Actual quote from "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
Vrede wrote:That was my rap. Is the cowardly 'tard posting on CPF now?
Ha! My bad.... just happened to see the signature when I was looking through the 'who's online' list. I don't think he's on CPF.... or at least not by that name.
That was funny. The thread was about Obama taking a 20-day vacation (that he didn't take) and the costs involved.
Those dumbasses a frickin' ignorant as hell. They complained about Obama taking a 20-day vacation (that he didn't take) while ignoring the fact that Shrub took a month off before September 11th, a couple of more that were longer than Obama's imaginary vacation, and a full five-week vacation in 2005 when the Iraq war was at its lowest point.
And the cost of 10 trips to Crawford a year certainly amount to more than one trip to Hawaii.
Then one of the dumbasses said, "If Bush had ever done anything like this, the press would have been all over him."
