Cornel West yanks Obama’s credentials as a black man
I just finished reading Princeton academic Cornel West’s diatribe against Barack Obama, in which West complains that “my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men” and calls Obama “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”
West frames his disenchantment in terms of class struggle, and argues that Obama has chosen the wrong side, selling out less fortunate Americans in return for the favor of the powerful.
“The escalation of the class war against the poor and the working class is intense,” West writes. “More and more working people are beaten down. They are world-weary. They are into self-medication. They are turning on each other. They are scapegoating the most vulnerable rather than confronting the most powerful.”
“When you look at a society you look at it through the lens of the least of these, the weak and the vulnerable; you are committed to loving them first, not exclusively, but first, and therefore giving them priority,” West writes.
Many on the left do criticize Obama for being too mainstream and insufficiently aggressive on behalf of those less fortunate. While that debate is legitimate, I think those who make such claims are for the most part politically naive about Obama himself and about the political environment in which he operates. But again, it is a legitimate topic of discussion. The issue of whether Obama has been too gentle with Wall Street and its supporters is particularly pertinent, given their role in creating our current predicament.
But West does not discuss it legitimately.
In West’s account, Obama has sided with the rich and powerful in part because he “feels most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want.” But as in most rants, this one includes a tell, an unwitting revelation of its deeper motivation.
“I used to call my dear brother [Obama] every two weeks. I said a prayer on the phone for him, especially before a debate. And I never got a call back. And when I ran into him in the state Capitol in South Carolina when I was down there campaigning for him he was very kind. The first thing he told me was, ‘Brother West, I feel so bad. I haven’t called you back. You been calling me so much. You been giving me so much love, so much support and what have you.’ And I said, ‘I know you’re busy.’ But then a month and half later I would run into other people on the campaign and he’s calling them all the time. I said, wow, this is kind of strange. He doesn’t have time, even two seconds, to say thank you or I’m glad you’re pulling for me and praying for me, but he’s calling these other people. I said, this is very interesting. And then as it turns out with the inauguration I couldn’t get a ticket with my mother and my brother. I said this is very strange. We drive into the hotel and the guy who picks up my bags from the hotel has a ticket to the inauguration. My mom says, ‘That’s something that this dear brother can get a ticket and you can’t get one, honey, all the work you did for him from Iowa.’ Beginning in Iowa to Ohio. We had to watch the thing in the hotel.”
When you committed to “look at a society … through the lens of the least of these, the weak and the vulnerable,” when “you are committed to loving them first … and therefore giving them priority,” you do not whine that the lowly person picking up your bags for you in your very expensive DC hotel somehow wrangled a ticket to the inauguration, while you, the very well-paid Ivy League academic and cultural star who walks among the elite, did not. You cannot attack another for seeking the trappings of power while complaining that you yourself were not supplied the trappings to which you feel yourself entitled.
Or if you do, you give the game away.
As Adam Serwer points out in The American Prospect, West also claims the self-anointed power to confirm or withdraw Obama’s standing as an authentic black man. West withdraws it on the basis of Obama’s ability to feel “at home” “with upper middle-class white and Jewish men” while allegedly harboring “fear of free black men.”
Serwer concludes:
“This remark made me wonder: Which of these men do you think is actually free, and which afraid of who he truly is?”
– Jay Bookman
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WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:25 pm
@Bosch
I have no problem with the statement, besides America needing to repent, America is not one person
jm
May 19th, 2011
3:27 pm
Doggone 3:22 – fair point.
Maybe there was a coin toss….
jm
May 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
zeee israel thing is a smokescreen…. completely, utterly, absolutely irrelevant since nothing is going to get done.
@@
May 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
Cornel West yanks Obama’s credentials as a black man
So does that mean we can criticize his policies without being called racists?
schnirt
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
“the rest are brainwashed by a violent and suppressive religion…”
Didn’t the Jews crucify Jesus? Oh well, he can take it up with them Saturday.
JohnnyReb
May 19th, 2011
3:28 pm
re, corporations have too much control over our lives. Not quite; no, the culprit is government. For example, for each gallon of gasoline pumped the oil company makes about 7 cents a gallon while the government takes almost 50 cents in taxes. But, the Dems call the CEO’s on the carpet. A big sideshow for the less informed.
