Are We Totally Screwed Yet?
<b>Why is this idiot dancing?</b>
I was watching President Bush talk about the economy yesterday. He was attempting to assure the press and the American public that, despite the meltdown of the mortgage lending industry and the subsequent collapse of housing markets, the implosion of Bear Stearns, the falling value of the dollar, the skyrocketing price of fuel/oil, reports that in February alone of this year the nation lost an <i>additional</i> 63,000 jobs (I'd go on, but what's the use?), the Fed had things "well in hand." The man kept saying, "It's for certain that...," "It's for certain that...."
Unconsciously, my lip curled into a sneer. God. What a witless f*ck. The man can't put together a simple, literate sentence, and we're supposed to feel comfortable that he's been entrusted with the (increasingly alarming) future of our nation?
And now I read that clueless, spineless, Ken doll Mitt Romney is a hot bet for second place on the GOP ticket with John "Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran" McCain.
<b>Color-true Obama screen shot</b>
<b>Obama as the Clinton Campaign's Big, Black Bogeyman -- Willie Horton style</b>
Hillary Clinton seems hell-bent on dragging the Democratic party down with her flagging bid for the party's nomination, utilizing every sickening, race-baiting trick she and her handlers can scare up: the conspicuous absense of any black children in the infamous "red phone" ad. And have you seen the doctored image of Obama the campaign has been using? Now it looks like they're trying to scare the White electorate by darkening Obama's skin to some muddy, gray-green-brown shade I haven't seen on a living human being since the early TV news anchors of the 1970s before makeup artists got hip to the red undertones in Black skin. (The racial slur "sh*t skin" comes to mind.) And if you look a little more closely, notice the widening of his head and nose -- presumably, an attempt to make him look more "Negroid" and, thus, more threatening. (Why not just put a grill in his mouth, a crack pipe between his lips and a gun in his hand?) Is it just me, or is anyone else reminded of Lee Atwater and the iconic mug shot of Willie Horton in the 1988 presidential election cycle?
<b>After Clinton Ditched Her Incompetent Latina Campaign Manager, Maggie Williams Is Now Gunning for Obama</b>
Maggie Williams is truly earning her 40 pieces of silver. I mean the sister is tap dancing hard for Miss Hillary. Perhaps when all this is over, she'll use a portion of her ill-gotten gains to buy herself a conscience.
I gotta tell ya. If the Democratic party can't get its act together and shut down Clinton's self-destructive operation, and if the dumber-than-dirt American electorate puts the Republican party within stealing distance of the White House a third time (and try to steal it again they will -- are you listening, Howard Dean?), I'm dropping out. This is one Black vote the Democratic party will never be able to count on again. Chuck the electoral process; it'll be permanently screwed, with no appeal whatsoever remaining for the millions of voters who've been galvanized and given a reason to hope by Obama's message and his vision of a new America.
Maybe I'll follow the lead of a lot of Black folks, become an expatriate and live abroad. Or, maybe I'll renounce my U.S. citizenship altogether, embrace my Cado and Cherokee roots and opt instead to join my distant cousins in the now sovereign Lakota Nation <a href="http://www.republicoflakotah.com/"></a>. It doesn't look like I'd be giving up much -- because after eight years of George and Barbara Bush's idiot spawn, one thing's for certain: the country is totally f*cked.
