Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and broadminded, the other intolerant and narrow-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND BROADMINDED USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, et al reside in the other America!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
THEY (REPUBLICANS) JUST DON'T GET IT!
Too many Americans go through life with blinders on, in other words, nurtured in a cocoon only experiencing the goings on inside that particular segregate. They then wind up with a false belief that what they’ve witnessed is the whole of reality. Anyone who accepts those cocoon beliefs as the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a pathetic shallow entity but usually can do no harm to others.
But those shallows who obtain a platform of power: these individuals become a threat, a danger to the freedom ALL are suppose to enjoy, not just the few who are fortunate enough to come into existence with bed, bath and beyond lavished upon them. I would even go so far as to say such people are anti American and anti Liberty and are deadly forces against Democracy! thinkingblue
It boggles my brain to no end when I hear Republican GOOD OLE BOYS AND GALS talk out of their butts about their experiences concerning race, religion, gender, creed, nationality, income or whatever else superficially (IGNORANTLY) separates us from one another. There have been so many remarks spewed from the lips of the unschooled that are poker tells, exposing what these people really believe.
First we have GOOD OLE BOY Haley Barbour’s tongue lash that released his deep seated ingrained bigotry
Barbour defends comments on race, but is the damage done to his potential 2012 bid?
"I just don't remember it as being that bad,"
Next GOOD OLE GAL Sarah Palin weighs in on her ignorance
It boggles my brain to no end when I hear Republican GOOD OLE BOYS AND GALS talk out of their butts about their experiences concerning race, religion, gender, creed, nationality, income or whatever else superficially (IGNORANTLY) separates us from one another. There have been so many remarks spewed from the lips of the unschooled that are poker tells, exposing what these people really believe.
First we have GOOD OLE BOY Haley Barbour’s tongue lash that released his deep seated ingrained bigotry (so deep he’s not even aware of it):
On Tuesday, the Mississippi governor sought to clarify his remarks to the Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson about growing up at the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour had told Ferguson, noting that his hometown, Yazoo City, Miss., wasn't at the flash point of racial tensions at the time.
The governor went on to credit the Citizens Council, a group that has been viewed as pro-segregationist, for helping to integrate his hometown more peacefully than other cities in the Deep South were integrated.
After a public outcry, Barbour clarified his remarks Tuesday, insisting he wasn't endorsing the group's views generally. "My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody should construe that to mean I think the town leadership were saints, either," Barbour said in a statement. "Their vehicle, called the 'Citizens Council,' is totally indefensible, as is segregation."
But that's not likely to quiet Barbour's critics. On Monday, Democrats seized on the governor's comments, as well as his recollection of attending a Martin Luther King Jr. rally when he was a teenager. Barbour admitted that he spent more time "watching the girls" than listening to the civil rights icon.
"He's not ready for prime time or not ready for the 21st century - either way it's disqualifying," Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan said in a message on Twitter.
To make matters worse, Politico's Ben Smith dug up a quote from a Barbour profile in the New York Times from 1982 in which Barbour warned an aide about making racist remarks with a questionable statement of his own. According to the Times, Barbour "warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks." MORE HERE
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Next GOOD OLE GAL Sarah Palin weighs in on her ignorance, in her recent book, going after (attacking) Michelle Obama for her heartfelt remark during the 2008 presidential campaign:
When I was 11, my father thought it was time to show my sister and me the nation's capital. I have only vague memories of that trip - the heat, the expanse of the White House's grounds, the Jefferson Memorial. I do remember we took Route 1 through Baltimore (no I-95 yet) and it was there that I saw my first sign with the word "colored" on it - a rooming house, I think. This was 1952, and the United States was an apartheid nation.
It is Sarah Palin who brings back these memories. In her new book, she reportedly takes Michelle Obama to task for her supposedly infamous remark from the 2008 campaign: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." Instantly, Republicans pounced. Among the first to do so was Cindy McCain, who said, "I have and always will be proud of my country." It was a cheap shot, but her husband's selection of Palin for the ticket and plenty of cheap shots from Palin ("death panels," etc.) were yet to come.
Michelle Obama quickly explained herself. She was proud of the turnout in the primaries - so many young people, etc. Evan Thomas, writing perceptively in Newsweek, thought - as I did - that she was saying something else. He dug into her senior thesis at Princeton - "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" - to find a young woman who felt, or was made to feel, "more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before." This was not a statement of racism. This was a statement of fact.