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
3:29 pm
“Didn’t the Jews crucify Jesus”
Actually? NO, they didn’t. He was crucified by the Romans.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
@Bosch
What is your problem??
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
Well, it is getting so religious here I want to invite everybody to church Sunday. If you want to be an expert on such matters, you better go where they know something about it. Just an invitation. Everybody is welcomed at church.
Biggus D-ckus
May 19th, 2011
3:31 pm
Doggone 3:29
The Womans are de gweatest of aw time.
jm
May 19th, 2011
3:32 pm
Dusty 3:31 – dude, you’ll be 24 hours late.
jm
May 19th, 2011
3:33 pm
Election 2012
Democrats Scale Back 2012 Map
A Democratic official familiar with the still-forming re-election campaign told Roll Call that the focus will be on holding the 2008 pickups of Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina, winning over Latino voters in the West and flooding the traditional swing states of Ohio and Florida with resources. The Democrats feel good about winning New Mexico and Nevada, especially given the population growth among Hispanics.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_125/Democrats-Scale-Back-2012-Map-Obama-Battleground-205766-1.html?pos=hftxt
lots of stuff in here you socialists will enjoy reading
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:33 pm
@Bosch
Have you made a point yet, I am waiting for something???
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:33 pm
Woodstock Mike,
I don’t have a problem, I was just wondering if you agree or disagreed with that statment.
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
3:34 pm
jm, I don’t think I’ll be too late. If I am, I’m still not worried.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:34 pm
Don’t ruin my fun Doggone!
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
Woodstock Mike
“@Bosch
What is your problem??”
Please don’t ask that. Bosch might feel compelled to answer, and I have it on very good authority the AJC’s server doesn’t have nearly the capacity to hold all the answers he’ll give you. That means he’ll crash the server and the blog will go down.
And that will not do, ’cause if there’s anyone around here who shuts down this blog, it’s me.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
Aren’t you gonna be raptured Dusty? Will there be anybody in church Sunday?
stands for decibels
May 19th, 2011
3:35 pm
What have the Romans ever done for us?
stands for decibels
May 19th, 2011
3:36 pm
Have you made a point yet, I am waiting for something?
woody, I’ll just say this, about that quote? google is your friend.
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
“Doggone 3:22 – fair point. Maybe there was a coin toss”
OTOH – there are strict rules in some forms of Judaism about doing work on the Sabbath. Would having a rapture day be considered “work”?
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
Bsoch 3:35
See my 3:34 wherever it is.
BADA BING
May 19th, 2011
3:37 pm
Well, if you think that anyone would boycott Israel like they did Sun City and South Africa because of their policies, don’t count on the NY or Hollywood liberals, because they are all Jews. HAHA.
Biggus D-ckus
May 19th, 2011
3:38 pm
sfd – well, there are the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths, security and peace. But other than those, they’ve done nothing!
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:38 pm
sfd
“What have the Romans ever done for us?”
AmVet answered that just the other day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
Bruno
May 19th, 2011
3:38 pm
Well, it is getting so religious here I want to invite everybody to church Sunday. If you want to be an expert on such matters, you better go where they know something about it.
Then why would I attend church on Sunday?? The Sabbath is Saturday.
You might need to reread the Good Book a few more times, Dusty.
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
3:39 pm
Reb, that’s fine. You can continue to be part of the 20% or so in denial. But the facts are overwhelmingly arrayed against you.
stands, gotta love the Python!
And Bosch, regarding that quote, you are a very, very bad boy!
” I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country. ” ~Thomas Jefferson,
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
3:40 pm
Bsoch or Bosch whatever….
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
May 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
Well, me and mine are throwing a big shindig tomorrow night. I ain’t paying any bills that are due after Saturday, so there’ll be plenty of money. No point in throwing away good money when the Rapture’s going to take all our earthly troubles away. Let the Sinners pay. Us real Christians plan to wave bye-bye to them on our way up. We might could be a little hung over, but what the heck.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:41 pm
Paul,
Hehehehheehe……heeehee…..he has NO idea, right?
Julius Childs
May 19th, 2011
3:42 pm
well, there are the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths, security and peace. But other than those, they’ve done nothing!
