The Political Fish

This time injecting his perverted view of race in America into the healthcare debate.

Just when you thought this guy was basically irrelevant, the good reverend (and I use that term loosely) forces himself back into the spotlight with a few well placed swipes at…get this…HIS OWN RACE.

Via Live Leak

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healt More..hcare and call yourself a black man.”

The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president. Several CBC members were in attendance, including Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’d introduced Jackson.

Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama.

He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.

Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would not engage Jackson on his criticism.

“One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” Davis’s statement said. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”

Davis’s Democratic primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, highlighted Davis’s status as the lone African-American vote against the bill.

He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month, a fact Sparks pointed out.

“He was the only Black Caucus member to vote against it. I don’t get it,” Sparks said last week, according to The Associated Press.

Davis has countered that Sparks’s position on healthcare has changed over time, saying he’s being “deliberately dishonest.”

 

So lets recap here. If you are black, you must be in favor of socialized government takeover of the health care bill. If you are black, and find yourself in opposition to the government running the most intimate details of our individual lives, you clearly are not black.

Now I get it.  Thanks Jesse. Please go back to your irrelevance. Your schtick of fighting for the civil rights of minorities and blacks has grown tiresome. You are nothing more than a political hack, who uses and manipulates your own race due to your incessant need to be in the spotlight. Your best days are behind you Sir.

This woman is pure class and dignity.

Race-baiting socialist Congresswoman from California Maxine Waters told Bill Press today on his radio show that she wanted all the “teabaggers and birthers” interviewed so that we can expose our own racism. Supposedly if you put us all in front of a camera, we are going to show our true colors (pun intended). Waters joins the ever growing list of race baiting politicians, leftists, pundits and Hollywood actors all crying wolf on the issue of racism in America. It does exist, however not on the all encompassing scale that these fools apparently believe.

From the Hill.

The media should investigate the racial views of conservative activists like the ones who descended on Washington last weekend, one liberal congresswoman said Wednesday.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that it’s not enough for African-Americans to levy allegations of racism against the right-leaning protesters, and that the media must look into their views.

“I want those people talked to; I want them interviewed,” Waters told the liberal Bill Press Radio show in a podcast. “I want journalists to be all over those rallies and the marches with the birthers and the teabaggers.”

Maxine Waters shows her classless side by even using the term teabaggers, which of course we all know to be a vulgar and crude sexual reference, the term coined shortly after the first major round of teaparties on April 15.

Martin Luther King had a dream for equality. People like Maxine Waters are turning that dream of equality into a nightmare by consistently playing a race card that doesn’t exist. If Ms. Waters would have done even a little bit of homework on the subject, she would have been acutely aware of the fact that the 9/12 March on DC was targetted at Congress (hence, the rally on the Capitol lawn) and not the President. Yes, we disagree on the Presidents policies, but Congress has been the facilitator of his socialist agenda for 8 months now. Pelosi, Reid, Frank, Dodd, Hoyer, Dingell, Kennedy et all are WHITE FOLKS. Apparently this now means that all the teaparty protesters and 9/12 marchers apparently hate white people. Maxine, your logic is illogical.

In closing, Ms Waters I have some advice for you. You better get your 2010 campaign staff assembled early, and make sure it is a well oiled machine. Your stupidity and socialist elitist mentality will have you joining your constituents in the unemployment lines.

Here is a letter to the editor published in the Detroit Free Press today. It about says it all.

Thank goodness for Mitch Albom! Without him I’d have never known I was a racist.

Here, I thought that I disagreed with the president’s policies because he nationalized some of the largest corporations in America (e.g. numerous banks, GM, Chrysler etc).
I thought that I disagreed with him because he has quadrupled the national debt and because he now wants to take over nearly 10% more of the US economy under the guise of fixing healthcare.

I thought that watching co-workers getting laid off by the dozen, and seeing my friends and neighbors lose their jobs as federal unemployment reaches 10% was reason enough to disagree with the President. Now I know better.

Thanks to reading Mitch’s Sept. 13 column (”Yell at Obama a new low but not the last”), I now know that the reason I disagree with the president is that I’m actually a racist.

 At first this news made me feel bad, but then Mitch pointed out that it wasn’t really my fault; it’s the fault of talk radio and cable TV (I should have known that I’m not bright enough to form my own opinions).

 I now know that only Mitch’s talk radio show should be considered palatable.

 Thanks again, Mitch, for straightening me out on this!

This concerned citizen from Michigan (apparently a racist, he now  knows it lol) wrote this in response to Mitch Alboms column published on September 13 in the Free Press where he arrogantly declared that disagreement with policy and ideology actually have nothing to do with policy and ideology. It stems from a deeper need to use the “N” word for a black President, and since we can’t do that, we can use the more socially acceptable terms such as anarchist, socialist, communist etc.

