I decided to forgo my usual weekly rant about the news to expand on something that got me thinking recently. I hope you'll indulge me.
I had an interesting exchange with a friend the other day that left me wondering about the concept of behavior modification and it's place in modern society in America. His point was that conservatives tend to want to dictate behavior in the bedroom and to a degree, he was correct. Not so much these days but in the late 70's and early 80's the conservative movement had trouble accepting alternative lifestyles. Change in the conservative movement comes slowly and at a great price when it comes at all. I will not attempt to downplay the faults and shortsightedness of the movement here. My only goal is to show the correlation between how conservatives try to dictate behavior and how liberals try to do it.
Leaving aside the old maxim of how to boil a frog, I'll simply say that at minimum, conservatives are more open and up front in how they dictate behavior. Laws were passed, generations ago banning sodomy and the like as a misguided attempt to "regulate" homosexuality. Most have been overturned as unconstitutional or just written off the books as grossly incompetent and rightly so. I find no fault with how an individual defines his or her own relationship. Being agnostic, I tend to view same sex relationships from a Darwinian point of view: Natures only goal is to propagate the species. Barring this, the species dies. I don't place a religious or even a spiritual premium on the subject. I look at it only from the standpoint of whether or not the species will survive based on it's behavior. I won't attempt to argue the right or wrong of it, my only thought is to give the reader an insight into my own thought process.
Having said all that, let's now take a look at how liberals have played the behavior modification game throughout the last 20 or 30 years.
Starting in the 70's, we all heard about the awful trend of tuna fisherman snaring dolphins inadvertently and the poor creatures being destroyed as a result. Soon, the cries of "Dolphin safe tuna!" were everywhere. You were considered beastly if you chose to eat tuna that didn't have a "dolphin safe" label on the can. Several tuna companies were forced to change how the fish was caught, how the product was packaged and sold and ultimately, how much it cost the consumer.
A small price to pay for safer waters for our friendly cousins, the dolphins.
Also in the 70's came the advent of the the 1.5 gallon per flush toilet. Remember that one? We were about to run out of water so the government, in it's infinite wisdom, swooped in to save the day. No more toilets in residences would be more than 1.5 gallons to conserve water. The only trouble was, you had to flush twice to get the job done. I know many of you are cringing at this particular topic but it's illustrative of what was to come.
By the end of the 70's, the behavior modification game was just finding it's legs in society and was expanding into more areas with the help of groups like The Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, The Wilderness Society and the National Wildlife Federation. These groups, spurred by the popularity of the first "Earth Day" celebration in 1970, began to see the value of tapping into the national psyche by promoting what appeared to be a harmless agenda of an "Earth-centric ideology" that everyone could agree with. They would quickly become more radicalized and spawn even more radical groups like Greenpeace, PETA and ELF with ELF earning the title of a domestic terrorist organization for it's penchant for destruction and it's reign of terror in California.
By the end of the 80's, environmental groups had played a major role in pushing policy through Washington DC and changing the way Americans ate, drove, worked and played. Dolphin safe tuna and low usage flush toilets were only the beginning for the now radical, environmental "new left" that sought to impose their ideology and agenda on an entire nation. By the end of the 80's the concept of conservation went far beyond just using less and saving more. It blossomed into regulating how farmers used their own lands to grow and sell crops and livestock. They told us how hot or cold our houses should be, what we could use to bring our groceries home: paper or plastic?, they told us what kind of mileage we should get in our vehicles, what kind of cleaners and solvents we could use, what kind of appliances we should buy and now...what kind of light bulbs I can use.
While many environmental groups did great works ridding the country of lead and mercury in consumer products and enabling clean air and water acts through Congress, they inevitably went too far after enjoying success. "If we can dictate ten things, then we can dictate a hundred." must have been the philosophy.
