I see that Ms. Thing finally went on her dream date with Jackie Jackson after all these years. Nice. When are you Negroes going to try and get me a hook up with Lark? That's the least you could do for a brotha toiling out here in the fields. You mean to tell me that not one of you people know Lark? Or, someone who knows someone who knows her?
Anyway, enough of that. Now on to some more serious matters: I see that a certain wingnut "bloviator" still has O man assassination issues. What gives, here? I mean this has been going on for awhile with this guy. I know I know, if you say it enough and all that stuff, but this is beginning to become a dangerous obsession. Hey Glenn, I don't hear the dog whistle, but I am sure that somebody out there does.
This post is from Jerry Bowles, who seems a lot angrier about this than I am:
"If you check the Google and Twitter trend charts, one of the hottest viral memes running around the internet right now is the Biblical verse Psalm 109:8 which has started popping up on bumper stickers and t-shirts with the seemingly harmless directive to Pray for Obama. Sounds benign enough and the verse itself seems to be a harmless piece of rightwing wishful thinking: "May his days be few, may another take his office."
Where it becomes seditious and anti-American are the lines that immediately follow that one:
“May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven from their ruined homes.”
Friends, it does not get any uglier than this. As Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience with God: Faith for People who Don’t like Religion or Atheism, said on the Rachel Maddow show:
"...This is the American version of the Taliban. The Taliban quotes the Qu'ran, and al Qaeda quotes certain verses in the Qu'ran, in or out of context, calling for jihad, and bloody war, and the curse of Allah on infidels. This is the Old Testament, Biblical equivalent of calling for holy war. Now, most Americans'll just see the bumper sticker and smile and think that it's facetious. Unfortunately, there are 22 million Americans or so who call themselves super-conservative evangelicals. Of this, a small minority might be violent. But, the general atmosphere here is really getting heated.
And what surprises me is that responsible, if you can put it that way, Republican leadership and the editors of some of these Christian magazines, etc. etc., do not stand up in holy horror and denounce this. You know, they're always asking 'Where is the Islamic leadership denouncing terrorism? Why aren't the moderates speaking out?' Well, I challenge the folks who I used to work with... I would just say to them: 'Where the hell are you? This is not funny anymore. And be it on your head if something happens to our President..." [Link]
Anyway, enough of that. Now on to some more serious matters: I see that a certain wingnut "bloviator" still has O man assassination issues. What gives, here? I mean this has been going on for awhile with this guy. I know I know, if you say it enough and all that stuff, but this is beginning to become a dangerous obsession. Hey Glenn, I don't hear the dog whistle, but I am sure that somebody out there does.
This post is from Jerry Bowles, who seems a lot angrier about this than I am:
"If you check the Google and Twitter trend charts, one of the hottest viral memes running around the internet right now is the Biblical verse Psalm 109:8 which has started popping up on bumper stickers and t-shirts with the seemingly harmless directive to Pray for Obama. Sounds benign enough and the verse itself seems to be a harmless piece of rightwing wishful thinking: "May his days be few, may another take his office."
Where it becomes seditious and anti-American are the lines that immediately follow that one:
“May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven from their ruined homes.”
Friends, it does not get any uglier than this. As Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience with God: Faith for People who Don’t like Religion or Atheism, said on the Rachel Maddow show:
"...This is the American version of the Taliban. The Taliban quotes the Qu'ran, and al Qaeda quotes certain verses in the Qu'ran, in or out of context, calling for jihad, and bloody war, and the curse of Allah on infidels. This is the Old Testament, Biblical equivalent of calling for holy war. Now, most Americans'll just see the bumper sticker and smile and think that it's facetious. Unfortunately, there are 22 million Americans or so who call themselves super-conservative evangelicals. Of this, a small minority might be violent. But, the general atmosphere here is really getting heated.
And what surprises me is that responsible, if you can put it that way, Republican leadership and the editors of some of these Christian magazines, etc. etc., do not stand up in holy horror and denounce this. You know, they're always asking 'Where is the Islamic leadership denouncing terrorism? Why aren't the moderates speaking out?' Well, I challenge the folks who I used to work with... I would just say to them: 'Where the hell are you? This is not funny anymore. And be it on your head if something happens to our President..." [Link]
Relax Jerry, he isn't as powerful anymore, maybe they will leave him alone now.
