“…some googling leads me to the conclusion that most of the people who were upset about what Lowery said were upset Obama was inaugurated at all…”
Well, that means at least 46% of the voters are upset. Add some BO voters that took offense, and it is over 50%.
“When mauve will feel the love?” Of course that only works if you like slant rhyme.
Oh god, “slant?” I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to use an offensive racial slur like that. If only Obama had taken the time to vet my post…
Your math skills need work. I did not say most of the McCain voters were upset, let alone all of them, as you assumed here. I said most of the people who were upset would fall into the set of McCain voters.
I understand the feeling and have several friends who say “move on” and “get over it”. It occurs to me that if we are annoyed and angered by that little perhaps we can find more patience in understanding the feelings of those who have experienced racism more consistently and in a much more hurtful way.
He said “whites,” not “some whites.”
He should have said so, then. They didn’t just spring this on him, did they? Did he not have time to choose his words carefully? It was a rather important occasion.
He should have said so, then. Are their no reds who do wrong? Np blacks? No yellows?
He should get a pass because he’s an elderly black man? Patronize much?
Speaking for myself, it’s those money-grubbing Jew bastards that I think need to do right. Not all Jews, mind you. Just the money-grubbing Jew bastards.
Au contraire, that’s exactly what he was doing.
I heard Lowery on the radio on Monday talking about his speech. He said Obama’s team had limited him to two minutes, but implied heavily that if Mr. Saddleback went over his two minutes, Lowery would go over his as well.
Even in the weird chance that Obama decided his time would be best spent reading over all the speeches and prayers prior to inauguration, it sounds as though he wouldn’t have caught this little tidbit, since it appeared (IIRC) after the two-minute mark in Lowery’s speech.
And really, talk about your molehills turned into mountains.
Daniel
The prayers are just as meaningless.
You obviously want to be offended, so go ahead and be offended.
It’s called leadership. And when something happens on your watch, whether you were there or not, personally uttered the words or not, you are responsible.
I don’t think his words were the end of the world. But when you get elected on the platform of change, and bringing people together, it’s just not the right tone to lead with.
When Magenta, can afford the renta
When Maroon can reach for the moon
When Maize gets equal pays
When Sienna, Um. … Um… DAM IT!
Nothing “happened.” Nothing offensive was said. This is a manufactured outrage.
And, no, the President is not responsible for everything that gets said at every event he attends. Leadership is not about vetting prayers.
I stubbed my toe on the corner of the bed this morning. Obama’s president, so it happened on his watch, and it’s his responsibility.
Thank you. But not repressed. And I’m still waiting for you to show me where the poster you quoted claimed to have been repressed. Why not just admit you can’t?
It was a Monty Python quote, dude.
I’m not offended, but I am rather disgusted by it. I’m almost positive, that if it’s brown, you are supposed to flush it down, not let it stick around. Ewe.
Somehow I don’t think Obama got elected because he’s an atheist and prayers are meaningless.
Contrapuntal, this is starting to look just obsessive and silly. I’m sure you know that “Help, help, I’m being repressed” is a general sarcastic response to anybody who is ostentatiously playing the victim card about oppression or discrimination.
It is not tantamount to a claim that the victim-card-player explicitly made the statement “I am being repressed”.
If Poster A is being whiny and Poster B quips “Oh, okay, we’ll throw you a pity party”, you wouldn’t go after Poster B demanding “Well, where did A actually ask you to throw him a party? Huh? Show me where he said that!” That would just be pointless offensensitivity, and so is this.
Actually he said white without the S. Since white is the blending of all color I think he was really asking for all people of every color to do what is right. Feel better?
Nope. He should get a pass because he’s likely experienced some severe racism in his day that you and I haven’t and I find it very difficult to be deeply offended by this passing phrase.
Don’t piss em off. They’ll stop writing all the comedy.
Think what you like. It just seems like silly overreacting to me.
Right. The same old tired one you trot out every time anyone suggests that just maybe it’s possible that a white person has been a victim of hate, or racism, or stereotyping. You ignore the facts of the matter and spew out the buzzwords. It’s the kind of stuff that you wouldn’t let slide for a nano second in a debate about the Bible, for example, where your capacity for reasoned rhetoric is exemplary. I mean that sincerely.
You really should apply the same standards to yourself that you demand of others.
True-but you are supposed to let it mellow if it’s yellow.