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[Ballygrl]

Obama told Blacks to get out of their "bedroom slippers" how come the left isn't outraged over that comment? Didn't Obama basically make the insinuation that Blacks are sitting home in their "bedroom slippers" and depending on Government?

[thundley4]

Obama told Blacks to get out of their "bedroom slippers" how come the left isn't outraged over that comment? Didn't Obama basically make the insinuation that Blacks are sitting home in their "bedroom slippers" and depending on Government?

It isn't racist when a leftist uses a stereotype.

[Ballygrl]

It isn't racist when a leftist uses a stereotype.

Oh! just like "get pookie off the couch" wasn't insulting either because Obama said it.

[Karin]

That was on Rush, right?  I didn't get to catch all of it.  I was a little shocked.  But "put on your marching shoes," what sort of advice is that?  How about seek to better yourself, study hard, gain some skills, make yourself marketable.  Otherwise, they end up like the brainless, aimless NYC Wall Street protesters.  In jail.  Now what? 

[GOBUCKS]

That was on Rush, right?  I didn't get to catch all of it.  I was a little shocked.  But "put on your marching shoes," what sort of advice is that? 

I wonder if "marching shoes" is a DUmp euphemism for "loose shoes".

[delilahmused]

  Thread killer.  No reply since. 

Sorry for mixing up OR and WA, Cindie.     I visited both on the same trip once. 

That's okay, I've lived in both states and they're pretty much interchangeable except Seattle is trying to be San Francisco and Portland is trying to be Seattle.

Cindie

[Ballygrl]

That was on Rush, right?  I didn't get to catch all of it.  I was a little shocked.  But "put on your marching shoes," what sort of advice is that?  How about seek to better yourself, study hard, gain some skills, make yourself marketable.  Otherwise, they end up like the brainless, aimless NYC Wall Street protesters.  In jail.  Now what?

The only thing I heard over the weekend was the "Jew" slip during a speech, and it was Rush who brought up the slippers comment. Can you imagine the media if Bush ever said things like that?

[sybilll]

Obama told Blacks to get out of their "bedroom slippers" how come the left isn't outraged over that comment? Didn't Obama basically make the insinuation that Blacks are sitting home in their "bedroom slippers" and depending on Government?

I honestly thought the liberals would have been far more insulted about the dialect Obama used.  He dropped all of the G's at the end of words, as though he was talking to a Compton audience that cannot understand proper English.  Harry Reid was right.  Obama can use his "negro dialect" when necessary, otherwise he speaks well.  UGH.  Double UGH. 

[Ballygrl]

I honestly thought the liberals would have been far more insulted about the dialect Obama used.  He dropped all of the G's at the end of words, as though he was talking to a Compton audience that cannot understand proper English.  Harry Reid was right.  Obama can use his "negro dialect" when necessary, otherwise he speaks well.  UGH.  Double UGH.

Hillary did that too when she spoke in front of a black audience.

[Chris_]

Hillary did that too when she spoke in front of a black audience.

"I ain't in no ways tired..."

Democrats. They have a different speech for every audience. 

[Ballygrl]

"I ain't in no ways tired..."

Democrats. They have a different speech for every audience.

Here it is in case people forgot:

[youtube=425,350]DGDm4jkDbGQ[/youtube]

[Chris_]

It was almost as embarrassing as her getting all weepy during the 2008 race.  Boy, that was a low point.  I thought Hillary had more sense than that but it worked because a whole bunch of sorry dumbasses bought that one hook, line, and sinker.  I guess it was estrogen vs. melatonin that year, and we all know who the winner was.

[GOBUCKS]

"I ain't in no ways tired..."

Democrats. They have a different speech for every audience. 

Remember John F'n in Ohio: "Can I buy me a huntin' license?"

[Ballygrl]

"Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."

--Mary Francis Berry--Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn. Former chair of the Civil Right Commission, co-founder of the "Free South Africa Movement," winner of the NAACP's Roy Wilkins Award, the Rosa Parks Award of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Ebony Magazine Black Achievement Award.

[delilahmused]

They probably didn't get upset because it was his black half speaking to them.

Cindie

[Ballygrl]

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/more-crony-socialism-obama-gives-737-million-to-pelosis-brother-in-laws-solar-firm/

Crony Socialism: Obama Gives $737 Million to Solar Firm Linked to the Pelosi Clan

It’s as if Solyndra never happened.  The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG.

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[Ballygrl]

I searched for this info at DU and can't find it at all. My comment though is this, which party has Google and Apple supported more? Here's snippets from the article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/google-joins-apple-mobilizing-lobbyists-to-push-for-tax-holiday-on-profits.html

Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday

As a coalition led by Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) presses for a tax holiday on more than $1 trillion in offshore profits, it is turning to a well-positioned lobbyist: Jeffrey Forbes, once chief of staff to Max Baucus, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee.

