Quit picking on Obama……
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It shouldn't surprise me considering you and he are one and the same.
As for me, I understand your comment as a compliment to me as I have left you far behind....
Why don't you and that pseudo aristocratic know-it-all get yourself your own room /"Thread" instead of derailing every bloody thread where you happen to bump into each other......OKay:?:......Goodbye
Some people are in desperate need of a sense of humour. It's too bad that you have to resort to personal insults, but I guess that's part of your basic character.
October 06, 2009
How Obama Has Failed Black Americans
By Bruce Walker
The Olympics will not be held in Chicago. So has Obama failed Chicago? Not really: hosting the Olympics is a decidedly mixed blessing and this will be forgotten soon. Obama, however, has failed black America, and that failure may linger for a long time. The election of a black president, all other things being equal, is a good sign in American politics. All things, though, were not equal in the case of Barack Obama. He was not and is not wedded to the grand principles of American greatness. The blessings of citizenship are squandered on Barack Obama, just as the honor of being the first black president is wasted on him. It is not that American lacks great black Americans.
Clarence Thomas is a truly great black American. He felt the sting of real bigotry much more harshly than Obama. Thomas faced and then overcame the quiet anger than many blacks of his generation must have honestly felt. Instead of becoming an advocate for his race, Thomas became an advocate for constitutional government. He did not fall into the well of intractable grievances. Justice Thomas rose above them.
J.C. Watts, a great athlete and a great political figure, is also a profoundly serious Christian. Like Thomas, Watts grew up in a region where white racism was real. He turned to genuine accomplishment on the football field and genuine reliance upon a loving God to fill and to fulfill his life. Like many other black athletes, J.C. Watts has lived a life worth emulation, a life grounded firmly in faith.
Condi Rice, whose father was a Republican, because in Alabama Democrats did not want blacks in their Party, has succeeded in many different areas of life. She was Provost at Stanford University; she is a brilliant pianist who has performed with symphony orchestras since she was 15; Rice has studied ballet and figure skates magnificently. She faced very real discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama, but emerged confident of her ability to rise through talent to the top of America society. Rice has also faced the even more vile discrimination of leftist bigotry, which portrayed her in crude racist and sexist caricatures and which protests any appearance she attempts to make in the "leftists only" college campuses.
Thomas Sowell is, I believe, the greatest living analyst of human society. His books on ethnicity and the development of human social history are a joy to read. Unlike many writers, Dr. Sowell fills his books with facts and presents those facts in magnificent prose. Like Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, and Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell was born in the South and knew about racial discrimination. And like those other great black Americans, Dr. Sowell's work is not obsessed with racism and reparations. Instead he contributes, through his research and his writing, to the common good of all Americans.
How different these four black Americans, who in the face of racism worked and rose by merit to the highest levels of American society, are from Barack Obama! President Obama has done nothing worth mentioning in his life. His whole "career" (if that is what we might call it) has been resentment politics. He taught "law," but his law was the imaginary law of social justice. He was a community organizer, which means nothing in particular at all. He wrote a good book which actually Bill Ayers wrote for him. He entered the Illinois State Senate and acquired an impressive record of voting "present." Did United States Senator Obama do anything except mouth the tired, failed theories of a cranky, dead German political economist? No.
He spent decades attending a church mired in vicious pseudo-Christian black racism. He learned about politics from champions of terrorism and revolution - dreary, uninspired bitterness cooked into political theory. He offers black Americans, really, nothing good to cherish. He offers nothing noble for black Americans to emulate. Barack Obama has failed black America.
Rather than strike out on his own, like Thomas, Watts, Rice, and Sowell, Obama has immersed himself in the rigid environment of a Chicago political machine which doles out goodies based on crass pandering to voter blocs, rather than true merit and integrity. Rather than do something original, like Thomas Sowell, Obama parrots what he has been hearing in the leftist hothouses which have been his home all his life.
He is just like so many other so-called "leaders" of black America -- Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, and others -- who have nothing more relevant to say than "whites are racist" and who sell the votes of black Americans like the bodies of black Americans were once sold in the slave markets. His message is something like this: complain enough, envy enough, politicize enough, and all your problems will go away (even though this recipe has never worked in forty years).
Barack Obama is not leading black America into the sweet lands of love and brotherhood promised by Martin Luther King -- very few of the gaggle of black "leaders" actually practice what Dr. King preached -- but he is rather marching black Americans into the past, into the shackles of slavery, into the misery of hatred, into the hovels of hopelessness. America deserves better from a president, but especially, black America deserves better from the first black president. Obama has failed America, but he has failed black America even more.
Condi is hot; the Bamster is not.
