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How Critical Race Theory Molded Obama
The belief that standards of justice should vary from group to group is popular with academics — and the Democratic nominee.
Indicating a receptive attitude to such a view of justice, at least by his teaching and academic background, is presidential candidate Barack Obama. While at Harvard, Obama joined his professor, critical race theorist Derrick Bell, in mob pressures to hire a black female. Obama, during his richly remunerated stint as a part-time professor at the University of Chicago Law School, relied on his former professor’s writings, as his syllabus shows. (Issues of race seem to have been a specialty during Obama’s tenure, as I’ve described in previous columns.) The media points to his inclusion of a reading by conservative jurist Robert Bork, but the preponderance of far-left readings, as well as other evidence, like Obama’s contribution of a chapter to a volume devoted to the writings of radical socialist Saul Alinsky and his close ties to the New Party, strongly suggest that Obama as professor used the tactic of most left-wing professors: throw in one token conservative as a whipping boy. Obama’s academic associations and writings show him favoring theories of justice based on race, class, and gender. These have their roots in a socialist doctrine — and not in Western notions of equal and universal rights.
It takes a regular Joe (the Plumber) asking an innocent question to reveal the Democratic candidate’s ideology, which, in faith to Marxism, is to “spread the wealth.” Joe the Plumber has likely been alienated by his schooling and the double talk reigning in the classroom. He, instead, relies on his God-given reason, just the way the Founding Fathers intended. Professor Obama on the campaign trail, however, mocked John McCain’s reference to him during the third debate.
Obama has garnered the support of Christopher Buckley, who seems to have forgotten his late father’s prescient words in his book about his college years, God and Man at Yale:
Marx himself … envisaged two broad lines of action that could be adopted to destroy the bourgeoisie: one was violent revolution; the other, a slow increase of state power, to a point where a smooth transition could be effected from an individualist to a collectivist society.
Our founding principles are based on the idea of natural law, clearly expressed in such language that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights.” The Marxist and critical race theory notions espoused by Obama and by those in positions as intellectual opinion-makers are diametrically opposed to our democratic foundations.
Joe rightly feels threatened by a double standard of justice. He knows that he is endowed with reason by his Creator — and not the professors.
The only response that the professors have left to give to Joe, the aspiring small business owner, is ultimately the one Chairman Mao espoused in his 1949 speech, “On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”: “Communists the world over are wiser than the bourgeoisie.” Indeed, the professors, like Mao, have simply declared themselves smarter and excluded those who disagree with them. Unchallenged by the public or administrators, they have promulgated their ideology in the classrooms.
It is a plumber and not a Ph.D., though, who recognizes what Obama’s ideas mean for him, a small business owner, a member of the bourgeoisie: famine as a result of an ideology of “spreading the wealth” and guilt until proven innocent as a result of class-based justice.
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Mary Grabar earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and teaches in the Atlanta area. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and published fiction writer. Visit her website and get on her mailing list at MaryGrabar.com. Mary blogs at the TheLiterateCitizen.com.
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1. Marc Malone:One really didn’t need any proof of Obama’s Marxist beliefs other than the left’s intolerance of dissent. The same goes for those on the extreme right. Zealots of every stripe reveal their colors by the intimidation they use. The Iowa caucuses were the first sign.
Oct 29, 2008 - 1:38 am 2. TomP:“Our founding principles are based on the idea of natural law, clearly expressed in such language that “all men are created equal” and “endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights.” The Marxist and critical race theory notions espoused by Obama and by those in positions as intellectual opinion-makers are diametrically opposed to our democratic foundations.”
They would suggest that while “all (men) are equal, some are more equal than others” (thanks for the warning, George Orwell).
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:56 am 3. RE:The expression ‘educated beyond intelligence’ come immediately to mind. I wonder if the ‘Critical Race Theory’ proponents have ever stopped to consider that it is actually their obsessive myopia that alienates them from reasonable society more than any other single factor. Showing up with a boatload of attitude is a fast track to nowhere, especially if it’s Marxist victimhood BS. It’s disturbing that my tax dollars support this parasite class. These profs need to be booted off the government dole and earn an honest living like the rest of us.
Earning your own way is the true ticket to positive self esteem – not wallowing in a cesspool of blame shifting self-pity. Do that and one deserves all the contempt that comes their way.
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:59 am 4. Mary Jackson:In short, critical race theorists believe that standards of justice should vary from group to group and situation to situation.
Justice is not justice if it varies from group to group. For centuries, blacks and women were judged (unfairly) on race and sex rather than the content of their character. Now blacks particularly are judged on race – but the bias is the other way.
Let’s not forget Michelle Obama, whose barely literate senior thesis reflects the fact she got into Princeton on colour rather than on merit, thereby – despicably in my view – stealing a place from someone who deserved it.
Ironically, “affirmative action” (or “positive discrimination” as we call it in the UK) does genuinely talented blacks and women no favours – everyone assumes they are their because of their sex or race.
Oct 29, 2008 - 3:18 am 5. Bernard Chapin:Another excellent article, Mary. “professors of dubious credentials” tells the whole story for me. Obama is of the PC University and will dictate according to their nefarious wishes. G-D I hope he loses next week.
Oct 29, 2008 - 5:17 am 6. MarkD:As an older, average height, no-talent white guy, I agree and am eagerly looking forward to my NBA contract. I’ll take the minimum pay.
