clip-on-tie, did you actually want to address the substance of the article – that someone can, completely unironically, use the word "nigger" in reference to President Obama, yet still claim "I'm not a racist" – or did you just want to make yet another slam at Obama unrelated to the actual clip at hand?

Just asking.

When you're actually engaging with the substance of a clip or an article, you're thoughtful and interesting. But when you just keep spewing the same irrelevant, outrage-filled talking points, you're utterly boring. You keep saying the same damn thing over and over and over, regardless of the stimulus presented.

There are plenty of clippers who welcome such ditto-head comme...

clip-on-tie, did you actually want to address the substance of the article – that someone can, completely unironically, use the word "nigger" in reference to President Obama, yet still claim "I'm not a racist" – or did you just want to make yet another slam at Obama unrelated to the actual clip at hand?

Just asking.

When you're actually engaging with the substance of a clip or an article, you're thoughtful and interesting. But when you just keep spewing the same irrelevant, outrage-filled talking points, you're utterly boring. You keep saying the same damn thing over and over and over, regardless of the stimulus presented.

There are plenty of clippers who welcome such ditto-head comments. I'm not one of them. If all you want to do is repeat the right-wing outrage of the month ("Wright's a racist!" worked for a while, but then y'all had to switch to "he's a Kenyan! He's a Kenyan!" and now on to "OMG he doesn't deserve the Nobel Prize!!!" it seems), take it somewhere else.

You're not stupid, clip-on-tie. I suggest you work on your reading comprehension and your assessment of appropriate behavior for differing situations, then try actually engaging in discussion.

My patience with this kind of right-wing talking-point regurgitation is growing very thin.

One of the top democrats in the senate just over eight years ago said:

They're much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime... I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

Does the use of that word au...

One of the top democrats in the senate just over eight years ago said:

They're much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime... I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

Does the use of that word automatically make someone a racist? I don't know. I don't know either of them personally, and I can't see into someone's heart so I might not know even if they were my best friend.