[Politico.com] A clear pattern of behavior has emerged over the last 16 months. According to liberals, if you disagree with their thinking, and if you disagree with the Obama administration, you are not only wrong, you are a "racist."
The latest strike by the left comes from the NAACP, which has resolved that the tea party movement is inherently "racist." At its most simple, this is a direct attack on the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
The NAACP has long history of liberalism and racism.
If you are a conservative -- including a conservative African-American -- there is no room for you at the NAACP. If you have opinions that differ from the NAACP and the liberal establishment, and if you are African-American, you are an "Uncle Tom," a "negro," "not black enough" and "against our people."
In other words, the NAACP fancies itself the thought police for millions of black Americans. Disagree with them and you will be ostracized and attacked. You will be subjected to public humiliation and racist commentary from NAACP leadership. The message is clear: Toe the line or pay the price.
But the NAACP does not stand alone in this regard. The left has a long history of using the race card. It has been pulled on people across the political spectrum.
President Bill Clinton was smeared as a racist by the Obama campaign when Hillary Clinton was running for president. It seems that anyone who disagrees with the far left, socialist policies of Barack Obama and the current administration is subject to the heavy hand of the race card.
This card is generally played when all else has failed. It was inevitable that it would eventually be used aggressively against the tea party movement.
First, members of the tea party movement were called disgruntled voters, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said our movement was nothing more than "astroturf" and laughed us off as a flash in the pan that would disappear overnight.
Next the Democratic National Committee relased an ad calling us an "angry mob." Now, we're being called racist.
All these attacks have failed because they are untrue and the American people know it.
According to recent polling, more than 49 million people are active members of the tea party movement (Winston Group, April 1, 2010). More than 145 million people say that the tea party movement is a good thing for America (Rasmussen, June 2, 2010).
The Obama White House and liberal interest groups are hitting the panic button as they read weekly polls showing diminishing support for their radical big government issue agenda, and a weariness for the politics of division.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/16/2010 00:00 ||
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#1
Sung to the tune of the Dr. Pepper jingle:
I'm a racist
He's a racist
She's a racist
We're all racists
Wouldn't you like to be a racist too?
#2
It seems that the first person to scream out the word 'racist' wins the argument hands down lately.
Regular people are getting sick and tired of this bullsh*t. I talk to people and hear them grumbling about it among their conversations in public places.
The day of the race card has passed, the backlash has begun, it will probably take the form of votes...for now.
#3
They've convinced me. I'm a racist. I guess that makes it OK to support racist policies. But somehow I don't recall that ML King called all whites racists and based his campaign on hate. Perhaps my memory is failing. Oh well, off to a lynching.
#7
IIRC in one of his lucid moments, the Rev. Jackson spouted out that we're all racists to a certain degree. It is both the degree and the willingness to acknowledge and suppress it that separates the country from others. The left grades on absolutes while absolving itself of such standards. Grading on a historical and contemporary curve, there are few nations that have or do better upon the issue of race and opportunity. The charge of racism today is the last resort of the power monger desperate to retain his reason to exist.
These six things doth the LORD hate;
yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
a proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
a false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
#8
According to liberals, if you disagree with their thinking, and if you disagree with the Obama administration, you are not only wrong, you are a "racist."
#13
I recall from my days at University that racism derives from the competition over scarce resources, when one begins to identify with a particular group, usually their clan or family. In the last few years we have seen just that, scarcer and scarcer jobs, loans, programs, etc.
Isn't it natural that they'd be squealing like pigs at this point? What with a black president they should be on the gravy train, not sucking hind teat to a bunch of crackers. (At least I suspect that that's how some of them think)
The writer is clearly drunk on words, even as he explains to his readers what paranoid idiots they are.
