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06-17-2008, 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by nate2512
What if McCain said he'd put a baseball diamond at the White House?
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Surely you know that a baseball diamond is a lot more complex than a basketball court.
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06-17-2008, 10:07 PM
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Surely you know that a baseball diamond is a lot more complex than a basketball court.
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Not the point. What I'm saying is that everyone seems to be making this a racial issue because basketball is predominantly black. Well baseball is predominantly white, so what then?
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06-17-2008, 10:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nate2512
What if McCain said he'd put a baseball diamond at the White House?
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Surely you know that a baseball diamond is a lot more complex than a basketball court.
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Well, while one may not be there full time, IIRC ball games have been played there at one time or another.
And in either case, there is not the room for either one!
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06-17-2008, 10:15 PM
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Not the point.
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It should be.
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Originally Posted by nate2512
What I'm saying is that everyone seems to be making this a racial issue because basketball is predominantly black. Well baseball is predominantly white, so what then?
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Stop preaching to the choir.
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06-17-2008, 10:16 PM
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Plenty of room for a sport court at at the White House. Baseball diamond other than the T-Ball one that they set up every year for Little League? No, probably not.
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06-17-2008, 10:18 PM
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And in either case, there is not the room for either one!
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If that's the case then that is what people should say. Instead, this was made into a race issue.
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06-17-2008, 10:32 PM
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Null point. Obama won't make the white house.
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06-17-2008, 10:50 PM
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Null point. Obama won't make the white house.
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Especially when frightened white people are playing on existing racial images to discredit Obama. When the political approach doesn't work, just call him a "Curious George looking, basketball playing negro" and see if that works.
Just like people used existing gender images to attempt to discredit Hillary Clinton.
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06-17-2008, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Especially when frightened white people are playing on existing racial images to discredit Obama. When the political approach doesn't work, just call him a "Curious George looking, basketball playing negro" and see if that works.
Just like people used existing gender images to attempt to discredit Hillary Clinton.
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And when all else fails, just call McCain old and decrepit. It's not just one side.
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06-17-2008, 11:07 PM
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And when all else fails, just call McCain old and decrepit. It's not just one side.
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Sure, people will use any apolitical jab they can use. Age, race, gender, infidelity, etc.
That doesn't make it less one sided. People know which apolitical attempts are the most salient at a larger scale. The larger scale is what matters.
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06-17-2008, 11:10 PM
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What if McCain said he'd put a baseball diamond at the White House?
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Well, I'd assume it was for his kids because, as a result of his injuries in Vietnam, he cannot lift his arms very high. Otherwise, I'd be all about it because I actually like John McCain.
The thing that bothers me about the uproar over Obama's joke is that it shows me that a good chunk of the criticism of him is basically an attempt to take him down a notch and show him to be nothing but a hoodrat. Since this is something that I've experienced a bit lately, I'm sensitive to it.
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06-17-2008, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Especially when frightened white people are playing on existing racial images to discredit Obama. When the political approach doesn't work, just call him a "Curious George looking, basketball playing negro" and see if that works.
Just like people used existing gender images to attempt to discredit Hillary Clinton.
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I don't think they needed "gender images" to successfully discredit Hillary Clinton.
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06-17-2008, 11:19 PM
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I don't think they needed "gender images" to successfully discredit Hillary Clinton.
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That's subjective. The fact is that gender images and stereotypes were used.
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06-17-2008, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by TexasWSP
Plenty of room for a sport court at at the White House. Baseball diamond other than the T-Ball one that they set up every year for Little League? No, probably not.
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Brother, let us go back to the very beginning.
His "comment" was that he would take out the ally and replace it with a basketball court.
Take a good look at the size of the ally (posted up top someplace) and tell me just how one would make that space into a court  
And yes, T-Ball has been set up at the White House.
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06-17-2008, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Especially when frightened white people are playing on existing racial images to discredit Obama. When the political approach doesn't work, just call him a "Curious George looking, basketball playing negro" and see if that works.
Just like people used existing gender images to attempt to discredit Hillary Clinton.
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It'll be interesting.
In another era, I recall people attacking JFK as a candidate because he was Roman Catholic. The rhetoric was that the Vatican (Pope) would be running the country.
The American people got past that. Whether they can get past race (or gender someday), we'll simply have to see in November.
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