@Mr Grey,
If you truly hate the South, MOVE or run for office, promote a candidate with your views and help change it to your ideal…and make it a better place! Not every corner of our country appeals to everyone!

I was a military brat and have lived virtually all over the country/world. As an adult, my professional life has involved 8 diverse location transfers. I can tell you, with conviction, the world is not a perfect place — in any corner — and it seems to be a human trait to push back on those different from us..but I think that is a life lesson we need to learn, as well as how to overcome those feelings.

I graduated from high school in Texas — with classmates of all races, very equally represented — we got along great!! I was surprised to travel to other areas of the country/world — and not see the same interaction — mostly in my travels outside of southern USA and in other countries.

If the races were not getting along? Why are we more of a melting pot than ever? By the end of this century, it is predicted we will be called North Americans — not caucasian, asian, latin, hispanic, black, native american — etc

As much as I would love to stay and banter(not), I am on my way to Washington DC, driving up in a caravan of cars — I am exercising my convictions — not just talking about them.

Life is also too short to be so angry and prejudice about others…Try and find some good in life and others every day and not be so angry — maybe the website below might help you.

http://work911.com/anger/

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You are being a stalker and a moonbat. You aren’t fooling anyone. You vomit out the usual leftist talking points ad nauseum. Your kind talks AT people and not to them.
I agree with Mike. You are a waste of time and will add a waste of flesh…oxygen…
Feel free to whine to your fellow koslims about how “uncivil” we wingnuts are.

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Hard Right, My first post here was a general statement directed at no one. Mike took it upon himself to respond to me with what was, in my opinion resonable arguments until he called me a racist demagogue and an Idiot. I respoded accordingly. I wouldn’t say I’m stalking or provoking anyone and I really dont think I’m spewing hate. I’m saying things you don’t want to hear, and presenting opinions that are different than yours, but I don’t hate anyone. I come here with an open mind and actually learn from your presented facts opposing opinions; but if I feel I’m being attacked, I’ll call you out on it.

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Gray, you are a hypocrite. You are here to stalk Mike and spew hate. Then you want to criticize him for responding to you after being provoked. ESAD troll.

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Mike, Mike… wow man, take it easy… your showing your “hate and rage that deserves no place in a polite society” I must have struck a nerve with that last one. Did I hit a little too close to home? I’m not out to hurt anyones feelings. I am glad to see that you didn’t disagree with me this time. Maybe we have more in common than you think…

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@Mr. Gray: I never said I was going to give you the silent treatment. I only made it clear that I find you beneath contempt and totally undeserving of the consideration I might give towards another lib commenter.

And now you attack my native state? Why don’t you get the F#$@ out! We don’t need any more lib transplants here.

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Hi American Voter! I’m reading your post over and over and I’m trying to figure out how your areguements are relevant to anything I said previously… What the hell does the KKK have to do with anything? Racism is not like Sam’s Club, you don’t need a membership to participate.

You must be right about me being prejudice against southerners, as a South Carolina resident, I’m hating myself right now! In fact I’m one of those transplats you speak of! I’m afraid however, we don’t make up a significant percentage of the polls, but nice try. Many rural southern residents have never been out of their own county. Yes, taxes are lower here, ok, but we also have the 6th highest unemployment rate and a douche-bag republican governor who refused unemployment money for his state, abandoned his dutys for a week to go cheat on his wife on fathers day with MY tax dollars- and refuses to resign. (Conservative Christian Values ladies and gentleman) As far as the quality of life I supposedly don’t know about, I have never seen so much poverty anywhere in my life. The real confusing part, is why the folks I see living in a rusted out trailer living off disability and have nothing, are die hard Republicans, when the republican party could care less about their plight.

I’m not hurling accusations at anybody, I’m just stating whats real. There are generations and generations of southern white families who were raised to believe they were superior to minorities, no big deal right, it was politically correct up until what… 40-50 years ago? There are voters alive to this day who in their younger years openly terrorized blacks because it was OK at the time. You may have seen one at your local tea party… I’m just saying people, lets remember our American Heritage. Racism is part of it. We as Americans are not proud of that, (most of us) but it is as real as the Revolution. To say it is not a factor in today’s politics, when we have a black (half black) president, who is the most demonized and vocally opposed since even before he took office, is just….whats the word…..ignorant.

As far as the KKK Grand Dragon in congress… Gee, I didn’t even know about that. But it makes me think, if you all who knew about it got as outraged about him as you did about Rev. Wright, maybe he wouldn’t been in there so long, huh? Maybe to you it’s less outrageous.