Finally, in my ongoing effort to be "fair and balanced", I would like to leave you with a commentary from a black republican that someone sent me. (h/t Mike)
"The message from voters in the 2010 election was two-fold: a rejection of President Barack Obama's job-killing Socialist agenda and a denunciation of the Democratic Party's divisive politics of race-baiting. The accusation by Democrats that the Republican Party is a racist party was exposed, once again, to be absolutely false when these three black Republicans, shown below, won their elections and were added to the long list of black Republicans already serving in elected positions in multiple states at various levels of government. Newly elected to Congress are Tim Scott in South Carolina and Allen West in Florida. Also in Florida, Jennifer Carroll became that state's lieutenant governor, the first black woman Republican ever elected to this position. These victorious candidates received scant media coverage since they contradict the image promoted by Democrats that the Republican Party is racist.
During the election, Obama and his fellow Democrats tried to avoid the political tsunami by resorting to acts of desperation, including scraping the bottom of the Democratic Party's racist barrel. Blacks in Florida were startled and incensed when former President Bill Clinton, at the apparent behest of Obama, tried to get black Democrat U. S. Rep. Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race for U. S. Senate and endorse white Gov. Charlie Crist, the one-time Republican who ran as an independent after withdrawing from the Republican Party primary. There would have been a firestorm of charges of racism by the liberal media and black civil rights organizations, such as the NAACP, had a white Republican tried to force a black Democrat out of a race for any elected office.
So, what was a focus for the NAACP during the 2010 election? That once great organization was busily digging its own grave of irrelevancy by issuing a bogus and racially incendiary report written by far left wingers in the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights. That report falsely accused the Tea Party activists of being racist because they oppose Obama's socialist agenda and want to reduce the size of our government, cut spending and keep our taxes low. Without a doubt, the NAACP report was a blatant attempt to get black voters to the polls by stirring up hatred against their fellow white Americans who Obama described as "the enemy." [More]
Tap tap, skip. Tap tap, skip. You hear that Obama? Leave those good "white Americans" alone, or those dog whistles could get louder.
I love this country.
245 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 245 of 245It's funny how black people are portrayed as mindless drones for voting Democratic at 90%.
But the white South being overwhelmingly Republican is regarded as a virtue!!
Race in America.
uts:
you worship a half white god who has been more republican than any prez to date...
so u must be truly tickled!
not to mention how funny you must find it that the joker hobama has most of america living like mongrels in the delta too!...
uptownsteve said...
Name one black Republican who has a chance at a statewide seat in the South or anywhere else.
Blacks are 13% of the population. Only 5% are republicans. This equates to 0.65% of the people in the country. What constituency representing less than 1% of the population can expect multiple statewide positions? Uzbeks? Corsicans? Red-headed midgets? No. If more blacks identify as republicans, then there will be more blacks competing for senate seats and governorships.
I am encouraged by the election of Tim Scott and Allen West, a small start, but a start at developing black republican politicians from the south from whose ranks eventually legitimate statewide contenders will develop.
puh-leeze
Most white Southerners are Republicans because they think the Dems suck up to blacks.
Now what makes you think these same folks en masse are going to support black Republicans?
Scott and West are anomalies.
Just like Watts and Franks in the 90s.
So AB, to refute my point about cynical lefty leftovers with no plan of realpolitik you quote a site full of cynical lefty leftovers with no plan of realpolitik. Interesting.
The Black Agenda Report is an example of the uber far Left whose political clout couldn't win a Dog catcher.** Also, a lot of their prognostications prove to be overblown or just plain wrong.
But it is what is. None of us can snap you into reality on a damn blog. And none of your inane pontifications worthy of the schizophrenic homeless guy who dresses up as wonder woman near my old office building. I just ask you leave serious discussion to the adults.
