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No- my favorite basketball players are disproportionately people I know.
He shoulda brought a Johnny Chimpo.
No- my favorite basketball players are disproportionately people I know.
No- these are people I know and who never cared about certain issues or who have suddenly changed their stands on issues. It is not a matter of them suddenly learning what the candidates stand for. It is instead people changing what they have stood for and acting as if they believed that all along. For example, people opposed to the War for years but now suddenly supporting McCain because all the sudden they think the War was a good idea.
Last edited by ploto; 10-14-2008 at 03:13 PM.
Thy are of a liberal persuation rather than conservative then, right?
I only know one racist conservative. I know hundreds of people that class as conservative. I know less who are liberal, but more of them are racists!
Did any of them yell at you at a gas station?
So if 80% of NBA players are black and 90% of your favorite players are white, then you are ~66 times more likely to befriend a white person than a black person. I guess Obama is proving anything is possible.
Promising they will get them out of the run-down small village and just giving them enough fish to survive are two different things.
Obama is promising to move people out of villages?
This sentiment isn't going away just because, say, the McCain campaign discourages it.
What happens to these people after the election? As the likely result starts to sink in, there is an emerging discussion on the right about whether right-wingers should accept Obama as a legitimate President, regardless of his victory margin. Older folks tend to say "country over partisanship," and espouse terms like "loyal opposition." Younger folks tend to say " no," "repay the liberals and then some," or "civil war!!!!"
I just wonder what to think of these young people. Will they:
A) Be just like their left-wing counterparts, run their mouths and post mean things on their blogs, generally act like spoiled toddlers, and that's it?
B) Organize some kind of civil disobedience campaign?
C) The "A" word?
D) Start randomly shooting liberals?
E) Attempt a coup?
I vote (A).
timvp is shooting blank bullets at ploto.So if 80% of NBA players are black and 90% of your favorite players are white, then you are ~66 times more likely to befriend a white person than a black person. I guess Obama is proving anything is possible.
3/4 of my favourite players in the NBA are white. I guess I am racist then too.
4/4 of these guys are originaly not from the states. Maybe I am a terrorist too!
Get that weak out of here timvp...
Since you are European, that goes without saying.
No- maybe they are the particular ones who have befriended me.
I will never understand why people on here like to make it some issue. I support people I have gotten to know through various means. That is not the same as my thinking they are the best players. The best basketball player in the world is Kobe, but I don't know Kobe and so I do not personally find him a favorite, but I still think he is the best. Just like on here, people acting as if I somehow think Rasho and Beno are the best players- no- they are just ones I care about for reasons of my own.
Don't you personally care more about the posters you know on here than the ones you don't?
It takes two to tango.
Why don't you give those white associates of yourself the benefit of the doubt instead of just making it about race? Maybe those associates are voting for McCain because they have gotten to know him over his political career.
Not necessarily. And if I did, the race percentage would be representative of the averages.
It is not everyone I know that I am talking about. I am simply referring to some people I have encountered over the past couple of weeks who seem almost panicked at the notion that Obama could win. If their views were consistent then I would not question their motives, but they just are not. You do not know these people, but I do. I am merely commenting on what I feel is an undertone of racism that is starting to work on some voters.
You claim that I should give people the benefit of the doubt and not question their motives but you yourself accuse me based upon much less information about me than I have about them.
A picture of today's Mcain-Palin rally:
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