The mullahs and a major part of the media in Pakistan, together with a vocal part of the population -- poisoned by a bewildering anti-American tempest and tirade blown by them -- blame the US for all the terrorism, troubles and trepidation in Pakistan. Their grudge and grouse range right from the Americans being Christians, and hence innately anti-Muslims, being intimate with India and Israel and consequently against Pakistan, their determination to dismantle, capture or neuter our nuclear arsenals, to the fuelling and funding of fissiparous factions and insurgencies, leading to the disintegration of the existing entity rather than tearing away Kashmir from India and handing it over to us. Some accuse it of sheer duplicity and covertly fomenting terrorism through clandestine Blackwater-like cadres, contrary to its avowed efforts and assistance to extirpate it. Even some educated and liberal segments steeped in western culture suddenly burst out reeling a long hysterical account of American lust and manipulation to capture the world's, particularly Muslims', mineral and energy resources. Some denounce it as a decadent society citing dissidents like Chomsky to slate its foreign policies. They rather tend to judge the ethics and ethos of an independent nation instead of concentrating on its commitment and performance in the context of a bilateral relationship.
Studies and surveys, in the global context, have cited several reasons for this angst. Various factions in Pakistan, however, seem to have another roster rooted in their psyche and circumstances. The clerics hate the US for renouncing the Cold War relationship redolent of special funds, favours and foreign cruises. There were the days when merely having a beard and battering the parties and persons striving for democracy and social justice were a passport for American pleasure and paradise. The lives of Left-leaning luminaries, even like those of Faiz, Zaheer Kashmiri and Hassan Nasir were made hell. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the most popular and most visionary leader to have fired the hearts and minds of the majority on this soil, was thrown to the wolves belonging to Zia, the vilest of dictators anxious to revive mediaeval and macabre edicts, penal codes, sectarian strife and tribal systems. Another evident resentment is why Bhutto could not be rescued from the clutches of a dictator, like Nawaz Sharif, a known derivative, darling and devotee of dictatorship. This persistently nonchalant attitude, nurturing, promotion, prolongation and protection of dictatorship in preference to democracy was again evidenced in the special favours and privileges provided to Musharraf. The covert destabilisation of the present fledgling civilian structure through Kerry-Lugar manipulations and kindred activities may be viewed in a similar context. Many cautious analysts feel that the stipulations intended in the Act could be better realised through some oral, implicit understanding rather than the explicit written restrictions ruffling our proud and powerful commanders. The Americans might well have known the simple truth that the 'divine right of kings', having receded from the world, has been concentrated and embodied in our generals, granting them an inherent right to act as supra-constitutional curators, arbiters and terminators of presidents, premiers and parliaments. Marginalised somewhere far below the generals' god-like Olympian heights, the majority of the ordinary masses aspiring to end their miseries similarly fret over why even some tiny bits -- unlike the billions given unconditionally to generals -- have not trickled down to them.
Yet, whatever the extent and nature of the rancour, resentment, perceptions and feelings, they must be fairly and rationally analysed and understood in the context of American constraints and predicaments as well as prevailing global trends, thoughts and realities. The perception of our clergy about American policies being guided and governed by their Christian faith, for instance, is utterly unfounded. The American forefathers, having fled religious violence, persecution and discrimination, were determined to keep the bloody line of religious bouts and battles off their soil. Hence, an explicit clause that the "State shall establish no religion nor shall it prevent the establishment of any", was enshrined in their constitution.
Even traditional prayers are prohibited in schools and teaching of the Biblical accounts of Genesis that the "Lord God created the universe in six days" are also banned in science education. The thrust of religious and related lobbies to have the idea about the involvement of a Creator included in such courses was turned down four times by the federal courts. In view of these patent constitutional strictures against patronising any specific religion, the notions of American animosity against Islam are hardly tenable.
Even in international affairs, many Muslim countries were included in the SEATO and CENTO-like treaties. Kuwait was defended against Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative and fundamentalist Muslim monarchies, has long enjoyed quite cordial relations with the Americans. Clinton's campaign to protect the Muslims against genocide in Bosnia Herzegovina by bombing the Serb Christians, despite Soviet wrath, certainly cannot be classified as an anti-Muslim crusade. Even in the context of Pakistan, American support has been quite vivid for the independence of the subcontinent, plebiscite in Kashmir in the United Nations and warning India to keep its hands off West Pakistan when Indira Gandhi had ordered her commanders to sweep over the territory following our 1971 surrender in East Pakistan. The US intervention to extricate us from the mess made by Musharraf and Nawaz in Kargil and defusing the post-Mumbai carnage crisis, similarly, were no small favours. The American aid to Pakistan has exceeded all other donors. Over $ 12 billion was provided merely during the Musharraf regime. Dr Borlaug's bequest to boost the per acre wheat yield through Maxipak hybrids, the troves of training, scholarships, technical, defence and humanitarian assistance unfolds another chapter of this chequered, yet protracted, partnership.
