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  Posted By: texana ana @ 10/21/2008 7:27:02 PM

  When in Texas, Rosario keeps talking about how she grew up/spent time in Garland (outside Dallas.) Guess it adds to her "street cred" to talk about growing up in NYC in every other sentence in this article and how rough she had it.....whatever!

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  Posted By: cjustice2k @ 10/21/2008 12:46:12 AM

  what a shocker! white folk talking about how black people have to prove something to satisfy their bar of excellence. puh-leez! all of this racist talk by krohn... so sad! the truth is a black candidate will always have something to prove to you. if only you held the white candidates and past presidents to the same standard. if you had, this country wouldn't be stuck with a loser like george bush. but obama is black so he has to tap dance for you. and to my knowledge, barack obama was never a beneficiary of affirmative action. white folks say that to minimize the accomplishments of intelligent black men and women. african-american persons clearly are too dumb (if i listen to you) to rise on their own merits. just be honest, krohn. you have issues with obama simply because he happens to be black. that is what i heard when i read your ridiculous post. you are entitled to your opinion; however, i am sick of hearing white folk talk about obama like he has to jump through hoops to reach your impossible standards just because of his race, but you continue to vote for white men who lack something as fundamental as character.
  the days of blacks jumping for the white racist are over. with or without you, we are moving in a positive direction. this country is unified for the 1st time ever. no thanks to you; just in spite of you.
  

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  Posted By: Jim Johnson @ 10/16/2008 1:03:27 PM

  Obama's view of the future of America - Socialism which is the next step to Communism!!
  
  
  Under socialism a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the State to regulate, tax, and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. In other words, socialism is a form of legalized theft.
  
  The morality of socialism can be summed-up in two words: envy and self-sacrifice. Envy is the desire to not only possess another's wealth but also the desire to see another's wealth lowered to the level of one's own. Socialism's teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Bennito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: "Common good comes before private good." Fascism, said
  Mussolini, is "a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests??realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies."
  
  Socialism is the social system which institutionalizes envy and self-sacrifice: It is the social system which uses compulsion and the organized violence of the State to expropriate wealth from the producer class for its redistribution to the parasitical class.
  
  Despite the intellectuals' psychotic hatred of capitalism, it is the only moral and just social system.
  
  Capitalism is the only moral system because it requires human beings to deal with one another as traders--that is, as free moral agents trading and selling goods and services on the basis of mutual consent.
  
  Capitalism is the only just system because the sole criterion that determines the value of thing exchanged is the free, voluntary, universal judgement of the consumer. Coercion and fraud are anathema to the free-market system.
  
  It is both moral and just because the degree to which man rises or falls in society is determined by the degree to which he uses his mind. Capitalism is the only social system that rewards merit, ability and achievement, regardless of one's birth or station in life.
  
  Yes, there are winners and losers in capitalism. The winners are those who are honest, industrious, thoughtful, prudent, frugal, responsible, disciplined, and efficient. The losers are those who are shiftless, lazy, imprudent, extravagant, negligent, impractical, and inefficient. [What about the role of luck­being in the right place at the right time or the wrong place at the wrong time? R. R. Pope}
  
  Capitalism is the only social system that rewards virtue and punishes vice. This applies to both the business executive and the carpenter, the lawyer and the factory worker.