Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Is this Daily News columnist racist or just trying to help the President?


After O and company took their "shellacking" this midterm, I started thinking about articles like this ,(h/t to Felecia) and why, in spite of all of that, there was still such a national angst for all things O. I mean I understand the partisanship, and the fact that there is always going to be pretty much an even split when it comes to political affiliations among the voting public. But, given what Obama has done so far in his presidency, this beat down didn't make sense.

Anyway, I saw an opinion piece in my hometown paper which might have left some hints. The author apparently is trying to help his O ness and he proceeds to give him tips on how to win over A-merry-ca. I am not going to go in the order the author gave them for a reason. I want to save the best for last.

"IT WAS BASEBALL pioneer Satchel Paige who warned: "Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you."

In the wake of the midterm elections, that's one bit of advice that President Obama would do well to follow. If his presidency is to survive, he must look forward and must begin to make changes now.

But exactly what should Obama do, and how and why? Five simple suggestions:

1. Dump what's left of the Chicago Gang. Rahm Emanuel's departure was a good first step.

But too many others in the Chicago clique are still around. All pols like to be surrounded by trusted confidantes. In the rough-and-tumble world of politics, loyalty is an understandably treasured commodity.

But the president is different. He's the only public official directly elected by all the American people. Those around him must be attentive to the wide variety of views of a large, diverse society. The president's advisers must present a broad range options in open, vigorous debate.... "

No problem with that one. I kind of agree.

3. "Get rid of the TelePrompTer....... "

OK, I will give you that one as well. But all presidents use the TelePrompTer.

4. "Bring the Grand Tour to a close. After the India trip, the president should stay home and tend to the problems at hand. That means bringing down the curtain on touring, and maybe even vacationing. It also means ending those frequent TV appearances. The president has been overexposed. It took us nearly eight years to develop Clinton fatigue. But Obama fatigue began to set in after only 18 months....."

OK, whatever, reasonable people could argue both sides of this one.

5. "And speaking of Clinton, Obama should have a nice, long sit-down with the former president and elder statesman of the Democrats. Sixteen years ago, Clinton was in the same spot Obama finds himself in today.

Clinton faced a GOP House and Senate after the '94 Republican sweep that was one of the largest turnovers in history till now.

But with surprising speed, Clinton shook up his staff and moved toward the center. He listened to new people and embraced new ways. And he became a relatively popular two-term president. So call in Clinton. And sit down and listen."

More Clinton nostalgia, I get it.

2. "Lose the strut and the condescension. The president has a way of pushing himself up on the balls of his feet as he walks. I call it "the strut," and I suspect I'm not alone in finding it oft-putting. Along with this strut comes an air of condescension.

Mr. President, those who don't agree with you aren't your enemies. And they aren't misguided or distracted or paralyzed by fear or blinded by anger. (And they aren't necessarily clinging to guns and religion, either.)

When you dismiss or trivialize "we the people," you mock the very foundation of our democracy." [Article]

This one was actually number two, but I saved it for last for a reason.

LOSE THE STRUT!!!??? WTF? Alright folks, you can put on your Air R's for this one. Honestly, do these clowns writing in major newspapers even realize how utterly stupid, unenlightened, and ignorant they sound?

Look, I have mad love for the Daily News,--- they link the field for crying out loud, but some of their opinion writers must have been asleep since 1949 and just woke up. "STRUT"?
Wow, stereotypes really die hard. One of the few things I liked about Bush was his walk. It exuded confidence. (Even if he was one of the dumbest people on the planet.) Watch him when you get a chance, he had quite the bounce in his step, just like Obama.

For the record, Obama's walk (if I might get in touch with my feminine side a little) has a certain (sex) appeal to it. I know because the females tell me so. They say the same thing about Denzel Washington and Idris Elba, who both have distinctive walking styles. (They both also have something else in common with the president; but I will leave the obvious alone.) There is nothing unusual about a man who walks with confidence. Unless, of course, he happens to be the first black president.

If you are of a certain persuasion and you secretly resent this Negro having power over your life, that walk says f*&^ you! I am in charge and you are not! You resent it because the Negro president should be more appreciative of his position and who put him there.

"The president has a way of pushing himself up on the balls of his feet as he walks. I call it "the strut," and I suspect I'm not alone in finding it oft-putting. Along with this strut comes an air of condescension."

No Daniel, you are not alone. I am sure that many of your fellow A-merry-cans feel the same way.




145 comments:

  1. Field you are dead on point about the walk...back in the day we used to call it "The Bop" and yes it was a walk that said "I got this!!" Other than that one, his suggestions are not off base. I particularly like and agree with the suggestion of sitting down and having a pow wow wow with Bill. Bill is a political animal and knows the landscape...it wouldn't hurt to get some advice.

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  2. Frank Schaeffer, a refugee of wacko-doo movements and self-absorbed ideologues, has a point in his blog. The Ralph Naders and John Boehners of the world have always wanted Obama to fail - because his success would mean that both sides would have to question their own pre-determined notions about politics that have no bearing in reality (the Right Wing nuts would have to admit that government isn't always bad and business interests run amok are no good for the American people, the Left Wing cranks would have to admit that you can acheive progressive ideas and improve the country with consulting the same old play book from the 70's and that sometimes compromise is a good thing.)

    The 'News' media - the chatter class has made a good penny bashing and nitpicking the President.

    Stop the Bop? I'm with you Field, as a black professional often told that he's "too arrogant and harsh" I hear 'uppity Nigger'. Nothing wrong with a President swagger - except when he's a light-skinned Black guy, then that Swagger is a little too much.

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  3. He does have *some* good suggestions, perhaps with a bit of modification - though I think there really is little way Obama can connect with some Americans, no matter what he does (unless it's offer to serve them at dinner.) Sadly, it doesn't seem to matter whether they are on the right or left, in some instances.

    On the other topic... get rid of the strut?? Oh, man. I had to chime in on this one. One of the joys of life is watching some Black men walk, Obama included. Sometimes.

    Almost OT, I confess a totally selfish reason I hate those saggy, baggy pants (besides, of course, my being old and "out of it".) Instead of a generation of young Black men growing up walking with that distinctive Black man's rolling strut (or Bop, as Gua put it), some of them, their signature walk is more like a hopping waddle.

    Sigh.

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  4. cruciangal9:27 PM

    Hmmm..so it is akin to the bop? I thought that was an island thing. I suppose it's innocuous to say strut as opposed to bop that has a more stereotypical connotation. Why don't some people just get it off their chests and call him a nigger already? They would feel so much better about themselves in addition to ridding themselves of this anger they've been harboring for the last two years.

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  5. Chairman Soetoro9:31 PM

    People on the left were constantly going on about how they hated how Bush walked, how arrogant and cocky it made him look. In fact, the word "strut" was the most common description.

    Unlike Field, I don't get aroused watching his O-ness walk. In fact, he seems to me to something of a dweeb. Today, the New York Times published an article wherein they said young Barry was referred to by his Indonesian classmates as the "boy who runs like a duck."

    The article also revealed that "His nanny was an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia's relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher, longtime residents said. The nanny later joined a group of transvestites called Fantastic Dolls, who, like the many transvestites who remain fixtures of Jakarta's streetscape, entertained people by dancing and playing volleyball."

