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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md
May 19th, 2011
4:37 pm
“We as a civilized society need to collectively aid those who are less fortunate and in need of help.”
Yes, we do…….but we need to somehow make a distinction between those that can’t and those that won’t……….we are are helping the former and enabling the later…………..
There are selfish on both ends of the spectrum, some of the rich and some of the poor……tax increases will not solve that problem………….
md
May 19th, 2011
4:39 pm
“……….off to plant some….things…..”
Be sure to do it out of sight of the helicopters………
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:41 pm
Well, PAUL, wish I had a man around the house who could cook. None of mine have advanced beyond opening a can of soup. You’d starve to death here. Just call it plain cooking. Or “complain”. Whatever…
josef nix
May 19th, 2011
4:42 pm
SoCo
Gotcha!
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
4:42 pm
“but we need to somehow make a distinction between those that can’t and those that won’t”
and how would you suggest we “deal” with those who won’t? Keeping in mind that there have ALWAYS been cheats, and that their always WILL be cheats.
md
May 19th, 2011
4:44 pm
“and how would you suggest we “deal” with those who won’t?”
I’d give them the conditions for assistance, and if they refuse……wish them luck.
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:44 pm
md @ 4:37
You got that right…
Granny Godzilla
May 19th, 2011
4:47 pm
To whom it may concern
There’s a great piece written in response to the Boston Herald article
by the Grove Parc tenants assosciation, worth a read.
It’s been available all along….
Paul
May 19th, 2011
4:48 pm
Dusty
One of my sons is an excellent chef. Very creative. Part owner in three restaurants. Another son, his wife asked him how come he never learned to cook. He grinned and said “Never had to.”
He did make her a birthday cake. Only problem is, some recipes are incomplete in the directions department, so if you follow them exactly…. well, his wife’s a sweetheart and appreciated the gesture.
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
4:53 pm
Paul,
There’s always THIS cake recipe:
> 1 cup sugar
> 1 tsp. baking powder
> 1 cup water
> 1 tsp. salt
> 1 cup brown sugar
> Lemon juice
> 4 large eggs
> Nuts
> 1 bottle tequila
> 2 cups dried fruit
>
> Sample the tequila to check quality Take a large bowl; check the tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality..
>
> Repeat.
>
> Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
> Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
>
> At this point, it is best to make sure the tequila is still OK. Try another cup just in case.
> Turn off the mixerer thingy.
>
> Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
> Pick the fruit up off the floor.
>
> Mix on the turner.
>
> If the fried druit getas stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
>
> Sample the tequila to test for tonsisticity.
>
> Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something.
>
> Check the tequila. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
>
> Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
>
> Greash the oven.
>
> Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
>
> Don’t forget to beat off the turner
>
> Finally, throw the bowl through the window.
> Finish the tequila and wipe the counter with the cat.
>
> Cherry Christmas
pogo
May 19th, 2011
4:53 pm
Obama’s vision of shrinking Israel and his proposed economic rejuvination in the Middle East using American money (which we don’t have) is baffling. It is obvious that foreign policy is not Obama’s nor his gang of progressive and juvenile advisor’s forte. For that matter, neither is domestic policy. In the Executive Office, it appears that this country is currently being run by a bunch of idealists with no clue of what the real world is all about. Yep, Obama is in real trouble in 2012.
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:55 pm
Paul, I think your sons have THE cooking gene. Mine only have the get-it-at-the-bakery one. My daughter likes to try new recipes but even she does not spend much time in the kitchen. From what she says, they eat the same thing for several DAYS.
But sounds like you lucked out with the good food….andddd…a son with THREE resaurants. Oh the joy! Eat out every night !
jm
May 19th, 2011
4:55 pm
this is a must read on the corruption deal involving McKinsey, Rajaratnam, and business in general.
How Rajat Gupta Came Undone
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230056624680.htm
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
4:57 pm
Yikes, Doggone
Does that recipe work with Manichevitz?
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
4:57 pm
“Does that recipe work with Manichevitz?”
Yep, but you might have to test it more often!
Jay
May 19th, 2011
4:57 pm
Newt Gingrich today, on his campaign:
“It’s going to take a while for the news media to realize that you’re covering something that happens once or twice in a century, a genuine grass-roots campaign of very big ideas. I expect it to take a while for it to sink in.”
