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        <title><![CDATA[Gingrich Insulting Blacks for Votes Too: If its Good Enough for Santorum, I'll Double Down]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Gingrich doubles down on insulting black people to curry favor with white voters.









I want to say they just don't get it, but its not true. &nbsp;The difference between Newt and Santorum on this is that as the The Root cogently points out, Santorum is basically a coward when it comes to talking about race. &nbsp;He just claims he didn't say what he said and wants to run from the issue. &nbsp;Newt on the other hand, is not one to throw a stone and then hide his hand. &nbsp;Oh no, Newt is going to insult you, and then tell you why its okay, you know, the old pee in your face and tell you its rain approach.

“I went back and pulled up the exact language of the text,” Mr. Gingrich told reporters on Friday. “I think you’d have to be nuts’’ to interpret the words as critical of blacks.

You have to be nuts to take Newt's stupid denials seriously. You're speaking to an audience of white people at a senior center in NH. You describe Obama as the biggest food stamp president]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Republicans Have Become Incapable of Discussing Race]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The day before the Iowa Caucus, Rick Santorum uses blacks to illustrate a point about government creating dependency in order to win votes. &nbsp;The statement is on video and its pretty clear at least to me that its what he said.Santorum has now said that he didn't actually say that. &nbsp;I think he's a liar.That Santorum would make a statement that suggests that blacks are largely on welfare and that welfare comes to us via money taken out of the pockets of white voters by government is not surprising. &nbsp;That is a persistent meme on the right. &nbsp;If I sat down with a Tea Party member or your average poster at Hot Air, they would would largely agree with that supposition.What this episode illustrates is how completely incapable of a principled discussion about race the GOP has become. &nbsp;When people like me reacted to Santorum's statement, conservatives rushed to his defense with the wildest of arguments: He didn't say it. &nbsp;Its right there on tape, but no, you didn't h]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[Rick Santorum Surges in Iowa with Stereotypes of Lazy Blacks Taking Welfare Out of White People's Pockets]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season How you think the brother "working" the camera behind him liked that?

Rick Santorum has been riding a real surge in Iowa over the last few days, moving into striking distance of being in the top three finishers out there in the caucuses.&nbsp; He's been putting in work the old fashioned way, visiting every single county in the state, doing small group meetings one after the other and talking to the voters.

Campaigning isn't the only thing Santorum is apparently doing the old fashioned way. Using stereotypes of blacks as a convenient shorthand to illustrate the ills of America as white voters see it is another way that Rick is demonstrating his old school campaign chops. At a campaign stop in Sioux City Iowa, a voter asks Santorum: "how do we get off this crazy train? We've
 got so much foreign influence in this country now," adding "where do we
 go from here?"

Santorum's answer perhaps started with foreign influence but rambled over to the subject of government creating dependency]]></description>
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        <pubDate> <![CDATA[Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 -0700]]></pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[Happy New Year!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Yes, its January 3rd and I'm wishing you, dear reader, a happy new year.&nbsp; I'm late, my apologies. You may have noticed I didn't do blog Christmas greetings at all either.&nbsp; Truth is, I'm just not that motivated around the niceties of the holidays.&nbsp; Simply not one of my strong suits.&nbsp; But having just gotten off the road and being still a little wired from the trip, I figured I would fire something off.

I've been absent from the blogosphere for a real spell.&nbsp; My last post was in November and I hadn't even really noticed its been that long.&nbsp; I'm shocked at the length of my hiatus.&nbsp; I've not been totally out of pocket, I was tweeting right on through that period pretty tough, but that's an indication of my malaise that I was really only up for 140 word bursts at a time for a very long stretch.&nbsp;

The truth is that I'm not a particularly great blog writer in the sense that I work to push out some new content on a very regular schedule.&nbsp; Truth]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Occcupy Wall Street: Whatcha Gonna Do?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season So, I've been watching this OWS thing and I think they've got a point 
about inequality, corporate overreach and corruption in the financial 
sector that is wrecking democracy. I'm down with protests and what not, 
but thats NOT ENOUGH.&nbsp; Changing these issues for the better means 
opposing powerful, entrenched interests that fight back.&nbsp; So whats 
needed are strategies and action items to create the outcomes desired by
 the movement.&nbsp; I've got some ideas about what that is, but I don't have
 all the ideas.&nbsp; So, I invite you dear reader to join me in 
crowdsourcing experiment to generate those strategies and action 
pieces.&nbsp; I've got it started. Use this link to add your input to the Prezi below. Lets see where we end up.




