Poet Maya Angelou: ‘Don’t Have to Apologize For My Country’ When Abroad After Obama Win

"This time I can say: 'I am an American: look at us, look at what we've just achieved.'"

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November 7, 2008 at 5:02 pm - MSNBC
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Maria   November 7th, 2008 - 3:59 pm

I guess all the Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Italian-Americans still have to apologize when overseas about their country since they still have not had their man elected to the White House. USA has been and is a beacon to the whole world.

KMichaels   November 7th, 2008 - 4:01 pm

So, another moronic hasbeen liberal that can only be proud of America if it has a black socialist at it’s head. God save us from these racist uneducated fools.

Brenda C   November 7th, 2008 - 4:15 pm

Oh yeah, we got us a mutt for President. I couldn’t have said it better Obama. Guess Maya knows your a mutt?

Brenda C   November 7th, 2008 - 4:15 pm

Just an old version of oprah. Not proud-GET OUT!! If you can only be proud because a black man got into office you need to do us ALL a favor and get out. In case you missed it Obama is half white. Guess that upsets your old black heart.

Enzo   November 7th, 2008 - 4:44 pm

Funny how these Black Trash are suddenly “proud” Americans. They are the weak link that will bring down America with their trashing of this once greater country.

I’ve been around the world, and I never felt the need to apologize for the USA to citizens of these second rate, usually socialist countries. If that dumb broad, who can’t even rhyme her words, is feeling shame and embarrassment, it must come from her soul. Barrack Hussein Obama will probably nominate this pathetic apologist as Ambassador to some nation that hates us.

This Time or For The First Time   November 7th, 2008 - 4:44 pm

Oh Maya, grow up, you sound like Michelle Obama.

You blacks (for the most part) are pathetic!

JANDJ   November 7th, 2008 - 4:51 pm

I NEVER SAW THIS RHINO PEICE OF CRAP IM ASHAMED OF OUR PERSIDENT IM ASHAMED OF ALL THESE DAMN BLACKS AND ALL THESE WHITE WOMEN WANTING TO BE BLACK LIKE BARBRA WALTERS

thiaCyn   November 7th, 2008 - 5:05 pm

This woman is not a poet, have you read her so called work? NOW you peeps that have bought her books, yeah Americans bought this piece of work and made her what she is! Now get in a mindset to BOYCOTT her work, the media, Oprah, anything George Soros as in ACORN,ect. Research what you buy and what you read, don’t let any stone unturned or you’ll get what you paid for, Maya, the work of all things non-American and ashamed of her shores.

john   November 7th, 2008 - 5:07 pm

my mom liked il duce , typical crazy old lady. I hope it isn’t a medical problem on her part.

lebowski   November 7th, 2008 - 5:11 pm

I liked her best when she did her Calypso album. She’s gone downhill ever since. She’s just another politically correct leftist hater of what makes America great. Please, stay in Europe. They’ll love you there as long as you keep saying such tripe.

sigh   November 7th, 2008 - 5:23 pm

Attention American Blacks: Obama is not one of you. Never was, and never will be. He came from the people in Africa who were either smart enough to hide or who sold your ancestors to American Democrats as slaves. You still have no representation. You have been had. He has no idea what you have been through, NONE. Sorry.

rob   November 7th, 2008 - 5:38 pm

so true Maya!

Jamesb   November 7th, 2008 - 5:38 pm

She’s a poet? Does she know it? OH YA Maya the “poet”! I just googled her…here is one of her big hits…”There once was a man from Nantucett…” and her classic “here I sit my cheeks a flexin’…”

TexGal   November 7th, 2008 - 5:44 pm

Maybe Europe can make sense of her so called poetry. If she was never proud of living here, she should have found another continent on which to reside.

Drano   November 7th, 2008 - 5:46 pm

Wouldn’t it be nice if all the people who “hate” us would just stop coming here? And all the ones who find Europe more desirable would just move to Europe if they like it so much.

That would drop our immigration of undesirables to near zero.

This woman is a typical flower child hippie with trash “poetry” that only Moonbat liberals would not consider mental illness.

Andy   November 7th, 2008 - 5:49 pm

Maya, again, proves she is the quintessential embodiment of narcissism, ignorance, and a profound disrespect for the greatest country on the planet.
Tell you what Sister, next time you travel abroad, don’t bring shame upon yourself – DON’T COME BACK!
And please, please, take all of your “I just learned America is Great” buddies with you, and DON’T COME BACK!

