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Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell: Words Matter
Now that President Obama has encountered some political turbulence in just the first 3 weeks of his presidency, it will be interesting to see how he crafts his message this week as he takes his stimulus message on the road for the first time.
Anyone with any sense knows the ovations he receives in Indiana, Florida and Illinois this week will be thunderous. And that is only right. Outside of missteps regarding the suitability of a few of his appointments, Obama has done what he promised. He has attempted to get the country back on solid economic ground.
But now that Obama has suffered resistance from Republicans opposed to his spending plan, will Obama continue to court the opposition in an attempt to coax them to his thinking? Or will he use his greatest strength, his connection with people, to ratchet up the rhetoric and demand that the GOP stand aside and let him do the job he was elected to do in the manner he sees fit?
The president may have offered a little hint of how he will speak to the crowds this week during his weekly address. He said that while national employment figures continue to disappoint, he was pleased the Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement on key portions of his spending proposal.
So the president may continue to offer an olive branch to Republicans. But the question remains how long will his patience last and he turns that branch into a whipping switch.
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Paul Shepard blogs the Democrat side of politics for Black Voices. He has been a journalist for 16 years: on the national urban/minority affairs beat for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and for AP in Washington, D.C. He now runs his own public affairs firm, Shepard Strategic Communications
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By: Dean on 2/18/2009 8:34AM
Tell Obama what how you think he is doing at
WhatObamaMeansToMe.com.
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By: Cindy on 2/20/2009 3:36PM
WHO AM I??
I was raised in one country but my father was born in another. I was not his only child. He fathered several children with a number of women.
I became very close to my mother because my father showed little interest in me. Then my mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name. My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a reliable birth certificate.
I grow up practicing one faith, but converted to Christianity because this was widely accepted in my country. But I practiced non-traditional beliefs and did not follow mainstream Christianity.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
I became active in local politics when I was in my 30s and then burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office when I was in my 40s. I had a virtually non-existent resume, very little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization. Yet I was a powerful speaker who managed to draw incredibly large crowds during my public appearances.
At first, my political campaign focused on my country’s foreign policy. I was critical of my country in the last war. But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country’s economy. I had a plan on how we could do better. I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess.
Mine was a peoples campaign. I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of politics and was able to gain widespread popular support. I offered the people the hope that together we could change our country and the world.
I spoke on behalf of the downtrodden including persecuted minorities such as Jews, but my actual views were not widely known until after I became my nations leader. However, anyone could have easily learned what I really believed if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with. But they did not.
Then I became the most powerful man in the world. And the world learned the truth.
Who am I?
Answer: ADOLPH HITLER
You thought I was talking about someone else… didn’t you!
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By: fred on 2/22/2009 2:05PM
"When the people elect themselves money, this will be the end of the Republic." -Benjamin Franklin ---"People that pay for things never complain; It's the guy you give something to that you just can't please." -Will Rogers ---"We're getting SCREWED!" -ME
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By: PAUL on 2/26/2009 4:49AM
I FEEL THAT OBAMA SHOULD BE GIVEN A CHANCE TO EDUCATE AMERICA AND EXPLAIN IN EASY TERMS HOW HIS PLAN WORKS. I DO BELIEVE HOWEVER THAT PORK MUST BE CUT FROM ANY FUTURE SPENDING PLANS. THAT MEANS ALL PORK. BAD HABITS MUST BE BROKEN IN WASHINGTON OR WE ARE IN FOR A VERY TURBULENT PERIOD IN HISTORY. OF COURSE CUTTING PORK MAY HURT SOME LOBBYISTS AND SOME POLITICIANS, BUT ISN'T THE SURVIVAL OF OUR COUNTRY MORE IMPORTANT THAT THE SELFISH CONCERNS OF THE FEW. THE REPUBLICANS SHOULD STOP ACTING LIKE DINOSAURS AND SUPPORT OUR COUNTRY AND GIVE THIS ADMINISTRATION A CHANCE.
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By: will on 3/01/2009 8:56PM
Nancy Piiolsi was who the dead chimp was supposed to represent- althouth I still think it was in bad taste for what could be construed from the implication regarding blacks = monkeys. This reference however is from their own kind- most white people were not aware of this until now- like how "light skinned blacks and dark skinned blacks are treated differently in their own community- I have sween much of this first hand- there was even a skit parody on SNL- that bastiaion of Lib Media. When our new PRESIDENT distances himself from Pissoli- like he did WRIGHT- he will be much better of and try to figure out where this money is coming from- we understand he never ran a business- had a real job in the private sector where results are demanded- but try to figure something other then spending my grandchildrens future.