The Occupy Wall Street movement has come to a cross roads.&nbsp; If they are going to mature as a real movement that actually creates change effects in the real world, they have to articulate principles, derive strategies based on them and]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Boy Scouts Need Your Help to Support our Troops]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Buy Popcorn at Noah's link&nbsp; Buy Popcorn at Andrew's link

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scout ID: 7057642&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Scout ID:8919418






 Noah
  and Andrew still need your support. Thank you to all who  have 
supported them to date.  They stand at about 40% of goal and  still have
 some distance to cover.&nbsp; They have until Friday to reach their goal. They ask everyone to buy popcorn for our men and women serving overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa especially.&nbsp;





Noah's total: $131 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goal: $325&nbsp; 40%
Andrew's total: $139 &nbsp; Goal: $325&nbsp; 43%


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Help them get over the top.&nbsp;  Just follow the links above and make your purchase by Friday, Nov. 5th.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 70% of your purchase supports Noah and Andrew and military donations go to the troops (No shipping charges to you!)&nbsp; Please give them]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Obama's Shrinking Terrorist Hit List]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season With the death of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya today, Obama's terrorist hit list keeps growing (or shrinking rather). Hard to argue with results. If only the guy was half this effective on the economy....or anything else for that matter.

August 2009

-- Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Baitullah Mahsud killed in Pakistan

September 2009

-- JI operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top killed in Indonesia
-- Al-Qaeda in East Africa (AQEA) planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan killed in Somalia

December 2009

-- AQ operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and 'Abdallah Sa'id killed in Pakistan

February 2010
-- Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Berader captured in Pakistan
-- Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani killed in Pakistan
-- Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar killed in Pakistan

March 2010
-- AQ operative Hussein al-Yemeni killed in Pakistan
-- Senior JI operative Dulmatin, believed to have been involved in the 2002 bombings in Bali, was killed during a raid in]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Reflections on the Iranian Assassination Plot]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season By Scott Stewart


On Oct. 11, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that two men had been charged in New York with taking part in a plot directed by the Iranian Quds Force to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, on U.S. soil.

Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri face numerous charges, including
 conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives), conspiracy
 to commit an act of terrorism transcending national borders and 
conspiracy to murder a foreign official. Arbabsiar, who was arrested 
Sept. 29 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, is a U.S.
 citizen with both Iranian and U.S. passports. Shakuri, who remains at 
large, allegedly is a senior officer in Iran’s Quds Force, a special 
unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) believed to promote military and terrorist activities abroad.


Between May and July, Arbabsiar, who lives in the United States, 
allegedly traveled several times to Mexico, where he m]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[GOP Post Debate Impressions]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I've now had the opportunity to watch the entire debate video. &nbsp;You have no idea how maddening it was to find that CNN's Adobe Flash powered live streaming would not play on my Touchpad, especially since this was the first debate where the candidates really mixed it up. &nbsp;Here are my quick impressions on how folks did:Perry: Clearly, he had to show some more energy and life in this debate and he did manage to do that. That's the positive. &nbsp;On the down side, he seems to be a bit of a one trick pony in terms of debate strategies. He hit Romney hard with the illegal alien issue and returned to it later in the debate, but I'm unsure what that gets him going forward. &nbsp;He got it off, but seems to me that's only good for one debate, at best two. &nbsp;You gotta have something more beyond that. &nbsp;Perhaps its useful if it serves to drive up Romney's negatives, but I'm actually not sure there is a lot of ground to be made there, since with Romney polling in the 25% range,]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rush Hearts Murderous Child Stealing Rape Cult]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The Obama administration has soooo many issues and problems and screwups to its credit, that its an easy target for criticism.&nbsp; You don't have to lie about this administration if you want to be critical of it.&nbsp; So I really detest it when fellow conservatives tell an outrageous lie simply to score a political hit on Obama. 

Thats exactly what Rush Limbaugh did following the announcement by the administration that they were sending 100 combat troops to Africa to target John Kony and the leadership of the Lord's Resistance Army.&nbsp; Check the headline he runs with on his site.




&nbsp;From the transcript, posted by Rush:


Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.&nbsp; It means God.&nbsp; I was only 
kidding.&nbsp; Lord's Resistance Army are Christians.&nbsp; They are fighting the 
Muslims in Sudan.&nbsp; And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to 
remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them.&nbsp; That's what 
the lingo means, "to help regional forc]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Blacks and the GOP: Crossing the Chasm]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season If you visit my blog more than once, you know I often take conservatives black and white to task for using funky, contemptuous language in describing the political posture of African Americans relative to the GOP and the Democrats. Conservatives have become enamored of explaining away their failure to gain a real hearing from black America with rhetoric laced with allusions to dependency, slavery references and other insulting memes. 

As conservatives, and the GOP as a party, we often blame black America for our failure to win them to our cause by writing them off as&nbsp;essentially&nbsp;stupid (Cain: blacks are brainwashed). This approach gives conservatives an easy out and excuse not to politically engage in our communities, nor even attempt to parse out the issues most important to us as a body politic. This near complete abdication of any responsibility for the nature of the relationship and of any requirement to actually make good on our rhetoric that blacks are desired as a pol]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What Did I Tell You!]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I predicted Huckabee would not run (check). I predicted Christie would not run (check). I predicted Palin would not run (check). When I predict, pay attention. The Idea Factory: Concept papers for projects/programs you can use to raise funding now. http://ow.ly/5Klmq]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cain: The Force is Strong In this One]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Herman Cain is the GOP player on the field who could be a game changer if he were to raise his game another few notches, which he will have to do if he wants to take out Romney or Perry and then take his game to still another level to take on the One. 
Thus far, I'm no fan of Herman Cain.&nbsp; He's become a real frontrunner in the 
nomination race based on the polls.&nbsp; But I don't think there are any 
serious watchers of politics who think he actually stands a chance of 
getting the nomination. But if he can broaden his appeal beyond the Tea Party wing of the party while still maintaining his conservative cred, he might permit the GOP to field a serious conservative black candidate against the One and that folks would just be too much fun.&nbsp; I actually wouldn't mind that outcome at all.