    Just when it seemed impossible that any more unsavory characters could be found in Obama's shrouded background, we get this.

    You gotta give it to this guy, deadbeat drunk Kenyan dad, absent self-absorbed hippy mom, marxist pedophile boyhood mentor (Frank Davis), typical white person grandparents, terrorist buddies (Ayers, Dohrn), a racist, America-hating spiritual mentor, a transvestite babysitter, and he STILL becomes President.

    What a country!

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  6. It wasn't the strut of Bush that bothered liberals, 'Chairman', the walk was merely part of a whole annoying package - a complete and history screw up of a leader too obtuse and self-absorbed to learn from his mistake.

    George W. Bush is still defending his 'yellow cake' Big Lie about Iraq which even he said was nonsense three years ago? His worse moment was a pissed Pop artist calling the President on his crap as he watched hundreds of people drown out of political negligence?

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  7. Chairman Soetoro9:41 PM

    "a complete and history screw up of a leader too obtuse and self-absorbed to learn from his mistake."

    Give Barry a little more time...

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  8. Chairman, relax and get in touch with your feminine side. You sound a little uptight.

    T"he 'News' media - the chatter class has made a good penny bashing and nitpicking the President."

    Hey La~, everybody has got to eat.

    Gua and Nanette, I co-sign with you that dude had a couple of good points. (even a broken clock...) I liked number one.

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  9. I have to agree with the columnist that Obama is perceived as arrogant and out-of-touch.

    Travelling overseas this week I was asked, several times, why Obama always has his nose up in the air when he speaks. The body language crosses many cultural boundaries.

    Arrogance is not the same as confidence.

    "Confidence"

    "Arrogance" usually stems from a lack of self-confidence and a fragile ego.

    There is a huge difference.

    My view of Obama as an arrogant, inexperienced intellectual lightweight has nothing to do with the color of his skin. I would have the same feelings about John "Reporting for Duty" Kerry. I loathe Kerry and his harridan wife.

    Not everyone who has issues with Obama is "threatened" by a black man (or beige man) in the WH, as comforting as that idea may be to some on the blog. Some of us simply don't like him for what he is and how he views America.

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  10. "Confidence" is always very sexy.

    ~~ don't know why that got cut out.(??)

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  11. Chairman Soetoro9:46 PM

    @ LAC: I will not get on the side of an argument defending George Bush.

    That being said, Bush never lied about the attempts of Iraq to obtain uranium from Niger; please see Christopher Hitchens extensive writings at the time of this manufactured "scandal".

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  12. "Some of us simply don't like him for what he is and how he views America."

    How does he view America?

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  13. Chairman Soetoro10:03 PM

    "How does he view America?"

    Obama views America through the eyes of an outsider, one who feels America is too powerful, too confident, and needs to be taken down a peg or two. He decries the notion of American exceptionalism, and seeks to guide us to a much more limited, unexceptional future.

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  14. Anonymous10:08 PM

    Field,
    I know you provided the columnist's name in the labels, but was there a reason why you didn't provide one of your convenient links to the whole article? I see you did provide many quotes in italics.

    But I did notice that a google search of the 'Philadelphia Daily News' identified it as a "tabloid", not that that is a bad thing....

    ..as for criticising the walk, well
    that is like criticising a person's accent...it shouldn't be done, except in gentle humor.

    Maybe the writer was giving Obama what he perceives as constructive criticism.

    Aloha from Makaii

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  15. @Nanette

    "...their signature walk is more like a hopping waddle."

    They walk like penguins.



    If we're discussing the President's gate, I don't have a problem with his walk. I do however think he looks like a doofus walking down stairs.

    Have you ever seen him walking down the stairs getting off Air Force One?

    He holds both of his hands in front at center, it looks really odd. Lol

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  16. Anonymous10:16 PM

    Field, "For the record, Obama's walk (if I might get in touch with my feminine side a little) has a certain (sex) appeal to it. I know because the females tell me so."

    All of that talk about Obama's 'walk' came out of the indiscriminate mouths of SOME lusting immature bw. Before then, NO ONE noticed or cared how he walked. But it was obvious that their persistent stupid yapping about his walk was inevitably going to add to the ALREADY mounting problems Obama was having as the first Black President in racist America.

    To claim that the Prez has that 'walk from the hood' was certainly going to construed negatively to a lot of Americans, including a lot of Blacks... Who wants a Prez who walks like he is from the ghetto?

    Furthermore, that so-called 'exaggerated black strut' IS NOT about a bm with "confidence", it IS about a cover up for a "lack" of confidence.

    I wish those bw talking about it would STFU, and let the Prez walk in peace like any other Presiden-- without making it a racial thing. As Black Americans, we should know that we live in a racist nation. Obama has enough problems on his plate as the first Black President of the USA. He doesn't need any more from the dumb-ass Black peanut gallery.

    As Black Americans, we should be "helping" Obama, not hindering him. Obama was walking just fine until SOME ignorant lusting sistas started some stupid immature sexual bullshit about his walk.

    One thing Obama's Presidency has taught me: 'There are some dumb ass Negroes in our race who can rival the stupidity of the dumbest rednecks.'

    Field, instead of criticizing the writer who probably knew NOTHING about a bm "walk" before,-- how about criticizing 'those' non-discriminating big mouth sistas who started this stupid crap in the first place?

    I shall wait for my ass whipping from LAA.:)

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  17. Sup Makaii? I should have known you would have caught that. I forgot the link; it's up now. And the DN is one of our daily papers here. It's not a tabloid. It's more like the NY Post....well, maybe it is. :)

    "Obama views America through the eyes of an outsider, one who feels America is too powerful, too confident, and needs to be taken down a peg or two. He decries the notion of American exceptionalism, and seeks to guide us to a much more limited, unexceptional future."

    Okaaay....."limited, unexceptional"? As opposed to that great future we were looking forward to under W? That future?

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  18. sadisto10:23 PM

    LACoincidental said...
    George W. Bush ... watched hundreds of people drown out of political negligence?


    Still blaming bush for the weather, are we. There was nothing the federal government could have done to save anyone from drowning. The city government refused to evacuate, and the state government refused to allow federal troops in prior to landfall.

    The Obama adminstration couldn't even handle the BP oil spill, which actaully was a federal responsibility. They turned away all sorts of help and advice that would have minimized the impact. Just think how much worse the federal response to Katrina would have been under the current joke of an administration.

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  19. Chairman Soetoro10:28 PM

    "Okaaay....."limited, unexceptional"? As opposed to that great future we were looking forward to under W? That future?"

    Some Americans still refuse to abandon the idea that America is the greatest nation on earth. Unfortunately, our President is not one of them. What future awaits a country whose leader is committed to its decline?

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  20. Anonymous10:30 PM

    "Obama views America through the eyes of an outsider, one who feels America is too powerful, too confident, and needs to be taken down a peg or two. He decries the notion of American exceptionalism, and seeks to guide us to a much more limited, unexceptional future."

    Really? Is that why Americans elected him? What does that say about Palin and McCain?

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  21. "The Obama adminstration couldn't even handle the BP oil spill, which actaully was a federal responsibility. They turned away all sorts of help and advice that would have minimized the impact. Just think how much worse the federal response to Katrina would have been under the current joke of an administration."