Oct 29, 2008 - 5:32 am 7. logdon:I have a friend (or did) who is black. He is one of four children of an immigrant from Jamaica who worked hard in a factory, bought his own home and is now retired. His mother worked in the lower spectrum of employment and the two of them put all children into decent education. The other three who were girls did well, attaining scholarships to Grammer School and then university. They all have good jobs and are doing well. Meanwhile my friend attended fashion design courses, electronics courses and finally computer studies. He lives with his partner who works in marketing and again doing well. Brian is now 45, unemployed and a bitter man. He stays at home looking after the little boy. He blames society. He blames racism. But worse, the last time we spoke he muttered that he wished he’d done law. That would have sorted his problem. Now I’m not being nasty in any way but the thought of this guy doing law was quite preposterous. His level of attainment amounted to an NVQ Level Two in computing (a kind of work based eductation qualification here in Britan.) He paid for a Microsoft course costing hundreds of pounds yet never finished it. I arranged an interview with a friend of mine who is a senior director of an international financial sevices company who lives in Miami. He passed this golden opportunity with no thanks. Yet he thinks that his colour has been the factor in all of this and law would have provided the answer. In other words black people who do not get up that ladder do not see it as a lack of effort or the intelligence to get there but it’s all down to that pesky ol’racism thing. The fact that his sisters have all ‘made it’ is of no account. They are obviously black but that fact flies over his head. Left wing dogma has created this conundrum, it’s never your fault but that of society in general and that’s a big loomig problem here in the UK and, I guess over there also.
Here’s an illumination from Denmark regarding Muslim immigrants.
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“Martin Bak Jørgensen, professor of European Studies at Ålborg University, researched the identity of Turkish youth in Denmark and their participation in the school system. He thinks that a large part of the reason is the family’s expectations.”
“He says the boys are encouraged to get an education, that traditionally gives much prestige in the original homeland, for example doctors and dentists. This is typically too big a mouthful since the academic level the descendants obtained in public school doesn’t put them in a position to be admitted or finish the course. They’re therefore set up for a serious letdown and see education negatively, he told Agenda, the Danish labor union magazine.”
In other words all or nothing. They see the big bucks and assume it is easy. If the kuffar can do it we must sail through! Then it goes pear shaped and instead of setting the sights a few notches down it’s, why bother in a white mans world?
That I’m afraid is the result of the myth that affirmative action will ensure that you do well without effort or hard work. That it will all grease the way to success and that Beemer is yours.
As for my friend, my pointing out the, as we say in Britain, the bleeding obvious has now stopped him speaking to me.
I rest my case.
Oct 29, 2008 - 5:48 am 8. B Dubya:(Note: “Jack Wheeler is …(the)…man who was the author of Reagan’s strategy to break the back of the Soviet Union with the star wars race and expose their inner weakness. For years he wrote a weekly intelligence update that was extremely interesting and well structured and informative. …..”)
The following was written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
“The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.
He has no real identity. He is half-white, which he rejects. The rest of him is mostly Arab, which he hides but is disclosed by his non-African Arabic surname and his Arabic first and middle names as a way to triply proclaim his Arabic parentage to people in Kenya . Only a small part of him is African Black from his Luo grandmother, which he pretends he is exclusively.
What he isn’t, not a genetic drop of, is ‘African-American,’ the descendant of enslaved Africans brought to America chained in slave ships. He hasn’t a single ancestor who was a slave. Instead, his Arab ancestors were slave owners. Slave-trading was the main Arab business in East Africa for centuries until the British ended it.
Let that sink in: Obama is not the descendant of slaves, he is the descendant of slave owners. Thus he makes the perfect Liberal Messiah.
It’s something Hillary doesn’t understand – how some complete neophyte came out of the blue and stole the Dem nomination from her. Obamamania is beyond politics and reason. It is a true religious cult, whose adherents reject Christianity yet still believe in Original Sin, transferring it from the evil of being human to the evil of being white.
Thus Obama has become the white liberals’ Christ, offering absolution from the Sin of Being White. There is no reason or logic behind it, no faults or flaws of his can diminish it, no arguments Hillary could make of any kind can be effective against it. The absurdity of Hypocrisy Clothed In Human Flesh being their Savior is all the more cause for liberals to worship him: Credo quia absurdum, I believe it because it is absurd.
Thank heavens that the voting majority of Americans remain Christian and are in no desperate need of a phony savior.”
“All your liberties are belong to me.” B.H. Obama, Chicago based pol, newly acclained Messiah of Progressives everywhere.
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Oct 29, 2008 - 7:17 am 10. Obama and “Critical Race Theory” « Conservatives For McCain:[...] and “Critical Race Theory” An important read for you philosophical types out [...]
Oct 29, 2008 - 7:36 am 11. SiouxLady:On the Documentary Channel (#197 on Dish Network), I watched “Indoctrinate U” – scary. I’m glad I got my degree before the left’s take over of academia happened.
Oct 29, 2008 - 7:36 am 12. The Wizard:WORDS FROM AND TO THE WISE
During this political season let’s be reminded of these wise words.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’ s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
…..Abraham Lincoln
Oct 29, 2008 - 8:00 am 13. CALIndie:Wizard – Nice reminder, too bad these universal truths will be tossed on the garbage heap if Barack Obama is elected.