My only real point, after all this, is only this: While conservatives may indeed sought to regulate behavior in the bedroom, liberals have sought to regulate my behavior in every other room of my house covertly, secretly by employing a strategy of subterfuge to distract me while they seek to impose even stronger regulations. I will submit that the Congess' latest ploy is Cap and Trade, also called Cap and Tax because that is precisely what it will do. It will add a multitude of taxes on every energy source we Americans rely on to go about our day. Call it behavior modification that benefits the likes of Al Gore and George Soros, both heavily invested in the concept of carbon credits and it's resulting industry.
Socialized Medicine, lovingly referred to as a "Public Option" by liberals, seeks to modify behavior in ways most of us can't even imagine yet. Talk of higher taxes on sugary drinks like some juices and sodas can only be the start of what will eventually lead to taxing anything that may be detrimental to my health. Like riding a motorcycle or sky-diving.
I know I may sound paranoid but it's inevitable that the heavy hand of government must surely lay the smacketh down on me should I decide to eat a twinkie.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Affirmative Action and the Nobel Peace Prize
As I'm sure you've all already heard, President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize. It was announced Friday morning to cheers and jeers all across the globe. The announcement drew sharp criticism from the right for reasons of having no real accomplishments to speak of to be so deserving of such a high honor. After all, Jimmy Carter spent 20 years kissing the rear end of every fascist he met before he was nominated. The left crowed triumphantly as if the party itself had won the prize. I'm quite certain that Chris Matthews has been in an orgasmic stupor since hearing the announcement.
Left or right aside, he doesn't deserve it. It smacks of social engineering by the Nobel committee and the President should have had the class and dignity to decline it. He won't of course. This has been the story of his entire career and I would guess, most of his life. Promotion without accomplishment...accolades without achievement. It's certainly been the defining mark of his still young presidency. He's accomplished very little yet the media, for the most part, seems to think he's already changed the world.
What disturbs me most of all is that he appears to believe his own press these days. The Nobel committee isn't helping that one damn bit either. When you consider that the cud off date for nominations is February 1st, that means the committee had only 12 days to use as consideration for his "achievements in the area of promoting peace."
12 days. I'll bet I can find 12 days in my own life that could be considered for the peace prize too. Like the time I worked at a homeless shelter handing out meals as part of a "Artists Against Hunger" campaign sponsored by the music store where I taught. Or when I served in the military and was part of a group of soldiers that spent a month touring Germany...entertaining the German citizens by showcasing that the Army was more than just trained killers. I shook hands with Irwin Rommel's grandson during that tour. I secretly admired Rommel as a military commander only back then as I had a passion for military history for a time in my youth.
I'll not bore you with the details of the life and legacy of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Suffice to say that he has arguably changed the world for good and for ill at the same time. I'll settle for a little insight into the Peace Prize only for the purposes of our discussion here.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
"during the preceding year...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Taken in that context, as we should after all...it IS Nobel's final request, Obama hasn't accomplished any of what is mentioned. He certainly can't have done it in the 12 days it took the committee to nominate him. I heard the news and was stunned and dumbfounded that someone with so little concrete accomplishments would even be considered let alone win. Something about it, beyond the obvious, didn't sit well with me. It mulled in my brain all day and drove me to distraction until it slipped into place. I would almost swear I could hear a faint click as it locked into place. The question that kept plaguing me was this:
If he didn't deserve such a lofty, coveted prize, how could he have won?
The answer was much simpler than I was giving it credit for.
The Nobel committee was merely playing by the same rules that most Democrats play by. In fact, the committee used a favorite policy of the left to justify the reward...
Affirmative Action.
That's it. In a nutshell, they gave Obama the award for what he was capable of but not deserving of yet. This is the essence of affirmative action. Awarding someone with less than stellar achievements on the basis that without a little nudge, they can't do it themselves. We've all heard the stories of the unintended consequences of affirmative action. Deserving students with 4.0 grade averages being denied entry into some of our most prestigious universities and colleges based solely on the color of their skin. Job applicants being turned away because a company needs "more women and minorities" than it needs qualified people.
