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darkbeaver

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The Obama Spectacle
History, Hypocrisy, and Empire

By Larry Pinkney

January 29, 2009 "BlackCommentator" -- January 22, 2009 -- The so-called democracy of the powerful U.S. elite continues to live up to its legacy of hypocrisy and deceit.

Now that the spectacle of the Barack Obama coronation as the “American” Empire’s first African-American emperor has run its course, and many, many millions of dollars have been spent on self-adulation by the power elite of this nation, the huddled masses will necessarily be compelled to return to a system of no universal, single-payer health care, increasing joblessness, insatiable corporate / military greed, homelessness, de facto racial disparity & discord, police brutality, a burgeoning U.S. prison population, and endless U.S. wars abroad. For yet again, this nation will have done what it all too often does: perverted its promise, including the dream of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., into a hypocritical nightmare of gigantic and historic proportions.

For the majority of Black, Brown, White, Red, and Yellow peoples, the “dream” to which the late Langston Hughes referred [in the poem A Dream Deferred] has not only been “deferred,” it has been obscenely and grotesquely disfigured and distorted into something almost beyond recognition. Barack Obama’s presidency is not a step forward nor is it a step towards the fulfillment of the struggles by Nat Turner, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and so very many others. Rather, he is the slick pro-apartheid Zionist antithesis and perversion of the fulfillment of these struggles.

Barack Obama has already begun to repeatedly and shamelessly call upon the people of this nation to make “sacrifice,” as if the everyday people of this country have not already made enormous, heart rendering sacrifices. How about having Obama’s elite corporate backers in Lockheed, Goldman Saks, and the insurance and banking industries make some meaningful, ongoing, and painful sacrifices?! How about reversing the government’s criminal financial bail out of the big corporations [which government bail-out Obama enthusiastically supported], and passing those billions upon billions of dollars back directly to the everyday people of this nation - no strings attached?! How about immediately stopping all U.S. wars of aggression, and bringing our men and women in uniform
 
Kreskin

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Hey Beave, isn't there a better place for this cut n paste? Loon is starting a thread about a visit, not what this Larry Pinkley has to whine about.
 
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I hope Rick Mercer gets a chance to spend an hour with them together.
 
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Our most gracious Governor General will be serving tea and scones! I wonder, if he will bring his lovely wife along? Perhaps his daughters, too. They could all go skating on the Rideau Canal!!

I'll be happily watching it all from my comfy chair, thinking...

... I survived the most horrendous war in Europe; saw the atom bomb being dropped on Japan; climbed up to the North Cap; flew over here on the last (?) propeller air plane; learned to drive a car and speak two additional languages; witnessed the moon landing; crossed the mighty McKenzie River; went canoing in the NWT; saw my first and only dancing loon; and now I will witness the first black President of the mighty US Empire visiting my old "hometown" of my adopted country!

Indeed, I am a very lucky woman.:coffee2:Cheers, everyone:lol:
 
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dancing-loon said:
Our most gracious Governor General will be serving tea and scones! I wonder, if he will bring his lovely wife along? Perhaps his daughters, too. They could all go skating on the Rideau Canal!!

I'll be happily watching it all from my comfy chair, thinking...

... I survived the most horrendous war in Europe; saw the atom bomb being dropped on Japan; climbed up to the North Cap; flew over here on the last (?) propeller air plane; learned to drive a car and speak two additional languages; witnessed the moon landing; crossed the mighty McKenzie River; went canoing in the NWT; saw my first and only dancing loon; and now I will witness the first black President of the mighty US Empire visiting my old "hometown" of my adopted country!

Indeed, I am a very lucky woman.:coffee2:Cheers, everyone:lol:
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Thanx for telling us a little about yourself! Not to be nosy or anything. ;-);-);-) :lol::lol::lol:
 
L Gilbert

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Scott Free said:
Do you mean Greg Palast is in Canada?

I'm a fan of his social commentary.

I'd rather meet him than Obama.
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No, I meant our wingnut PM and the "Big O" (my wife's term for Obama considering all the ecstatic hoopla loads of people were performing about the guy. Before that, her term applied to her orgasms).

Now I have to look up this Greg Palast to see what he's about.
 
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dancing-loon said:
Our most gracious Governor General will be serving tea and scones! I wonder, if he will bring his lovely wife along? Perhaps his daughters, too. They could all go skating on the Rideau Canal!!

I'll be happily watching it all from my comfy chair, thinking...

... I survived the most horrendous war in Europe; saw the atom bomb being dropped on Japan; climbed up to the North Cap; flew over here on the last (?) propeller air plane; learned to drive a car and speak two additional languages; witnessed the moon landing; crossed the mighty McKenzie River; went canoing in the NWT; saw my first and only dancing loon; and now I will witness the first black President of the mighty US Empire visiting my old "hometown" of my adopted country!

Indeed, I am a very lucky woman.:coffee2:Cheers, everyone:lol:
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All I can say is "WOW"!! Congrats, so far. *Hugs*
 
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