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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Ok, let me try and understand. I didn't give any, uh, truck? to this bullshit ABOUT him and what he said in the speech in question. And this is when I said "I think for some people, it's like "wow, he's finally admitted it". And for many others, obama put words to a nagging feeling they've had about him. Obama is trying to get away from those comments, but it's not working. It's got too much of the ring of truth (at least that BO feels this way) for people to dismiss it".

Ok, I guess the key word in what you said is 'truck'. I am not an academic where words like truck and their obvious uses do not apply. You'll have to rephrase that one.

One of the meanings of the noun "truck" is "close association or connection" (e.g., "I will have no truck with crooks.") I should have written "have any truck," not "give any truck."

I cannot miss the opportunity to point out that you could have simply written that you are not familiar with the term as I used it, and asked for clarification. By writing what you did about not being an academic, you seek to do with me the very same thing this bullshit about Obama's speech, and the birther movement, seek to do to Obama: paint a picture of him as "other." You will deny it, of course, but the point of making the "academic" remark is to set me apart, in this case by virtue of my choice of words. It's as if to say to those who read the post, with a wink: "Don't forget that smc is not like the rest of us ... and be sure to take that into account when you read what he writes." It's insidious insinuation (you can look those words up if need be).

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Ok, look again at
Please bold the "Obama-as-other stuff" part so I can see what you're talking about.

I am referring to the entire enterprise of this portrayal of Obama's speech by those who are engage in it, which involves gross misrepresentation for political gain and to continue this "otherness" campaign (see below). Specifically, your "nagging feeling" comment is part of the "Obama-as-other stuff" to which I refer. The response to this speech by the right cannot be separated from all the other things that have been done in an effort to paint this picture of Obama as "not like us" or "someone who doesn't get America" and so on. The reality is that other than not being a White, Anglo-Saxon, Obama -- the Obama story -- may be the most American story of any president in a long time. It's not the story of a Kenyan-born Muslim, educated in a madrasa in Indonesia, who is "other." Differ with the man on policy, but have no truck with this campaign of innuendo and ignorance, pushed by those who demonstrate time and again their disrespect for the very country they claim to love, and embraced by people many of whom don't even recognize Hawaii as part of the "real America" (cue Sarah Palin). Really, TracyCoxx, you want to throw your lot in with those people? Or do you want to distinguish yourself, and your political views, by being serious?