JohnnyReb
May 19th, 2011
4:58 pm
I’m not sure how this thread went from Obama not being black enough to writing of Israel. Scratch that, yes I do, Obama stepped it in today about Israel. Regardless, I would like to go on record that, first, Obama is an embarrassment, and next, American’s will never stand for a government that abandons Israel. I know I won’t.
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
4:59 pm
“I expect it to take a while for it to sink in.”
How on earth can someone so intelligent be SO lacking in smart?
josef nix
May 19th, 2011
5:00 pm
Johnny Reb
Thanks for that…so, what did Obama say “to step in it?”
Paul
May 19th, 2011
5:01 pm
Doggone/GA
ohmygosh that was funny!
Dusty
shertaintly it duzzz…….
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:01 pm
This CEO is still shocked recalling an incident in the late 1980s, when a McKinsey team offered to provide him with a road map of what his competitors were doing. When asked how they could produce such information, he was told that McKinsey also worked with his competitors, but he could trust McKinsey to know what was confidential information and what was to be kept private. He says arrogance permeated the firm. The usual rules seemed not to apply. When this CEO listened to a wiretapped phone call from July 2008, in which Gupta relayed to Rajaratnam the details of the Goldman board’s discussions about buying a commercial bank, it sounded to him just like Gupta consulting a client.
GT
May 19th, 2011
5:02 pm
I think West is distancing himself as opposed to the Jeremiah Wright thing where the president and Wright got too familiar with each other. West must have some idea what he sounds like, I mean the book has been edited and published ,plenty of time to realize what he is saying. West’s intention obviously was to disassociate himself from Obama, which politically is a windfall for the president and doesn’t hurt the Ivy League professor who may have forgot his roots. I have no doubt this was discuss in South Carolina and two very smart men decided if they are fool enough to believe Obama has a compromised character because he attended some of Wright’s flamethrowning sermons in the of his constituency we will turn it around on them and this time the flamethrower disowns Obama. The Republicans answer to this is to break into Watergate, when you are clever like Obama who needs to commit crimes.
Paul
May 19th, 2011
5:02 pm
Jay
It’s not the media that’s having trouble ‘having it sink in”…….
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
“ohmygosh that was funny!”
Yep! It pretty nearly puts me on the floor every time I read it, and I’ve had it for YEARS
JohnnyReb
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
Hello Josef,
He threw Israel under the bus by announcing we, really just him, support Israeli borders going back to the 1967 boundaries. There is more, but that’s the biggy.
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
3 Good Moderate R’s: Mitch (if he runs), Huntsman, and Romney. Nough said. The rest is just noise until the election results come in for the primary.
pogo
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
Jay, your infactuation with Newt is entering OCD territory. Maybe you should try some therapy and some drugs.
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
“I expect it to take a while for it to sink in.”
http://thundafunda.com/wallpaper-blog/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/75bd5173a244b48549d03578fa49f7c3.jpg
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:04 pm
There are questions today, however, as to how content Gupta really was during those years. According to a report by Bloomberg News, Gupta ran a consulting business called Mindspirit on the side, unbeknownst to McKinsey and in violation of its rules. But the story was even more complicated.
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
5:08 pm
Was someone discusssing Gingrich here? He must appreciate all the attention.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:09 pm
Goodbye Israel.
Well we always have the countries now controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood as our allies.
And liberals still support this clown.
What’s it going to take?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:09 pm
josef:
Haven’t had time to read through all of the comments but what are your views on President Hussein’s attempt to destroy the nation of Israel ?
I say, “NEVER AGAIN !”
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
5:10 pm
“infactuation”
I like it! Now there’s a new word with some real meaning. (and yes, I know how the error occured, but it’s a happy accident)
GT
May 19th, 2011
5:10 pm
Newt thinks he tells people what to think. He is right however, he was part of two grassroots movements. Both strengthen the opposition or the Democratic Party. First time because the donkies needed some furniture moved around and the second time because they must have gotten it right the first time to make tire old Newt finally sound like the idiot he is.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:11 pm
Headline: “Keep Up the Good Fight! ”
Ooops ………. !
The power of the purse.
Maybe the liberal Jewish folks are finally waking up.
carlosgvv
May 19th, 2011
5:11 pm
When considering illegals who are ready to cross the border into the US, it looks like the Mexican Govt. doesn’t much care whether they are those that can’t or those that won’t come here legally. It’s adios amigos in either case.
