I will just say that we are living in strange American times.
We have an African-American man and a Republican candidate whose vice-presidential candidate is a woman and both have an equal chance of becoming president. Unfortunately, the American economy has been shattered into a thousand pieces.
What is insane is that our economic crisis looks very familiar.
I read an article about how America is deeply indebted to China, Russia, and the Middle East. And I thought of another place in a similar situation. The continent of Africa is constantly paying all of their revenues to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to the point where they cannot effectively develop their own nations.
If the countries who own our bonds decide to pull our strings, what would make us any different from the nations in Africa?
I read a book called, "A Game as Old as Empire", that explained how banks purposely made bad loans to developing nations such as Indonesia to "help" build the country's infrastructure. The purpose was to indebt the country to the banks. Because of the country's debt to the bank, all of the country's resources had to be directed towards paying off the debt.
America is in debt up to its ears. Can anyone even conceive of how much money nine trillion dollars ($9,000,000,000,000.00) is? That is how much we have to pay back to someone if they ever decide to collect. There is a website that keeps tabs on the amount of debt we are accruing every day. On the site, the author explains that 40% of our debt is held by foreign investors. Forty percent of our debt equals 3.6 trillion dollars. Wow!
U.S. currency is nearly on par with Canadian currency. Our dollar has quickly fallen below the value of the euro. With the nationalization of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the U.S. government has taken on all of those bad loans erroneously (or purposely) made to Americans hoping to own their own home. We weakened our world reputation as a fair, just, yet powerful nation when we invaded Iraq using the world's credit.
What leverage we had as a country worth doing business with is weakening. If our president continues the economic policies that created this situation, foreign investors may call in our debts and request the money back in euros. That would put America into a tailspin. All of our revenues would go towards the debt we owe foreign investors. Our economic crisis would then look no different than the insane policies that grip struggling nations in Africa.
It would be the destruction of a great country.
Luckily despite all of this economic madness brought on by the greed of a capitalistic society and a Republican administration, if all hell breaks loose and our economy fully collapses, one fact remains true.
Living on God's earth is free.
Peace.
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Wall Street Fallout
I guess the fat lady is singing - loudly!
Today the stock market dropped 500 points! That hasn't happened since 9/11 which was over 7 years ago (almost to the date, hmm...). I remember the stocks dropping sharply because when the stock market came back online, I decided to buy stocks for the first time. Can we say, "1/2 off sale"?
But today, there was no collision, no explosions, no planes crashing into buildings, and no buildings crashing down. Therefore, the stock drop of today is not caused by the same knee-jerk reaction as happened with 9/11.
This is worst.
When I invested in the stock market after 9/11, I knew that investors were reacting to catastrophic event that was, for the most part, unrelated to the economic heartbeat of Wall Street. The Dow Jones was around 10,000 points and went up to 14,000 points as of July 2007. I guess the powers that be decided that was as high as it should go because the stock market tumbled down,
down,
down...to hover between 11,000 to 11,600 points over the past year.
But dropping 500 points in one day is over the top.
As I write this, my mother has told me of a young man who was just hired by Lehman Brothers and was immediately downsized due to the bankruptcy. They were moving to California to buy a house when he received the news. Luckily they didn't buy the house yet!
I watched CNBC as they discussed all the reasons why the federal government should bail out Lehman Brothers. Doesn't bail out simply translate into continued high wages to the CEOs who caused this mess in the first place?
I guess I am thinking that if the government had regulated the mortgage industry and helped out homeowners by underwriting their loans to a fixed and affordable interest, there would have been fewer foreclosures and therefore less behemoth financial institutions going belly up.
Why should the large financial institutions get help while the homeowners buying overpriced houses be left out to dry? Obviously, the federal government had the money if they could assist Bear Stearns and take over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. A little regulation could have gone a long way.
Instead, the government under Bush's "Ownership Society", let banks have at it. They were giving away loans. And now look at was has happened. Our economy is in the toilet!
But why do the banks get federal assistance and the thousands of people in foreclosure are on their own? Why is it that regular individuals, including some first-time homeowners, were expected to know what they were doing when they bought that $500,000 house with no money down and therefore get no help from the government, while the CEO who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to f*** up get bailed out?
You want to know why?
I do too.
