Comments on: Bush: Use Of Noose No "Harmless Prank"

President Says Noose Displays, Jokes About Lynching Are "Deeply Offensive"

[keithle1]

Prez is doing his bit to help McCain get some black votes.

[brianbwb-2009]

"The noose was used to HANG Sadaam ... on national TV .. and not one broadcaster cried about that being insensitive ... or compared it to lynchings"...Posted by dowjones20k

While I am not a broadcaster, except for my posts in the ''net news'' comments threads, I have always referred to Saddam''s execution as a lynching. On Bush''s instruction, the US military handed Saddam over to the supporters of Moqtada Al Sadr, knowing he would be quickly killed before any of the facts implicating the US'' involvement in the gas attacks on the Kurds could come out.

Bush caused the lynching of Saddam, now he wants to pretend that he thinks it is a bad thing.

[incog-nito]

"The noose is not a harmless prank," President Bush declared, "I played with it once and almost choked myself to death."

[michellem99-2009]

Bush,, will ye step to the plate..Ye have never made it right in my mind..Ye were were rude to a blind reporter who wears shades as he must. Ye was out of line..Ye cussed at him,,I heard it on live TV. I was so shocked..

[tbrandon72]

There is no excuse for the hatred that continues on all sides of the race(s) issues. Race hatred really means that the perpetrator of hatred is insecure within themselves...think about it.

I am of Irish and English descent and the Irish side has much to complain about, but mostley doesn''t. and the English side, which was responsible for much of that has changed.

I remember back in the 60''s, my mother crying as she watched the horrific events of the racial *** at that time. As a "white" person, I am ashamed of the behavior. As a human being, I am ashamed of that, also.

Give peace a chance for God''s sake...look within yourself and see what really going on.

[joeshields56]

I say "hoorah" for President Bush! Sad to say I haven''t been able to say that too much over the past seven years for our current leader. But today he made me proud to call him "my President", if he does it again (maybe by starting to wind down the Iraq war)... I swear I''ll haul "Old Glory" back out onto the front porch. Alas, otherwide it will remain furled in the basement until Barack Obama replaces him in ''08.

[jncc1701]

What is amazing is not this lying *** but how easily we fall for it time and time again.

Posted by jncc1701
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OK. Then nooses are OK. Thanks for clarifying that.
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Hey ilikecats1 you may want to read my entire post but since you clearly did not - here is my point again very slow so you can follow.....

I am not excusing racism.

but

Bush cares nothing about this topic, he is - like he did when he ran for President posturing as a moderate who care about civil rights. This is just a ---- photo up - what has he actually done legislatively on this topic?????
There is an election so look for the GOP more nuttier members to suddenly start sounding like moderate independents.
And we fools fall for the rhetoric even though this pathetic party''s policies continue to look after the ultra wealthy, corporation and military contractors. While the rest of us will be stuck with the bill.

SO I ask again, what did Bush EVER do legislatively on the topic of civil rights???????

[gypsyartist1]

Written by Robert L. Zangrando, from The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950 (1980):

"Statistics do not tell the entire story, however. These were recorded lynchings; others were never reported beyond the community involved. Furthermore, mobs used especially sadistic tactics when blacks were the prime targets. By the 1890s lynchers increasingly employed burning, torture, and dismemberment to prolong suffering and excite a "festive atmosphere" among the killers and onlookers. White families brought small children to watch, newspapers sometimes carried advance notices, railroad agents sold excursion tickets to announced lynching sites, and mobs cut off black victims'' fingers, toes, ears, or genitalia as souvenirs. Nor was it necessarily the handiwork of a local rabble; not infrequently, the mob was encouraged or led by people prominent in the area''s political and business circles. Lynching had become a ritual of interracial social control and recreation rather than simply a punishment for crime."

Excerpted from The Reader%u2019s Companion to American History. Ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty. Copyright ) 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Co.

[gypsyartist1]

Written by Robert L. Zangrando, from The NAACP Crusade Against Lynching, 1909-1950 (1980):

"Between 1882 (when reliable statistics were first collected) and 1968 (when the classic forms of lynching had disappeared), 4,743 persons died of lynching, 3,446 of them black men and women. Mississippi (539 black victims, 42 white) led this grim parade of death, followed by Georgia (492, 39), Texas (352, 141), Louisiana (335, 56), and Alabama (299, 48). From 1882 to 1901, the annual number nationally usually exceeded 100; 1892 had a record 230 deaths (161 black, 69 white). Although lynchings declined somewhat in the twentieth century, there were still 97 in 1908 (89 black, 8 white), 83 in the racially troubled postwar year of 1919 (76, 7, plus some 25 race riots), 30 in 1926 (23, 7), and 28 in 1933 (24, 4)."

Excerpted from The Reader%u2019s Companion to American History. Ed. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty. Copyright ) 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Co.

[excoachken]

"But jokes about WMDs that blow soldiers to pieces are really funny!" said the Cowardly Cowboy.