They also had lead pipes. Crazy huh.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:43 pm
Bosch
Nope. And I’ve no USinUK to share popcorn with…. sigh…..
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:43 pm
AmVet,
Twas just wondering — apparently some members of that club were out recruiting and were gracious enough to hand me some printed material. I was curious so I browsed their website and it was amazing to me the kinds of thing this particular club is promoting — their particular goals and mission statments and all — it’s the kind of thing I read here daily from some particular posters.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:44 pm
@Bosch
So let me get this straight, you think that if someone agrees with that quote, they agree with what the KKK stands for, let me blunt….. YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!
Jack P
May 19th, 2011
3:44 pm
You forgot to include in your article, Dr. West, that you are the nation’s premier race baiter.
Biggus D-ckus
May 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
What have the Republicans ever done for us?
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
Paul,
I’ll share my popcorn, want some? With cheese?
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
Bosch
Giada made you popcorn?!!?
Where’s the fainting couch?
Southern Comfort
May 19th, 2011
3:45 pm
willie lynch
May 19th, 2011
12:55 pm
In thinking that President Obama could usher in some grand Black agenda is foolish and many Black people entertained those thoughts once he took office. The funny thing is many whites thought the same way.
Yeah, I’m sure you polled thousands upon thousands of Blacks to come to that conclusion.
If you want to know honestly what Blacks were thinking, many of US were thinking that finally a man would be judged by something other than the melanin content of his skin. In reality, it seems like nothing about Obama can be discussed without eventually his race becoming part of the issue. Furthermore, many of us prayed that, once inaugurated, he simply made it the full 4 years of his term without being assassinated.
Black agenda……..
*where do people get such bullshiiite………
Top 100 contributors in the 2008 election….. I wonder who got the most…….. who is in whose pocket…. Now you know why the Dems are pushing so hard for their Groups…… for the good of the American people… no, just a few of the American people.
2008? How many of those groups overwhelmingly contributed to the Democratic Party in 2010, which was the most recent election? People with money use the money to buy off whomever is in power. It’s not about Democrat/GOP or Liberal/Conservative for them. It’s only about maintaining control over the direction of the government for their benefit.
DDR: I’m hoping by his second term that “Angry Black Man”, will come out to play.
He has to get that term first. Unfortunately, I don’t think he has an ABM in him. He may have to hire somebody for that position. If he does have an ABM inside, he’s a hell of a lot better in controlling it than any other brotha I know. After all that’s been said and such, everybody I know, me included, would have pulled a serious ABM press conference by now.
African Americans #1 enemy = THEMSELVES
I’ve heard Charlize Theron called many things, but I don’t think she’s an enemy of herself…
Bosch
That 3:11 is pretty sweet…… You’re my hero.
captguitarman
May 19th, 2011
3:46 pm
I liked your article, Jay. Believe me, Barck Obama has nothing to fear from anything Cornel West, a pretender of the highest order, may say, write, or do. In fact, you could almost make Cornel West a symbol (not the only cause, but a symbol) of everything that is wrong in academia today. Back in the nineties, Lawrence Summers (former Obama advisor) was the Prez of Harvard University, and Cornel West was a highly-tenured and celebrated professor of Liberal Progressive Socialistic Politically Correct Studies — or something like that — at Harvard (a pass-fail course based on no work, no text book, and no hassles, but having the correct poltical ideology and the ability to engage the prof and to sound brilliantly well read and informed while BS-ing in class for a whole semester – a characteristic of all such courses). Before he was brought up on charges by the Harvard thought and speech police — and excommunicated by the Harvard Diocese of the Holy Mother of the Politically Correct — for daring to suggest that it is that men and women may have different hard-wiring that allows them to be more successful in some areas of endeavor than the oppositie sex — Summers had the unmitigated audacity to question the lack and quality of research (if any), the quality of scholarship, and the almost non-existent work-ethic of the aforesaid, highly-tenured, and clebrated Professor West. Why? Because all you have to do is listen to West (often trotted out on TV and news shows as the brilliant, intellectual African-American college professor with lots of brilliant stuff to say about political and social issues that no one else ever even thought of. But, there is a reason for that. No legitimate brilliant tenured Havard/Princeton college professor (regardless of race), or professor from any other school, would be able to think up such completely goofy, unfounded, off the wall, and illogical and nonsensical clap trap and then palm it off as some brilliant and insightful intellectual observation of the current political and social scene. If you think I am picking on this guy, just watch him on TV for about 5 minutes – that will be about all you can stand anyway. The celebrated professor was highly insulted by President Summers for his “way too close to home” observations, and cut a deal with the Princeton Diocese of the Holy Mother of Political Correctness and Affirmative Action, and took is celebrity professor self and headed for much greener pastures before anyone got the notion to see if Summers’ observations were correct – not poltically correct, just correct. Not long after, the Politically Correct Inquisition burned Summers at the stake at Harvard, and he went to work for Obama. It’s a big old goofy world out there — just ask Professor West.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:46 pm
Bosch thinks if you are a Christian you are in the KKK. How does that work?? 95% of African Americans are Christians??
