if Barack the magic ***** is a racial slur then isnt The United ***** College Fund also a slur?

Question

racial slurs are not hate crimes.

Answer 1

Ah, you know....it's never about WHAT is said....it's always about WHO says it.

Answer 2

Is there a United Caucasian College Fund? No. Problem solved.

Answer 3

I think it's really only because it's 63 years old and therefore accepted as an historic name. I don't think the NAACP would be accepted today, but it was founded in 1909. Good question--it really points out how political correctness changes nothing.

Answer 4

They have the NAACP. I thought colored people was racist to. And what about segregation? I thought that was what they were fighting against.
We just need a United Caucasian collage fund, NAAWP and white entertainment television (WET tv) That would be great. :)

Answer 5

Your brand of race baiting only gains him more fans.

Keep up the good work!

Answer 6

Not if he pulls down his pants.

Answer 7

I do not care. But you may be KKK

Answer 8

I'd think so.

Answer 9

Not necessarily. The whole concept of hate crime legislatyion is to punish "intent". While it IS a racist organization (so is the NAACP), the title of the organization is not a slur because it isn't used to put down, humiliate or otherwise mistreat the people of another ehtnic group.

Only you are using it that way. How fascinating is it to see how THREATENED the Black Man makes Republicans feel in this "oh so tolerant" country?

Republicans have had control of this country, either in Congress or the White House, since 1980. The only Democratic President in that whole quarter century time, Bill Clinton, not only faced a hostile Congress his ENTIRE Presidential tenure, a Republican Congress which spent most of its time pissing away my tax money, investigating the Clintons for misuse of their White House Christmas Card List (true- that one cost us almost $150 Million, findings made at the end of that investigation? Nothing criminal ever happened. There were approximately 145 other investigations as well, with no charges being brought at any time for any wrongdoing) but he also had to deal with many more terrorist attacks on US soil than our current President has.
Let's look at facts. The Clinton Adminsitration:
Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist
efforts.
Stopped the Al Qaeda millennium hijacking and bombing plots.
Stopped the planned attack to kill the Pope
Stopped the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously
Stopped the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters
Stopped the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters
Stopped the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington
Stopped the planned attack to blow up Boston airport
Stopped the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY
Stopped the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge
Stopped the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania
-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
-- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days
after Bush left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.
-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
- Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this
is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
- Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST
FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
- Clinton Administration sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER
TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
- Clinton Administration increased the military budget by an average of 14 per cent, reversing the trend under
Bush I.
- Clinton Administration tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for
counterterrorism
- Clinton Administration detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
- Clinton Administration created national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of
smallpox vaccine.
- Of Clinton Administration's efforts says Robert Oakley, Reagan Ambassador for Counterterrorism:
"Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama"
- Paul Bremer, current Civilian Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley as he believed the
Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden.
- Barton Gellman in the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton Administration left
office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first
administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort"

One such meeting took place in the White House situation room during the first week of January 2001. The
session was part of a program designed by Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who
wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible.
With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush
Administration in 1992-93. Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by
his team for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley.

Berger attended only one of the briefings-the session that dealt with the threat posed to the U.S. by
international terrorism, and especially by al-Qaeda. "I'm coming to this briefing," he says he told Rice, "to
underscore how important I think this subject is." Later, alone in his office with Rice, Berger says he told her,
"I believe that the Bush Administration will spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al-Qaeda
specifically, than any other subject." The terrorism briefing was delivered by Richard Clarke.

Since the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000-an attack that left 17 Americans dead-he had
been working on an aggressive plan to take the fight to al-Qaeda. The result was a strategy paper that he had
presented to Berger and the other national security "principals" on Dec. 20.
Now it was up to Rice's team to consider what Clarke had put together.

Berger had left the room by the time Clarke, using a Powerpoint presentation, outlined his thinking to Rice.

Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint
presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of al-Qaeda
cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its terrorist activities would be systematically
attacked, its assets frozen, its funding from fake charities stopped. Nations where al-Qaeda was causing
trouble-Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Yemen-would be given aid to fight the terrorists. Most important, Clarke
wanted to see a dramatic increase in covert action in Afghanistan to "eliminate the sanctuary" where al-Qaeda
had its terrorist training camps and bin Laden was being protected by the radical Islamic Taliban regime.

Clarke supported a substantial increase in American support for the Northern Alliance, the last remaining
resistance to the Taliban. That way, terrorists graduating from the training camps would have been forced to
stay in Afghanistan, fighting (and dying) for the Taliban on the front lines. At the same time, the U.S. military
would start planning for air strikes on the camps and for the introduction of special-operations forces into
Afghanistan. The plan was estimated to cost "several hundreds of millions of dollars."

In the words of a senior Bush Administration official, the proposals amounted to "everything we've done since
9/11."

And that's the point. The proposals Clarke developed in the winter of 2000-01 were not given another hearing
by top decision makers until late April, and then spent another four months making their laborious way
through the bureaucracy before they were readied for approval by President Bush.



After 26 years of Republican control, they have not, reigned in rampant government corruption (Remember Newt Gingrich's 'Contract With America"?), have not made abortion illegal again, have embroiled us in more military actions for dubious reasons that any other country in the world, lost more of its not only highly trained and expensive but DEDICATED soldiers, sailors, pilots and Marines for MOST dubious reasons (personally I think going into Afghanistan was the good thing to do, because we were told Osama bin Laden was hiding there and the existing Afghan government was shielding and supporting him. Fine- invade, kick ***, get bin Laden, get out. What the hell does Iraq have to do with it? Al-Qaida was never IN Iraq, Hussein HATED bin Laden and wanted nothing to do with him, wouldn't allow him to operate in Iraq- until WE removed him, that is- the ONE person in the region who wouldn't support the man who said he was responsible fo the attacks on 9-11).