TorreJean   November 7th, 2008 - 5:54 pm

Unfortunately, we will continue to tolerate and apologize for you. You know if it is SO tough to live here…. Europe might be wonderful for you …. they will idolize you and you can live the life you love there.

I am going to start a charity to take contributions for all those who what to leave…. Hollywood types …etc

Richard   November 7th, 2008 - 5:58 pm

Proud American who is proud of his country. Been around the world several times, Europe, Asia, Middle East and I have NEVER apologized for my country…and I never will…suggestion? Either assimilate into the America society or leave…hopefully she will leave…and drop her passport on the way out…

demdicks   November 7th, 2008 - 6:03 pm

Maya Angelou;

Affirmative Action in “poetry”

pomoc   November 7th, 2008 - 6:08 pm

This woman is such a VACUOUS FOOL TRY and read some of her crap it’s the best laugh I had in years . no no no what I meant is go to the library don’t spend your loot on this crap.

MAKE MY DAY!!   November 7th, 2008 - 6:16 pm

We don’t NEED poems….We need solutions!! We are almost BANKRUPT!! And, there is a lot more crap to come!!

Obama is NOT going to be able to fix anything….There is NO MONEY!!! The only way he can get the money for all these SOCIAL programs is raise everyones taxes!! READ MY LIPS!! More taxes are coming!!

Also, I find it hilarious that MR. CHANGE has a VP who has been in Wahington, for almost 35 yrs….And now he appoints this guy Emmanuel who worked for Bill Clinton 15 yrs ago!!Looks like the SAME OLD ****…DIFFERENT DAY, if you ask me!!

john   November 7th, 2008 - 6:17 pm

Dump your Euro friends, who care what they say. america’s poet dope

joe   November 7th, 2008 - 6:21 pm

Maya Angelou, Ladies and Gentlemen, with the most racist comment of the election season.

Let’s hear it again, Maya !

SuperSarge229   November 7th, 2008 - 6:25 pm

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

I’ll bet!

Words cannot begin to describe the down right disgust I have for spitball, eurotrashcxcksuxkinglitxlepxntywastes that feel America has some reason to be second fiddle to the snot nose socialists that we have on more than one occasion laid down American lives for! This is the kind of BS we’re going to keep hearing about now that the half-breed monkey from Illinois has been elected by the caxdyasxxed braindead, cowards that have become the majority!!

grik   November 7th, 2008 - 6:25 pm

Obama’s election is redemptive in a way. I totally agree with her. It is something to be proud of for our Nation.

Not for the person himself but that as a nation skin color has become much less important.

Get over your bigotry, and savor the moment!

carljr   November 7th, 2008 - 6:28 pm

calypso??? really? are you confusing her with Harry Belafonte? :)

Bill Clinton   November 7th, 2008 - 6:29 pm

Well, at least you don’t have to apologize to the world about the poets in America like we do.

SuperSarge229   November 7th, 2008 - 6:29 pm

“For the first time in my adult life, I’m ashamed of my country.”

MAKE MY DAY!!   November 7th, 2008 - 6:30 pm

It used to be…..WHITE IS RIGHT!!

Now it’s…..BLACK IS BACK!!

This ‘INAUGURATION DAY’ on 20 Jan/09 is going to be CRAZY!!! We are going to have this black guy Obama saying….I BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA etc.

All the freakin MUSLIMS are going to be jumping up and down and celebrating!!!

I NEVER thought I would see this day in AMERICA!! I think we are finally on the road to destruction!! I’ll be surprised if this guy lasts 4 yrs!!

paul descartes   November 7th, 2008 - 6:31 pm

Hey Maya, please, STAY abroad.

Besides, I can’t imagine who you’d have to apologize to anyway. How many industrialized countries have you visited which EVER elected a black man as President? Let’s see:

Germany? Nope.

England? Nope.

France? Nope.

Spain? Nope.

Canada? Nope.

Australia? Nope.

U.S.? Yep

SuperSarge229   November 7th, 2008 - 6:31 pm

grik, I’d savor pulling off your head and sihting down your neck!

Andy   November 7th, 2008 - 6:32 pm

TorreJean – Put me in for $20

LK   November 7th, 2008 - 6:36 pm

Talk about an old RACIST!