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#1
When stacked against the centuries old struggle for Islamic conquest, the prohibition of teaching Christiandom in our public schools is a relatively recent phenomenon I rather think we actually do face a simple contest of wills and of cultures, of good and of evil, of love and of hatred. Just one example mind you, but "rationalize" if you will in the year 2010, a culture which would half bury a woman then permit a mob to stone her to death.
#3
Prayers are not prohibited in schools, nor could they be in schools (or foxholes!). What is prohibited in schools which direct taxpayer money is organised ceremonial religion (which is correct IMHO).
The money quote...
Oil baron, draft dodger, professional paranoid, and all-around Blue Meanie, Cheneys miraculous longevity is nothing so much as the happy product of the heavily tax-subsidized and regulated American health-care system, exhibit A in the argument for intrusive and overarching government programs to ensure the publics health. Though the free-marketeers would argue the exact oppositethat the invention of such sci-fi devices as the LVAD are the product of unfettered capitalismthis completely ignores the reality of how such inventions are tested, monitored, and reviewed. Devices are studied in hospitals propped up by Medicaid and Medicare dollars organized by doctors funded by federal grants. Patient safety is assured by government bean-counters spread throughout windowless Washington offices via a process that is noticeable only when it failswhen, for example, a pacemaker is found to be defective, or a medication proves toxic.
Cheney is alive today despite a lifetime spent trying to deprive the needy of basic human rights such as health care. Yet his continued survival shows both the impotency of his attempts and the potency of the American health-care system, a lumbering bureaucracy no doubt, but one that blindly cares for big-hearted Joes as well as heartless Dicks.
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O Magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding. Nice compassion there, doc. Maybe you can find out where he is and go up and step on his oxygen lines. Any comments, Dr. Steve?
#3
Being a Doctor does not make him competent in helthcare just as being able to drive a tank does not make you competent on providing the fuel who makes it run.
Also, am I the only one who thinks this guy suffers from Cheney Derangement Syndrome?
#4
Cheneys miraculous longevity is nothing so much as the happy product of the heavily tax-subsidized and regulated American health-care system, exhibit A in the argument for intrusive and overarching government programs to ensure the publics health
So it's heavily subsidized, eh?
And Obama sez it's too expensive, eh?
And the good liberal will remove those subsidies, eh?
And somehow that's going to make healthcare less expensive, eh?
Oh well, at least you get to bump up everyone's taxes and increase the size of useless government bureaucracy. Fortunately, all of this is made up for by the increasing the national debt, both in the present and for as long as Obamacare is in place. Or we run out of other people's money.
So it's overly regulated, and Obama's answer is to increase regulation, eh?
Oy ve, I think my logiculator just popped an O-ring.
No wonder they're not getting anywhere. According to Carter, America's problems were just too big to solve, too. It would be nice to have another Reagan right now, but anyone who wasn't a RINO or would probably work.
#6
I have a policy of not wishing for the deaths of ordinary, law-abiding Americans, including politicians, even if I despise their opinions. Too bad Dr. Sepkowitz doesn't get that.
I took an Oath. I live mine.
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Gotta love the way these people have injected the concept of health care as a "basic human right" into the national consciousness as if it's right up there with free speech, freedom of religion, free press and right to bear arms. Which amendment to the Constitution is that?
#11
Isn't it obvious by the flocking a patients worldwide to the countries with their bureaucratic managed national health services for the latest and best practices that such a system is superior. /sarc off
File under the leftist rants about evil American in the face of millions of illegals seeking part of the good life.
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