Fear of a Black President

real life wrote:

I don't think it's Obama's skin color that scares people, it's more likely his cozy friendship with folks like terrorist and Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers.

And it should scare anybody, black or white.

If John McCain had been friends with Timothy McVeigh, do you think he'd be a viable candidate?

How racist of you!

Don't you understand that the Obama/Ayers connection is off limits?

I don't think we agree on what Obama is quickly learning.

He may not have much experience in governance and foreign policy, but he has plenty of experience in politics. After all, he has risen through the ranks of Chicago politics, and his one time beloved pastor made a very sharp point, recently, of defining him as a politician.

Comparing him to TR is, in my opinion, quite a stretch, and probably wishful thinking.

Your support of the man puzzles me. He only very recently has even approached the centrist positions which you seem to hold. There really is no evidence at all that he is in anyway free of the partisan restraints of his party, and the notion that he is something new to the political scene is crumbling daily.

Nevertheless, I hardly expect to convince you not to vote for Sen Obama.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

real life wrote:

I don't think it's Obama's skin color that scares people, it's more likely his cozy friendship with folks like terrorist and Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers.

And it should scare anybody, black or white.

If John McCain had been friends with Timothy McVeigh, do you think he'd be a viable candidate?

How racist of you!

Don't you understand that the Obama/Ayers connection is off limits?

You two stand as perfect examples and a constant reminder that the people of the United States are certainly dumb enough to elect a man like McCain. It was done before, recently as a matter of fact.

You are a remora

dyslexia wrote:

"Obama, Jimmy Carter with a tan"

dyslexia wrote:

"Obama, Jimmy Carter with a tan"

Maybe that's just funny to me...

A couple years back... I took my boat out of Port of Palm Beach for some early evening fishing. After catching a large fish that I couldn't identify; I called an expert fisherman I know to ask if it was a keeper. I described it as best I could and after answering a few questions he identified it as Cobia. He was pretty excited, really, and offered to drive the hour from Port St. Lucie to clean and cook it if I'd share. Done!
So he shows up, knife kit and baggy full of spices in hand, only to call me a stupid a$$hole and re-identify it as remora.

This was not at all unlike the day me and some other friends had the best fishing day of our lives, filling a very large cooler with albacore, only to get laughed off the dock when we returned and learned what we actually caught was bonito (also known as false albacore). To make matters worse; we dumped the whole cooler just seconds before one of the laughers, who had run all the way to the other side of the marina, to let us know that bonita is the single best shark bate there is. I returned to that reef several times, but never saw another bonito… let alone albacore.

He probably uses something a bit more reliable than Wiki.

He probably uses something a bit more reliable than Wiki.

OCCOM BILL wrote:

Maybe that's just funny to me...

A couple years back... I took my boat out of Port of Palm Beach for some early evening fishing. After catching a large fish that I couldn't identify; I called an expert fisherman I know to ask if it was a keeper. I described it as best I could and after answering a few questions he identified it as Cobia. He was pretty excited, really, and offered to drive the hour from Port St. Lucie to clean and cook it if I'd share. Done!
So he shows up, knife kit and baggy full of spices in hand, only to call me a stupid a$$hole and re-identify it as remora.

This was not at all unlike the day me and some other friends had the best fishing day of our lives, filling a very large cooler with albacore, only to get laughed off the dock when we returned and learned what we actually caught was bonito (also known as false albacore). To make matters worse; we dumped the whole cooler just seconds before one of the laughers, who had run all the way to the other side of the marina, to let us know that bonita is the single best shark bate there is. I returned to that reef several times, but never saw another bonito… let alone albacore.

Wow, shoulda kept and dried those Bonito - Bonito flakes make absolutely, 100% the best fish soup ever.

Cycloptichorn

Hey, dried bonito is a favorite of the Japanese. YUM