How Obama Has Failed Black Americans
By Bruce Walker
The Olympics will not be held in Chicago. So has Obama failed Chicago? Not really: hosting the Olympics is a decidedly mixed blessing and this will be forgotten soon. Obama, however, has failed black America, and that failure may linger for a long time. The election of a black president, all other things being equal, is a good sign in American politics. All things, though, were not equal in the case of Barack Obama. He was not and is not wedded to the grand principles of American greatness. The blessings of citizenship are squandered on Barack Obama, just as the honor of being the first black president is wasted on him. It is not that American lacks great black Americans.
Clarence Thomas is a truly great black American. He felt the sting of real bigotry much more harshly than Obama. Thomas faced and then overcame the quiet anger than many blacks of his generation must have honestly felt. Instead of becoming an advocate for his race, Thomas became an advocate for constitutional government. He did not fall into the well of intractable grievances. Justice Thomas rose above them.
J.C. Watts, a great athlete and a great political figure, is also a profoundly serious Christian. Like Thomas, Watts grew up in a region where white racism was real. He turned to genuine accomplishment on the football field and genuine reliance upon a loving God to fill and to fulfill his life. Like many other black athletes, J.C. Watts has lived a life worth emulation, a life grounded firmly in faith.
Condi Rice, whose father was a Republican, because in Alabama Democrats did not want blacks in their Party, has succeeded in many different areas of life. She was Provost at Stanford University; she is a brilliant pianist who has performed with symphony orchestras since she was 15; Rice has studied ballet and figure skates magnificently. She faced very real discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama, but emerged confident of her ability to rise through talent to the top of America society. Rice has also faced the even more vile discrimination of leftist bigotry, which portrayed her in crude racist and sexist caricatures and which protests any appearance she attempts to make in the "leftists only" college campuses.
Thomas Sowell is, I believe, the greatest living analyst of human society. His books on ethnicity and the development of human social history are a joy to read. Unlike many writers, Dr. Sowell fills his books with facts and presents those facts in magnificent prose. Like Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, and Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell was born in the South and knew about racial discrimination. And like those other great black Americans, Dr. Sowell's work is not obsessed with racism and reparations. Instead he contributes, through his research and his writing, to the common good of all Americans.
How different these four black Americans, who in the face of racism worked and rose by merit to the highest levels of American society, are from Barack Obama! President Obama has done nothing worth mentioning in his life. His whole "career" (if that is what we might call it) has been resentment politics. He taught "law," but his law was the imaginary law of social justice. He was a community organizer, which means nothing in particular at all. He wrote a good book which actually Bill Ayers wrote for him. He entered the Illinois State Senate and acquired an impressive record of voting "present." Did United States Senator Obama do anything except mouth the tired, failed theories of a cranky, dead German political economist? No.
He spent decades attending a church mired in vicious pseudo-Christian black racism. He learned about politics from champions of terrorism and revolution - dreary, uninspired bitterness cooked into political theory. He offers black Americans, really, nothing good to cherish. He offers nothing noble for black Americans to emulate. Barack Obama has failed black America.
Rather than strike out on his own, like Thomas, Watts, Rice, and Sowell, Obama has immersed himself in the rigid environment of a Chicago political machine which doles out goodies based on crass pandering to voter blocs, rather than true merit and integrity. Rather than do something original, like Thomas Sowell, Obama parrots what he has been hearing in the leftist hothouses which have been his home all his life.
He is just like so many other so-called "leaders" of black America -- Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, and others -- who have nothing more relevant to say than "whites are racist" and who sell the votes of black Americans like the bodies of black Americans were once sold in the slave markets. His message is something like this: complain enough, envy enough, politicize enough, and all your problems will go away (even though this recipe has never worked in forty years).
Barack Obama is not leading black America into the sweet lands of love and brotherhood promised by Martin Luther King -- very few of the gaggle of black "leaders" actually practice what Dr. King preached -- but he is rather marching black Americans into the past, into the shackles of slavery, into the misery of hatred, into the hovels of hopelessness. America deserves better from a president, but especially, black America deserves better from the first black president. Obama has failed America, but he has failed black America even more.
Condi is hot; the Bamster is not.
The Obamas' Narcissism on Display
By George Will
WASHINGTON -- In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the International Olympic Committee were so dreadful, and in such a characteristic way, that they might be symptomatic of something that has serious implications for American governance.
Both Obamas gave heartfelt speeches about ... themselves. Although the working of the committee's mind is murky, it could reasonably have rejected Chicago's bid for the 2016 games on aesthetic grounds -- unless narcissism has suddenly become an Olympic sport.
In the 41 sentences of her remarks, Michelle Obama used some form of the personal pronouns "I" or "me" 44 times. Her husband was, comparatively, a shrinking violet, using those pronouns only 26 times in 48 sentences. Still, 70 times in 89 sentences was sufficient to convey the message that somehow their fascinating selves were what made, or should have made, Chicago's case compelling.
