Slate Mag says "Obama having Best 1st year of any President since FDR"

This may be one of the most blatant hand jobs that i have ever seen.

Healthcare hasn't passed and if it does will be little more than a govt mandated boost to the insurance industry. Forcing them to take your money, How Dare He!?

Stimulus was a decent idea, but bank bailout is such a bad idea that they cancel each other out.

Yes, the man can give a hell of a speech, and the whole world was high on the 1st Black president and all the change that was in the air. So BHO was welcomed with open arms in places that most former U.S. Presidents could not safely even visit. But that was back when people still thought that change actually meant, well... "CHANGE". So what has changed? Well, we've changed the location of the bombs we continue to drop in the name of Democracy. I wonder if the adoring European and Middle Eastern masses would still be so joyous about the magic negro?

Yes BHO stood up early and publicly for Haiti, but even GWB helped out tsunami victims, and has shown up to support the Haitians. And the level of support suggests it's little more than good P.R., badly needed.

This is not me hating on Obama. Barak Obama is exactly what I always thought he was, a Moderate Democrat. This is me wondering when we are going to wake up to the ridiculous Orwellian manipulation of public opinion that flies in the face of all facts and evidence. This is me trying to add a little truth and clarity to the conversation.

Old Scratch is Image Conscious. Must Have Learned That From His Old Boss

The Devil Writes Pat Robertson A Letter(H/T NPR)

Dear Pat Robertson,

I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I'm all over that action.

But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is totally humiliating. I may be evil incarnate, but I'm no welcher. The way you put it, making a deal with me leaves folks desperate and impoverished.

Sure, in the afterlife, but when I strike bargains with people, they first get something here on earth -- glamour, beauty, talent, wealth, fame, glory, a golden fiddle. Those Haitians have nothing, and I mean nothing. And that was before the earthquake. Haven't you seen "Crossroads"? Or "Damn Yankees"?

If I had a thing going with Haiti, there'd be lots of banks, skyscrapers, SUVs, exclusive night clubs, Botox -- that kind of thing. An 80 percent poverty rate is so not my style. Nothing against it -- I'm just saying: Not how I roll.

You're doing great work, Pat, and I don't want to clip your wings -- just, come on, you're making me look bad. And not the good kind of bad. Keep blaming God. That's working. But leave me out of it, please. Or we may need to renegotiate your own contract.

Best,

Satan

King Had A Dream, We're Still Living The NIghtmare

Published on Monday, January 18, 2010 by TruthDig.com (H/T CommonDreams.org)
Turning King’s Dream into a Nightmare
by Chris Hedges

Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It has become a day to celebrate ourselves for "overcoming" racism and "fulfilling" King's dream. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King. Most of our great social reformers, once they are dead, are kidnapped by the power elite and turned into harmless props of American glory. King, after all, was not only a socialist but fiercely opposed to American militarism and acutely aware, especially at the end of his life, that racial justice without economic justice was a farce.

"King's words have been appropriated by the people who rejected him in the 1960s," said Professor James Cone, who teaches at Union Theological Seminary in New York and who wrote the book Martin & Malcolm & America. "So by making his birthday a national holiday everybody claims him, even though they opposed him while he was alive."

King and Malcolm would have excoriated a nation that spends $3 trillion dollars waging imperial wars in the Middle East and trillions more to fill the accounts of Wall Street banks while abandoning its poor. They would have denounced the liberals who mouth platitudes about justice for the poor while supporting a party that slavishly serves the interests of the moneyed elite. These American prophets spoke on behalf of people who had nothing left with which to compromise. And for this reason they did not compromise.

Something To Think About This MLK Holiday.

Published on Sunday, January 17, 2010 by The Spokesman-Review (Washington State)
We’ve Ignored King on War
by Rusty Nelson

"... (W)ar is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminated even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good. If we assume that life is worth living and that man has a right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war."
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RIP Teddy P. - The Music Lives On Forever

DO YOU WANT TO BE SAFE FROM TERRORISTS?

DO YOU WANT TO BE SAFE FROM THE "TERRORISTS"?

The only way that will ever happen is if you ask and understand, 'WHY?". Start by asking ourself, "what would it take for me to strap a bomb to myself and go try to blow up an airplane full of my supposed enemies?". And don't fool yourself by saying you would never ever do such a thing.

Remember Nat Turner, he was the top "terrorist" of his time. How about Harriet Tubman? Sure, we are taught that she was the equivalent of a stewardess on the underground railroad, but the real history depicts a shotgun-toting lioness of a woman, not afraid to kill or die for what she believed in. That list goes on and on, and we salute and revere them for what they did.

So ask yourself some hard questions, if you ever want to feel safe again. Then ask yourself, why is it that no one else is asking or answering these same hard questions.

Answering Helen Thomas on Why They Want to Harm Us | CommonDreams.org

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Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.