Racism: “Reviewing the situation” (Update)
Fagin, one of the main characters in the musical “Oliver” sings the song “I’m reviewing the situation” admitting issues in his life have begun to change and he has to confront them. In the language of today, it would be called “flip-flopping” but lyricist Lionel Bart did not have such an expression at his command in the 1960’s. As a matter of fact, I do not think we even had the foot ware flip-flops at the time. If we had, perhaps the title of Fagin‘s song would be different. I leave that to the comedic area of ones imagination.
With my concerns regarding the accusations of racism identified as an infusion into the ‘08 Presidential campaign, in my opinion, a prototype is emerging. The prototype being the same ground work laid out for war against President Saddam and his country. Most importantly, there is Mainstream Media collectively drum beating calls for the war on destroying Sen. Obama’s character as did they the character of President Saddam. There are the mis-quotes, the out right lies, the “Don’t believe your lying eyes” rhetoric and the strong suspicion of manipulation of the poll numbers.
It maybe true we defenders of what we perceive as racist entities directed toward Sen. Obama are not perceived by the oligarchy through those lens. They may be looking at the Presidential race of Sen. Obama as the race of a terrorist. A race they have to win. They have to win due to the fact they, the oligarchy, have abandoned America as nation of people to simple terms of being a cash cow aiding their domination and raiding the treasury of other countries. And therefore, Sen. Obama is indeed “presumptuous” to assume he can put Humpty Dumpty back together again after all their efforts to “Stay the course” as started by President Reagan. Sen. Obama is indeed “arrogant” to have the audacity to hope he and his minions will pull back together many of the fractured areas of America thereby putting it again as a truly functioning society.
This to them is not racism and I thank God they have yet to overtly call Sen. Obama an obstructionist. However, let us not assume there are not reporters at this point jockeying for the fame and fortuned awarded NYT reporter Judith Miller for the role she played in the Iraq/Contras preludes to the war. Although they, the oligarchy, may uses elements of racism as they so successfully did in Iran by segmenting the society into three ethnic areas of the country, they are doing this via the book on fighting terrorism and viewing the defenders of racism, if you will, as terrorist. After all, has not Karl Rove been hired to adjust Sen. McCain’s campaign? I would consider myself naive to believe he would try to win a Presidential campaign entirely using the lens of racism. He thinks in the broader terms of dealing with combatants, hence terrorist and yes, we can metaphorically look forward to some form of waterboarding and the likes. Karl Rove revels in bringing into reality those kinds of his fantasies. No longer his and Rumfeld's dirty little secret and I can only imagine what they would want to do to Sen. Obama.
I will go out on a limb and posit that most of the same people who were against the build up of the war in Iraq are the same people opposing what we feel is a racist war on Sen. Obama.
I awakened from my nap and this interpretation was on my mind so me, being an ardent believer in the universal thought, yawned, went to Dkos to find who else had the same thought and wrote about it and, still motivated, still yawning, found the dairy of gravity: (I have not leaned to use block quotes)
It's Easy to Break, It's Hard to Build
by gravity
Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 08:41:33 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/2/211415/7016/889/561522
Opening paragraph:
"There are two kinds of people in this world. Builders and Breakers.
Building is hard work. Building consensus, building sound economic policy, building a movement for positive change. It's hard. It takes a long time. It's much easier to just break stuff. And Republicans, they like to do things the easy way. Every time."
Finally and in regard to the polls, I have questions regarding what I call Sen. McCain’s ethereal (not of this world, celestial) supporters. I reference the ones whom the polls say are just as many as Sen. Obama supporters. The ones who make the poll numbers reflect Sen. Obama is either a few points ahead of or behind Sen. McCain. The who we do not see in the many of the 50 to 100 showing up at the local waffle shop to hear a McCain stump speech. The ones whom you do not hear of who keeps Sen. McCain’s financial minister ever so busy counting money from contributions and, alas, the throngs working in his -to many to count- campaign offices, having McCain signs in their yards, making and wearing McCain T-shirts for their spouses and children to wear in local parades and at fairs. They ones only showing up in polls. To be more exact, in the Gallup polls. Truly an amazing group of people the Gallup poll people have discovered here in America. One wonders if they are the same people in the market to buy bridges. I have expanded my real estate business. (Smile)
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. (After thought) Is Sen. McCain our new Chaliebi being used by Neo-cons? As I remember, Ahmed Chaliebi could also do no wrong. Neo-cons appear to relish going against universal thoughts. They find it unique and hope people would begin to love their uniqueness and it has turn in many cases to hateful scorn. Boy, talking about paranoia...
(UPDATE)
A comment to a diary: (Also, with numbers so high you would think there was no need to manipulate McCain’s answer in and interview with Katie Couric.)
What makes up McCains numbers? (2+ / 0-)
1. Obama leads white lower wage workers
2. Obama leads all folks earning below 27K
3. Obama leads blacks and hispanics by a big margin
4. Obama leads women by a big margin.
5. Obama has cornered the college educated market.
Sounds like pretty much everyone.