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
5:12 pm
“Haven’t had time to read through all of the comments but what are your views on President Hussein’s attempt to destroy the nation of Israel ?”
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a link that says “Show All” and after you click on it, you can actually do what’s called a “search” for the word Israel.
Try it sometime, you might actually like it.
Southern Comfort
May 19th, 2011
5:13 pm
Bosch
AmVet
May 19th, 2011
5:14 pm
OK, off to the Sweatatorium of Pain.
I’ll check in later to see what our faux Hebe “friends” have come up with to justify their fact-free drivel regarding BHO’s plan to destroy Israel.
Later, taters…
JohnnyReb
May 19th, 2011
5:14 pm
Here’s a parting levity.
It has been suggested the National emblem be changed from an Eagle to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the federal government. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of d&*k heads, and gives a sense of security while you are being screwed.
Good evening.
josef nix
May 19th, 2011
5:14 pm
I don’t know exactly what President Obama said, but I don’t have a real problem with going back to the pre-1967 frontiers, but with the no compromise exception of the Temple Mount, I also would agree that the Palestinian state should be awarded those territories in Syria, Lebanon that two generations of Palestinians have called home.
I’m not too worried, though, about the fate of Israel as it stands now. It will, as always, do the United States’ dirty work…
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:17 pm
According to Rajaratnam, part of Gupta’s concern was “the perceived conflict of interest.” On at least one occasion, New Silk Route and Goldman had bid on the same companies. “My analysis of the situation,” Rajaratnam tells Kumar, “is he’s enamored with Kravis, and I think he wants to, you know, be in that circle. That’s a billionaire’s circle, right? Goldman is like the hundreds-of-million-aire’s circle. Right?” he says. “And I think he sees an opportunity to make $100 million over the next five years or 10 years without doing a lot of work.”
Dusty
May 19th, 2011
5:19 pm
Well, I better start something in the kitchen where the hungry and the starving are already hanging out. We are having gourmet la ground boueff tonight. Always a hit. They’ll even eat it burnt. Lotsa practice.
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:21 pm
On Sept. 9, 2008, Gupta submitted a letter of resignation to Goldman Sachs’s board, saying he was taking a position as senior adviser to KKR. He was, however, convinced to stay by Goldman’s CEO, Lloyd C. Blankfein, and other executives, who feared a public-relations backlash if Gupta resigned in the midst of the financial crisis. Fourteen days later, according to the SEC, Gupta had one of several phone conversations with Rajaratnam, during which he allegedly tipped him off to the Goldman board’s deliberations about a $5 billion investment in the bank by Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A). A month later, according to the SEC, he would jump off a Goldman board teleconference and 23 seconds later phone Rajaratnam to inform him of the as-yet-secret information that Goldman would report a loss of $2 a share in the fourth quarter, its first and only quarterly loss since going public. On Jan. 29, 2009, after a meeting of P&G’s audit committee, the SEC alleges that Gupta again called Rajaratnam to relay P&G’s as-yet-unannounced fourth-quarter earnings.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b4230056624680_page_6.htm
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:23 pm
On Oct. 16, 2009, Rajaratnam was arrested at his Sutton Place home in Manhattan. The news of the government’s case against him would make headlines for months to come. But friends say Gupta gave no indication that he was worried. In March 2010, Goldman announced that Gupta was resigning his board position “because of other commitments.” Although Blankfein would testify this spring that he had “some inkling” that Gupta was under federal scrutiny, and that he knew “there were some questions about Rajat’s behavior,” he issued a glowing public statement about Gupta’s “important contributions to Goldman Sachs.” Even The Wall Street Journal’s revelation, in April 2010, that Gupta was under federal investigation didn’t keep him from new high-profile appointments. He would remain on the boards of American Airlines, P&G, Harman, Sberbank, and the World Economic Forum, among others, for several more months. On July 1, 2010, Gupta was elected chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce.
getalife
May 19th, 2011
5:23 pm
Oh, the drama.
The world will not end Saturday and Israel will be fine.
Religious kooks run amok.
Jay
May 19th, 2011
5:23 pm
He’s entertaining, Pogo. Some people like Monster Truck Rallies; some people love demolition derby.
