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1. #1
   On March 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm, The Raging Republican said:

   Race baiting! hehe!

2. #2
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Fco said:

   The “typical white person” comment was an inocuous remark made off the cuff. Are we going to do the Jesse Jackson game and play “gotcha racist!”? If so, we’re just perpetuating the same bad habits that continue to silence meaningful discussion.

   I’m kind of happy to see the shoe on the other foot for a change, though. But we still should rise above it.

3. #3
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Craig said:

   <—Atypical…I can’t wear it.

4. #4
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Jim M. said:

   Michelle,

   Just what I would expect from a “typical woman”!

   Please don’t hurt me…

5. #5
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pm, gollumclone said:

   Yes, exposing the great obamassiah’s stereotyping of people of pallor is racist since you are ridiculing him. Btw, most whites all look the same to me- must be a Caucasian thing. When I had to list my race on my government lackey job papers I would put “Human” and for sex “Occasionally”. What is this proccupation with hues anyway?
   Let’s find more things about the Obamas and Wrights of the world to make fun of when we can!
   Many years ago PBS did a show with Bill Cosby sitting there under a light that kept changing colors while he lambasted various ethnicities with stereotypical observations on kikes, spics,micks, dagos..you name it, even the dreaded N word people.

6. #6
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:09 pm, katieanne said:

   The “typical white person” comment was an inocuous remark made off the cuff.

   I don’t agree. I don’t think there was anything inocuous about it. It’s how Obama thinks. You don’t go to a racist church for 20 years and listen to the rantings of a radical race hater like Wright unless you agree with what’s being said. Obama can protest all he wants, but it just doesn’t wash. He could have left or he could have protested the hate. Obama did nothing. That says volumes about him and his wife.

7. #7
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm, emjem24 said:

   Instead of “typical white person” can the t-shirt read the following: “typical, America-loving, patriotic, multi-ethnic, white person?” Would that cover all of Obummer’s bases? It’s not racist yet accounts for the multiple cultures and enthnicities that “white people” embody.

   Let me know if any of you guys/gals want to add anything…:)

8. #8
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:14 pm, graysonret said:

   Should have said, “I’m one of Obama’s Typical White Persons”.

9. #9
   On March 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pm, zeroangel said:

   Can I have one that says, “FEAR” in big block letters underneath “Typical White Person?”

   heh.

10. #10
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

    I’m buying one for my hubby. Nah. He’ll never wear it.

    Glowbama is a joke.

11. #11
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm, Ron Rockstar said:

    Typical White Person = American
    Let’s start a movement. The NAATWP

12. #12
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm, ScoopPC11 said:

    I already have a pullover that says “White and Nerdy” on it. This could cement the characterization completely for me.

13. #13
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:34 pm, donsingleton said:

    Also available here
    and here

    Hat tip to Kathy

14. #14
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm, tmkeith said:

    Let’s see Hillary or McCain get away with saying “Typical black person” in any context.

    The double standard that only one side of this issue is permitted to observe will prevent any real discussion on this topic.

15. #15
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:46 pm, Larraby said:

    The MSM has been absolutely giddy in praising the Obamas. There should be an award given called “The Guilt ridden apologetic white liberal award” for the most effusive, sycophantic pro-Obama suck up by a liberal journalist. My top nominee would be Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post. NBC actually had Capehart on its news program to provide an “objective analysis”. Capehart called the Obama speech “Barack Obama’s gift to the American people”. Capehart was so over the top in his lavishing of praise on both Obamas that Capehart seemed almost libidinous.
    Second place would go to Chrissie Matthews who said “Barack Obama is us” and then Matthews suggested that in onehundred years from now, Americans will be reading Obama’s speech. I doubt even Matthews could top Capehart in Obama sycophancy but he came close. When it comes to Obama suck up, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post leaves everybody in the dust.

16. #16
    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm, ezupirate75 said:

    Next week will he say ” I have some white friends”?

17. #17
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm, tmkeith said:
    Let’s see Hillary or McCain get away with saying “Typical black person” in any context.