An old debate clip has raised my estimation of the man a notch.&nbsp; Here's Cain taking on Clinton on his health care reform plans in a televised town hall.&nbsp; This is the first clip]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season As most of you know, I no longer believe the term racist to have much utility any longer.&nbsp; Most of us don't agree on what we mean when we say it.&nbsp; So the controversy of the rock and its name at Perry's ranch makes me wanna yawn more or less. I do have one thing I want to know though.&nbsp; Once the Perry family owned the place, how long did it take before they painted over the rock?&nbsp; If they didn't do it damn near immediately, well, I'll make some inferences about character. The Idea Factory: Concept papers for projects/programs you can use to raise funding now. http://ow.ly/5Klmq]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[A Human Experience]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Courtesy of Mashable's viral video of the day.

I had two reactions to this. One was the simple humanity of her reaction to hearing her own voice for the first time in her life, the joy it brought her, and the joy it brought me to see her experience that moment. The second was to think that this kind of joyous moment is what people experienced during the life and times of Jesus. This kind of scene was repeated over and over around Jesus as he healed the sick, gave sight to the blind and even raised the dead. So if you &nbsp;sometimes wonder what it was like in his orbit, this video is a great little example of what kind of joy was jumping off around the Savior all the time.The Idea Factory: Concept papers for projects/programs you can use to raise funding now. http://ow.ly/5Klmq]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Katt Williams Loves America]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Katt Williams is an extremely profane and often hilariously funny comic.&nbsp; He specializes in a raunchy, profanity laced brand of strictly for adults comedy, part of a crop of bad boy comics who specialize in raunchy shock humor that is laugh out loud funny if you've got the cahones to listen to it.&nbsp; I love that kind of standup, particularly if its intelligently constructed.

Katt happens to be among that group of comics in this genre who can craft a profane narrative and make you like it.&nbsp; Well Katt has caught a little bit of heat and criticism for what critics have labeled an anti-mexican rant and which I regard as a "pro America" rant.&nbsp; Katt was playing a club in Pheonix and confronted a heckler who said "f**ck America" (which is not not heard in the clip of the episode) in his own imitable ribald and profane fashion. (Warning: Very NSFW)








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        <title><![CDATA[Warren on the War Path]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season So far, I like Elizabeth Warren.&nbsp; I love the fact that she's an educated voice that calls out the financial sector for their robber baron behavior and points out the fact that the financial sector is the most heavily taxpayer subsidized industry on the planet.&nbsp; The GOP excoriates her, but their criticisms have been over the top and at times, outright fabrications, such as the widely circulated video of capitol hill testimony where she was portrayed as too arrogant to answer questions from Congress when in fact, it was GOP congressmen who were being complete asses in their handling of her testimony.&nbsp; I'd be really impressed if she'd aim some well deserved criticism at the administration for the way in which they are sold out to the banking sector, but that may yet come.

Her articulation of the social contract here I don't find very much to argue with. In three short months, she's made herself a player in the Massachusetts Senate race. Scott Brown, watch your back.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[GOP Debate Winners & Losers and Predictions]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The third GOP debate is in the books and hoo boy at this rate, this field is going to winnow out very quickly. 

Winners &amp; Losers:

