A Businesskid On A Cloud

Heavy on rhetoric, truthful on where this sentiment really comes from. The difference between this and the George Bush monkey images, is the obvious racial direction depicting a black man as a witch doctor takes, with no obvious implications of parallels between his administration or personality and the behaviors commonly associated with witch doctors.

You wanted Racism?

Oh so we’re just straight up lying to niggas now, huh?

Are people in Ohio really this stupid?

I have seen so many take to calling Obama a “socialist,” questioning the legitimacy of his birth, and finding any moment to label him as the “other” who’s threatening America as we all apparently loved it (because I’m fond of the Founding Father’s interpretation of sex and race rights, yup). All the while not realizing the inherently racial undertones of their speech, name calling, charged associations (really? Charging that someone is using welfare to disenfranchise “hard-working whites” and claiming that his admittance into any of the Ivy Leagues was the result of only Affirmative Action, as if every non-white person admitted into a college wasn’t the beneficiary of a fair application of such process, isn’t by proxy racist?) and otherwise “othering” of Obama. The most disappointing part is that I know many of you see clearly the err in what you’re saying, and choose to continue to take the path of bigotry in critique. If none of what I said above makes any sense, Mr. Wise was able to very coherently explain what so many sociologists since 2008 have been trying to through studies and meta-analysis of feedback.

People that “skip” Presidential elections because they are “disillusioned” by the process probably hold some of the most immature positions on politics. Notice that the people still holding strong support for Obama: the 24 to 29 group. Arguably their support was probably grounded in more mature expectations and hopes not only for Obama but for politics in general. Also, these absent voters are annoying because their posture suggests that regardless of how they vote things can’t get any better or worse. I assure you, the direction of this country will significantly vary depending on which party controls the White House, the Senate, and the House.

Although he makes some good points, Mr. Unger is clearly mislead on the purpose and effect of some policy decisions. The fact that he boils down the election of a GOP candidate at this time, especially one such as Mitt Romney, to a loss in “judicial and administrative” appointments is more proof of his shallow analysis of political decision making. All in all I’m surprised at how naive a Harvard Law Professor can be about Obama’s entry into the realities of American politics. What were his expectations?

The Atlanta Housing Agency top official receives over 600k a year for his salary? The problem with entitlement and welfare (and educational) programs isn’t the “unconditional handout to the poor” stigma erroneously associated with it. It’s the fact that these funds get siphoned off into top officials’ salaries as they’re poured down from the Federal level. As if to then add a kick in the ass to the already stinging problem of salary inflation for these officials, G.O.P. politicians that criticize the same programs that feed these officials’ wallets will then propose severe tax cuts for them on top of it. Really? I’m tired of my tax payer money being used to provide select people with overly luxurious lives. And for once in the history of entitlement program debates someone is saying that not in reference to the unfortunate that don’t even see the resources they petition for and badly need.