So just who in the world is supporting McCain to keep his numbers as high as they are?
by goanliberal on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:26:10 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/4/43351/97625/308/562095
With my concerns regarding the accusations of racism identified as an infusion into the ‘08 Presidential campaign, in my opinion, a prototype is emerging. The prototype being the same ground work laid out for war against President Saddam and his country. Most importantly, there is Mainstream Media collectively drum beating calls for the war on destroying Sen. Obama’s character as did they the character of President Saddam. There are the mis-quotes, the out right lies, the “Don’t believe your lying eyes” rhetoric and the strong suspicion of manipulation of the poll numbers.
It maybe true we defenders of what we perceive as racist entities directed toward Sen. Obama are not perceived by the oligarchy through those lens. They may be looking at the Presidential race of Sen. Obama as the race of a terrorist. A race they have to win. They have to win due to the fact they, the oligarchy, have abandoned America as nation of people to simple terms of being a cash cow aiding their domination and raiding the treasury of other countries. And therefore, Sen. Obama is indeed “presumptuous” to assume he can put Humpty Dumpty back together again after all their efforts to “Stay the course” as started by President Reagan. Sen. Obama is indeed “arrogant” to have the audacity to hope he and his minions will pull back together many of the fractured areas of America thereby putting it again as a truly functioning society.
This to them is not racism and I thank God they have yet to overtly call Sen. Obama an obstructionist. However, let us not assume there are not reporters at this point jockeying for the fame and fortuned awarded NYT reporter Judith Miller for the role she played in the Iraq/Contras preludes to the war. Although they, the oligarchy, may uses elements of racism as they so successfully did in Iran by segmenting the society into three ethnic areas of the country, they are doing this via the book on fighting terrorism and viewing the defenders of racism, if you will, as terrorist. After all, has not Karl Rove been hired to adjust Sen. McCain’s campaign? I would consider myself naive to believe he would try to win a Presidential campaign entirely using the lens of racism. He thinks in the broader terms of dealing with combatants, hence terrorist and yes, we can metaphorically look forward to some form of waterboarding and the likes. Karl Rove revels in bringing into reality those kinds of his fantasies. No longer his and Rumfeld's dirty little secret and I can only imagine what they would want to do to Sen. Obama.
I will go out on a limb and posit that most of the same people who were against the build up of the war in Iraq are the same people opposing what we feel is a racist war on Sen. Obama.
I awakened from my nap and this interpretation was on my mind so me, being an ardent believer in the universal thought, yawned, went to Dkos to find who else had the same thought and wrote about it and, still motivated, still yawning, found the dairy of gravity: (I have not leaned to use block quotes)
It's Easy to Break, It's Hard to Build
by gravity
Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 08:41:33 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/2/211415/7016/889/561522
Opening paragraph:
"There are two kinds of people in this world. Builders and Breakers.
Building is hard work. Building consensus, building sound economic policy, building a movement for positive change. It's hard. It takes a long time. It's much easier to just break stuff. And Republicans, they like to do things the easy way. Every time."
Finally and in regard to the polls, I have questions regarding what I call Sen. McCain’s ethereal (not of this world, celestial) supporters. I reference the ones whom the polls say are just as many as Sen. Obama supporters. The ones who make the poll numbers reflect Sen. Obama is either a few points ahead of or behind Sen. McCain. The who we do not see in the many of the 50 to 100 showing up at the local waffle shop to hear a McCain stump speech. The ones whom you do not hear of who keeps Sen. McCain’s financial minister ever so busy counting money from contributions and, alas, the throngs working in his -to many to count- campaign offices, having McCain signs in their yards, making and wearing McCain T-shirts for their spouses and children to wear in local parades and at fairs. They ones only showing up in polls. To be more exact, in the Gallup polls. Truly an amazing group of people the Gallup poll people have discovered here in America. One wonders if they are the same people in the market to buy bridges. I have expanded my real estate business. (Smile)
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. (After thought) Is Sen. McCain our new Chaliebi being used by Neo-cons? As I remember, Ahmed Chaliebi could also do no wrong. Neo-cons appear to relish going against universal thoughts. They find it unique and hope people would begin to love their uniqueness and it has turn in many cases to hateful scorn. Boy, talking about paranoia...
(UPDATE)
A comment to a diary: (Also, with numbers so high you would think there was no need to manipulate McCain’s answer in and interview with Katie Couric.)
What makes up McCains numbers? (2+ / 0-)
1. Obama leads white lower wage workers
2. Obama leads all folks earning below 27K
3. Obama leads blacks and hispanics by a big margin
4. Obama leads women by a big margin.
5. Obama has cornered the college educated market.
Sounds like pretty much everyone.
So just who in the world is supporting McCain to keep his numbers as high as they are?
by goanliberal on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:26:10 AM PDT
posted by BB at 2:16 AM
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