** On a side note, some of the commentators on the BAR blog have the less political sophistication than a High School Model Union Club. Honestly, these halfwits are celebrating Charles Barron getting only 50K votes for New York Governor. Paltry showing for an otherwise outstanding progressive politician and stupid move on his part - he should have been building his power base to take the NYC Mayoral election instead of burning through political capital on the governor's race he had no chance of winning. Now he's in the same category as that Negro with the crazy beard on the "Rent is Too Damn High" Party and the Elliot Spitzer ex-Madame. Not a place you want to be in politics.
But that would require activists to think beyond the soap box.
uptownsteve said...
puh-leeze
Most white Southerners are Republicans because they think the Dems suck up to blacks.
Now what makes you think these same folks en masse are going to support black Republicans?
Scott and West are anomalies.
Just like Watts and Franks in the 90s.
UTS, more accurately, like Watts and Franks (a slumlord sellout who is loathed by Blacks and Latinos in Waterbury for scamming section 8 renters), they're flukes and window dressing for Republicans to say "see we're not racist" while the ram one racist policy after another through Congress.
lac:
when lost slumbering drones like you dare to bash awake warring real revolutionaries like my idols who run the black agenda report/huey/the original BPP etc...
i feel stunned...and alive!
i actually feel like you and uts will the day you realize that hobama despises you even more than i do because u will never own a bank or a mind or a spine or an iota of courage/respect etc....
wait.
watch.
see.
thanks!
There's no pleasing some people. Scott and West win elections in heavily white districts, and they are dismissed as "anomalies" and "flukes" to be used as cover for nefarious racist plots.
Had they lost, I'm sure it would have been proof positive how racist whites won't vote for black candidates.
You two are glass half empty guys.
lac:
ps:
like uts and hobama, u lie!
quote their alleged lies or stfu
i am certain they are elated that flag waving hobama bromancers like u dislike their blog!
we rebels adore it!
http://www.blackagendareport.com/
u gottdam idiot buceta licking trash banks! u got KILT rite now by lac and ur dumb ass is too stupid to realize it u continue making even more of an asshole of urself u just about ensure that u wont be employed any time soon ya loser!
vdlr:
your retarded cheering is always as indicative of my typical victory herein as the blood red colored usa maps are of the red tidal wave that drowned the blackish hobama tue....thanks!!!
help lac answer some queries...scan up asap!
alicia banks said...
lac:
ps:
like uts and hobama, u lie!
quote their alleged lies or stfu
i am certain they are elated that flag waving hobama bromancers like u dislike their blog!
we rebels adore it!
http://www.blackagendareport.com/
Funny, since I subscribe to the site and have read it regularly for years. In other words, you don't know what the Hell you're talking about.
Here's the reality:
a) Obama's administration has accomplished more progressive benchmarks than any President since LBJ. That's a fact. If you only read the nuttiness over at Democracy Now! and Black Agenda Report, you'd think that Obama was a sellout no different than Clinton. And, you would be absolutely wrong, which you.
b)BAR and others follow the opinion of they're all corporate oligarchs, so stay home. As Robert Perry points out, that "Mau-Mau middle finger" from the Left hasn't worked since Nixon and has been one of the keys to the Right wing lurch in America.
Like I've said numerous times, I don't always disagree with you, AB, just as I don't always agree with UTS or Maria. We have our own opinions and use this blog to share ideas and debate.
But there's a big difference between disagreement and just saying stupid things. There's a difference between saying "progress isn't happening fast enough" and saying "since progress isn't happening fast enough, I'm going to stay home and let the guys who I totally disagree with win. That will show them!"
Right Wing Republicans and corporate Plutocrats get it. Too bad so many liberals, moderates and so-called independents don't.
lac:
what is stupid is thinking that dems are more progressive than repubs and that ANY real progress will ever come from any real politico...
your denial and delusions about hobama will never constitute progress.
but kudos to those TRULY NEW progressives in the tea party!
black drones like u are way too suicidally happy being hated and abused by dems like hobama to ever form a real third party as the tea partiers have begun to do
lac:
do you actually send money to BAR as u bash them????
and do they know so?