Big winner of the night? If you even have to ask, then we weren't&nbsp; watching the same debate. I'm not a fan, but Romney takes this debate walking away.&nbsp; He frankly destroyed Perry again and again and again.&nbsp; Perry would attempt a political attack on Romney as a flip flopper, or Romney as not a real conservative, or Romney as architect of Romneycare and every single one flopped.&nbsp; Perry clearly came into this debate unprepared.&nbsp; He was not well prepped nor was he quick on his feet when they mixed it up.&nbsp; His rhetorical attacks consisted of poorly delivered anti Romney talking points with no additional substance behind them.&nbsp; When Romney turned aside his initial attack, he had nothing else.&nbsp; His attempt at a flip flop attack turned into a bumbling, stumbling, stammering, confused attempt that failed miserably.&nbsp]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tavis and Cornell Have One Thing Right...Black People Can & Should Criticize Obama]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season &nbsp;I voted for Obama, gave money, canvassed my neighborhood. I want him to be a successful president. But he is not the leader we expected him to be. His walk vastly underperforms his talk, routinely. I routinely encounter blacks online and off who contend that as blacks we should support him no matter what because he is black, irrespective of whether he is doing a good job or not. My brothers and sisters, is that really what you mean? I don't think Rosa and King and Malcolm and Medgar and all the other civil rights heroes sacrificed so that we could live in an America where we have to support a brother no matter how he performs. They fought for an America where we CAN be judged on our merits, on our results. &nbsp;We haven't won anything if we have not won the right as a people to have a black president that's not very good at the job and we can say so. &nbsp;To be black and fearful of criticizing Obama because he is one of our own is to operate from a poverty mentality about the o]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Obama Speaks Tonight.....Yawn]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I'm tired of the oratory.&nbsp; Obama seems to think he can orate his way to 
results.&nbsp; Tonight's speech will be a call to bipartisan action that will
 never occur.&nbsp; His walk consistently underperforms his talk and by a 
wide margin.&nbsp; The guy doesn't deliver for any of his constituencies.&nbsp; If
 the presidency were more of a figurehead than an actual working 
executive office, he would be fine, but its not.&nbsp; I never thought I 
would see a black president in my lifetime.&nbsp; Now that I have, I hope the
 2nd black president will come yet in my lifetime as well and perform 
better than the first.      


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Obama's rating overall at an all time low (bonjupatten.wordpress.com)
Separating Disrespect From Not-Disrespect (webnerhouse.com)




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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season As Touchpad mania continues into its 5th straight day of frustrated bargain hunting and gnashing of teeth over possible cancelled orders (I'm experiencing both), there is no denying that despite all the buzz, hype and excitement generated by the Touchpad firesale, a cloud still hangs over Webos. The threat of oblivion and a slow steady extinction. 

Where We Are: HP announced August 17th that it was going to sell off its PSG group, which contains Webos, and that it was discontinuing the production of Webos devices. Then it slashed the price of the HP Touchpad 16gb/32gb units to $99 and $149 respectively, setting off a buying frenzy and in the process, creating an excitement, buzz, mania and broad consumer interest in the product that all their off the mark, ill planned and conceived celebrity advertising never came close to achieving. HP has subsequently made clarifying statements that it would continue to support and develop the OS, while it figured out what to do with it, but it w]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I'm a huge fan of the Webos operating system created by Palm and later bought by HP.&nbsp; This beautiful, elegant, intuitive true multitasking operating system was the only real challenger to IOS in its potential.&nbsp; When Palm faltered for lack of resources and HP swooped in and bought them, declaring they would "double down" on Webos, enthusiasts for the OS rejoiced. 

It was therefore a disappointment of EPIC proportions when HP announced yesterday that they would be selling the personal systems group which produces all their hardware, including Webos devices. Webos faithful across our little mobile community reacted with shock and outrage.&nbsp; I was right there with them.&nbsp; People thought that Palm executed on the marketing and sales of the Pre very poorly and we all just knew that HP with its scale, size, bags of money and engineering nohow, would be able to market Webos in the way that Palm could not.&nbsp; We've all been shocked to see that not only did they not do bett]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I've been away from the keyboard for a bit, trying to restore some additional order to the chaos that is life.&nbsp; Being away for extended periods without any commentary is bad blogging though.&nbsp; Sometimes&nbsp; a brief word or two is all it takes to keep the blog fires burning, so lets have a few.

On the GOP nomination race

Palin Predictions: Speculation is rampant once again that the Thrilla from Wasilla is going to run.&nbsp; Rove suggests its possible based on a seemingly ramped up schedule in September. Though I'm sure Rove would love to see anyone come into the race who throw a monkey wrench into Perry's plans, we stand by our longstanding prediction that Palin will not run. Though the comparison is not entirely fair, to our mind, Palin has become something of the Kim Kardashian of politics.&nbsp; She's managed to turn her 15 minutes into a 24/7 and more power to her, but you can't be a money making political celebrity and a serious candidate at the same time (just look]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fear of a Black Republican]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The trailer is intriguing. &nbsp;May have to spring for the DVD. Interesting story&nbsp;about its making at Big Hollywood.





The Idea Factory: Concept papers for projects/programs you can use to raise funding now. http://ow.ly/5Klmq]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat tip Booker Rising
Warning: NSFW language and the squeamish may find the violence discomforting:






 

The brother administering the beatdown is apparently the owner of the barbershop where this video takes place and is remonstrating with his employee for selling drugs and allowing others to sell drugs in his shop while he left him in charge.&nbsp; He appears to have given&nbsp; this brother a measure of trust, primarily 
trusting that the brother had the good common sense not to cross him with no foolish 
BS like he discovered.&nbsp; I think that's what finally set him completely off, that the 
brother did not really seem to understand the seriousness of the problem
 he was bringing to his attention.&nbsp; Confronted with homeboy's denseness, he decided to deliver the lesson in
 a more efficient manner, namely direct fist to brain neurological 
transfer. 