The proposed break has gained momentum in recent months, with several prominent Democrats, including Senator Charles Schumer of New York, expressing a willingness to consider the tax holiday.

[Ballygrl]

BET's Robert Johnson To Obama: Stop Attacking The Wealthy

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/02/bets_robert_johnson_to_obama_stop_attacking_the_wealthy.html

BET founder Robert Johnson on the "FOX News Sunday" program: "Well, I think the president has to recalibrate his message. You don't get people to like you by attacking them or demeaning their success. You know, I grew up in a family of 10 kids, first one to go to college, and I've earned my success. I've earned my right to fly private if I choose to do so.

"And by attacking me it is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy. You know, it is the old -- I think Ted and Fred and I we both sort of take the old Ethel Merman approach to life. I've tried poor and I tried rich and I like rich better. It doesn't mean that I am a bad guy.

"I didn't go in to business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that's what the president should be praising, not demagoguing us simply because Warren Buffet says he pays more than his secretary. He should pay the secretary more and she will pay more."

[Ballygrl]

Some pics about the Occupy Wall Street protest:

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Economies are not zero-sum environments. They can expand to infinite breadth and depth so long as people produce things other people need and want.

Governments do not share this attribute. They exist only because they claim a portion of what others produce in order to sustain their functions. If they claim too much the producing class stops producing because it either becomes too expensive or the incentive is destroyed. This is turn folds back on to the government which now has even less economic activity available to levy taxes against.

One way for governments to be prodded into levying too many taxes is for citizens to demand additional services beyond the enforcement of civil order and public safety. As the services assumed by the government expand it must tax more. Worse still, the more services the government provides the harder it becomes to dislodge it once it becomes too burdensome as it will have either assumed so much pwoer it can retaliate against efforts to curtail its operations and/or the citizens have become so dependent upon it they will unduly suffer and thus be reluctant to demand reform.

Eventually, the government has become expansive it must levy taxes that stifle economic growth and in turn it will have less revenue potential.

As the spiral begins the original functions of government--public order and safety--will suffer because people will respond more immediately to having their home heating oil subsidy cut than considering the consequences of some abstraction such as being the victim of a crime.

To wit:

Cash-strapped Topeka, Kansas, has decided to stop prosecuting domestic violence casses [sic] in order to save money.

The City Council announced the proposal Oct. 4, after the Shawnee County District Attorney's office announced it could no longer prosecute misdemeanors, including domestic violence cases. The city's maneuver may even require repealing the part of the city code that bans domestic battery. Mayor Bill Bunten told the Topeka Capital-Journal city officials take domestic violence seriously, and it would be "dead wrong" to assume offenders won't be prosecuted. But the dispute is over who would pay for it, he said.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/Cash-Strapped-Topeka-Stops-Prosecuting-Domestic-Violence-131468933.html

Hey, as long as Proud2BTenured gets to keep her union benefits who cares if some brute smacks around his wife and kids.

This is social justice, after all.

[Ballygrl]

OMG about not prosecuting domestic violence cases.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Ya know, DUmbasses,

If you want us to believe your way is the better way it would help if you could show better results than what we're used to. Crony Crapitalism isn't the way to do that. Not only is it not capitalism (it's corporatist fascism) its not even effective at what it pretends to accomplish.

This will not help:

The group of private-sector business leaders advising President Obama on how to create jobs and grow the economy is full of deep-pocket Democratic donors and high-profile financiers of Obama’s re-election campaign, a review of Federal Election Commission data shows.

At least 10 members of the Obama-appointed Council on Jobs and Competitiveness gave the legal maximum contribution — $4,600 — to help get Obama elected in 2008, and they continue to write checks for the president in 2012.  Several also serve as Obama campaign bundlers, top fundraisers who collect millions of dollars from their networks of well-to-do colleagues and friends to aid his re-election bid.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-jobs-council-stacked-with-democratic-donors/

[Ballygrl]

Oh My!

Democrats saying they kind of want to glom onto the Occupy Wall Street protests BUT you protesters really need to cut back on the anarchist, socialist, violent crap because you're going to turn off people who we need to vote for us!

Here's some snippets of the article, you can read the rest at the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/us/politics/wall-street-protests-gain-support-from-leading-democrats.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Protests Offer Help, and Risk, for Democrats

WASHINGTON — Leading Democratic figures, including party fund-raisers and a top ally of President Obama, are embracing the spread of the anti-Wall Street protests in a clear sign that members of the Democratic establishment see the movement as a way to align disenchanted Americans with their party.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party’s powerful House fund-raising arm, is circulating a petition seeking 100,000 party supporters to declare that “I stand with the Occupy Wall Street protests.”

The Center for American Progress, a liberal organization run by John D. Podesta, who helped lead Mr. Obama’s 2008 transition, credits the protests with tapping into pent-up anger over a political system that it says rewards the rich over the working class — a populist theme now being emphasized by the White House and the party. The center has encouraged and sought to help coordinate protests in different cities.

