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wild bird

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22. So ignorant is right.

Reply to jzodda (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:30 PM

Aug 2013

Not confronting them was probably the right thing to do, people like that have already made up their minds and no amount of info is going to change it.

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Do you think the word Obamacare has racial overtones? [View all] jzodda Aug 2013 OP

No, and neither does President Obama think it has racial overtones. wild bird Aug 2013 #1

Not to us it isn't of course but I am not talking about us. jzodda Aug 2013 #3

When they vote consistently against their interests, it isn't racial. It's stupidity. So is this. Squinch Aug 2013 #10

They may not like ObamaCare, but that doesn't mean they use the term in a racially motivated way. wild bird Aug 2013 #18

Welcome to DU, wild bird! Suich Aug 2013 #9

Thanks for the welcome. wild bird Aug 2013 #15

Yes, welcome mimi85 Aug 2013 #25

Thank you for the gracious welcome. wild bird Aug 2013 #26

The subject and verb plurality don't match. That sounds like ebonics. BlueStreak Aug 2013 #2

People who say they are opposed to everything about 'Obamacare' will say they like specific PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #4

If we can step away from this "racial overtones" silliness, there is a serious issue with the ACA BlueStreak Aug 2013 #12

+1000 (n/t) spin Aug 2013 #14

+1000. wild bird Aug 2013 #19

Welcome to DU. We have diverse opinions here, but everybody cares. BlueStreak Aug 2013 #30

Thank you for the welcome. wild bird Aug 2013 #31

The guys you heard at dinner? winter is coming Aug 2013 #5

LOL you are right about that jzodda Aug 2013 #6

So ignorant is right. wild bird Aug 2013 #22

But just think mimi85 Aug 2013 #24

no, and Obama himself calls it Obamacare JI7 Aug 2013 #7

Of course I know this jzodda Aug 2013 #8

Yes, the word "maca", subliminally implying "macaca", is right there in the middle of Obamacare Bucky Aug 2013 #11

How did I miss that? BlueStreak Aug 2013 #13

Now that's some funny shit right there. wild bird Aug 2013 #16

Yep and that's mimi85 Aug 2013 #21

I think the day will come when the GOP wish to hell they never name ACA Obamacare. Thinkingabout Aug 2013 #17

I think that day has already arrived.. in the Cha Aug 2013 #23

Not any more. nt mimi85 Aug 2013 #20

No. nt babylonsister Aug 2013 #27

I don't think so at all bhikkhu Aug 2013 #28

I seem to remember them using "Hillarycare" back when Hillary Clinton was the mastermind brewens Aug 2013 #29

only racists think it has racial overtones. nt dionysus Aug 2013 #32

well what about gingrichcare? there is romneycare madrchsod Aug 2013 #33

No, and he seems to have embraced it. The ACA is not "named after him"... Hekate Aug 2013 #34

Nah, I think it has a nice ring to it Rstrstx Aug 2013 #35

No. It's just ObstetricianAmericanMedicalAssociationCare - what's racial about that? (nt) DreamGypsy Aug 2013 #36