Tone-Deaf or listening to another drummer
Re:….
Tone-Deaf in D.C.
By BOB HERBERT
NYT Op-ed 11/06
As I began reading Mr. Herberts’ well written Op-ed, I began humming the old Negro play song, Dem Bones i.e.,
After reading the Op-ed and humming my tune, I concluded Ms. Vilma Hart hit the nail on the head by connecting dots as to what is happening in todays’ environment rather than connecting bones.
Ms. Vilma Hart is the lady who, at a Town Hall Meeting in Maryland raised eyebrows by asking the President if her present situation was her new reality? The visibly stunned President, bless his heart, made efforts to answer her question. Eyebrows were raised again at what some considered his non-answer. In other words, I’ll put it this way: His answer did not match the strength of her question. It did not come near.
In my opinion, our new reality is confronting head-on what our new reality is as follows:
-It is going on the fifth year with Pelosi and Reid in a prominent position of power and we lost the midterm elections big time. I know, “This time is going to be really different!”
-It is going on the third year our monetary system has been running roughshod with our treasury and they say we are broke. “They” are the people who made us broke and whom the President hired to fix the situation.
-It is the um-teenth year the Oligarchy and media have worked in concert to destroy the moral fiber of America.
- Everyone has to pay for healthcare or pay a fine or die trying.
- Blacks turning a 'below the radar' eye towards TeaBaggers, their efforts to take back the country and their recent support for Black candidates during midterm elections.
To take a leap, I therefore posit what we are seeing as our new reality is a connected series of long, pedantically planned benchmarks with the end product being a country that is the police station of the world. With our military arsenal and fighting power, our only meaningful contribution to the world will be as bullies, fighters, murderers and thugs.
When a country would need the use of our military for whatever reason, we will respond for the appropriate price, fight the fight and with a wink and a nod, take whatever resources we want from the conquered country.
And finally, America will no longer be a country but a separate entity in the constellation of the new world order; a place unto itself. There will be some air of respectability surrounding us but it would be air…..very thin air, the “Emperors’ New Clothes” kind of air.
As always,
BB
Tone-Deaf in D.C.
By BOB HERBERT
Excerpt:
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are offering voters the kind of change that they seem so desperately to want. We’re getting mind-numbing chatter about balanced budgets and smaller government and whether Mitch McConnell and his gang can chase President Obama out of the White House in 2012.
And
The Democrats are in disarray because it’s a party that lacks a spine. The Republicans, conversely, fight like wild people whether they’re in the majority or not. What neither party is doing is offering a bold, coherent plan to get the nation’s economy in good shape and create jobs, to bring our young men and women home from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to rebuild the education system in a way that will prepare the next generation for the great challenges of the 21st century, and to reinvigorate the can-do spirit of America in a way that makes people believe that they are working together toward grand and constructive goals.
Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/opinion/06herbert.html?src=me&ref=general
Tone-Deaf in D.C.
By BOB HERBERT
NYT Op-ed 11/06
As I began reading Mr. Herberts’ well written Op-ed, I began humming the old Negro play song, Dem Bones i.e.,
The hip bone's connected to the back bone
The back bone's connected to the neck bone,
The neck bone's connected to the head bone,
Now here’s duh word of duh Lord! Etc,.
After reading the Op-ed and humming my tune, I concluded Ms. Vilma Hart hit the nail on the head by connecting dots as to what is happening in todays’ environment rather than connecting bones.
Ms. Vilma Hart is the lady who, at a Town Hall Meeting in Maryland raised eyebrows by asking the President if her present situation was her new reality? The visibly stunned President, bless his heart, made efforts to answer her question. Eyebrows were raised again at what some considered his non-answer. In other words, I’ll put it this way: His answer did not match the strength of her question. It did not come near.
In my opinion, our new reality is confronting head-on what our new reality is as follows:
-It is going on the fifth year with Pelosi and Reid in a prominent position of power and we lost the midterm elections big time. I know, “This time is going to be really different!”
-It is going on the third year our monetary system has been running roughshod with our treasury and they say we are broke. “They” are the people who made us broke and whom the President hired to fix the situation.
-It is the um-teenth year the Oligarchy and media have worked in concert to destroy the moral fiber of America.
- Everyone has to pay for healthcare or pay a fine or die trying.
- Blacks turning a 'below the radar' eye towards TeaBaggers, their efforts to take back the country and their recent support for Black candidates during midterm elections.
To take a leap, I therefore posit what we are seeing as our new reality is a connected series of long, pedantically planned benchmarks with the end product being a country that is the police station of the world. With our military arsenal and fighting power, our only meaningful contribution to the world will be as bullies, fighters, murderers and thugs.
When a country would need the use of our military for whatever reason, we will respond for the appropriate price, fight the fight and with a wink and a nod, take whatever resources we want from the conquered country.
And finally, America will no longer be a country but a separate entity in the constellation of the new world order; a place unto itself. There will be some air of respectability surrounding us but it would be air…..very thin air, the “Emperors’ New Clothes” kind of air.
As always,
BB
Tone-Deaf in D.C.
By BOB HERBERT
Excerpt:
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are offering voters the kind of change that they seem so desperately to want. We’re getting mind-numbing chatter about balanced budgets and smaller government and whether Mitch McConnell and his gang can chase President Obama out of the White House in 2012.
And
The Democrats are in disarray because it’s a party that lacks a spine. The Republicans, conversely, fight like wild people whether they’re in the majority or not. What neither party is doing is offering a bold, coherent plan to get the nation’s economy in good shape and create jobs, to bring our young men and women home from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to rebuild the education system in a way that will prepare the next generation for the great challenges of the 21st century, and to reinvigorate the can-do spirit of America in a way that makes people believe that they are working together toward grand and constructive goals.
Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/opinion/06herbert.html?src=me&ref=general
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