    I have a friend in NO who lost his father to Katrina. I am guessing that it couldn't have been any worse for him. :(

    But wingnuts will see what wingnuts want to see.

    "Brownie, you are doing a heck of a job."

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  22. Apparently you "exceptionalism" folk aren't looking at the economies of China, India, Japan and Brazil, most boomed during the Bush administration. Two out of four are Nuclear states and China could fight a ground war for years with the number of men it has. People forget we didn't win the Vietnam war.

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  23. Anonymous10:44 PM

    "Really? Is that why Americans elected him?"

    Americans did not know who they were electing.

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  24. Anonymous10:57 PM

    "Americans did not know who they were electing."

    Well, McCain, Palin and a host of other Americans said he had no birth certificate, was a Muslim, and was not an American, was an 'outsider'...how much more information did the American voter need?

    With all of that, McCain and Palin should have won by a landslide. Instead, Obama won by a landslide. Maybe the problem is with Americans, not the President.

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  25. Anonymous11:01 PM

    Hathor, "People forget we didn't win the Vietnam war."

    No, we haven't forgotten that we didn't win the war in RVN.

    What does that have to do with China's ground war?

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  26. We are talking about the Pres's walk and what it communicates to the American people?????

    Seriously, I'm the last one to jump on the "they are racist" bandwagon but his walk is a problem??

    Some people are natural idiots, in some ways all of us are a bit idiotic, but it seams politics brings this idiocy out front and center.

    So what do you want, arrogant (as if tell me the meaning of what "is" is, isn't arrogant) walking with a strut, or "folksy" lipstick on a pit-bull okey dokey hockey mom?

    If you choose Sarah, I'm done with you.

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  27. anon11:01,
    Who do you think supported the North Vietnamese?

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  28. Anonymous11:24 PM

    "Seriously, I'm the last one to jump on the "they are racist" bandwagon but his walk is a problem??"

    In racist America, a black President's walk can be a problem. Never forget that when it comes to racism, 'nothing' is taken off of the table.

    Nothing is too outlandish...everything is looked at if you are the First Black President.

    But as I said in an earlier comment, this stupidity began in the black community. Some, but not all BW instigated it in the first place, and of course Field ran with it in his Air R's like he always does.

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  29. Anonymous11:35 PM

    Hathor, "anon11:01,
    Who do you think supported the North Vietnamese?"

    Russia.

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  30. Anonymous11:52 PM

    Merican exceptionalism...where we committed genocide on the owners of the land we coveted....the genius of the Mericansouth in battle during the Civil War...the brave waiting for an entire generation of Europeans to die in WWI...the heroism of waiting for the Russians to crush the Germans...spending treasure to support those regimes that 'disappeared' anyone who even hinted at disagreement...

    Sorry folks, despite his skin colour Barry Obama is vastly your social superior...no matter how much one prattles on about vague disputes over policy or that he has a walk that horribly offends your witeness.

    If I may, Brown did make the attempt to correct things...recognizing his limitations. Chertoff and bush were far more responsible.

    Obama was handed regulatory agencies filled with bushmoles and eight years of removing all enforcement ability. Kind of tough to call out the Marines when the bushmoles give contradictory orders 'by accident' and all the weapons except for wooden rifles have been banned.

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  31. Anonymous12:21 AM

    You have mold on your brain.

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  32. Anonymous12:22 AM

    "..Kind of tough to call out the Marines when the bushmoles give contradictory orders 'by accident' and all the weapons except for wooden rifles have been banned."

    How do you know this? Or are you speculating that if you were hired under the Bush administration you would try to sabotage Obama? I think you have been watching too many espionage movies.

    Believe it or not, most people have self-respect as professionals and cherish their jobs and America. They would not try to hurt their own country. However, it is clear that YOU would.

    Is that why you call yourself a Mold?

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  33. "The president has a way of pushing himself up on the balls of his feet as he walks. I call it "the strut," and I suspect I'm not alone in finding it oft-putting. Along with this strut comes an air of condescension."


    Oh enough of trying to appease wingnuts who would STILL not like him if he even if he made it rain silver dollars and cured autism in the same afternoon. Anything less than steppin and fetching is considered having a "chip on your shoulders" as those people like to put it.

    My advice to everyone is to be yourself. You'll still be by yourself but won't be so damned confused from changing to fit other's desires.

    Obama views America through the eyes of an outsider, one who feels America is too powerful, too confident, and needs to be taken down a peg or two. He decries the notion of American exceptionalism, and seeks to guide us to a much more limited, unexceptional future.

    Did you cut and paste that from Worldnutdaily, Faux News or Limpballs website? I'm quite certain sure you didn't come up with that yourself. Sounds too much like a talking point used last week by a GOP reichwing shrill.

    Yes, people like Chairman claim he decries exceptionalism. In their microscopic minds Obama couldn't have possibly made all of those academic accomplishments and been in charge of an Ivy League University's law review...not without the magic wand of affirmative action. The mere fact that he's had a better run at life and has been more successful than they'll ever be runs counter to the white supremacist world view. (Yes, you have mentally enslaved black folks who have a white supremacist world view as well.) Either way, it's tired and only the gullible fall for these Gingrichesque soundbites.

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  34. Anon @10:16

    "To claim that the Prez has that 'walk from the hood' was certainly going to construed negatively to a lot of Americans, including a lot of Blacks... Who wants a Prez who walks like he is from the ghetto?

    Furthermore, that so-called 'exaggerated black strut' IS NOT about a bm with "confidence", it IS about a cover up for a "lack" of confidence.
    "

    Whoa. I think we must be speaking of two (or more!) different things. "walk from the hood"? "exaggerated black strut"? It is possible that someone here has issues. (You don't wear saggy pants by any chance, do you?)

    The walk I am talking about (with my "lusting bw" self, lol) can be seen on Black men from every social strata from Lago to London to Los Angeles.

    And I can assure you, some white (and other) folk's discomfort with Obama's walk, his stance, his tendency to hold his head up, to speak in complete sentences, whatever, has nothing at all to do with what Black women (or men, for that matter) say or don't say about these matters.

    If anything it's a reaction to some young (and older) people's fascination with his perceived "coolness." That sort of thing (non-Black youth viewing Black people in general as "cool", especially powerful ones) is apt to give some people heartburn. Me, I'm with the poster up above - I've always thought Obama had too many dorky moments to be thought all that cool.

    All that aside, the idea that by his very stride he is perceived to be condescending toward whoever (whomever?) it is he is supposed to be condescending to is just ridiculous. Uppity by another name, is all.

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  35. Chairman Soetero:

    The article also revealed that "His nanny was an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia's relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher, longtime residents said. The nanny later joined a group of transvestites called Fantastic Dolls, who, like the many transvestites who remain fixtures of Jakarta's streetscape, entertained people by dancing and playing volleyball."

    Just when it seemed impossible that any more unsavory characters could be found in Obama's shrouded background, we get this.


    Er. There is nothing in what you posted that testifies to the unsavoryness of anyone's character. Granted, an "affair" usually means that one of the parties is married but, if so, it seems like it would have been the butcher. Otherwise, though, there is nothing "unsavory" about being an openly Gay man, and the transvestite entertainment group sounds like it could be fun to watch.