This is what the Nobel committee did. They gave the prize to someone who otherwise would not have been qualified over more deserving individuals based solely...on the color of his skin. I think the award was partly to poke former president Bush in the eye, but I suspect that it was primarily to give the award to a black president. Skin color was the deciding factor though in this case.
It's at this point that my liberal friends begin to feel their blood heat up...I can almost hear the accusations forming in their minds...
RACIST!
Not in the least. There is nothing else that explains the award. This man now sits in the company of Mother Theresa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Begin and Sadat, the 14th Dalai Lama and Lech Walesa--a hallowed list of those people who put peace and brotherhood above the security of their own lives. Obama has done nothing but promote his own career and his meteoric rise to power as his primary goal in life. His nomination after only 12 days in office and his subsequent win is an indelible stain on the prize for time immemorial. There have been other, more infamous nominations in the past of course. The committee is not without it's dark secrets after all. A short list of other nominees include Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and everyone's poster boy for peace...Adolph Hitler. It's true... You can't make this stuff up.
There is no other way to see Obama winning the peace prize as nothing more than an attempt by the Nobel committee to insert themselves into history in a public and very disturbing way. When you consider that America is embroiled in protests and division as Obama attempts to alter the fabric of our republic, you can't help but wonder if the committee was drunk...or stupid.
Left or right aside, he doesn't deserve it. It smacks of social engineering by the Nobel committee and the President should have had the class and dignity to decline it. He won't of course. This has been the story of his entire career and I would guess, most of his life. Promotion without accomplishment...accolades without achievement. It's certainly been the defining mark of his still young presidency. He's accomplished very little yet the media, for the most part, seems to think he's already changed the world.
What disturbs me most of all is that he appears to believe his own press these days. The Nobel committee isn't helping that one damn bit either. When you consider that the cud off date for nominations is February 1st, that means the committee had only 12 days to use as consideration for his "achievements in the area of promoting peace."
12 days. I'll bet I can find 12 days in my own life that could be considered for the peace prize too. Like the time I worked at a homeless shelter handing out meals as part of a "Artists Against Hunger" campaign sponsored by the music store where I taught. Or when I served in the military and was part of a group of soldiers that spent a month touring Germany...entertaining the German citizens by showcasing that the Army was more than just trained killers. I shook hands with Irwin Rommel's grandson during that tour. I secretly admired Rommel as a military commander only back then as I had a passion for military history for a time in my youth.
I'll not bore you with the details of the life and legacy of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Suffice to say that he has arguably changed the world for good and for ill at the same time. I'll settle for a little insight into the Peace Prize only for the purposes of our discussion here.
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who:
"during the preceding year...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Taken in that context, as we should after all...it IS Nobel's final request, Obama hasn't accomplished any of what is mentioned. He certainly can't have done it in the 12 days it took the committee to nominate him. I heard the news and was stunned and dumbfounded that someone with so little concrete accomplishments would even be considered let alone win. Something about it, beyond the obvious, didn't sit well with me. It mulled in my brain all day and drove me to distraction until it slipped into place. I would almost swear I could hear a faint click as it locked into place. The question that kept plaguing me was this:
If he didn't deserve such a lofty, coveted prize, how could he have won?
The answer was much simpler than I was giving it credit for.
The Nobel committee was merely playing by the same rules that most Democrats play by. In fact, the committee used a favorite policy of the left to justify the reward...
Affirmative Action.
That's it. In a nutshell, they gave Obama the award for what he was capable of but not deserving of yet. This is the essence of affirmative action. Awarding someone with less than stellar achievements on the basis that without a little nudge, they can't do it themselves. We've all heard the stories of the unintended consequences of affirmative action. Deserving students with 4.0 grade averages being denied entry into some of our most prestigious universities and colleges based solely on the color of their skin. Job applicants being turned away because a company needs "more women and minorities" than it needs qualified people.
