Obama’s greatness shines through on first day

[Veritas]

You are correct and while they are busy parading him they should remember he is bi-racial. I think it is too bad he picked so many of the old Clintonistas to assist him. I know he could have done better. It is also interesting that he had to take the oath twice. Is that prophetic? He will not get do overs if there is a crisis. If he screws up it will be game over. Putin is watching and waiting and laughing. I can see him now.

[Arraya]

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.

[Arraya]

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.

[Arraya]

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.

[Arraya]

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.

[Arraya]

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.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne, “Lives in the Balance”.

I first heard this song back in the 1980s, when I was in the Army and with a military advisory unit in El Salvador. This song really hit me and the lyrics are even more compelling today.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne, “Lives in the Balance”.

I first heard this song back in the 1980s, when I was in the Army and with a military advisory unit in El Salvador. This song really hit me and the lyrics are even more compelling today.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne, “Lives in the Balance”.

I first heard this song back in the 1980s, when I was in the Army and with a military advisory unit in El Salvador. This song really hit me and the lyrics are even more compelling today.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne, “Lives in the Balance”.

I first heard this song back in the 1980s, when I was in the Army and with a military advisory unit in El Salvador. This song really hit me and the lyrics are even more compelling today.

[Allan from Fallbrook]

Ive been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends–
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can’t take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There’s a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can’t even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they’re never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

Jackson Browne, “Lives in the Balance”.

I first heard this song back in the 1980s, when I was in the Army and with a military advisory unit in El Salvador. This song really hit me and the lyrics are even more compelling today.

[partypup]

“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.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession

[partypup]

“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.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession

[partypup]

“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.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession

[partypup]

“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.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession

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