*UPDATE: Here’s the transcript of Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail Caesar!)’s
“A New Beginning, ” speech to the Muslim world, for those, like me, who just can’t bear to watch him read it to us.
As I write this, an American Pretendident, Barack Hussein Obama, is in the Middle East about to tell people who hate his country, but love them some him, that he’s not a Muslim, but he feels their pain, from personal experience, while his Jewish Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, stands at his side embodying everything they hate about his country. Seems he wants to kiss and make up for all the bad stuff George Bush has single-handedly been doing in the region since, oh, I dunno, the Iranian hostage crisis. I think he’s also planning to try to make the Muslim world, or at least, the Arab part of it, understand that even though he’s gonna keep bombing the shit out of some of them, he really, really wants to be their friend. That’s because he’s from Chicago, and there are a lot of Muslims there, in fact, there are so many Muslims in this country period, that you could call us one big ol’ Muslim country. Read the rest of this entry »
So, Colin Powell is locked in a pitched battle against the Rush Cheney or Dick Limb-awe-types for control of the soul of the Republican party? Who gives a shit? Isn’t Powell the guy who rammed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” down everybody’s throats in lieu of the free to be you and me policy favored by the president he served? Wasn’t he the guy shaking little vials and pointing at charts and fuzzy pictures in front of Congress, making the case that we should be storming desert beaches yesterday or democracy as we then knew it was done for? Are we talking the same Colin Powell who was comfortably kicking back in his Barcalounger of irrelevancy to the delight of the majority of the nation who only occasionally came across his name in impromptu games of Trivial Pursuit, and liked it that way, until his ideological twin prevailed upon him to suit up and give him a verbal brother-to-brother fist bump so the Sunday talk shows would have name justifying fodder that slow news week? Why do we care what he thinks about anything? Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that so many people entrusted to run our country are as dumb as they are. Sometimes it’s harder to imagine that the people entrusted to bring us information about the dumb shit the dummies in charge do in our collective name are even dumber than the dummies they’re reporting on. But, if reading the news reports of the past week can be trusted at all to contain any smidgen of a hint of a scintilla of anything resembling truth, we are being governed by a plethora of Keystone Kop wannabes, and we know that because Spanky and Our Gang, Jr. told us so.
Let’s face it, ya gotta be at least a little stupid to get punked by White House Press Secretary and Tom Arnold/Wally Cox love child look-a-like, Robert Gibbsmeabreak. But, according to Fox News, that’s exactly what happened to the White House press corps Friday. Told ya they were all stupid. The whole lot of ‘em. In fact, not even I could believe they were that dumb, and kinda figured maybe the humorless drones over a Fox were having their idea of fun and yanking everybody’s chain with a belated April Fool’s Day-type prank, but, no, other sources like the Christian Science Monitor, and the Talking Points Memo press conference transcript, also confirmed that the sorry attempt at humor did indeed happen: Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like we got us a PUMA in the NFL, y’all. Fox News is reporting that Pittsburgh Steeler James Harrison is standing firm behind his, “I won’t dance, don’t ask me” decision not to join his teammates on their upcoming “You just won the Superbowl, what are you going to do now?” trip to ObamaLand. Harrison, unlike all those critics he has incurred against him who are delighting in questioning the Defensive Player of the Year’s motives,intelligence, and sanity, doesn’t see the invite as any kind of big deal, and said so, according to ESPN:
“I don’t feel the need to go, actually,” Harrison told Pittsburgh station WTAE-TV. “I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal to me.”
