I've got some bad flu today; blog content will continue to go up, but I'm probably not going to be able to muster the ability to wade into the Jeremiah Wright speech today as my head hurts badly enough as is.
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Sick of It All
18 Mar 2008 10:12 am
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Feel better, Matt -- we all need for you to recover so that you follow Glenzilla's and Ezra's attacks on the whiny white victimization card played by the Douthats of the world.
Please tell me you're making a poor joke, white cornerback. I mean, I'm hoping nobody is that horrendously stupid, but I've so often been disappointed.
Sorry, still caught up on your previous BPS question, Matt. Are you saying you don't understand why they are important (in which case you should really consider a hiatus from blogging any economic matters until you've done some studying) or that you think there's a rhetorical downside to talking about rate changes in terms of spread? Seriously, what are you trying to say?
Get well soon, Matt. Also --- nothing on Florida saying no to revoting?
I love how Wright's controversial, beyond-the-pale statements seem to be along the lines of "the government is corrupt" and "this country was founded on racism". Those are just crazy notions!
By "flu" do you mean "flu" or "Saint-Patrick's-Day-induced-alcohol-poisoning-aftermath"?
I love how Wright's controversial, beyond-the-pale statements seem to be along the lines of "the government is corrupt" and "this country was founded on racism". Those are just crazy notions!
Oh, sure, those sound so reasonable when you say them, but when Jeremiah Wright says them, they sound so angry and passionate and full of blackness. It's very offensive. Why, that poor little Ezra Klein needs to fetch himself the fainting couch!
Hmm, day after St. Patrick's day...
Irish Flu?
As to the Wright speech, we're seriously waiting with bated breath to find out whether Obama can deliver a good speech? Don't we have better things to do like planning an inauguration parade route and buying bunting?
1) Barack needs to attack the right wing traitors who keep harping on Jeremiah Wright's past comments. Because Wright was correct in many respects.
2) Sept 11 was provoked by past US government support for the Saudi dictatorship, by US government killing of 600,000 Iraqi children , and by the US government's support for Likud aggression against Palestinian civilians --massacres committed with US supplied weapons like the F16 fighters and Apache helicopters.
3) George Bush lied through his teeth -- and the disloyal Neocon scum helped him do it.
4) Obama needs to point out that the whores for rich men are not acting on behalf of the American people -- or American national interests.
That just because disloyal whores like William Kristol, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh wave the flag doesn't mean that they are patriotic. The record indicates the reverse, actually.
The Neocons and right wing's argument that an attack on their disloyal whoring is an attack on "America" is one of their more despicable lies.
I think Matt means "flu-like symptoms" and that he can't play through them like Jordan or Sampras.
So far, Obama's done a pretty moving job.
Matt, hope you feel better. In fact, I know you will if you read the speech (the text is all over the internet). It should go down as one of the best speeches in American history. Certainly, the best thing I've heard on the topic of race since MLK was killed.
Re Don Williams
"and by the US government's support for Likud aggression against Palestinian civilians --massacres committed with US supplied weapons like the F16 fighters and Apache helicopters."
Gee, those poor Palestinian civilians that the IDF is being beastly towards. Of course, the innocent Palestinians wouldn't be caught dead sending homicide bombers to blow up pizza parlors or fire qassem rockets into Sderot. Perish the thought. That's just Zionist propaganda. Of course, the Palestinians can be thankful for one thing, namely that Hafaz Assad is not the Prime Minister of Israel. If he were, Mr. Williams would really have something to bitch about.
On the subject of Reverend Wright, attached is a link to an editorial in todays' Washington Post which I am sure will raise the ire of the Obamabots on this blog.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702541.html?sub=AR
Attached is a link to todays' Richard Cohen column about the Wright problem. Another item to give the Obamabots on this blog heartburn.
As if I needed another reason to vote Obama- he used "gang-banger" in a speech.
"So far, Obama's done a pretty moving job."
Well after the hit job they did on MSNBC this morning, he's got his work cut out for him. They actually had Pat Buchanin lecturing on the dangers of hate speech and throwing out that Wright is not really a Christian. The mind boggles.
Now we're having the post speech nitpicking. Pat Buchanin is still not satisfied. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tells ya...
"Why, that poor little Ezra Klein needs to fetch himself the fainting couch!"
That'd be the same Ezra who dug himself a hole claiming that black people don't like Starbucks?
As soon as he realized there was an impasse after Election Day in 2000, Richard Cohen publicly regretted that he had voted for Gore. This gave me a lot of heartburn too, SLC.
You missed a heckuva speech Sicky McSickpants.
BTW, Matt, hope you're feeling better.