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By: Cindy on 3/02/2009 3:48PM
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction," says Obama.
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By: Cindy on 3/02/2009 3:54PM
A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is Still a Wolf
By William Kevin Stoos Thursday, October 23, 2008 Stoos Views
The wolf plays a prominent role in socialist thought. V.I. Lenin once said “When you live among wolves you must howl like a wolf,” meaning, of course, that if political necessity requires you to act like a capitalist or live among capitalists while you organize and work for socialist causes, you must act like those among whom you live. This is simply a matter of expediency. Likewise, Norman Thomas, a founder of the A.C.L.U. once said:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
There is a stained glass window on display in the London School of Economics. Designed by George Bernard Shaw to commemorate the founding of the Society, the “Fabian Window” features Society members hammering the world in order, as the motto proclaims, to “REMOULD IT NEARER TO THE HEART’S DESIRE.” [sic]. A close and politically astute friend of mine–and leading expert on socialism–exclaimed: “How brazen are the socialists!” When I asked why, he pointed to the image of the wolf dressed in a sheepskin displayed prominently above the globe in the Fabian Window–a stark and ostentatious reminder that the goal of the socialists is to work secretly, in disguise (just as Lenin counseled) and adapt to the flock, pack, or society in which you live and move. Put simply, if you read and study socialist thought, the message is very clear: work to remould the work to your heart’s desire and work for socialist causes discreetly–in disguise–adapting to whatever milieu in which you are working. This, of course, begs the question which America must now answer: “Whose heart desires to remould the world and how?” Depending on who has the hammer–we may or may not like the change.
Fast forward from the days of Lenin and Shaw, to the present. Barack Hussein Obama’s Freudian slip (or, at best, poorly timed quip) about Sarah Palin and “lipstick on a pig,” reminded me of Lenin, windows, and wolves somehow.
Obama looks good. He is (as Biden once said during the primaries) “intelligent and articulate.” He wears nice suits. He has wonderful stage presence and he is a rock star. And people have no idea who he is, where he came from, who influenced him or what his plans are if he–the most inexperienced politician ever to come out of nowhere–is elected president. Influenced by “Uncle” Frank Marshall Davis (a communist organizer in Hawaii whose agenda was only to promote racial and class struggle), Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn–two unapologetic American terrorists who went underground for years to foster terrorism and support our enemies right here in our own country–a radical black liberation “minister” and others, he has an agenda. And, the change of which he speaks may well not be what most Americans think, or want.
What are his plans for America?
–Redistribution of wealth from those who own the means of production to those who don’t.
–Fostering of class envy and economic class warfare
–Government control of the health care system and education
–Mandatory sex education for kindergarteners and promotion of same sex marriages
–Increased capital gains tax
–Taxing corporations for being too successful
–Punishing with new federal taxes, employers who do not choose to
purchase health insurance for their employees
–Increased deference to the United Nations and erosion of our national sovereignty
–Talking to the enemies of Israel and America
–Bigger and more intrusive government
His campaign and his platform are eerily reminiscent of the message on the Fabian Window, the writings of V.I. Lenin, and the political thought of Antonio Gramsci. He has plans for America and the world. He wants to “remould the world nearer to [his] heart’s desire.” But we must ask ourselves, who is he…really? Americans have not asked enough, and they are far too naïve when it comes to Obama. We simply cannot trust him with the hammer.
A pig with lipstick may still be a pig; but a socialist in a business suit is still a socialist. And a wolf in sheep’s clothing is still a wolf.
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By: bell30 on 4/01/2009 10:09AM
welfare recipiants,slackers and people who don't want to work and just take,take,take love obama only uneducated morons swallow what the fake media spoon feeds them with out question.People wake up!!! it's over for America what will all the freeloaders do when Obama stops handing out the free crap!! Oh! wait they won't blame the ROCK STAR with no brain! it's all a shame people wake up he is a frud and he's using the poor dependent on goverment people to keep him in office we are all doomed.There is NO more money to give to the welfare ,medicaid programs he will not protect us at all the ghettos will get worse because he is cutting police,fire,milatary ect no one will help you when you need it.Gangs,illigals,drugs ect.no one will be there because the well is DRY!!!! Doctors won't practice medicine if it's socialized there's no money in it for them don't you all get it you get sick you die think people think.
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