Taking the video at face value, thats your average 
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season She Said 
Debbie Wasserman's remarks on the House Floor&nbsp; in which she responded -- without 
naming West-- to his&nbsp; support for "Cut, Cap, and 
Balance" legislation to raise the debt ceiling:

"The gentleman from Florida. who represents thousands of Medicare 
beneficiaries, as do I, is supportive of this plan that would increase 
costs for Medicare beneficiaries, unbelievable from a Member from South 
Florida," Wasserman Schultz said, saying the legislation "slashes 
Medicaid and critical investments essential to winning the future in 
favor of protecting tax breaks for Big Oil, millionaires, and companies 
who ship American jobs overseas."


 He Said:
In response, via email, copied to members of the House Republican and Democratic leadership:  

&nbsp;Look, Debbie, I understand that after I departed the House floor you 
directed your floor speech comments directly towards me. Let me make 
myself perfectly clear, you want a personal fight, I am happy to oblige.
 You are the mos]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I tend to think the Color of Change model of activism is a study in majoring in the minors most of the time. Fellow blogger Cultural Strategist has a lower opinion of their activities than that. From time to time however, they shine a light on BS that needs some type of response.&nbsp; They've found another this week where I agree a response is warranted.

DeShon Marman was taken off of US Airways flight 488, arrested, shackled, 
and jailed after airline staff confronted him about his sagging pants.&nbsp;
He describes the event in his own words:








































For the record,&nbsp; I buy his side of the story in total.&nbsp; I detest the phenomenon of sagging pants en vogue among some young black men and I'm not particularly offended that the young man was asked to adjust his clothing, which he did, although apparently not to the satisfaction of the ticketing agent or flight crew.&nbsp; However, poor taste in attire should not be cause for arrest and forced r]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season If a community wants to ban mosques, Cain says emphatically "They have the right to do that"


 I’ve listened/watched several YouTube clips of Herman Cain holding forth on  Muslims and I’m sorry, but the reality is that Cain IS a religious  bigot. Listening to him is like listening to your cranky old grandfather  or uncle who is an all right guy but invariably makes you cringe when  they get on their favorite rant against white people or foreigners or  whatever their pet peeve group is. 

They are not evil, its just frankly their ignorance talking. They are the kind of relative that if there is anyone  around besides family, you try to get that person out of the room before Gramps  talks too much.  That’s Cain up and down. With his recent comment  about Romney, clearly he thinks people in the South apply the same bigoted filter to Mormons that he uses with Muslims too.






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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The advent of a black president has created a moment in which the GOP
 is
 twisting itself into knots trying to play the race card in a way that 
makes it sound as though they are articulating an actual concern with 
blacks as a political constituency, because they think it makes such a 
nifty line of attack. Its a twofer; criticize the president and rub his 
incompetence in black people's faces at the same time. Gingrich has his 
foodstamp president line for example.


The FAMiLY Leader,
 a public advocacy organization affiliated with the Iowa Family Policy 
Center, is the latest conservative entity to indulge in this dig at 
black political gullibility. They recently issued the Marriage Vow,
 a declaration of principles adherence to marriage and family values and
 have wasted no time asking GOP candidates to sign it. Several have, 
with Michelle Bachman being the candidate who got called out for missing
 the little racial bomblet in the pledge, to wit:


Slavery had a disastrous impa]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Qoute of the Day: The Coming Economic Train Wreck]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Jazz Shaw at Hot Air nails it:

The chief problem facing us on the revenue front is not that the published tax rates are too high. (And make no mistake, they are too high.) The problem is that so few of the biggest potential revenue sources pay anywhere near those levels in their effective  tax rate....And argue as  viciously as you like, but none of the biggest employers in this nation  are paying anywhere near 35% and in too many cases actually pay much  closer to zero once you take out all of the benefits they receive in  return.

Meanwhile, the only people really getting hammered on taxes are at  the opposite end of the earnings scale. Why? Because major corporations  and the very rich can afford the expensive tax lawyers and lobbyists  needed to obtain sweetheart deals from Congress and endless tweaking of a  tax code which is probably verging on a million pages in length by now.

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        <title><![CDATA[Bachmann and Gingrich: Finally Cracking the Code That Will Let the GOP Communicate With Black Voters?]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Presidential candidates Michelle Bachman and Newt Gingrich have both decided that they want to open a can of racial rhetorical whoop ass on President Obama.&nbsp; Catch Bachmann's broadside at a speech in New Orleans:

&nbsp;Bachmann has the opportunity to get off my crazy rightwinger list and make my crazy like a fox list. This is interesting and even groundbreaking if Bachmann makes the effort to define and refine this element of her message.&nbsp; I'd have to hear more from her to know where she is coming from.&nbsp; Is she trying to make the point that because Obama is black, blacks and latinos, his fellow minorities, should be doing better?&nbsp; If that's her point, that will be a loser argument within conservative circles and it won't resonate with minorities at all. Note that her impassioned declaration that Obama had failed these minority communities and that she would focus on them did not raise any applause until she broadened the statement.&nbsp;
 If she is instead making t]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[This Year's Most Oddly Surreal Photo Moment]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season A surreal, vivid, iconic moment of tenderness in the midst of the melee in the streets of Vancouver following the Stanley Cup.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The National Black ProLife Coalition (NBPC), via its spokesperson Walter Hoye announced 60 “BLACK&amp;BEAUTIFUL” billboards have been placed in the Oakland, CA, area. The billboard campaign is being sponsored jointly with TooManyAborted.com (TMA). TMA is the group behind what they termed an anti-genocide  “Blacks are an Endangered Species” billboard campaign which put up billboards like the one above in Atlanta to huge controversy.&nbsp; They have now teamed up with NBPC to put up a new series of pro life messaging billboards in the black community (pictured below).



