Great News!

[Quemador]

I used to get noise violations from police for my band playing too loud in my own house. That will never happen again because I now know I can stand on my porch and cuss out the racist police all I want! And, as a BONUS, The President will be on my side because of the stupidity of cops! Isn't this great news???!!!

[bakerbarber]

Lol

[BuLLitz]

Don't get me started on that...

That press conference was staged. The question to him was posed.

The entire purpose for this event was for him to pander to the black community to maintain what popularity he has left.
It was cheap-ass B.S.
Law enforcement is owed a heart-felt apology and possibly one to the white community as well.
It is insulting to me that because it was a white cop it was automatically racism. THAT is racism... not what the cop did.

Obama is a racist and doesn't belong in the whitehouse. He should be kicked out for "acting stupidly".

His presidency is NOT about redistributing wealth as he has claimed... it's about redistributing "whitey's" wealth.

Sorry... couldn't help it.
And before anyone goes and calls ME racist, I have 2 Mexican daughters and 1 black daughter. So save it. :-)

[BuLLitz]

PS: Listen to what Obama said...
Obama said "Jigger the door".
He supposedly meant "jimmy the door".

Definition...
Jigger: An ethnic slur for black people;

He has spoken his heart and mind.

[lxskllr]

Link to what you all are talking about?

[Jason]

Lol wut?

[Roo]

What? Was Obama slandering Jewish people or talking about making cocktails?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jigger

Why.... oh christ nevermind. Snuson is a place to say whatever you want I guess. I'm guilty of it.

[tom502]

It's not racist to call out and expose racism.
This so-called professor is a professional race baiter.
Of the incident, he's either a total idiot, or he saw an oppertunity to support his ego driven image to be a victim, and get more cred for TV appearances etc. I believe it was the latter.

[Quemador]

Link to what you all are talking about?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6544942.html

[zmanzero]

let's face it, the whole episode is stupid and obama is dumb for using the stupid word. at least it's not as bad as cheney's bending over bush to roll on iraq so good 'ole halliburton could cop a feel on the american wallet.

Vice-President Dick Cheney is well known for his discretion, but his official White House biography, as posted on his Web site, may exceed even his own stringent standards. It traces the sixty-three years from his birth, in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1941, through college and graduate school, and describes his increasingly powerful jobs in Washington. Yet one chapter of Cheney s life is missing. The record notes that he has been a 'businessman" but fails to mention the five extraordinarily lucrative years that he spent, immediately before becoming Vice-President, as chief executive of Halliburton, the world s largest oil-and-gas-services company. The conglomerate, which is based in Houston, is now the biggest private contractor for American forces in Iraq; it has received contracts worth some eleven billion dollars for its work there.

http://www.truthout.org/article/repo...ton-connection

sad state of affairs. oh, that $11 billion is from 2004 by the way. probably in the $100's of billions by now...

edit - this is not to incite anything, it's just how i feel.

[sundog]

Making a profit in business is NOT a crime in this country (yet), no matter how much you hate the corporation that makes it or the person who one time ran the company.

Obama stepped in it this time and then put his foot in his mouth. Must taste pretty bad! Time to crawfish.

[MasterGuns]

This whole episode is ridiculous. I think the cops are owed an apology by both the president and by the professor, for lashing out at them and not respecting their authority. And whether anyone likes it or not, a badge=authority. Deal with it.
It's a sad day in America when a cop can't do their job without being labeled "racist" or "stupid", but it's nothing new. The majority of cops out there do a thankless job and have enough to worry about without people second-guessing their judgment. I'm just glad that many recognize this for what it is. Idiocy. If the professor had just showed his id and not given them guff, nothing would've come of it. Simple as that. Now he fanrcies himself some modern-day Rodney King. What a fool.
God Bless the Men and Women of our Nations fine Law Enforcement Agencies.

[Badfish74]

Making a profit in business is NOT a crime in this country (yet), no matter how much you hate the corporation that makes it or the person who one time ran the company.

Obama stepped in it this time and then put his foot in his mouth. Must taste pretty bad! Time to crawfish.

But at what a cost that profit was madel Exactly how many American Soldiers' lives does it take to add up to 1 billion dollars?

I do however do believe that Obama has his leg in his mouth at least up to the knee, and should be bitch slapped for crapping up the name of our law enforcement officers! What's next? Is he going to announce that our American Soldiers are rapists and baby killers?

[bakerbarber]

I listen to talk radio usually during the day.

Not too many Liberal talk shows on AM radio. I'd listen regardless of who's talking.

After hearing bits and pieces of Limbaugh and Savage today, I am saddened by the amount of attention and reactions this situation has garnered.

I'm really upset by Obama's statements. I naively thought the day he was elected that we had gotten past this kind of thing.

That professor sounds like he's convinced himself he's different than every other human being. I doubt anyone will be able to distract him with the facts.

Don't we have bigger things to worry about?

As long as we continue to be distracted by crap like this and TMZ style "journalism" we will never know what is truly happening. In the mean time our culture deteriorates.

[sundog]

But at what a cost that profit was madel Exactly how many American Soldiers' lives does it take to add up to 1 billion dollars?

I think Neal Boortz had a very good explanation of the bidding process on his website several years ago.

Oh, here it is. From Dec. 1, 2003

"LOGCAP is the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program created by the United States Army. It is a program that uses a competitive bidding process to award a contract to a corporation to be on call to provide whatever services the Army might need ... right then. Some brilliant thinkers in the Army came to the conclusion that it might not be such a swell idea to screw around with competitive bidding processes for logistics and other services during wartime. Imagine that.

Halliburton won the competitive bidding process for LOGCAP in 1992. They then lost that bidding process five years later in 1997. In spite of the fact that Halliburton no longer held the LOGCAP contract, Bill Clinton went ahead and awarded a no-bid contract to Halliburton to do some work in the Balkans supporting U.S. peacekeeping actions. Odd, isn't it. The same people who are screaming about Halliburton right now had absolutely nothing .. nada .. nunca .. not one thing to say about Halliburton when it was the Clinton Administration that was handing out contracts .. with no bidding, by the way. You might also be interested in knowing that Al Gore was quite a fan of Halliburton. Gore's reinventing government panel had some very complimentary things to say about Halliburton and the services it provides to the U.S. government. Ahhh ... but what does Al Gore know, right?

That brings us to 2001. It's time for bidding on the LOGCAP contract again. Halliburton is right in there, and wins the bid. This means that at the time of the Iraq War Halliburton had the bid for providing logistical and other services to the U.S. government. They were the go-to company. So, along comes the U.S. Army with a fat contract for Halliburton to put out oil-well fires in Iraq and all hell breaks loose. To the left this is all the proof you needed to show that this whole war was about oil and enriching Bush pals.

Recap: Clinton awards no-bid contract to Halliburton at a time when Halliburton did not hold the LOGCAP contract. Bush awards contract to Halliburton at a time when Halliburton DID hold the LOGCAP contract."

Not quite as simple as the press would lead you to believe, is it?