Today the stock market dropped 500 points! That hasn't happened since 9/11 which was over 7 years ago (almost to the date, hmm...). I remember the stocks dropping sharply because when the stock market came back online, I decided to buy stocks for the first time. Can we say, "1/2 off sale"?
But today, there was no collision, no explosions, no planes crashing into buildings, and no buildings crashing down. Therefore, the stock drop of today is not caused by the same knee-jerk reaction as happened with 9/11.
This is worst.
When I invested in the stock market after 9/11, I knew that investors were reacting to catastrophic event that was, for the most part, unrelated to the economic heartbeat of Wall Street. The Dow Jones was around 10,000 points and went up to 14,000 points as of July 2007. I guess the powers that be decided that was as high as it should go because the stock market tumbled down,
down,
down...to hover between 11,000 to 11,600 points over the past year.
But dropping 500 points in one day is over the top.
As I write this, my mother has told me of a young man who was just hired by Lehman Brothers and was immediately downsized due to the bankruptcy. They were moving to California to buy a house when he received the news. Luckily they didn't buy the house yet!
I watched CNBC as they discussed all the reasons why the federal government should bail out Lehman Brothers. Doesn't bail out simply translate into continued high wages to the CEOs who caused this mess in the first place?
I guess I am thinking that if the government had regulated the mortgage industry and helped out homeowners by underwriting their loans to a fixed and affordable interest, there would have been fewer foreclosures and therefore less behemoth financial institutions going belly up.
Why should the large financial institutions get help while the homeowners buying overpriced houses be left out to dry? Obviously, the federal government had the money if they could assist Bear Stearns and take over Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. A little regulation could have gone a long way.
Instead, the government under Bush's "Ownership Society", let banks have at it. They were giving away loans. And now look at was has happened. Our economy is in the toilet!
But why do the banks get federal assistance and the thousands of people in foreclosure are on their own? Why is it that regular individuals, including some first-time homeowners, were expected to know what they were doing when they bought that $500,000 house with no money down and therefore get no help from the government, while the CEO who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to f*** up get bailed out?
You want to know why?
I do too.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Watch: McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare
Jennifer Thompson invited you to watch this video at bravenewfilms.org:
McCain's YouTube Problem Just Became a Nightmare
Description from robertgreenwald:
Watch the video → There's no question John McCain is getting a free ride from the mainstream press. But with the power of YouTube and the blogosphere, we can provide an accurate portrayal of the so-called Maverick. We can put the brakes on his free ride!
Since we first released The Real McCain a year ago, our REAL McCain series has garnered close to 2 million views, with over 13,000 comments and tens of thousands more in petition signatures! Clearly, John McCain's record is something the public wants to discuss, and yet the corporate media is doing NOTHING to present the truth. We feel obliged to continue countering the mainstream media's love of McCain. And so we thought it was high time for a sequel: The Real McCain 2.
We're doing everything to get the facts out there about McCain. Join us in making a concerted effort to tell the story that corporate media refuses to tell. E-mail this video to all of your friends and family membe! rs, news blogs and other local media outlets. And don't forget to Digg it!
According to Cliff Schecter, author of The Real McCain: Why Conservatives Don't Trust Him And Why Independents Shouldn't: "It is dangerous for a democracy when a presidential candidate can lie with impunity, change positions on a whim, and physically and verbally threaten others and virtually none of it is reported by a besotted media eagerly awaiting the next moment when he might slap their backs in friendship."
The mainstream press may not do their job, but we can surely do ours. It is crucial that we alert the public to the REAL McCain, and it is crucial we act now, before it's too late.
Please forward this on to other people who might like it.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Obama - Political History in the Making
These are exciting times in political history. On Thursday, August 28, 2008, Barack Obama was the first African-American to be nominated as the official presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. No one expected this moment to come easily, but when Americans are in a situation where all indicators of a country’s success are running low, people often are more willing to take chances. Anything is better than what we have now.
In 1992, we were in a similar, although less extreme, predicament. George Bush Sr. had plunged America into an unnecessary war and consequently, we saw gas prices spike more than we were used to. His son, eight years later, repeated the same actions with the same consequences, and we are going to see Americans react the same way – by electing a democrat to the White House. Just as we picked Bill Clinton, America is going to pick a young, inexperienced man, (mixed Caucasian and African-American on top of that!) who engages us, fires us up, and displays the potential for wisdom and excellent leadership that even 70-year old men like McCain still don’t possess.
