September 21, 2009
Top 10 Reasons Obama Did Letterman (click here)
10. Heard the lady with the heart shaped potato was gonna be here. (a reference to a woman in the audience).
9. Thought it would be fun to watch someone else get heckled.
8. Something to do with that whole cash for clunkers deal.
7. Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has done it.
6. Someone offers you 600 bucks you take it ladies and gentlemen.
5. We told him Megan Fox would be here.
4. Needed some time to hang out before check in time at his hotel.
3. I have no idea.
2. Said yes, without thinking, like Bush did with Iraq.
1. Wanted to congratulate Dave on the big Emmy win....
President Obama spoke on five separate Sunday morning programs to achieve the nation's attention. He spoke of more than health care. He willingly fielded questions regarding all kinds of issues, including that of racism which he ducked quite eloquently on Letterman. However, he did state, he didn't feel the heckling was about racism, so much as opposing points of view. I believe we can trust his judgement.
Barak Obama has never been one to put himself in the spotlight for the sake of being in the spotlight. He has been there and continues to be there for the nation and a return of decency to government.
Obama Takes to Airwaves to Push Health Care (click here)
By Paula Wolfson
Washington
20 September 2009
U.S. President Barack Obama took his campaign for health care reform to the nation's airwaves Sunday. In a series of interviews with five television networks he made the case for reform and tried to ease the angry tone of the debate. He touched on foreign policy matters as well.
President Barack Obama It was a media blitz for the president - the latest step in his effort to sell his health care reform plan to a skeptical public. On all five programs, his message was the same....
The Former President also knows the Republican Party does not delineate between people that hate that side with their party in 'their base' and those that would be decent people that view the dynamics of economics wrongly. The Republicans completely cater to all those that would vote for them, including the extremists. That was completely evident during the Bush/Cheney years and those remnants in the House and Senate remain. So, the Former President Carter is correct on recognizing the ability of elected members of the Congress to be willing to 'appear' bigoted for the sake of their electorate.
The Former President is also correct in stating President Obama may try to solicit support for much needed reform in the health insurance debate from the Republicans, but, he should not expect it and settle his expectations to have the much needed reform carried completely by the Democratic Party.
Steven Dick wrote an interesting editorial in the Muskogee Pheonix. I found it to reflect what is a profound reflection of the 'State of Race' in the USA. I agree with Steven Dick in that the Republican Party cannot deny the use of race 'as a tool' in elections, ie: Willy Horton.
There has been a 'back sliding' of belief in President Obama and there is a reason why so many want to say he is 'over exposed.' I don't believe he is. I sincerely believe he is attempting to reach the people that were lied to and are afraid to 'trust' again.
During the 2008 presidential campaign (click title to entry - thank you), much ink and breath were spent talking about race. Most of it, after the nomination of Barack Obama, was positive, marking the historical significance of a black nominee and exploring the possibilities of a post-racial country.
There were still members of the right-wing fringe who said they would never vote for a black man. But most Republicans who, in the past, never hesitated to use race as an election edge held their tongues from overtly attacking Obama for his race.
But it didn’t take long for racial animosity to rear its ugly head.
To be sure, Bill Clinton faced lynch mobs on the right at every move. But he didn’t face crowds that said things like, “We want our country back.”
Conservatives would say this is a reaction to Obama’s perceived liberalism, but look at what the president is doing. He seeks to make nice with Republicans and still believes in bipartisan problem solving. There is no liberal revolution going on. The deadheads who populate the tea baggers want their country returned to white conservatives.
A woman called the office last week upset about a pro-Obama editorial. "I’m tired of all that black stuff," (over exposure, I suppose) she huffed.
Not just Obama, she added, but pictures of blacks, presumably of her fellow community members. She hastened to point out that she had nothing against black people, to which I responded that it sure seemed like she did.
Take the case of Van Jones, a black man who just lost his Obama administration job because he had some choice derogatory names aimed at Republicans and lent his name to a Web site that seeks an investigation of the Bush administration’s possible role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
I can remember when a repugnant representative from Indiana, Dan Burton, called Clinton a scumbag. Burton, who is white, keeps getting elected.
Now conservatives are going after Mark Lloyd, (It worked on Van Jones, so now there is blood in the water and the feeding frenzy is on.) a staffer at the Federal Communications Commission who is critical of corporate-owned media and right-wing dominance of talk radio. Rush Limbaugh thunders into his microphone that Lloyd will bring back the Fairness Doctrine (which would be a great idea since the public owns the airwaves), but Lloyd has no policy power. He is black, though....
I wouldn't say Mark Lloyd is another Michael Powell, but, I sure as hell wish he would be and draconianly revert the rights to the airwaves back to the spirit of HONESTY and TRUTH. I like the idea of a strong black man able to handle the worst of the Right Wing 'Mean Machine.'
While President Obama is saying what he needs to in delivering the agenda of the people of the USA; Steven Dick said what needed to be said and I thank him for it.