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 19th, 2011
5:27 pm
Gingrich via Jay: “It’s going to take a while for the news media to realize that you’re covering something that happens once or twice in a century, a genuine grass-roots campaign of very big ideas. I expect it to take a while for it to sink in.”
Me-galo-MANIA
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:27 pm
getalife
Can you guarantee that Israel will be fine? Can you guarantee that the people who have sworn that they will kill all Jews and push what is left of their country into the sea has changed their mind and now they la-la love the Jews?
Maybe Jay will write some more articles about Newt. That will fix it.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:28 pm
What is better to give a person a fish or teach them to fish?
That’s a tough one. Have you compared the price of an education to that of enough pounds of grouper to feed a person for life. It might be too close to call.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:28 pm
Sorry ………. Headline should have read: “Jewish Donors Warn Obama on Israel”
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 19th, 2011
5:28 pm
Newt Gingrich: where megalomania crosses over into self-parody
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
5:30 pm
“Religious kooks run amok”
What got to me was a story I heard the other day about a couple who are believers. She is 8 months pregnant and they are (so the report went) spending ALL of their money, including their retirment in anticipation of “the event”
I DO NOT GET IT. If you believe you are going to be “taken up” doesn’t that mean you won’t be HERE anymore? And if you’re not here, what good does it do to buy a bunch of stuff you will be leaving behind.
And if you’re afraid you won’t be saved, but will die instead…well “stuff” isn’t much use to you then either. The lack of ability to THINK about it leaves me flabbergasted.
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:30 pm
LWM 5:27 – I agree (not to be repeated anytime soon)
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:32 pm
getalife’s persona in Germany during the 1940s:
That smell is just the slaughterhouse down the street. the Jews are fine.
Religious kooks run amok.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:34 pm
Doggone/GA
What got me was the story about the far left progressive who moved to San Francisco and gathered up almost 1,000 Progressives who wanted to live in a socialist utopia.
They all moved to Jonestown and there is where they all died.
There are kooks in all persuasions.
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 19th, 2011
5:34 pm
jm: “LWM 5:27 – I agree (not to be repeated anytime soon) ”
Feel like throwing in Marx’s theory of surplus value well while you’re at it?
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:35 pm
I see GLL has once again invoked the Nazi card.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:36 pm
TaxPayer
On the day when our president has turned his back on Israel after several months of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, can you think of a better day to bring up what happened to the jews in the past?
Sp please tell me. Why are liberals so terrified of anyone mentioning what happened while the National Socialist Workers Party had power
Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it. There is no better day to say that.
jm
May 19th, 2011
5:37 pm
“Feel like throwing in Marx’s theory of surplus value well while you’re at it?”
Nope. Actually, I’m outta here. Another however many hours blown in golden handcuffs that are going to be off soon enough…. cheers.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:37 pm
Dear President Hussein:
So tell me when Hawaii is going to be returned to its citizens ???
“Hawaii is one of four states that were independent prior to becoming part of the United States. The Kingdom of Hawaii was sovereign from 1810 until 1893 when the monarchy was overthrown …… becoming a state in 1959.
Ship’s landing force at the time of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, January 1893 (you can see the photo below).
In 1993, a joint Apology Resolution regarding the overthrow was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton, apologizing for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It is the first time in American history that the United States government has apologized for overthrowing the government of a sovereign nation.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 19th, 2011
5:37 pm
GLL: “What got me was the story about the far left progressive who moved to San Francisco and gathered up almost 1,000 Progressives who wanted to live in a socialist utopia.”
A good century or so ago there were groups doing that sort is thing springing up right and left.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:39 pm
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
Perhaps you should consider what happened today. Do you even know?
Doggone/GA
May 19th, 2011
5:41 pm
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt) – you don’t have to go that far back. Think Jim Jones
poison pen
May 19th, 2011
5:42 pm
Jay
May 19th, 2011
2:02 pm
Isreael returning to its 1967 borders has been a central part of US foreign policy since, well, 1967.
Jay, and what else is our policy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, do you agree with supporting terrorists?
It’s time to let these countries take care of themselves, I haven’t seen it written anywhere that we are the Worlds Police Dog.