This is what the Nobel committee did. They gave the prize to someone who otherwise would not have been qualified over more deserving individuals based solely...on the color of his skin. I think the award was partly to poke former president Bush in the eye, but I suspect that it was primarily to give the award to a black president. Skin color was the deciding factor though in this case.
It's at this point that my liberal friends begin to feel their blood heat up...I can almost hear the accusations forming in their minds...
RACIST!
Not in the least. There is nothing else that explains the award. This man now sits in the company of Mother Theresa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Begin and Sadat, the 14th Dalai Lama and Lech Walesa--a hallowed list of those people who put peace and brotherhood above the security of their own lives. Obama has done nothing but promote his own career and his meteoric rise to power as his primary goal in life. His nomination after only 12 days in office and his subsequent win is an indelible stain on the prize for time immemorial. There have been other, more infamous nominations in the past of course. The committee is not without it's dark secrets after all. A short list of other nominees include Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin and everyone's poster boy for peace...Adolph Hitler. It's true... You can't make this stuff up.
There is no other way to see Obama winning the peace prize as nothing more than an attempt by the Nobel committee to insert themselves into history in a public and very disturbing way. When you consider that America is embroiled in protests and division as Obama attempts to alter the fabric of our republic, you can't help but wonder if the committee was drunk...or stupid.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
The Week In Review
Well, here we are again at the end of yet another momentous week. A week of cheering throngs in Washington D.C., undercover, hidden camera scandals, heated rhetoric about race and a shattering of decades old promises and alliances.
"Are you now or have you ever been?"
Not since the civil rights movement has our country been so captivated by the issue of race relations. Looking only at the headlines, outside observers might think we were living 1968 all over again.
In a moment of passion and arguably a serious breach of good taste and etiquette, Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, "YOU LIE" during the Presidents speech to both houses last week, touching off a firestorm of protests from the left and hardy slaps on the back from the right. Wilson called the White House, apologized to the President who accepted it graciously and that was to be the end.
Say what you will about Wilson's insult to house protocol, it exposed both sides for what they truly are--partisan hacks stuck on a merry-go-round of hatred for the other side. For the last week now almost every voice of consequence on the left from Maureen Dowd to Hank Johnson to his royal goofiness-- Jimmy Carter, have seen the dark specter of racism in Wilson's outburst on the chamber floor.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D) GA claimed, with a straight face surprisingly enough, that to let Wilson go unpunished for his lapse of good manners, would somehow lead to the KKK roaming the countryside once again in full regalia.
Really Hank? The KKK will somehow magically reconstitute itself into numbers large enough to threaten the entire country?
Maureen Dowd, columnist for the NY Times and noted Hillary fan, said there was a word missing from Wilson's shout. She claims it should have been, "You Lie ...BOY!" Adding that even though the racial epithet wasn't there...it was implied. You could almost feel it. Maureen Dowd is now going to read your tea leaves and predict the future. Well, she can already read minds...through a TV screen. Predicting the future is the next logical step isn't it?
Look out Dionne Warwick, Maureen's psychic friends can beat up your psychic friends!
Jimmy Carter also weighed into the fray adding a certain presidential air to the whole debate.
Not really. I was just kidding. Jimmy Carter is the reason former presidents should retire from the spotlight and keep their mouths shut. Hearing an anti-Semite lecture me on matters of race is beyond the pale. Carter is living proof of the old adage, "Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought of as a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Jimmy Carter has disgraced the office on so many occasions it's laughable these days to see him pop his head up and again start uttering nonsense. Night night Jimmy, we'll wake you if we want some kind words about Castro or some unkind words about Jews.
I'll sum it up this way, blacks have become human shields for the left in this country and they willingly join in as often as they can. No black politician ever need feel embarrassed about personal failings or bad policy decisions again. We'll just shout racism at the top of our lungs and the opposition will spend it's time defending their own character instead of looking any closer.
Shouting racism these days is akin to shouting communist in the McCarthy era. It doesn't require any proof on the part of the accuser and instantly brands the accused despite that lack of proof.
"Times change...so do Allies."