The slow drip of socialism appears to have finally gained critical mass and is on the brink of flooding America with a new political, social and economic reality. This new reality is the antithesis of our American heritage and founding principles of which Lincoln spoke.
My only question to those on this thread is: What will the resistance to radical socialism and “spreading the wealth” look like when it comes? I venture to guess, it won’t be peaceful.
Oct 29, 2008 - 9:43 am 14. Eric:I firmly believe that indoctrination is precisely the reason Liberals oppose school choice. If people are free to choose where their children attend school then the Left loses its captive audience. I have a dream of establishing a free school (grades 6-12) that teaches history, social studies, government, et al from a traditional conservative, small government perspective. I would build a cadre of highly educated students ready to stand up for liberty armed with the words and understanding of the Founders. Public education is producing a nation of sheep ready for slaughter (socialism).
Oct 29, 2008 - 11:34 am 15. Vasio:I wouldn’t call myself a Marxist, but I’m a strong believer in the Conflict Theory. You cannot bring the rich down, by raising there taxes. How is it fair that someone makes 100,000/year and get a tax break. What reason? Though someone who makes 30,000 is taxed fully? Why? If every taxable dollar is taxed, a sensible mathematician would believe the more you make the more taxes you pay. Though that is not the case. So ‘us’ Conflict Theorist continue to say, this system is designed to keep the rich–rich and the poor–poor.
Think of it this way, someone who makes 30,000 dollars typically after taxes brings home about 23,000 for the year. Versus someone who makes 100,000 (to include the special tax bracket) would bring home about 96,000 for the year; possibly a little more. They are bringing home basically all they work for during the year.
This is not socialisms; it’s math. Lincoln spoke, 4 score, but it’s 2008. America was based around capital. America is a capitalistic society. You can’t do anything in America without money. I traveled to Europe (beautiful country) I rarely needed money and could spend a day with my family enjoying life. But to enjoy life in America; to live this “American Dream” you must have finance. The saying, “Money Walks..” an American saying coined in the late 70’s early 80’s.
So here’s everyone saying Obama is a socialist, he’s a Marxist. I have to tell you many of the great minds were not American. We study in school and in the collegiate arena of those from foreign lands. Karl Marx, Shakesphere, Mozart. I have to say Marx was a genius as over hundreds of years his mark is still brought into the world in the 21st century and it’s weighed as a factor today.
What is wrong with Sweden. It’s a beautiful country. Very friendly people. What would America be like if it was like Sweden?
It’s the American pride and boastful confidence that makes this country so hated. Though Christians are taught to be humble and not proud and puffed up. Though this nation is claimed to be a Christian society, but principle displayed do not embody christian beliefs.
I wish that this belief that socialism will bring about nonpeaceful society. It seems that we’ve been at war for about 10 years and doesn’t look like calming down anytime soon. So there is no peace, just a tolerance between nations.
I’m not a supporter of anything but education, logic and truth. Though the truth is the Conflict Theory is the greatest finding by one of Social Science greatest men (in a educational sense) Karl Marx.
Oct 29, 2008 - 11:41 am 16. kwh:According to Vasio, if someone makes $30K, he takes $23K home; while someone making $100K would get $96K back.
Please consult a tax accountant and not a college professor to learn more about the US tax system.
BTW, taxation here in the US is by rate, not a flat fee. Basic math will show that:
$100K * tax_rate > $30K * tax_rate.
In fact since the rates are indexed, the $30K tax rate will be much less than the $100K.
You also REALLY need to talk to a former Soviet Era Russian, Pole, or East German about the “genius” of Marx.
Oct 29, 2008 - 12:23 pm 17. subcutaneous:#15 vasio.
Like so many guilt-laden liberals, you see it as a zero sum game. Somebody makes $30,000, therefore he can do nothing to raise himself to make more – maybe even $100,000? The only way to get more is to take away from someone who has it?
Maybe the $100,000 earner was also making $30,000 at one time in her history. She had the foresight to read, work on a skill, apply for a new job, etc, that allowed her to rise to the $100,000 level.
What incentive would there be for the 30k guy to improve himself if he knows that big brother will take some of 100k girl’s income and redistribute it?
Maybe 100k girl will tire of the tax code and lower her own output to the point where she can get some of the “redistribution”. Or move herself and her company to a place where the tax laws aren’t quite as “progressive”, kind of like the Brits did in the 1970’s. Eventually you have to tax MR 30k more to redistribute others who “need” it.
read the Lincoln quotes again.
Oct 29, 2008 - 12:48 pm 18. bear:Vasio: Logic and truth but no math? I’d like to see the deductions on that tax return. I have to imagine a call from the IRS is in order for a phone audit.
Oct 29, 2008 - 1:16 pm 19. Ditto:Hi Vasio,
I was an orphan and lived in several different foster homes and in some of them I was discouraged from trying to find a way to go to college. This is because college is expensive and the people fostering me wanted to keep all the money they were being paid to care for me and not spend any of it on college tuition.
I ended up going to college anyway, though I didn’t finish. But still, I had ambition and I worked hard. I went from the (temporary) food stamp and assistance lifestyle to having a 25 year career in the IT industry. It was very difficult to break out of the welfare trap because you earn so little for so long. It’s easier to sit back and take what the state will give you. It’s hard to rise above it. But you are NOT doing any favors for anybody by keeping them on welfare. People who are successful have attained that achievement through very hard work. Why reward somebody for being less motivated?