"They have an agenda, they are trying to break every bone in our collective race. Trust me, alot of people are threatened by blogs like this; this one in particular as well. Now because the Black Muslim guy is in the "white house", they are trying to take away one of our most important part of our liberties and freedoms (as if we ever had any)away from us, which is our political power, and our power to stand as a collective."
We never have been united, so how can you claim we had any political power? Powerlessness has been our karma for a long time. Even Obama displays a weakness that other Presidents have not shown. He doesn't have the support or respect in Congress or the country like other Presidents have.
The other weird thing is that the First Lady is silent and invisible.
LAC: "Obama's administration has accomplished more progressive benchmarks than any President since LBJ. That's a fact"
That's also nothing to be proud of, as LBJ's administration was a complete disaster. Thankfully, while it took almost 20 years for Reagan to come along and roll some of LBJ's progressivism back, it looks like Obama's mess will be thrown out much quicker.
lac/vdlr:
is BAR aware of your schizo "support" and slander herein???
if not, u may want to cc keith o for some advice...good luck!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/11/keith-olbermann-msnbc-keith-olbermann.html
Blogger alicia banks said...
but kudos to those TRULY NEW progressives in the tea party!
Woman, did ignorant ass statement just come out of your mouth?! The Tea Party progressive? A movement lead by folks who want to overturn Roe v. Wade and stand against gay rights? A movement that just sent people to DC who want to overturn reforms from the New Deal and the Great Society? A movement funded and not-so secretly controlled by Dick Armey and Jim DeMint? A movement with Sarah Palin as it figure head?! A movement that supposed to stand against Big Banks but fought against banking regulations in congress? A movement that is backed by the damn Minutemen movement? Are you insane or just trying to raise every liberals' blood pressure on this blog.
Again, if you're supposed to be so accomplished and smart stop saying stupid shit!! Sorry for such strong language, but that's got to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen you write on this blog (and believe me, we all have a few 'Alicia Banks' classics). Because you're either a closet Republican, a political performance artist (to steal a term from Rachel Maddow) or completely out of your mind if you think a movement that just made John Boehner Speaker of the House is anything but Right wing, knee jerk Authoritarians.
Many thanks for the excellent article by Shelby Steele. He really nailed the truth about Obama with the following:
"How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign rallies of many of his fellow Democrats?
The first answer is well-known: His policymaking has been grandiose, thoughtless and bullying. His health-care bill was ambitious to the point of destructiveness and, finally, so chaotic that today no citizen knows where they stand in relation to it. His financial-reform bill seems little more than a short-sighted scapegoating of Wall Street. In foreign policy he has failed to articulate a role for America in the world. We don't know why we do what we do in foreign affairs. George W. Bush at least made a valiant stab at an American rationale—democratization—but with Mr. Obama there is nothing."
lac:
they are progressive in that they are dissenters who have organized and won seats tue...
what have u done?
what more has hobama done for gays????
who funds hobama????
BP and the cia are not progressive orgs!
what u call classic
i call TRUTH
all dissent is progressive!
ask howard zinn
@LAC:
Progress can happen in any direction, and the Tea Party is making progress toward restoring liberty. Your brand of progressivism is actually a retrograde brand of authoritarianism.
lac
u and uts are so transparent in your ignorant hypocrisies:
when neocons called gwb a liberal
for hiring condi and colon, racist hobama nazis like u balked
now u spew that same bs to gays????
name one thing hobama has done for gays except make them unequal corpses in wars or equal road kill in hate crimes????
one???????
hobama drone mongrels pleez
anon:
ditto
preach
your post made my day
thanks
i am no shelby fan
but he has been spot on and clairvoyant about hobama
just like tavis smiley and debra dickerson
and shelby penned a classic book on hobama that was sabotaged by its title as the cia factor was not yet known
it is that same illuminati/trilateral commission that has so many wondering;
why is hobama so calm and teflon etc...
he KNOWS he will be selected again in 2012...no matter what!!!
http://www.amazon.com/Bound-Man-Excited-About-Obama/dp/1416559175
anon:
bye!
have a great weekend!