    The double standard that only one side of this issue is permitted to observe will prevent any real discussion on this topic.

    Pretty much. The next time you see a black coworker do something bad, publicly point them out as being a “typical black person” and see how long it takes to get an EEO complaint.

18. #18
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:22 pm, Lan Astaslem said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm, Ron Rockstar said:

    Let’s start a movement. The NAATWP

    *snort*

    Something tells me that it would be considered Raaacist!!!

19. #19
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm, Paul-Cincy said:

    ezupirate75 said:

    Next week will he say ” I have some white friends”?

    I think the faux pas is “some of my best friends are white”.

    Fco said:

    The “typical white person” comment was an inocuous remark made off the cuff.

    I consider myself notoriously difficult to offend, yet it’s hard to get Obama’s “Typical White Person” comment out of my head. Maybe I’m not the typical white person I thought I was, or Obama thought I was. Is typical white person status something I should aspire to? Have I achieved it? Is it something to overcome, or something to embrace? Well, Obama, said I need to ‘break through’:.

    Obama said:
    [My grandmother] is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know – there’s a reaction in her that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and sometimes come out in the wrong way and that’s just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it.

    So my typical white person-ness is something I need to “break through”. I didn’t know that until Obama told me.

20. #20
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm, Regulus said:

    I think I’ll hold out on my Xmas gift list for one of those “Home of the Fightin’ Whities” T-shirts that some self-pitying Indian college came up with in an attempt to provoke white guilt at Indian mascot names.

    Backfired on ‘em, though; the things sold to us typical white folks like hotcakes. Don’t know if they’re still on sale anymore, probably for just that reason.

21. #21
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm, mdt said:

    I am not white but have the same street sense/instincts as ObamaGranny. Any t-shirt for me?

22. #22
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm, shooter said:

    Tighty Whities printed w/”Typical White Person”
    get ‘em now on your Tighty Whities!

    Grandma under the bus T-Shirts? anywhere?

    My FAV!!!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
    with
    It’s your wRIGHT!
    or
    when Wright was Wrong

    wRight turns LEFT!

    I’m on a roll….don’t know if it’s any good, but it was fun.

23. #23
    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:54 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm, Regulus said:
    I think I’ll hold out on my Xmas gift list for one of those “Home of the Fightin’ Whities” T-shirts that some self-pitying Indian college came up with in an attempt to provoke white guilt at Indian mascot names.

    Backfired on ‘em, though; the things sold to us typical white folks like hotcakes. Don’t know if they’re still on sale anymore, probably for just that reason.

    Is this what you are talking about? If so, looks like they moved their business to cafepress.

    http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite/

24. #24
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm, zorro said:

    I’m a typical American who happens to be white. Those grievance mongering race baiters need to decide once and for all, are they Americans or Africans?

25. #25
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm, ezupirate75 said:

    Paul-Cincy # 19

    My bad, does that mean I fail the racist teat

26. #26
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I just hope on the back it says “You’re not following me are you?”

27. #27
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm, Anton said:

    You know something, Michelle?

    You could provoke the mother of all moonbat Olbergasms by wearing one of those shirts to your Fox guest commentary spot.

    ( And yes, I know you don’t need any more trouble from the moonbats than you already have. I just think it would be really funny.)

28. #28
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm, shooter said:

    Those grievance mongering race baiters need to decide once and for all, are they Americans or Africans?

    GREAT point Zorro.

    and # 25

    …does that mean I fail the racist teat?

    I’m not going there…

29. #29
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm, ezupirate75 said:

    my bad, should read racist test

30. #30
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm, Insomniac said:

    Would it be racist to suggest that a white person couldn’t wear this in public more than five minutes without getting a beat-down?

31. #31
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm, Insomniac said:

    racist teat

    *snerk*

32. #32
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pm, ezupirate75 said:

    not only failed the racist test, but the spelling one as well, guess they qualifies me to be one of the loony left

33. #33
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm, shooter said:

    racist teat.
    my bad, should read racist test

    we know, it just busted me up a little.