Harrison doesn’t believe the invitation is all that special, saying if the Steelers hadn’t beaten the Cardinals 27-23 with a last-minute rally, “He [Obama] would have invited Arizona.” Read the rest of this entry »
Forget single payer. Not Gonna Happen. The Obamacans say it’s off the table, and I believe ‘em. Just like I believed their duly selected Spokesmodel-In-Chief, Barack Hussein Walker Obushma, when he said, back when he was just the Inevitable Candidate, that he wasn’t opposed to all wars, just dumb ones, and that blowing shit up in Afghanistan and Pakistan was a pretty freaking radically brilliant idea, as far as he was concerned. “Anti-war, my left tit,” said I back then, and, sure as shootin’, turns out my faith in the Black Sheep of the Bush Family was not misplaced. His FISA vote and his subsequent, “look forward without anger, why change things when they work for me” philosophy regarding Bush-era transgressions doesn’t surprise me a whit, either.
I have always been struck by the cozy, lovey-dovey relationship Georgie’s Ba’ Bruh has always seemed to have with “Obamacans.” When I first heard of Republicans for Obama, I was like, “what’s up with that, huh?” Why would a group of Republicans get together in 2006 to encourage the “most liberal Senator in the history of…liberals and Senators” to run for President after the guy had only been voting against their interests on a national basis for a couple years or so? Sure, coulda been just another Axelrove AstroTurfing campaign, but, if it was, why weren’t real Republicans yelling their heads off about it? Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney are not exactly shy about slamming one of their own for being too buddy-buddy with the other side. Why did all the black Republicans endorse this “most liberal Senator, blah, blah, blah, either explicitly, or tacitly? Why did so many registered Republicans switch party affiliation to vote for a community organizer, (a phrase they utter with all the dripping sarcasm, venom and contempt a mother uses to describe her law school-grad son, the “rap singer”’s career choice) in the primaries and caucuses, then neglect to switch back, swelling the ranks of Independents while depleting their former party’s numbers so significantly it’s now a shell of itself? In fact, didn’t the guy Al Franken called a “big, fat, idiot,” encourage that? Operation Chaos, anyone? Why didn’t the sleazy Obama ploy plea for Republicans to become Democrats for a Day cause the “liberal media” and the “progressive blogospherians” who supported him with a blind fury to turn their backs on, and wash their hands of, him? How come the Barackamedian’s biggest laugh on his Rock Star Tour campaign trail come from his oft-related response of “Thank you, why are we whispering?” to Republicans’ hushed confessions of “I voted for you”? Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll be the first to admit that I did not come into this blogging business as the most politically astute or learned person on the planet. The idea that I might be is so far from the possibility of reality that the words I just typed hardly belong in the same sentence. I know that. However, watching my hopes for the election of a candidate I thought to be most qualified to “inherit” (I’m beginning to hate that word) the responsibility of guiding the county back on track be bashed, dashed, crashed and gleefully shattered to smithereens by disparate entities on the left and right, seemingly demented in their zeal, has given me an opportunity to learn and grow politically in a way unlikely to have been appreciated before, had it presented itself. And frankly, I’m sick of it.
All. Of. It.
Each news story, op-ed column, Google search, blog post and talking head garbage spew disguised as informed opinion has added another tidbit of information, often counter to the point the happy yakker thought he/she was making, to the tapestry of my understanding of our nation’s political reality. It’s enough to make you puke. Read the rest of this entry »
Wanna hear something strange? The President I love to hate, Alfred E. Urkelbama (What, me do that?) and I actually have a lot in common. We’re both nominally “black,” (though, I didn’t grow up in Hawaii, I don’t have a white parent, and I don’t try to mute or exploit my blackness at other black people’s expense for personal gain, but other than that…) and, like him, I don’t like labels. Okay, so that doesn’t exactly qualify as “a lot” in common, but it is more than I thought, and “a lot” more than I really want to admit. I really don’t like the guy, okay?
Other than a recent declaration that President Black Obama considered himself a “New Democrat,” assumedly aligning his political ideology with a faction of the same Democratic Leadership Council he once defiantly, uncategorically, denied, Oblahblah has consistently resisted being pigeon-holed. This is understandable, given his early primary and caucus appeals to Republicans to crossover and support, vote for, and donate to him. I mean, what do you call a guy who does that? “Opportunist” if you’re kind, “traitor” if you’re not?