    I don't know how much Obama remembers his nanny, but I think it falls on the credit side that he was exposed to people of different cultures, beliefs and sexual/affection orientation in his younger years.

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  36. Anonymous1:15 AM

    Nanette, how come your cat looks like LAA's cat? Aha! I got cha! You rotated the picture of your cat just to throw me off.

    Fortunately, I used to be a detective for folks with cats and I know the same cat when I see it.

    LAA, you have been busted.

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  37. Anonymous1:18 AM

    Nanette, "Otherwise, though, there is nothing "unsavory" about being an openly Gay man, and the transvestite entertainment group sounds like it could be fun to watch."

    Good God, Nanette...have you no decency?

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  38. Anon @ 1:15 (thank goodness it's not that late here!)

    Um, sorry! I don't know who LAA is, and I have never seen her cat. Don't blame me on her!

    Anon @ 1:18

    Good God, Nanette...have you no decency?

    I have quite a lot of it, actually, thanks.

    You?

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  39. So Chairman, you actually believe that Iraq had WMD's? Even Bush admitted that his 'Smoking Gun in the Form of a Mushroom Cloud' was bigger load of bull than saying Kim Kardashian never had plastic surgery. I bet you believe there was third man on the grassy knoll.

    And to note, I love how conservatives all say the same thing. I believe that quote you outline Chairman was from an Op-Ed in the WSJ, I believe, that proved that Obama was some sort of Alien who couldn't relate to 'Real Americans'.

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  40. From the way Republicans are acting you would have thought that the POTUS was walking like Fred Willamson in the movie "Black Caesar" to the tune of "Pay the Cost to Be the Boss". Maybe that's what Republicans see, Fred Willamson walking to James Brown singing,"Look at me, know what you see, you see a bad mother". That's how they see all of use Black men , as pimps. They're more used to Juan Williams or Jesse Lee Peterson bowing and scraping. Maybe they want George Jefferson acting like a fool.

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  41. Anonymous1:31 AM

    Kid, "From the way Republicans are acting you would have thought that the POTUS was walking like Fred Willamson in the movie "Black Caesar" to the tune of "Pay the Cost to Be the Boss"."

    No Kid, the movie was "Superfly"..that's the walk.

    Btw, I noticed that you ran from posting in the previous Post when that white guy showed up. Did he really make you pee on yourself in your own barber shop? That must have been one bad ass white boy.

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  42. Anonymous1:35 AM

    Nanette, "Anon @ 1:15 (thank goodness it's not that late here!)"

    Yeah. It's late here. You must be out West where it's less than the best.

    I am about to fall asleep. I really need that drink Field makes to stay awake, but he wouldn't give me the recipe. He is such a tight ass.

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  43. Anonymous1:47 AM

    Kid - I just got a call from PETA about you, they want to know if you killed and ate the chickens who taught you how to walk.

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  44. Anon @ 1:35 (um... have you ever thought of choosing a user name?)

    Yep, best coast here.

    Fortunately, I used to be a detective for folks with cats and I know the same cat when I see it.

    Does this mean you only took the cases of people who had cats? Sounds great! There is a definite dog bias in this world and we must even the balance.

    (Hopefully it wasn't to find lost cats because I found LAA and her cat and it is nothing like mine.)

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  45. Anonymous2:30 AM

    The habits of bushmoles have been documented...NASA, DOJ, Iraq, Katrina (Chertoff, not Brown), bankster bailout...
    Since I served and very few, if any of the bush team did, where do you find the fantasy that they did more for the US?

    Dem wite racist bigots just can't stand the idee that an AfAm can anyway be their superior. Policies, gait, what his children eat for dinner, diplomatic trips to furrin lands....it all goes to show that he is somehow ineligible and got the office on Ayfirmatiff Ackshun...unlike bush who has been a "legacy" since birth.

    Unlike the Lefty blogosphere, which has been very detailed on precisely which policies they differ with Obama, the majority of wites only make a vague claim to policy dispute...soos they am not racist.
    Ask the wites what the policies are...and you find some nebulous crap about 'direction he takin' th' country'...or 'he done been given all my taxes to 'those lazy, shiftless urban people'...or we can't afford a deeficit (with no historical knowledge of the massive deficits of bush or st reagan.

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  46. Now did you want to see me broken
    Bowed head and lowered eyes
    Shoulders fallen down like tear drops
    Weakened by my soulful cries

    Does my confidence upset you
    Don't you take it awful hard
    Cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
    Breakin' up in my front yard

    "I'll rise" (Ben Harper/Maya Angelou)

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  47. Americans see his "strut" as his way of saying he's better than other "ordinary" Americans. In other words, they want him to act "humble". I could go with "servile", but I'm burnt out on chasing racism and my Air Rs are getting scuffed up to high hell because of it.

    Despite G.W. Bush's "legacy" and upbringing in relative privilege in a relatively privileged family, people weren't threatened of him when he was in the Oval Office. I guess he didn't have the intellegence or the demeanor to be "intimidating" or "uppity"....oh hell, I don't even have my Air Rs on for that one, let me roll it back a bit.

    Americans really don't like people who seem clearly smarter than them, especially when it comes through in such a crystal-clear "I know better than you" type of way. Not saying that's how Obama feels, but it comes off that way sometimes. Bush was more or less "average" and people seem to like that sort of averageness in their prezes.

    And as far as Obama being "intimidating" because of his skin co.....damnit! I told myself those Air Rs were gonna stay on the shelf today.

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  48. On the O man's walk, common Field everybody knows the were suppose to suffel with our heads hanging low, You wanna get along with White people, you must show humility, the pres. should walk with his head hung low, and quote bible verses, (NOT)

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  49. Anonymous7:26 AM

    WTF indeed. The Prez' walk exudes confidence. He walks to the podium the way James Bond walks into a casino.

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  50. "Yes, people like Chairman claim he decries exceptionalism. In their microscopic minds Obama couldn't have possibly made all of those academic accomplishments and been in charge of an Ivy League University's law review...not without the magic wand of affirmative action. The mere fact that he's had a better run at life and has been more successful than they'll ever be runs counter to the white supremacist world view. (Yes, you have mentally enslaved black folks who have a white supremacist world view as well.) Either way, it's tired and only the gullible fall for these Gingrichesque soundbites."

    Nothing a white man with a penny hates more than a n&#*^r with a nickel. :)

    Jusus, you are right, I guess he should learn to shuffle like a black republican.

    "Oh enough of trying to appease wingnuts who would STILL not like him if he even if he made it rain silver dollars and cured autism in the same afternoon. Anything less than steppin and fetching is considered having a "chip on your shoulders" as those people like to put it."

    Smashed...I co-sign 100%

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  51. "WTF indeed. The Prez' walk exudes confidence. He walks to the podium the way James Bond walks into a casino."

    I like that! "Shaken not stirred."

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  52. everyone does NOT agree with this reporter's assessment of obama. he walks just fine to me and i doubt that most people even NOTICE. how often do cameras show the guy walking around? what fucking BS.

    it's all part of the right wing media's portrayal of him as alien and foreign, remember? it's been their drum beat since 2007.

    karen, you're a card--carrying racist and member of the tea party--enough said.