It's appalling that Palin and too many others fail to understand that fact - indeed so many facts of American history. They don't offer the slightest hint that they can appreciate the history of the Obama family and that in Michelle's case, her ancestors were slaves - Jim Robinson of South Carolina, her paternal great-great grandfather, being one. Even after they were freed they were consigned to peonage, second-class citizens, forbidden to vote in much of the South, dissuaded from doing so in some of the North, relegated to separate schools, restaurants, churches, hotels, waiting rooms of train stations, the back of the bus, the other side of the tracks, the mortuary, the cemetery and, if whites could manage it, heaven itself.
It was the government that oppressed blacks, enforcing the laws that imprisoned them and hanged them for crimes grave and trivial, whipped them if they bolted for freedom and, in the Civil War, massacred them if they were captured fighting for the North. And yet if African Americans hesitate in embracing the mythical wonderfulness of America, they are accused of racism - of having the gall to know more about their own experience and history than Palin and others think they should.
Why do politicians such as Palin and commentators such as Glenn Beck insist that African Americans go blank on their own history - as blank as apparently Palin and Beck (and Barbour) are themselves? Why must they insist that blacks join them in embracing a repellent history that once caused America to go to war with itself? Besides Princeton, Michelle Obama is a graduate of Harvard Law School. It's hardly possible that she is not knowledgeable about the history of African Americans - no Ellis Island for them, immigrants in their colorful native dress waving at the camera. Should she forget it all simply because she went to Ivy League schools - be thankful for what she had gotten and the hell with the rest? Why should she be more grateful than Cindy McCain? MORE HERE
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Too many Americans go through life with blinders on, in other words,nurtured in a cocoon only experiencing the goings on inside that particular segregate. They then wind up with a false belief that what they’ve witnessed is the whole of reality.Anyone who accepts those cocoon beliefs as the whole truth and nothing but the truth is a pathetic shallow entity but usually can do no harm to others.
But those shallows who obtain a platform of power: these individuals become a threat, a danger to the freedom ALL are suppose to enjoy, not just the few who are fortunate enough to come into existence with bed, bath and beyond lavished upon them. I would even go so far as to say such people are anti American and anti Liberty and are deadly forces against Democracy! thinkingblue
Please sign this very important petition "demand question time" (of our political leaders) HERE.. We really need more dialog from those at the top... The Republicans have got to be made to realize they can't hide behind "NO" any longer! thinkingblue
The interview was so good, I can't wait to see the movie. thinkingblue
Keith Olbermann Interview's Kevin Spacey on his role in Casino Jack
A film about a lobbyist may not sound entertaining, but with a dynamic performance by Kevin Spacey and some freewheeling direction by George Hickenlooper, "Casino Jack" is a lot of fun.
If the name Jack Abramoff rings a bell, you might remember him as the "super lobbyist," who along with his equally unsavory buddies was convicted in 2006 of three federal felony counts relating to defrauding American Indian tribes and the corruption of public officials.
His relationship with former House speaker Tom DeLay led to the congressman's downfall and that of other Washington figures including two White House officials.
It's a complicated story, but Hickenlooper ("Factory Girl") manages to get in enough of the facts while keeping the story rolling. A lot of credit has to go to Spacey's Abramoff,
Once again Keith Olbermann puts to words (precise words) how so many of us feel about Obama caving on the tax cuts for the rich. (A campaign empty promise) So here we are back to how we felt the many years the Republicans had complete control over our fate. Back to those days when Common Sense was thrown to the wind and like the novel "1984" we were forced to live a reality written as a fantasy, the Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One - a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity.
Our President said so in so many words when he chatised HIS BASE for seeking ideological purity, HOW DARE WE, THE SUBORDINATES OF OBAMA and The GOP's "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU", WORLD.
"sanctimonious" and reminding them that "this country was founded on compromise".
WHEN, MAY I ASK, DID THE REPUBLICANS OFFER A COMPROMISE?
TO THIS GRAND OLE PARTY A COMPROMISE IS THE WORD "NO"!
I'm sorry this old thinker, is so tired of the SHIT FROM THE BULL.
Obama Defends Republicans?
Needless to say, I am one subordinate who is very disappointed in this man we call President. He promised a new hope for our country, a back to basics approach to politics where people mattered more than wealth accumulation, and he reneged, just like all good little political hacks do in the end.
A political hack is a negative term ascribed to a person who is part of the political party apparatus, but whose intentions are more aligned with victory than personal conviction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_hack
I'm not sure what we can expect next but I do feel it will be something that the Republicans will be very satisfied with. To me the Republicans (along with the Terrorists - whomever they may be) have won. THINKINGBLUE
Yes, there are two Americas’ Virginia, they exist as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. One tolerant and
free-thinking, the other intolerant and close-minded!
Sincerely, thinkingblue, from the TOLERANT AND FREE-THINKING USA
PS: Joe (You Lie) Wilson, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh et al reside in the intolerant America!