I’m not.
It also makes sense that he would reject the label, “liberal,” even if his philosophy leaned that way, (which, I’m not hardly sure of) since Republicans have made that term synonymous with “rabid Democratic champion of the shiftless and unworthy.” Who, besides Jesus, would want to be thought of like that, huh?
What’s the difference between American International Group (AIG) and any other garden variety extortionist? Not much. In fact, your average “gimme $1,000, or I tell your wife about the weekend with the monkey,” slimeball could take a lesson from these guys. According to Bloomberg, not only is AIG resorting to “pony up, or else you’ll be sorry” threats to keep the government on the hook, they’re warning their marks to keep it on the downlow:
American International Group Inc. appealed for its fourth U.S. rescue by telling regulators the company’s collapse could cripple money-market funds, force European banks to raise capital, cause competing life insurers to fail and wipe out the taxpayers’ stake in the firm.
AIG needed immediate help from the Federal Reserve and Treasury to prevent a “catastrophic” collapse that would be worse for markets than the demise last year of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., according to a 21-page draft AIG presentation dated Feb. 26, labeled as “strictly confidential” and circulated among federal and state regulators.
Though I make no claims of being a financial wizard, or a political maven, even I can see that all is not right on Wall Street, D.C. where the heart and soul of our country is on life support, currently being administered to by second graders who want to be doctors when they grow up. And, I’m sophisticated enough to recognize that a lot of what I read about our dire national situation is presented in the media by people representing the political party so far out of favor they have to look to bloviating blowhards for advice, or worse, can be made to appear to need to do so. I get that. However, in spite of all that, the forces pretending to represent the white-hatted good guys in this classic Adventures in Administration movie, armed with their heralded sky-high approval ratings for their poor man’s Dark Gable leading man, simply can’t mount enough of a stampede to disguise the fact that the dustcloud that follows them like Charlie Brown’s pal Pigpen’s is not the result of riding hard and strong over the dusty trail, but merely the wispy smoke trails from their “throw ‘em off the path,” hastily built, diversionary cookfire. In other words, they got nothing.
Stalwart bastion of the Obamedia protection service, Salon Magazine, has an article by former Clinton labor secretary and Obacolyte, Robert Reich, in which he pitifully attempts to pooh-pooh rightwing claims that the Obamessiah himself is responsible for our economic woes by trying to lay them at the feet of the finger-pointers:
When it turns out that people like Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, who took home $68 million in 1997, was the only Wall Streeter in a meeting last September at the New York Federal Reserve to discuss the initial AIG bailout with Tim Geithner, then New York Fed chair, among others, at the very time Goldman was AIG’s largest trading partner, a distinct scent of self-dealing begins to emanate. When it turns out that Citigroup got a bailout deal last October far more generous than that given to any other distressed bank, when a top Citi executive was advising the Treasury and Fed, the scent increases. Goldman’s past CEO was treasury secretary at that time, by the way, and another former Goldman CEO was a top Citi official and also a former treasury secretary. I am not suggesting anything so crude as corruption. But could it be, given these tangled webs, that — innocently, unintentionally, perhaps even subconsciously — the entire bailout effort was premised on saving these companies rather than protecting the public? Or that the distinction between the two was lost, and still is?
Yet, Reich gleefully and disingenuously, ignores the fact that the people he’s defending his ObaMaster against are the people who funded his campaign. Not only that, the central figure in Reich’s little morality play, Turbo Tax Timmy Geithner, tax cheat, (TTTG,tc) has a family history of sorts with Barry Sutoro, and is currently employed as the Blameless One’s lapdog and whipping boy. To point out that he may have colluded with the banksters against the public in ripping off the country on the other team’s watch is…well…stupid.
