Bloodthirsty Liberal

I assume we all remember when John Conyers said… well, how can I say it better than he did?:

“I’m getting tired of saving Obama’s can in the White House. I mean, he only won (health care reform) by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn’t anything to write home about. The public option is only available, which is the only way you manage cost and get some competition to 1,300 other health insurance companies, the only way he could have got that through is that progressives held their nose and voted for it anyway.

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“You know, holding hands out and beer on Friday nights in the White House and bowing down to every nutty right-wing proposal about health care, and saying on occasion that public options aren’t all that important is doing a disservice to the Barack Obama that I first met who was an ardent single-payer enthusiast himself.

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“That is essentially what Rahm Emanuel has said: Just give us anything and we will declare victory,” said Conyers. “Not only is it not a victory, but when it doesn’t work, guess who will come at him: the same guys that were saying let’s go along with anything… This is all my buddy Rahm Emanuel trying to get anything. But look the bill doesn’t go into effect for three years. Many of the people that we are trying to help will be dead by then.”

So what did President Obama do but hold hands and bow down to this nutty left-winger.

Let’s see where it got him:

White House officials declined to comment on an interview that Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., gave The Hill, in which he says the president “called me and told me that he heard that I was demeaning him and I had to explain to him that it wasn’t anything personal, it was an honest difference on the issues. And he said, ‘Well, let’s talk about it.’” Conyers says he told the president he wasn’t in the mood to “chat.”

And he’s not alone. The whole Congressional Black Caucus doesn’t seem to be in the chatting mood:

It seems that the Congressional Black Caucus has a bone to pick with President Barack Obama. The 43-member group recently agreed to boycott a vote on a financial overhaul measure as a sign of protest toward the Obama Administration. The bill easily passed, but Rep. Maxine Waters made it clear that the caucus could cause trouble for future Democratic bills by voting with the Republicans. The protest was in response to what the CBC considers to be a blatant disregard for African American issues by the Obama Administration.

Hey, no cutting! Take a number and wait in line like the gays, the elderly, women, independents, Arabs, Jews, doves, Wall Streeters, and all the other special interest groups who’ve known nothing but disappointment since Inauguration Day.

Martin Luther King never lived to see the day when a man would be judged not on the color of his skin, but on the content of his character. Will we?

Fascinating history of the ties between the Zionist movement and the black civil rights movement, starting in the late 19th century and carrying on, through illustrious leaders in both communities, until the 50s and 60s. What happened then to break the bonds forged by oppression and aspiration?

Leftism:

THE SUBSEQUENT anti-Israel shift in African-American and African opinion - far from being a natural evolution of historical attitudes - was very much driven by the white leftist party line. It began as early as the 1956 Suez Campaign with Du Bois. During the Popular Front era when the Kremlin’s line had been pro-Israel, Du Bois denounced Saudi Arabia’s unrepentant continuation of the slave trade and criticized the Arabs for “widespread ignorance and poverty and disease and a fanatic belief in the Mohammedan religion.” U-turning after the new anti-Israel party line, Du Bois in a 1956 poem, “Suez,” portrayed Israelis as “the shock troops” of Anglo-American imperialists.

It’s not like we don’t already know this, but there’s a great history to be written (or read, if already written) about the Soviet poisoning of the Middle East with its support of Arafat and other quasi-fascistic figures there. Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa—commie fingerprints are all over the place. But the Arab states have yet to be fully investigated—or at least reported.

That should read African-American—singular—for McCain, and even he might not make it to the election:

Last week, James T. Harris went from being an average guy to one of the most reviled men in Black America. At a Waukesha, Wisconsin, town hall rally with Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin on Thursday, the African-American radio host from Milwaukee pleaded with McCain to step up his attacks against Barack Obama. “We have the good Reverend Wright. We have [the Reverend Michael L.] Pfleger,” Harris said to the cheers of thousands of White audience members. “I am begging you, sir. I am begging you. Take it to him.” In a show of true solidarity, Harris, 44, and the Republican nominee then hugged.

[We mentioned this guy at the time. -ed.]

ESSENCE.COM: How are you doing?

JAMES T. HARRIS: Girl, I’m getting my butt spanked today!

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ESSENCE.COM: What are people saying?

