It's "Racism," Not The Fact That Everyone's Grandchildren Will Be Owned By The Chinese
Cheryl Chumley writes in the Wash Ex about Robert Redford's thoughts on the government shutdown:
Mr. Redford said, UPI reported: "There is a body of congressional people that wants to paralyze the system. I think what sits underneath it, unfortunately, is there's probably some racism involved, which is really awful. I think just the idea of giving credit to this president, giving him credit for anything, is abhorrent to them so they'll go against it. ... They're representing their own self-interests, which is very narrow and in some cases bigoted."
My friend who sent me the link said this:
Robert Redford is angry only because he looks like an old woman. Revolting, sanctimonious, hypocritical one-percenter.
Let's see: Cruz's ethnicity is Cuban-Irish. Rubio is Cuban-American. Former Senator Allen West is black. David Webb, a political pundit, is black. Can they be racists as in the standard liberal view? And that is just a small sample.
A key sentence in the piece:
That means he's incompetent. There is a key difference from being the CEO of a company and a politician. If you are running a company when you give an order, most people will follow it. As a politician you will almost always have opposition to your policies. How much opposition depends on how bad the policy is.
If he didn't realize that walking in, he should have known it by the time he ran again.
So now we have the progressive left refusing to realize how bad Obama is.
Jim P. at October 20, 2013 6:30 AM
Jim P: That means he's incompetent.
Not necessarily (although I concede that's a possibility). It could mean that the arena he's in has become so polarized that it makes impossible for anyone to get anything done.
Jim P. As a politician you will almost always have opposition to your policies. How much opposition depends on how bad the policy is.
Again, not necessarily. Opposition to a policy probably seldom has anything to do with it being a bad policy. I think the more common cause of opposition is how much money those who oppose the policy are giving to their representatives.
Patrick at October 20, 2013 7:21 AM
Somehow I don't think money really caused 2M signatures against Obamacare. I have never contributed to a federal election.
The recall elections in Colorado was run by the local population. It was not money driven.
Jim P. at October 20, 2013 7:52 AM
It could mean that the arena he's in has become so polarized that it makes impossible for anyone to get anything done.
"Why should I have to give up anything?"
That was the President's initial starting point. Not polarizing in the least.
I R A Darth Aggie at October 20, 2013 8:17 AM
I R A Darth Aggie: That was the President's initial starting point. Not polarizing in the least.
And he ended up not giving up anything. The GOP shut down the government for sixteen days and got nothing.
They might claim they got income verification in Obamacare, but that's bullshit. It was already there.
Patrick at October 20, 2013 8:37 AM
Obama was put forward in the election as the master unifier, if he fails at that it must be racism or evil money, or it could just be he wasn't good at it.
The easy place to see which of them it actually is, is in international politics. He was celebrated at the beginning, the worlds golden boy, they freakin gave him a nobel prize for nothing. So in that arena, nope racism isn't a factor, evil Republicans aren't a factor. SO if he makes or breaks on international mediating it is because of his actual skill or lack there of. And the global view of the president, the golden boy, has dropped like a stone. Spying on you allies and not apologizing, Syria, the wars and threats of war. The rest of the world considers him a joke.
Joe J at October 20, 2013 8:42 AM
The immediate problem is easy to state, but hard to fix: the right and libertarians must unite as strongly behind the all-important need to shrink the federal Leviathan as the Democrats have united behind expanding it.
Too many Republicans, especially those who control the GOP machine, insist on putting the anti-gay agenda (a battle already permanently lost, and justly so), or the immigration issue (likewise, though the fact that it's lost is not yet as obvious to all), or especially the desire of their business sponsors for more unfair government favors, first. And as long as they do those things, the GOP will never control another Congress, much less elect a president. They are no longer big enough to do either without most of the libertarian/independent voting bloc.
We, the soul of the Tea Party, will continue to beat that into the heads of reactionaries like Boehner until they get out of the way -- or until we manage to shrink government without their help, most likely through independent or third-party candidates. And if we have to do it that way, the GOP will cease to be a major party.
This conflict is what the "shutdown" was all about. And those who caved may as well turn Democrat, because they will never get another term as Republicans.
(And forget the "racism" question: Obama's success itself has disproved forever the idea that all blacks are victims and all whites privileged bad guys, and everyone knows it except the professional victims and mouth-breathers who continue to take MSNBC seriously.)
jdgalt at October 20, 2013 10:26 AM
"They might claim they got income verification in Obamacare, but that's bullshit. It was already there."
So, what's the impact on you?
Radwaste at October 20, 2013 10:37 AM
So, what's the impact on you?
We should most definitely join in the celebration of those who were joyously liberated this week from their wasteful, inefficient and bourgeois private health care plans.
Just image the great relief they must be experiencing to be unshackled from the oppressive and burdensome responsibility of providing for one's own health insurance. It is most assuredly an awesome comfort for them to know that they exchanged their current healthcare for Hope and Change.
Stinky the Clown at October 20, 2013 10:44 AM
I know one thing. I'm sick and goddam tired of being lectured at by Hollywood leftist poseurs. It has almost totally destroyed my enjoyment of art of any sort -- these days I can't watch a movie, or listen to a concert or a recording, or read a book, without wondering when the leftist sucker-punch is coming. It's that bit where they tell you, "Ha ha! You just gave me $20 of your hard-earned money, and now I'm going to give it to the people who are working to destroy your country! You chump!" I'm tired of being a chump, and I'm tired of being told that I, personally, am the cause of all of the world's problems.
Cousin Dave at October 20, 2013 10:57 AM
The above comment is a thougtcrime reported to the Ministry of Information. Comrade Hillary once said "it takes the collective to raise a child!
Stinky the Clown at October 20, 2013 11:21 AM
Let me see, the democrats get to refight both funding the government, and the debt limit again 90 days from now after their incredible sucess rolling out possibly the most disasterous health care reform ever conceived of.
Somehow I don't quite see that as a "win" in the recent shutdown battle.
Isab at October 20, 2013 12:35 PM
I think what sits underneath it, unfortunately, is there's probably some racism involved, which is really awful. I think just the idea of giving credit to this president, giving him credit for anything, is abhorrent to them so they'll go against it.
Some racism, by a few Republicans, may be involved. But what is far more likely involved is partisanship.
JD at October 20, 2013 1:38 PM
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