Why would anyone purporting to defend the Obama administration draw attention to the man quickly becoming the public face of its incompetence? Especially when the author can’t even make it through to the end of his own piece without acknowledging at least some of the complicity of the Obama Drama Troupe?
The Wall Street and Republican media attack machine doesn’t know exactly what to make of this. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, along with CNBC, alternates between attacking Obama for bailing out Wall Street and excusing Wall Street’s excesses. But then again, Obama doesn’t seem to know exactly what to make of it either. He seems to vacillate as well — one moment scorning Wall Street, the next moment justifying further bailouts. I do hope he takes a firmer hand, drawing a clearer distinction and making a clearer connection between clearing up these financial balance sheets and helping average people. Otherwise, the next populist uprising will be born in this moneyed quagmire. It is here — within the muck that was created by AIG, Citigroup, Fannie and Freddie, other giant financial institutions, now in combination with the U.S. Treasury and Fed — that the public is most confused, bears its most serious scars, and is potentially most burdened in future years, by decisions still made in secret.
Maybe because his plans to ravage the Republican party by inflating Rush Limbaugh’s importance only to tear it down are working so well. And make no mistake, these are Barack Obama’s plans.
Anybody who’s been paying the slightest bit of attention to ObamAntics the past couple years knows that calling out the press is one of his favorite past times. He chided Don Imus and called for the schlock jock be fired for his “nappy headed ‘ho’s” characterization of the Rutger’s women’s basketball team. From ABC News, April, 2007:
“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”
He reprimanded the Chicago Tribune’s John Kass in March of 2008, for not being properly deferential at any and all times, when Kass confronted The Never To Be Questioned One about his ties to ersatz realtor and convicted felon, Tony Rezko:
“I know that there are those, like John Kass, who would like me to decry Chicago politics more frequently.”
Just the corrupt parts, I said.
“I’ll leave that to his editorial commentary, but I think it’s fair to say that I have conducted myself in my public office with great care and high ethical standards,” he said.
Except for Rezko.
He kicked reporters off his campaign plane after their papers endorsed his rival, John McCain. From the Washington Post, October 2008:
The Washington Times, which has had a reporter traveling with Barack Obama’s campaign for nearly two years, has been kicked off his press plane.
“The decision came just three days after the editorial page endorsed John McCain,” Times editor in chief John Solomon said this morning. “I hope a candidate who says he wants to unite the country isn’t using a litmus test for who can cover him.”
What’s more, the Obama operation has ejected reporters for the New York Post and Dallas Morning News, which have also endorsed McCain. And room was suddenly made for two magazines that have not been traveling with the Democratic nominee, Essence and Ebony.
He even got downright pissy with the White House press corps 2 days after he was inaugurated, for daring to ask him a question amidst all the bootlicking he had come down to the press room to get:
“Ahh, see,” he said, “I came down here to visit. See this is what happens. I can’t end up visiting with you guys and shaking hands if I’m going to get grilled every time I come down here.”
And while Politico and others have shown pretty conclusively that the current “Operation: Get Rush” campaign is coming straight from the West Wing via Rahm Emanuel playing field general to suckophants Paul Begala, James Carville and George Stephanopoulis, to lay the blame at the feet of Rahmbo is to miss the larger point.
Barack Obama himself launched the opening salvo in the Limbaugh-Obama war in January. From the New York Post:
President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
The mainstream blogosphere, as opposed to the grassroots blogosphere, like the PUMAsphere, is slowly waking up to the fact that the country is being community organized through Astroturf by those promoting the “surprisinly liberal” guy who ran his campaign for the president as the person who was going to change Washington, politics and the country from the ground up. Duh. I keep wondering just what the heck these previously clueless KoolAid drunks, now slowly emerging from their self-induced haze, were thinking for the past two years. Were they freaking deaf, dumb and blind? The President Formerly Known As Barry has been spouting Alinsky and using his “get in your face“ tactics to promote his clear agenda all along. “Change the system” is pretty unambiguous. Why nobody thought to pin him down on exactly what that “change” entailed is beyond me.