HARRIS: … “You are lost, sad and worthy of pity. I will not hate you; I will call you by your rightful name: House Nigger.” And that was mild! [Laughs.]

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Again, this is further evidence that this thing wasn’t scripted. I thought I had said something different. I wanted to say Barney Frank and Harold Raines, because I believe their fingerprints are all over this economic demise. These people were in my brain, and yet I didn’t articulate it. I went blank. It’s not just Rev. Wright and Reverend Pfleger. It sounded like I was saying, “Bring up all these old things and beat him over the head with it.” Well, you should, in conjunction with the new names that have come up over the past few weeks. I’m sitting in this town hall meeting, and Senator McCain is talking about what he’s going to do about global warming and all these other things. At one point I just raised my hand and said, “I want to know when are you going to take it to Barack Obama?”

I wish they would call him by his rightful name: Campaign Manager. He is exactly right.

But this isn’t about race—it never is. It’s about political affiliation. The heat he’s taking is the same heat Aunt Agatha and I have taken from our friends and families for our “betrayal”, albeit expressed in racial—even racist—terms. Believe me, I know not every suburban liberal with an Obama bumper sticker is a Stalin, waiting to unleash his leafy green terror—but believe me, also, that they have about the same level of tolerance for diversity of thought.

Did I mention he’s black?

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in North Carolina where black votes could help swing the state to the Democrats, said today that electing a black person to the White House would be transformative.

Biden said the policies of running mate Barack Obama make his presidency even more urgent and declared this to be the most important election that any living person has seen in their lifetime. But he particularly singled out the meaning of electing someone who is black.

“That will be a transformative event in American politics and internationally,” Biden said. “That all by itself will be significant.”

So it’s okay to mention he’s black now—since race is all of a sudden so “significant”? Personally, I think it’s irrelevant, but there’s a lot about the liberals (progressives, whatever) I don’t get—and I used to be one of them.

But I recognize this as politics. When in states with large African American populations, Barack is Chris Rock; when in the white Midwest, he’s Rock Hudson (only straight). I saw him campaigning in Maine the other day looking like the Gorton’s Fisherman.

“Ay-yuh, I’m voting for the black fella. He’s pro-flounder.”

They bury this on Friday night, just before we learn the thrilling news about the VP pick

HURUMA, Kenya (CNN) — We found Barack Obama’s half-brother living in a Nairobi slum.

George Obama, whose birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama’s half-brother, lives in a small house in Huruma that he shares with his mother’s extended family, far away from the presidential campaign circus.

In his memoir, “Dreams for my Father,” the Democratic presidential candidate describes meeting George two years ago as a “painful affair.” Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.

In the book, which is popular in Nairobi and can be found in almost any supermarket, Obama looks back at his personal story and his struggles to reconcile with a Kenyan father who left him and his mother when he was just a child.

Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. And like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father’s last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother.

“I think I wanted to learn about my father the same way he did,” George Obama told me about why he read the book. “He came hear searching for his roots, and I was also trying to find my roots.”
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Unlike his grandmother in Kogela, in Western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media.

But reports surfaced in the past few days, springing from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama is living in a shack and “earning less than a dollar a day.”

The reports left him angry.

“I was brought up well. I live well even now,” he said. “The magazines, they have exaggerated everything.

“I think I kind of like it here. There are some challenges, but maybe it is just like where you come from, there are the same challenges,” Obama said.

Obama, who is in his mid-20s, is learning to become a mechanic and is active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tries to help the community as much as he can.

At least one of his neighbors feels that perhaps the candidate should help the brother.

“I would like Obama to visit his brother to see how he is living, to improve his way of life,” said Emelda Negei, who runs a small dispensary near Obama’s house.

But George Obama will have none of it. He draws inspiration from his famous half-brother. He acknowledges that he is biased but said he knows that his half-brother will be the next president.

“Because he wants to be [president],” he said. “I think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get.”

CNN doesn’t mention that George is living on $1 per month. Because that would kind of blow the whole up-by-his-bootstraps quality of the piece they’ve written. Why don’t they go into a poverty stricken area of the United States and find some young adults claiming to want to live in a cardboard box under a highway? I mean, this thing was written from the perspective of Rush Limbaugh.

- Aggie

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