Maya Angelou, you don’t have to apologize for your country abroad, but start apologizing for you blatant racism here!

Lee   November 7th, 2008 - 6:48 pm

If Obama wants to bring this country together he can start with getting rid of all the “HYPHENS”! African-, Mexican-, Asian-, et al.

Let’s be “AMERICANS”!

If Maya Angelou didn’t think of herself as African first she wouldn’t have her so-called “problems” to apologize for.

atomic811   November 7th, 2008 - 6:49 pm

People keep calling her a racist. She is married to a white man. Get over yourselves. You can all shout “get out” all you want. No one is going any place and if you don’t like it then why don’t you get out. Go start your own country where you can sing a national anthem all day long and wear a flag pin. Go some place where you can get drunk off your patriotism. You people make me sick.

Bob   November 7th, 2008 - 6:53 pm

Maya, this is hate speech. What every conservative in this country needs to understand is the race industry in this country is not about race at all. It’s about acquisition of wealth and power. This is really why Maya is happy.

pyxi   November 7th, 2008 - 6:55 pm

Miss Angelou, Please don’t feel that you have to apologize for me to the citizens of the world. In fact I resent that you lump me and like-minded Americans in with YOUR notion of the American people. I thought you were a little sharper than that. To think that you believe that we were a despicable group of murdering,selfish racists up until the very moment that the election results were certified sickens me. I guess we can ALL see where the real racism exists.

ANAIS   November 7th, 2008 - 6:58 pm

Miss Angelou, Please don’t feel that you have to apologize for me to the citizens of the world. In fact I resent that you lump me and like-minded Americans in with YOUR notion of the American people. I thought you were a little sharper than that. To think that you believe that we were a despicable group of murdering,selfish racists up until the very moment that the election results were certified sickens me. I guess we can ALL see where the real racism exists.

fande3rls   November 7th, 2008 - 7:10 pm

SuperSarge229:
pLEASE DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME SIR . HE’S NOT WORTH THE EFFORT . LIKE MY FATHER SAID TO ME AS A YOUNG MAN . IF A JACKASS KICKS YOU JUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE.
ALSO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFCE,

Bobo   November 7th, 2008 - 7:24 pm

Skin color was VERY important to the people who voted for Obama for NO OTHER REASON than his skin color.

Anyone who votes for ANYONE based solely on their skin color is the bigot.

You’re an idiot.

grik: “Not for the person himself but that as a nation skin color has become much less important.

Get over your bigotry, and savor the moment!”

grik   November 7th, 2008 - 7:29 pm

Skin color was not the reason I voted for Barak Obama. That is not what I said. That is a deliberate misrepresentation. You should work for FOX news.

I AM PROUD that we have come so far in this country that we can elect a Black man and that skin color would not deter people from voting for him.

I notice that Virgiia the home of the Confederate capital is now a blue state, as is North Carolina.

The world is a better place.

Romulan   November 7th, 2008 - 7:32 pm

Maya

Please move to Kenya and join the rest of the Obama clan and your enlightened Euro buddies and raise goats. Leave the USA – who cares if your proud of us or not. Most of us that don’t speak ebonics don’t even read that swill you call poetry. You are as much a bigot as any Nazi.

Paul K   November 7th, 2008 - 7:37 pm

She is a typical liberal elitist who hates America first and now is happy not because a black man was elected president but because another liberal elitist racist now has the power to push his agenda.

To grik   November 7th, 2008 - 7:42 pm

grik and Maya…two of America’s fair weather friends.

Brenda   November 7th, 2008 - 7:50 pm

Teach Obama to be talk without “uh”. I am sure you wax eloquent. You and Oprah are embarrassing.
Both of you are drinking to koolaid. “uh” “uh” And I thought Tom Cruise was crazy for jumping on the couch. “uh” “uh”

grik   November 7th, 2008 - 7:54 pm

“grik and Maya…two of America’s fair weather friends.”

This is exactly what is wrong with the Republicans. Disagree and you are unamerican, disloyal, ….give me a break.

You are out of office, out of power and hopefully soon just a bad memory.

God willing we can excise what is left of the GOP like boil on the ass of this fine nation.

