age groups.

So, you give two examples that I don’t consider mudslinging.

“Repubs never play dirty, Dems never get out of the mud”? Can you tell me when I ever said that? Surely you have me confused with someone else.

I had forgotten about that Obama spanish ad. And after looking it up on factcheck.org, I’ll partially give you that one – it was misleading, but I fail to see how the ad itself was “racist”. Limbaugh really did say “let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work”.

PA: I grew up in PA, and went to college in the middle of the state. My wife’s family is from upstate PA. I speak from personal experience when I tell you that Obama’s statements were 100% accurate – my brother-in-law is a rabid NRA member who was convinced Obama was going to take all of his guns away. (Right – that was really going to be a priority, with the global economic crisis going on.) Also, this is not a case of flinging mud at his Republican opponent – he was talking about voters themselves.

“Lipstick on a pig” is a cliche – one that was used on at least four other occasions by McCain himself – including once when talking about Hillary Clinton’s 2008 health care plan. No one outside of Sean Hannity actually bought that.

“The finger” was another complete hoax. Have you ever seen the picture of that exact pose, taken from the side? Where it’s obvious he was scratching his face with two fingers? Take a look here.

So, out of four examples – one was misleading, but hardly “racist”; one was a comment about voters, not his opponent; and two were completely manufactured, false outrage from Fox News and its ilk. Sorry, not very convincing.

Meanwhile, from the other side, you had “palling around with terrorists” and “comprehensive sex education for kindergardeners”, just off the top of my head. So, please – can we drop the “Repubs never play dirty, Dems never get out of the mud” meme here? You all lost that right pretty clearly back back in 2004 when you smeared actual Vietnam vets (who happened to be Democrats), while cheering on the two draft dodgers leading the White House.

Obama ran a racist commercial in the southwestern states in Spanish against McCain. He took some of Rush Limbaugh’s words out of context and made some others up to make it sound like Limbaugh was saying Mexicans were dirty and stupid etc. and tried to plaster it on McCain. He said those people in Pennsylvania were “angry and clung to guns and religion because of that anger”. In talking about Palin he said you could put lipstick on a pig…it was still a pig. He gave a sly, but obvious, finger when referring to Hillary and again about Palin (or McCain??). He slung plenty of mud during the primary. I think Obama has held himself pretty well since the election–and, think it likely he will continue to act responsibly. Bush always held himself honorably.

I am a bit curious about this prevalent attitude that only Dems like to “fling mud”. Could any of you provide examples of the “mud” that Obama flung around during the general election?

And Guy, I did not defend this, not at all. I am simply pointing out that there are plenty of Democrats who are racists, and they come in all colors.