Sure there will be those who are hesitant about Obama’s inexperience as a national statesman and commander-in-chief, but because times are so desperate, most Americans are not going to let such doubts stop them this time around like they did four years ago when they mistakenly elected George Bush Jr. to a second term.
Four years ago, Americans voted pragmatically hoping that the president who put us in an unnecessary war would get us out of it. At the time, an unnecessary war was our only problem. The war continued unendingly while the White House steadfastly withheld from the American people a good explanation for why hundreds of troops were dying each year.
Now, four years later, the debate on the Iraq war has actually waned because there is no debate. Almost all Americans want the war to end. In fact, the Iraq war has taken a backseat as Americans deal with problems closer to home and their pockets like gas prices that skyrocketed from $1.50 before Bush was elected in 2000 to over $4.00 a mere eight years later. During the eight years that Clinton was in office, gas increased by fifty cents! We still have absolutely no explanation for this increase, but we do know that someone is raking in a lot of money!
The tax cuts that Bush enacted, lowered them only for the wealthy. Even Warren Buffett couldn’t understand what Bush was doing in giving the wealthy a tax cut. When McCain said that Obama would raise taxes, McCain didn’t tell the full story. Obama will simply level the playing field by removing tax cuts to the wealthy. Instead, Obama will give tax cuts to poor and middle class, a group that is struggling under the economic mess that Bush has left for the next president to clean up.
Did I mention that my next door neighbor’s house is in foreclosure? And my best friend can’t sell hers without losing money because her equity is upside down? Or that my brother-in-law was laid off along with his entire division from Countrywide Bank when they practically went bankrupt? Or that there are now only three major banks in this country – Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup? (Monopoly, anyone? I’ll take Boardwalk.) In my litany of problems, it probably slipped my mind….
And to add insult to injury, our once strong dollar has dropped below the euro. Didn’t this currency just enter existence about a decade ago? Furthermore, our currency is running neck and neck with Canadian money, further indication of our abysmal economic state and the abject failure of the Republican administration.
Remember when we were once the Superman of the World, where other countries saw us as the caped crusader who could save the day. Since our senseless invasion in Iraq , we are now viewed with suspicion by many in the international community and our motives questioned constantly. Obama’s mixed heritage opens the door towards effective diplomacy and gives him an opportunity to undo the damage that the warmongering Republicans have caused. It is to our advantage to have Obama as president since the majority of the people in today’s emerging economies resemble Obama’s family more than McCain’s. This may have escaped our notice because we were too busy chasing those adjusting interest rates!
This time Americans will send a clear and strong message that we need a change from the failed policies of the Republican Party. Wasn’t it Albert Einstein who said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results”? We will see if America has kept its sanity on November 7th, 2008.
In 1992, we were in a similar, although less extreme, predicament. George Bush Sr. had plunged America into an unnecessary war and consequently, we saw gas prices spike more than we were used to. His son, eight years later, repeated the same actions with the same consequences, and we are going to see Americans react the same way – by electing a democrat to the White House. Just as we picked Bill Clinton, America is going to pick a young, inexperienced man, (mixed Caucasian and African-American on top of that!) who engages us, fires us up, and displays the potential for wisdom and excellent leadership that even 70-year old men like McCain still don’t possess.
Sure there will be those who are hesitant about Obama’s inexperience as a national statesman and commander-in-chief, but because times are so desperate, most Americans are not going to let such doubts stop them this time around like they did four years ago when they mistakenly elected George Bush Jr. to a second term.
Four years ago, Americans voted pragmatically hoping that the president who put us in an unnecessary war would get us out of it. At the time, an unnecessary war was our only problem. The war continued unendingly while the White House steadfastly withheld from the American people a good explanation for why hundreds of troops were dying each year.
Now, four years later, the debate on the Iraq war has actually waned because there is no debate. Almost all Americans want the war to end. In fact, the Iraq war has taken a backseat as Americans deal with problems closer to home and their pockets like gas prices that skyrocketed from $1.50 before Bush was elected in 2000 to over $4.00 a mere eight years later. During the eight years that Clinton was in office, gas increased by fifty cents! We still have absolutely no explanation for this increase, but we do know that someone is raking in a lot of money!