LAC I think Roe v. Wade should be overturned but am hardly a wingnut.
Anonymous said...
@LAC:
Progress can happen in any direction, and the Tea Party is making progress toward restoring liberty. Your brand of progressivism is actually a retrograde brand of authoritarianism.
What you call liberty every other civilized Western nations would call a theocratic plutocracy.
What is authoritarian about rebuilding roads, regulating banks so they don't bet grandma's home on Ponzi schemes or making sure everyone can see a doctor? You know, like every other industrialized western democracy on the planet.
For some reason, right wing goobers (and lefties lunatics like AB) think that Ayn Rand-style scorched earth policies are 'freedom', or that having a bunch corporate shills and mouth breathing goons who couldn't pass a junior high school social studies class to 'counterbalance Obama's over reach' is rational.
M. Rigmaiden said...
LAC I think Roe v. Wade should be overturned but am hardly a wingnut.
This where we disagree, as I personally believe an abortion is a decision between a woman, her God and her doctor. That's all Roe v. Wade says.
Unlike other nations, most Americans can't get an abortion (the most common female health procedure next to actual childbirth and mammograms) covered by their insurance. So we're no where near the 'one child policy' that happens in China - no matter what anti-choice bomb throwers tell people.
But MR, I'd never call you a wing nut, because you obviously don't believe the President is a communist secret Kenyan Muslim or that the entirety of the New Deal was the Devil's work. Or that Banks shouldn't be regulated.
alicia banks said...
what u call classic
i call TRUTH
all dissent is progressive!
ask howard zinn
I guess the Confederacy was a bunch of flaming lefties because they'd rather start a Civil War than abolish slavery. Good God woman, stop talking, you get dumber every minute.
LAC I wish I had more time to respond to what you said earlier but you are right about many of the left wingers.
I don't share their views on many things however. I am a strict anti-capitalist. So I have no expectations for the representatives of the ruling class parties, which includes Obama.
Of course I say this over and over but you try to lump me in with folks I don't agree with all the time. But its cool, I think I have an idea about why you do that.
I think we should agree to disagree on some things but I am definitely not a follower of the folks you mentioned esp. Chomsky who is an anarchist.
Oh I think that how much influence you have and having a right perspective are not the same thing.
For example the abolitionists in the US held the minority view for quite a while, but they were right anyhow about their view of humanity and how all humans should be treated.
Mell - my apologies, we do agree to disagree, as I take more of a 'creature of the hill' approach to politics.
And we probably agree in principle more than we don't agree.
However, I do have a level of frustration with folks who somehow think some great Left Wing White Knight is coming to our rescue. He's not, and if he (or she) did - they'd be selling serious snake oil.
@ LAC: What is authoritarian about siezing industries, dictating payscales, confiscating property, forcing people to buy insurance, using the EPA to bypass the legislative process, and using SEIU thugs to intimidate opponents?
Everything.
Anonymous said...
@ LAC: What is authoritarian about siezing industries, dictating payscales, confiscating property, forcing people to buy insurance, using the EPA to bypass the legislative process, and using SEIU thugs to intimidate opponents?
Everything.
Let's break this down:
The seizing of industries - you do realize that Bush bailed out the auto industry first without requirements. Uncle Sam just wrote the Big Three a fat check in '03 with no strings attached. As did Reagan and Gerald Ford.
Why? Because it was necessary. Seeing how vital automobile production is to the nation - it would a damn stupid idea for any President to let the industry tah big flounder and put millions out of work. The difference Obama basically said "we want our money back."
The same thing with the banking bailouts - the Republicans did it, no strings and the tea party types just shrugged. The Democrat does it and demands the banks pay us back (yes, TARP has a require that banks repay us), the GOP are howling.
"forcing people to buy insurance" Seeing as we have privatized, for profit healthcare, people are forced to buy insurance anyway - simply risk dying from not being able to see a doctor.
"dictating payscales" So we should pay people slave wages?! That's liberty?
"using the EPA to bypass the legislative process" you mean like the Clean Air and Clean Water acts? The EPA are the 'nature cops' - they're job is to enforce environmental policies.
