Obama's First Six Months--A Bust

I haven't weighed in on the Henry Louis Gates situation here at the blog, but I will admit that I rushed to judgment in the very beginning. I thought that the cop was a racist, but after hearing all of the facts (Good thing I'm not the gotdamn president of the United States. Had I made that rush to judgment as POTUS, only to have to recant, that would have been really, really bad....whoops) I now know, as I'm loathe to admit--Henry Louis Gates is a fool and a bit of a con man. I'm even hoping that he's not abusing prescription drugs what with the way he was so aggressive with Officer Crowley...I'm just saying......

Now, check out this awesome, awesome video on YouTube from Hannity's Show that wraps up Obama's six months thus far in office. Let me give you a hint--they equal FAIL. --SUGAR

Comments

[ITSAGIRL!]

I'm telling you if it had been me and old Henry would have brought my mama into it, my fellow officers would still be trying to take me off that asshole.

[pete]

Obama is the scariest pol this country has ever seen - please watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_4p6htWJIo&feature=related

[BARB]

I knew there was some reason I had no respect for Gates. Ishmael Reed in his recent CounterPunch.org article reminded me why:

CNN gave Gates’ accusation against blacks as anti-Semites a worldwide audience and so when I traveled to Israel for the first time in the year, 2000, Israeli intellectuals asked me why American blacks hated Jews so. In print, I challenged Gate’s libeling of blacks as a group in my book, Another Day at the Front, because at the time of his Op-ed, the Anti-Defamation League issued a report that showed the decline of anti-Semitism among black Americans. I cited this report to Gates. He said that the Times promised that there would be a follow up Op-ed about racism among American Jews. It never appeared. Barry Glassner was correct when he wrote in his “The Culture of Fear” that the whole Gates-generated black Jewish feud was hyped.

Under Tina Brown’s editorship at The New Yorker, Gates was hired to do hatchet jobs on Minister Louis Farrakhan and the late playwright August Wilson.

(snip)

Even the Bush administration admitted to the existence of racial profiling, yet Gates says that only after his arrest did he understand the extent of racial profiling, a problem for over two hundred years. Why wasn’t “the nation’s leading black intellectual” aware of the problem? His exact words following his arrest were “What it made me realize was how vulnerable all black men are, how vulnerable are all poor people to capricious forces like a rogue policemen.” Amazing! Shouldn’t “the nation’s leading black intellectual” be aware of writer Charles Chesnutt who wrote about racial profiling in 1905!

[james]

Your site is very entertaining and I have added it to my favorites. And FYI, Henry Louis Gates had a right to be pissed by the arrest because it violated both the Constitution and Massachusetts statutory law. The courts have upheld that a voice over the phone is insufficient cause to allow a police officer to violate someone's Fourth Amendment right to be secure in their persons and houses against unreasonable search and seizure, and Massachusetts courts have specifically ruled that mere words do not violate the disorderly conduct statute. If Gates decided to sue Sgt. Crowley civilly, the police report written by Crowley would serve as evidence of a false arrest.

Ciao morenita

[james]

You like Hannity's bitch-ass!?! He is so far from being an actual 'journalist' it's insane. If you haven't already listen to Alex Jones' radio program online www.prisonplanet.com and Judge Napolitano's weekly program on www.freedomwatchonfox.com/. Both are extremely entertaining and informative. Also on network TV Joe Scarborough and Dylan Radigan are good and credible on MSNBC.

Ciao morenita,
www.rutherfordtimesonline.com

[BARB]

This needs to be seen. I only saw it a few days ago..because TheRealObama website is back online:

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13827

She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist.

The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.

Little did American voters realize the call for “change” would result in the establishment of an Obama oligarchy.

The discovery of the additional attendants was made by D’Angelo Gore of factcheck.org and by calls to Katie McCormick Lelyyeld, Michelle Obama’s press secretary.

Mr. Gore launched his investigation of the First Lady’s staff in the wake of an article that appeared on thelastcrusade.org and Canada Free Press on July 7.

The article, which became a chain letter viewed by millions of Americans, reported that Michelle Obama requires more than twenty attendants - - more than any First Lady in U.S. History. It provided the following list of White House staff members assigned to the First Lady:

1. $172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $102,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $65,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $60,000 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $45,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $36,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $36,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)

Readers throughout the country expressed outrage that Mrs. Obama would hire an unprecedented number of staffers in the midst of the Great Recession.

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed." --Steve Biko