Obama is smooth...

[mildcigar_2001]

President Obama: "Dog Eater," the Music Video




I bet David Axelrod wishes he had never started this.

[catherinefan]

I am truly puzzled that the term racist is being applied to me and/or my posts.

You're puzzled??? You openly state that some cultures are superior to others and you're surprised to hear that you're a racist? I find that very hard to believe.

[mildcigar_2001]

You're puzzled??? You openly state that some cultures are superior to others and you're surprised to hear that you're a racist? I find that very hard to believe.

I hate to belabor the obvious but there is large difference between culture and race. If I were making points stating that one race is better than another then I could be labeled a racist.

I guess it is currently politically incorrect to point out that some cultures are better than others. A case in point are the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. These two countries basicly split the isle of Hispanola between each other. Haiti, due mostly to a dysfuctional culture is one of the most God awful spots in the entire world. The Dominican Republic while it has its problems is generally trending in the right direction. Being that these two countries share the same island it stands to reason that they each have about the same amounts of natural resources, so it is easy to see that the main determinent of prosperity or lack thereof is the culture of each nation.

You will notice that I did not mention race once in my comparison of cultures. Raise someone of Haitian descent in America and they will prosper, and raise that same person in Haiti and they will be worshipping chicken bones and not prospering.

[Ben]

President Obama: "Dog Eater," the Music Video




I bet David Axelrod wishes he had never started this.

I'm vegetarian now. But I've eaten cow, lamb, chicken, pig.... I mean, we all have. Plus the term meat is a euphemism. It's really a killed animal that we're eating. And, too, is it moral? I'm not laying siege to anyone, as it were. I'm simply saying is it moral to eat meat, or dead animal? And, too, the industrial food system and how we or they (companies) treat animals turned me right off.
Where was Obama when he gorged on dog meat?

[buttslinger]

I hate to belabor the obvious but there is large difference between culture and race. If I were making points stating that one race is better than another then I could be labeled a racist

White man speak with forked tongue.

[Willie Escalade]

All I can say is...if you don't like e way a country is doing something, stay out of that country!

[robertlouis]

All I can say is...if you don't like e way a country is doing something, stay out of that country!

You mean like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam? A good idea in retrospect lol.

Joking btw - I know what you meant, Willie.

[trish]

I hate to belabor the point, mildcigar, but you said said Indonesians were morally inferior because they ate dog. But you failed to explain why eating dog makes one morally inferior (to one say who eats pork, or beef or pink slime). When asked, you exclaimed, "If you don't know, I can't explain it." If you can't explain, then you don't know why. So you believe in the inferiority of a whole population without any real explicable reason; i.e. on a trumped up pseudo-reason. What did the six year old Obama have in common with his Indonesian neighbors that you find appallingly offensive? You would have us believe their common trespass was the eating of dog meat. That's your cover; Obama and all of Indonesia are your moral inferiors because Indonesians eat dog meat and six year old Obama sampled it. Yeah. Right. Like we're supposed to believe you're that stupid. I'm afraid your racist fears shine through your frayed attempts to cover them up.

[robertlouis]

I hate to belabor the obvious but there is large difference between culture and race. If I were making points stating that one race is better than another then I could be labeled a racist.

I guess it is currently politically incorrect to point out that some cultures are better than others. A case in point are the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. These two countries basicly split the isle of Hispanola between each other. Haiti, due mostly to a dysfuctional culture is one of the most God awful spots in the entire world. The Dominican Republic while it has its problems is generally trending in the right direction. Being that these two countries share the same island it stands to reason that they each have about the same amounts of natural resources, so it is easy to see that the main determinent of prosperity or lack thereof is the culture of each nation.

You will notice that I did not mention race once in my comparison of cultures. Raise someone of Haitian descent in America and they will prosper, and raise that same person in Haiti and they will be worshipping chicken bones and not prospering.

You are ignoring the burdens and legacies of history.

Both halves of the island suffered under colonial masters and were buffeted by the ripples of European wars. Dominica, as was, had the usual small island history where it suffered US-bolstered dictatorship for most of the 20th century, but has now emerged with a defensible and established democracy as well as a thriving tourist industry.

Haiti, on the other hand, was a military playground for the various strands of French revolutionary politics and wars from the 1790s to the 1830s, when the French government, to their everlasting shame, imposed huge reparations on the infant republic for the loss of slaves and the industry that they supported. The scandal is that this debt remains to the present day, accumulating crippling levels of interest, and has therefore crippled Haiti economically ever since. The relative degradation and under-development of Haiti can largely be attributed to enforced poverty imposed by the former colonial masters. It's also worth noting that Haiti is the only French-speaking territory in the region that has never been offered inclusion into metropolitan France. The poor bastards never really had a chance.

[Prospero]

Dog eating = a lack of civilisation? Try telling that to the Chinese whose great civilisation pre-dates our by millennia. Oh and they eat bugs and other uncivilised stuff too. And this from the land of the big Mac!