Elsewhere in the world of news, President Obama nixed the missile defense shield for eastern Europe on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
Wow, the lack of knowledge of history is breathtaking here. In one fell swoop, he turned decades of good will with our Eastern European allies into a new joke for radio talk hosts and late night comedians. Was there no one in the White House who thought maybe choosing this day to kill the shield was a bad idea? Poland actually refused to take Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's phone call, they were so outraged.
This galactically stupid decision leaves Poland and several other countries vulnerable once again to aggression from neighbors and spits on promises made and kept for many years. Since taking office, Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Noriega and coddled the likes of Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while simultaneously insulting almost every other traditional ally we have like the Brits, the Canadians the French, and most recently, Eastern Europe.
If president Obama believes, as his actions have dictated, that the US is a member of the "Axis Of Evil", he's certainly putting us in good company.
On a totally unrelated note, Russia's Vladimir Putin announced a meeting with Jeffrey Imelt of GE to discuss how they might be able to do business together.
Totally unrelated my ass. Jeffrey Imelt sits on Obama's economic advisory team. GE also owns NBC and MSNBC, both networks famous for praising the president at every turn. It's possible that the US just sold out our good friends for the sake of political payback to GE, thereby risking millions of lives in the quest of the almighty dollar. I'm wondering where all the anti-big business liberals are right now decrying the evils of a president who kow tows to business as they did when Bush was president. I suspect they'll keep their little hypocritical mouths shut for now.
"Falling far from the tree."
In a stunning turn of events, the media and almost every liberal in congress, was forced to watch as two 20 somethings brought down the might but mighty corrupt ACORN. With only a hidden camera and about $1500.00 in operating capital, these two went to multiple ACORN offices from Baltimore to San Diego exposing the organization as a corrupt, morally reprehensible group of flesh peddlers. The media tried to ignore it, Charlie Gibson actually claimed he'd not heard a word about it. Probably because the NY Times hadn't written about it yet.
Every day brought a new hidden camera video until eventually the House and the Senate could no longer ignore it either. Funding began to be pulled at light speed as both parties tried to distance themselves from ACORN. We've yet to hear from the President as to how he personally feels about his beloved grass roots darlings being exposed as frauds and tax cheats. Remember, he said he was going to bring ACORN in to help "shape the policy in his administration."
Really? That sounds about as stupid as killing a defense shield on the anniversary of Soviet aggression...
Wait......he actually did that too. Too late. You can't make that kind of stupidity up, it occurs naturally.
"Hell No, we won't go...we have to work!"
According to who you ask, there were between 50,000 and 2.2 million people on the mall in Washington last Saturday. Kind of a wide swing in opinion on a head count. Glenn Beck, titular head of the 9-12 Project claims it was closer to one million while Fox news and the Parks service put the number somewhere between 50,000 and 75,000. Either way, it was an impressive demonstration to be sure. Primarily owing to the fact that it's tough to get that many conservatives to march about anything.
The old media found as many nutjobs with signs as they could and crowed about how angry and racist the crowd was. One line overheard from the media was, "I haven't seen that many racists in one spot since George Wallace was around." That's a pretty bold if ignorant statement. To say that every person there was a racist was just a way to minimize the passion they felt. There were racists there, to be sure, but race was not the single governing factor in why those people marched.
It was a culmination of the tea partiers march across America and the 9-12 Project's march on Washington. Along the way, both groups were co-opted by the angry right we hear so much about from the liberal media. Most wanted a peaceful demonstration of their dissatisfaction with the government in general and the President in particular. His domestic policy has been a shambles of ill spent stimulus money, his foreign policy is a nightmare of appeasement to our enemies and his Health Care reform efforts have frightened the daylights out of seniors and just about everyone else on the right.
I'll make no judgment on what every member of the crowd was thinking or feeling last weekend. I'm not Maureen Dowd or Hank Johnson. I don't see racists everywhere like they do. I can't read minds like they can. There were some stupid and offensive signs carried by people with less than a stunning intellect I'll grant you but not all were like that.
