bust Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 WTF happend to the no US politics discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 ...got thrown out the window... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 WTF happend to the no US politics discussions. [color:red]Ask HH.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 WTF happend to the no US politics discussions. I think the consensus was people wanted them, and those that didn't could ignore them. SUpposedly one person (maybe more) has left as a result of the topic staying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Has Obama lost white America? by Pat Buchanan ... Republicans have won three major races – two of them upsets and one a Massachusetts miracle – because the white share of the vote in all three rose as a share of the total vote, and Republicans swept the white vote in Reagan-like landslides. What explains the white surge to the GOP? First, sinking white support for Obama, seen as ineffectual in ending the recession and stopping the loss of jobs. Second, a growing perception that Obama is biased. When the president blurted that the Cambridge cops and Sgt. James Crowley "acted stupidly" in arresting black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates – a rush to judgment that proved wrong – his support sank in white America and especially in Massachusetts, where black Gov. Deval Patrick joined in piling on Crowley. Deval is now in trouble, too. Then there was Obama's appointment of Puerto Rican American Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Her militant support for race and ethnic preferences and her decision to deny Frank Ricci and the white firefighters of New Haven a hearing on their case that they were denied promotions they won in competitive exams because they were white caused 31 GOP senators to vote against her. While Massachusetts is Democrat over Republican 3 to 1, Reagan carried the state in 1984, and Hillary Clinton clobbered Obama in the 2008 primary, though the Kennedys were in Obama's corner. The Scott Brown Democrats were the Hillary Democrats were the Reagan Democrats. But if McDonnell, Christie and Brown could roll up large enough shares of the white vote to win in three major states McCain lost, why did McCain lose all three? Answer: In 2008, the working and middle class had had a bellyful of the Bush-McCain Republicans. They were seen as pro-amnesty for illegal aliens and pro-NAFTA, when U.S. workers had watched 5 million manufacturing jobs disappear in a decade – and reappear in China. They were willing to give Obama a chance because Obama had persuaded them by November he was not just another big-spending utopian liberal. So what have Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi been doing for a year? Crafting a federal takeover of health care with a vast plan that provides coverage for the uninsured – most of whom are minorities – while sticking it to Medicare recipients, 80 percent to 90 percent of whom are white. Immigrants are 21 percent of the uninsured, but only 7 percent of the population. This means white folks on Medicare or headed there will see benefits curtailed, while new arrivals from the Third World, whence almost all immigrants come, get taxpayer-subsidized health insurance. Any wonder why all those tea-party and town-hall protests seem to be made up of angry white folks? What the McDonnell, Christie and Brown victories teach is that the GOP should stop listening to the Wall Street Journal and start listening to these forgotten Americans. An end to affirmative action and ethnic preferences, an end to bailouts of Wall Street bankers, a moratorium on immigration until unemployment falls to 6 percent, an industrial policy that creates jobs here and stops shipping them to China appear a winning hand in 2012. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 WTF happend to the no US politics discussions. I think the consensus was people wanted them' date=' and those that didn't could ignore them. SUpposedly one person (maybe more) has left as a result of the topic staying...[/quote'] If i was not American I'd be annoyed but as you say, the topic can be ignored. Its not like its a thread about the best go go in soi cowboy and it derails into a thread about neocons. Leaving because U.S. politics, as boring as it is to some or most, is discussed at all, says more about the person. Sorry. There are tons of subjects on here I find boring or whatever and areas of this site I've never visited for the same reasons. It is surprising though how passionate us Americans are about politics on here compared to others. Interesting as we are often accused of not being attuned to the world outside us politically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 I could care less about most sports, but I don't complain about others talking about them - as long as the thread is clearly identified. Same with hotels - I don't stay in them. As to bars, hell I can go find out for myself any day. But some folks really get pissed off about US political discussions. Ummm ... nobody makes them read them. Politics straying into other threads is something we should all bitch about though. I don't think it's as bad, now that GWB is out of office. Somebody had to slag off Bush in almost every thread, even if it was about food or clothing! Then politics took over the thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Haiti thread turned political Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 WTF happend to the no US politics discussions. I think the consensus was people wanted them' date=' and those that didn't could ignore them. [b'][color:red]SUpposedly one person (maybe more) has left as a result of the topic staying...[/color][/b] If i was not American I'd be annoyed but as you say, the topic can be ignored. Its not like its a thread about the best go go in soi cowboy and it derails into a thread about neocons. Leaving because U.S. politics, as boring as it is to some or most, is discussed at all, says more about the person. Sorry. There are tons of subjects on here I find boring or whatever and areas of this site I've never visited for the same reasons. It is surprising though how passionate us Americans are about politics on here compared to others. Interesting as we are often accused of not being attuned to the world outside us politically. Was it roggie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Unfortunately, no. One of our good guys quit posting after the insults that were thrown his way for proposing the ban. It's a shame. p.s. Logjam got banned because of his constantly insulting posters. He was fun at times, but simply couldn't quit slagging people off for disagreeing with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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