BULL! You leftist radicals made horrible comments about President Bush but no one ever objected? Maybe because he was a White Man and white people do not have special protection

It is a shame that there are some that feel that this type of demonstration is fine and even funny. I even hate it worse that they are thrown over into the Republicans side of the road. I don't believe people like this share the feelings of any or most Republicans as much as most liberals are such haters that think people to the right are baby killers.

You are moron and some people can't wait to scream racism at the smallest thing. I see you don't get offended by the way black people continually portray white people as either abusive drunk southern racist or nerdy doesnt understand the world weirdo. Get a life and stop looking for a hand out and being so sensitive. It is in my experience that the most racist people I meet happen to be black and be the ones crying about racism.

You are a moron. I bet you have no problem when a black person calls a white person a cracker, honkey, or something of that nature. Its funny how blacks are always screaming about race, when in my experience it has been the blacks who are the more racist. They portay white people as bigoted drunk southern inbred idiots or as an easy to rob and fool nerd who can hardly make it in the "streets". Yet they seem to think they have a bad deal. It is sickening to see this all they have to do is bring up race and then they seem to get thier ways. I can't get a place where I only pay 30 dollars a month for rent but they do on a routine basis. They try to complain about the hood like it is white peoples fault that they rob and kill themselves because they have already done to outsiders that nobody wants to live or do business there. Besides it is thier choice to live there and segragate themselves because it is not illegal for them to move out and to a better neigbourhood. Instead of moving in nice places and destroying the community maybe they should start to clean up their own community and messes. I mean hell they won't even help the police get murders of the street yet they always complain. It is all BS and people need to stop falling for it.

OMG

I find it absurd that the left continuosly depicted Bush as a monkey from day one, till the day he left office. Yet when someone depicts Obama as a monkey, it is racist? The double standard and the racist card to hide behind is the inane go to for this administration. Anyone who disagrees with Obama is branded a racist. He uses his race to avoid ansewerig to any question of his policies which are detrimental to America. It is cowardly and it diminisheses real racism. Which makes this administration criminal beyond the pale.

When did animals become a symbol for a race of people?? What are the others? Tell me what animal is a symbol for Asians or caucasians.Obamas race isn't an issue with the people who publically opose him,it;s his lack of perfoming as a president we can respect

Yes, it was racist, and if the police officer that dressed up the monkey did not know it was racist, he is the dumbest person alive (along with you). And it is political speech protected by the first amendment. As a Black person living in Verona, in 2012 I am so offended by this picture - Are all the town folks racist at this policeman and former councilman? I will be boycotting this place (Don-Ric Self Storage at 405 Little Falls Road) as should every one else!!! Unless you are a part of the KKK. Folks should not spend there money at Don-Ric Self Storage at 405 Little Falls Road unless you support his clearly racist and revolting stand.

It can't be racist if it's art!

everette, we look forward to your boycott. Its not often someone can see that many zany idiots gathered in one place...so its either your boycott venue or a teaparty meeting. When's it going to be?

I was really glad when a black man was finally elected president. I felt like Abraham Lincoln sat up in his coffin and applauded. I will also say that all the crap I hear from the birthers, the fact that Obama's attorney client records are sealed, his thesis paper is sealed and his education records are sealed, yada, yada, yada, drives me nuts. I would think that those things would be sealed on every president but I'll research it to make sure. However, having said that, I can't STAND Obama. He says he wants to have the most open and accessible White House yet when I contacted everyone in Massachusetts that could possibly help me, I called the White House Agency Liaison office only to be told by an operator that they don't pick up that line anymore. Funny, when George Bush was in the White House and I was faced with living on the street, they picked up that line. So, the operator got a supervisor who told me to write a letter. I did and marked it urgent as directed. I heard back SIX MONTHS LATER. Bull, he cares about the American people. I heard back from Bush's White house the NEXT DAY. If I was an illegal, I'd get more help. I'm voting Obama out specifically because he doesn't give a damn about American citizens and beyond that he's so freaking arrogant. And the country is a MESS.

Wow, look at all the hate you mustered with your comment! All these people ever do is throw personal attacks and fulminate hate, especially when someone's opinion is different. These people and their representatives are exactly why, even though I have always been an Independant voter (except for 5 years when I was a registered member of the libertarian party), I will NEVER again vote "R". So much anger, hate, and violence. They are what is ruining this country.

i don't care if he was orange worst president ever. has nothing to do with is skin color

I am having trouble understanding, what is racist about a monkey?

im sorry but until black people quit using the "N" word towards each other im not gonna have any pity for them in situations like this. too many double standards.

If this man used that monkey statue for all of his tshirt displays, then I would say it is not racist since he used the statue to wear the individual shirts. If, however, this is the only time he used it, then maybe it may be taken that way. It is only racist if his intent was that was Obama wearing the shirt. Either way, it is simply something that would be construed as racist even if he did not mean it that way.

Loads of stinking, reeking CRAP!!! People oppose Obama because he is a socialist, possibly a communist, and because he despises this country to the bottom of whatever soul me may have. Any questions?

It's much ado about nothing ! The guy is just making a fool of the monkey !

Someone puts a monkey out and immediately everyone equates that with Afro-American.......SOMEONE has a problem with race.

why do White people try to act so ignorant about the history of this country - or do they really not know. Africans and African Americans were frequently described as monkeys by racist Whites because of the color of our skin and the fact that we were supposed to be inferior to Whites. Come on, really, this is for the people asking "what's racist about a monkey?" (*in a dullard's voice)

reply to Riccardino-
The comments about Bush were NEVER because he was white and the right cpomplained loudly and threateningly no mater what we said... often about statements the right made to keep you hating us.. so you would not listen when we tried to tell you Americans were nbeing given the shaft by bush/cheney. There were REAL reasons to be mad at him. The complaints were because he had no interest in foreign policy beyond his desire to go to war in the middle east, and LIED to us to get it done. He deceived Americans about SO much!! Why do you think 80% of us from all kinds of backgrounds, religions and political parties voted for Obama... we were running from Bush and how he set us up for the depression (anyone who calls if a recession is a liar), the loss of our homes and giving giant handouts to his pals while cutting their taxes and helping them outsource jobs and manufacturing. EVERYONE was desperate to get as far away from bush as they could... I have NEVER hear anyone say people don;t like him for being white... except brainwashed sheeple like you who believe anything you've been trained to think has to be liberals and commies and socialists and people who don' love GOd the proper way.. like YOU do... Your assertion is crazy or plain stupid.You clearly don't know WHO is porking you... it sure ain't the lefties.... you don't have to be a leftist to know when you have been betrayed

Where's his right to free speech and freedom of expression? The way Obama runs this country maybe a monkey can do better.

Where's Bonds right to free speech and freedom of expression? The way Obama is running or ruining this country maybe a monkey can do better.

reply to Heidi Dietrich --
People act like you can just bop into a college and look up someone's record. Well, you CAN'T! In American EVERY College student's records are sealed and unavailable - protected by privacy laws.
No matter what political side you are on there is nothing unusual or covert about the President's college records being sealed. He had a lot of friends who admired him and tell stories and say he was always personable, extremely bright and NOBODY gets to head the Harvard Review without academic excellence and spotless recommendations !

Can someone please comment with an explanation of how a monkey is perceived as racist? What exactly is the connection? I really don't know. Is it something particular to bi-racial people such as President Obama?

Baloney! Whwen George Dubya Bush was president many of his detractors referred to him as a chimp (as in chimpanzee). Yet now that Obama is prez any reference to Obama and a lower primate is called "racist." Holy hypocrasy! Sorry but if you laughed at chimp references to Bush than you've no right to play the racist card now. BTW I voted for both Bush in 2000 & 2004 AND I voted for Obama in 2008 so you can't accuse me of favoring either over the other. And I personally never made a lower primate reference to either prez. ☺☺☺☺☺

re: ort's statement to Martin--
"If you are so flipping stupid that you cannot see how this POS is destroying this country, AND you are still supporting him, I wonder how the hell you find the door to get out of the house in the morning. You really shouldn't be allowed to vote if you are this blind."