Josh   November 7th, 2008 - 8:32 pm

With Obama, now I’M going to have to start apologizing for his election when I’m abroad…never had to do that before…

demdicks   November 7th, 2008 - 8:35 pm

Maya the affirmative action “poet” won’t truly like America until we turn into snooty surrender monkeys. Won’t happen, oprah, spike, maya and rappers are the enemy just as much as the MSM that was part of the hollywood created candidate.

Kate   November 7th, 2008 - 8:35 pm

Ms.Angelou,
Please tell me that you didn’t feel ashamed of the United States of America because you were able to travel abroad with your hair all done up, fancy clothes and those many diamonds. Please tell me you didn’t feel ashamed of this great country whose citizens white and black made you famous for your poetry. Please don’t tell me you felt ashamed because our soldiers both white and black have shed their blood on foreign soil because terrorists came over here to slaughter and maim and orphan thousands of Americans. Please say it isn’t so. I am not ashamed of this great country. I am proud to be an American… my only shame comes from those like yourself who say ignorant things and keep taking your money to the bank. You ought to be ashamed not of this great country but of your remarks. Shame on you!

fande3rls   November 7th, 2008 - 8:59 pm

grik November 7th, 2008 – 7:29 pm
GRIK, as A NATURAL BORN VIRGINIAN THAt I AM
I will have you know that VIRGINIA ONLY WENT FOR OBAMA BECAUSE OF THE INFLUX OF NOREASTERNERS
ie ;for us southerners CARPETBAGGERS> living in northern VIRGINIA ,RICHMOND,HAMPTON ROADS,AND OUR CARPET BAGGER GOVENOR
AND MONGOMERY COUNTY ie VIRGINIA TECH BECAUSE OF LIBERAL NON NATIVE BORN.
I AS FOR MY SELF DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE OF HIS COLOR. IT IS BECUASE OF HIS EXTREME MARXIST IDEAS>

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!> PATRICK HENRY
SOCIALISM KILLS THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Uppity?   November 7th, 2008 - 8:59 pm

That’s funny, i am always apologizing to my visting European friends, “sorry Ian about your wife being raped by blacks”, or “sorry Wolfgang about being carjacked”. Its odd Mr.Angelou that racism is protected by the consitution but violent crime which you ignore is not

Where's the revolution....   November 7th, 2008 - 9:02 pm

when does the revolution begin?These black folk are insane…somebody form an organization for white rights already…..

Contact Mr.Angelou's Boss   November 7th, 2008 - 9:03 pm

Why is this woman making $550,000 annually at a NC University?

grik   November 7th, 2008 - 9:11 pm

LOL fande3rls I only included that to poke you a little bit. Don’t worry too much its only a little blue no doubt with hard work you might convince those scoundrels to change thier votes next time and at least make it Virginia pink if not red.

Rev. Wright   November 7th, 2008 - 9:20 pm

FCK Maya Angelou

fande3rls   November 7th, 2008 - 9:21 pm

GRIK .POKE ME YOU WILL SIR >BUT LEARN NOT TO POKE THE BEAR TO MUCH OR HE WILL HAVE YOU FOR DINNER .
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Jim Nasium   November 7th, 2008 - 9:22 pm

“Winds blowing, bs flowing”
“Here kitty, kitty, kitty….”
“Have you seen my glasses?”
“Hey, Home Town Buffet has a coupon!”
“It was good”
“Mommy?”

See Maya, anyone can write mindless crap, you tired, old, racist hag.

Now then. When may We stop apologizing for YOU when WE’RE overseas? Hmmmmmm?? We don’t have to here in America because we already know how really sooooo sorry you are, girlfriend.

Word. Yo.

Enzo   November 7th, 2008 - 9:46 pm

Phffft!

Maya…? Was that you? Whoa, Mama… that really stinks! Then again everything about you stinks. Girl… go take a bubba baff!

Mark Carlton   November 7th, 2008 - 9:53 pm

If she had any pride and/or a spine, she would never have felt she had to apologize for being an American.

C. E. Nelson   November 7th, 2008 - 10:06 pm

I have never had to apologize for my country Ms Angielu, but I do have to apologize for your poetry…it is very mediocre and if it was not for Billy Clinton no one would have ever heard of you.

thiaCyn   November 7th, 2008 - 10:11 pm

Oh yeah, worth re-posting TRUTH, thx Paul descartes!

Hey Maya, please, STAY abroad.

