GAK, this left me to wonder:
"My comment was not saying that putting the blame for the credit rating downgrade on Obama is racist, my comment was about calling the original post racist in the way that it implied that the credit rating downgrade was due to Obama being black."

Ok, so affixing blame where it is greatly due, which is to the 1st black prez. we've had isn't racist, but ... because you perceived there was an implication that the downgrade was due to his being black it is then racist? That's such a twisted train of logic the tracks would of necessity hafta look like pretzels.

How about let's just look at the cartoon and see what it plainly states without implication. It succinctly states two things : 1. it says he's the 1st black prez 2. it states we've now seen the 1st ever national credit downgrade in our history as a nation.

It can be mentally reconfigured to mean and suit whatever the viewer chooses, as many can and will do. That however does not negate the clearly stated factual focus. I'd submit that assigning any racial connotation to this leads more to what's in the mind of the viewer than is in the 2 statements themselves.

In a class I took some years back I was presented with an idea that initially seemed foreign, while upon closer inspection made a lot of sense and fits this scenario quite well. The instructor said "We all must accept full responsibility for our thoughts and deeds, but ... we have no responsibility for how others view or perceive our actions as that responsibility rests with them."


"I don't know enough about the US economy or politics to have a definite opinion on it, but from an outsiders perspective I think the poor economy in the US is due to a mix of the legacy of previous administrations, global factors that nobody can control and the policies of the current administration."

As this is my country and the economic realities politicians help generate play a large part in how the world around me is shaken and moved I do pay possibly too much attention to it. Oftentimes I feel like I read and watch so much news that I'm basically overloaded, something never before really possible prior to the advent of the 'net. The problems we face financially have been building for some time now, that's a distinct truism and both parties and the electorate who put these bozoz into office all have blood on their hands, myself included.

However, this administration has managed to pile on national debt and deficit spending using long proven failed methods at such an unprecedented pace and seemingly also has no fuckin clue how to get their foot off the gas and find the god damned brake pedal no matter how bad things get. While the old saw about "You can't fix stupid" comes to mind it seems overall less than fitting in this case because I honestly don't think Obozo is stupid .... which frightens many of us even more!

"I hope Obama is judged on his decisions and policies (both good and bad) rather than the colour of his skin, but from the original post I don't think that is likely."

The color of his skin has not one whit to do with the fact that he's driven our economy to the brink of financial disaster and then all he can talk about is MORE spending and the need for MORE taxes so he and his administration can just keep makin things even worse, nor that one who claimed to be the great unifier and the one who would usher in a new level of social acceptance and understanding between the races, while in truth he's grown the racial discontent here in this country to a level unknown since the racially tumultuous 60s, nor that he promised to reset peace worldwide between us and the people sworn to desire to kill us, which he seems once more to instead have exacerbated with these enemies while also making us an international laughing stock to the rest, all the while belittling our actual international friends, nor that he promised open and honest disclosure of all proposed legislation in full view of the American public, not the constant closed door session manipulations of what is supposed to be our public representative system of governance, nor the fact that no other prez in history has shown such blatant disregard for our laws and constitutional systems of how laws and policies are to be enacted and instead chooses to bypass the legislative process in implementing policies he can't get legislatively enacted by doing so as would a dictator through presidential edicts and decrees instead. None of this has one damned thing to do with the fact that he's black, or to be more correct, that he's 1/2 black.

Neither success nor failure are bound by color. People have their own individual ways of making others happy or discontented, and this too is totally colorblind. However, this prez has outraged so many, divided so many, and made so many of of our lives worse, not better, that for many of us the following seems more than apropos "We're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore!"