The tax cuts that Bush enacted, lowered them only for the wealthy. Even Warren Buffett couldn’t understand what Bush was doing in giving the wealthy a tax cut. When McCain said that Obama would raise taxes, McCain didn’t tell the full story. Obama will simply level the playing field by removing tax cuts to the wealthy. Instead, Obama will give tax cuts to poor and middle class, a group that is struggling under the economic mess that Bush has left for the next president to clean up.
Did I mention that my next door neighbor’s house is in foreclosure? And my best friend can’t sell hers without losing money because her equity is upside down? Or that my brother-in-law was laid off along with his entire division from Countrywide Bank when they practically went bankrupt? Or that there are now only three major banks in this country – Chase, Bank of America, and Citigroup? (Monopoly, anyone? I’ll take Boardwalk.) In my litany of problems, it probably slipped my mind….
And to add insult to injury, our once strong dollar has dropped below the euro. Didn’t this currency just enter existence about a decade ago? Furthermore, our currency is running neck and neck with Canadian money, further indication of our abysmal economic state and the abject failure of the Republican administration.
Remember when we were once the Superman of the World, where other countries saw us as the caped crusader who could save the day. Since our senseless invasion in Iraq , we are now viewed with suspicion by many in the international community and our motives questioned constantly. Obama’s mixed heritage opens the door towards effective diplomacy and gives him an opportunity to undo the damage that the warmongering Republicans have caused. It is to our advantage to have Obama as president since the majority of the people in today’s emerging economies resemble Obama’s family more than McCain’s. This may have escaped our notice because we were too busy chasing those adjusting interest rates!
This time Americans will send a clear and strong message that we need a change from the failed policies of the Republican Party. Wasn’t it Albert Einstein who said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results”? We will see if America has kept its sanity on November 7th, 2008.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Obama Did It!
You know, I just cannot get any satisfaction with the media. Here we have this historic moment where the first African-American is nominated as the democratic candidate for President of the United States and once again, all I here is Hillary, Hillary, Hillary! I was expecting a chronicled history of previous African-Americans who have run for president and set the precedence for this moment.
Instead, all I hear is what Hillary Clinton is going to do.
Obama needs to tell us what it was like while he was growing up. He needs to show us how his life is similar to many other American's lives.
And then he can go back to that policy stuff.
Instead, all I hear is what Hillary Clinton is going to do.
- She doesn't want to quit the race.
- Her backers reprimanded her speech.
- She will endorse Obama on Friday.
- Her backers plan to endorse Obama.
- Enough already!
Obama needs to talk more to the media. I am an outsider to the media, but what I am coming to realize is that Hillary talks to the media quite a bit and the media feels duty-bound to report everything she says. Obama, on the other hand, does not do that. Instead, he will do an interview here and there. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is always in communication with the media.
Obama needs to do the same. That way, everytime the news comes on, it leads with an Obama story. His name needs to be just as comfortable to American ears as the Clinton's were before. Obama needs to get close to the American public instead of hiding behind the issues. We need to see him laugh more, get angry, play sports, play with his kids. He needs to get personal. The reason why Michelle Obama is such a hit is because she lets us into her world and her childhood. She connects her experiences with ours.Obama needs to tell us what it was like while he was growing up. He needs to show us how his life is similar to many other American's lives.
And then he can go back to that policy stuff.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Rev. Wright and Cable News
On Sunday, CNN and Fox News aired the speech made by Reverend Wright live from the NAACP dinner in Detroit, MI. Now, I have not seen CNN, nor especially, FOX News ever air anything from NAACP or Black-related, for that matter. When I saw this, as an Obama supporter, I was very upset because those channel's motives for showing Wright's speech were not altruistic.
Now on Monday, the cable news channels aired Wright's speech at the National Press Club further damaging the Obama campaign. So at this point, I don't know who to be mad at more - Rev. Wright, the cable news, the NAACP, or Obama.
Here is why I am mad at Rev. Wright.
Rev. Wright, this is not about you, the black church, or black people. This is about the Clinton campaign and the cable news networks doing everything they can to drag down Obama. If Clinton and cable news could use Rezko, they would use Rezko. If they could use the Canada public relations incident, they would have used that. But it seems Rev. Wright's comments have had a more detrimental effect on Obama, so they are using Rev. Wright.