    LAC said:


    the Left Wing cranks would have to admit that you can acheive progressive ideas and improve the country with consulting the same old play book from the 70's and that sometimes compromise is a good thing.)"

    this, my friend, is also bullshit. i know you follow politics. clearly you know how upset the "base" is with obama on selling out the public option, upping the war in afghanistan, not closing gutananamo...clearly you can see how much legislation he's gotten done only through compromise and within our own party--because the republicans flat out refuse to support ANYTHING he proposes.

    the biggest problem is dems attacking dems because it just gives the republicans a divided opponent.

    obama has faced more criticism than any president in us history and there is only ONE reason:

    his race. and he does not get enough support from his own race or the democratic party.

    i wouldn't listen to a single piece of "advice" this guy has.

    what about the economy, stupid?!!!

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  53. Wesley R7:39 AM

    Field,

    The Daily News 'Columist' probably doesn't want Obama to look people like him in the eye when talking to him, and maybe move to the other side of the street when he comes walking down the street.

    In a few more deades this is going to be a majority, minority country. I hate to imagination what will come out of the mouths of folks like that 'columist' then.

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  54. @karen--your statement makes me really angry. obama is an intellectual LIGHTWEIGHT? really!?

    and who isn't in your opinion--sarah palin? sharron angle? how about christine o`donnell? what a fucking joke you are!

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  55. This is crunch time for Obama.

    The rightwingers are feeling their oats now and are intent on bloodying Obama up so bad that no black will ever dream of running for President again for the next two generations.

    The worst thing he can do now is look as if he's kowtowing to the Republicans.

    They're going to oppose him no matter what he does and if he looks like he's sucking up he'll lose black Americans..

    Talk to Clinton about triangulation.

    Out manuever the righties on issues like stem cell research, green jobs and Afghanistan.

    And if that columnists' comment about Obama's "strut" isn't straightup racist bull$hit, I don't know what is.

    Nothing offends like a cocky Negro, eh?

    Some things never change.

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  56. Anonymous9:14 AM

    uptownsteve said...
    This is crunch time for Obama.

    Some things never change.

    Really? So you still practice cannibalism?

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  57. fn:

    most people could not care less about how hobama walks...

    it is the droves of banksters' struts and the millions of homeless strolls that irk me...

    fyi

    we need to stop worrying about why hobama is hated

    and start worrying about why hobama hates poor people and black people so!!!!!!!

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  58. As they say its "unforgivable Blackness"

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  59. from Makaii,

    My cousin was once an editor at the Daily News.

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  60. hathor:

    hobama has been as colorless as possible!!!

    what is so black about him???

    he is clearly bankster green and bloody war red ONLY!!!

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  61. uts:

    nothing has ever been more republican than hobama's:

    bailouts

    silence re: oscar grant

    apathy re: sean bell

    predator drones

    gray race games

    endless wars

    pimping public option

    saving aig jobs

    gutting gm jobs

    etc

    wtfu!!!!

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  62. shut the fuck up, AB.i hope the republican pass legislation that directly and negatively affects YOU asap. not that you'll ever `get it', just as the karma payback that you so richly deserve for all your toxic shit that you spew that damages so many adults and god help those kids you claim to `tutor'.

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  65. mareally a lobotomized cave bitch:

    got debate?

    such rage but NO defense???

    how could they EVER hurt me more than hobama???

    and how do u not hurt too as a poor chaser of even poorer black men???

    _____

    hobama has been the most radical republican ever!!!

    President Clinton skillfully triangulated his own Democrats, seeking to position himself between the party’s liberal-ish core and the Republicans, thus moving the center of political gravity rightward through the Nineties. Obama, whose first major act while still a candidate was to save the Bush bank bailout after it failed a first vote in October, 2008, has elevated Clinton-style triangulation to what he hopes passes for statesmanship. Obama likes to calls it “non-partisan,” “consensus-building” politics and other variations on the theme, but the result is always the same: the fundamental interests of corporations are protected at the beginning of the process, which can only end with the people in worse shape than before it started. This is how a broad and deep public demand for comprehensive health reform was transformed into a guaranteed, subsidized, central role in the national health system for the hated insurance and drug companies for the foreseeable future.

    Obama, a genius at creating opportunities for himself while undermining the life prospects of others, invented the deficit reduction commission as his customized vehicle to subvert his own party’s cherished “entitlement” programs: Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, and others. Republicans didn’t force his hand or box him in. Instead, Obama set the torpedoes in motion against entitlements in the days before his inauguration, declaring, on January 8, 2009, that an overhaul of Medicare and Social Security would be “a central part” of his presidency. Not long afterwards, he said that Social Security and other entitlements would be “on the table” for cutting. All this, before any Republican had blurted an angry word about Obama in congressional debate.

    http://blackagendareport.com/?q=content/obama-prepares-triangulate-himself

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  68. mareally a brazen hypocrite:

    as long as u and uts and the vdlr are fine...so will i be

    you 3 clueless inept illiterate stooges spew more toxins and ZERO ACTUAL DEBATE than any other bold fools on the net!!!

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  69. mareally a jungle fevered hobama nazi ho:

    can u even begin to fathom hobama's GLOBAL KARMA then????

    wow!!!

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  70. Chairman Soetoro10:27 AM

    Field Negro said..."Jusus, you are right, I guess he should learn to shuffle like a black republican."

    Nice try making this another whine about white racism. ONE tabloid reporter says someting about how Obama walks, and now all of a sudden all white people are guilty of wanting the President to act subservient.

    As I pointed out earlier, Bush was constantly harped on because of how he "strutted" like some cowboy, and how his cockiness made liberal sick. Was that racist? Come on. This is Big Boy territory; act like it.


    and btw "LAC", I never cut and paste

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  71. no prez can ever be more republican than hobama

    Home » Perspectives PrintLeafletFeedbackShare »
    FacebookTwitterDiggRedditDeliciousBloggerE-Mail.The apologists for Obama and the Republican “resurgence”
    6 November 2010
    The outcome of the 2010 midterm elections is an indictment of the apologists for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

    As a result of the November 2 elections, in which the Republican Party regained control of the House of Representatives and picked up seats in the Senate, the entire political system in the US has shifted farther to the right. The consequences for millions of working people will be severe, as the attack on social conditions and democratic rights is intensified and military violence is employed even more aggressively around the world.

    Two years ago, a variety of “left” and liberal forces strove to convince those sections of the population over whom they had influence that the Obama campaign represented a watershed in American politics and that under his administration the policies of war, attacks on jobs and social programs, and the shredding of Constitutional rights would come to an end.

    The Nation magazine and others painted Obama, a thoroughly conventional bourgeois politician with a track record of subservience to the Democratic Party machine in Illinois and to big business, as a “progressive” who would turn America around. This effort, which combined self-deception and deliberate falsification, helped generate illusions in Obama and lull the population to sleep.

    What are the results? Obama, given a free hand by his left-liberal apologists, steered a right-wing, pro-big business course from his first day in office (and even before). In the face of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, the administration bailed out Wall Street while doing nothing for the millions of unemployed and impoverished workers and the legions of families facing the loss of their homes.