"confiscating property" Eminent domain is in the 5th Ammendment of the Constitution. Next.
@LAC: You obviously are a proponent of benign dictatorship, the kind of soft tyrranny de Tocqueville foresaw 160 years ago. If the EPA classifies your very breath as a pollutant, that's ok because they know best. If the government decides your employer is paying you too much, it's only fair. If a failing industry threatens the porfolios of its investors, well, it's for the good of the country to make them whole. The kind of vehicle you are allowed to drive, the food you can eat, what your children are told in school, the risks you are allowed to take -all of these decisions inherent in being an adult are made for you, an eternal child in the eyes of the state.
And with this you are just fine. Damn, LAC.
Be honest Hugh, you really think that will happen? If you do I have a bridge to go along with those stars. Fact is the majority of people like 6 out of 8 of the major provisions of the health care bill. The 32 mil uninsured that got health coverage and those with pre-existing conditions will not want to lose it. Also please explain to me how tort reform helps the average person and not the insurance companies. The odds are against us anyway because the major corporations have the best and brightest lawyers to begin with and it's an uphill battle if you even have the means to sue a corporation so why hinder the everyday person even more?
lac:
the confederates were patriots who fought and lost to superior patriots.
and?
you and your defective cousins were not fighting like them or running away like harriet and my cousins.
you were cowering and waiting for that racist prez abe/that dl hobama's dl idol to free ONLY some of u and your scared cousins...and even then he did so late/juneteenth
that spineless sold out blackish coward hobama is no abe
but you and your kind are still a slaves bashing the tea party patriots rather than brewing your own rebellion indeed
tragic!!!
lac:
like hobama, u lie
not one elitist sin hobama unleashed has been necessary
you are indeed a hobama nazi
like u, hitler's nazis agreed that gassing jews was "necessary" too..
shame!!!
Love the blog. Thanks. Love the links, too. Thanks again.
I know I'm a bit late, but I'm compelled to voice some dismay that a black leader would accept, adopt and promote the willful ignorance of Roger Simon, ("But am I attacking this report without reading it? Indeed I am…"), rationalized by the alleged willful ignorance of someone else.
Tea Party Nationalism does not accuse Tea Party activists of being racists. Neither does Benjamin Jealous…I think…it's hard to tell with him sometimes. The report warns of Tea Party organizations creating havens for white nationalists desperately seeking mainstream political access and acceptance. One of the authors of the report, Leonard Zeskind, has spent most of his adult life chronicling white nationalism in America. The culmination of that work is Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. In that work, Zeskind doesn't pull punches as I feel he does in Tea Party Nationalism. A reading of Blood and Politics would enhance understanding of Tea Party Nationalism, but, at over 500 pages, it will test the three-paragraph attention span of most average Americans.
And speaking to both Rice and Simon from The Far Left, (Orthodox Trotskyite Far Left), Zeskind, whose politics is barely visible in his work, is somewhat of a moderate. Certainly not a revolutionary, possibly a Leftist but more probably a Progressive. I wish the neoconservative zealots would get it right. The Far Left dreams Obama was as socialist as they claim.
My compulsion abated, I'll return to lurking. Thanks again for being here. See you in the streets sometime? Soon.
This is some crazy mess. Some of my fellow believers embarrass me. I help lead worship at my church and we go through the book of Psalms with a new psalm guiding us each Sunday. A few weeks ago we had that psalm which we all found rather harsh. I looked to the upshot of the Psalm--David is railing against this person in part because "he never gave a thought to the poor." Now, the same crazies who rail against Obama for being a socialist and get worked into a frenzy over the welfare state are attempting to use a psalm indicting a ruler for not caring for the poor to bash someone they think is too progressive because of things like health care reform? Come again?
Plus, it is not very Christ like to pray for someone and their family to be cursed. Sure that is in the Bible, but David was operating under Old Testament principles and the psalms are full of his cries of anguish and railing against his enemies. But, how is applying this psalm in this context Christ like when Jesus taught to love your enemies, turn the other cheek and even bless those that curse you?
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