At this stage of my life I am making a modest living and have gone back to school, this time to finish my bachelors and earn my masters. With any luck at all, I will soon earn $100,000 a year. Until then – I do NOT begrudge anybody who already does. It takes hard work. Once you earn your way, why should you be penalized? Do you think for one second that Barack Obama would give any portion of the funds he has raised for his campaign to John McCain? But McCain has less — shouldn’t Obama help him along?
Some social services are appropriate and necessary. Generational welfare is not. Our country is where people go to escape Marxism, socialism and communism. We do not aspire to become like the rest of the world. Why would we?
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:09 pm 20. Joecr:Thank you, Mary, for a summary of how our leaders permitted their personal ambitions for a political career let the enemies of our Constitution take over education and other institutions in the United States . In public service military and civil, I have had to take an oath to uphold the Constitution against all enemies. Somewhere along the way it became a joke. Now we have those against Obama saying that he is a good man with good ideas.
Sorry folks, I wonder if Obama isn’t the poster-boy for the Marxist Socialist organization that has been planning and implementing the takeover of our society for many years. He talks a great lie; But who writes the lines?
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:25 pm 21. SiouxLady:Vasio, I have a healthy 59 year-old sister with some college education living on an Indian reservation. She is not gainfully employed so has no disposable income. As groceries, she receives what are called “commodities.” She lives alone in a three bedroom house, with plumbing, electricity, heat and an air conditioner. She has a T.V, DVD player, a computer and surfs the net. Would you consider her rich or poor? She considers herself one of America’s poor. But, I’ll bet she wouldn’t trade places with Barack’s brother in Kenya living in a hut and making $12 a month.
In “real” terms, that person making $30,000 a year lives better than the king of Sweden did in the Middle Ages. Capitalism raises the standard of living and the quality of life, generally. Yesteryear’s “poor” are today’s “rich.” Wealth is a relative concept. I’m “rich” compared to her, but I’m “poor” compared to George Soros and Warren Buffet and probably compared to you and Karl Marx.
If you really mean what you say, you would take the money you pay per month for internet service and send it to Barack’s brother in Africa with maybe a check ever so often to my sister so she has some disposable income.
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:29 pm 22. Vasio:KWH, the fact is not rate it’s sum. FICA remove more from the lowered income than someone with a higher income. Therefore these ‘tax brackets’ came into play. I don’t get info from a professor. I go out and seek what I need or want to know. I then summarize and alleviate contradictions to come up with a complete fact without grey areas.
I need not consult a tax consultant for basic facts. The more you make the less you’re taxed. This is basic economics. If we go to Wal Mart and purchase a cart full of the same items we will pay the same price and be taxed the same for each item, right.
Though our earnings are taxed differently. You cannot pull the wool over my eyes. If you live your life saying that unequal taxes if fair then, you are one of the few.
Every single dollar that you earn is taxed not a portion, but every single dollar. If you make $1.00 it will be taxed 4% so each dollar will be taxed.
Though when you get to those making the big $$bucks$$. A tax bracket comes into place, why? Because these people want to keep all of their money and not pay the taxes that the average working people do. This is basic capitalism. Profit and dividends.
You are right someone who makes 100k should pay more in taxes than someone who makes 30k, but that isn’t the case because of tax brackets. This structure implements what is referred to as a progressive tax system, in which taxation progressively increases as an individual’s income grows.
This contrasts with a flat tax structure, in which all individuals are taxed at the same rate, regardless of their income levels.
So why is someone making 100k in the 10% tax bracket? and not the 25% bracket?
I heard of something call a ‘tax haven’.
Oct 29, 2008 - 2:29 pm 23. Dale Phillips:The Fair Tax is the solution to all this tax issue. Suggest all go to fairtax.org and try to understand how this would curb the Washington tax machine
Oct 29, 2008 - 3:08 pm 24. aformerdemocrat:I don’t know what you people are talking about. If you make $100,000 a year in NY, you end up paying about 45% in taxes. 10% to the state and city and 35% to the government. If you are self-employed its more because you are paying for social security…
This discussion of tax structure doesn’t seem factually based to me. Is there something that I am missing?
Oct 29, 2008 - 3:23 pm 25. AdrianS:As usual Barack Hussein Obama is out of step with reality – Obama is deceiving only Obama.
John McCain was crystal clear when he said that Barack Obama’s socialistic tendencies were confessed by Obama himself when he told Joe the Plumber that he (Obama) wanted to “spread the wealth around,” NOT THE PEANUT BUTTER.
And, when you say you want to redistribute the earned wealth of some for the benefit of others — as a government ploy — THAT’S SOCIALISM OBAMA! But of course Obama is a JERK. He knows NOTHING. Obama is a fraud.
Throughout the United States, the election has become a COMBAT zone and the fight against communist, fascism and socialism is real. We MUST do battle with Obama and defeat Obama by electing John McCain.
Obama has utter contempt for the people, the voters, in the United States he won’t even show us his certified, verified BIRTH CERTIFICATE to prove he is a natural born citizen. But that’s only the part of his repugnant character. Obama promotes infanticide: the killing of innocent babies that are born in failed abortion attempts. What a repugnant man. Reject Barack Obama, reject communist, reject Sharia law.
Elect John McCain.
God bless America and our way of life. We have absolutely NO need for Barack Obama!