    Every major action taken by Obama and the Democrats has guaranteed the resurgence of the right. In November 2008, millions of working people went to the polls to repudiate the Bush administration. The Republican Party suffered a humiliating defeat, resulting in Democratic control of the White House and large Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

    One could not imagine more favorable political conditions for the smashing of the Republican right, assuming the victorious president and party had any desire to do so. None of those who are now insisting that working people and youth devote their efforts to pressuring Obama to “stand up to the right” address an obvious question: If he was unable and unwilling to do it in 2008, why should anyone believe he will do it now?

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/pers-n06.shtml

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  72. Anonymous10:58 AM

    @ AB: What was Obama supposed to say about Oscar Grant?

    Oscar Grant did not deserve to die, but his getting shot was mostly his own fault. If the police tell you to stay down, and you get up, expect to get shot.

    I have been in situations like that and got kicked in the head for a smartass remark. You cannot fight the law and win. I see dumbasses do it all the time, makes them feel good to act like punks to the police - eventually you get shot.

    Obama was right no to step in this - sad as it is, there is nothing to be said.

    Peace.

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  73. assnon:

    no justice = no "peace"

    see the video!

    oscar was publicly executed!!!

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CB0QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcolorlines.com%2Farchives%2F2010%2F11%2Foscar_grants_killer_johannes_mehserle_awaits_sentencing_today.html&ei=1hLcTKjlEoWBlAe_n4TKCQ&usg=AFQjCNEW-uTMca47aaRau6c-ybEmnretxg

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  74. hobama was supposed to say what he would have swiftly said if a black cop would have publicly executed a white boy precisely as oscar was executed:

    anything!!!!!!

    and that black cop would have been given life!!!

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  75. this is a public murder.
    period.

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIKy-WSZMklc&ei=7hPcTPf3LMGs8AaoiMj3CQ&usg=AFQjCNH1VKNs--OKcY-uvH-hrjVje_yGfQ

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  76. assnon:

    oscar grant was passive quiet and had his hands behind his back and his belly on the ground...

    like hobama
    u lie!!!

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  77. Now is the time to leverage Obama real hard as Black Americans after his mid term beatdown he got to get ours before he is gone.... I contributed to the breaking of the color line and I expect to leverage and take advantage of my efforts and my work over decades in seeking to make our country live up to its ideals.

    Yet I have encountered a number of people with the opinion that black people should not seek to press our new president based upon his hue and cultural footprints.

    Now, from my vantage point such a posture and position is foolish, silly and counterproductive on many levels. It makes no sense not to capitalize on a product I helped polish for mass consumption. Black America poured cultural capital into Prez Obama because part of his being is the creation of black America. We were not only his cultural mentors but his landscape and soil.

    Black Americans were his practice dummies on the field of America’s racial games.

    Those who clamor to the obsolete mantra of a color blind America are living in an obsolete world and there is nothing progressive about ignoring the obvious and raw truth of reality and the fact of race in our society. From my platform, to be truly progressive is to acknowledge the existence of one’s race and then not be a bigot.

    Obama is a person of color. He is a nonwhite president and as such he has a relationship with nonwhites, whether he likes it or not. I have no respect for those who seek to dismiss and deflect and ignore the obvious about race and its role in our nation and now in the White House. I have no reservations nor will I have any regrets when people accuse me of playing the ‘race card” with Obama.

    Black Americans who have endured centuries of race-based contempt and now expect us to ignore it, when we have suffered and died for this moment, are an insult and an affront to universal truth. It is a human condition to seek a bond and relationship with others who share your experience. I offer no apology nor will I moderate or remain passive in seeking to leverage Obama in the White House.

    Black Americans should ignore and dismiss those who claim we are seeking revenge, payback, reparations and special treatment as we seek to leverage our Black agenda in an Obama-era White House. I offer no apology at all in my quest to leverage Obama in the White House; it is what Americans have done for 43 administrations prior to an Obama White House.

    Let's pimp walk with Obama right here..right now

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  78. ditto!!!

    the same racist politically suicidal hobama nazi fans who demand that we vote for hobama and annoint him as our god ONLY because he has a black father...

    are the very same black fools who demand we NEVER ask hobama to do a damned thing for any black voters!

    wtf???

    hell no!!!!

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  80. hey mareally stupid:

    what the hell has hobama done for me/u/gays or your beloved black men?????????


    The Obama administration said the U.S. Supreme Court should let the military continue to bar openly gay people under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, arguing that a change in the law should come from Congress, not the courts.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/obama-lawyers-back-military-don-t-ask-don-t-tell-gay-ban-at-high-court.html

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  81. http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/11/05/deval-patrick’s-blueprint-for-an-historic-success/

    read the comments

    thrasher, repeating old thrasher STILL = BULLSHIT

    you and AB are alike in another way, too=everything is about YOU.

    yawn.

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  82. mareally a witless wench:

    u just posted that u hope the republicans slay america more than hobama just to hurt me...

    and that was not about YOU????

    u repulse me u silly brazen bitch

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  83. Anonymous11:55 AM

    Thrasher is yesterday's news. He and people like him are increasingly irrelevent. Obama is smart not to tie himself to failure.

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  85. assnon:

    so who switched ties on hobama nov 2?????

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  86. yeah mareally a bold liar:

    it is much easier for YOU to yawn than debate...or see past hobama's swirled swag.

    we got that long ago!

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  87. maria,

    Envy not good for ya....

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  88. what will maria say when public republicans actually do more for superb poor black parents and students in dc than hobama did????

    Despite the opposition of the incoming D.C. mayor and the Democratic president, key House Republican lawmakers say they will push a popular school-voucher program that was canceled by the Obama administration.

    A spokeswoman for Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and likely chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said her boss and other House leaders continue to support the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program and intend to pursue its revival.

    "Congressman Kline is very focused on restoring the program," spokeswoman Alexa Marrero said.

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/9/house-gop-to-push-for-school-vouchers/

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  89. Anonymous12:21 PM

    shut up ya schizo fucks trash and buceta head hows that job treatin ya buceta breaf? Oh wait bitch u aint have no job ya kunthead!

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  90. vdlr:

    thank you for your extremely low IQ'd contribution to the convo herein..as always!

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  91. what the hell has hobama done for poor dem fools like maria and the vdlr???????


    President Barack Obama’s top adviser suggested to The Huffington Post late Wednesday that the administration is ready to accept an across-the-board, temporary continuation of steep Bush-era tax cuts, including those for the wealthiest taxpayers.


    http://newsone.com/nation/washington-watch/newsonestaff4/report-white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts/

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  92. Anonymous12:33 PM

    alicia banks said...
    what the hell has hobama done for poor dem fools like maria and the vdlr???????

    Obama is a surrogate husband to manless women like Maria. Women like her want the government to stand in where a husband is missing. "He" supports her with ADC, healthcare, etc., and she fantasizes that he loves her.

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  93. "Nice try making this another whine about white racism. ONE tabloid reporter says someting about how Obama walks, and now all of a sudden all white people are guilty of wanting the President to act subservient."

    Well, they do want him to act subservient. This is what they expect of their definition of a "good" Negro.

    I'm almost done taking those scuff marks off of my all-white Air Rs. Now all I gotta do is relace those bad boys...

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  94. For all 5 of us who has served in the US Military. Happy Veterans Day!

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  95. anon:

    then surely her flawed fantasy will soon evaporate as hobama guts all such aid!!!