Besides, I can’t imagine who you’d have to apologize to anyway. How many industrialized countries have you visited which EVER elected a black man as President? Let’s see:

Germany? Nope.

England? Nope.

France? Nope.

Spain? Nope.

Canada? Nope.

Australia? Nope.

U.S.? Yep

Beatrix Kiddo   November 7th, 2008 - 10:16 pm

This woman is an idiot and a hypocrite. I wonder if she was yapping about this when she endorsed Hillary and stumped for her in the primary.

Now, she’s proud? Go sit down somewhere. And put a bag over your face while you are at it.

These bandwagoneers like Angelou, Jesse Jackson etc. that are sobbing now, ironically didn’t support a Black candidate which is odd considering that ALL they talk about is race. I am glad that they didn’t support Obama–his campaign wasn’t race obsessed like they are. they are only concerned with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s. Hello there are other things going on too…

She’s been rendered irrelevant and officially recorded as being on the wrong side of history.

Hopefully, this is the last we see of her. I don’t care to hear this caged bird backtrack, shed crocodile tears or sing anymore. Toodles and goodbye…

Beatrix Kiddo   November 7th, 2008 - 10:25 pm

PS-thiaCyn, good point. Weren’t these the same countries turning their noses up at the US for our prejudice. Talking about “America’s lost her standing in the world? Please…People stand in lines every day to be Americans, more than we can handle. The standing can’t be that bad then, can it?

Yeah, America is really prejudiced. No question. So what does that make Europe who preach equity and live prejudice.

Answer: Worse.

Until the line of immigrants who want to live here gets shorter (legal and illegal), I will still maintain that, despite all her faults, America is the best country going.

And Angelou knows it or she would have moved a long time ago…

Hickok   November 7th, 2008 - 10:34 pm

Is this Mau Mau colorblind? She said Bill Clinton was our first black president.
Grik, by the way impregnated a goat, and refused to have the kid aborted.

Harvey Milk   November 7th, 2008 - 10:59 pm

What’s good for the goose …..

http://i37.tinypic.com/168yjnl.jpg

Hickok   November 7th, 2008 - 11:14 pm

H. Milk,
Thanks man, I was wondering what his Kenyan step brother looked like.

SAD   November 7th, 2008 - 11:33 pm

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY AMERICAN LIFE, I’M ASHAMED OF SOME AFRICAN-AMERICANS FROM OUR GREAT COUNTRY.

Goldwater   November 7th, 2008 - 11:36 pm

I would suggest that the next time this useless lump of black coal leaves America, she stays gone!

s2me   November 7th, 2008 - 11:37 pm

Maya, guess what? he’s just a camel jockey, a flea, he’s getting greased real! good, he’s going to be a good boy and do what he’s told. He’s always been ashamed of this, The Greatest Country on the Earth! Ask any immigrant, where they would rather be? All of them will respond. The U.S.A.! The Greatest Country on Earth! Send me a post card and never return!

Seymoure   November 8th, 2008 - 12:37 am

I feel I have to apologize to the world on behalf of Maya Angelou. She is an embarresment to all Americans. A buffoon of the highest order.
As someone who has travelled to 94 countries I can attest the USA is least racist of them all. There is more racism within Blacks in Africa than there is in USA.

Duncan   November 8th, 2008 - 12:52 am

Name me one place in this GREAT country or the world where blacks have gone ,AS a group where the quality of life has improved, NOW BE HONEST FOLKS!

Hickok   November 8th, 2008 - 1:24 am

Duncan,
Does The National Basketball Association count? How about prisons?

Hickok   November 8th, 2008 - 1:28 am

Duncan,
One more…Grik’s azzhole?

Swing Voter   November 8th, 2008 - 1:44 am

Is anyone else already tired of this obsession with Obama’s race? It’s going to be a long four years…

DanielTUSA   November 8th, 2008 - 1:48 am

But Maya, we still have to apologize for you. Just another flaming intellectual who has been educated beyond their intelligence!