In 2008, Obama carried the three congressional districts that contain Northern California's Silicon Valley with 73.1, 69.6 and 68.4 percent of the vote. Surely the Valley could continue its service to him by designing software for his speechwriters' computers that would delete those personal pronouns, replacing them with the word "sauerkraut" to underscore the antic nature of their excessive appearances.
And -- this will be trickier -- the software should delete the most egregious cliches sprinkled around by the tin-eared employees in the White House speechwriting shop. The president told the Olympic committee that: "At this defining moment," a moment "when the fate of each nation is inextricably linked to the fate of all nations" in "this ever-shrinking world," he aspires to "forge new partnerships with the nations and the peoples of the world."
Good grief. The memory of man runneth not to a moment that escaped being declared "defining" -- declared such by someone seeking to inflate himself by inflating it. Also, enough already with the "shrinking" world, which has been so described at least since Magellan set sail, and probably before that. And by the way, the "fate" of -- to pick a nation at random -- Chile is not really in any meaningful sense "inextricably linked" to that of, say, Chad.
But meaningful sense is often absent from the gaseous rhetoric that makes it past White House editors -- are there any? -- and onto the president's teleprompter. Consider one recent example:
Nine days before speaking in Copenhagen, the president, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, intoned: "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation." What was the speechwriter thinking when he or she assembled that sentence? The "should" was empty moralizing; the "can" was nonsense redundantly refuted by history. Does our Cicero even glance at his speeches before reading them in public?
Becoming solemn in Copenhagen, Obama said: "No one expects the games to solve all our collective problems." That's right, no one does. So why say that? Then, shifting into the foggy sentimentalism of standard Olympics blather, he said "peaceful competition between nations represents what's best about our humanity" and "it brings us together" and "it helps us to understand one another."
Actually, sometimes the Olympic games are a net subtraction from international comity. But Obama quickly returned to speaking about ... himself:
"Nearly one year ago, on a clear November night, people from every corner of the world gathered in the city of Chicago or in front of their televisions to watch the results of the U.S. presidential election. Their interest wasn't about me as an individual. Rather, ... "
It was gallant of the president to say to the Olympic committee that Michelle is "a pretty big selling point for the city." Gallant, but obviously untrue. And -- this is where we pass from the merely silly to the ominous -- suppose the president was being not gallant but sincere. Perhaps the premise of the otherwise inexplicable trip to Denmark was that there is no difficulty, foreign or domestic, that cannot be melted by the sunshine of the Obama persona. But in the contest between the world and any president's charm, bet on the world.
Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: "honest" Abe Lincoln, "Grover the Good" Cleveland, "energetic" Theodore Roosevelt, "idealistic" Woodrow Wilson, "Silent Cal" Coolidge, "confident" FDR, "likable" Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there were "Tricky Dick" Nixon and "Slick Willie" Clinton. Unhappy will be a president whose defining adjective is "vain."
Zing.
By George Will
WASHINGTON -- In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the International Olympic Committee were so dreadful, and in such a characteristic way, that they might be symptomatic of something that has serious implications for American governance.
Both Obamas gave heartfelt speeches about ... themselves. Although the working of the committee's mind is murky, it could reasonably have rejected Chicago's bid for the 2016 games on aesthetic grounds -- unless narcissism has suddenly become an Olympic sport.
In the 41 sentences of her remarks, Michelle Obama used some form of the personal pronouns "I" or "me" 44 times. Her husband was, comparatively, a shrinking violet, using those pronouns only 26 times in 48 sentences. Still, 70 times in 89 sentences was sufficient to convey the message that somehow their fascinating selves were what made, or should have made, Chicago's case compelling.
In 2008, Obama carried the three congressional districts that contain Northern California's Silicon Valley with 73.1, 69.6 and 68.4 percent of the vote. Surely the Valley could continue its service to him by designing software for his speechwriters' computers that would delete those personal pronouns, replacing them with the word "sauerkraut" to underscore the antic nature of their excessive appearances.
And -- this will be trickier -- the software should delete the most egregious cliches sprinkled around by the tin-eared employees in the White House speechwriting shop. The president told the Olympic committee that: "At this defining moment," a moment "when the fate of each nation is inextricably linked to the fate of all nations" in "this ever-shrinking world," he aspires to "forge new partnerships with the nations and the peoples of the world."
Good grief. The memory of man runneth not to a moment that escaped being declared "defining" -- declared such by someone seeking to inflate himself by inflating it. Also, enough already with the "shrinking" world, which has been so described at least since Magellan set sail, and probably before that. And by the way, the "fate" of -- to pick a nation at random -- Chile is not really in any meaningful sense "inextricably linked" to that of, say, Chad.