Sorry Jimmy, I just don't buy it. Maybe your generation would have had a problem with a black man as president...not mine. Despite the fact that I disagreed with Obama on almost everything, well...except Kanye West being a jackass, I felt a measure of pride that the country I loved so much had finally risen above it's hateful past to propel a person of color to the White House. There was a small feeling of satisfaction mixed with feelings of loss. America is ready for a black president, I just don't think Liberals are ready to hear that black president be called out on matters of truth, policy differences or his radical friends without screaming racism with every other breath.
After all...they keep reminding me that he's black. I figured that out all by myself. Let it go now and let's look at the content of his character...like MLK said we should.
"Are you now or have you ever been?"
Not since the civil rights movement has our country been so captivated by the issue of race relations. Looking only at the headlines, outside observers might think we were living 1968 all over again.
In a moment of passion and arguably a serious breach of good taste and etiquette, Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, "YOU LIE" during the Presidents speech to both houses last week, touching off a firestorm of protests from the left and hardy slaps on the back from the right. Wilson called the White House, apologized to the President who accepted it graciously and that was to be the end.
Say what you will about Wilson's insult to house protocol, it exposed both sides for what they truly are--partisan hacks stuck on a merry-go-round of hatred for the other side. For the last week now almost every voice of consequence on the left from Maureen Dowd to Hank Johnson to his royal goofiness-- Jimmy Carter, have seen the dark specter of racism in Wilson's outburst on the chamber floor.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D) GA claimed, with a straight face surprisingly enough, that to let Wilson go unpunished for his lapse of good manners, would somehow lead to the KKK roaming the countryside once again in full regalia.
Really Hank? The KKK will somehow magically reconstitute itself into numbers large enough to threaten the entire country?
Maureen Dowd, columnist for the NY Times and noted Hillary fan, said there was a word missing from Wilson's shout. She claims it should have been, "You Lie ...BOY!" Adding that even though the racial epithet wasn't there...it was implied. You could almost feel it. Maureen Dowd is now going to read your tea leaves and predict the future. Well, she can already read minds...through a TV screen. Predicting the future is the next logical step isn't it?
Look out Dionne Warwick, Maureen's psychic friends can beat up your psychic friends!
Jimmy Carter also weighed into the fray adding a certain presidential air to the whole debate.
Not really. I was just kidding. Jimmy Carter is the reason former presidents should retire from the spotlight and keep their mouths shut. Hearing an anti-Semite lecture me on matters of race is beyond the pale. Carter is living proof of the old adage, "Better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought of as a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Jimmy Carter has disgraced the office on so many occasions it's laughable these days to see him pop his head up and again start uttering nonsense. Night night Jimmy, we'll wake you if we want some kind words about Castro or some unkind words about Jews.
I'll sum it up this way, blacks have become human shields for the left in this country and they willingly join in as often as they can. No black politician ever need feel embarrassed about personal failings or bad policy decisions again. We'll just shout racism at the top of our lungs and the opposition will spend it's time defending their own character instead of looking any closer.
Shouting racism these days is akin to shouting communist in the McCarthy era. It doesn't require any proof on the part of the accuser and instantly brands the accused despite that lack of proof.
"Times change...so do Allies."
Elsewhere in the world of news, President Obama nixed the missile defense shield for eastern Europe on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.
Wow, the lack of knowledge of history is breathtaking here. In one fell swoop, he turned decades of good will with our Eastern European allies into a new joke for radio talk hosts and late night comedians. Was there no one in the White House who thought maybe choosing this day to kill the shield was a bad idea? Poland actually refused to take Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's phone call, they were so outraged.
This galactically stupid decision leaves Poland and several other countries vulnerable once again to aggression from neighbors and spits on promises made and kept for many years. Since taking office, Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez, Daniel Noriega and coddled the likes of Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while simultaneously insulting almost every other traditional ally we have like the Brits, the Canadians the French, and most recently, Eastern Europe.