The Black &amp; Beautiful billboard is the RIGHT message  delivered in the RIGHT way.&nbsp; Bravo! I applaud it and urge more of the  same.&nbsp; 

I wish I could be as supportive of the other campaign billboards TMA plans to put up in Atlanta during the&nbsp; Juneteenth celebrations (shown below) that use a slavery metaphor to sell the message, but I can't.&nbsp; In my opinion, it  is simply an ineffective tact]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Eddie Long: A Takeway]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Its mind blowing to me that a congregation would permit him to remain in leadership after a scandal that costs the church $25 million.&nbsp; You don't pay such an amount when the allegations have no substance.&nbsp; As much as the Eddie Long debacle says about him, it says something perhaps even more depressing and dispiriting about black church folk.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Palin Emails: Spare me the outrage on the right]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Palin has willingly and quite skillfully made herself more political celebrity than serious  politico.&nbsp; Therefore, she gets the celebrity treatment from media, which  is to shower its readers with lowest common denominator material like  pawing through her emails.&nbsp; While the claims of liberal media bias have a  ring of truth to them, spare me the outrage.&nbsp; Palin has cannily cashed  in on her prominence with a rabid and vocal fan base and she shows no  sign of stopping. She's milking it all for purposes of maintaining her  political prominence.&nbsp; Aside from raising/making money and operating as  a political celebrity cum gadfly, what is there to be so impressed  with?&nbsp; Had she not been plucked from obscurity by a desperate and now  failed McCain campaign, would anyone actually be talking about Sarah  Palin on the national stage? I doubt it. I'll be impressed when she puts herself out there as a serious candidate, not before.&nbsp; Note that APS is on record as pr]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Ask me anything.  No really...anything. What are you...scared? http://formspring.me/politicalseason]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Al Qaeda's Transnational Reach Largely Neutered]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season From Stratfor.com's analysis of a new video from al Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab, posted online June 2,&nbsp; titled “Responsible Only for Yourself.” It is al Qaeda core’s latest attempt to encourage grassroots jihadists to undertake lone-wolf operations in the West. Stratfor characterizes it as a message of defeat.&nbsp; We concur:


"Overall, the jihadist message urging Muslims to take up arms and  conduct attacks simply does not appear to be gaining much traction among  Muslims in the West — and the United States in particular. We have  simply not seen the groundswell of grassroots attacks that was initially  anticipated. The pleas of Gadahn and his companions appear to be  falling upon deaf ears and do not seem to resonate with Muslims in the  West in the same way that the cries of the pro-democracy movements in  the Middle East have in recent months.


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        <title><![CDATA[Qoute of the Day]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season From commenter DAR at the USA Today website on an article discussing reshaping the Obama political brand for the 2012 election:
&nbsp;&nbsp;
I prefer a brand with principles and values.

The brand of being  "middle" and "practical" cannot work.  Middle does not mean right.   Practical does no good with some principles to evaluate outcomes.  

The  idea of hope requires some notion that there is some mechanism that  will bring about goals.  Obama has not demonstrated any understanding of  economics or any general principles of that valued by people.  

To reshape his image, Obama would have to reshape himself. 

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        <title><![CDATA[Westboro Baptist Church Foolishness]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season I like to think that being black on occasion spares us a certain species of foolishness.&nbsp; I believe this is the case with Westboro Baptist church. The Supreme Court has now sanctioned their callous idiocy. &nbsp;I'm waiting for them to really demonstrate their commitment to the cause and bring their little freakshow to the funeral of one of the black or latino communities' fallen warriors in Detroit, or Los Angeles or Chicago. &nbsp;I think their story would come to a quick and satisfying end.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season For all the favorable talk about the military and its restraint,   it should not be forgotten that the military supported Mubark for the   past 30 years and more importantly, that the military has huge economic interests and control of big sectors of the economy   which they have garnered under Mubarak rule.  A military with   independent economic ownership interests sounds like a corrupt   institution, because when push  comes to shove, they will put those   interests before the people.  Even with Mubarak gone, I think the   Egyptians at the end of the day will not have anything near what we in   the West would consider representative government.  The elements of   Egyptian society that benefited under Mubarak will retain control of the   economy and levers of power, though how power is shared may likely   change now that he has been forced out. The military earlier today issued a  statement that the emergency law will not be lifted until the   protesters go home.&nbsp; Even with Mub]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season If you didn't already know, I'm a huge fan of the WebOS mobile OS from Palm, now HP.&nbsp; I wax evangelical about it every chance I get.&nbsp; At long last, HP unveiled the future of WebOS devices.&nbsp; With a few caveats, we like what we see. The Touchpad brings WebOS to a tablet device and the reaction of many in the tech world is that WebOS seems to be even better suited to the tablet than it is to the smartphone format.&nbsp; The caveat? the announcement yesterday that the Touchpad will NOT feature a  gesture area is a big dissapointment.  Gestures are a MAJOR differentiating factor between WebOS and  its competitors.  This incredibly intuitive interaction with the OS is a  primary reason users like WebOS.  Eliminating it on the tablet in favor  of an Ipad mimicking button is completely nonsensical.  RIM's Playbook  rips off WebOS on this front with both a card metaphor and a gesture  area. HP's competitors see the value, they were the innovator here, I don't understand why the]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Governor Mitch Daniels, my governor, is talking big smack about a potential presidential run.

