>>>”He ended up leaving office with a 20% approval rating and Koreans replaced him with a moderate conservative.”

Right now, George W. Bush has a 23% approval rating, which is lower than Nixon ever had. What’s your point?

Lee writes:

>>>” I recall no one in my Asian community who were particularly offended that one of the police witnesses had a racist past (apparently), because the convincing DNA and circumstantial evidence rendered that a moot point.”

I don’t know which Asian community you belong to, but Judge Lance Ito certainly had a problem with it. Especially the part when Mark Furhman used derogatory, sexist language against Ito’s wife.

>>>”"I love my wife dearly, and I am wounded by criticism of her, as any spouse would be,” Judge Ito told lawyers with the jury absent. His voice faltering and choked with emotion, the judge detailed his reasons for removing himself from making any decisions about the tapes. He said he was wounded by Fuhrman’s disparaging remarks about his wife, and that a reasonable person could perceive any ruling on the admissibility of the tapes as unfair.”

http://www.courttv.com/trials/ojsimpson/weekly/30.html

Lee writes:

>>>”Cobra is one of those sad people who parties like it’s 1950’s segregationist America everyday.”

Pot to kettle…you in YOUR post makes a point to tell the reader THREE times that you’re “Asian”, denounce current Black politicians (Franklin Raines?? Somebody’s been watching too much Fox News) and laud White Americans for “rejecting most of them.”

Jeff,

Great post my friend. People sometimes lose sight of the power that an angry mob can wield when whipped up into a rage. This is a scary time in America.

–Cobra

Mr. Simon should get acquainted with that time period again because he will discover the true power of ignorance, hate, and bigotry. It is a very powerful force and only one result can come about with this powerful force – SUFFERING. At night, he should close his eyes and dig deep within himself and ask himself what he is truly using his power for. Is it for right or wrong, good or evil, truth or lies?

One man seeing right could be seen as wrong by others. One man looking to do good could be seen as evil by others. One man’s truth could be seen as lies by others.

Men like Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler, and now Osama Bin Laden truly feels that what they did or is doing are right, in their own eyes. They also believe that their belief systems are good and are the only truth. They don’t stop to listen to what the world believes but only listen to what their own inner voices tell them. There is a lesson to learn about these men in that, the voices of the world could not be heard by them because their own voices were what ONLY mattered.

As an Asian, I’m not voting for Obama because he reminds of communist leaning Asian presidents who gets nothing done. Former South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun was Barack Obama of his time (minus the charisma). He made the campaign about a vague sense of change and rode anti American sentiments to power. He ended up leaving office with a 20% approval rating and Koreans replaced him with a moderate conservative.

OJ Simpson was guilty, and many minority groups consider him as a remorseless killer. I recall no one in my Asian community who were particularly offended that one of the police witnesses had a racist past (apparently), because the convincing DNA and circumstantial evidence rendered that a moot point. WE didn’t exactly sympathize with OJ on account of American’s racist past where bigoted white jury convicted innocent colored people. The OJ Simpson case and the LA riots dealt a blow to race relations for years.

Cobra is one of those sad people who parties like it’s 1950’s segregationist America everyday. A lack of visible African Americans in any arena is good enough for him to cook up conspiracy theories about white establishment in action. Sigh.

I’m Asian, and I can’t imagine myself voting for what passes as black politicians nowadays. Alan Keyes, BHO, Maxine Waters, Franklin Raines, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. The black Detroit mayor was sacked because of infedility, then tried to play the race card. I’m certainly glad that white Americans reject most of them. It’s a bloody shame that Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, and Colin Powell aren’t running for office.

Of course, people immediately called me racist. The funny thing was, no two of them could agree on what made it a racist comment. One said it was intended to reference the word “spook,” another that I was saying black people are alien to America, and so on. But they were all sure it was racist. (That Spock is both very bright and one of the good guys somehow never entered into it.)

Also of course… the very same people routinely descended to the crudest sexism against Palin. I know you’re shocked by that.

Plants.

>>>”Sorry, Cobra, this old civil rights worker thinks you’re a reactionary. No sale at all.”

Well, if I’m a “reactionary”, then what do you call the folks at the McCain/Palin rallies who yell out racial slurs, and shout “Kill him!”, “Terrorist!” and “Off with his head!”

As an “old civil rights worker”, you should be familiar with that kind of language, right? But, for some reason, you’re more concerned with the language and attitude of a poster to your blog, who actaully has the correct jist of the McCain/Palin entourage lately.

That tells me a WHOLE lot about your agenda than anything else.

–Cobra

Sorry, Cobra, this old civil rights worker thinks you’re a reactionary. No sale at all.