How should the office of the president respond to Maureen Dowd and former president Jimmy Carter?
In your opinion does this argument have any validity?
Will this derail the healthcare reform bill?
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1. The office should respond the same exact way they have now. Completely disregard the comments and keep the focus on universal health care.
ReplyDelete2. For anyone to say that there isn't some racism is ridicilous. There is definitely some racism inside the white house. Do I believe the "You lie" comment was racism, yes. But that is my personal assumption and we will never know the absolute truth.
3. This can potentially derail some of the focus on the healthcare bill, but eventually the focus will go back.
1. The Office should not respond to the Comments made by the vice President and Maureen Dowd because they have nothing to do with the current issues the country is facing.
ReplyDelete2. No because they are making General opinions, of course their is racism we have a black president and America has racist human beings who oppose to this and of course they will make their opinions in a degrading way.
3. If the president lets it, then possibly but if he does what should be done and ignore it then obviously not.
The presidential office is doing exactly what they should be doing with the unnecessary comments, and the hidden racial discrimination, continue avoiding them.
ReplyDeleteThis argument does have validity, there is racism all over the world, maybe even just as much as their always has been, but people dont do the things they would of done before when it comes to others with a different race, Im sure the white house too.
I dont think so, i think if the president worrys about what he wants to make happen, it will . His word (the presidents) against other men. Obama just needs to continue focusing, and not let anyone get through to him with unsult's.
1. Former President Jimmy Carter opinion that racism is behind much of the political opposition to President Obama reminds us of a remarkable moment in America’s history. It's racism. I think the office should just ignore it because its drama that isn't worth being provoked.
ReplyDelete2. Racism is never going to end. There's always going to be somebody out there that doesn't have remorse on others that's just the way our world is unfortunately. This is an issue but not one that the whole office and president should get involved in.
3. Just like drama in high school, if you feed into it, it will distract you from what's important [your grades, etc.]. So if Obama feeds into it he may get distracted. The important thing right now is getting our country out of debt.
#1. The presidents office should completely disregard the comments. Those comments aren't helping or ruining anybody, or anybody's reputation. The only one's that they are ruining are the people like Carter, who makes these comments.
ReplyDelete#2.Yes it does. In the article, there was a very good point that when former president Bush was making all these uncalled for statements about going to war with Iraq, nobody said a word. Alot of people thought that this was a terrible idea, yet not a word was spoken. But now that Obama is president, and he's making a healthcare speech, a man coincidently from SOUTH Carolina yells "you lie"....there is racism everywhere still unfortunantly.
#3.This shouldn't at all. If President Obama really wanted to quiet the mouths of all these people who talk alot, he would get what he has to get done...done.
#1. The office should disreguard the comments made during Obama's speech and stay focused on their goal of achieving healthcare for everyone.
ReplyDelete#2. There is of course still racism at large, not as much as before but SOME white people do still feel a certain dominance over african americans. At Obama's speech its obviously clear that a man yelled "YOU LIE" to show disrespect, if it was someone else making the speech about the same exact problem i highy doubt that would have even been said.
#3. It was distract Obama maybe, but he would have to turn his attention to the real problem he is trying to solve which is healthcare.
1. The government should do the same thing they are doing now: not respond to any comments and keeping health care their number one priority.
ReplyDelete2.This government is valid because racism is still a part of this world, especially in the white house since we now have a black president.
3. No because if the president really wants to make a difference in health care than whatever he says go.
#1: Why should this racist comment change the mindset of a Obama or even an his entire office on the health care reform? The Senate already settled it with the vote against Wilson's discrimitory remarks, that's enough, and it's exactly how Obamas office should be taking it.
ReplyDelete#2: The arguement has validity because Dowd gave evidence on Wilson's obvious racist politics, but the arguement that throwing "the race card" instead of truly knowing when "real instances of racism [need] to be addressed," makes you think about media hype and assumptions. There is obviously racism in the Congress, but the real issue is that republicans don't like the Health Care Reform, why couldn't that remark be about Obamas plan? which has been on republican's bad sides since he has entered the white house.
#3: It shouldn't derail the reform bill, and it's not going to since in the article "White House Deflects Charges of Racism Leveled at Opponents" said the press secretary of the white house was trying to get around the race question and into the real problem, the economic down turn.
1) The office should respond the same way it has been responding for the past years. they should keep the focus on universal health care.
ReplyDelete2) This argument does have validity racism is everywere and there is just as much as there always has been. but now it is little different when it come to racism.
3) If the president does not take any action then this will not but if he does i dont see why not.
1. The presidential office is doing exactly what they need to be doing. they should not pay attention to the comments and they should continue to focus on their idea of universal health care.
ReplyDelete2. Yes the argument had validity. there is racism everywhere even in the white house. there are some comments that were made that could be showing racism.