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  96. rk:

    happy vets' day

    http://www.alternet.org/world/148818/10_hard_truths_about_war_for_veterans_day_%28and_every_other_day%29/tuptiv

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  97. Anonymous12:47 PM

    Rottnkid said...
    "For all 5 of us who has served in the US Military. Happy Veterans Day!"

    Your service is appreciated, RK.

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  98. RK, to you and others who served; thank you for your service!

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  99. Anonymous said...
    alicia banks said...
    what the hell has hobama done for poor dem fools like maria and the vdlr???????

    Obama is a surrogate husband to manless women like Maria. Women like her want the government to stand in where a husband is missing. "He" supports her with ADC, healthcare, etc., and she fantasizes that he loves her.

    12:33 PM

    LOL! this is the best i've heard yet! and, moron, it has been called "ADC" in 12 years and i have never gotten govt. support of any kind (in contrast to AB/thrasher, who get mental disability payments).

    thanks for all the laughs!

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  100. Anonymous1:22 PM

    "it has been called "ADC" in 12 years "


    Of course you would know that. Stand by your man.

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  101. RK

    "For all 5 of us who has served in the US Military. Happy Veterans Day!'

    Backatachs my brother.

    And a special salute to those who gave their lives in service.

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  102. Really, really, really good stuff, FN.

    Both reads, especially the opening link. Incredible how the writer expresses the EXACT sentiments when it arrives at President Obama & everything he deals with, on a daily basis.

    I mean, what do they want from Obama? Seriously.

    I was taken aback at the "lose the strut" comment, but as I reached the end of the post, I saw where you handled that business quite nicely.

    I hardly understand politics, of course, but I do understand the pendelum that it has become/remains, and it's sad how America in general cannot come together and work with a man who certainly holds the best interest of this country.

    If and when Palin & her sycophants arrive onto the White House lawn, they will wish for another spirit like Barack Obama.

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  103. i know that because i'm not an idiot and i covered welfare reform. good luck living in the past and projecting your psychosis on everyone.

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  104. Anonymous1:55 PM

    "good luck living in the past "

    Good luck living in a fantasy world where Barak pays your doctor bills makes sweet love you every night.

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  107. we want hobama to be MORE than a blackish MORE brutal clone of bush!!!

    i want hobama do deliver what HE promised...

    why do ONLY hobama nazis see "hope & change"????

    even as we are more hopeless and unchanged than ever????

    Chairmen of Obama deficit panel propose cuts in Social Security, Medicare

    By Tom Eley

    11 November 2010

    The chairmen of the bipartisan commission appointed by President Obama to rein in US deficit spending on Wednesday released a proposal that would include new taxes on consumption and employee health care benefits and cuts to the federal old-age insurance programs, Social Security and Medicare, and to the jobs and pay of government workers. It would at the same time include massive tax cuts for the rich and for corporations.

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/defi-n11.shtml

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  108. we want hobama to be more than a bankster!!!

    These circumstances make the content of the discussion that much more remarkable. Obama has given no accounting of the debacle for the Democrats. He has not explained how his administration managed to restore the political standing of an ultra-right Republican Party that was totally discredited only two years ago. Nor has he warned his former supporters of the dangers to jobs, living standards and democratic rights from a newly empowered right-wing majority in the House of Representatives.

    Instead, he went on national television to conciliate big business and embrace the concerns of the Tea Party right wing, declaring them politically legitimate.

    To describe Obama as chastened by defeat would be an exaggeration, since it might suggest that before the election he had been engaged in an aggressive campaign against his opponents. He was low-key, conciliatory and, above all, prostrate before corporate America, whose servant he is.

    While liberal apologists for Obama like the Nation magazine treat him as a “progressive” who has unaccountably gone astray, or lost his voice, the man interviewed on “60 Minutes” was a deeply conventional, conservative politician without a trace of radicalism in his thinking.

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/obam-n09.shtml

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  109. "While liberal apologists for Obama like the Nation magazine treat him as a “progressive” who has unaccountably gone astray"

    You had your chance, he was your president for two years. Now it's his white half's time to be president.

    Run Barry run!

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  110. we want hobama to do something/anything to help the millions of his poor fans of all races who will freeze in the streets this winter!!!

    Even at its previous $5.1 billion funding level, LIHEAP was woefully underfunded. In March 2010, David Fox of the National Low-Income Energy Consortium told the World Socialist Web Site that during years in which LIHEAP received the maximum amount of federal financing allowed by law, the program was only able to serve 20 percent of all eligible households nationwide.

    The skyrocketing demand for emergency assistance is an expression of the depth of the economic crisis. According to an annual survey conducted by the NEADA, “60 percent of LIHEAP recipients reported that the primary reason they had trouble paying their energy bill in 2009 was because they had lost their job or had reduced income (up from 37 percent in 2008).”

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/nov2010/lihe-n10.shtml

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  111. "One of the few things I liked about Bush was his walk. It exuded confidence."

    LOL...I've thought the same. Obama's "strut" is pretty cool, so no problems with me.

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  112. maria:

    you are a proudly mentally handicapped broke unpaid dizzy joke because all that u can do is joke and lie as you express your insane rage over the indefensible hobama...

    just because u sexually covet swirled babies too...shame!!!

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  113. Anonymous3:19 PM

    AB, "mareally a lobotomized cave bitch:

    got debate?

    such rage but NO defense???

    how could they EVER hurt me more than hobama???

    and how do u not hurt too as a poor chaser of even poorer black men???"

    As a bm I resent the way you are talking to Maria. She has done nothing to you. Maria is woman with class and your good for nothing comments cannot match her level of sophiscation and intelligence.

    You are jealous because you cannot match her beauty or her words. But don't feel bad about it, you can't defeat everybody.

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  114. Anonymous3:20 PM

    shut up ya schizo fucks trash and buceta head hows that job treatin ya buceta breaf? Oh wait bitch u aint have no job ya kunthead!

    maria was right ur dumb kunt ass gets money from the government ya coohole! that is what allows u to post here 247 bitch! u aint have no job tommy!

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  116. oj assnon:

    are u rk's tag teamer?

    u chat with/intimately know maria too?

    dyam!

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  117. u hobama nazi nigs herein line up to defend miss anne.

    but not even miss anne can defend hobama.

    profound!

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  119. Anonymous3:25 PM

    unemployed mental disability collecting piece of shit!

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  121. Anonymous3:26 PM

    AB, "are u rk's tag teamer?"

    ROFL...

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  122. conceited deluded assnon/dl butch king thugette/baldheaded slave gal vdlr:

    u ojs/mammy maids are in stereo now.

    next...

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  123. Anonymous3:29 PM

    AB, "u hobama nazi nigs herein line up to defend miss anne.

    but not even miss anne can defend hobama.

    profound!"

    You can call me a nazi; You can call me a nig; You can call me a hobama nazi. But don't you 'dare' call Maria 'miss anne'!

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  124. maria said...
    LAC said:
    the Left Wing cranks would have to admit that you can acheive progressive ideas and improve the country with consulting the same old play book from the 70's and that sometimes compromise is a good thing.)"

    this, my friend, is also bullshit. i know you follow politics. clearly you know how upset the "base" is with obama on selling out the public option, upping the war in afghanistan, not closing gutananamo...clearly you can see how much legislation he's gotten done only through compromise and within our own party--because the republicans flat out refuse to support ANYTHING he proposes.