34. #34
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm, novaculus said:

    Just a heads up for those who aren’t deer hunters: The “non-typical” reference is to the form of the antlers on a buck. There are “typical” and “non-typical” forms of antlers, a distinction related to “scoring” the rack under rules of hunters’ societies.

35. #35
    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:44 pm, Roman Con said:

    I’m Italian — can I get a “Typical Olive Person” t-shirt?

36. #36
    On March 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pm, Bogtrotter said:

    The comment, “typical white person” spoke volumes to me. Obama completely exposed his thinking with just three little words.

37. #37
    On March 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm, rightisright said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:08 pm, zorro said:

    If I may, their not very good Americans!

    On March 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm, AlohaGuy said:I just hope on the back it says “You’re not following me are you?”

    I like that, might wanna be careful who’s behind you tho…sure you would being a “typical whites person”

38. #38
    On March 21st, 2008 at 5:28 pm, Lindsay said:

    Love it! The audacity of being a TWP!

39. #39
    On March 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm, slp said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Fco said:

    The “typical white person” comment was an innocuous remark made off the cuff.

    Obama lived with his white, liberal grandmother from the 5th grade until he finished high school.

    To hold his grandmother up to ridicule to make some political points, reveals Obama’s lack of character and his lack of conscience.

40. #40
    On March 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm, Azygos said:

    Can I get one that says

    Melanin Challenged American?

41. #41
    On March 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm, bit_boy said:

    As a white ethnic who has by law and the courts has been discriminated against these last 30 years I am so happy to see a spark of free speech. Who does Obama think he is, lecturing anyone on racism when both he and his wife have enjoyed a life of privilege. And under the cover of Subculture hate he so sanctimoniously talks down TWP, how dare he, how dare he.

    We now have our own web site where we can say white, and not whitey, and we can say free, and not racist. It’s call Stuff White People Like.

42. #42
    On March 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm, JohnnyNJ said:

    Some questions????

    Are North Carolina coeds eligible to wear this T-shirt?

    Are Auburn coeds eligible to wear this T-shirt?

    Are “Typical whites” in Baltimore eligible to wear this T-shirt while riding the bus in Baltimore?

    Is Barry Hussein a “typical black”?

    Is the congregation at Trinity Church “typical blacks”?

    Is any “typical white” ever allowed to use the words, “typical black”?

    …..I would like Chrissy Matthews to answer these questions…when his leg isn’t tingling.

43. #43
    On March 21st, 2008 at 6:39 pm, graysonret said:

    I’d like to ask, what is a typical white person anyway? I’ve met a whole lot of white people, and no two seem the same. I’ve met a whole lot of black people too, and no two seem the same. I guess it’s hard for me to be stereotyped into a behavior. When I worked as a medic in D.C., back in the 80s, I used to walk down the street to work, through a, not so good, neighborhood, at night. Maybe I was just naive and dumb, but if anyone said anything to me, it was always, “Hey, doc”. “How ya doing, doc?” Maybe today, I’d get mugged, who knows? But, to all you posters who are not white…if you think “white”, you are “white”. That’s what Wright, Jackson and Sharpton would say. Black people (like Michael Steele, Larry Elder, Tom Sowell) are used to being called an “oreo”. Maybe it’s the same for Hispanics and Mediterrean people.

44. #44
    On March 21st, 2008 at 6:47 pm, lgm said:

    Are you capable of reading more than three words in a row before having a tantrum? I really wonder.

    If you read or listen to the whole paragraph (it takes two minutes), you will learn that Obama respects his grandmother and his picture of a “typical white person” was not a negative stereotype.

    Obama is trying to say something about ending racial tension in America. You don’t want to hear it so you drown it out with huffing and puffing over three words in a row you don’t like. Grow up.

45. #45
    On March 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm, Ron Rockstar said:

    lgm, if Obama respected his grandmother he would have left her out of it. Instead he pointed out that she is a typical white racist. If he want’s to end racial tension he will immediately get back on the Television and denounce Wright as a racist. Not make excuses for him. Instead he tries to tell me that I don’t understand black church services. That means, that this is all my fault for not understanding that black people mean something good when they say God damn America. If you buy that crap then you have no reasoning ability which would illustrate your IQ level. Of course this does clear up for me whether you are really a professor or not. No reasoning ability = college professor.

