It’s the last one. You’re prejudiced against creepy, old, white guys.
What do I win?
And I don’t see any reason why you should. We should all be proud to live in a time that enough Americans can and will vote for a black man despite, and with no consideration of, his race that he can be POTUS. That’s called social progress.
Most eye-catching thread title ever. But not in a good way.
Guin didn’t say that the article made any accusations of racism. It’s the reader comments below that make those charges.
What should be obvious to anyone whose been on the internet for more than a week or two is that those comments are trolls.
If a 100-year-old fucking a 9-year-old is wrong, I don’t want to be white.
I would argue with the OP on this, ANYBODY can vote for whatever reason they damn well please.
I blame my Hannah-Barbera upbringing. “And I would have won the election, too, if it hadn’t been for those kids and their blasted dog!”
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Can 100 year olds even get it up? With a 9 year old, at that?
Methinks no.
If you’re talking to me, I KNOW that. BUT, what I’m saying is, if that WASN’T the reason, if she WAS voting for him simply because he’s black, she DOES have that right. I know she’s voting for him simply because she always votes Dem. YOU know she always votes Dem. BUT, these yahoos seem not to realize that.
However, I can also understand why it’s exciting to her to see history in the making.
(BTW, one of my teachers in high school told us that his mother voted for JFK because “He seemed like such a nice young man, always so well-dressed and so polite.”)
Kimstu, the racism charges are in the comments below the article.
Gangster Octopus, I totally agree, I’m just tired of hearing the accusations of racism-and to do so against a 100+ woman, the daughter of fucking slaves, is really nasty.
Couldn’t this all have been avoided with a simple “When you’re 109 fucking years old…” I mean, if we *must *have the fucking.
OK, look, you guys may think it’s gross if a 100 year old fucks a 9 year old and I guess that’s ok. But in 21 years she’ll be 30 and he’ll be 121.
It won’t be so weird then, will it? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
I knew you knew that. I was just expanding upon your initial complaint that from her voting history noted in the article, it’s pretty obvious there are *other *reasons she’s voting for Obama. But, yeah, I’m not even black and I’m starting to feel giddy. Omigosh! Is that what hope feels like? It’s been so long!
Well, okay, but technically she’s gone from a “sugar mama” to a “sugar great-great-grandmama.”
I know the article doesn’t make any accusations of racism, and I didn’t say that Guin was saying so. I was just pointing out that the “racist” accusation, from whatever source, is not supported by the actual content of the article.
Really? Check threads about Biden before he was chosen to run alongside Obama - the consensus on even this very liberal board was that he was a man with somewhat limited gifts.
The tendency to play up Biden as a great politician has been merely partisan ticket-boosting - and you’re engaging in the same right here.
I’ve noticed that your frequency of initiating pit threads has dropped off dramatically in the past several years. I consider that a sign of maturation.
And I appreciate you bringing that wonderful article to my attention.
But did you have to bring up the troll comments ? Who the fuck takes them seriously. I’ll bet a lot of people don’t bother reading blog comments. They are just a waste of time.
Its a wonderful link and it makes me rejoice. I just can’t generate one ounce of steam over comments questioning the old lady’s motivation.
That’s kind of my point–if you make a decision based on differences you perceive, and the differences are in race, then you’re a racist. If they’re based on years of experiences, you’re ageist. If it’s gender, you’re sexist. I’m okay with being racist, ageist, sexist, or experienceist.
How you figure? I just did a search on SDMB pre-2008 posts about Biden, and the liberal posters in general seemed to feel that while he’d never set the Potomac on fire (especially when it came to his speaking style), he was an okay politician and a plausible, if not particularly desirable, Presidential candidate. Certainly nowhere even close to Palinesque levels of dingbattery or unsuitability for high office.
Well, i know you’ll probably simply accuse me of partisan ticket-boosting, but i actually think that Biden has exceeded expectations as the VP candidate. I’ve always thought he was a good politician, but some of his attributes were perhaps not as well-suited to a place on the presidential ticket.
Everyone knew he was smart, but people were worried about his tendency to put his foot in his mouth, and about the fact that he sometimes gets too aggressive and confrontational. I think he’s managed to tone down his approach, while still coming across as intelligent and, when necessary, forceful.
His VP debate appearance was notably free of excessive verbosity (the format helped him there), and he came across as a fairly calm, kind, and humble guy, in my opinion. Even when shooting down his critics, as he did with that awful interviewer who asked him about Marxism last week, he has generally maintained a calm demeanor and pleasant manner.
As far as i can tell, most of the concerns expressed about the choice of Biden as VP candidate (in this thread, for example) have turned out to be groundless.