Interesting pic of Obama during the National Anthem...

[Perd Hapley]

Two Cold, I was not being entirely serious, man.  It was a really bad performance, but I guess you must have thought I was really angry about it.  I'm not.  By now, we've all gotten used to the sorry excuse for music now known as R & B, and hearing the anthem being sung murdered in that style.

I find performances such as the one Obama suffered through, and the Feliciano hatchet-job, to be disgusting hijackings of our national anthem as a showcase for a gimmicky, look-at-me style of singing. 

[wooderson]

So did the performance 8 months later by a two tour vet playing an upside down stratocater in rural new york.

Er... I believe Hendrix was out within a year due to his rather... idiosyncratic response to military requirements.

[jeepmor]

It's not like any of those libtards will defend our Constitution.  We can't even get the conservatives to do that.

[Tuco]

Er... I believe Hendrix was out within a year due to his rather... idiosyncratic response to military requirements.

Point taken, wooderson.  You are correct,  I am guilty of perpetuating hearsay without research.

HOWEVER, how the anthem is sung or played is not relevant to the original post.  The respect given our national anthem is.

and dearest fistful, I don't even particularly like FSKey's arrangement of the idolatry-laden hymn, but shoot, it's our national anthem, and I will respect it.

Soakers

[Tuco]

** deleted - double post - sheesh 

[Tuco]

Duh, modify and quote buttons are awful close today.

Soakers, battling a fever. 

This must be kinda like posting drunk.

[Tecumseh]

I think Obama is a twit.  A socialist who thinks he deserves the white house because he's black and by george, blacks are due a run at the white house, right?
That said....

Can you prove that?  I dont think he is a socialist in the true sense of the word.  He is a democrat but I dont believe he is a socialist. 

[Tecumseh]

Two Cold, I was not being entirely serious, man.  It was a really bad performance, but I guess you must have thought I was really angry about it.  I'm not.  By now, we've all gotten used to the sorry excuse for music now known as R & B, and hearing the anthem being sung murdered in that style.

I find performances such as the one Obama suffered through, and the Feliciano hatchet-job, to be disgusting hijackings of our national anthem as a showcase for a gimmicky, look-at-me style of singing. 

Not to mention country music.  I cant stand a bunch of whiney fat hill-billies just crooning over the fact there girlfriend left them for her brother Cleetus. 

But all in all I dont think we should be forced to stand for the anthem anymore as this country has been hijacked by morons. 

[Perd Hapley]

Hijacked by morons.  I know.  What are we going to do about those leftist moron hijackers, anyway?  Sigh. 

RE:  Country music
When I mentioned R&B, the current batch of "country music" was included.  The two are remarkably similar, these days. 

[CAnnoneer]

Can you prove that?  I dont think he is a socialist in the true sense of the word.  He is a democrat but I dont believe he is a socialist. 

By my definition of the word, he is a socialist. But then again, I understand many people's confusion about Hussein Obama. After all, when you strip down the candy talk, there isn't much left to him.

If this guy were white, nobody would even pay attention to him. He wouldn't even register on the Dem radar. He is too young, he has extremely limited experience, he blabbers vague disjoint things with a wishful melancholic air. If you are invested in a company, and its new CEO has only the pigmentation of his skin going on for him, you'd be a fool not to dump the stock shouting Cramer's "Sell, sell, sell!" Yet, so many people are enamored by this mediocrity and can't wait to put him at the controls of the single most powerful posting in the world. It boggles the mind!

But the one thing that really presses my buttons with this guy is all the fannying about and candyass bullshit about "healing" and "unity". There can be no healing and unity with a bunch of abominable, despicable traitors that undermine the country, its interests, its troops, and its national security in exchange for a partisan political gain. There can be no healing or unity with socialist globalists that want to tax us and sacrifice American sovereignty and prosperity to build their world government and socialist kumbaya. There can be no healing or unity with statist dirtbags that want to limit individual freedoms and disarm the populace, so that it is more mouldable to their ideological aims.

There are roughly two worldviews - the nationalist conservatives and the internationalist socialists. There can be no compromise, no "healing" or "unity" or any of that garbage between them. One will win and the other will die. That is all that there is to it.

Finally, it is quite ironic that somebody who runs as a "uniter" spends so much time blabbering about race and how, supposedly, divided we are by it. The last thing we need is a Sharptonian racist demagogue in the Oval Office.

[Paddy]

I just listened to the Jose Feliciano version.  I would have had my fingers in my ears.

[Tecumseh]

Can you prove that?  I dont think he is a socialist in the true sense of the word.  He is a democrat but I dont believe he is a socialist. 

By my definition of the word, he is a socialist. But then again, I understand many people's confusion about Hussein Obama. After all, when you strip down the candy talk, there isn't much left to him.

If this guy were white, nobody would even pay attention to him. He wouldn't even register on the Dem radar. He is too young, he has extremely limited experience, he blabbers vague disjoint things with a wishful melancholic air. If you are invested in a company, and its new CEO has only the pigmentation of his skin going on for him, you'd be a fool not to dump the stock shouting Cramer's "Sell, sell, sell!" Yet, so many people are enamored by this mediocrity and can't wait to put him at the controls of the single most powerful posting in the world. It boggles the mind!