Therefore, if I am the pastor of a church where one of my parishioners is running as the first African-American to actually have the possibility of being elected president, can you guess what I would have done if I knew I was the problem in my parishioner's campaign? You know it - take a long six month tour around the world until Dec. 1 2008 after the election is over. I would take cover and do what Dave Chappelle did, disappear in Africa for a few months without telling anyone where I have gone. GO INTO HIDING JEREMIAH WRIGHT!!!
Instead, what does he do on the eve of two elections in Indiana and North Carolina? Get on TV everywhere. For the past two days, all I have seen is Wright on TV 24/7. Doesn't he realize that he is to white people like Farrakhan is to Jews? Doesn't he realize that he is now the David Duke of Black people? And doesn't he realize that the media is trying to make it seem (and white people secretly fear) that whatever he says is what Obama is actually thinking? As Jon Stewart asked Obama on the Daily Show, "If you become president, are you going to do bait and switch and enslave white people?" That is every white person's secret fear and it is being exploited every time Rev. Wright opens his mouth on national television.
So what white person is going to feel comfortable electing a black man they think may set out to destroy all white people once he gets into the white house? None of them! That's who. In fact, a poll today on MSNBC showed that 41% of people polled saw Obama as "less favorable" since Rev. Wright's speeches (as was intended by the cable news networks and the Clinton campaign). So I am mad at Rev. Wright, very mad at him because his actions may have cost Obama the presidency.
What should Obama do?
Obama needs to drag all of his white relatives out to his rallies and press conferences and kiss them every day on TV to remind white people that he is, after all, half-white. Obama can't hate white people too much when his mother and the grandparents who raised him are white. He needs to let America know how close he is to his white parents and show America those other East Indian, Asian, Indonesian, whatever the world relatives he has so that he can offset his blackness. His blackness has become a detriment and now he needs to claim his other half - the white half in all fullness and sincerity.
The second thing Obama needs to do, as a panelist said on MSNBC (can you tell I watch MSNBC) is call Rev. Wright a kook and completely distance himself from the man. Obama tried to be honorable, but since Rev. Wright isn't doing right by Obama, Obama no longer needs to do right by Rev. Wright. It is a shame, it has to come to this, but what can you do? Obama needs to strongly denounce Wright, show he can't stand him and whatever else it takes to make these white people comfortable. After Obama is elected, he can take it all back and make Rev. Wright the Secretary of the Department of Reparations for Black People.
I was mad at NAACP, but now I am not so sure.
My thinking on this was that the NAACP did not have to allow cable news access into their dinner at Detroit. I noticed only CNN and Fox News air the dinner speech the Rev. Wright made - in its entirety. NAACP should have been savvy enough to know that Rev. Wright is a detriment to the Obama campaign and should not be party to any attempt the media makes to sabotage Obama through Rev. Wright.
But instead, what do I see? Not only does CNN show Rev. Wright's speech, they also show another Detroit reverend in all of his Detroit glory going off on white people and the so-called attacks being made on Rev. Wright and the black church. Is the NAACP insane??? Don't they know that all white people hear from those preachers is kill whitey, kill whitey, kill whitey. White people are scared to death of angry black men and if they think Obama is one of them, guess what they will do? Vote for Hillary Clinton - idiot!
Instead, I think the NAACP thought that a) they could get a lot of money from people and/or a lot of publicity if they had Wright there and national news coverage or b) were trying to clear Rev. Wright's name by having him speak or c) were getting hyped because national news wanted to know what they were doing.
So you have a bunch of sell out blacks at the NAACP who are short-sighted and have received much too much money from white people and other corporate sponsors in the past. Don't they realize that if Obama were president, Obama could just write the NAACP into his national budget? I mean come on, isn't this what this is all about? Isn't this why, as a black woman, I am voting for a black man. Obama will have the power and authority to create a whole department solely for the advancement of all black people if he wanted to - if the NAACP cooperated? Instead, the NAACP may have sabotaged Obama's campaign too.
What should Obama do?
If Obama loses, he should give the NAACP the finger.