“If I were to decide to do this, we would have an unbelievable  letterhead,”&nbsp;Mitch figures that if he makes a run, he's got the support to make it happen.&nbsp; I think he's right and he'd get my vote in a run against the One.&nbsp;

Mitch will be addressing CPAC tomorrow.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Lockstep With Democrats, Willfully We Slaughter Our Future]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Image via Wikipedia

According to the CDC, since 1973, the year of the Supreme Court Decision Roe vs. Wade, 13 million (13,000,000) African American lives have been lost to abortion.

The CDC reports that of the approximately 4000 abortions that are performed daily in the United States, 1452 of them are performed on African American women and their unborn children. This means that although African Americans represent only 12% of the population of the United States, they account for 35% of the abortions performed in this country.


The case of Kermit Gosnell&nbsp; in Philadelphia and Planned Parenthoods recent exposure advising a disguised pimp how to facilitate abortion and STD treatment for prostitutes has brought into sharp relief the intersection of race, abortion, money and the willful disregard in our community of what we know to be morally correct.

First and foremost, as a nation and as a community, we need to confront squarely a nasty little fact: the majority of the abortions]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The world is watching as massive numbers of protesters take to the streets to demand that Hosni Mubarak relinquish his 30 year grip on dictatorial power in Egypt.&nbsp; Inspired by similar demands in Tunisia, &nbsp; Egyptians have taken to the streets in the most serious and real challenge to the regime in Egypt in many years.

The President takes massive heat just for getting out of bed.&nbsp; Naturally his response to the Egyptian protesters has been criticized as tepid, inept and out of step with our American ideas of democracy.&nbsp; His failure to call for Mubarak to step down and full throatedly support the protesters has been labeled a weak and ineffectual championing of democracy, exposing the US to ridicule as hypocrites, crowing about our democratic ways whilst supporting autocratic regimes in the Middle East because it suits our short term geopolitical objectives. 
Ralph Peters lays this charge on the President, going so far as to label him a threat to US security:

Finally]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Image via Wikipedia
You heard it here first: Palin will not run.&nbsp; Our rationale? Ultimately, she is more a poseur than the real deal and she lacks not only the fire in the belly to compete tooth and claw for the highest position in the land, she also lacks the ego necessary to scale this highest of political mountains. I'm taking bets on that prediction.&nbsp; Anybody want a piece of that action?&nbsp; 
Related articlesNo Signs of a Palin Bid (politicalwire.com)]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season &nbsp;I'm a member of Color of Change.&nbsp; I have participated in some of your campaigns, such as the current one on the KelleyWilliams-Bolar case, which I was gratified to see you take on.&nbsp; I'm a conservative, so I do not always agree with your campaign priorities.&nbsp; I have the following comments and I hope you'll take them to heart.

1.&nbsp; Democratize campaign formation; enable member defined campaigns, not just those COC picks: Color of Change has a large number of members, but its very top down when it comes to selecting campaigns.&nbsp; You solicit campaign suggestions from members, but the selection of those campaigns is done by COC leadership.&nbsp; Those decisions are not democratic, transparent or accountable to your membership in any meaningful way that I can see.&nbsp; I think that your advocacy model would be that much more powerful if you changed that.&nbsp; I would recommend a model for public online submission by members of campaigns and a mechanism for mem]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season So awesome.  Totally insane. I love Bollywood.  The best part?....this is a musical!&nbsp;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Writer Amy Chua, on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, attempts to quantify what makes the Chinese mother superior to Western moms.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Writer Amy Chua, on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, attempts to quantify what makes the Chinese mother superior to Western moms.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Writer Amy Chua, on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, attempts to quantify what makes the Chinese mother superior to Western moms.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat tip to Black and Married with Kids.&nbsp;

Writer Amy Chua, on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, attempts to quantify what makes the Chinese mother superior to Western moms.