2008. The year The One … Lost!
http://www.nextgenerationcorp.com/NextGenBlog/?p=73
Oct 29, 2008 - 3:57 pm 26. CALIndie:Vasio is a fraud! Vasio is a liberal socialist troll posing as an informed Marxist.
Remember Vasio, libera socialist, Marxist actions precipitate American patriot reactions. Good luck comrade poser!
Oct 29, 2008 - 5:30 pm 27. myth buster:I’m still in college, so I don’t make much money yet. However, within ten years I will command a salary of over $100k a year. Why should I be punished for managing to earn a highly prized degree in Nuclear Engineering from one of the top two nuclear engineering schools in the nation? I don’t believe that Obama will even give anybody a tax break. He’ll take the cap off of payroll taxes, and possibly add new payroll taxes, as well. Once he’s done that, he’ll probably search for more revenue amidst the ensuing depression that he’ll remove the tax advantages given to military personnel (stipends are never taxed, and salaries and bonuses are untaxed if earned in a combat zone or if you’ve been shot at in the current calendar month, or if you’ve been in the hospital for combat related injuries during the current calender month.
Oct 29, 2008 - 8:13 pm 28. Wayne:Vasio,
You need to learn to differentiate between consumption taxes (sales taxes), wage taxes (Social Security and Medicare), and income taxes.
Sales taxes are imposed by states, not by the federal government. Some states have them and some don’t. They tax what you buy (some things, like food, are exempt from such taxes in some states). These are ‘flat rate’ taxes, since they are put onto specific transactions.
Wage taxes are imposed by the Federal government and are for specific welfare programs. Social Security is supposed to be a retirement income supplement (in fact, it is an inter-generational income transfer program). These are also ‘flat rate’ taxes since they are supposed to provide one-for-one benefits. (Obama has promised to change that, which will at least have the benefit of removing the fiction that they are not welfare.)
For income taxes we have what is called a progressive tax rate. The bottom Federal income tax rate is 0%; top Federal income tax rate is 35%. Check out:
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=164272,00.html
which contains the tax tables. Your assertions regarding income taxes are completely wrong – your numbers are fictions.
Oct 29, 2008 - 8:14 pm 29. Blogs For Victory » Obama and Critical Race Theory:[...] Grabar over at Pajamas Media has the scoop on Obama’s adherence to this anti-American and decidedly unjust philosophy. If anyone wants [...]
Oct 29, 2008 - 11:57 pm 30. misanthropicus:“[..] A key to understanding the fanatical Right’s takeover of the Republican Party and how these ideas spread to the rest of the country is looking at the role of the media—not the Fox News pseudo-newsmen or the talk radio blowhards—but the respectable, supposedly liberal media. Without the enabling of the traditional media—with their obsession with “balance” and their pathological devotion to the idea that truth is always found in the middle—the radical Right would never have been able to have its ideas taken seriously. If not for the media’s appeals to balance, movement conservatism would have been laughed out of the court of public opinion long ago. And when the press does attempt to dig into the ideological underpinnings of debates about policy and current affairs, it becomes trapped by another form of the media’s bipolar disorder. Besides seeing two sides to every issue, they insist on seeing most political battles through the lens of right vs. left. By reporting everything that’s happening in American politics through this prism the media missed the big story: the hijacking of America by the lunatic Right. […}” WRIGHT IS WRONG, by Arianne Huffington.
Four legs good, two legs bad! My (lefty) views are better than you views, which shouldn’t anyway be on radio/TV/ print/Internet/movies!… and from here, I remember seeing Arianne continuing her exhortation on (PBS? CNN?), advocating limiting the media access to bad ideas and notions (obviously conservative ones), and so on and so forth – isn’t she advocating the Fairness Doctrine? And, if we’ll see Obama in office (god forbid!), won’t we see an implementation of that and of other forms of left-wing censorship?
Oct 30, 2008 - 6:39 am 31. misanthropicus:I am afraid we’ll soon go through some ugly life changes which wouldn’t have been considered revolting a generation ago – and for this pathetic state of afairs we should acknowledge the decisive contributions of the media & teachers Fifth Column.
Erata to above, the last paragraph should go: “I am afraid we’ll soon go through some ugly life changes which would have been considered revolting a generation ago…”
Oct 30, 2008 - 6:41 am 32. momof3:Ooo, you know what needs to be said again, for Vasio and other’s education? CORPORATIONS PAY NO TAXES. EVER. The government can jack up the tax rates on corporations all they want. That corporation is going to lower employee pay, and employee benefits, and hire fewer people, and raise prices in the goods/services they provide, and YOU my friend will be paying that tax bill for them.
Oct 30, 2008 - 9:31 am 33. Vasio:Yes, the tax bracket. I know the 6 tax brackets the highest is 35%. Tell me why I’m not in the 35% tax bracket? One reason is these by laws that allow me to keep a majority of my earnings. These accountants who noodle numbers and there is no law to stop this cheating. It’s a difference when the wealthy is taxed more. And the welfare issue is something that people feel is a hand out.
Picture this a soldier lost a hand in the war and can’t work, but feels that he would be looked upon as a stereotype if he accepts welfare, but what will he do to support his family?
There are those who abuse welfare as there are those who abuse the tax system. It’s a mute point.
