Bet on it. His linguistic talents alone would guarantee him B/B+/A- grades, and his gift of schmooze would bring up the rear.
The fact of the matter?
Grades don”t mean shit in the real world.
And he is now facing the realest of real worlds.
Power politics.
For money.
Real money.
You know…the kind made by energy supply companies and weapons manufacturers and big finance, by big pharma, big med and big intelligence/security interests? Money that would make little mafioso poofers and so-called “big time drug lords” shit in their pants. Money that doesn’t buy a crew of low-IQ arm breakers, but rather nuclear arsenals, standing armies, navies and air forces.
He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. So he takes his habitual response…one that generations of minority people learned here in America as a way to survive…and he simply doesn’t. None ‘a that “the nail that stands up gets hammered down” for him. He’s passing for all that he’s worth. He knows the real mindset of the majority of Americans. His mama didn’t raise no dummies. He’s black; he’s intelligent and he’s a liberal. That’s three strikes right there. Maybe maybe a whole inning. More like the whole ballgame, actually.
And guess what?
Most “liberals” who do not eventually take a fairly radical public stand towards this system…liberals of every race and religion…why, they have nothing to complain about regarding Obama, because they’re passing too.
At work, in conversation with their neighbors, in PTA meetings, at the local diner or bar…bet on it.
YASSUH boss!!! I’se in full agreement wif ya.
Bet on that as well.
Whenever it’s a career matter at stake or their kids’ position in a school or neighborhood system…careful like a motherfucker they are, not to rock the boat.
Do you really want to get into a political tiff with yo’ dentist!!!??? The corner cop with the big flag on his lapel and a 9MM in his holster?
This one is going to my congressman’s local staffer today. At least the guy voted for the house version and has been stumping the district for weeks in support of HCR.
Problem is, ask…in the U.S., that’s not exactly how things .work.
Y’see…it’s not “how many” that counts anymore.
It’s how many pictures.
How many minutes of airtime.
So you start with a “how many” majority…and I will absolutely guarantee that if a real census were to be done (one that counts all minorities including those who may be “illegal” but are damned well staying here until they are somehow legalized because if they were to leave the entire working infrastructure of the country would go south with them)…a real census would reveal that the actual number of people who oppose the policies of the right wing would be just about in the same ratio to those that support them as pictured in your vid. Roughly 7 to 3.
Why do I say that? Besides my ongoing travels through all levels of this society in almost all areas of the country?
What was the lowest continuing approval rating for Bush II at the nadir of his popularity? When the shit had hit the fan so badly that the the media vacuum cleaner simply could not suck it up fast enough to make the stench go away any more?
Ohhhhh….somewhere in the low 30% range.
Like dat.
So the nice PermaGov folks had a meeting. And they decided to support Barack Obama as the hope candidate that was most likely to be susceptible to a one and done administration. The conversation went something like this:
PermaGov Hustler #1-Yeah, JB. He’s black; he’s very well spoken; his game is compromise; his wife is even darker and more…ahem…negroid in features. He’s perfect!!! He’ll win and then when things don’t get immediately better…we can see to that, ‘a course…al l’a the closet haters and media junkies will be easy to turn. A cinch!!!
PermaGov Hustler #2-But…wait a minute!!! How about Hillary? She’s a woman; her husband got caught with his pants on the ground and his dick out in the Oval Orfice…
PermaGov Hustler #1-Whadda you, crazy or sumpin’? That beeatch is T-O-U-G-H tough!!! And she’s got a serious hardon for us afer we honeytrapped her old man. C’mon. Whadda you? Kiddin’ me!!!??? She’d never give up. We’d have to kill her. How many more assassinations do you think we can get away with? That’s so back in the day. We take ’em out with media fire now. Please. Grow the fuck up.
PermaGov Hustler #2-Well…when you put it that way…
PermaGov Hustler #1-Yeah. We’ll run a couple ‘a losers…saaaay, how about a May/December couple like McCain and the crazy bitch Palin? You know…the one from Alaska who thinks God is calling her to higher things but doesn’t know where Russia is? Yeah. That one. We’ll run a ticket like that. Obama will win big and easy. Everybody’ll swallow that malarkey about hope and then when it doesn’t pan out immediately we’ll turn ’em.
Just like herding cattle, only less manure to deal with. Heh heh.
Yup.
Like dat, too.
Bet on it
And here we are now.
Round ’em up and head ’em out!!!
YEEEEEEEHAH!!!
Watch.
They’re good…gotta give ’em credit.
They’re good at what they do.
And they are now doing it again.
Watch.
What can Obama do?
The one thing that his whole life as an upwardly mobile black man in late 20th Century America will not allow him to do.
Get seriously, rock-the-goddamed-boat-like-a-motherfucker uppity.
Ain’t happenin’.
I make it 20 to 1 against.
I do not think that he is capable of changing his game 180 degrees.
Goes against his true nature.
But I could be wrong.
I hope so.
If not…2012 is gonna be interesting.
Hillary vs…???????
Some old-line RatPubs?
A third party?
McCain finally decides to come clean and decides to run w/Feingold on an anti-corporate platform?
Ron Paul?
A Sarah Palin/Levi Johnston…errr, I mean Scott Brown (Have you noticed the resemblance? I have)…ticket?
How indeed? Sometimes I think I should follow these things more closely, just to see how it is done. After the fact the fact there was no shortage of complaints with the campaign–that is, excuses.
By the way, Diebold counted the votes. Maybe, in this case, it didn’t even matter–just held in reserve. Or maybe it did–strengthening the edge. I certainly don’t know.