Sorry for late response, spent half a day putting a lawn plugger together.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:42 pm
GLL,
I have no problem with history, just your little word association game you seem to relish.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:43 pm
Doggone/GA
Jim Jones is the far left Progressive that I was talking about.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:43 pm
TaxPayer
it’s not a game. Christians are being slaughtered and their churches burned by the radicals that Obama praised. And now he wants the Israeli Airport to be three miles from occupied territory with arms supplied by Iran to the sworn enemies of Israel.
There is nothing funny or game-like about any of this.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:44 pm
So tell me when Hawaii is going to be returned to its citizens ???
What! And give you another reason to claim that Obama is not qualified to be president.
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:45 pm
It’s Black Howdy Doody Tiime !
Headline: “Cornel West, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-IPXpvRaU
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:46 pm
TaxPayer
i’m still waiting for a reason to think that he is qualified to be reelected president. Can you name one?
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
May 19th, 2011
5:47 pm
TaxPayer:
LOL ! He’s going farther and farther off the charts isn’t he?
That’s o.k. I don’t expect you to admit it.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:54 pm
GLL,
You tried to link getalife to Nazi Germany with your post. That is the latest faulty word association of yours that I was referring to. And as for your attempt to link someone to church burnings, I seriously doubt that Obama was associated with those that burned the churches in Alabama but feel free to provide a link if you have one.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:56 pm
That’s o.k. I don’t expect you to admit it.
Obama has turned out to be a much better president than GW could ever hope to be. You see, I have no problem admitting that. I don’t expect you to be capable of such a logical conclusion though given your birther bias, etc.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:57 pm
i’m still waiting for a reason to think that he is qualified to be reelected president. Can you name one?
Experience.
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:58 pm
Y’all have fun. It be about supper time.
St Simons - we're on Island time
May 19th, 2011
5:58 pm
if Cornell West hadn’t shut that guy up and let Morpheus & Neo contact the Oracle, we’d all be either gone or batteries for the Machines.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
5:59 pm
TaxPayer
That’s right. We have thousands of Arabs standing in public squares screaming “Kill the Jews” We have an American reporter for CBS 60 minutes who was publicly raped by those mobs and when somebody started saying that she was a Jew, she was almost torn apart.
And getalife says that the jews will be fine. A lot of germans said the jews would be fine. Maybe if someone pointed out the folly of their statement like I did to getalife, maybe, just maybe, a few million would have been saved. WAKE UP>
How far will you let this anti-semetic clown in the White House go before you finally speak up against him?
Mighty Righty
May 19th, 2011
6:00 pm
This is much ado about noting. The purpose of this controversy is to detract from the ultra left wing agenda of Obama to make him appear “moderate.” As I have said before, don’t pay any attention to his words; watch his actions. Example, last week he claimed he was for more domestic oil production so he extended existing leases that he knows his E.P.A. will not approve for drilling. He is slick. Keep your eyes open. There is no telling what lies his teleprompter is dreaming up.
getalife
May 19th, 2011
6:01 pm
Good for the Catholic Church standing up and saying no more lies gop.
Follow their lead cons.
Jay
May 19th, 2011
6:03 pm
Anti-Semitic, GLL?
That’s a term with rather loaded history, encompassing centuries of persecution and the murders of millions. It is not a label you should feel free to attach to those you dislike or disagree with. You diminish its meaning by doing so, and you demean the horrors visited upon many by those who truly deserve the label.
In other words, you don’t have the slightest understanding of what you’re talking about.
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
6:04 pm
getalife
So now religious folk’s words have meaning and power. Make up your mind.
Mighty Righty
May 19th, 2011
6:06 pm
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:57 pm
i’m still waiting for a reason to think that he is qualified to be reelected president. Can you name one?
Experience.
Depends on what knid of experience one has. I know golfers who have thirty years experience and are no better today than when they started. But they have thirty years experiencee! Obama has experience as a failure. His record speaks for it self. No successes, all failures.
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:08 pm
Bosch: 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.
Why won’t you release your long form birth certificate, which will clearly display your current-day religion, and why won’t you release your college records, which will clearly show that no matter what they are you are a biased left Marxist… because you went to college?
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
6:08 pm
Jay
Perhaps you should make the same speech to many of your supporters in this very blog when they use the term racist.
Do you have friends that live in Israel, Jay? I do. because of this clown, I fear for their lives. Perhaps you should educate yourself before you accuse someone else of not knowing what they are talking about.
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:08 pm
lynnie gal: 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.