The system is flawed and if it’s corrected it would be better for the average American. The wealthy may be upset with this, but its for the good of the citizens, right?
Oct 30, 2008 - 9:35 am 34. momof3:Did my comment disapear? Seems to have. I wonder at teh capriciousmess of the moderators here. Okay, second try:
Vasio, listen up and learn a bit. My dad makes close to, if not over, Obama’s magic $250K line. He pays darn near half of his income in taxes. My husband makes $50k a year. We pay much less than %5 a year. In fact, with all our child deductions etc, we are almost in that brackets that pays nothing whatsoever. So, the rich pay less how? My dad would love to know.
The RICHEST 5% of people in America pay over 60% of the total taxes. The POOREST 40% pay NO income taxes whatsoever, and in fact actually get back money they did not pay, thanks to the EITC. This is unfair taxing of poor people how? Do explain!
It is unfair, but not in the way you mean.
Oct 30, 2008 - 9:36 am 35. Vasio:CALindie, the name calling is not needed. I’m the person that makes 100K and not taxed as I should be…I get a tax break and in the beginning it was great, but I began to feel bad. Because I pay less in taxes than someone making less than 70% than i do.
Oct 30, 2008 - 9:45 am 36. Vasio:I never said that achieving a higher earning and paying more in taxes is a punishment. Though some of you believe this to be. Americans are labled and stereotyped, though nobody cares. This attitude of not caring for the next person is the problem. This false pride of being the best, but the unemployment and poverty rate is raising every day. What’s so prideful?
It’s that America needs poor people and a system that limits you from achieving a equal position in society as those in high place.
America needs people like the homeless man/woman on the street, or the drug dealer and prostitutes. America needs people like those who contracted Aids/HIV. America needs people so they have someone to look down upon, to point the finger and say, “Hey look at the poor guy.” “Hey look at the drug dealer”. Without those people there will be no need to be so proud about anything, except the loving for one another.
The system design/ blue-print is to make these people described above. You need people like this in this capitalistic society. Then we employ law enforcement to make this drug distribution illegal and prostitution illegal so that the media can fill the newspapers. So that we can point our fingers, look down our noses.
Look down our noses at those who don’t believe like you or feel like you and hold your head up high and say, “I’m an American”…”Land of the Free”…”Home of the Brave”.
Tell me what’s so patriotic when someone can’t find employment and resort to criminal acts? Hence, the system was designed so that we have criminals, we need criminals. No room for Utopia, we need shooting and killing.
There are people who do things to make money to survive and they hate to do, it, but they need to; for survival.
It’s all about SURVIVAL. Living to the next day. And to live and survive you need…FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, CLOTHING. And to get the previous you need currency, money, assets.
Lastly, just individual who have capitalistic problems so does the government, but these capitalistic problems cannot be solved with diplomatic reasoning.
Oct 30, 2008 - 10:10 am 37. momof3:Vasio Vasio Vasio. The US has a much, much, much lower uneployment rate than most “socialist” countries. Much lower than France, for example. You know when it rises here? When people like Carter, and I’m sure Obama, mess with capitalism and try to “make things fair”.
Yes, we do need the poor. Every country since the beginning of time has had them. You can not have perfectly even beings. Someone’s got to take out the trash and pick the fruit. In the US, no one who wants a roof over their head and food in their tummies is without. Welfare sees to that in spades. What’s great about the US is at least you have a chance. If you were born poor, but have the brainpower and drive to do more with your life, you can. If you get into the Ivy leagues, they will make sure you have the money to attend. Heck, so does any college. In other countries, for example India, but this is applicable to many, there are people who live on less than $2 a month. And do you know where they get it? From scavenging in the garbage dump that THEY LIVE IN, which is also where they find their putrid scraps to eat. So open up the blinders before you talk about how unfair the US is.
Here you are allowed to work and succeed. Asking for a HANDOUT to make you equal is ridiculous, and lazy. And insulting to the millions before you who made it with no handouts.
Oct 30, 2008 - 10:25 am 38. Heather:Picture this a soldier lost a hand in the war and can’t work, but feels that he would be looked upon as a stereotype if he accepts welfare, but what will he do to support his family?
Well, if he’s halfway bright and motivated (and being a soldier that’s not a bad assumption) he can train for any of the dozens of occupations that use phones and keyboards, both of which can be operated with one hand, and in a couple of years he will be far more successful than millions of two-handed people who can’t even be bothered to finish high school.
This attitude of not caring for the next person is the problem.
No, the problem is the people who can’t be bothered to take care of themselves and expect the rest of us to do it for them.
Oct 30, 2008 - 11:08 am 39. The Historian:OBAMA IS THE STEALTH CANDIDATE!
The reasons why candidate Obama cannot be trusted are explained at this link;
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-is-stealth-candidate.html
Oct 30, 2008 - 11:15 am 40. Micha Elyi:Obviously, if in his short stint at the head of a lwas school classroom Barack Obama had had anything positive to say about Judge Robert Bork, Sen. Biden would have tarred and feathered Obama over that way, way back in the primaries. Biden, you will recall, was the Chief Inquisitor of the Democrats who viciously and unjustly demonized Judge Bork when he was nominated for a Supreme Court seat.
Mary Grabar’s article is just one more item on a piled-high heap of reasons why parents who care should consider alternatives to university schooling or choose the cheapest college they can afford for their kids. You don’t get so much Critical Race Theory or its sexist counterpart, feminism, in community colleges and lower-tier four year institutions.
