“It’s almost as if TPTB are trying to stir up racial tensions with their over-the-top and increasingly annoying references to Obama’s race: parading him around in the media as a veritable “hip hop” president, cloaking him in the MLK garb, packing his inauguration with high-profile black entertainers — and now this idiocy from Reich, which is a shameless attempt to patronize blacks while clearly inviting a blowback from whites.
For what purpose? Insanity.
Would TPTB rather have racial wars or people storming Goldman Sachs and the Fed with pitch forks and torches? Divide and conquer.”
Good point, A. It does smack of a divide-and-conquer strategy.
And the strategy is brilliant in another way: blacks, who could be reliably counted upon for eons to view government and their leaders with suspicion, the people who would be most likely to rise up under these brutal economic conditions, have been CO-OPTED by TPTB who are exploiting their racism and their desperate need for a role model. Far from being wary of Obama and his cozy relationships with elite power brokers, they are completely enthralled with him. If Obama left them lying in a gutter, peniless and starving, blacks would still crawl and grope their way to the polls in 2012 to give the man another chance to screw them.
My question is, why the hell can’t the REST of America wake up and rise up against the forces that are so obviously and shamelessly manipulating and oppressing them? Greece, Bulgaria, Latvia — all over the world, people are literally UP IN ARMS about this crisis. But back here in ObamaLand, as the skies are darkening around us and the chasm widens to swallow us whole, we are content to watch the Prom King and Queen waltz their way through TEN inaugural balls in the most expensive presidential ceremony in U.S. history ($160 million, four times more than any other inauguration).
WTF??? Are we in Versailles?? Scratch that. Even Versailles wasn’t this offensive, because France wasn’t as friggin’ BROKE as we are.
Don’t we have the stones to at least behave as the Icelanders do? If 200,000 mild-mannered folk on a chunk of volcanic rock in the middle of the Atlantic can take to the streets and vent, why the hell can’t we?
The people in this country had best get their acts together soon, or the next stop on the Obama Love Train is going to be a set of concentration camps with *hope* and *change* banners strewn about the rafters and a fresh pitcher of cyanide Kool Aid(paid for with bailout funds, of course).
“Iceland’s government is on the point of collapse as angry protesters stake out the Parliament in Reykjavik
While Barack Obama was being sworn in to office on Capitol Hill yesterday, the people of Iceland were starting the first revolution in the history of the republic. The word “revolution” might sound a bit of an overstatement, but given the calm temperament that usually prevails in Icelandic politics, the unfolding events represent, at the very least, a revolution in political activism.”