46. #46
    On March 21st, 2008 at 7:21 pm, lgm said:

    Ron Rockstar said (#45):

    if Obama respected his grandmother he would have left her out of it. Instead he pointed out that she is a typical white racist.

    That’s exactly what he did not say. He denied that she is a racist. You can hear that within the first 20 seconds, before ADD sets in.

47. #47
    On March 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm, Jim M. said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm, Fco said:
    The “typical white person” comment was an inocuous remark made off the cuff.

    Who was it that said “words matter”?

48. #48
    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm, lgm said:

    Jim M. said:

    Who was it that said “words matter”?

    Obama. And if you would listen to more than three of them in a row, you might learn what words mean. Maybe your fantasy of evil Obama is more comfortable to you than the reality.

49. #49
    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pm, Jim M. said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm, lgm said:
    Jim M. said:

    Who was it that said “words matter”?
    Obama. And if you would listen to more than three of them in a row, you might learn what words mean. Maybe your fantasy of evil Obama is more comfortable to you than the reality.

    I harbor no “fantasy” of an “evil Obama”. The man does not have enough substance to be evil.

    I have listend to and read more of Obama’s words than virtually those of any other candidate. The man is an empty suit. A political chameleon who changes positions to suit the color du jour.

    The one living in a fantasy world is you, lgm. You blindly follow the man’s rhetoric ignoring anything contradictory. You are the first to jump in people’s faces to defend the man, and chastise those who ruin your utopian dreams based on the pure BS Obama is peddling.

    Can you name one thing he has accomplished in the Senate? One? Yet you would elevate this man to the highest office in the land, based purely on “words” with no mind given to the man’s character, credibility or honesty.

    I have held my fire unlike others here at your inane and thoughtless comments, ignored your utter stupidity, and given you a pass on your feckless attempts to create logic out of emotion. I suppose I figured you were borderline literate, and it would not be kind to point out another person’s lack of mental function.

    I did not address my comment at you, nor did I invite you to respond. But sone you have responded, and since you have chosen to publicaly impugn my views, you are now fair game.

    So bring it on, moron. Just be careful not to let the drool short out your computer.

50. #50
    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:33 pm, lgm said:

    Jim M. said (#49):

    Can you name one thing he has accomplished in the Senate? One?

    Actually, his speeches often refer to his accomplishments both in the Illinois Senate and the US Senate. Maybe you should give another listen or read.

    He often refers to improved veterans’ benefits, more regulation of lobbyists, and health care (in Illinois).

    I don’t impugn your views, only your intellegence.

51. #51
    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm, Jim M. said:

    Actually, his speeches often refer to his accomplishments both in the Illinois Senate and the US Senate. Maybe you should give another listen or read.

    And just what would those be? What I have heard does not rise to the level of an accomplishment. Yes, he votes in the Senate. So do 99 other Senators.

    Impreived veteran’s benefits? Give me a break. As I recall, he voted against the appropriations bill for the troops. I suppose leaving our troops without the means to fight and defend themselves is offset by voting for greater death benefits to their next of kin.

    As for your comment:

    I don’t impugn your views, only your intellegence

    How can you question another person’s mental abilities, when you yourself cannot even spell the word “intelligence” correctly?

    I can see that I am engaged in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

52. #52
    On March 21st, 2008 at 9:01 pm, Jim M. said:

    Here you go, lgm. I think I found something that is appropriate for your level regarding Obama’s “typical white person” comment:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XOFYJlO_P0

53. #53
    On March 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm, PBoilermaker said:

    On March 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm, Jim M. said:
    How can you question another person’s mental abilities, when you yourself cannot even spell the word “intelligence” correctly?

    Yep, I feel sorry for lgm’s poor students.

54. #54
    On March 21st, 2008 at 9:17 pm, Jim M. said:

    lgm is a teacher?

