The Elephant in this Room is Obama.
- Posted by Loyal_Eagle on March 19th, 2008 in
The Elephant in this Room is Obama.
Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well, he wasn’t like today’s magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people. And, do you know how he did that? Misdirection. Misdirection: What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. – John Travolta in Swordfish
The elephant in this room is the real Obama. While he gallantly portrays himself as a loyal friend who disagrees with certain statements made by Rev. Wright, he remains unobserved. This whole thing becomes focused on Wright. Well, it’s not about Wright. It’s about Osama’s devotion of twenty-odd years to Black Liberation Theology or the code Black Value System.
Anyone can preach Black Liberation Theology, like anyone can preach the message of the KKK, or socialism, or communism, all under the guise of Christianity. Simply put, Liberation Theology is the belief that Christ wants us all to be free from poverty. Nice thought, but that’s a political view, not what Christ taught. Last time I checked, wealth in the biblical sense had nothing to do with earthly riches. Though some will be rich on earth, Christ taught the poor will always be with us, and I don’t think He lied. The cold-hard reality is, for us to all be financially equal, we must all be poor, that’s socialism, communism. Black Liberation Theology is almost the same thing, but with a racial twist. The objective is to increase the wealth and success of blacks only.
So, much like a clansman of twenty years claiming he now disagrees with certain statements made by David Duke…forget Duke, forget Wright. Focus on Obama and the ideals he personally supported for twenty years. One’s belief system IS important, for it defines character.
The question is, does Obama subscribe to Black Liberation Theology or the Black Value System? Can he honestly claim he didn’t know the theology he supposedly believed in for twenty years was racist? If he does not subscribe to it, then he’s been a liar for twenty-plus years. If he does subscribe to it, then he’s a racist. Either way, he’s not what he presents himself to be.
By Loyal Eagle
(Will those with blogs please post this to your blog.. It's a bit controversial, but accurate. Thanks)
left leaning rnc?
What happened to the Party? It has become Democratic lite. Where are the leaders? Reading Polls? Sticking their fingers in the wind. Stand up for America, now
YES! That's the old school
YES! That's the old school style rant I came to expect from the Looney one! Bravo!
And what about-
-all those poor video arcade workers and video store rental people out of work?
Yes, a changing world does sweep aside some kinds of jobs, careers, businesses and sometimes when this happens, new kinds of jobs are created. Yes, you're SOL that your video store shut down due to netflix and downloading, but now there's a cellphone store in every strip plaza so have at it.
And yeah, technology would have put some steelworkers out of work, but allowing in all tha Japanese steel did in way more. And yes, computers and robots put a lot of dockworkers out of a job, but not making anything here put out way more.
And of course you kind of take a swipe at the unions. Let me pull some numbers out of my ass, which kind of reflect the wage scale of, say, a manufacturing job. Union worker make 25.00 an hour doing that, a non-union worker doing the same thing may get paid 12-15 an hour. And a Mexican makes $2.00 an hour doing it. Regardless of those damned evil unions, Business is going to go for that $2.00 person, even at the expense of someone in the states who can, and would, do it for half the price of the union worker.
Yes, the unregulated free market made lots of people rich and comfortable in that post-WW2 golden age, but for the past thirty years, its been making lots of Indians and Chinese and Latin Americans rich, given a working wage to millions of their workers, helped the bottom line of the shareholders, and has slowed down the progress and 'wealth creation' of the average American worker.
This choice you mention, is rather naive, considering we're all at the mercy of the currents of a changing global economy. Nobody chooses to have their 401K raided, or chooses to have their job sent to China, or chooses to give up their lumber job so Canadian wood can be imported (like was announced last week). The choices belong to the people at the top, those who have no sense of responsibility to the country that created their wealth for them, or the workers who initially made it possible. Without a social contract, the free market does nothing but f-ck over people for a bottom line. That's just the way it is.
But getting back to trying to back up the comment you responded to above, you can't tell me the average American worker (even all the non-union ones) is better off now than they were thirty years ago. Can you?
At the end of the long day of the American Middle Class experiment, we're going to see that the best thing that ever happened to the American Worker was the decades of true Chinese socialism and communism. Kept all those chinese out of the hands of the global economy.
And who can we blame the poverty of the rust-belt on? If not the owners (not management, although we may differ on what we both refer to as 'management')? I can guess the answer, but maybe I'll be shocked and delighted!
How many, exactly?
How many, exactly? The Free Market has made many more people rich, by a factor of thousands, than it has made poor, and has kept even more sustaining their profitable lifestyle. Actually, they Free Market doesn't "make" anyone poor, it only allows freedom of choices, and certain bad choices have very negative economic impact. Please don't tell me you believe in the zero-sum theory of economics.
I do feel sorry for the steelworkers (I was one, briefly), but anyone who blames their poverty on management that couldn't adapt to a changing market is going precisely nowhere, and it's not the employer's fault. No one owes you a job for life. What if we had enacted tariffs to keep US steel prices artificially high to support high union wages and benefits? The US steel market would shrink anyway, to include a only a diminishing number of domestic customers who paid more for steel than their foreign counterparts who held a supply advantage.
What about all the poor calligraphers who are out of a job thanks to word processors?
And don't forget-
-people who preach the gospel of the Free Market Over All! That's made lots of people in this country poor over the last 30 years.
Ask a steelworker!