But while some Democrats see the movement as providing a political boost, the party’s alignment with the eclectic mix of protesters makes others nervous. They see the prospect of the protesters’ pushing the party dangerously to the left — just as the Tea Party has often pushed Republicans farther to the right and made for intraparty run-ins.

While many Democrats have praised the protesters, some officials in the party remain wary of their potential impact — especially if the protests were to turn more disruptive or even violent.

 â€œThat’s the danger with something like this — that you go from peaceful protests to throwing trash cans,” said a senior House Democratic official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“Sure, there’s been some crazy anarchy stuff, but over all, the Democrats like their message about Wall Street and accountability,” the official said. “It overlaps with our own message.”

Matt Bennett, vice president for Third Way, a Democratic policy institute in Washington that favors a more centrist approach, said he believes the angry and sometimes radical tone of the protests may turn off moderate swing voters who will be critical in the 2012 elections, just as many moderates are put off by the rhetoric of the Tea Party on the right.

Embracing the protests may prove a mistake for Democrats, Mr. Bennett said. “There’s not much upside,” he said, “and there’s a lot of downside.”

Robert Reich, the former labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, wrote in a blog posting Friday that the protesters’ demands on taxes dovetail with Democrats’ themes, but he said the protests should still make the party wary — in part because Democrats rely on Wall Street for significant campaign contributions.

“If Occupy Wall Street coalesces into something like a real movement, the Democratic Party may have more difficulty digesting it than the G.O.P. has had with the Tea Party,” Mr. Reich wrote.

[Ballygrl]

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-12.html

WINGLESS, BLOODSUCKING AND PARASITIC: MEET THE FLEA PARTY!

October 12, 2011

So far, the only major accomplishment of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, "Occupy Our Mothers' Basements."

Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group -- a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Andrea Dworkin look-alikes, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their ponytails and other average Democrats -- they can't even explain what they're protesting.

The protesters either treat inquiries about their purpose as a trick question, or -- worse -- instantly rattle off a series of insane causes: "No. 1, abolish capitalism; No. 2, because 9/11 was an inside job; No. 3, because Mumia is innocent ..."

Curiously, the only point universally agreed upon by the protesters and their admirers in the Democratic Party and the mainstream media is that "Occupy Wall Street" should be compared to the tea party. Yes, that would be the same tea party that has been denounced and slandered by the Democratic Party and the mainstream media for the last three years.

As a refresher: The Democratic National Committee called the tea partiers "angry mobs" and "rabid right-wing extremists." ABC said they were a "mob." CNN accused them of "rabble rousing." Harry Reid called them "evil mongers." Nancy Pelosi said they were "un-American." CNN's Anderson Cooper and every single host on MSNBC called the tea partiers a name that referred to an obscure gay sex act.

But apparently liberals couldn't even convince themselves that tea partiers were an extremist group unworthy of emulation.

At least they're embarrassed about what the OWS protesters really are: wingless, bloodsucking and parasitic. This is the flea party, not the tea party.

Contrary to all the blather you always hear about how lawless street protests and civil disobedience are part of the American tradition -- "what our troops are fighting for!" -- they are not. We are an orderly people with democratic channels at our disposal to change our government.

The very reason we have a constitutional republic is because of a mob uprising. Soon after the American Revolution, Shays' Rebellion so terrified and angered Americans that they demanded a federal government capable of crushing such mobs.

For nearly 200 years, Americans understood that they lived in a country capable of producing bad politicians and bad policies, but that was subject to change through peaceful, democratic means. There was no need to riot or storm buildings because we didn't have a king. We had a representative government.

-Continued at the link-

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Sheep being kept and lead around like sheep:

What’s really keeping a thousand or so young protesters in Lower Manhattan? Apparently, a ready supply of vegan pizza, hot quiches, and organic carrots. According to the New York Times, protesters have universally praised the free food available at the encampment. One protester explained:

‘I’ve been here for 12 days, and I’ve put on 5 pounds,’ he said, sitting on the ground in front of a handmade sign that said ‘Class War Ahead.’ ‘I’m eating better than I do at home.’

All he had to do was amble toward a ramshackle cluster of tables and boxes in the middle of the park and, without paying a cent, grab a slice of pizza or a warm slab of homemade vegan casserole. Last Thursday he had encountered ‘a bunch of Katz’s Deli sandwiches,’ he said. ‘That was good.’

...

Tom Hintze, 24, was volunteering in Zuccotti Park last week. ‘Just now there was a big UPS delivery,’ he said. ‘We don’t know where it comes from. It just appears, and we eat it.’

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279946/eat-rich-patrick-brennan

Seems to me people with money are bankrolling the great socialist revolution and the brats are too ****ing stupid to notice, care or even ask questions.