This vitriol and hatred and abuse comes in a constant, steady stream from right wing hardiners and their talking heads like Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly. They don't stop to actually hear what people are trying to tell them. No rebuttals, facts, discussion... just spewing abuse. The left tries to tell others what is going on under what we are told by lying politicians and some, not all, churches. You go nuts over anything we try to discuss and start throwing HATE bombs and insults. This is one of the big differences between the right and the left.... That says a lot about what kind of people are seeking solutions for all of us and what kind are just hating, abusing and insulting while parroting hate speech in lockstep with what they hear from the corporate-owned right wing media.

Yes many american bigots out there going insane that a mixed man sits in the white house... but there's something they don't understand and might want to know it.

Obama and Bush are ninth cousins - both related to the Queen of England.

People,, Get a life. I didn't hear one complant when President Bush was mocked as a monkey! Now we have a real monkey in the white house, and all you a**hol*'s complain. IT'S A STATEMENT!

You know what is really stupid about calling this racist is the monkey is supposed to depict Obama, but the shirt is anti-Obama. So apparently he's against himself. That's just stuid.

Yes, it is racist. It tracks to historical precedent in our country. The fact that this councilman didn't know is insulting to all of us. I find these denying racists to be offensive and bring shame on all Americans. His act is childish, stupid, and above all, very racist.

Nonsense. This is not racist. A Monkey is full of Shenanigans and perfectly describes, obama. He is full of leftist Monkey Shenanigans.

No facts, you say, MG, more nonsense.

One of thousands of facts that support the notion that obama is the worst president America has ever had.

Obama LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES
http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/

This is racist. The fact that this fellow "didn't know" he did anything wrong brings shame to all Americans. There's just a bunch of white boys that are in a tizzy because a Black man is president. If there is any doubt about that, just read some of the responses to the Martin Golan post. The shade of your skin does not make you superior, boys. I realize you're coming from a sense of entitlement, but alas, it is just not true. Even the so-called "reasons" you do not like Obama are fact-less and silly. Face it, you're just mad. None of that makes you a good American, just an embarrassment to the rest of us.

A great statue. It really looks just like him.

saying 'MUCH ...is discomfort that a black man is President' is utter NONSENSE. That said, if this idiot (with whom I agree Obama must go) didn't grasp that this would at least be perceived or construed as racist, he's dumber than dirt (I don't know that he acts on this viewpoint but it certainly 'seems racist' to me). MOST, MANY (ie 'much') of us simply don't agree w his leftist, social-democratic leanings and would MUCH prefer to not become Greece, Italy or Spain.

Martin Golan-
I coudn't figure out how so many hate-filled people were commenting here... this is verona-cedar grove patch and I live in park slope. Whew I was getting worried. I'm used to people who enjoy open debate and are more self-aware and able to abmit their mistakes or a need for more information on a particular subject instead of coming in as if they know everything in the world... they never get this nasty and spiteful up here... or have their minds so set in concrete..... whew.... I'm sorry for you and Tauraq1 and anyone else that doesn'r enjoy the bile here. Happy trails to you.....

In debate, when someone starts screaming insults and lies you know he has nothing factual to rebut you with... not a leg to stand on... They make you so disgusted you should walk away so as not to soil your mind with the filth of ithe hate -- they will imagine they've won... only thing is anyone with two brain cells to rub together KNOWS he's riding on empty. The ones who do buy it are just empty too....

Then riddle me this, Martin. Since the black population is only about 12%, even if every one of them, from birth to death, voted for Obama - wait for it, here it comes, how'd he get elected? If only they voted for him, how in the world did he win? No, you race baiters, it won't fly.

There were a whole lot of white people - not me, but a whole lot who voted for him. Talk about a slap in the face. Like I say, I'd never vote for a Dem no matter who or what he was, but how must all those bigoted, racist whites feel to have their vote kicked back at them. Sounds to me like they won't be voting for Obama again.

The only revolting thing abut this is the desire on the part of most blacks to find offense at every turn.

Bonnie Abbzug

1:19 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012

Can someone please comment with an explanation of how a monkey is perceived as racist? What exactly is the connection? I really don't know. Is it something particular to bi-racial people such as President Obama?

Because white people compared African Americans to Apes as an Insult, try googling it

ryan andrew

12:26 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012

im sorry but until black people quit using the "N" word towards each other im not gonna have any pity for them in situations like this. too many double standards.

Not all African Americans use the word that white people came up with to denigrate us, and comedians started using it to throw it back in the face of the intolerant Bigots who thought they could continue to insult us with it. But maybe if you took the time to research this you wouldn't come off sounding like a fool

I agree, having been a recipient of racist literature as a high school student in the south with our grounds littered with leaflets comparing blacks to apes. This is no small insignificant incident. Those who defend his action by excusing it and calling something harmless are no better than the perpetrator. It's race baiting. It's ugly and hateful.

Yes, montclairdad I've seen those Bush pictures. Your head is in the sand if you don't understand the volatile history behind monkey images and a black man. It's not a matter of calling someone Mr. NAACP to defend this either. The white guy you are defending was a moron who couldn't add 2 plus 2. He was likened to a monkey due to his proven inability to make sense more than a few times.

You'll get no argument from me about Dubya and I of course understand the history behind the imagery. But the NAACP fellow made a stupid statement of which there is ample evidence to the contrary. That's all I was pointing out.

Montclairdad, I am outraged at what I just read. How dare jeff jensen declares this. Hey Jeff did you hear that there is a new TV station call "White Entertainment Television" that only shows shows based on white people. Yup, I agree that TV station is very racist. How could anybody think of something like that? Also, how about the United White College Fund, White History Month, National Association for the Advancment of White People, White Pride Day, Miss White American Pageant, Openly only white student fraternities at college, Million White Man March. I'm not racist. In fact I was shocked to hear Bob Costas refer to Gabby Douglas as an African American. No, no, no, she is an American only. Unless one of her parents was born in Africa, then I can see calling her an African American. And if some one was to put that Obama shirt on a statue of a "White" person, is that racist? After all, he is half white also. People are people, and that is it. If you focus that this is a racial statement, then you just made it racial. So it is actually you who are the racist here.

Thank you so much montclairdad for your post and links. Blacks and black leaders in this country are too quick to call anyone that is not black a racist. This reminds me of the Obama chia pet. As I recall, the company came out with a Clinton chia pet years earlier. Yet when they made one with Obama's likeness, it was then deemed racist.

This is so true. First of all it wasnt dressed up as obama, it was a monkey that he used for a lot of things.and it had a shirt on that said obama has to go. I know I have seen a lot of pictures of G. Bush portraying his AS a monkey. They actually had a monkey face on him. OK, just saying!! And Jeff, No comment on your idiotic reply. Wait 10 yrs and see what is being said about both. YOu will see that obama has taken carters place as being the worse president EVER.

Food for thought: Of the classifications of persons in the United States: Men, Women, race, religion, sexual orientation, and white males, which has not suffered any form of discrimination. Right, White males. Of those classifications, which one seems always to be the source of some racist act or comments? Right again, white males. Conclusion? The last among the classification to access to determine whether an act or comment is racist are white males.

Great post, montclairdad.

However, the leftist will press the racist nonsense because obama is a horrible president and they need to play the "race card" in hopes of getting the races to fight against one another. The old divide and conquer, rountine.

Ronald Williams, point on, because they are in Denial of the fact that they are the Problem and not the Solution

Your links do not prove anything because the pictures remain on the humor sites and did NOT end up on the lawn of a business under the guise of being "humor."

That's not speech. I see a monkey. They did stand out on the lawn and spoke those words.

you have no free speech anymore if involves offending a minority the minoritys have use the race card in their favor to switch the rules around as they see fit just look at the george zimmerman case for a fine example had it been a black guy who shot a white boy in that case the stand your ground law would have been enforced

Carol, you are stupid. Free Speech extends not only to spoken words but acts and expression.