But the one thing that really presses my buttons with this guy is all the fannying about and candyass bullshit about "healing" and "unity". There can be no healing and unity with a bunch of abominable, despicable traitors that undermine the country, its interests, its troops, and its national security in exchange for a partisan political gain. There can be no healing or unity with socialist globalists that want to tax us and sacrifice American sovereignty and prosperity to build their world government and socialist kumbaya. There can be no healing or unity with statist dirtbags that want to limit individual freedoms and disarm the populace, so that it is more mouldable to their ideological aims.

There are roughly two worldviews - the nationalist conservatives and the internationalist socialists. There can be no compromise, no "healing" or "unity" or any of that garbage between them. One will win and the other will die. That is all that there is to it.

Finally, it is quite ironic that somebody who runs as a "uniter" spends so much time blabbering about race and how, supposedly, divided we are by it. The last thing we need is a Sharptonian racist demagogue in the Oval Office.

So please define socialist.

I could argue the only thing Fred Thompson has going for him is his religion and the fact he is a Southerner.  What does that have anything to do with this?  Either you can argue about his politics or not but discrediting him for the fact he is black is pretty low. 

The man is a political monster.  The fact that he is black is only a bonus feather in his cap.  While I disagree with him I think that he is probably the second or third biggest threat to this country behind Fred Thompson.

[Perd Hapley]

I must have missed something here.  The last I heard, James Dobson was saying he didn't even know if Thompson was religious.  Now he is religious, and is a threat?  Very confused. 

[CAnnoneer]

discrediting him for the fact he is black is pretty low. 

Where did I discredit him for being black? I criticize him for being incompetent, not for being black.

I will repeat the question: If he weren't black, would we hear anything about this guy, would he even be in the picture? What has he done that deserves attention? What are his qualifications for the job? Forgetting about his pigmentation, how many like him can you produce within the Dem party?

The guy is completely unremarkable, an unproven quantity. As much as I despise Dems in general, I can see a better argument for somebody like Bayeh, who is more intelligent, more articulate, has more experience, more practical views, and more of a centrist. If skin is no issue, I would like to see arguments why the Dems would run Hussein instead of Bayeh.

If you had a ton of stock in a major company, and Obama became its CEO, would you keep or dump your stock? Be honest. If you would dump the stock, you cannot support him for POTUS.

[Tecumseh]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black.

[CAnnoneer]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black.

Is it true or not? If it is true, how is it "low" to say that? Only if it is not true, I can see how it can be low to say it, as a means of knocking him down undeservedly. Since I believe it is true, I am being fair.

[wooderson]

Oh, man, that whole 'my definition' thing opens up a whole world of awesome!

"By my definition, George Bush is a neo-fascist. Sure, his stated beliefs and policy positions don't, in fact, mirror those of contemporary or historical fascists - but by my definition..."

[Werewolf]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black.

Yep! That's it! The one and only reason.

[Perd Hapley]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black. 

I think many people have that feeling, (Joe Biden, for one) because he seems to have come out of nowhere.  I can't think of any other reasons why he became an instant celebrity, other than he is Black, and seems more likable than the Charlie Wrangels and Cynthia McKinneys.  But, then, I haven't followed him very closely, so I could be missing something. 

[Paddy]

Obama who's yo mama?  Don't forget, he's a 'clean, articulate black man'    That, of course, qualifies him to hold the highest office in the land. 

[Perd Hapley]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black. 

I think many people have that feeling, (Joe Biden, for one) because he seems to have come out of nowhere.  I can't think of any other reasons why he became an instant celebrity, other than he is Black, and seems more likable than the Charlie Wrangels and Cynthia McKinneys.  But, then, I haven't followed him very closely, so I could be missing something. 

Still waiting on this one. 

[CAnnoneer]

Still waiting on this one. 

Don't hold your breath. 

[Manedwolf]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black. 

I think many people have that feeling, (Joe Biden, for one) because he seems to have come out of nowhere.  I can't think of any other reasons why he became an instant celebrity, other than he is Black, and seems more likable than the Charlie Wrangels and Cynthia McKinneys.  But, then, I haven't followed him very closely, so I could be missing something. 

He's also a product of the Daley machine in Illinois, which is even more reason to distrust him.

[Tecumseh]

Your saying the only reason he is there is because he is black. 

I think many people have that feeling, (Joe Biden, for one) because he seems to have come out of nowhere.  I can't think of any other reasons why he became an instant celebrity, other than he is Black, and seems more likable than the Charlie Wrangels and Cynthia McKinneys.  But, then, I haven't followed him very closely, so I could be missing something. 

Still waiting on this one. 

Well he is intelligent, charismatic, and exudes a great personality.  He is young and well educated.  He is also not experienced as a politician which may work in his favor.  But he is also a hardcore leftist which appeals to a great many people here in the USA.  Hence his personality.  If it was only because he is black then I think others might have gotten the kind of support he has gotten.

[Perd Hapley]

Thanks.