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:47 pm
Not necessarily Woodstock Mike, I was simply curious — I actually browsed their website and I was surprised at their particular goals now in the modern era — it is the kind of things I read here alot. I was just asking.
You might want to do some internal reflecting though.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:48 pm
“Bosch thinks if you are a Christian you are in the KKK.”
Now, now, Woodstock Mike, don’t go putting words in my mouth. Jesus wouldn’t like that, and he’ll be here Saturday to punish you for writing such things.
stands for decibels
May 19th, 2011
3:49 pm
Woody, you’re a hoot. Give you that.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:50 pm
@Bosch
I am fine Bosch, thank you. And can you happen to answer something for me, are you a Christian?
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:50 pm
SoCo,
You should check out their website — read through the goals section — they look eerily familiar.
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Bruno, 3:38
Our church meets on Sunday but we believe every day. Perhaps you would like to meet with the Seventh Day Adventists or a synagogue if you like.
———————-
Paul,
I know what Bosch is made of : Frogs & snails and puppy dog tails! Lotsa puppy dog tails…still wagging……
Kamchak
May 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Tick…tick…tick….
Julius Childs
May 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
What have the Republicans ever done for us?
They gave us the Rapture and if we gotta go, I’m goin’ in style.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Bosch
“You might want to do some internal reflecting though.”
Is that a nice way of telling someone they have their head up their…..?
I think you just stole my crown of subtlety.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:51 pm
Paul,
“Where’s the fainting couch?”
Giada and I are on it…..
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:52 pm
@stands for decibels
My point was if someone agreed with that quote it is light years away from being a racist… That was all. Bosch is a joke.
Southern Comfort
May 19th, 2011
3:52 pm
Bosch
B & C
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:54 pm
Bosch
“Giada and I are on it…..”
Congrats. I’m speechless.
Just out of curiosity, how did you get her drunk?
Julius Childs
May 19th, 2011
3:54 pm
“how did you get her drunk?”
One glass at a time.
WellWe'reMovinOnUp
May 19th, 2011
3:55 pm
If Barack Obama was the kind of black man that Mr. West longs for he’d never have been elected President. Americans want a leader who can reach across the divide, not some radical race baiter who tries to incite class warfare.
The leader West envisions is already the president. Of Zimbabwe.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:55 pm
“My point was if someone agreed with that quote it is light years away from being a racist”
Woodstock Mike, did you stretch before making that leap for me? I did not say you were a racist if you agreed with that statement, I simply asked if you agreed or disagreed with it. But I will now add since you know where it’s from, you might want to reflect upon your opinions considering you do resonate with their sentiments and considering the history of this club and their own opinions, it might do you some good to reflect upon what you feel. Just saying.
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:56 pm
“how did you get her drunk?”
Paul,
With my natural wit and aura…..
Paul
May 19th, 2011
3:56 pm
Woodstock Mike
I think Bosch may avoid your “are you Christian’? question.
He’s kinda a Episcopalopian Pagan Reformed Enlightenment guy.
http://tinyurl.com/3tkgws6
Oh, and he reads auras, too.
WOODSTOCK MIKE
May 19th, 2011
3:57 pm
@Bosch
Someone like yourself is a divider, you do nothing but push people farther and farther apart, in other words, you are part of the problem and not the solution… That is the worst position someone could be in…
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
3:58 pm
The caption?