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Oct 30, 2008 - 11:37 am 43. Vasio:MOMof3, I never said bluntly that the U.S. was unfair. I said the design makes it impossible for everyone to achieve high levels of income. This is not the basis of being lazy, it’s the basis of opportunity and who this opportunity is provided to.
Everyone wants to succeed. Though you need a opportunity to succeed to high levels. Certain groups or classes aren’t provided these opportunities. It’s not a belief, but a design.
Heather,
I understand that government assistance is abused, but you have people; like the soldier I spoke of above that refuse assistance of any kind. Because he/she wouldn’t want to be stereotyped. Everyone who is receiving government assistance isn’t abusing it and actually needs it, but we still need these people to point the finger and say, “you receive government assistance, too lazy to work”.
People can take care of themselves, but maybe the way that works for them isnt lawful due to design.
This world is designed/blue-printed. It’s not God’s design, but it’s mans’ design. A man has many flaws so there will be no perfection. I speak of the flaws that man created because I see them and I see America’s “perfect” imperfections.
I am a American and I served in our military, so I’m not a person who hates America, but a person that has a view and scheme of society as it was made up by man throughout the years, from the invention of the wheel.
Oct 30, 2008 - 12:26 pm 44. MissNomer:I can’t believe all the Marxism-Socialism accusations being tossed about regarding Mr Obama. Why don’t you just be honest and say it…you hate/fear him because his very appearance is the antithesis of WASP male conservatism…B-L-A-C-K
Oct 30, 2008 - 2:43 pm 45. constitution first:missNomer,
We Don’t fear him because of your assumptions… we fear him because of his past.. his record… He’s just about as anti american as they come. I’m not saying he doesn’t love America… He just loves what he want’s this country to become. His Pride will not allow him to come to the center like Clinton did. We’re in for another carter admin like 4 years… I don’t know about you but I remember what that was like… In some ways I welcome it… It might be the final blow to the liberal left finally bringing the party back to it’s roots. Really when you think about it… Your Icon… JFK if running today would be a John McCain like cantidate…. He’d sit smack in the middle catching flack from both sides because he didn’t bow to the will of the radicals in one party or the other.
Oct 30, 2008 - 3:13 pm 46. Annie:I appeal to all voters for the truth. The Democrats are sexist and flat out mean. They destroyed Hillary a woman. Then they try to destroy Palin. The left wing lesbians and gays want to destroy any normal woman so they can promote their agenda. They want to destroy marriage and Christian beliefs. Before communists can take over they have to destroy morals and family then religion. Obama and the democrats are anti American communists. Look at cuba and third world countries this is what Obama offers
Oct 30, 2008 - 4:18 pm 47. Robert:OBAMA IS A MARXIST SOCIALIST.
Oct 30, 2008 - 4:33 pm 48. Robert:AMERICAN SOLDIERS FOUGHT AND DIED AND SHED BLOOD FIGHTING MARXIST. WE WILL NOT ALLOW IT HERE. OBAMA GAVE ACORN OVER A MILLION DOLLARS TO STEAL YOUR VOTES. WITH THE STOLEN VOTES HE THEN CAN HAVE A SUPER MAJORITY IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE (VETO PROOF) HUSSAIN OBAMA’S PLAN IS TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR FREEDOM, RELIGON AND YOUR BELONGINGS! THEN HE WILL GIVE IT TO HIS MARXIST SOCIALIST FOLLOWERS. HE THEN BECOMES YOUR MARXIST EMPEROR! THIS IS WITH OUT A SHOT BEING FIRED
I am a black Afro American and I state it as a Fact! Obama is a RACIST simple. That is all that comes out of his and his wifes mouth. Rev. Wright preached it for 20 years and Obama does not remember. Of course not he is part of the Farakhan hate machine. That is the reason Jesse Jackson wanted to cut his balls off. The problem is Obama does not have any. He sold them out to the lobyist at Fanny Mae and Freddie Mack and Middle Eastern Terrorists and George Soros.
Oct 30, 2008 - 4:33 pm 49. jerry:The incentive system or “profit motive” is built into human neuro-chemistry. Unless the Marxists abolish testosterone, they are going to have a tough fight handling the select group of people who came to America precisely to better themselves. Even women run their businesses on endogenous testosterone.
Of course, there are ways of undermining initiative. Government can punish it by disincentivizing effort, but that is a gross method that has failed badly in the past and led to violence and class warfare. Better to feed the public estrogen or estrogen-mimicking chemicals. Then “redistribution of wealth” will not feel so bad.
Oct 30, 2008 - 6:55 pm 50. JFSanders:Vasio,
” I said the design makes it impossible for everyone to achieve high levels of income. This is not the basis of being lazy, it’s the basis of opportunity and who this opportunity is provided to.
Everyone wants to succeed. Though you need a opportunity to succeed to high levels. Certain groups or classes aren’t provided these opportunities. It’s not a belief, but a design.”
Your thesis is based in a lie. There are literally thousands of successful CEO’s who are non white. There are thousands of successful politicians who are non white. There are thousands of successful people of all classes and races that started from poverty some not even born and raised in this country in the USA. All you have to do to see them is take your head out of your ass.
There is nothing so sad as those with perfect eyes who refuse to see. Wake up Vasio.