Elise   November 8th, 2008 - 1:56 am

Miss Angelou: In case you and Oprah didn’t notice, Obama is only one-half black. The other half, again, in case you didn’t notice, is WHITE. Culturally, Obama has nothing in common with either one of you. He was not raised as an African-American Christian in the United States, subject to discrimination because of his race. He was raised during his youngest years as a MUSLIM, living first in Hawaii until abandoned by his African father at age 2, then in Indonesia with an Indonesian step-father, where he studied the Koran. Did you or Oprah study the Koran in Indonesia ? Or in an American school? Didn’t think so.
Returning to Hawaii because his mother didn’t want him, he was raised until he left home to attend college, as a WHITE CHILD, by his WHITE middle class grandparents, with WHITE morals and values. I doubt if either you or Oprah or Jessie or the Rev. Al have ever attended 2 lower level colleges; then with less-than-average grades were able to gain admission to an Ivy League University and obtain a law degree. So, please tell me again, what is it that makes you feel such a bond with him? The color of his skin ? Oh. So now you can finally feel proud about being an American, and shed tears of joy, just because a man with black skin (like yours) has been elected President. Fnny, I don’t recall seeing photos of you shedding tears of joy when Clarence Thomas became a Justice of the Supreme Court, or when Condoleeza Rice became Secretary of State. I can hardly wait for the Inagural Poem.

jack   November 8th, 2008 - 3:18 am

I find this odd coming from a second rate sophomoric poet who’s only claim to fame and any legacy was her American heritage-which she now abandons like an old poem she discarded. Which should be many. Face it Maye, or is it Mara..Maya…without affirmative action being alive and sickenly kicking in this country you and your over-ratted crap and your brother Obama would be organizing some church activity somewhere–in four years we will rid ourselves of this pretending bum and then you can go back to being ashamed again…this time move and we will make sure we pay the fare

Phyllis   November 8th, 2008 - 5:20 am

ThiaCYN, I agree with your post completely.
France, Germany, even England have forgotten what our military did for their country 60 years ago. They gave up their lives so you these countries could spew their venom.
I haved turned off Oprah years ago but have added several to my list such as Martha “suck it up” Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, watching the alphabet Obama news stations, Leno, Letterman, Jon Stewart, Colbert, buying records/and or movies from P Diddy, Kanye West, Beyonce, JayZ, and just about every movie star and liberal producer in Hollywood. I save a lot of money to support my church, the local restaurants and sports programs, Meals on Wheels, homeless shelters, Salvation Army, etc, etc. We need to boycott those that would use our money to support the Obama Connection.

MAKE MY DAY!!   November 8th, 2008 - 5:55 am

I just wish I had the ‘FOOD’ contract for the W/House, in these tough economic times!!!

There’s going to be plenty of FRIED CHICKEN, MACARONI/CHEESE, BEANS & RICE & WATERMELON needed for all those ‘GARDEN PARTIES’,that the ‘MESSIAH’ will be holding for all the ‘BROTHAS & SISTAS’, in the next 4yrs!!

The W/House is going to be the ‘TOP GHETTO’ in DC!!! They will also probably have that ‘HIP-HOP’ music BLARING to all hours as well!!

LORD, Please tell me this is a very BAD DREAM…..This is going to be a loooooong 4yrs!!

grik   November 8th, 2008 - 9:59 am

“France, Germany, even England have forgotten what our military did for their country 60 years ago. They gave up their lives so you these countries could spew their venom”

You people are like some spoilt children trying to live off a trust fund. You are judged on what you earn not your grandfathers and fathers.

The world is not going to give the US a free pass based on something that happened over 50 years ago.

Most of the people walking around on this planet were not even alive then. Further most of you harping on WWII probably were not alive then so it boggles the mind that you would be acting like you deserved any of the credit for US actions.

Hickok   November 8th, 2008 - 10:01 am

Swing Voter,
Here’s your clue for the day. OBAMA MADE HIS RACE AN ISSUE…Tiger Woods is of mixed blood, and he told reporters at age 20 he didn’t want to be catagorized either way. The Messiah has denounced his irresponsible mother, and although his Mau Mau father disappeared on him, he took on his ethnicity. One reason, Swing Dope, and one reason only. He knew he had a better chance in education and politics, because so many morons cling to it. See Oprah and Angelou creaming in their fat pants over him, even though he’s 1/2 caucasian.

Sean R.   November 8th, 2008 - 11:07 am

It’s black liberals like Maya Angelou who I am sick and tired of, and BTW I’m a black person myself (I’m a black-conservative). She doesn’t speak for me nor do the other race-hustlers (Sharpton, Jackson, Waters, Farrakhan, Black Panthers, NAACP, etc.) out there.

Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!!!!

Nan   November 8th, 2008 - 11:36 am

If this election is not about race why is it considered historic? Maya’s comments are just an example of the racial hatred in this country. Europeans are upset with American because all their investments in the U.S. have gone down the tubes since the Dems ravaged Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to obtain funds for their campaigns. Its obvious Barack’s a token, if a white guy had run on the dem ticket with the same experience he would have lost!!!!!

fi fi dolla fi dolla footlong   November 8th, 2008 - 1:07 pm

I apologize that our fore-fathers brought over slaves.

tduck   November 8th, 2008 - 1:08 pm

… why is what this woman says mean crap to anyone ?
… this woman should just shut up .

… more of our tax dollars being wasted .

Steve F   November 8th, 2008 - 2:13 pm

Sean R fact is MANY of us that post here are “other than white” and very CONSERVATIVE. I find that it is no one’s business what color, sexual ID, sex, I am or the income I have. Liberals ALWAYS put people into groups, so they can divide one against the other…but unfortunately many folks do not have the brains to see this..it is as old as Marx at least, and i might add, used very effectively by the Dems/Left/Socialist/MSM in OUR GREAT country the USA! Thank you for being here Sean R…it is not a color thing it is a “view of OUR country thing!”

Swing Voter   November 8th, 2008 - 2:24 pm

Hickok, hope you enjoyed your supercilious rant, as you avoided answering my question.

Obama is obviously seen by many as the embodiment of reparations. Still, it’s going to be a long four years of celebration by the bitter, not to mention Obama’s grammatical errors and all those “uhs” and “ahs” that predominate when the teleprompter is off. At least he pronounces nuclear correctly.

AWFFP   November 8th, 2008 - 2:45 pm

Maya,

Please start your new found pride march on the streets of Iraq where real heroes roam daily. The Iraqi people would love to hear from you.

flymom   November 8th, 2008 - 2:56 pm

Maya and those like her are the reason we cannot really get over the color of ones skin. She can’t get over the color of her own skin. Well, I have something incommon with her. I am now ashamed to say I’m from the USA. I will not fly the American flag of today. I now fly a troop support flag only.I do not support this unknown creepy character as our president and commander and cheif. God help the troops, who can they look up to?

European-American   November 8th, 2008 - 10:56 pm

Nothing has changed in America… for 250 years white people have been leaving messes and hiring blacks to clean them up. And if they can’t do the job, we fire them. It’s that simple. “Clean it up or we will toss your black butt back on the street.”

thiaCyn   November 8th, 2008 - 11:57 pm

No Grik, whatever, I was not alive in WW2 but I was in the Vietnam era and my oldest brother was also. And guess what he did for your freedom to come on to this site and spew about our history that has made this country so great. He gave both his kidneys because of AgentO, he almost died because of history in the making and believing that if the commies moved any further they would spread like a disease! Well grik, it has spread! And it is on our soil! Oh and about me being in that era, well I was the one that gave my brother the kidney he needed! So you back off our history and if you stick around long enough AgentO just might come your way only in a different form!!!

BeanerECMO, CDR, USN (ret)   November 9th, 2008 - 7:29 am

I’ve never felt any requirement to apologize for my country. Maya has to remember that one is only held down by the bondage that one puts on one’s self. To European-American, there is no such thing; there is no hyphenation with American; one is either American or not. To those who say they support the troops but not the cause or their country; you are lying to us and to yourselves; if you do not support your country, you do not support the troops. BHO is our president and we will support him from the get go, until he proves he is not worthy of that support – unlike the lack of support by the MSM and the ‘intelligencia’ of the East and Left Coasts, who began the bashing and never let up for over 8 years (including the campaign). Bush never waivered, but he also did things that did not inspire support. However, he has fought the war on terror where lesser people would have wilted – those cheese eating surrender wimps of the Democrat Party. How many people gave their lives so millions could be free to choose there future? It was and is worth the price. The only people who make the ‘race’ about race, are the same people who are more than willing to wave the white flag of surrender at the first instance of difficulty. We were told from the very beginning in 2001 that the effort was going to be long and difficult, but in this age of instant gratification, that was thought to be six months at the most. One wonders what most who have posted here (and other blogs) have done for their country and now have voted in a person who asks, “Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your country can to for you.” But, that is typical of the selfish whiners that are just now proud of their country.

