Posts Tagged ‘Racism’

Linda Sanchez sees white supremists

June 3rd, 2010 | 3 Comments

Accusing the Arizona immigration law of leading to the slippery slope of racial profiling has apparently worn thin.  Linda Sanchez decided to up it a notch: “There’s a concerted effort behind promoting these kinds of laws on a state-by-state basis by people who have ties to white supremacy groups”,”It’s been documented. It’s not mainstream politics.” [...]

Bertha Lewis loves socialists

April 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Bertha Lewis, CEO of Acorn, is proud to be a socialist. She applauds anyone who calls themself a socialist.  But, that’s not the best part: “Any group that says, ‘I’m young, I’m Democratic, and I’m a socialist,’ is all right with me. You know that’s no light thing to do — to actually say, I’m [...]

Obama couldn’t sell watermelons

March 9th, 2010 | No Comments

That’s what Dan Rather said. Now, I would have said “ice to an eskimo”, or “s**t to farmer”. But, that would be stereotyping. In Chris Matthews minds, connecting a black man to watermelons is nothing to blink an eye at. Some people will fein shock and horror at Dan for being so, well, obvious. Me, [...]

Bowgate, Chapter four or five or something like that

February 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

One thing everyone has to give President Obaam, he sure knows how to keep people guessing.   In the past, Obama has made it a sort of semi-habit to bow to some foreign heads of state.  Most usually, it’s to a head of state that bowing down to means absolutely nothing to.  Like, the Queen [...]

Homeland Security Fail

November 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Immediately after Obama took office in January, the Department of Homeland Security seemed to take a drastic turn in policy.  Rather than concerning itself with terrorism associated with known terrorist groups, it seemed to target everything BUT known terrorist groups: DHS Report on Right Wing Extremism – Normal people just groaned.  It was that kind [...]

Obama clues in Carter

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Jimmy Carter, who blamed the most horrid economic policies in US history on the general public, has generally been a malaise since then.  About once or twice a year, he takes jabs at the United States.  I’m not sure if he’s had anything nice or relevant to say in the last thirty years.  But, he’s [...]

Representative Hank Johnson sees racial overtones in the Kanye West slurs

September 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments

Not sure if I got this exactly right.  Let me take another stab at it.  Kanye West, who is black, ripped the microphone from the hands of Taylor Swift, who is white, to assert the fact that Beyonce, who is black, should have won.  Beyonce did indeed win the best video of the year.  Kanye [...]

Feingold on Sotomayor

July 13th, 2009 | No Comments

I just listened to Russ Feingold’s ten mintues of fame during the Sonia Sotomayor hearings.  He’s nuts. “That is why I suggest to everyone watching today that they be a little wary of a phrase they may hear at these hearings – ‘judicial activism.’  That term really has lost all usefulness, particularly since so many [...]

Justice is blind?

July 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today we’ll start one of the most annoying processes in politics I can think of.  Nominating a Supreme Court justice will bring us a week of guaranteed partisan political bickering and posturing.  No ifs, ands, or butts.  Guaranteed. Now, I don’t have that much of an issue with that aspect of it.  I just won’t [...]

Congressional Black Caucus visits Cuba

April 8th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Barbara Lee, Laura Richardson, and Bobby Rush met with Raul and Fidel Castro yesterday.  They met the Castro brothers under the auspices of the Congressional Black Caucus.  They will report their findings to Nancy Pelosi very shortly. Now, someone help me here.  Why would the Congressional Black Congress be negotiating US policy?  Wouldn’t it make [...]