3. it is possible for this to derail the healthcare reform bill, but thats only if the president lets it.
1. I think the office shouldn't do anything to Maureen Dowd && former president Jimmy Carter because theres bigger issues that needs to be addressed rather than dealing with racial comments.
ReplyDelete2. Yes is does have some validity. Yes everyone knows that theres racism here and there but for former president Carter to say something like an african american is not "qualified" to lead a country is really to me, unacceptable. If people want to keep things in a professional level; such racial comment is unnesscary.
3. It shouldnt derail the healthcare reform bill because its not relevant to it; but if the president feels that he should take action about the argument then who know if it will or not.
1) I feel that the presidential office has responded perfectly well up to thing point by disregarding the negative comments and should continue to do so in the future. These comments don't concern the contemporary issues and shouldn't be further dwelled upon.
ReplyDelete2) One must live in a very deluded world to make a comment such as there is no such thing as racism. Yes there is such a thing as racism and its al round us, including the White House. It would be naïve to believe otherwise.
3) It can derail the focus on health care, but only if we let it. But if the people along with the Presidential office ignore such slander that it cannot draw the focus off health care.
1)How should the office of the president respond to Maureen Dowd and former president Jimmy Carter?at the moment the office of the president shouldn't answer to such comments from Maureen and Carter, the most important thing in the table right now is the insurance plan and nothing else i think is very unprofessional of both of them to make such comments on such a topic when something more important is being done.
ReplyDelete2)In your opinion does this argument have any validity?i think it had validity to them in their point of view to me it doesn't it's maybe because i am very open minded and don't really care about such little and insignificant facts.
3)Will this derail the healthcare reform bill? of course it will the fact that people are starting to write and talk about means that someone apparently cares for such irrelevant topic, but maybe it wont derail in a big scale as to make the reform bill take longer that what it should, they are at their full right to make the argument , just not at such time as now.
- The office should disregard the comments because they have the right to say what they want. Making a big deal about it will only get in the way of fixing our real problems.
ReplyDelete- Theres really no validity because these people could just deny saying it in a racial manner. On the other hand the reporter had a point when he stated that no one shouted "You lie!" to Bush when he clearly had no idea what he was talking about.
- This might slow down the process of it being passed. It could be the perfect healt care reform bill and racist people could say its no good because it was brought up by Obama .
1. How should the office of the president respond to Maureen Dowd and former president Jimmy Carter?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure this isn't the first time Obama has dealt with racist remarks. He's a big boy, he can deal with it just like when he dealt with it when he was campaigning for the presidency. Obama must know that there are still people out there who don't want to accept an African American president, and he should know how to disregard them and keep doing what he needs to do.
2. In your opinion does this argument have any validity?
The response former president Jimmy Carter has alot more validity, in my opinion. There was no beating around the bush in his response, and you could tell he was a very up front man about his opinion in respect to Obama's presidency. He is obviously unhappy and speaks for some others as well when he pulled "the race card". Although his argument has some validity, we must be realists and accept the fact that there will always be people who think that way. There will always be racism, especially with an African American president.
3.Will this derail the healthcare reform bill?
Its a question between will it, and should it. In my opinion, I feel this distraction might derail the healthcare reform bill somewhat, but it shouldn't be. America has bigger fish to fry, and should not waste its precious time trying to solve a miniscule dispute about an opinion that will always linger.
#1.The President has the right to speak for himself, however Obama did know where he was ending up once he decided to become the president because he is an African American and there are many people out there who is racist. He should discard all those racial comments and move on...continue helping our economy.
ReplyDelete#2. Yes, this does have validity. Whether you are African American or not, there would always be racist people out there. I think its ridiculous for people not to believe that their is no racism inside the White House. People make stupid comments...even if you are the President.
#3. Only if the President allows this to happen. Should he ignore it? Yes. Will he ignore it? Only if he chooses to.
Travis Rivera
ReplyDelete1 they should just respind to it and forget what every1 else is saying and stay on track with the universal health care.
2 their is always goanna be racism no matter what every1 has their own opinions of their race and others and their stereotypes
3 Obama like he siad will do his best and we will see how it goes
1 i think they should forget it there alway going to be racist an he got bigger fish to fry like america health care
ReplyDelete2 yes
3 i hope not
michael e
Sebastian Carmona
ReplyDeleteHow should the office of the president respond to Maureen Dowd and former president Jimmy Carter?
The goverment should not pay much attion to ths comment because, if he was to be asked if he meant it in racict manner. This is just dragging us away from our bigger problems.
In your opinion does this argument have any validity?
There is racism all over the world. And there is always going to be it.
Will this derail the healthcare reform bill?
YES BUT ONLY THEY PAY ATTION IT , THIS A STATEMENT TO GET INTO THE MIND OF OUR PRESIDENT.