    One caveat, Obama always said he was going to expand Afghanistan. I don't like it, but I'm not shocked either.

    Maria, there's difference not agreeing with the President and undermining the man because he doesn't follow an outdated liberal governance guide and simply being too strident in your viewpoints.

    Let's not pretend that folks like Greenwald, Nader, Amy Goodman and other liberal wonks were downplaying Obama before he even announced his campaign for President. Some where bitter Hilary supporters looking for the return of the Clinton Camelot, others were old activist warhorses who were clamoring for a Kuicinich/Gravel run (which would have handed the GOP the White house).

    Also, compromise is how politics works - strong arming only goes so far. I think Lawrence O'Donnell put it succinctly last week when he took on Mark Greenwald on Morning Joe. Liberals (people like me you, UTS, Thrasher, AB; pretty much everyone this board who isn't a neo-conservative troll) at best make up 21% of the population and are concentrated in key districts throughout the country. Conservatives make up 40% of the country and cover more ground in terms of electoral seats. And moderates make up 39% of the country.

    If you want to win stuff and make progress, you must have moderates at the table to back your play. That's not called 'compromised' or selling out, its simply math, 21+39 > 40. Blue Dogs are annoying, but they're the only wiggle room liberals actually have.

    If Obama went with all chips in for the public option - he probably would have got nothing, because moderate deficit hawks would have screamed bloody murder and ran to the GOP for cover.

    It sucks, but nothing is perfect and when all things are balanced, this has been one of the most liberal Congress sessions in at 30 years.

    We agree to disagree.

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  125. lac:

    at some point
    even u will realize that
    endless excuses will fashion no hope/change

    shame...

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  126. cole said...
    "Now it's his white half's time to be president."

    No, it will never be time for that. He's just getting started.

    Recent photos of Obama have been alarming; they depict a man boiling over with rage. Have we ever witnessed a U.S. president so pugnacious, so incensed and inflamed by his own people?

    But to Obama, we are not his people; this is everything you need to know about Barack Obama in a nutshell. Although Obama was marketed as the post-racial, biracial uniter, this is not the man behind the mask.

    For his adult mentor, Obama picked Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Then Pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, Wright is a fan of Black Liberation Theology. BLT teaches that blacks are God's Chosen People, with whites inferior and wicked.

    By choosing this church over all others, Obama made a pivotal life decision. For seventeen years, Obama sat in the pews of Trinity consuming the vitriol of racial hate. In one sermon after another, Rev. Jeremiah Wright invoked the specters of slavery and Jim Crow, resurrecting a war that, for him, had never ended.

    In his autobiography, Obama lets slip a fascination with something that the biracial Malcolm X once said. Malcolm was so repulsed by his white ancestry that he daydreamed about draining the white blood from his body.

    One must wonder: by Obama's choosing Trinity, a church where his own mother wouldn't have been welcome, was he trying to exorcise the evil white spirit in him? And by joining that church, did he finally leave his repugnant white side behind at Trinity's door?
    When Obama tells black voters that he's freeing them from slavery, this is not hyperbole; he means it. But he's not referring to liberal politics that has only decimated the black culture.

    Obama means this: he will put the final nail in the coffin of American exceptionalism. He will end the Civil War. And he will do it his way: by trying to break the backs and the spirits of the white oppressors.

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  127. Anonymous3:40 PM

    maria was right ur dumb kunt ass gets money from the government ya coohole! that is what allows u to post here 247 bitch! u aint have no job tommy!

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  128. Anonymous3:41 PM

    LAC said: "We agree to disagree."

    I agree to disagree with everything you say.

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  129. Anonymous3:42 PM

    maria was right ur dumb kunt ass gets money from the government ya coohole! that is what allows u to post here 247 bitch! u aint have no job tommy!

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  130. lac:

    surprise -we ALL got nothing from hobamacare & congress!

    http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article24138.html

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  131. LAC--we aren't disagreeing at all.

    but you said he didn't compromise--and what i gave you were all the compromises he had made.

    i don't honestly know what more you wanted him to do. he wasn't liberal at all. many of us believe he compromised too much--but that he had to.

    do you get what i am saying?

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  132. robin:

    hobama hates black mongrels more than u do

    black people do not own megabanks!

    what has hobama done for black people???

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  133. and malcolm x loved poor black people

    he would hate hobama

    ditto for mlk!!!

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  134. Anonymous4:14 PM

    maria was right ur dumb kunt ass gets money from the government ya coohole! that is what allows u to post here 247 bitch! u aint have no job tommy! alicia stanks bitch!

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  135. Anonymous4:15 PM

    maria was right ur dumb kunt ass gets money from the government ya coohole! that is what allows u to post here 247 bitch! u aint have no job tommy! alicia stanks bitch! ure a phukkin loser liar shill and on top of that ure ugly dayum God played a practical joke when he let u be born!

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  136. hey vdlr:

    hobama hates u more than u envy me

    and maria has tamed your tiger

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  137. Anonymous5:25 PM

    nobody in their right mind envies u at all alicia stank breaf ultimately just about everyone here is offended by ur very presence u r a loser a liar an uncreative mind with an ugly face and body ure cursed! have a phukked up rest of ur week coohole!

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  138. Anonymous5:26 PM

    hows that 250 iq treatin u ya lying coohole!

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  140. bold bumbling baldheaded uneducated uncouth unhinged unlicked vdlr:


    a sheer shameless shabby moron like u lamenting ANY "uncreative mind"
    is akin to hobama lamenting a spineless hoax...ha!

    you made my day!!!

    ha!!!!!!!

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  141. Anonymous5:37 PM

    To: Mr. Field, and ALL Field Negroes who think Obama's "strut" is one of "confidence",-- please read the link below. That walk of "confidence" doesn't seem to match his behavior:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/10/white-house-gives-in-on-bush-tax-cuts_n_781992.html

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  142. Anonymous6:34 PM

    bush still can't put words in logical order...despite his multiple legacy degrees. Obama uses English in a manner that obviously flies well above the heads of most teabaggerites. I suspect part of their anger at him being so uppity and all...is that they see those eveel Librul literates getting the joke...and they and their friends don't.

    Mold

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  143. Anonymous6:39 PM

    Anon, after reading the article, ALL members on this blog, esp. Maria, Field, and one or two anons-should apologize to AB, because she has been right about Obama all along. While the rest of you Obama kool-aid drinkers have been in denial.

    AB has been a genius in this matter. Recognize her as such.

    Maria, why must you and your anon friends attack poor AB for speaking the truth?

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  144. Anonymous11:37 AM

    What about Obama running the country??????? What about that...?

    *shakes head*

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  145. Anonymous12:31 AM

    @alicia
    You are a dumb bitch of EPIC proportions!! Where was all this fucking outrage when Bush left MILLIONS to suffer after Katrina?!! And where's all the fucking outrage from the black media or media PERIOD you are the same asshole bringing up OJ but fail to mention the media doesn't give a shit about the Oscar Grants of the world either stupid cunt. Obama doesn't have to do anymore than any WHITE politician most of whom woul;dn't do a fucking thing like 'america's mayor' Guilani's worthless ass who DEFENDED the cops who killed Sean Bell why aren't you jumping all over him stupid ass. Maybe he's the kind you want to.

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