But, now that Obrother has let the “he is who he is” cat out the bag, “moderates” and “centrists” are wailing and gnashing their teeth to powder, while walking around zombie-like, crying about how they’ve been tricked. Reading their bitching is just as funny as it would be if all of a sudden they noticed he was black. The funny thing is, not only have they not been tricked in the way they’re now complaining about, they’re completely unaware they’re being tricked into thinking they have been.
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
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RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
Rules 3 and 12 of Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” are but the two most relevant to what’s happening right now with the Rush=Republican theme being pushed like a snowball deliberately kicked along down a mountainside, with predictably similar results. With the clarity hindsight affords, we can now see that at various other points in the Obama Drama that has enveloped our day-to-day existence since 2004, other Alinsky rules have been implemented successfully. In fact, “Astroturfing,” though not invented by David Axelrod, is almost synonymous with “community organizing,” since both involve exploiting poor, and otherwise innocent, people through trickery.
“Community organizing” is the “art” of building a power base in order to promote the interests of the base, as the organizers see fit. In other words, “community organizing” is not designed to provide training to people who have already united in a common cause seeking the means to implement their agenda, “community organizers” most often must convince those they claim to want to help that their help is indeed needed. Alinky’s rules were for radicals; agitators, rabble rousers, not victims. In fact, a case can be made that Alinsky’s radical community organizers only seek to exploit, thereby further victimizing the people they profess to help. From Wikipedia:
Grassroots organizing builds community groups from scratch, developing new leadership where none existed and organizing the unorganized. It is a values based process where people are brought together to act in the interest of their communities and the common good. Networks of community organizations that employ this method and support local organizing groups include National People’s Action and ACORN.
“Door knocking” grassroots organizations like ACORN organize poor and working-class members recruiting members one by one in the community. Because they go door-to-door, they are able to reach beyond established organizations and the “churched” to bring together a wide range of less privileged people. ACORN, tends to stress the importance of constant action in order to maintain the commitment of a less rooted group of participants.
When did Rush Limbaugh become the face of the Republican party? Well, duh-uh, when the West Wing field generals decreed it so and gave their suckophant foot soldiers in the media their “Operation Limbaugh” marching orders. Newsbusters claims that it all started when Rahm Emanuel had yet another one of his daily, early morning gabfests with his gossip buddies, James Carville, Paul Begala, and George Stephanopoulis, right before they fanned out to this weekend’s Sunday morning talk show circuit. They must not have ever heard of Think Progress, the official attack blog of the Center for American Progress. Media Matters holds the unofficial designation. Anyway, Think Progress has been pushing the “Limbaugh is a traitorous enemy of the people” theme ever since Rush foolishly allowed himself to be baited into saying aloud what everybody on his side thought, long before CPAC. For those unfamiliar with the Center for American Progress, they’re the supposedly George Soros-funded think tank responsible for stocking the Obama administration cabinet with Clinton-era retreads via John Podesta, a Clinton-era retread himself, who headed the O Team transition. It bears remembering, however, that the unity pony has always been a unicorn, i.e., mythical, and not all OCabinet Clintonites qualify as Friends of the Family (tomdaschlerahmemanuel). This guy has an interesting take on the “gentry vs. populist” theory of the systemic split in the Democratic party, and though I’m not sure his interpretation is definitive, it’s worth a read.
Anyway, pushing the Rush Rules Republicanshaka is a deliberate strategy designed to both divert attention from the real Obama agenda and minimize Republican opposition to it, while simultaneously boosting the grassroots support for whatever it is from the KoolAid Brigade. Now, before anybody gets their “Cinie hearts Limbaugh” panties in a bunch, let me state unequivocally that I in no way endorse, support, or even like or listen to Rush Limbaugh, ever. My point is, I agree with Newsbusters’ opinion that having pre-dawn chitchats between White House generals and talk show “strategists” is wrong on so many levels it’s not funny, and I strenuously object to the fact that it is the way the game and the public are currently being played. Manage the media, massage the message, manipulate the masses.