Offensive! How about the last four years the insults the American people have indured? You know we "don't work hard enough, we are arrogant," the assault on the constitution. OMG yes he needs to go and now is not soon enough! 8 to 11 million Americans not looking for work anymore. Unemployment 8.3%, 16 trillion in debt and no plan to stop spending or submit a budget much less balance one. A MONKEY could do a better job than BHO is my point. Go "uplift Kenya" or some other needy part of the world with your "Hope and change". We can't afford it or 45% of the people payiny no income tax!

Marian don't worry the NAACP no longer restricts free speech. The now smell racism out. "Thomas Reynolds, the president of the Montclair chapter of the NAACP said the statue “smells like racism.”"

The person that put up the monkey statue has the right to do so---so why did he take it down? The government didn't make him take it down. So what is your point about the first amendment and free speech? Ar eyou saying he has the right to put up a monkey statue but no one else has the right to be disgusted by it or expres their outrage?

Daniel, the fact that he took it off the monkey shows to me that he didn't see it as racist and was sensitive to his neighbors. Plus, it was a good move for his business! Of course he has the right to put the monkey there, wearing a Dior original or buck naked if he chooses, just as someone else has the right to be offended or express their outrage. That's free speech, on both sides.

Back in the mid 70's a group of Nazi's planned a march through the town of Skokie, IL.. At the time the towns population was 40% Jewish. The town wanted to stop the march but the ACLU stepped in and defended the first amendment rights of the Nazi group to hold the march. The case went to the Supreme Court and sided with the ACLU. I personally find that offensive but this is part of our freedoms. I suggest in the future you do not attack someone personally, just the argument.

Obama is half WHITE! I'll bet that you will defend this though, right? http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/palin-hanging-from-her-neck-and-mccain-aflame/

This isn't racism it's a monkey statue that existed there before they ever even put the anti Obama message t-shirt on it. What makes it racist is the fact that you give it that power by immediately associating it with that rather than seeing it as merely a monkey statue with a t-shirt on. This is what is wrong with so many people, everyone is so fast to jump on everything as racist or sexist or gay bashing instead of just seeing things for what they really are. While it's true that racism still exists in this day and age this is a case of people digging far to deep, would you like a shovel to help you dig a little deeper?

the fact you are trying to say a stuffed monkey suppose to look like obama speaks volumes i think your mad at the shirt saying omg no obama which should be protected under the first amendment

Your comments are Racist.

Racism IS PROTECTED as long as you assult anyone you are free to hate all you want. What part of that don't you get?

This act was racist but it is free speech. IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO BE RACIST OR TO EXPRESS IT THROUGH SPEECH.

i dont think the t shirt said " this is obama" so where do u get the balls to say it has to come down send it to me and i guarntee it will go up and stay up

Spoken by someone who truly seems to not grasp anything of real informative substance. Its funny how when people, Mrs. Simpson, when they don't have an argument to stand on, as you clearly don't, they just spout some random stuff that seems more like the argument of an 8 year old who doesn't quite grasp the concepts of race, politics, logic, reasoning, and so on. If people really wish to be a part of discussions like this then they should be armed with reason and logic and make arguments that are valid and moves the issue forward. What you and people like you are doing by using these weak arguments is tatamount to saying "I know you are but what am I" Maybe that is where our problem as nation lies. We black and white are more and more uneducated and unprepared to deal with a world that requires intelligence, civility, patience, understanding, and some form of morality. I am afraid these are all things that our young people are starting to lack. Why is everything such a race issue when everyone shares the burden of making this plae work.

Oh and just by the way if you were really wanting to get down to where we believe modern man came from and where civilazation started then that would be Africa. Again though I don't really see the validity of your argument here.

This is not a racist gesture. When George W. Bush was president, I recall a collage of Bush facial expressions side by side a comparable monkey facial expressions. No one was crying racism then. I swear, people are so quick to cry racism over the littlest things in this country. Would it have been different if the "offender" was a black man?

People are absolutely free to be racist...But own it... I also love when the majority (whites) cry cause the minoritys have been given some advantages...

AS. They did hang an effigy of Bush and the media and the American public was silent.

The left is playing you and all the other saps that still buy the "racist" card, nonsense.

You are right Ben it is not illegal to be a Racist, just ignorant

How very strange that the only person to even allude to violence upon Obama is you, supposedly pro Obama. Are you a beard?

Murder has nothing to do with free speech. And this pretended outrage, go find something real to get upset about. God knows there's plenty right here in River City.

My ancestors came from Ireland and oh, yes they dealt with prejudice! Ever heard of the signs "NO IRISH NEED APPLY" placed next to the Help Wanted sign? No? Bull. Or ask the Italians, oh, 'scuse me, the 'wops' how it was when they first came here. How about the Chinese and the Japanese, and all the hateful names they're called? And when it comes to hate, let us never forget the Jews, who know hate better than any other group of people. What names shall we call them? Ya see, this whole thing is ridiculous. If you are looking for rejection, you WILL find it. If you're looking for hatred, you'll find it or CAUSE it.

How about if we just see a monkey with an anti-Obama shirt on, similar to the ones you see worn all over the place, and not pretend it's more than that.

I saw a little kid at a restaurant the other day and on its bib were the words "Obama Sucks". Is that kid racist?

I despise Obama for the nature and the character of the man, not for the color of his skin. I don't care if he has stripes! He needs to find some new digs, back to Chicago with him. They have my condolences.

Problem with you radical leftists, black apologists, is that any disagreement with this president leads to accusations of Racism. Barack is a MORON, regardless of his color. I miss GWB

Ms. Simpson, I hope you read in full the reply from Ms. Steinfeld to your original remarks which were rather rude and showed the type of person you are by attacking her personally. What she said is 100% true. And whether you like it or not YES, in this country this is Freedom of Speech. That does not mean that it is not offensive. Many feel that it is. By the way that monkey has been out there for a LONG time. Just because somone now put an anti-obama shirt on it doesn't mean that person is racist. Get a life.

Our country was built on racism, power, and money. This is an insult to our President along with the daily insults, lies and untruths and half-truths we receive on a daily basis. This article, as well as many others, will continue to saturate our lies, however, Americans are intelligent and those that love this country understand the intent of this article, along with media untruths.

Americans are aware of the hate and racisms that our President endures on a daily basis, because many experienced the same thing.
The insults and disrespect of our President will continue, however, in the end, the real racists and liars with the power of deceit in America will be uncovered.

another idiot heard from and i am not hiding i say it to u and would say it to your face i think u are an idiot and stupid

Ada, after you've read the responses just in this thread alone, you might wish you hadn't, lol, you won't like most of the responses.

We teach in school that all men descend from monkeys, whites, blacks, browns, all. So if the tea shirt had said, "No Romney" would it mean anything? A white slur? Nope, at best it shows the monkey's opinion of Obama, but it's not insinuating Obama is the monkey. This is too ridiculous to even try to explain. Play that race card, girl.

I do not understand what is racist about the monkey and how that would offend a person racially? Now if you put a real monkey with the Obama t-shirts, I can understand how the monkey could be offended.

HEY PAL YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WASHERWOMAN STIRING UP TROUBLE

K mess. Pray tell, what advantages you referring to? Myself, I prefer to earn what I have. I'm not a child.

And Brandon, kudos to you. Excellent post.

Teresa, surely you know that whites elected Obama, right? I mean, you do know that, don't you? Really?

I want to move there if it is restricted against black apologists and radical leftists and idiots like barack insane

Nothing like a racist display to bring out all the racists.

Gee, you have to identify your 'pal' by name. Which of us are you calling a washerwoman? Wow, I think I'm getting offended. Yes, I feel it coming. Indeed, I'm offended. Silly boy.

ROFLMAO!

Where is Cedar Grove, exactly? Are there people contributing here who live there? I'd really like to know.