Jim
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Oct 31, 2008 - 7:24 am 52. Vasio:JFSanders, my head is in my A$$? Yes there are many people of all races that are successful. I’m speaking on the overall, that everyone wants to succeed! It’s the lack of opportunity. My thesis is no lie as it was published. You have to look at design. I said nothing of color. There are white, blacks, mexicans, etc in the same class with limited opportunities. This isn’t a race issue, I’m speaking of–it’s a design issue a “BLUEPRINT”.
Sanders, your remarks are disrespectful and they are that way, maybe because you can see this design, but your vision may be a bit blurred due to refussing to release your Ideologies that everything is fair and everyone has to work hard to achieve it. Your ideas are based on popular belief, not factual basis.
I’m wide awake, but seems that your eyes are wide shut. Again not a color issue, but a design a design that has limits and once those limits begin to be crossed or overwhelmed–technicalities are absorbed to enforce these limits.
Okay. now ROBERT! Any self respecting black man would never call Obama a racist. What makes him/his wife a racist? Racist against who? And why are you calling yourself an Afro-American? Do you have an Afro? Seriously!! It’s African American. Don’t down play yourself as if you are based from a hair texture or stlye.
Think about this ROBERT! Could Jesse Jackson just be jealous? He did run for president years ago and it was a major upset. Jesse Jackson could not run this country, nor his congregation. Jesse Jackson, says he’s going to burry the “N” word then he get’s on live television, after they had a “Mock Funeral” to Murder the “N” word and he stupidly says, “Obama thinks he can tell “N’s” how to think”.
So please Jesse Jackson is no conversation piece. Obama is articulate and educated on this government structure far more than Jesse Jackson and he’s simply jealous. Or how do you say it, “He’s Hating” or “He’s a Player Hater”…lol.
Lastly, ANNIE! The democrats didn’t destroy Hillary, they Democratic party thought Obama is the best choice to get the White House for their party. They figured that Hillary didn’t have a good chance of winning against McCain. Hillary isn’t upset, I think she’s a great lady.
Now the Palin issue is a different story. It’s not sexist that she can’t speak very well and has now clue about foreign policy and energy crisis issues. I could discuss these issues and out debate her, not that she’s a dumb lady, I believe she’s very intelligent, but not ready for a position that has the balance of the American society at stake. She stumbled and fumble of simple topics that someone running for office should be able to discuss or atleast sound like she knows what’s going on. It’s nothing sexist about her inability to discuss the issues.
Last, Joe the Plumber. Who puts a plumber on a campaign trail and allows him to answer questions about Obams beliefs on foreign policy and Isreal.
Finally, no matter if Obama wins. It will still be a division and no unity among the races. Though his winning will give leverage to the phrase, I’m not racist; there’s a black president.
Oct 31, 2008 - 10:13 am 53. concerned:Eric, number 14 said
“I firmly believe that indoctrination is precisely the reason Liberals oppose school choice. If people are free to choose where their children attend school then the Left loses its captive audience.”
I am a liberal and indoctrination has nothing to do with it. There is far more of that going on in the charter and religious schools that school choice folks would send their kids to. For the record, I am a pubic high school English teacher and I have to say, I get more trouble from conservative parents who want to impose their values about what should and should not be taught in the classroom than the other way around. My liberal parents by and large appreciate my attempts to produce thinkers and challenge students perceptions, while the highly conservative parents are far more likely to protest a book based on the idea that it violates some higher moral law.
With that said, I oppose schools of choice, vouchers in particular, because it does nothing to improve education in poor communities. Here is the deal. If a kid lives in St. Louis on the other side of the “tracks,” where there is only one school and that school is failing, how is a poor person going to get his or her kid to a better school that could be miles away. If I have no car, I’m stuck. Vouchers do not cover transportation cost most times. Also, vouchers do not always cover the full cost of tution to a new school. And there is the little issue of who wants to bring students into their schools that will lead them to not making AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)? What keeps a school from picking and choosing.
Okay, some choice programs allow people to choose a public school of his or her choice. How about this one, what if a kid is in a failing system and the only choice he or she has is another failing school in the system. Humm? What happens when the best school in the system reaches capacity?
Schools of choice is one viable option so long as there are choices, and so long as we take into account that just giving the option to go to a better school does not mean that parents have the resources to send them. Free public education is a right and the system needs to be improved to give all kids a level playing field. You will get no arguements from me. Simply saying, “choose a better school” may not be vialble.
Oct 31, 2008 - 1:49 pm 54. indyhawk:I remember when the right called MLK “commy”. It was really just another way to say nigger. Not much has changed in 40 years has it? Just different code words(some)–
Oct 31, 2008 - 10:20 pm 55. Javelin:I predict M/P surrogates, like the Prof., will play the race card in the next 3 days like Doyle Brunson plays a hole card in Texas Hold ‘em.
Win or lose JSM will lose because he’s ceded his honor in an attempt to win at any cost.
Marc Malone:
Nov 1, 2008 - 6:57 pm 56. T:What are you talking about? You remarks about Marxism and intolerance vis a vis the Iowa caucuses make no sense
ABSOLUTELY. PEOPLE WILL AUTOMATICALLY SIDE WITH SOMEONE OF THE SAME RACE. WE MUST SEE THROUGH THIS AND VOTE BASED ON THE F A C T S!!!!
Nov 3, 2008 - 9:48 am