We’ll take two of whatever you’re selling.
http://thedailyeater.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/giada1.jpg
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
Yes SoCo, I was particularly struck with their views on colleges and universities — I mean, if I had a dollar for everytime that almost verbatim line was posted here, I’d be lying on a beach in the Caribbean somewhere.
Apparently I was fortunate enough to be reached by their agressive literature and PR campaign.
The Republicans
May 19th, 2011
3:59 pm
Well, we provide lower taxes, smaller government (where legal, currently banned in DC), less regulation, freedom, the interstate highway system, and all those things you use every day of your life.
Midori
May 19th, 2011
4:00 pm
Hi Paul —
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
4:00 pm
It appears I have struck a nerve with you Woodstock Mike, and I apologize. But just know there is a club you can join, they are accepting new members and you can be among friends of like minded individuals who are trying to heal the nation. Good luck.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:01 pm
AmVet
Recorded her show the other day. Did you know she cooks? Really. She has a little kid. Not too many years from now, all the kid’s friends are gonna be like “Is your mom home? Can we go over to your place and hang out?”
josef nix
May 19th, 2011
4:03 pm
Whoo-whee! Too bad I don’t have time to go through all the comments. But what does anyone think the likes of Cornel West would think and say?
And, he Fatwah Albert, there’s one of your MAJOR historians at work!
Question…
How did the Jews and Israel come into the discussion?
And my own comment, I said it way back when, just wait until President Obama IS President of the United States of America,,,a lot of folks are going to be greatly disappointed and the attack from the left is going to make the righties look like charming and tolerant folks…well, here it is…
Quite frankly, i’m glad Cornel is disappointed…it just goes to add to what I’ve been saying of late in my mid term assessment of our President…he’s moved toward the center and he has stayed above the race-baiters of both sides and has, indeed, been post racial. He gets points from me in that.
@@
May 19th, 2011
4:03 pm
Mrs. Godzilla:
Obama? A great community organizer?
Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy
The candidate endorsed subsidies for private entrepreneurs to build low-income units. But, while he garnered support from developers, many projects in his former district have fallen into disrepair.
Yours is a vivid imagination. The residents of Grove Park know better.
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
4:04 pm
Paul, here’s another display (albeit a humorous one) of some serious assets…
http://thedailyeater.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/giada-enthusiasm1.jpg
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:04 pm
Hi Midori!!!!
How’d the seafood soup turn out?
Did you know AmVet cooks? He said it was a ‘roast.’ But what he was roasting, he wouldn’t say.
I think it was some hapless Wall Streeter.
Midori
May 19th, 2011
4:04 pm
Hi Bosch
looks like you’ve got someone all flustered
Southern Comfort
May 19th, 2011
4:04 pm
Bosch
You think they would send me a copy of the law enforcement book?
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:05 pm
I’d aura have a new sheet but if you insist, here’s big news.
BRAVES PLAY ARIZONA TONIGHT AT 9:40. Get ready! The big team is big news!
Barner B. Jones
May 19th, 2011
4:06 pm
Dorkmans right for once, I have expected a huge increase in my food stamps and welfare check by now. I sure dont plan on working my butt off if I dont have too!!!!!!!!!!
Don't Forget
May 19th, 2011
4:06 pm
jm
May 19th, 2011
3:18 pm
Why would God schedule the Rapture on a Saturday?
He’s off on Sunday.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:07 pm
AmVet
LOLOLOL!!!!
I admit it… I’ve thought the same thing.
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
4:08 pm
Paul, I’m no Giada, but it turned out great!
Lots of potatoes (hat tip Dan Quayle), carrots, onions and celery.
Yumbo in the tumbo.
This one reminds me a bit of Ann Margaret in Tommy.
http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/giada-delaurentiis-3-08073.jpg
And as I have a friend named April that I met with this morning, this song popped into my noggin…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JA1XAmzbnw
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:09 pm
Dusty
Good luck. And the Mavericks are about to hand OKC their second loss.
After smoking Los Angeles four straight! Yea!