    No wonder corporate America has to outsource so much.

55. #55
    On March 21st, 2008 at 9:17 pm, almeehan said:

    Donna Brazille (sp?) commenting on CNN tonight said Barack was not African American. She said he is half white, mother from America and has a father from Kenya. Interesting perspective. Her parents are black but Americans but she considers herself African American! Go figure. Is it a purity issue here? I thing this is part of his problem. Identity and acceptance. His skin color gave him acceptance in a certain community and he chose to adopt a segment of that block of people that stereotypes white people. During his campaign he did well with his “white” educational background to mask some of his culturally ‘learned’ baggage until the wheels started coming off his bandwagon. Under pressure he lets out snippets that reveal his life’s experiences and deep belief system.

56. #56
    On March 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm, mytake said:

    lgm, “typical white person” is not negative necessarily and neither is “Black people sure can dance!” .. BUT both are racism plain and simple. I learned this in my tolerance classes.

57. #57
    On March 21st, 2008 at 10:21 pm, derel3433 said:

    If only Obama would have come out and said that Reverend Wright’s comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems – two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all.

58. #58
    On March 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm, Paul-Cincy said:

    There once was a man named Obama
    With a high-minded colorblind dogma,
    Til a glimpse of his pastor
    Showed us all his true master,
    He even insulted his Grandma.

59. #59
    On March 21st, 2008 at 10:30 pm, derel3433 said:

    I reject those who suggest we have ginned up these bogus issues because we have lost the American public on the war, the economy and the culture wars. It’s just not true. This Obama white grandmother/radical pastor business is a real important issue facing the American public. I’m glad that Fox has devoted itself to delivering negative Obama news 24/7. Even Greta is getting into the act. He must be stopped!

60. #60
    On March 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm, Jim M. said:

    The people with whom you associate are very good indicators of judgment and character. To maintain a 20 year association with someone who you know is an outspoken racist and bigot speaks volumes about your own beliefs.

    Any position withing the military or federal government requiring a security clearance requires extremely detailed information on every placed you have ever lived, every church, club or organization to which you belonged, and every activity in which you have engaged. All of that information is checked and screened, your former neighbors, roommates and club members questioned, and the organizations to which you belonged are investigated for any anti-American bias.

    The reason this is done is that your associations reveal a great deal about your biases and beliefs.

    Now Obama is trying to convince us that he should not be held to the same standard as those he will hopefully command or manage. He has cast his own grandmother in such a manner that to accuse Wright of racism, his grandmother must also be a racist in his carefully crafted house of cards.

    Obama has denounced the words of the man, but not the man himself. In doing so, it gives his supporters a life preserver to claim Obama has stated he does not believe the things Wright has said. However, the fact that he continued to hand with the guy form 20 years and never said a word until now makes his denials lack any measure of credibility.

    Obama is a slick hypocrite, whose words mean absolutely nothing. Look at the statements of Samantha Powers regarding his intentions on Iraq. Look at the backdoor assurances made to the Canadian government that he really was not serious about what he was saying on the campaign trail about NAFTA. His denouncement of Wright is nothing more than “campaign rhetoric”, just like his statements regarding Iraq and NAFTA.

    Mark my words. In the coming weeks there will be more outrageous comments surfacing made by Wright. And those statements will raise more questions about Obama’s character, judgment and credibility.

61. #61
    On March 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    A haiku.

    Barack Obama.
    Agent of Reconciliation.
    So long, grandmother.

62. #62
    On March 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm, fourstringfuror said:

    I can see that I am engaged in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

    You hit the nail on the head.

    And to think, this man deigns to educate others.

63. #63
    On March 24th, 2008 at 11:38 am, Ron Rockstar said:

    lgm said: “That’s exactly what he did not say. He denied that she is a racist. You can hear that within the first 20 seconds, before ADD sets in.”
    No dude, he made clear that she used language that made him cringe. That’s like me saying “lgm is not an idiot, he just says stuff all the time that sounds profoundly retarded”