@ Mikes America, I thought you were going to give me the silent treatment… It’s cute though how you dissected my comment to make an illigitamate point about me. Folks, read post 20, and you’ll know what I meant.

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@Mr Grey, or should it be “Just MoveOn.org”
If the South is so racist…how come the KKK is alive and well in
illinois? And is/was in the past decade the state with the most members?

Maybe you should look it up before hurling accusations…makes you sound
very prejudice and racist against Southerners.

Also, genius — do you realize the number of NEasterners/Midwesterners who have migrated to
the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Texas within the past 5 years? Maybe they know something
you don’t about quality of life and the advantages of lower taxes? These transplants also
take part in polls in their new Southern home states…..whoops! looks like your argument
is full of holes.

Louisiana is also starting to attract new residents with their reduction in taxes — thanks to the new Republican Leadership in that state..and Gov Barber is out and about bringing in new business — through incentives…meantime…remind me of what is happening in New York, Michigan, New Jersey to name a few heavily taxed+ states…

Lastly, how come the left has had a former KKK Grand Dragon as a Democrat Senatorial
Leader–until this congress — when he stepped down because of age?

Thanks for the laugh…

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speaking on the general political tone in this country and it makes my stomach turn.

Is followed by

How we can all watch W. Bush inflate his executive power, wage an unjust war to finish his daddy’s business, and wipe his ass with our constitution with the Patriot Act

A perfect example of what I said earlier about a Dem still so filled with hate and rage that he deserves no place in polite society.

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Mr. Gray, HR 3200 and even their multiple versions bears no resemblence to Obama’s fantasy healthcare vision. It has been said by the Republicans to trash the bill, and start over. Then perhaps some items can be worked out. But that’s not Obama, nor the majority Congress’s path. He want’s passage by Nov… you cannot repair a bill that’s totaled.

The suggestions I have made are not new, and have been out there. Just not reported on since that gets in the way of facts and talking points that “the Republicans have no suggestions”.

Second of all, that “may not be enough”, but you do that first and assess it’s impact. You do know the basic rules of troubleshooting a problem… you do not make multiple changes because you don’t know what worked, and what didn’t… thereby not finding the original problem.

First you implement the changes to the actual costs of health care using the private market. You do not decrease costs by creating 54 new government departments as a middle man. Insanity.

Now, My previous comments were speaking on the general political tone in this country and it makes my stomach turn. How we can all watch W. Bush inflate his executive power, wage an unjust war to finish his daddy’s business, and wipe his ass with our constitution with the Patriot Act, then turn right around and say Obama is overreaching by telling students to stay in school? (how many of you all here kept your kids home or called their school??) LOL.

I agree that Bush inflated fed power with TARP. But for whatever increase he did, Obama has dwarfed that four times over in a matter of months…. as well as the budget.

As for your war comments… no surprise hearing that from you. Rest assured you’ve just blown your “knowledge is power” reference to yourself, and I’m not here to argue the merits the global theatres of war with you.

But I will take extreme exception to your deliberate mischaracterization of the Obama school speech. The bone of contention was never that he spoke to students, or encouraged them to stay in school or contemplate their futures. It was his Dept of Ed’s accompanying curriculum to teachers that suggested the student exercise of writing letters to themselves saying how they could “help Obama”, the teacher collecting them and redistributing them later to hold them accountable for “helping Obama”.

Our schools and our children are not political campaign tools. Having students support their country, it’s founding concepts, or even pondering their own goals is appropriate. To have them pledge support to a politician is propaganda.

Apparently, since Arne Duncan changed the curriculum to writing letters on their own futures instead, they thought better about being caught in their political community organizing quest using our public schools.

So if you’re planning on future rants, I would appreciate even a modicum of truth to your talking points.

As for my “conservative paranoia”, don’t flatter yourself as having the slightest bit of influence as to make me “paranoid”. You are but a gnat on an elephants butt of import in my life. However it doesn’t appear you always wait to hear about why I (or anyone else) do hate this President. And mind you, this is a first for me. I’ve disagreed with Presidents before, but never hated one.

My unmitigated hate and disdain is for his arrogance and disregard for our founding principles, and his quest for a Euro-socialist remaking of America. This hatred has nothing to do with his race, but his ideology. My criticism is loud and long for his plans, yet when I criticize, I have too many people like you who suggest I, or others, suffer from some sort of stealth racism. Interesting concept since the people who delve into races and classes of people, neatly dividing them into sections, is the liberal progressives. Comes in handy for them to muddy the waters, and get Americans to turn on each other instead of those who really threaten us… the elected ones on both sides of the aisle who seek unchecked power, and lie looking us straight in the face… as this POTUS does daily.

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