In a Giada Da Vida
May 19th, 2011
4:10 pm
Iron Butterflies are heavy man. I got a bad case of the munchies too.
md
May 19th, 2011
4:13 pm
Shot Am…….go big…..and eat your heart out………..
http://www.google.com/search?q=giada&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=ikp&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivnse&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=u3jVTcrNC8z2gAfX1sGrBw&ved=0CE8QsAQ&biw=1280&bih=611
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:14 pm
AmVet
Nice. Perfect time for a blog chill pill.
md
May 19th, 2011
4:14 pm
Didn’t mean to shoot you………but did mean to add an o
itpdude
May 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
Eh, I disagree with Bookman for complex reasons so will leave it at this: Bookman gets a LOT more comments than Wingnutfield. And that makes me happy.
Midori
May 19th, 2011
4:16 pm
it came out super, Paul
AmVet a roast?
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:17 pm
Paul
]
Arizona is one of my favorite states. Just love it from one end to the other. Spent so many summers there. But I cannot forsake the BRAVES. Not the Braves. no no no…they too are dear to my heart!
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
Damn, md! Thanks, man.
(I’ll be back in about 10 minutes.)
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
Midori
What did you do for the broth?
lynnie gal
May 19th, 2011
4:18 pm
While there is a certain degree of bitterness in Dr. West’s accusations, what he mainly complains about he is correct about. We as a civilized society need to collectively aid those who are less fortunate and in need of help. Cutting heating assistance to the poor and then giving millionaires tax breaks is ethically wrong, no matter how you look at it. Extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and then cutting teachers, firemen, librarians and policemen who make our society a better and safer place to live is ethically wrong. Obama is siding with wealthy interests by omission when he refuses to engage in the collective fight for these people. I
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
4:22 pm
This one cracks me up…
http://foodnetworkhumor.com/wp-content/uploads//giada-rigatoni.jpg
Southern Comfort
May 19th, 2011
4:22 pm
josef
Shout out at St. Elsewhere!!!!
Midori
May 19th, 2011
4:22 pm
Paul,
I went to the korean grocery store and bought spanish soup base. The asian bases have entirely too much sodium.
Strauss-Kahn
May 19th, 2011
4:22 pm
Liberation!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110519/ap_on_re_us/imf_leader_assault
Strauss-Kahn
May 19th, 2011
4:23 pm
Au Revoir, Rikers Ile.
No dose
May 19th, 2011
4:27 pm
I had to read Cornell West in college and he and his writings along with Obama make me sick to my stomach. Both are black radicals, both believe in taking other people’s property and giving it to others just because and both belong in academia and not running the country. West is a black bigot, read any of his writings. I compare him to the black KKK.
Strauss-Kahn
May 19th, 2011
4:28 pm
Peter Fonda calls Obama ‘traitor’ at Cannes…
Je ne sais pas.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:29 pm
Midori
Smart and resourceful, as usual.
Y’know, when I read AmVet’s 4:18, I thought of Jake in Two and a Half Men talking to one of Charlie’s dates and saying “’scuse me, I gotta go take a shower…”
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:31 pm
OOOOwwwwww there they go again @ 4:18: Bush tax cuts for the wealthy! NO it was tax cuts for all of us ’cause we don’t want to send beaucoup money to Washington where they don’t know a deficit from a hole in the ground. The wealthy paid more taxes than the rest of us so get over trying to rip off more of their money… They made it! You did not make their money so don’t tell them what to do with it. .
Strauss-Kahn
May 19th, 2011
4:31 pm
no kidding. crazy.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/135-year-old-piece-of-skin-triggers-smallpox-scare-at-virginia-museum-ncxdc-051911
No dose
May 19th, 2011
4:34 pm
lynnie gal you post is democratic propaganda. Obama’s stimulus did nothing for the economy but for government workers. Every government program like heating assistance are full of waste, fraud and abuse. Channel 5 did a report on EBT or some type of care to assist people and they bought liquor not food for their kids. Tax-cuts some of them I don’t agree with them but you CAN”T HELP EVERYBODY ITS NOT POSSIBLE AND UNTIL WE IN THIS COUNTRY UNDERSTAND THAT WE WILL GO BROKE BECAUSE THE WAR ON POVERTY HAS FAILED. What is better to give a person a fish or teach them to fish?
Bosch
May 19th, 2011
4:36 pm
Maybe so, SoCo — but you’d probably have to do it by mail order….
……….off to plant some….things…..
Later folks!!!