Everybody’s trying to screw us all the way they like it.
And the big wheel on the big undercarriage-stuffed bus just keep on turnin’.
So, the Republican National Committee Chair candidate, Chris Saltsman, sends out a gift containing a parody about President-elect of the World, Barack Obama, written by a white guy, that insults black people based on a newspaper article making fun of white people written by a black (multi-racial?) guy, and the recently arrested Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, says the things he’s accused of are only illegal on the planet he must be from, and you do the hokey pokey…
Ah, yes, the Earth continues it’s comfortably wacky corkscrew spin on its now familiarly tilted axis, and all is right with the world. In March, 2007, L.A. Times columinist, David Ehrenstein wrote an article attempting to explain the inexplicable; why the hell was America so enamored of an unaccomplished, inexperienced junior Senator from Illinois? Ehrenstein deduced that Barack Obama’s non-threatening-ness was the key, that by embracing a traditional, “compliant darky” (Magic Negro) role, Obama has been able appease those whites irrationally afraid of the “urban myth” of violent, aggressive, beligerent blackness which has been exploited by both black and white media, allaying their baseless fears in much the same way happy, singing field hands, hapless, Jim Crow minstrels and Jack Benny’s Rochester did. While Ehrenstein limited his examination of Magic Negritude to more recent examples, American history is rife with fictional and fictionalized stories of powerful, often supernaturally so, black people only too happy and willing to subjugate themselves to the will of white people simply out of the goodness of their hearts. Women are often similarly depicted; powerful, sexy, dominant characters are regularly shown allowing themselves to be slapped around by tough guys in need of an ego boost; smart, talented, demure “librarians” toss their glasses and don their “Supergirl” sex appeal to save the hero stupid enough to get himself into trouble he’s incaple of escaping from; the “bad” girl takes a bullet to save the life of the “regular guy” whose only mission in life is to do the right thing. Where blacks are concerned, even people with “powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men” have no problem at all serving their genetically inferior/superior “masters.” From the “last guy to die” in “Night of the Living Dead,” to Louise Beavers’ character saving Cary Grant’s butt (If you ain’t eating Wham, you ain’t eating ham!) to Benson providing sanity to the Soap loonies, to Jackie Robinson unflinchingly taking cleats to the face for the good of the game, white America has cultivated an acceptable, yet mythical, black image some African Americans have adopted, adapted and exploited to their advantage in order to get along. However, all players are in on the game, most rational adults are well aware that most black people are a little more than somewhat unwilling to sing happy songs as we give our lives to protect our “benefactors” while in some subordinate service to good white folks. Yet, by cultivating a non-threatening, over-tolerant, unnaturally unflappable image, Barack Obama has been able to hypnotize a certain element of white society, allowing them to allay their own racial guilt in his name.
Enter the bigots with their, you said “nigger,” why can’t I?” logic, feigning innocence as they gleefully engage in Basic Bigotry 101. From the Washington Post:
Chip Saltsman, a candidate for chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent committee members this month a holiday music CD that included “Barack the Magic Negro,” a parody song first aired in 2007 by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Created by conservative satirist Paul Shanklin, the song puts new lyrics to the tune of “Puff the Magic Dragon,” and it is performed as if black activist Al Sharpton were singing it. Limbaugh played it after the Los Angeles Times ran an opinion piece with the same title.
It’s clear that Shanklin and Limbaugh are not making fun of the gullibility of white people willing to delude themselves into thinking that oppressed people will happily die to save their oppressors, as was Ehrenstein. Yet, the schoolyard-type, big baby cries of, “you started it!” are already being used to justify the deliberately offensive behavior. It’s below juvenile, childish rationalization, and like the prejudicial “parody” itself, should be beneath everyone associated with it. The fact that it’s not kind of proves Ehrenstein’s original point, racism is not only alive and well, it exists and thrives in many forms, and is exploited by all sorts of folks for their own twisted perceptions of advantage.