If president Obama believes, as his actions have dictated, that the US is a member of the "Axis Of Evil", he's certainly putting us in good company.
On a totally unrelated note, Russia's Vladimir Putin announced a meeting with Jeffrey Imelt of GE to discuss how they might be able to do business together.
Totally unrelated my ass. Jeffrey Imelt sits on Obama's economic advisory team. GE also owns NBC and MSNBC, both networks famous for praising the president at every turn. It's possible that the US just sold out our good friends for the sake of political payback to GE, thereby risking millions of lives in the quest of the almighty dollar. I'm wondering where all the anti-big business liberals are right now decrying the evils of a president who kow tows to business as they did when Bush was president. I suspect they'll keep their little hypocritical mouths shut for now.
"Falling far from the tree."
In a stunning turn of events, the media and almost every liberal in congress, was forced to watch as two 20 somethings brought down the might but mighty corrupt ACORN. With only a hidden camera and about $1500.00 in operating capital, these two went to multiple ACORN offices from Baltimore to San Diego exposing the organization as a corrupt, morally reprehensible group of flesh peddlers. The media tried to ignore it, Charlie Gibson actually claimed he'd not heard a word about it. Probably because the NY Times hadn't written about it yet.
Every day brought a new hidden camera video until eventually the House and the Senate could no longer ignore it either. Funding began to be pulled at light speed as both parties tried to distance themselves from ACORN. We've yet to hear from the President as to how he personally feels about his beloved grass roots darlings being exposed as frauds and tax cheats. Remember, he said he was going to bring ACORN in to help "shape the policy in his administration."
Really? That sounds about as stupid as killing a defense shield on the anniversary of Soviet aggression...
Wait......he actually did that too. Too late. You can't make that kind of stupidity up, it occurs naturally.
"Hell No, we won't go...we have to work!"
According to who you ask, there were between 50,000 and 2.2 million people on the mall in Washington last Saturday. Kind of a wide swing in opinion on a head count. Glenn Beck, titular head of the 9-12 Project claims it was closer to one million while Fox news and the Parks service put the number somewhere between 50,000 and 75,000. Either way, it was an impressive demonstration to be sure. Primarily owing to the fact that it's tough to get that many conservatives to march about anything.
The old media found as many nutjobs with signs as they could and crowed about how angry and racist the crowd was. One line overheard from the media was, "I haven't seen that many racists in one spot since George Wallace was around." That's a pretty bold if ignorant statement. To say that every person there was a racist was just a way to minimize the passion they felt. There were racists there, to be sure, but race was not the single governing factor in why those people marched.
It was a culmination of the tea partiers march across America and the 9-12 Project's march on Washington. Along the way, both groups were co-opted by the angry right we hear so much about from the liberal media. Most wanted a peaceful demonstration of their dissatisfaction with the government in general and the President in particular. His domestic policy has been a shambles of ill spent stimulus money, his foreign policy is a nightmare of appeasement to our enemies and his Health Care reform efforts have frightened the daylights out of seniors and just about everyone else on the right.
I'll make no judgment on what every member of the crowd was thinking or feeling last weekend. I'm not Maureen Dowd or Hank Johnson. I don't see racists everywhere like they do. I can't read minds like they can. There were some stupid and offensive signs carried by people with less than a stunning intellect I'll grant you but not all were like that.
Sorry Jimmy, I just don't buy it. Maybe your generation would have had a problem with a black man as president...not mine. Despite the fact that I disagreed with Obama on almost everything, well...except Kanye West being a jackass, I felt a measure of pride that the country I loved so much had finally risen above it's hateful past to propel a person of color to the White House. There was a small feeling of satisfaction mixed with feelings of loss. America is ready for a black president, I just don't think Liberals are ready to hear that black president be called out on matters of truth, policy differences or his radical friends without screaming racism with every other breath.
After all...they keep reminding me that he's black. I figured that out all by myself. Let it go now and let's look at the content of his character...like MLK said we should.
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