A! You "know there is free speech." How very perspicacious of you! Okay, just a little more.... Held accountable by whom? For what? My opinion? Where do you live? You sound like Rip van Winkle for Pete's sake, and this is your first dealing with the 'race card'? Oy.

Dude, this is still the US and as such, speech is protected. Now, that one flies 24/7 and not just for those who agree with you or your position. It flies for all of us, whether you like it or not.

I agree, John. Where is Cedar Grove?

i guess you dont believe in the first amendment either huh? why cant someone vloice their opinions about obama without being called a racist? the monkey thing could be considered a racist act and i say could be .. but the shirt satying omg no obama has is that racially offensive?

it is the mans right to express his self in what everway he likes as long as it is not xxx rated just5 like u are doing right now get a life and quit trying to tell everyone else what they can do and say ""read the 2nd amendment "

Unless of course people are talking about a certain, white, overweight governor of NJ. Free speech is fine when hurling insults, weight jokes and bashing him, right? (Not saying it was you "A," but there was a thread about this exact same double standard recently on Patch. Might have even been yesterday. And I just love pointing out such hypocrisies.) People need to either tone down the rhetoric for BOTH parties; all races; all body shapes; all religious leanings; all sexual orientation, etc. or just stop whining about who said or did what when it doesn't fit your purposes. I'm sorry, but trying to have it both ways is incredibly disingenuous. Not stupid enough to believe that will ever change, but it's g*****n maddening at times.

When people made horrible comments about President Bush, the radical leftists stayed quiet. Very quiet, But now that their darling MORON barack insane is being challenged, everyone crys. FREE SPEECH BABYZ

no you can say all the stuff you want about whites nothing is ever done about it look at chris rock for example he said the 4th of july was a whitemans holiday and that the slaves still arent free and guess what nothing was ever said about his racist remarks

A! You "know there is free speech." How very perspicacious of you! Okay, just a little more.... Held accountable by whom? For what? My opinion? Where do you live? You sound like Rip van Winkle for Pete's sake, and this is your first dealing with the 'race card'? Oy.

Dude, this is still the US and as such, speech is protected. Now, that one flies 24/7 and not just for those who agree with you or your position. It flies for all of us, whether you like it or not.

Are you saying that you're against that poor monkey? What if he put it on a black bear. Don't you think someone would have been 'offended' by that, too? When people are determined to be offended, they'll find offense at every turn.

Another skitzo-at-large

So you want me to help the president and his liberal jackazzes to keep letting him dip into the cookie jar. And when the cookie jar is empty then what?

So, Jenny, it's OK with you that your president canceled the national day of prayer? Then the next day was seen praying with them muslims who hate Americans?

RJ Cook, All Muslims do not hate America, that's like saying all Caucasians are racist. Also maybe you should look up Operation Ajax 08/19/1953 Iran, America/Britain used the Lies of Communism to Launch a Covert op that overthrew the elected Prime Minister of Iran. This democratically elected PM wasn't inline with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (BP) and was talking about nationalizing the Oil Fields, which would have cut the Profits of AIOC. Operation Ajax ousted the PM and Placed the Shah Reza Pahlavi in absolute power. With the aid of the CIA, the Shah of Iran remained in power for 26 years. The CIA provided intel that lead to the deaths of 250,000 people and 100,000 political prisoners. Yes they held the U.S. Embassy hostage for 444 days, but they all came home alive. But after being held hostage for 26 years, I would gather that they have a legitimate reason to Hate America.

Just Saying

Stop shouting, Jenny. It's rude and God is not served, believe me!

its still unknown just like where he was born at

Then we have no more cookies, Christopher!

And when Obama cancelled National Day of Prayer I wasn't even slightly surprised. Was anyone else? He does not pray to the Judea-Christian God, methinks. Loves those mosques tho.

Lila you have obviously led a very sheltered life and are unaware of the ignorant garbage who refer to men of color as monkeys.

Actually not monkeys, jokes?

If it was really about racism, they would have been complaining about the monkey long before he put the shirt on it. It's just because it has an anti-Obama shirt on. And if you don't like Obama, you have to be racist.

No RJ Cook you are not a Racist for disliking the POTUS, but you are one for comparing him to an ape.

No Cheryl, they're not illegal in any way. In fact, speech is protected. Yesterday I saw a little girl in a restaurant and her bib said: "Obama Sucks".

Was the child racist? Her parents? The manufacturer of the bib? I see anti-Obama shirts on the street every time I step out the door and most of them are a heck of a lot more offensive than 'omg no obama' ever dreamed of being.

Are all these people racist or do you think they're just voicing their opinion of the present resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

andre this presidential race is not about racism its more about the fact we cant afford another 4 yrs of obama go look at the facts about the deficet obama in just 1 term as pres has spent more then all 43 presidents before him so then you can talk about mitt flushing the country down the toilet mitt will actually have to bring in a septic system to clean up all obamas bull crap

Andre,Yours is the only sane post here. What is scary is thea the far right and tbaggers have iiinfiltrated the haters into thinking that they all need a bunch of guns and that it is ok to demean our Pres. What happens when they just start shooting people who they disagree with. What has happened to America??? Its so sad.

What law does being a racist break, Cheryl?

Andre, 'other countries' hate us and have done so long before Obama was born, no matter where. I was in Germany in 1962-64 and let me tell you, they hated us, alright, but it had absolutely positively nothing whatsoever to do with race or how we treated our people of color. They hated our wealth and power.

But they don't hate us so much anymore. We've lost most of our power and our wealth is leaving the country, and soon, if Obama gets four more years, they'll love us. We'll be just like Greece, lol.

Romney better win because this country will not survive four more years of Obama.

You're right-on, Vicki. When I hear people insult me by pretending that the only reason I don't love Obama is because he's black, I want to hurl. Couldn't be the bowing and scraping to every 2-bit dictator on the planet, tons of debt for my grandchildren to pay off, Obamacare that will cripple small business if it ever gets going, no, couldn't be any of that or a myriad of other things.

Nah, I'm just upset that he's black, or half black or whatever. Clue, guys, that's the same color he was on the five or six occasions he stopped by the Senate to vote when he worked there.

Y'all pretend he woke up one day that color. That's almost as funny as refusing to believe it was the whites who elected him! God, people, read the stats! Blacks are 12% of the population! Who gets elected with a 12% vote? Good grief.

jerry i agree its never ending

Only when you are not on the receiving of the Racist insult. What is it with certain white people that they choose to use selective amnesia concerning the Racist Nature of comparing African Americans to Apes??

Pat I sympathize. I am an Independant and I too made the horrendous mistake of voting for that man. I have come to loathe him and will not repeat my 2008 mistake.

So instead you'll vote for the guy who says he doesn't remember what he says but he stands behind it? LMAO... loser!

Don, why you feel the need to call me a loser is beyond me. Maybe you think it makes you sound all big and tough because what you have to say isn't interesting enough!

Maybe you should vent your frustration at the Party of No, which refuses to do anything about the economic situation started during GWB term in office. A little Knowledge would do you all some good, lack of it leads to your base-less response.

Well, Don, you got that mixed up. It was Pelosi who said we had to pass Obamacare so we could read the bill. ROFLMAO.

Pat, Michele, don't feel bad. A lot of people were fooled by the teleprompter. Plus, there was that idea that maybe if we elected a black president, maybe all the race cards could be put to bed. Deep sigh. The reverse happened. People who never had an anti-black bone in their body are discovering they do now. I have heard the word nig*er spoken and written more in the last year than in the 68 years before. True story and very sad. I live in an extremely liberal city in the most liberal state in the country. I know whereof I speak.

Yo, Don! That's called 'owning your words' and to clarify, I might not remember every word I've uttered, but I stand by those words. If I said them, I meant them, simple as that, no agenda involved.

How the heck is a monkey racist? Someone tell me.