But meaningful sense is often absent from the gaseous rhetoric that makes it past White House editors -- are there any? -- and onto the president's teleprompter. Consider one recent example:
Nine days before speaking in Copenhagen, the president, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, intoned: "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation." What was the speechwriter thinking when he or she assembled that sentence? The "should" was empty moralizing; the "can" was nonsense redundantly refuted by history. Does our Cicero even glance at his speeches before reading them in public?
Becoming solemn in Copenhagen, Obama said: "No one expects the games to solve all our collective problems." That's right, no one does. So why say that? Then, shifting into the foggy sentimentalism of standard Olympics blather, he said "peaceful competition between nations represents what's best about our humanity" and "it brings us together" and "it helps us to understand one another."
Actually, sometimes the Olympic games are a net subtraction from international comity. But Obama quickly returned to speaking about ... himself:
"Nearly one year ago, on a clear November night, people from every corner of the world gathered in the city of Chicago or in front of their televisions to watch the results of the U.S. presidential election. Their interest wasn't about me as an individual. Rather, ... "
It was gallant of the president to say to the Olympic committee that Michelle is "a pretty big selling point for the city." Gallant, but obviously untrue. And -- this is where we pass from the merely silly to the ominous -- suppose the president was being not gallant but sincere. Perhaps the premise of the otherwise inexplicable trip to Denmark was that there is no difficulty, foreign or domestic, that cannot be melted by the sunshine of the Obama persona. But in the contest between the world and any president's charm, bet on the world.
Presidents often come to be characterized by particular adjectives: "honest" Abe Lincoln, "Grover the Good" Cleveland, "energetic" Theodore Roosevelt, "idealistic" Woodrow Wilson, "Silent Cal" Coolidge, "confident" FDR, "likable" Ike Eisenhower. Less happily, there were "Tricky Dick" Nixon and "Slick Willie" Clinton. Unhappy will be a president whose defining adjective is "vain."
Zing.
"The Bible outlines a dozen rebellions against Moses. In a parallel to Obama the Israelites even question his birthright: "Who made you leader over us?""
"How Moses Shaped America"
Some question President Obama's birth right to be president. I just read in Time Magazine (Oct. 12,2009) that even others are questioning, not necessarily those who we thought would bring something like this up.
"How Moses Shaped America"
Some question President Obama's birth right to be president. I just read in Time Magazine (Oct. 12,2009) that even others are questioning, not necessarily those who we thought would bring something like this up.
Most of those who are questioning are right wing conspiracy nuts, ironsides. They are not interested in citizenship or anything like that, they just want to get Obama out of office right now, they don’t want to wait until 2012 (not that there is any guarantee that they will be able to defeat him in 2012).
Right wing, Left wing, what is the difference. Looks like both countries will be in Afghanistan for a while.
WASHINGTON – The top Senate Democrat says lawmakers of both parties assured President Barack Obama on Tuesday that they will rally behind whatever decision he makes on Afghanistan.
Reid: Both parties assured war support to Obama - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – The top Senate Democrat says lawmakers of both parties assured President Barack Obama on Tuesday that they will rally behind whatever decision he makes on Afghanistan.
Reid: Both parties assured war support to Obama - Yahoo! News
I think we are about to lose something.
You Can't Say That
At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.
by Anne Bayefsky
10/05/2009 12:00:00 AM
The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that "the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of "negative racial and religious stereotyping." It also purports to "recognize . . . the moral and social responsibilities of the media" and supports "the media's elaboration of voluntary codes of professional ethical conduct" in relation to "combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."
http://weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=17043&R=1637E2BF50
You Can't Say That
At the UN, the Obama administration backs limits on free speech.
by Anne Bayefsky
10/05/2009 12:00:00 AM
The new resolution, championed by the Obama administration, has a number of disturbing elements. It emphasizes that "the exercise of the right to freedom of expression carries with it special duties and responsibilities . . ." which include taking action against anything meeting the description of "negative racial and religious stereotyping." It also purports to "recognize . . . the moral and social responsibilities of the media" and supports "the media's elaboration of voluntary codes of professional ethical conduct" in relation to "combating racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance."
http://weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=17043&R=1637E2BF50
Obama ''is rather marching black Americans into the past, into the shackles of slavery, into the misery of hatred, into the hovels of hopelessness. ''
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! QUOTE OF THE YEAR!
Obama is more popular than ever among Black Americans. Who on earth is going to believe that fairy tale you posted????
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! QUOTE OF THE YEAR!
Obama is more popular than ever among Black Americans. Who on earth is going to believe that fairy tale you posted????
I like this graphic I found. I think I'll order the tshirt.
Its a takeoff of the shirts that Obama's supporters wear.
I like this one better.
Its a takeoff of the shirts that Obama's supporters wear.
I like this one better.