Didn't hear the ending, but thought it was the best speech I've heard a politician give in a long time.
nolaboyd -- No, I meant it when I said African-Americans should be grateful for being born in America. Can you name another actual country or place on earth were they would be better off?
Obama moved towards that when he said "my story could only be possible in this country."
Basically it was a good speech. He'll be the nominee and he'll have my vote. Only part I didn't like was when he through his grandma under the bus for expressing her entirely justified fears of black crime.
Re SLC's comment "Gee, those poor Palestinian civilians that the IDF is being beastly towards"
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In July 2002, Sharon used a US-supplied F16 fighter to bomb an Apartment building in Gaza in the middle of the night --killing nine children and wounding over 150 civilians. See
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/07/23/mideast/index.html
An excerpt:
"Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said "there was no intent on harming civilians."
"According to the information we had, there were not supposed to be civilians in his vicinity," Ben-Eliezer said, "and we express sorrow at the harm to them."
"In the past we refrained form targeting Shehade, when we had reliable information of his whereabouts, because of the presence of civilians in his vicinity."
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat called the attack a "despicable act."
"I don't think Sharon had intended by doing this tonight to give the peace process any chance at all," Erakat said. "Nothing justifies the targeting and the bombardment of this residential area."
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Note how Sharon's government sabotaged US peace process with atrocities and then deliberately LIED to the American people about it.
Gaza is one of the MOST DENSELY POPULATED places on earth -- there was no way a three story apartment building was going to be unoccupied in the middle of the night.
But Likud can cheerfully give the US government the finger -- because they know there are plenty of American traitors in the Israel Lobby who will raise hell if the US government tries to establish peace. Even when the past acts of the Lobby bring down blowback like the Sept 11 attack -- which Bin Laden explicitly justified on the grounds of US sales of advanced weapons to Israel and Israel's use of those weapons to murder Palestinian civilians.
Re Don Williams
"In July 2002, Sharon used a US-supplied F16 fighter to bomb an Apartment building in Gaza in the middle of the night --killing nine children and wounding over 150 civilians"
What a terrible act of murder. How beastly those Israelis are. Of course, if Hafaz Assad had been the Prime Minister of Israel instead of Ariel Sharon, the number of dead and wounded in the subject attack on the Gaza Strip would have been numbered in the thousands, just as it was in the City of Hama in 1982.
As for Mr. Williams' hero Osama bin Laden, well, who cares what he says. Since his declared goal is the forcible conversion of everybody in the world to his perverted version of Islam, one excuse is as good as another.
Re SLC's comment "As for Mr. Williams' hero Osama bin Laden"
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Not my hero, SLC.
My enemy.
Because, unlike you, I support this country against its enemies --foreign or domestic.
But you are a fool if you don't look at how Bin Laden recruits support in the Islamic world --support that has enabled him to hid for 7 years while Saddam Hussein was given up right away.
It is one thing to go after Al Qaeda -- but it is stupid to allow oneself to be manipulated into an unnecessary war with 1 Billion Muslims. Hence, the need to address legitimate Islamic grievances -- especially since those grievances largely concern the malign actions of special interests. Special interests that are acting contrary to the US national interest.
Re Don Williams
1. Mr. Don Williams denies the charge that Mr. bin Laden is his hero. However, he is the only one who regularly invokes his name on this blog. Actions speak louder then words.
2. Mr. Don Williams says that the US should address legitimate Islamic grievances and that any American who who is less then enthusiastic about such addressing is a traitor. To be called a traitor by someone like Mr. Williams I consider to be a great honor.
3. Since the Israeli/Palestinian issue seems to be at least a major source of discontent in the Muslim world, I would assume that Mr. Williams thinks that a good starting position here is to lean on the Government of Israel to be less beastly towards the Palestinians. His thinking apparently is that such restraint by the Government of Israel will result in a better relationship between the US and the Palestinians and their supporters in the Muslim World. Well, I am afraid that that is the source of the disagreement between Mr. Williams and myself. My view is that such restraint will be interpreted by the Arabs, at least, as a sign of weakness, to be exploited by them. His error is the assumption that the Arab worlds' only desire is for the Palestinians and Israelis to bury the hatchet and come to an agreement. My view is that what the Arab World in general and the Palestinians in particular desire is that the Government of Israel agree to go out of business. So unless Mr. Williams is prepared to advocate that the Government of the United States force that Government of Israel to go out of business, he is barking at the moon.
Matt, I'm glad you hold an appreciation for New York hardcore.
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Heads in the Sand
What I'd like to here him say this morning: African-Americans, and other citizens of color, can and should be grateful to be Americans.
Posted by white cornerback | March 18, 2008 10:28 AM