Jimmy, they're pretending that the guy meant that Obama was the monkey, I guess. Of course, if that were the case, wouldn't you think it'd wear a pro-Obama shirt? I find it all very strange. I saw a little kid in a restaurant yesterday with a bib that said "Obama Sucks" on it. Does that qualify as racist? Is the baby racist, the parents? Who. Ridiculous.

Don, the monkey has been there a lot longer than Obama. It wears all kinds of outfits. It had on a Mets shirt before 'hatefu' shirt in question. Wears a different outfit for different holidays. And since it's his property, it's his right to scare off the geese any way he wants. And Don, I take it you live in this town and pay a lot of attention to where the geese go. So, what did the monkey have on at Christmas?

And why the name calling? We don't call you idiot.

don't know about scaring away geese, but its certainly has attracted some loons.

Sorry but the Second Amendment give me the right to also change the Government.

I'm voting, Mark. Count on it.

No our Constitutional Rights give us the right to fight extremism. And to defeat the attempt of our government to become tyrannical.

And our society cannot tolerate the far left, either. You think people in North Korea or Venzuela or Syria are happy with their leftist governments?

Ridiculous. We have the First Amendment exactly to protect the speech 'others' deem inappropriate or unpopular or extremist. When everyone says and thinks and acts the same, who needs a Constitution? And a question. When you saw Palin hanged in effigy, you were outraged there, too, right? As an American; as a woman, right? Why do I doubt that?

We will not lose our 'right to bear arms' either. Count on it. Now assault rifles and such, no way any citizen needs them. But shotguns and handguns, never gonna lose those, not without another war.

As for the idea that a monkey wearing an anti-Obama shirt could lose us speech rights and lead to stricter laws, that's nuts. Where do you live, Sandy?

But you just disrespected President Bush. "I never saw the characterizations depicting either Bush president, Clinton, or any of the other white preisdents as animals, etc that are thrown at Pres Obama." Why is Bush the only one you don't add the title president to?

I respect the office, Saundra, for sure, sullied though it may be. But Obama? There's nothing I see to respect, sorry. If you missed the Bush effigies, you had to work hard at it, but I won't say you're lying. And you're right, thus far, in the United States you can still practice free speech. What do you give it, another four years if Obama is reelected?

Chris you are really reaching with that lame retort, damn some sheeple are just too stupid for words.It is better to be thought the fool, then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

Earth to Gayle, it was Bush and the Patriot Act that took away Civil Right, other that you're just showing how out of touch you really are.

And the Democrats are the greatest abusers of our Constitutional rights.

Chris,

What were your thoughts of the Patriot Act? Republicans calling for "small government", "stop trampling on our rights" but we want to control who you can marry and also your bodies? Oh, right, that's constitutional. Don't be a buffet conservative and just pick the things you like, and then blame the other party for trampling on rights. Dude, you are straight paranoid.

Montclair
I could care less about who you enter into a civil union with. And I really don't care what a woman does to HER body. But I do care what is done to someone Else's life who can't speak for themselves. If what is recognized in a civil union is not enough because the word Marry is not part and parcel to bad. If all the rights you seek are included in a civil union what is a word that for eons has stood for the union between a man and a woman. I am not paranoid. But you are a little schizoid. The Patriot Act was a knee jerk law written to respond to an event and again like all knee jerk laws it was done incorrectly. So what you looking to put me away for my beliefs just because they don't agree with your?

Wow, Sandy, sounds like you're just salivating for that violence to begin.

Why do you automatically react like a kid in the schoolyard? You're the second bleeding-heart liberal in an hour suggesting that the money shirt will escalate to violence. That is patently ridiculous. I know it's what you want, so you can further fuel the fire, but it won't happen.

We're grownups, we see our lives and businesses failing, disappearing retirements and pensions that companies can no longer pay. We're rightfully furious at his betrayal and the color of his skin doesn't matter a bit and you know it. Tempest in a teapot!

Control who you marry? Where's that happening? And the 'your bodies' comment. Does that refer to prostitution? If you're over 18, last I heard, you do whatever. Oh, or do you mean abortion? And Montclair, are you saying that you approve of every thing the Dems stand for? You agree with them, across the board, about everything?

As for trampling rights, what the heck is that about? We're talking here about a monkey wearing an anti-Obama shirt. Catch up, dude, you're the one who's paranoid, not Chris.

Yvonne, he had Congress in his pocket for two years and did squat about it. Also, talking of racist comments, "Cocoa Nuts", "Coongres" like, what the heck's with that? You're the racist, right there, what you just typed! You're really a beard, aren't you. I can spot 'em.

No he has done more than that. The illegal alien immunity, the lack of enforcement in immigration, the denying of protection to a state of the union (i.e. Arizona). YvonneD I checked my family tree and they all were slant eyed and yellow skinned and they didn't eat coconuts just rice. And you are so wrong about the gun lobbyist being the cause of the screwed up gun laws. It is because stupid democrat law makers write stupid unenforceable laws by reacting to incidents like Aurora. It is called Knee Jerk Laws by Knee Kerk Politicians. Get your facts straight.

Chris,

By the way, the sky is falling. Watch out for all of the knee-jerk liberals as they land on your rights, weighing you down.

What about his thousands of executive orders that he has signed. If he doesn't think congress will pass something, he just writes and exed order.

See, Yvonne, the key to everything you said is in your last statement... 'he won't even divulge how much money he made off investments he's made.'

That's the key, isn't it? You're pea-green with envy that he's rich, smart, well educated, that he's made the American dream his and that he and his family are happy and successful. Juest eats at your liberal little soul. Ju7st think of all the fun YOU could have with his money. Y'all're so transparent it's a joke. Jealousy!

How sad is that.

Obama is the worst president we've ever had, period. But race has nothing to do with it. I'd vote for Herman Cain in a heartbeat, or Condi Rice. But some Chi-town thug who's so disingenuous we don't even know for sure he's American since his birth cert is a fraud. Check the social security number(s) he uses and see who they were originally belonged to. And he has the audacity to tell Romney to show his taxes? Obama, let's see your school transcripts and all that stuff you hide. Fair's fair.

YvonneD, cocoa nuts? Coongres? Freudian slips?

Chris suffers from foot in mouth disease and he refusing to get treatment for it,,, Just Saying

Big Fat Fail Gayle, we want to know if Romney like other 1%ters are cheating our Government out of taxable income with these off shore accounts. Too funny the sheeple you being one of them, would support a man who places his money in Swiss bank accounts, usually criminals do that to hide illegal assets.

This isn't free speech as much as it is racist harrassment. This poor excuse for a human being deserves all the honest reactions that he is getting for his actions.

Point on Helios, but the sheeple get their guidance from the likes of Rush "I used Hemorrhoids to avoid service during Vietnam" Limbaugh and the faux news crew of meatheads

Actually, George Washington came up the plan for the street layout of DC and what a screwed up layout it is. William Penn did a much better job with Philadelphia. Yes, many Europeans were indentured servants (slaves) that allowed them to come to the colonies, but many were not. But what about what Obama said when he was in Ireland the other year tracing his roots saying that the smart ones left Ireland for the US. The unsaid correlary is that the dumb ones stayed in Ireland. That little gaffe never made big news.

I believe the spelling is "descendants" and "Serfs"... talk about uneducated !

For one thing, I don't stand on the backs of others. I stand for myself. I am what I am through my own efforts and no one elses. See, grudge-holding, this living in the past, thinking you're winning or losing off the actions of people dead lo these many years, this is what kills the blacks. But you know what, the successful educated blacks don't do that. They live in the present. They belong to country clubs, live in expensive homes, drive expensive cars and dress appropriately. When they speak there is no indication of race. No Ebonics, no slang, no 'talk'.

I don't see Condi Rice sitting around, lamenting her black background and wishing for whatever. She took the world given to her, worked hard, educated herself, made the right choices and is a stellar example of what the American dream can be for anyone, man or woman, who doesn't feel sorry for himself and his great, great, great, great grandparents. I doubt Herman Cain got to where he is today by sitting around lamenting his blackness. HA! Not a chance, that feisty little genius! I wish he was our nominee. Imagine that! What would the racists card read like then, lol.