Chinese parents can order their kids to get straight As.  Western parents can only ask their kids to try their best. Chinese  parents can say, “You’re lazy. All your classmates are getting ahead of  you.” By contrast, Western parents have to struggle with their own  conflicted feelings about achievement, and try to persuade themselves  that they’re not disappointed about how their kids turned out…Western parents try to respect their children’s  individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions,  supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a  nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best  way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future,  letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills,  work habi]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season "It was probably not the best idea to run toward the gunshots, but people needed help,"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --Daniel Hernandez, 20, an intern to Congresswoman Gifford, who's quick thinking first aid is crediting with aiding her survival.

"When you seen an individual that shoots a 9-year-old girl ... something has to be done,"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Bill Badger, 74, a retired Army colonel, who ignored a bullet wound to the head to confront and subdue Loughner.

When reached by telephone, he declined to comment
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Roger Salzgeber, the first bystander on the scene to confront the killer, braining him with a folding chair. He's not talking, he just did it. 

"give me the gun!"
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Patricia Maisch, 61, overheard by witnesses screaming at Loughner as she h]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season The cohort of people born between 190-1920 and to a lesser degree those born in the 1930s, who experienced the Great Depression and turned the tide in WWII to defeat a despot, were dubbed the Greatest Generation in Tom Brokaw's 1998 book of the same name.&nbsp; An additional appellation for this group might well be Generation Hero, because they keep on serving.&nbsp; 

&nbsp;It was one member of this generation, 74-year-old retired Army colonel Bill Badger who was instrumental in ending the bullet filled rampage of Jared Lee Lougher.&nbsp; Loughner severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and took the lives of six innocents, including a federal judge and nine year old little girl that might well have been Giffords successor and more one day.&nbsp; Bill Badger, grazed by a bullet himself, after seeing this deranged gunman cut down a child in cold blood didn't hesitate for a moment to take action. The Greatest Generation...still answering the call.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Egypt's Muslim majority has made as definitive an anti-radical muslim statement as can be made in the wake of the devastating attack on Saints Church in Alexandria on New Years Eve that killed 21 people.&nbsp; Thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches throughout Egypt, offering their bodies as human shields, following threats posted online by terrorists groups to attack Christians in the mid east. The Copts are&nbsp;the biggest Christian community in the Middle East and  account for up to 10 per cent of Egypt's 80 million&nbsp;population.

After brutal attacks on non muslims by terrorist groups, it has been typical to hear people say something along these lines; "why doesn't the Muslim community take a definitive stand against terrorists"? This was many times my own reaction. Now, it wasn't as if individuals and representative organizations within the Muslim world didn't decry terrorist acts, many did.&nbsp; But those verbal repudiations either we]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Next month, NewSouth Books is publishing a version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that combines it with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,  but that's hardly the new book's most controversial choice. Twain  scholar Alan Gribben spearheaded the project primarily to remove Huck Finn's  epithets for African-Americans and Native-Americans (they've either  been omitted or, in the former case, replaced by words like "slave"),&nbsp; -sourceThis is ridiculous. The book, with the N word included, is how Mark  Twain wrote it. Its an American classic from a literary icon. I do not  understand how a purported Twain scholar goes mucking about with something like that. All to spare the sensitivities of a few teachers who don't have the instructional cahones to teach an American classic as written and deal with the context? How does dumbing down a literary classic smarten up the youth of America? 

 I read the  book as a kid, on my own. I enjoyed the story and I understood the context. Even  if Twa]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Way back in April 2010, when there were calls for Steele to be bounced as RNC Chairman,&nbsp; I predicted that he would survive that challenge to serve out his term, but would not be reelected to the post in 2011.&nbsp; The RNC Chairman position will be voted on Jan. 14 and I expect that prediction to hold firm.&nbsp; Steele faced off against his rivals for the job in a first ever RNC Chair debate yesterday.
  
I blogged several times on Steele and right from the  get go, his numerous gaffes were cringe inducing.  Groveling to Rush,  talking about wooing black voters with fried chicken, the GQ article  where he used profanity and made nonsensical statements and so much more.

While  many people will defend him on the basis of the GOP's electoral  performance in the mid terms, I'm not entirely inclined to give him over  much credit there.  I look at his tenure the way I look at what the  Obama administration and the Fed are doing for the big banks.  If you're selling  the banks money a]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[From: A Political Season Hat Tip to Cobb

Cobb highlights a critique of the President he finds on point.&nbsp; I agree. The most salient bits in my view:

It's been about settling. "Well, this isn't exactly what you want, but  imagine how much worse it will be if we don't at least do this." &nbsp;That  has been the logic of virtually everything the Obama Administration has  done. And not just the finished legislation, but of all the  pre-compromising, of the exclusion of idealistic voices--or even just  long-suffering, hard-working, scientifically informed and/or militant  ones....And throughout all of this what is always being lost, piece by piece,  bit by bit is the wild-eyed exuberance of limitless hope and aspiration.  &nbsp;What's being lost is vision... 
Sadly, I could not agree more.&nbsp;]]></description>
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