Hickok   November 9th, 2008 - 11:30 am

Swing-Dope,
“I avoided answering your question?” Did you not read the part where I said Obama is the one who made his race an issue by ignoring his white half? Liberals are complete loons. When the facts bite them in the azz, they ignore them. Get a clue, Swingy-Poo.

Swing Voter aka Swingy-Poo   November 9th, 2008 - 11:59 am

Hickok,
My guess is that you just love attention, so I’ll indulge you one more time. The question was, “Is anyone else already tired of this obsession with Obama’s race?”

I didn’t ask who started the obsession! A simple yes or no would have sufficed.

gio   November 9th, 2008 - 2:21 pm

Wow, some of you folks sound like you should audition for Deliverance II.

@makemyday

Re: fried chicken in the White House

When Obama went to Occidental in LA he chowed down at Casa Bianca, a pizza joint in Eagle Rock. In Chicago he’s a regular at Topolobampo, one US’s top-rated Mexican restaurants. He loves “kine grindz” at down home Honolulu restaurants that serve chili rice and giant bowls of salmin noodles.

Your racist slags about watermelon are as tired as all you hilllbillies harping on “Hussein”.

You fear a man who’s lived and traveled the world, broadened his horizons and achieved the dream of becoming President of the United States with a fresh point of view from one of the most brilliant legal minds ever honed at Harvard Law School?

He’s the new Prez despite he’s Kenyan/Irish/English/German with an Indonesian stepfather because through self-discipline & work ethic he achieved the phenomenal goals he set as a young man. Too sophisticated for you? Over your head? Too bad. Go back to your shack and fry some Spam.

If you only knew   November 9th, 2008 - 2:24 pm

“You people are like some spoilt children trying to live off a trust fund. You are judged on what you earn not your grandfathers and fathers.”

grik grik grik. If it’s up to obama no one will be allowed to earn anything anymore.

“Most of the people walking around on this planet were not even alive then. Further most of you harping on WWII probably were not alive then so it boggles the mind that you would be acting like you deserved any of the credit for US actions.”

Well why don’t you go tell that to all of the black people who weren’t around back in the time of the civil war, who are now trying to get “reparations” for slavery grik and see how far that line will fly.

So solly chally   November 9th, 2008 - 2:29 pm

gio must be an obama plant. Who else would know all of that about someone if they weren’t. IF it is all true then that just goes to prove our point that obama ISN’T one of the “little people”. He’s an narcissistic elite who has no clue on how the average person runs their lives. If you think he is on the same plane as you then you have another think coming. Do you really believe that obama would hang out with all of the ghetto blacks that elected him? Hardly.

Hickok   November 9th, 2008 - 6:35 pm

Swing n Low,
Who cares about answering your stupid question? I guess you have no response to my accuracy in stating Obama is the one playing the race card, when he could have been a man, and said he is an American period. The fact that he identifies himself as an African American shows he is a pandering opportunist. It is also wise to note that he called his Grandmother a “Typical white person”, and uses his 50% blackness to advance himself. That so many (Oprah, Angelou, et al) weep at an African American being elected, shows how shallow they are. Answering your inane question is not in the cards.

Jack's Son   November 9th, 2008 - 8:48 pm

So, another moronic hasbeen liberal that can only be proud of America if it has a black socialist at it’s head. God save us from these racist uneducated fools.

Just repeating what KMichaels said in the second post just in case you missed it…he’s right you know.

Hickok   November 10th, 2008 - 6:08 am

Swing n Low,
Who cares about answering your stupid question? I guess you have no response to my accuracy in stating Obama is the one playing the race card, when he could have been a man, and said he is an American period. The fact that he identifies himself as an African American shows he is a pandering opportunist. It is also wise to note that he called his Grandmother a “Typical white person”, and uses his 50% blackness to advance himself. That so many (Oprah, Angelou, et al) weep at an African American being elected, shows how shallow they are. Answering your inane question is not in the cards.

Marge   November 11th, 2008 - 11:58 am

No matter what, no matter where, I am always, always proud of my country. I don’t have to have a half white and half black man elected to be proud of this country.

And anybody that has to have this type of person elected before they are proud does not deserve to be an American. MY COUNTRY RIGHT OR WRONG “THIS” 76 YEAR OLD WOMAN SAYS.

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