AMEN
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:09 pm
No dose @ 4:27 pm: And just WHERE did you go to college hmmm? shnirt
Every government program like heating assistance are full of waste, fraud and abuse.
And maybe if you keep repeating that talking point phrase over and over, it will mean that there is nothing BUT those three things in government programs!
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
Oy. All caps doesn’t help your case, and your implication is “therefore we shouldn’t even try!” The reason we can’t afford things is because we kept cutting taxes and spending money on wars and emergency actions. If we put the taxes back up and stop spending on war and emergency actions, we will be fine, AND be able to help the poor.
What is better to give a person a fish or teach them to fish?
Ok, teach me how to force someone to hire me. I would love to learn.
pogo
May 19th, 2011
6:09 pm
Methinks that Newt must have “spanked” Jay at some point in his career. What else could explain Jay’s “obsession” and his “hate” for the man? Human frailties and shortcomings certainly make themselves known, especially amongst the so-called “journalists”.
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:11 pm
md: but we need to somehow make a distinction between those that can’t and those that won’t……….we are are helping the former and enabling the later…………..
Not Intended to be a Factual Statement
I’d give them the conditions for assistance, and if they refuse……wish them luck.
So uh, I can go ask for government assistance any time and I don’t have to meet any conditions? Where do I sign up???
Good little liberal
May 19th, 2011
6:11 pm
Adam
The Republicans gained control of Congress after the 1994 elections. NO EDUCATION!!!! NO EDUCATION!!!!!
Stop posted uneducated statements, Adam.
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 19th, 2011
6:11 pm
GLL: “Perhaps you should consider what happened today. Do you even know?”
Actually, not so much. Honestly I’m more interested in what COULD be than what IS.
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:12 pm
Scout: In 1993, a joint Apology Resolution regarding the overthrow was passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton
1993 was the New(t) Republican Congress wasn’t it? NO APOLOGY! NO APOLOGYYYYYY!
Stop apologizing for our country Newt.
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:12 pm
Good little liberal: i’m still waiting for a reason to think that he is qualified to be reelected president. Can you name one?
-The responsible handling of the existing wars
-The executive action that killed bin Laden
-The health care law (yeah, I see it as a GOOD step forward)
-Investment in infrasctructure and high speed internet in rural areas
-Several other campaign promises that were KEPT (see Politifact for a list)
Shall I go on? What’s the best you got, he’s not doing something conservative enough? Go ahead and throw some talking points at me.
Most of your posts about Obama seem to be basically: Obama should sit down, shut up, move out of the way and let someone else take over (and make all the blunders instead I guess?) Well, too bad. It ain’t gonna happen. Get over it.
md
May 19th, 2011
6:13 pm
“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.”
Always amazes me that there is never any mention of the rest of the tax cuts…………
Adam
May 19th, 2011
6:14 pm
I THINK that catches me up… lol
Mighty Righty
May 19th, 2011
6:15 pm
TaxPayer
May 19th, 2011
5:56 pm
That’s o.k. I don’t expect you to admit it.
Obama has turned out to be a much better president than GW could ever hope to be. You see, I have no problem admitting that. I don’t expect you to be capable of such a logical conclusion though given your birther bias, etc.
Let’s start with something simple like the average unemploymnet rate during the Bush years compared with unemployment rate durng Obama’s rule. Or budget deficits? Or total spending? Or number of people on welefare? Or gasoline prices. Or food prices? Pick a subject? Number of government employees. How about you using some logic?
USMC
May 19th, 2011
6:16 pm
“Obama has turned out to be a much better president than GW could ever hope to be.”
More Left-wing Liberal DELUSION
getalife
May 19th, 2011
6:16 pm
newt will never be President.
The Arab Revolution will continue.
The President is positioned very well for reelection.
Paulo977
May 19th, 2011
6:16 pm
“What do you expect from a “Muslim” president?” Boring ….change the record!!!!!!!
md
May 19th, 2011
6:19 pm
“So uh, I can go ask for government assistance any time and I don’t have to meet any conditions? Where do I sign up???”
Pretty much……..as we have recently witnessed with the Michigan lottery winner……….
If it comes to needing assistance from others, then there should be some form of accountability that we are only providing for needs……..not wants……..I don’t see that now……….
When I need money, I go to the bank……..and have to provide tons of info on my financials before getting any assistance………