Obama: 'Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago'

[JP171]

ummm AR you are aware that he is 100% white correct???

When did Incas, Iroquois and Inuit become White?

I might go along with an argument of Asian ancestry based on the ice bridge theory but European seems like a big stretch even considering the Viking tales.

lemme see umm nope none of those you asked about are white, some were black and some were yellow but nope not white, however the Spaniards they were subjugated by were infact white, so being Mexican by heritage doesn't mean a thing and Hispanic is NOT a race

[MaxBerlin]

Hispanics get their own minority business status and preference in contract awards.

[MaxBerlin]

Obama is a crazed leftist - nope - http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUjYFkv9AE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You guys watch too much Faux news.

[K.Mooneyham]

Obama is a crazed leftist - nope - http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUjYFkv9AE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You guys watch too much Faux news.

Going by what Obama SAYS is a fool's errand. One must go by what he DOES, and WHO he associates himself with to see who he really is. Anyone can make grandiose speeches about things like freedom when they read them from a teleprompter...but when their attorney general is a former student radical, when they associate with former leftist terrorists, when they grew up admiring marxists and radical feminists, when their mom was a self-admitted socialist, when they want to take firearms away from law-abiding citizens, when they want to nationalize 1/6 of the economy, well that is more proof than some online quiz that "scored" BHO as an "authoritarian rightist" based on his words.

EDITED TO ADD: When you post a video of Bill Maher to support what you have to say, I simply cannot take what you have to say seriously. Bill Maher is vile.

EDITED TO ADD: I took that little quiz...I scored very close to Milton Friedman.

[The Annoyed Man]

Obama is a crazed leftist - nope - http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUjYFkv9AE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You guys watch too much Faux news.

When you call it that, it mean you watch too much MESSNBC. See how stupid that kind of simplification sounds?

Edited to add: Would you rather trust your gun rights to Bill Maher, or Ted Nugent? Nugent has a talent for raging against anyone who would even remotely threaten the 2nd Amendment. Bill Maher has a talent for infuriating people. Which is the talent that best protects your 2nd Amendment rights? Both are often over the top, but if I had to choose which one of the two I'd rather spend an afternoon with, Nugent would win hands down. Maher's smug intellectual dishonesty just makes me want to punch him in the eye.

And by the way, politicalcompass.org is a Brit website. The Brits think they understand America, but they fundamentally don't understand how real everyday Americans think, they don't see the benefits of our Constitution (if actually followed), and they have not valued our traditions.......which means that they don't really understand us. Clever algorithm they use to make maps with though......

[Oldgringo]

Racial agitation takes the light off of the many other corrupt social, economic and national security failings and of the current POTUS' administration.

While I'm on a roll, John McCain is an idiot! If he's the best the GOP can do, we conservatives are screwed for life.

[K.Mooneyham]

Racial agitation takes the light off of the many other corrupt social, economic and national security failings and of the current POTUS' administration.

While I'm on a roll, John McCain is an idiot! If he's the best the GOP can do, we conservatives are screwed for life.

You know, I respect McCain for his military service...and that is as far as I will go with that. He is most certainly NOT the best the GOP can do, by any measure.

As far as the racial agitation thing, it sure helps the administration when the mainstream media are the ones running the misdirection game for them.

[TexasGal]

The massive disinformation and propaganda being fed to black America for the sole purpose of advancing political and personal agendas is sickening. It was bad enough to see the usual race baiters doing this, but when the POTUS did it, I was appalled even considering his record. He could have diffused the situation instead of promoting the idea everything that a white (or apparently a hispanic) person does in the presence of a black person is racially motivated somehow. I lock my car door every time I see ANYONE approaching. Whether it be a man or woman. It is just a smart precaution. Period. Whenever it happens to be a black person, he or she can not know that I make it a normal practice but the POTUS has reinforced the belief it must be because of their color. Under that belief, surely it is true that "every" young black man would experience this kind of "bias" from others.

I worked for a young black woman for a while who had purchased the company I had worked at for over a decade. She told two of my coworkers that many white customers would leave simply because she was black. They were very uncomfortable that she believed this since they and I were fielding a zillion questions from our long term customers about what was gong to happen with the change in ownership. None of those questions had a thing to do with race. The new boss immediately made massive and unpleasant changes including firing workers one after another. She ended up firing us all. She believed she could hire cheaper people and she didn't like it that we all respectfully tried to talk her out of some of the more upsetting changes. Not because we didn't care for her color but because we knew our customers and knew the changes would drive them away. Her reaction was to think we were against her. The customers were appalled and left alright, but it had nothing at all to do with the color of the owner. It had everything to do with her management. She all but lost the entire company in a matter of 6 months. What do you suppose she tells everyone the reason was? I doubt it is because she was too young and inexperienced to take on running a company yet. I do not blame her color. In my view it was her youth and the barrier she put up herself--her perception of the world being focused through her expectations of bias from others. There is no solution for any of us down this road.Certainly not for our society.

[The Annoyed Man]

Has anyone noticed that since the Zimmerman trial, the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, the Benghazi scandal, the immigration bill scandal, and the looming Obamacare trainwreck have all but dropped off the reporting radar?

[nightmare69]

Has anyone noticed that since the Zimmerman trial, the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, the Benghazi scandal, the immigration bill scandal, and the looming Obamacare trainwreck have all but dropped off the reporting radar?

It's all part of the plan.

[sjfcontrol]

Has anyone noticed that since the Zimmerman trial, the IRS scandal, the NSA scandal, the Benghazi scandal, the immigration bill scandal, and the looming Obamacare trainwreck have all but dropped off the reporting radar?

Never let a crisis go to waste (even if you have to create the crisis)

[Cedar Park Dad]

ummm AR you are aware that he is 100% white correct???

When did Incas, Iroquois and Inuit become White?

I might go along with an argument of Asian ancestry based on the ice bridge theory but European seems like a big stretch even considering the Viking tales.

I thought the History Channel was off when it said that Sitting Bull prepared for the Battle of Little Big Horn by eating a large bowl of Swedish meatballs. Maybe it was I who was in error...

[VMI77]

they have not valued our traditions.......which means that they don't really understand us. Clever algorithm they use to make maps with though......

Our traditions --they don't even value their own traditions.

[VMI77]

She all but lost the entire company in a matter of 6 months. What do you suppose she tells everyone the reason was? I doubt it is because she was too young and inexperienced to take on running a company yet.

Self-fulfilling prophecy. It will always be because of her color --that's what she's been taught.