In our other example of illusionary truth masquerading as reality, Rod Blagojevich is proving not to be as easy to get rid of as some (previously mentioned, but currently unnamed) people might have wished. That could be because he’s not of our world. The governor, facing impeachment and criminal charges in relation to an alledged “pay to play” scam to sell Obama’s vacant Senate seat, says there’s two sides to this story, too:
“Even in this process, without saying too much, that was all about trying to end up with the right decision that could do the most things for the people of Illinois, and when the full truth is told, you will see precisely that,” Blagojevich said.
“If somehow that’s impeachable, then I’m on the wrong planet and I’m living in the wrong place,” he said.
Blago’s lawyer, Ed Genson, has asked the impeachment committee to subpeona the president elect and the two of his aides, Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel, who, along with him, were interviewed by authorities regarding his case. Since U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has asked the committee to hold off on pursuing anything relative to his case, expect that aspect of impeachment to peter out pretty quickly. And if Blags keeps crying from the wildnerness of his otherworld, alternate universe, where all Illinois politicians with the same benefactors are created, and treated, equal, expect to see the tansition team squirm, magic or no magic.
My primary reason for not supporting Hillary Clinton right now is two-fold. One, she’s not running for anything at the moment, and, two, she’s stumping for Barack Obama.
I decided very early on in the primary season that I did not like Barack Obama, at all, and have always felt that he would make a lousy president. I agreed when Joe Biden said so, and, unlike FootMouth Joe, I have seen no reason to change my mind. In fact, as the election process plays itself out, my resolve not to vote for Obama, under any imaginable, or unimaginable, circumstances, grows ever stronger.
My initial reaction to the Oily One was, “eh.” The only thing he inspired in me, once he appeared on my radar, was mild curiosity, at best. If that. I’ve never heard him say anything that gave me confidence, let alone hope, and his canned, generic, ghost-written speeches, read from a TelePrompTer, nose-in-air, drone on interminably, and have grown from the mild annoyance associated with sharing living space with a housefly, to the full-out rage and frustration of living with that same pest for over a year.
Lacking any accomplishment of note, surrogates tout his “policies,” yet his inability to articulate them in off-the-cuff situations only serves to highlight his inadequacy. Incessant media drumbeats attesting to his wonderfulness, coupled with nonstop ads intruding every avenue of modern day entertainment and intellectual pursuit, ratchet up the annoyance factor to intolerable levels. Especially since they’re all lies.
Hey, HuffPo, Who’re You Callin’ Conservative?
As evidence of the “it must fit the narrative” media mindset, I offer up my own experience. On Sunday, upon hearing of Colin Powell’s “officializing” his “help a brother out, hook a brother up,” Obama endorsement, I immediately posted my opinion on my blog. Imagine my surprise when I noticed a dramatic traffic uptick on my small little site, linking here from Huffington Post. Peeking into the situation, since I’m reluctant to expose myself too fully to the rancor against all those not pledging allegiance to He Who Must Not Be Examined, I found that my site was included as an illustration of conservative racism in a post by Sam Stein.
There were, down the conservative line, other voices who gave credence to the race-over-politics theory. A prominent Republican attorney in Maine, Dan Billings, accused Powell of racism, stating: “If Obama was a white man, Powell would not have made the endorsement.”