Cable news media-- ooooohhh, now they are the royal pain in the derriere. Just thinking about them makes my nostrils flare in a rage that is so strong, I see red and can't think straight. Throughout this election, I have turned into a mad woman as I shout obscenities at the TV because CNN, MSNBC, and especially Fox News just won't get the story straight.
So to save my sanity and blood pressure, I have stopped watching CNN. Fox News has always been suspect so I always avoided that channel. Which leaves me with MSNBC because they were the only channel that did not air Rev. Wright's speech at the NAACP dinner.
I can understand Fox News airing the Wright speech because they make no secret about wanting McCain in office and know that Rev. Wright is the best way to destroy Obama. So they will talk about Wright everyday as Obama's ratings slowly slide downward into the gutter.
But CNN, was a different story. I tried to keep the faith with CNN. They were the channel that showed coverage of the first Gulf War when I was in school before MSNBC and Fox News even existed. Their longevity in the game should have given them some credibility, right? Right?
Wrong! I forgot about their shoddy coverage of black people during Hurricane Katrina. I forgot about their one-sided coverage of Jena Six (Jena who? - exactly!) I forgot about their limited coverage of Obama in the beginning of the campaign when they figured Obama was a non-issue and all they talked about was Hillary Clinton.
But, most importantly, CNN is run by Jewish rich people who want Clinton as their president because she favors pro-Israel policies while Obama probably could care less. (Here is where I am going to get in trouble for saying anything against the Jews and be sent to jail like they did Wesley Snipes)
See a few months ago, a bunch of rich Jews wrote Nancy Pelosi a letter asking her to take back her statement encouraging superdelegates to vote in the direction of their pledged delegates which favors Obama. They all signed the letter so you could see their names and look them up. All of the signees were Jewish, except for a few sell-out blacks. During the Clinton's presidency, he had a very pro-Israel policy. So of course, they want Hillary in office to bring back the good ole days.
So I can't watch too much cable news because their shoddy journalism and obvious bias against Obama is making my blood pressure go up and since I am only 32, I can't die from Shoddy News Syndrome. I'm too young!
So what should Obama do?
Get his butt in front of the news cameras everyday all day. Coverage, coverage, coverage!!
Which brings me to why I am mad at Obama.
Obama is not coming with it. Do you know what I mean when I say coming with it? He is not bringing it on, punching below the belt, gettin' down and dirty.
Instead, we get no response. Just like the Rezko controversy and the Canada controversy, he is too slow to address the attacks that are made against him. And it hurts his campaign each time. It also infuriates and frustrates his supporters who just want to pick up the phone and scream some needed one-two punch strategies into his ear. Personally, I tend to fantasize about driving to one of his rallies, grabbing him by the neck and yelling, "Get it together, Man!"
Personal message to Obama:
Obama, this stuff is not going to go away. This is not a matter of the Clintons and the media testing your mettle. No, they want you to LOSE and they have found your kryptonite - Rev. Wright!
Get your a-- on TV and charm the socks off the American people like you did at the Democratic Convention. As people get to know you and your policies, they fall in love with you. Your presence offsets any attacks that are made against you. Show America you can fight for yourself because then they will trust that you will fight for them.
Come on Obama! You can do it! Yes You Can!
Now on Monday, the cable news channels aired Wright's speech at the National Press Club further damaging the Obama campaign. So at this point, I don't know who to be mad at more - Rev. Wright, the cable news, the NAACP, or Obama.
Here is why I am mad at Rev. Wright.
Rev. Wright, this is not about you, the black church, or black people. This is about the Clinton campaign and the cable news networks doing everything they can to drag down Obama. If Clinton and cable news could use Rezko, they would use Rezko. If they could use the Canada public relations incident, they would have used that. But it seems Rev. Wright's comments have had a more detrimental effect on Obama, so they are using Rev. Wright.
Therefore, if I am the pastor of a church where one of my parishioners is running as the first African-American to actually have the possibility of being elected president, can you guess what I would have done if I knew I was the problem in my parishioner's campaign? You know it - take a long six month tour around the world until Dec. 1 2008 after the election is over. I would take cover and do what Dave Chappelle did, disappear in Africa for a few months without telling anyone where I have gone. GO INTO HIDING JEREMIAH WRIGHT!!!
