Ah. I agree that they aren't saying enough. I think we buy their explanations, or excuses, that they're definitely bringing troops home as soon as possible, and that we will be out of Afghanistan by 2014, so it doesn't provoke a constant backlash. Still, anytime I've ever heard it come up, and it does frequently, on shows like Jon Stewart or Bill Maher, etc.. it's always saying Obama hasn't done enough and that Obama is just as bad as Bush was by not getting us out of the conflicts.

And I don't mean to imply that Obama MEANT to drop bombs on innocent families, but this was an unintended result of his warmongering campaigns in the middle east. No bueno.

I'm guessing I first got the expression dogwhistle politics from Jon Stewart - but I have, as I said, seen the expression in hundreds of places.

As the google news search I posted shows, it's become a common expression, used everywhere in modern political commentary.

And it's an accurate expression. The racism in this story is crystal clear, and I don't believe you for a second when you say you didn't see it. This whole story is in fact a perfect example of dogwhistle politics - a message specifically targeted at racists, to drum up racial hatred.

I personally don't care if you hate the hahahahahahas. Lots of folks do.

But you are ignoring my real point, and blowing up a smoke cloud of it's-not-racist WAAAAAAAH to avoid it.

It has all the signs of being a manufacured story. The Examiner and the Times (and teh Caller) look to have manufactured another story a short time ago - the rape of the ambassador - and no legitimate source has yet supported that story. (altho they still might, we shall see.) We should be suspicious of websites that have produced unsupported stories with political agendas, and look for better sources to confirm or deny their stories.

No credible and legitimate news sources are yet talking about it - which is another sign that it's a manufactured story.

We as webmasters know it's possible to manipulate twitter buzz, if you have money to spend. If a story looks dubious, it's claims should be investigated.

It may turn out to be completely true - that there are real people tweeting riot threats, that its a real phenomenon - but if it looks like a fake story it may be a fake story.

By the way, I am in fact voting Libertarian. I'm a liberal libertarian with a science bias. i reserve the right to throw away my vote as a protest.

I have already said many many times that I despise Obama as a wall street cocksucker and won't vote for that uncle tom. But, I'm not blind like most republicans, I also see that Romney is a wall street cocksucker, a millionaire sucking the cocks of billionaires.

I just don't buy the legitimacy of what looks to be a fake news story.

We agree on something then. :)

Sorry if things get heated...Damn politics brings out the worst in me.

Why or how should obama or any president change that? its in all politicians best interest to work for those who donate the most, not those who vote for them. it doesn't seem to matter much which party is in power, nothing really changes. big government is big business and like any good business, it needs to grow, not shrink. perhaps johnson would really change things, eventually but we'll never know as america is stuck in the two party farce.

i wouldn't doubt its fake but even if its not, people in england seem to riot more than black people in the states anyways. more of a class thing than a race thing i think.

The jews are going to win

http://www.examiner.com/article/if-t...e-the-election

Democrats will suddenly like the Electoral College if this holds up.