I’m the “other voices.” Obviously, Mr. Stein didn’t bother to read my post, had he, he might have noticed the PUMA/Just Say No Deal tags I use to label each one. Heaven forbid he read my “About” page which features a short paragraph identifying me as a black woman so fed up with the faux nominating process employed by the Democratic party to coronate their “selectee,” that I now have no affiliation to any political party. As far as being a “George Will/Rush Limbaugh” conservative is concerned, had HuffPo not included me in their post, I probably would not have known what either man thought. The only thing I can see that we have in common is…well…we all walk on two legs, and at least two of us still have hair on our heads. This sort of “racism to prove racism” narrative of the Obama campaign and their mainstream media/blogger boyz enablers is one of the main reasons I could never vote for him. Having experienced it for over a year, as a Hillary Clinton supporter, not only can I attest to the ugliness, I lament the coming to fruition of the fears I’ve had since first becoming aware of the Obama practice of pouring gasoline on smoldering racial fires and encouraging his pre-pubescent-minded bullies of the blogosphere to climb on chairs and point gleeful fingers at the flames.
Which brings me to Hillary Clinton. That she stumps for Obama distresses me, though she obviously has her own reasons for doing so. Given what she experienced at the hands of the Obama thugs, what those reasons might be, boggles the mind. Since I haven’t seen or heard about the whereabouts of Chelsea lately, I’m of the mind that David Axelrod has her locked away in a secure location, only to be released once her parents have done his bidding to his satisfaction. Whatever, that’s Hillary’s business, not mine.
So, since Hillary Clinton is not running for anything, and she, for her own reasons, sees the benefit of supporting Barack Obama, a man I will never vote for, I cannot support her. At this time. If she were to run for national office again, I’d probably be the first one aboard the bandwagon.
That “Party Unity My Ass” thing still works for me just fine, though.
*UPDATE: Here’s the transcript of Baracus Hubris Maximus (Hail Caesar!)’s
So, Colin Powell is locked in a 
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that so many people entrusted to run our country are as dumb as they are. Sometimes it’s harder to imagine that the people entrusted to bring us information about the dumb shit the dummies in charge do in our collective name are even dumber than the dummies they’re reporting on. But, if reading the news reports of the past week can be trusted at all to contain any smidgen of a hint of a scintilla of anything resembling truth, we are being governed by a plethora of Keystone Kop wannabes, and we know that because Spanky and Our Gang, Jr. told us so.
Looks like we got us a PUMA in the NFL, y’all. 
Forget 
I’ll be the first to admit that I did not come into this blogging business as the most politically astute or learned person on the planet. The idea that I might be is so far from the possibility of reality that the words I just typed hardly belong in the same sentence. I know that. However, watching my hopes for the election of a candidate I thought to be most qualified to “inherit” (I’m beginning to hate that word) the responsibility of guiding the county back on track be bashed, dashed, crashed and gleefully shattered to smithereens by disparate entities on the left and right, seemingly demented in their zeal, has given me an opportunity to learn and grow politically in a way unlikely to have been appreciated before, had it presented itself. And frankly, I’m sick of it.
Wanna hear something strange? The President I love to hate, Alfred E. Urkelbama (What, me do that?) and I actually have a lot in common. We’re both nominally “black,” (though, I didn’t grow up in Hawaii, I don’t have a white parent, and I don’t try to mute or exploit my blackness at other black people’s expense for personal gain, but other than that…) and, like him, I don’t like labels. Okay, so that doesn’t exactly qualify as “a lot” in common, but it is more than I thought, and “a lot” more than I really want to admit. I really don’t like the guy, okay?
Leadership Council
What’s the difference between American International Group (AIG) and any other garden variety extortionist? Not much. In fact, your average “gimme $1,000, or I tell your wife about the weekend with the monkey,” slimeball could take a lesson from these guys. According to 
Though I make no claims of being a financial wizard, or a political maven, even I can see that all is not right on Wall Street, D.C. where the heart and soul of our country is on life support, currently being administered to by second graders who want to be doctors when they grow up. And, I’m sophisticated enough to recognize that a lot of what I read about our dire 
Why is Barack Obama 
The 
When did Rush Limbaugh become the 
So, the Republican National Committee Chair candidate, 