ALL our candidates are boring!
Well, yeah. The good candidates are not allowed to run. What’s up with that?
But, really, I think this is all just theater. As the economy ramps down, the Global War for Oil ramps up. Something big and nasty is being planned for 2010, for which the Haiti invasion rescue is just practice.
The laugh that does not mean “Ha Ha?”
Yup.
AG
Sad, but very damn clever.
And yet every one of us…every single one of us…knows somebody who went off on that exact rant this week.
“Now we know why Obama won’t release his school records. Bush got C’s. Obama probably failed lunch.”
Probably ten people who said exactly that.
Naaaahhhhh…
Obama got good grades.
Bet on it. His linguistic talents alone would guarantee him B/B+/A- grades, and his gift of schmooze would bring up the rear.
The fact of the matter?
Grades don”t mean shit in the real world.
And he is now facing the realest of real worlds.
Power politics.
For money.
Real money.
You know…the kind made by energy supply companies and weapons manufacturers and big finance, by big pharma, big med and big intelligence/security interests? Money that would make little mafioso poofers and so-called “big time drug lords” shit in their pants. Money that doesn’t buy a crew of low-IQ arm breakers, but rather nuclear arsenals, standing armies, navies and air forces.
He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. So he takes his habitual response…one that generations of minority people learned here in America as a way to survive…and he simply doesn’t. None ‘a that “the nail that stands up gets hammered down” for him. He’s passing for all that he’s worth. He knows the real mindset of the majority of Americans. His mama didn’t raise no dummies. He’s black; he’s intelligent and he’s a liberal. That’s three strikes right there. Maybe maybe a whole inning. More like the whole ballgame, actually.
And guess what?
Most “liberals” who do not eventually take a fairly radical public stand towards this system…liberals of every race and religion…why, they have nothing to complain about regarding Obama, because they’re passing too.
At work, in conversation with their neighbors, in PTA meetings, at the local diner or bar…bet on it.
Bet on that as well.
Whenever it’s a career matter at stake or their kids’ position in a school or neighborhood system…careful like a motherfucker they are, not to rock the boat.
Do you really want to get into a political tiff with yo’ dentist!!!??? The corner cop with the big flag on his lapel and a 9MM in his holster?
This kid made that mistake while holding a bottle of Mountain Dew in Pittsburgh.
UH oh!!!
Imagine what would happen to Obama if he really crossed the warlords.
Hmmmm….
So…suck it up, folks.
Caught between Scylla and Charybdis, ain’t many of us as heavy as ol’ Odysseus. And…sadly…I don’t think that Obama is, either.
So it goes.
On with the security state.
See ya in Haiti North.
Any day now.
Aaaaaany day now.
Later…
AG
That was brilliant…and disturbing.
On a slightly lighter note:
This one is going to my congressman’s local staffer today. At least the guy voted for the house version and has been stumping the district for weeks in support of HCR.
Problem is, ask…in the U.S., that’s not exactly how things .work.
Y’see…it’s not “how many” that counts anymore.
It’s how many pictures.
How many minutes of airtime.
So you start with a “how many” majority…and I will absolutely guarantee that if a real census were to be done (one that counts all minorities including those who may be “illegal” but are damned well staying here until they are somehow legalized because if they were to leave the entire working infrastructure of the country would go south with them)…a real census would reveal that the actual number of people who oppose the policies of the right wing would be just about in the same ratio to those that support them as pictured in your vid. Roughly 7 to 3.
Why do I say that? Besides my ongoing travels through all levels of this society in almost all areas of the country?
What was the lowest continuing approval rating for Bush II at the nadir of his popularity? When the shit had hit the fan so badly that the the media vacuum cleaner simply could not suck it up fast enough to make the stench go away any more?
Ohhhhh….somewhere in the low 30% range.
Like dat.
So the nice PermaGov folks had a meeting. And they decided to support Barack Obama as the hope candidate that was most likely to be susceptible to a one and done administration. The conversation went something like this:
Yup.
Like dat, too.
Bet on it
And here we are now.
Watch.
They’re good…gotta give ’em credit.
They’re good at what they do.
And they are now doing it again.
Watch.
What can Obama do?
The one thing that his whole life as an upwardly mobile black man in late 20th Century America will not allow him to do.
Get seriously, rock-the-goddamed-boat-like-a-motherfucker uppity.
Ain’t happenin’.
I make it 20 to 1 against.
I do not think that he is capable of changing his game 180 degrees.
Goes against his true nature.
But I could be wrong.
I hope so.
If not…2012 is gonna be interesting.
Hillary vs…???????
Some old-line RatPubs?
A third party?
McCain finally decides to come clean and decides to run w/Feingold on an anti-corporate platform?
Ron Paul?
A Sarah Palin/Levi Johnston…errr, I mean Scott Brown (Have you noticed the resemblance? I have)…ticket?
Gonna be interesting…
Watch.
AG
that he’d put his & his family’s life at risk 🙁
Yes, it does.
Yup.
AG
How indeed? Sometimes I think I should follow these things more closely, just to see how it is done. After the fact the fact there was no shortage of complaints with the campaign–that is, excuses.
By the way, Diebold counted the votes. Maybe, in this case, it didn’t even matter–just held in reserve. Or maybe it did–strengthening the edge. I certainly don’t know.
Well, yeah. The good candidates are not allowed to run. What’s up with that?
But, really, I think this is all just theater. As the economy ramps down, the Global War for Oil ramps up. Something big and nasty is being planned for 2010, for which the Haiti
invasionrescue is just practice.