Instead, what does he do on the eve of two elections in Indiana and North Carolina? Get on TV everywhere. For the past two days, all I have seen is Wright on TV 24/7. Doesn't he realize that he is to white people like Farrakhan is to Jews? Doesn't he realize that he is now the David Duke of Black people? And doesn't he realize that the media is trying to make it seem (and white people secretly fear) that whatever he says is what Obama is actually thinking? As Jon Stewart asked Obama on the Daily Show, "If you become president, are you going to do bait and switch and enslave white people?" That is every white person's secret fear and it is being exploited every time Rev. Wright opens his mouth on national television.
So what white person is going to feel comfortable electing a black man they think may set out to destroy all white people once he gets into the white house? None of them! That's who. In fact, a poll today on MSNBC showed that 41% of people polled saw Obama as "less favorable" since Rev. Wright's speeches (as was intended by the cable news networks and the Clinton campaign). So I am mad at Rev. Wright, very mad at him because his actions may have cost Obama the presidency.
What should Obama do?
Obama needs to drag all of his white relatives out to his rallies and press conferences and kiss them every day on TV to remind white people that he is, after all, half-white. Obama can't hate white people too much when his mother and the grandparents who raised him are white. He needs to let America know how close he is to his white parents and show America those other East Indian, Asian, Indonesian, whatever the world relatives he has so that he can offset his blackness. His blackness has become a detriment and now he needs to claim his other half - the white half in all fullness and sincerity.
The second thing Obama needs to do, as a panelist said on MSNBC (can you tell I watch MSNBC) is call Rev. Wright a kook and completely distance himself from the man. Obama tried to be honorable, but since Rev. Wright isn't doing right by Obama, Obama no longer needs to do right by Rev. Wright. It is a shame, it has to come to this, but what can you do? Obama needs to strongly denounce Wright, show he can't stand him and whatever else it takes to make these white people comfortable. After Obama is elected, he can take it all back and make Rev. Wright the Secretary of the Department of Reparations for Black People.
I was mad at NAACP, but now I am not so sure.
My thinking on this was that the NAACP did not have to allow cable news access into their dinner at Detroit. I noticed only CNN and Fox News air the dinner speech the Rev. Wright made - in its entirety. NAACP should have been savvy enough to know that Rev. Wright is a detriment to the Obama campaign and should not be party to any attempt the media makes to sabotage Obama through Rev. Wright.
But instead, what do I see? Not only does CNN show Rev. Wright's speech, they also show another Detroit reverend in all of his Detroit glory going off on white people and the so-called attacks being made on Rev. Wright and the black church. Is the NAACP insane??? Don't they know that all white people hear from those preachers is kill whitey, kill whitey, kill whitey. White people are scared to death of angry black men and if they think Obama is one of them, guess what they will do? Vote for Hillary Clinton - idiot!
Instead, I think the NAACP thought that a) they could get a lot of money from people and/or a lot of publicity if they had Wright there and national news coverage or b) were trying to clear Rev. Wright's name by having him speak or c) were getting hyped because national news wanted to know what they were doing.
So you have a bunch of sell out blacks at the NAACP who are short-sighted and have received much too much money from white people and other corporate sponsors in the past. Don't they realize that if Obama were president, Obama could just write the NAACP into his national budget? I mean come on, isn't this what this is all about? Isn't this why, as a black woman, I am voting for a black man. Obama will have the power and authority to create a whole department solely for the advancement of all black people if he wanted to - if the NAACP cooperated? Instead, the NAACP may have sabotaged Obama's campaign too.
What should Obama do?
If Obama loses, he should give the NAACP the finger.
Cable news media-- ooooohhh, now they are the royal pain in the derriere. Just thinking about them makes my nostrils flare in a rage that is so strong, I see red and can't think straight. Throughout this election, I have turned into a mad woman as I shout obscenities at the TV because CNN, MSNBC, and especially Fox News just won't get the story straight.
So to save my sanity and blood pressure, I have stopped watching CNN. Fox News has always been suspect so I always avoided that channel. Which leaves me with MSNBC because they were the only channel that did not air Rev. Wright's speech at the NAACP dinner.
I can understand Fox News airing the Wright speech because they make no secret about wanting McCain in office and know that Rev. Wright is the best way to destroy Obama. So they will talk about Wright everyday as Obama's ratings slowly slide downward into the gutter.