As for the ridiculous monkey --who wore a Mets uniform two weeks ago -- if he's racist, how? Evolution teaches that we ALL come from monkeys. So how is a monkey racist when dealing with whites or blacks?

And Christopher, you're right on.

saturnian, a few typos do not add up to the truth this person placed before you, but yet again you fail to absorb the data. You are just what the Party of No loves in their sheeple, under educated, in Denial with a empty head ripe for the kool-aid they been feeding you.

Practice what you preach Gayle, I have heard that same old crap from in Denial Bigots all my life. You always want people to forgive your past transgression and get over what happened in the past. Well I'm a firm believer in if you don't learn from your past, it is bound to repeat itself.

Now if you want to start by leading by example, then start with all these BS 9/11 remembrances. It was in the past so get over it and it was most likely retribution to the many clandestine CIA ops across the globe in which America trample on the rights and liberties of Foreign Nationals.

Just Saying

Lies and bigoted insults hurt more.

Saturn, dude, you the English teacher? Didn't realize the grammar police were here. I think it's 'uneducated' of you to even mention some minor typo as uneducated. I though we were all just here chatting.

Loosen up, dude ;) You only said that because you're on the other side of the argument, lol.

Wrong it was about a a plastic monkey with a political t shirt that some people construed to be a black man who is actually a gray man because black plu white equals gray.

Exactly. And there are many net cowboys out there cowardly enough to hide behind site names to subject others to their distainful opinions and distorted so-called facts.
But just as they exist, there are more out there who would disagree.. probably ones with jobs and responsibilties who can't afford to spend too much time on the net.

The monkey wore a Mets Tshirt two weeks earlier.

I bet he wears a red hat at Christmas time, turkey feathers around Thanksgiving, and for Halloween? Who knows? Maybe a shirt with George Bush's face on it that says "How's that CHANGE workin' out for ya!"

What'll we call him then? roflmao, this is sooooo silly.

Actually, most of them died from diseases that they had no immunity to. By the way, what part of europe do you live in? Obviously you want to correct the mistakes of our ancestors and move back to europe. My ancestors - settlers of Penn. made friends with and traded with the Indians. They also did not try to convert covertly (they converted by being their friends and dealing with then honestly) nor did they believe in slavery and later ones were actually involved with the underground railroad..

Perhaps that's where the phrase "let sleeping dogs lie" comes from. Now, I don't agree with a word you said, but for the sake of argument, let's say, as you did, "the far right has provoked all of what existed but laid dormant." Perhaps, then, race aversion is simply inbred, like our fight/flight reaction or a myriad of others we feel without reason. I don't believe that for a minute, but if it works for you....

Slavery existed long before America was discovered. Just ask the Jews.

Surely you agree that it was the whites that elected Obama. It's undeniable, so, with that being the case, how did 'the black man holding the highest office' tick the whites off?

It's just a great excuse. I abhor Obama for the content of his character not for the color of his skin. I don't care whether you believe me or not, but that's the truth. If we had Herman Cain, I'd vote him in in a heartbeat. Then what would you say?

And the left are so donkey like. It is both sides of the aisle. And be ashamed for your own liberal party.

Oh, Pete! Hush! They don't want to hear that. It doesn't fit with their theme song. They just can't dance to it!

My ancestors came over from Ireland during the potato famine. They weren't felons nor were they uneducated; just poor and looking for a new start. They got it in NYC, quickly assimilated and became Americans. Stories of Ireland died with the grandparents. They were now Americans.

And Sandy, nothing for you to be ashamed of! You will never be mistaken for a conservative or a Republican.

\I'm not ashamed because of what the Dems say or do, well, I can't tell a lie, yes I am. Pelosi? Jackson? Reid? Obama? Frank? Sharpton? Emmanuel? Axelrod? Oh dear, getting really nauseous.

Er, that's okay dear, I'm mortified right now myself, just thinking about it. Go ahead and be ashamed. ;

No, not while people are depicted in gross racist fashions. The President is not a communist or socialist, but follows in a long line of presidential figures who believe a safety net should exist for the most vulnerable Americans, many of which are children and the disabled.

The expenses of war and greed he inherited are not his fault, but the responsibility of getting us out of it is. This doesn't happen overnight, but these expenses are what is draining us; not basic services for our people. Anyone who believes differently is either misinformed or terribly selfish.

Indeed, Tom, but the problem is you're talking reality, common sense. Ropa doped, what a true analogy! Excellent. Kudos.

Thing is, since it's 'our fault' that their life is what it is, whatever that may be, they refuse to see the truth even when it's staring them in the face. Obama is a flop as a president. When I think of him standing at the State of the Union address and scolding the Supreme Court, I gag. Giving Queen Elizabeth a tape of his speeches? WTF? And that beat goes on, ring-kissing, bowing. He's a disgrace, every word he utters is treachery to the country he's sworn to uphold.

But we could sit here and write it all down in words of one syllable, show them the footage of the gaffs I'm referring to, video and audio to prove it's true without a doubt and they simply stare at you, mouths hanging open and say, "George Bush did it." Oy!

Thank heavens that these people were brave enough to lift their voices for the good and not just stay silent and feel bad about it. The are to be commended and others would learn a positive lesson from them.

He removed it because it was bad for business. He made it clear he thought the whole thing was ridiculous. I bet they dress up that monkey every Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter and Halloween.

Last week he was wearing a Mets teashirt. He's a regular fashionista, but I don't think he's racist.

When I hear people demanding that the cops enforce their idea of right or wrong, I shudder. Last time I looked it was still the USA.

They can't threaten him with fines or imprisonment unless he broke a law, which he did not. Arrest him for what charge? Dressing a monkey in an anti-Obama shirt? What if Bond had been wearing the shirt instead of the monkey? Would that be okay?

He made an intelligent business move by taking it off the monkey, but I wish he'd had the ability to leave it on. It was a simple political statement, like we see all over the place. Still it's his business, so I understand why he caved.

Outrage comes so easily to the slow, does it not?

Rev. Go back to your pulpit and preach to your choir. You can't believe the truths and you believe the lies the Dems spread. Is your church tax exempt. Be careful the Obama followers may clamor to have your exemption revoked.

Reverend, you are right. And, sadly, it is about race.. something that would break the hearts of my late parents (who are of a different ethnicity). There are some who do not dislike President Obama because of his race, but because of the fear instilled by lies told by the likes of the Fox organization.
And those who would lift their voices in opposition are labeled oversensitive or weak. These are pathetic shaming tactics that I hope will be countered with sharing well thought out expression. I wish us all luck in the future. No matter how the next election turns out we are going to need it.

Helios
I guess you have been watching ABC and NBC and MSNBC and not really looking at the lies that they spew not just about Romney but every time a disaster strij=kes they are quick to point their crooked slime coated fingers at the wrong party. Take the Aurora shooting ABC News retracts statement because Holmes was not a member of the Tea Prty but a member of the Democrat backed Occupy Wall Street group. Noe who is telling the lies. Zimmerman is a white male who committed a racially motivated shooting of a young innocent black altar boy. Yeah right it turns our MSNBC edited the 911 tape to make it sound like Zimmerman was tracking this altar boy because he was black. Another lie. So jump up and down about lying but who is it that jumps to conclusions without researching facts, Who edits police tapes to change the context and content to cause a racial stir. It is all Democrats.

Certainly not! The monkey is not Obama! He's wearing an anti-Obama teashirt, but what if he were a pony or a bear. Besides, we teach in schools from a very young age that man descended from monkeys. I mean, how could you know that that wasn't a white monkey under his coat?

Nothing racist about it, just anti-Obama, which a good many of us are, by the way, and the color of his skin has nothing to do with it. I wish Herman Cain had won the nomination. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat and he's blacker, if that enters the picture, than Obama.

So, isn't it just possible we hate the man, not the skin color, which is truly incidental? Do you agree it's possible? Just a little bit?

