When you see those ACORN workers advising a hooker and pimp on how to scam the system and exploit young girls, you have to ask how Obama’s community organization approach to racial relations really empowers blacks. Have those women ever given thought to the kind of life they want or the kind of society they want to live in? Have they been encouraged by their activism to even think about such things? I don’t think so. They are part of a pattern started in the 60s which told young blacks that learning to read was acting white and thus deprived them of the ability to access the thinking of the world on topics such as morality and the meaning of life. Their world is the pre-Gutenberg, pre-Luther world of accepting as truth whatever the strong guy in your neighborhood says.

Of course today there is a greater choice of neighborhood strong guys and they range all the way from the lowliest ACORN staffer to Ivy League decorated interpreters of the black experience. What they have in common is their denial of the personal life experience of the people they subdue and their unwillingness to allow others to seek outside the received dogma. They produce frustration and rage and resignment.

Obama may be encouraging blacks to get an education and be responsible parents, but hasn’t he abetted those who try to deny blacks the intellectual underpinnings to achieve those ends? Hasn’t he added to the credibility of the Jeremiah Wrights with their left brain-right brain theories of racial difference that, in effect, tells young people who may feel a bit of stimulation from the wrong brain half that they are betraying their race?

I come from a poor rather uneducated family. I was blessed that I never had to choose between my family and my own interests and inclinations. I was given my wings and never had to repudiate my background or be constrained by it. As a result I have been able to live in a wider and deeper and infinitely richer world. I find it tragic that ACORN thinking denies others that possibility.

Well, of course! I have no doubt that if Dennis Kucinich had won those Good Ol’ Boys in the South would be giving standing ovations to the rapid conversion of the US of America into a clone of the USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. How could they possibly object?

(After all, what did Kucinich get? 2% of the vote? Obviously everybody is behind his Socialist agenda!)

The increasing stupidity of the Left is a source of growing amazement to me (and consternation, when I think of how many people buy into their “arguments”).

This is the perfect environment to create, to begin the process of Denouncement that the Nazis used to begin herding Jews into the camps. Be very careful where you post in the next few months… I’ve already had a post of mine on FARK.com altered by a moderator to replace the word “pro-choicers” with “pro-lifers,” followed up with a sneering comment about what I didn’t actually post and closure of the thread so I couldn’t reply.

Which of the following presidential nicknames are racist?

a. Tricky Dick
b. Clintax
c. Shrub
d. Bushitler
e. Slick Willy
f. Chimperor
g. Bubba
h. Ronnie Raygun

Or am I dreaming and did people just start using unflattering nicknames for the president yesterday?

They were complaining. If you didn’t hear it, you weren’t listening. And in terms of a comparision, the deficit under Bush could be said to be climbing slowly upstairs on an arthritic knee compared to the truly breath-taking soaring it’s doing now.

Deficit graph

Look at that graph and tell me those two situations are comparable.

I was somewhat disposed to like Obama (at least I’d heard good things about him), but it ended pretty early for me when I found out about the church he went to for 20 years. It was over for me at that point. Nothing he could say would remove the stench and the hypocrisy of what he did in attending that church for so long. Post-racial? Yeah, sure. His long line of dubious friends and colleagues were just more nails in the coffin of any regard I might have for him. Now he’s turning into a creepy, Big Brother wannabe. No thanks.

I am very compassionate. I want a prosperous and strong America. I love strongly. True love is letting people succeed and realize their dreams.

Liberalism has been the mental disease that has diluted the safety net for the elderly and the non-able bodied and replaced it with a reward system for making poor decisions and taking from those who make good decisions..

Take the personality out of the equation MD. Obama’s ideas and policies are bad for America. There are many good ideas that would have better results… Do the due diligence (don’t be lazy) and look for those ideas..