But CNN, was a different story. I tried to keep the faith with CNN. They were the channel that showed coverage of the first Gulf War when I was in school before MSNBC and Fox News even existed. Their longevity in the game should have given them some credibility, right? Right?
Wrong! I forgot about their shoddy coverage of black people during Hurricane Katrina. I forgot about their one-sided coverage of Jena Six (Jena who? - exactly!) I forgot about their limited coverage of Obama in the beginning of the campaign when they figured Obama was a non-issue and all they talked about was Hillary Clinton.
But, most importantly, CNN is run by Jewish rich people who want Clinton as their president because she favors pro-Israel policies while Obama probably could care less. (Here is where I am going to get in trouble for saying anything against the Jews and be sent to jail like they did Wesley Snipes)
See a few months ago, a bunch of rich Jews wrote Nancy Pelosi a letter asking her to take back her statement encouraging superdelegates to vote in the direction of their pledged delegates which favors Obama. They all signed the letter so you could see their names and look them up. All of the signees were Jewish, except for a few sell-out blacks. During the Clinton's presidency, he had a very pro-Israel policy. So of course, they want Hillary in office to bring back the good ole days.
So I can't watch too much cable news because their shoddy journalism and obvious bias against Obama is making my blood pressure go up and since I am only 32, I can't die from Shoddy News Syndrome. I'm too young!
So what should Obama do?
Get his butt in front of the news cameras everyday all day. Coverage, coverage, coverage!!
Which brings me to why I am mad at Obama.
Obama is not coming with it. Do you know what I mean when I say coming with it? He is not bringing it on, punching below the belt, gettin' down and dirty.
Instead, we get no response. Just like the Rezko controversy and the Canada controversy, he is too slow to address the attacks that are made against him. And it hurts his campaign each time. It also infuriates and frustrates his supporters who just want to pick up the phone and scream some needed one-two punch strategies into his ear. Personally, I tend to fantasize about driving to one of his rallies, grabbing him by the neck and yelling, "Get it together, Man!"
Personal message to Obama:
Obama, this stuff is not going to go away. This is not a matter of the Clintons and the media testing your mettle. No, they want you to LOSE and they have found your kryptonite - Rev. Wright!
Get your a-- on TV and charm the socks off the American people like you did at the Democratic Convention. As people get to know you and your policies, they fall in love with you. Your presence offsets any attacks that are made against you. Show America you can fight for yourself because then they will trust that you will fight for them.
Come on Obama! You can do it! Yes You Can!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sun conjunct Mars
There are astrological configurations and aspects that can have a powerful influence over a limited period (luckily, they are always limited). Right now Mars is in Cancer and I am a Cancer, so I am loving this right now. All of the plans I made last year are finally coming to fruition thanks to the Mars/Sun conjunction. However, that energy spell will be over on May 9th when Mars goes into Leo (according to Astrologyzone.com) and Mercury goes retrograde from late May to June 18th. I can feel it happening.
Sun conjunct Mars makes you feel bold, confident, assertive, and ready to take on new challenges. The best way to use this energy is to go full force towards any ventures, entrepreneural ideas, or career goals that you have had. You will have the energy and confidence to pursue them as well as the persistence and drive to get past any obstacles that pop up!
Sun conjunct Mars makes you feel bold, confident, assertive, and ready to take on new challenges. The best way to use this energy is to go full force towards any ventures, entrepreneural ideas, or career goals that you have had. You will have the energy and confidence to pursue them as well as the persistence and drive to get past any obstacles that pop up!
Obama and the Media
The media has turned on its machine of inadequate journalism. I hate that Reverend Wright gave his interview today because it just gives journalists another opportunity to tear Obama down with his comments, another opportunity to remind white voters that Obama is black (and angry and will kill them if he got the chance) - which is not true at all. I am disappointed in TV news and cannot trust them for information. I have stopped watching CNN completely because their treatment of the election. In the beginning they were my main source, but now I have turned to MSNBC. I know all of the cable news channels are vying for ratings, but MSNBC seems to have a milder approach to it. As opposed to CNN, which gathers commentators together just for the sake of creating angst. They truly responded to Hillary's call that the media was too easy on Obama so now they are revving up their "tear down" engines and running over Obama. But he is tough just as Clinton is tough, so we will see how he handles this.
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