Reverand - you are as entitled as the next person to express your feelings about The President. That being said you have no right to insinuate that others are ill-informed about the President or that Fox News is lying. Mr. Obama has not been a good president and that is the reason many want him OUT. I enthusiatically voted for him in 2008 and had high hopes for his adiminstration. I will not make that mistake twice.

What really pee's me off is he keeps trying to call himself Hawaiian. Then he comes out and claims that he was conceived in Selma during the march in 1964 and lo and behold the fool is born in 1961. Is that another first for this Kenyan?

They can, but they would be wrong to do so. President Obama inherited eight years of destruction, and is being scapegoated for not cleaning up fast enough. And to bring the Black Panthers into this subject is as obtuse as it is pathetic. Hate is a strong word for someone who did not deliberately committ a transgression.

Mike, you're right. Can't be his failures, his lack of leadership, his squandering of our money at a time when there's darn little of it to spare, his refusal to even allow his college transcripts to be seen, the fraudulent birth certificate he finally produced, his constant down-putting of American specialism, his extraordinarily poor choice of friends and mentors.

Nah, you're right, couldn't be any of that; it's that he's black, or half black. How about the bailouts, the trillions in debt, Obamacare, and then, there's the never-ending anti-white rhetoric, like when that professor gave the DC cops some grief, wow, he's like screaming about police brutality and the insensitivity of the cops ... remember, that ended in an apologetic beer summit.

Have you ever been so embarrassed by a president in your life? So damaged, so destroyed? God help us.

His 'transgressions', talk about a euphemism, were calculated, deliberate and on-course for his 'vision' of the United States, Helios. Had nothing to do with Bush or Bush Derangement Syndrome, which got Obama elected in the first place.

This is how Obama feels, what he stands for and believes in, whether you like it or not! I sure don't, but I deal with the reality.

For the moment, he's the POTUS, that includes all the citizens, not just black ones. The Panthers, you see discussing them standing at a poling place as obtuse and pathetic? Dear, there's nothing pathetic about it. What it is is terrifying, racism at it's homegrown best. How about if for every Panther we place a KKK member right beside him, also in 'uniform? How'd that work for you? Certainly fair, right?

So your delusional statement shows that you like all the other Liberal Lemmings do not really educate yourself but would rather pump yourself up as an educated pompous liberal who has no clue. Try reading some real news reports. ABC did in fact retract their tea party slur. And Obama claims to be born in Hawaii which would give him claim to be Hawaiian. You know like a person born in Texas is referred to as a Texan. Oh wait you spout bravado but hide behind a screen name. Right. So why are you posting as Helios and not your real name. Got something to hide?

Helios, your last sentence confirmed for me what I'd suspected for a while here.

You said: "And anyone who believes that ABC and NBC distort facts has some serious delusional thinking."

Alrighty there, I rest my case!

roflmao and crying. Very stange feeling.

I see lots of people who don't really like the FIRST AMENDMENT. They want a "MY AMENDMENT"....which would be "YOU have to say "this or That".....THIS WAY! MY WAY"! We are all idiots to think we can have Free Speech....We have to learn to WALK and TALK like those that Can't see their way out the door CORRECTLY. Mr. Obama should just GO AWAY....most of us "idiots" would like that! If we could only maybe get him a Ticket back to Chicago, Hawaii or Kenya....wherever....That'd be GREAT!

And maybe you are the model for the CHIMP-MONK

I know! Can't figure that out. Deadbeat dad deserter, mother busy elsewhere and he glorifies the man! Predicated on what, being a sperm donor? a

If his grandparents hadn't stepped in, he'd be raised by the state. His white grandparents had that dubious honor. And is he grateful for all they provided? They weren't wealthy but they gave of their money to raise and educate him. And he's such a grateful and thankful grandchild. Uh huh.

Probably the same reason there are many other BI-RACIAL people in this melting pot country of ours

I read 'Mets' but the point is he's been there a while and is a fashionista. I bet they deck him out for every holiday that comes down the pike.

Gayle , I can't speak for anyone else, but when I first signed on to the Internet twelve or fourteen years ago and was prompted to enter a "Username" examples were provided and also on how to create user names. Since I raised budgies as a hobby I chose Joebudgie. Not hiding anything, just using something that is easy for me to remember, is short, and is easy to type.. My full name is Joseph J. Papierz Jr.,

Oops. I see this web site used my name after all.
Joe

One phrase-RACIST IDIOTS.

You sir must be a American of African Decent other wise why the Racist Card behind a screen name. I am A Vietnam Vet and what toy see is my real name. Come out of the closet and join the rest of us Americans.

Donna KAY its people like you that are causing this country to go to HELL in a HANDBASKET. Stop extolling your HATE.

Not EXACTLY true. I don't know who taught you that but they have taught it to you in a skewed way. It's easy to say more whites are on welfare because it's true. BUT whites still make up over 70% of the population. African Americans make up approx 12% of the population. Now, let's say out of that 70% of white people 20% are on welfare. And lets say out of the 12% of blacks 15% are on welfare. Who is REALLY the greater user of welfare? It's not hard to figure out.

By the way I took some stats for you from the governments website. Keep in mind that whites are make up the greatest number of people in this country (over 70%) and African Americans only 12%:
Society & Culture › Demographics
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Breakdown of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependant Children) in US. percent, Black 39.8 percent, White 38.8, Hispanic 15.7 percent, Asian 2.4 percent, other 3.3 percent.

You've missed the boat, djones. Yes, there are more white people than black people on welfare because the blacks only make up 12% of the population. What you need to do is calculate the percentage of those 12% that are on welfare; per capita calculations, they call it. Then you would see an entirely picture. Same with numbers in prisons. Do you know what the percentage of blacks in prison are? I know, I know, they're picked on. Deep sigh.

Shhsh, we're trying to forget that. ;)

Quite an eyeopener, huh, Michele? Check out the stats on prisons.

If you think the amount of racism that is alive and well in the U.S. is incredible, the amount of STATISM in the U.S. is greater. And it's worse, because it is insidious.

All freedom-loving Americans should fly the Gadsden (Don't Tread on Me) flag.

Gail, Yes there is still racism in the US but as someone who has been all over racism, gender bias, sexual orientation bias and more is alive and well ALL over the world. (They kill you in Iran if you are gay). Believe me when I say, as a woman YOU and I should be thrilled we live here. In addition, the race card is used a bit too often in this country. As far as the Pizza company goes - It does not matter if his pizza is lousy. You need to understand he is just one example of what will occur once Obamacare is implemented. Small businesses will be VERY damaged and will simply NOT hire new employees because they will NOT be able to pay the premiums. AND if YOU work I hope you aware that the cost of Obamacare will come out of YOUR paycheck! Lastly while most crime in this country is committed by BLACK men against OTHER Black men, women and children, you are correct. Most mass shooters and serial killers to boot are white.

AGREED G.L.

I have my own History of America I look back on. 1942 Manzanar, California and in the States of Washington and Oregon all Americans of Japanese decent are rounded up and put into concentration camps. History of World War II the very descendants whose relatives are interred in concentration camps become the two most decorated Army units in the HIstory of the United States. California, 1946 Americans of Japanese decent are not allowed to own property. 1980 one Vietnam Veteran applies for a minority student loan and is denied because we are not considered minorities even though we number 120,000 in the whole state. So bring on your racist comments but we as a people even though persecuted and stripped of our properties and dignity still fight for this country, die for the other citizens of this country because we believe in it. Ask the survivors of the Texas Division in the Ardennes. So all you people playing you're race cards, I think you know how I feel.

I own my business, Michele, and you're right-on regarding costs. Between Worker's Comp, state and local taxes, OCHA, social security and now you tack on Obamacare? Stifles growth, as we see now, both in our unemployment numbers, loss of tax revenue and increase in entitlement requests. Where's the money to come from?

And Monk, could you clarify? I don't know what you mean by Statism.

