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5/28/2006
ivanzuvich (72.245.74.221)
US-English should not be made the official language of the USA, not should it be made a requirement for US citizenship. The reason is the fact that millions of US-born citizens do NOT speak English as, for example, all the people in Puerto Rico who are born in that US territory.
7/19/2006
Deanna from Arizonia (63.224.140.193)
How can we say that the President,is not doing a good job? How many other Presidents have had to deal with so many things at one time. Also, remember that he is not the only one that makes or doesnt make things happen. He can only do so much, and our safty should be first.
8/27/2007
Andrew - Boston (74.116.156.92)
Why are CNN news men and women pronouncing many english words incorrectly? Are you all not better educated than the average person? Here are few examples of this: BEHIND> Bee Hinde NOT Ba Hinde, there's no such word as BA Hinde. Next: Evade> E Vade NOT A Vade, no such word. Don't you all feel embarrassed when you hear-back yourselves? I would; i'm on TV once in a while, so i know how important it is, especially when reporting the news! Also the name Iraq, is pronounced E Raq, not Ur Raq or Ar Raq or Eye Raq. Don't you hear how people from that country say it? It seems that a lot of you have a problem saying the E at the beginning of words and names. It's very E Z. You all are paid Enough {not Anough} to atleast speak proper english. PASS THE { WORDS } AROUND !
12/18/2007
Anonymous (24.88.91.143)
I am so sick of the Christian argument.....with Huckleby. I am christian myself, but I wonder what the Jewish people of this country are thinking!!!!!!! Or do they even matter????? I wish a Jewish person would run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2/28/2008
Moonlight (83.229.11.145)
What's in a name? If my parents had named me Jesus would it mean that I'm the messaiah? Or if I'm called Samson would it make me a Boxing champion. Leave Obama alone. A man is who he says he is. Judge him by what he says and by his character.
3/6/2008
theodis (76.126.157.166)
The Clintons'have done what the Republicans have strategicly plotted out for this Election year. They have vertually beat Hillary and Obama, without ever firing a shot.No blacks will go to the polls for Hillary because she deprived Black American of their day in the sun.Look to Bush to hatch a devious plot like that. He is trying to imulate Pootin and name his successor/place in on the puppet throne. However, the plot will work unless the Clintons' race us into dooms day.
3/18/2008
jim (71.30.24.176)
I guess my comment didnt set to well, as i dont see it on the blogs. However i still feel the same as earlier today, Sen. Obama sounds more racist than th eRev. Wright
4/15/2008
Anonymous (69.150.186.79)
TALK FOR THE SITUATION ROOM
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a True Patriot
By LAWRENCE KORB and IAN MOSS
I n 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation. What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America's biggest cities.__This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, who has been in the news for comments he made over the last three decades.
Since these comments became public we have heard criticisms, condemnations, denouncements and rejections of his comments and him. We've seen on television, in a seemingly endless loop, sound bites of a select few of Rev. Wright's many sermons. Some of the Wright's comments are inexcusable and inappropriate and should be condemned, but in calling This him "unpatriotic," let us not forget that this is a man who gave up six of the most productive years of his life to serve his country.
How many of Wright's detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many. While words do count, so do actions. Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.
Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. They work at The Center For American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.
This piece ran in the Chicago Tribune on April 3, 2008.
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