can Obama swim?

Re: can Obama swim?

Like I said, this cretin is running for a seat in the US Congress to represent The People.

That I would like to see! Is it hard getting the tires submerged?

You must be too young to remember the Dixiecrats of the 1960's.
Senator Strom Thurman (now deceased) was their leader.

The Democrats at one time included people of every stripe of political pursuasion, fom liberals to consrvatives to KKK and Communist types.

Re: can Obama swim?


Is this cretin related to Mr. Andrew Young, or do they both just suffer from the recessive gene for racism?

ROFL

It is the rhetoric of prominant Republican elected officials that are furthering the racist causes of the day.

They are trying to stamp out multiculturalism, they are working to lessen the penalties for race based hate crimes and they are arguing for a return to ethnic profiling. Prominant Republicans are even using rhetoric that celebrates race war.

Sure, fhere is a faction of liberal politics that has a problem with anti-semitic rhetoric-- but this has been roundly rejected by the mainstream and the Democratic party.

To a voice (I don't even think there are any counterexamples) the Democratic officials support Israel's right to exist internationally and continue to support civil rights for all religions within the country. Are there any examples of prominant Democrats using ethnic slurs (such as 'Macaca' or 'Towel Head')?

Racism is a national problem and we all must work to combat it. But, it is the Republicans who have institutionalized it for their own advantage.

The Republicans are walking a fine line in public debate. They get as close to the border of blatant racism gives many of the more conservative Republican officials a decided political advantage among many of their consitutuents.They try not cross the line into arguments that are clearly racist-- but they get as close to it as they possibly can.

Look at the list of potential Republican presidential candidates which include names like Tancredo and Allen... there is no one on the Democratic side that is even in the ballpark...

Absolutely. It is a cop out to say liberals are racists too, and then ignore these facts.

I didn't mention it there, but the swimmer sent after those unfortunate men was a black guy everybody called Big Lou.

This is no test at all. Hockey, that's the thing.

Hockey? No way!

It's boxing that measures the "man".

I've heard Canadians have a whole day dedicated for Boxing. It comes right after Christmas.

Dys, I have no idea who that man is, but it is quite unusual for a candidate to make such a gaffe. Perhaps some sort of sad memory or lingering personal situation caused him to spill over.

ebrown, I did ride a bike into a creek once, and all was well; I also have played tennis, basketball, and touch football. No good at golf, however.(Thank God) I don't care for competitive sports, and that is why I didn't keep it up.

And, what of the comments of ANDREW YOUNG?

Can Young swim?

Can he play hockey?

Can Miller swim? Play hockey? Break her restraints, sneak down the hallway, crawl out the window and spit out her meds as she runs with quick turns to the right, then the left, then the right, towards the fence surrounding Equanimity Vale Home all the while singing "Born Free"?

Hmmm! I heard that he's drowning.

No one's been bringing him up but you - talking to yourself?

August 18, 2006
Wal-Mart Image-Builder Resigns
By MICHAEL BARBARO and STEVEN GREENHOUSE

The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had "ripped off" urban communities for years, "selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables."

In the interview, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly, Mr. Young said that Wal-Mart "should" displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.

"You see those are the people who have been overcharging us," he said of the owners of the small stores, "and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs."

Mr. Young, 74, a former mayor of Atlanta and a former United States representative to the United Nations, apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview last night. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.

"It's against everything I ever thought in my life," Mr. Young said. "It never should have been said. I was speaking in the context of Atlanta, and that does not work in New York or Los Angeles."

His remarks drew forceful condemnation from Arab, Jewish and Asian leaders.

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham H. Foxman, called the comments "very hurtful."

"The sad part," he said, is that "even people of color and even minorities who suffered discrimination and prejudice are not immune from being bigoted and racist and even anti-Semitic."

In the six months that Mr. Young was under contract with the Wal-Mart-financed group, he traveled the country promoting the retailer, meeting with community groups and writing opinion pieces for local newspapers.

"I am more of a spokesman than the chairman of Wal-Mart," he remarked, referring to his work on behalf of the company.

Wal-Mart executives moved quickly last night to distance themselves from Mr. Young's remarks. "Ambassador Young's comments do not reflect our feelings toward the Jewish, Asian or Arab communities or any other diverse group," a company spokeswoman, Mona Williams, said.

"Needless to say, we were appalled when the comments came to our attention," Ms. Williams said. "We were also dismayed that they would come from someone who has worked so hard for so many years for equal rights in this country. Ambassador Young has done the right thing to apologize and to ask for a retraction. We also support his decision to resign."

Margaret Fung, executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said, "Andrew Young should know better than to resort to derogatory ethnic stereotypes about Korean storeowners in black neighborhoods."

Khaled Lamada, former president of the Arab Muslim American Federation and currently director of outreach for the Muslim American Society, said that Mr. Young's statements were "not fair" and that they "shame" the Muslim community.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said "these are stereotypical remarks that any leader of the civil rights movement should run away from rather than utter."


New York Times