God knows, small business people like me, who could put maybe three people to work full time with a good wage, simply can't take the risk and the expense so instead of growing, we earn what we can between us and forget employees. It's tragic but what can you do?

I know all of black history I care to learn, Gail. I'm done with all Ancient History. It's now that matters. You need to take a basic business class and learn what's going on in the US.

Of course the business, pizza and otherwise, will raise prices. What choice do they have? And what worth can a minimum wage worker offer to the employer but potential? What bondage? it's like 2012, girl, not 1712.

If they want to work, they move up. Check your stats.

Your segue regarding mass murderers is a hoot. Truly.

Were you in a cave or a hole from 2001-2008. The bush-cheyney cartel got us in this economic CRAP-HOLE in the first place.

Vet, I agree Bush made a mess of things, but Obama making it worse is not the answer.

You as many others responding to this story really have some issues.

LOL. that's excellent, Robin. Exactly. If the monkey was Obama, wouldn't you think the tea shirt would say something like "OMG No Romney 4 ME?"

Just makes no sense whatsoever except to the whiners.

Sorry George Walter you didn't convince me. I only see a symbolic representation of the thought that "Even a monkey knows Obama isn't good for America and must be voted out of office."

Joe, it's the selective amnesia and Denial of Bigots like you, that keep Racism Alive in America.

No need to shout, we all hear ya. Yes, he was. With any luck at all, he'll be searching for new digs after November. Nothing racist about it. I wish Herman Cain had gotten the Rep. nomination.

And all the name calling. What's with that?

Remember, Vet, it was the whites who elected him. No way around it, no matter how hard you try. Just the facts.

I remember it like it was yesterday, Vet. A very different time and a very different place.

I used to see the liberals depicting George Bush as a monkey all the time when he was president and I guess because educated people don't let things like that bother them it never amounted to anything. As long as things like this bother people then they're going to keep on doing it.

Also political parties if you notice the Democratic-Liberal chose a jackass. Fitting I would say.

The differance here is some people can't understand that. They think if you don't like Obama, you must be racist. It's OK not to like a white president, but not OK to dislike a black president.

Wrong again, but a lot of white people like yourself use selective amnesia when it comes to Racism. African Americans have been compared to Apes as an Insult for decades, yet you choose to use Ronald "Bedtime with Bonzo" Reagan approach of selective Denial i.e. Iran/Contra Scandal

And you as a so called Vet Who Served should learn to be more tolerant of other peoples First Amendment rights. That is one of the things that many of us have fought and died to preserve. I think you should go back to the VA and utilize their PTSD treatments. It would help you cope with the realities of life as it really is. Vietnam Vet 68-69 and proud to do it again.

Vet, it would never work. First of all she's willfully ignorant, and on top of that boasts about it, while mocking others. I guess she's insulated, or has enough similar friends, where she doesn't believe any problems that she can't see.
And while it's a challenge for her to compose anything that makes sense, one can only suppose it's due to the prospect of President Obama getting in for another term that has brains more scrambled than usual.
The President is well received in many states and countries. It must hurt to face that. If you deem him an embarrassment or laughable, I'm afraid the joke is on you. Life isn't the Patch. It's probably the only sanctuary for your backward banter.
Posters that diminish and don't get why others are offended at a monkey-likeness being connected with President Obama, furthermore trying to rationalize and then excuse it with their own warped values are either lying or equally backward.
And since when do we label and put people down for being intelligent, and then urge them to look at the "truth" and "facts" - according to Fox or the prejudiced element here? No thanks.

You call me a racist and ignorant. Predicated on what? That I have the gall to disagree with you? How awkward that must be for you.

Er, btw, my grandkids are grownups now, so the crack about parenting classes really is rather passe, but my curiosity is piqued, I'll admit.

Oh, I get it now. You're referring to the baby I saw in the restaurant that had the bib that said "Obama Sucks" right? And pray tell, what do You think I should have done? Made comments? Caused a scene like you would have, obviously. How ridiculously rude.

Just as an aside, my children are business owners and professionals, so even there, you're off base. Condolences. Keep trying.

A Vet read my post on real racism in the 20th Century. You think you are the only people who have been discriminated against are black. Wrong answer. What part of your race was ripped from your homes and relocated in the middle of the desert with barbed wire and concertina wire fences and armed guards with orders to shoot to kill any one found outside the fence. It is a place called Manzanar, California. And as an American citizen has the black people had that done to them in the recent history of this country. I am not talking 300 years I am talking any one walking this country now. I can name one group on citizens and that is during World War II what you speak of. It is they who were denied the right to own land in California till 1952. But we didn't sit on our butts and cry about why we are so destitute because our ancestors were slaves, We gathered ourselves as truly second class citizen and clawed our way out of the hole this nation put us in. it was our friends and relatives who died to save an all white Army division of 246 men at the cost of 1340 of us. Do we play the race card no. We play the work hard and get your butts off the ground card. So you want to talk racism don't bring your tears to me you can get your self out of the slums is you choose too.

Slavery has been over for a long time. No on alive today has been a slave, nor has been a slave owner. Those who want to hang on to racism, will. Those who expect racism, will experience it, whether it was meant as racism or not.

Sorry, but this "meaning of picnic" is a myth.

Picnic was borrowed from French piquenique, a word which seems to have originated around the end of the 17th century. Originally the word denoted a sort of party to which everyone brought along some food; the notion of an `outdoor meal' did not emerge until the 19th century.

Clay it is Racist and maybe if you would goggle it you would see other racist reference to African Americans and monkeys. So spare me your ignorance and Denial that Racist and Racism is alive and well in America.

Case in Point Wade Michael Page!!!

Torri, I assure you that I, for one, would have no frame of reference to internalize a KKK cross burning. It would mean absolutely nothing to me, raised on the east coast, anymore than I internalized the Ok. bombing or Ft. Hood or any violent act committed by someone who is insane.

I never have nor ever would participate in anything like that. Still, I wouldn't take it personally, never having seen one and I certainly wouldn't be screaming that it was racist..

Do some research about the event dealing with Racism during WWII. You will find that ignorant racist white Army personnel were spreading rumor that African American Military personnel grew tails and white racist for years have used that comparison, but you being white and in Denial of you own inbred Racism will never see this.

You will falsely label me a liberal and commie and antichrist type for saying this, but... mainly the left leaning of my own aquaintance just think it is stupid to put clothes on dogs (except loose things like a bandana) it looks like they make animals uncomfortable and even snappish.

You are about as clue-less as they come. Oh by the way Denial is not just a river in North Africa.

Angry White Guys and their belief of entitlement, seem to forget their Racist Past, Present and future.

FYI, GWB is a lying military deserter and a coward who started 2 costly Wars and Lied to start them. Seem white people like your self have issues with reality. Like the fact that Saddam Hussein was recruited by the CIA in 1959 and trained to be a ruthless assassin. Also it was Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush who authorized the sell of weapons to Iraq.

Now when it come tpo the current state of affairs in America, the Recession started during GWB's term in office and the Party of No would rather watch America Fail "So they can select another mental midget Mitt the Twit" then to work together to fix the problem that repubilcan over spend ing brought upon America.

Depends where you are on the reel, P. We got some strange posts here, no doubt about it. Lots of fun, I think. I love political debate, even if it does bring out the loons.

Thank you arugula, same to you

BSG Your words: "appalling at how quick we are to label, and judge people based on a few typed lines."

And yet... You call the guy in the story a racist or idiot based on..........
A few typed lines!

Hey! Was it "racist" when left-wingers referred to President George W Bush as a chimp? Of course not. So why is it racism to refer to Obama with a lower primate reference. Think about it and don't be so quick to use the "racist" card.

I am tired of hearing that cr@p. He had 2 years of democrats controlling the House & Senate.The only thing he did was push Obamacare through, & no one knew what was even in it. He/they didn't even pass a budget.
His "transparency" & everything else were all lies. Obam@zz, himself has caused more racism than anything in recent history. The only thing he has accomplished is dividing our country more than it already was.

KMEA

So true!

Well said