[...] for opposition’s sake, and of the 2million people on the National Mall watching, no one picked up their own trash, and thousands boo’d and hissed like partisans at President Bush (something that has never [...]

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“Hurricane Latrina” is a “racially offensive” dubbing of massive garbage after the inaugural????

ROTFLMAO!

Ah… we got to the point in civil rights where a young black man with no qualifications could reach the highest political office in America. But this is a nation who needs it’s dreams recaptured, according to him.

And he has so mesmerized everyone else into feeling guilt, that they can hear the words “Hurricane Latrina”, and it’s racial.

We are going retrograde in civil rights now. I used to never think of people as black, white or Asian. Now… I am being forced to because *everything* is “racially offensive”.

Feh….

Get over your white guilt, Vilma. And stop trying to impose it on the rest of us.

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@Vilma Beckland: What does being white have to do with the phrase “hurricane latrina?”

Do you think only blacks suffered in Hurricane Katrina?

And as for Obama curing the political divide is that why he dismissed GOP complaints about the stimulus by telling House Republicans “I won?”

Finally, you can’t deny that there was more trash from this crowd per person than any other gathering on the Mall in history.

Check with the Park Service if you need to confirm that fact.

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“Rush has already dubbed this “Hurricane Latrina””

As a “white” person, I find this racially offensive.

This is what our president is talking about when he speaks to the political divide. Why does, trash, TRASH – for crying out loud – have to be partisan.

Good grief. Give me a freakin’ break.

Grow up.

If any multitude of people that dense gathers – regardless of political race – trash is going to happen. People were packed in like sardines. I have no idea of the number or location of trash receptacles but I can just calculate that with the density, it was hard to move anywhere.

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Missy,

I couldn’t agree more with you.

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@SAM:

After eight years dissent is ‘abruptly’ no longer the highest form of patriotism and we find someone who anguishes over how the “rest of the universe observes” us. This universe you speak of viewed the never ending hostile dissent directed toward our former president and country throughout his effort to conduct two wars, so did the terrorists we were fighting. Unfortunately, it gave our them encouragement to fight on putting our troops and civilians in the cross hairs causing death and injury. Take your preaching somewhere else.

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So sad to see that….even more sad reviewing of the postings above that will do and say anything to split the US between two party lines, The North and the South, The good and the Bad, the Black and the White, the Right and the Wrong. I’m guessing all of us could work a little harder to make things better for each other or we can continue on our decline and really embarass ourselves while the rest of the universe observes.

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Sheesh, so you think there’s an equal mess left for the Fourth? Who do you think is leaving all those styrofoam coolers? Doesn’t DC enjoy a big Democratic majority? Just wondering.

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Sure it does Mike. It’s even worse because there are all those syrofoam coolers that have been trampled into rubble.

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Hmmmm… no it doesn’t.

I’ve been on the Mall numerous times following 4th of July celebrations and I’ve never seen anything like this even in the area of where the most people were gathered.

People attending a 4th of July celebration usually have more respect for their country AND themselves than apparently these squalid Obamaton litterbugs do.

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