Obama at painfull press conference in korea

[lostinblue 1,989]

Hardly. Dubbya was a lifetime underachiever who was just lucky enough to be born into one of the most powerful families in this country. He was never known as being articulate, let alone being able complete a sentence. But that's what y'all Right Wingers wanted. You don't like some "uppity, college-boy" in the White House. So it's a bit ironic that y'all griped at Obama the candidate, for being too smart for your tastes and now yahoos on message boards who still haven't gotten over the 2008 election take orgasmic pleasure in finding even the most mundane issue to ridicule the President with, under the narrative that he's just as bumbling an idiot as that country bumpkin y'all voted for before. Sad and pathetic really.

Here you go trying to use the race card again. It is so old in dealing with you liberals. We think it is racist for obama to think that in this day and age a Korean reporter would not know english. He is not on the streets of Chicago...Any 3rd grade child in Korea could have walked on the stage and asked a question in standard english... not ebonics.Maybe he was hoping for a North Korean reporter to ask him a question on his socialist agenda for the United States.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This is a very strange thread

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Here you go trying to use the race card again. It is so old in dealing with you liberals. We think it is racist for obama to think that in this day and age a Korean reporter would not know english. He is not on the streets of Chicago...Any 3rd grade child in Korea could have walked on the stage and asked a question in standard english... not ebonics.Maybe he was hoping for a North Korean reporter to ask him a question on his socialist agenda for the United States.

We? You speak for all RWN's? ATTENTION EVERYONE: Lostinpew is the official spokesman for VJ's RWN's. Please consult with him/her before posting your Obama-bashing threads. Thank you.

Race card? Do you know what reference to 'uppity' is from? Conservative GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said this a couple of months before the election:

Westmoreland was discussing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech outside the House chamber today when he veered into his thoughts on Michelle and Barack Obama. "Just from what little I've seen of her and Mister Obama, Senator Obama, they're a member of an elitist class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.

When a reporter sought clarification on the racially loaded word, Westmoreland replied, "Uppity, yeah."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/georgia-gop-congressman-calls.html

Do you denounce what Westmoreland said about Obama?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

This is a very strange thread

Indeed. We should see if we can have a ODS forum added so the RWNs can relish in their fantasies.

[Ban Hammer 12,901]

i notice you left out socialist.

[lostinblue 1,989]

We? You speak for all RWN's? ATTENTION EVERYONE: Lostinpew is the official spokesman for VJ's RWN's. Please consult with him/her before posting your Obama-bashing threads. Thank you.

Race card? Do you know what reference to 'uppity' is from? Conservative GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said this a couple of months before the election:

Do you denounce what Westmoreland said about Obama?

Obama is racist..He has insulted the population of korea by suggesting that few people speak english.

After taking questions from White House reporters at a wrap-up news conference, Obama offered to let a South Korean journalist pose a question since he said the country had been such a good summit host.

But as it turned out, Obama got a bit more than he was expecting from the reporter he called on, who was the only person who stood to take the president up on his offer. Obama assumed the reporter would speak Korean and requested a translation.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/20/korea

English education is big business in South Korea. The nation spends over $3 billion a year on various forms, ranging from rudimentary language school courses to Ph.D. programs. South Korea, despite having a population a third the size of Japan's, spends more than three times as much money as Japan does on English education.

Professors at the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (locally referred to as KAIST), the country’s most prestigious science university, now teach well over 20 percent of their courses in English. In March, the start of the new academic year, KAIST freshmen will have to study all their subjects in English. Yonsei University, the traditional rival of Korea University, increased the percentage of courses taught in English from 18 percent last year to approximately 20 percent this year.

“With several top universities leading the way, the pattern will be followed by other universities in Korea,” said James Larson, deputy director of the Fulbright Korean-American Educational Commission.

The main subject areas being taught in English are liberal arts, engineering and natural science.

Although some universities have increased recruitment of American and other foreign English-speaking professors, the vast majority of professors tasked with teaching in English are Koreans who have studied abroad. Last year, Euh Yoon-Dae, then president of Korea University, established a policy of only hiring Korean faculty members who were capable of teaching in English except those teaching Korean language or culture. He aimed at having 60 percent of the courses at his university taught in English.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Obama is racist..He has insulted the population of korea by suggesting that few people speak english.

He states a fact - "I'll probably need a translation if your asking the question in Korean". That doesn't suggest anything about the number of South Koreans who speak English. It certainly doesn't fit any definition of racism that I ever heard of.

His handling of the situation after selecting the journalist was awful, but try to turn it to racism and you are just going to lose credibility.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

He states a fact - "I'll probably need a translation if your asking the question in Korean". That doesn't suggest anything about the number of South Koreans who speak English. It certainly doesn't fit any definition of racism that I ever heard of.

His handling of the situation after selecting the journalist was awful, but try to turn it to racism and you are just going to lose credibility.

Lostmyview doesn't know a racist from park bench. He/she (I'm thinking it's a she) is a RWN who wants to see Obama's birth certificate.