Pres. Obama for four more years?

I quickly acknowledge my cynicism in assuming the President wants me to have the same faith in him as he had in the abilities of Elizabeth Warren, Van Jones and Samantha Power contrasted to his faith in Tim Geithner, Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton.

He wants me to have the same faith in him as he does in allowing Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman and Nancy Pelosi to keep their venerated positions within the Democratic Party. Sad.
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Whatever the dismal fate of the Supper Committee, I will ever be mindful it was the creation of Sen. Harry Reid.
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The new show on MSNBC featuring Alex Wagner is refreshing. She is charming. Earlier this week, her interactions with guest Wes Moore and Michael Scherer was a rare glimpse into the sharpness of our younger political pundits. I hope she has more of that quality of guest on her show and wish her well.
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GOP candidates running for the Presidency have shown us once again the position is only for an American figurehead and I think they know it. America will no longer have a President influential enough to stop the greed, war mongering and lack of oversight regarding various agencies.

As always,
BB

Is Penn State “abusing” its football players?

In my opinion, the football team is in mourning for a close and beloved family member.

You do not ask mourners to pretend their family member has not died nor do you ask them to continue activities as if nothing has happened. In other words, you should not be un-sympathetic to a mourners' needs to have a grieving period.

The ill-advised decision to have the football players play a game last Saturday was made by the same greedy and highly influential cabal instrumental in keeping the Jerry Sandusky rapes out of the media for years.

The football players are being raped as their anonymous John and benefactor continues to rake in huge profits. Is there really no rest for the weary?

Last Saturday may have been the hardest day many players on the Penn State football team ever had to endure. Sad.
As always,
BB

Penn State Scandal Probe Continues as Team Plays Without Paterno
By LINSEY DAVIS, COLLEEN CURRY and KATTI GRAY
Read more at:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/penn-state-scandal-probe-continues-team-plays-paterno/story?id=14942683#.TsBNqfI0JC0

Langston Hughes and my dilemma

I am reading “The Big Sea” written by Mr. Hughes and published when he was 38 years old in 1940. I am now on page 204. I am a very slow reader.

Here is my dilemma:
Mr. Hughes went to Columbia University in New York City for one semester. He writes a letter to his father:

So I wrote him and told him I was going to quit college and go to work on my own, and that he needn’t send me any more money. He didn’t. He didn’t ever write again. Pg. 85

Mr. Hughes went traveling and upon his return to America, he writes on pg. 201:

Ten months before, I had got to Paris with seven dollars, I had been in France, Italy, and Spain. And after the Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, I came home with a quarter, so my first European trip cost me exactly six dollars and seventy five cents!

Mr. Hughes wanted to attend Howard University upon his return to America. Irregardless of the fact he had a relative who was a Congressman, John M. Langston who was later to become the first dean of the Howard University Law School, he could not get a scholarship to attend Howard.

I wanted to study sociology and history and psychology…I spoke with Dean Kelly Miller about the possibility of trying a scholarship at Howard…I spoke with Dr. Alan Locke, who said my poems were about to appear in the New Negro issue of the Survey Graphic…But he didn’t have any scholarship up his sleeve, either. Pg. 204.

The inability of Mr. Hughes to get a scholarship to go to Howard University is of great curious to me. I am baffled! It does not make sense. As I continue reading his autobiography, I am hoping Mr. Hughes has better luck regarding his educational ambitions. At this time, I am forcing myself to take the position, “Everything happens for the best”.
As always,
BB