The premise of his argument is tied to the Rep. Joe Wilson story, which of course we have all heard by now the two words heard ’round the world. YOU LIE!  An amazing sentence, a tiny sentence, but a sentence that apparently is not to be used in the Congress of the United States of America. Certainly not during the middle of a speech that was in fact laced with half-truths, deception, and vagueries. Yes, we know that in the bill it says that your not to be able to get the public option if you are an illegal resident. But the following paragraphs and pages leave loopholes so large that a Mack truck could drive through it. No coverage for illegals, but absolutely no check system in place to acheive that statement. In essence, a half-truth or as my mother told me as a child. A  LIE.

For his lack of decorum in the joint session of Congress, Rep. Wilson did in fact apologize to the President. He acknowledged that he was in error by interrupting his speech (frankly, I disagree…if cheers from Dems are ok, why is dissent not ok?).  The President accepted his apology, effectively ending the story right? No, not even close. The silliness has only just begun. Fundraising for Wilsons upcoming election opponent spiked to amazing levels, as he was demonized by the DailyKos kooks, and the faux intellectualism of many lefty reporters. He was a racist, he didn’t disagree with Obama’s statement…he hated the fact that a black man delivered it. Its ludicrous. Race baiters across the country have apparently united to form a wall of separation around this President, to make sure he does not encounter any policy disagreements. After all, it only means your racist right?

So, in its typical useless form, the House undertook the unprecedented step of passing a resolution of disapproval for Rep. Wilsons behavior. It has never been done. It was a monumental waste of time.

The 240-179 vote on the resolution of disapproval reflected the sharp partisan divide over the issue. Democrats insisted that the South Carolina Republican take responsibility for what they said was a serious breach of decorum. Republicans characterized the vote as a political stunt.

Wilson himself would not back down on his position that he owed the House no apology. Surrounded by Republican supporters, Wilson said Obama had “graciously accepted my apology and the issue is over.”

Thank God for journalists like Megyn Kelly, who have been blessed with a measure of common sense and decency.

Here is a doozy from a man who has historically been proven to be one of, if not the most inept of this countries former Presidents. A man who cannot seem to take himself out of the news cycle and stop embarrassing himself. Oh Jimmy Carter, please stop it. You are becoming painful to swallow.
 

Wait, but Wilson isn’t the only racist in town. Over a million protesters took to Pennsylvania Avenue marching to the Capitol to put our racism on display for the world…I mean, everyone saw the pictures of the Patriots in their white hoods right? No..you didn’t. But the attempt to marginalize and demonize the outpouring of anger over government (if you were there, you would know that the majority of anger was aimed at the Congress, not the President).

Racism is a weak argument. You cannot debate the merits, you can’t defend the Presidents indefensable policy. His mindset, his history, his associations, and his actions in the office of the President of the United States are admittedly progressive, which is merely double speak for socialist. Wait, according to Mitch Albom, that statement must be my inner racist coming out again. Ridiculous. Debate the facts.

Los Angeles California Representative Diane Watson (D) at a townhall meeting heaped praise on the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara, and the allegedly wonderful Cuban healthcare system (wondering why they try to float to Florida on cars). Oh yeah, and in the process towed the Democratic party line of race-baiting anyone who disagrees with the President.

Apparently Los Angeles talk radio station KABC AM-790 was the only news outlet to cover this astonishingly irresponsible comments…take a listen.

Makes you wonder why Cubans do whatever they can to get to South Florida doesn’t it? I mean, in this womans shockingly naive worldview, Cubans got it made!!

This statement is chocked full of stuff to pick through. All the birthers out there can have her statement about “electing a President from Kenya and Kansas”. I thought it was Hawaii?

Thanks to Michelle Malkin for typing out the transcripts to this poor womans idiotic statement. Maybe it will sink in better if you can read it.

WATSON: You might have heard their philosophical leader. I think his name is Rush Limbaugh. And he said early on, “I hope that he fails.”

Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, fails, America fails.

Now, when a senator says that this will be his Waterloo, and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States?

And remember: They are spreading fear and they are trying to see that the first president that looks likes me fails.

Now just understand what’s at the bottom line.

And you know we just got, 48 hours ago, we just go back, we were in Beijing, China, Hong Kong, China, we were in Taiwan, we were in Guam, we were all over the Far East.

I just want you to know: People look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas, I’ll put it like that.

And they’re saying, “We thought you would never do that.”

So we don’t want to have this young man, and he just turned 48 — we want him to succeed, because when he succeeds, we regain our status. We regain our status.

It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, “Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?”

And lemme tell ya, before you say “Oh, it’s a commu–”, you need to go down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And I want you to know, now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro, but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met. [APPLAUSE]

And you know, the Cuban revolution that kicked out the wealthy, Che Guevara did that, and then, after they took over, they went out among the population to find someone who could lead this new nation, and they found…well, just leave it there (laughs), an attorney by the name of Fidel Castro…

One final question, who the heck were these people clapping for this woman? Is there really an element of society this dumb?

President Obama put on his community organizer hat last night at the 4th nationally televised, prime-time news conference of his young presidency,  touting his health care government takeover. More on the health care issue later.

The final question of the night came from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times, when she asked about the arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates for disorderly conduct by the Cambridge Mass. police department. Here is the video.

The nation was able to watch in sheer amazement as Obama issued the trump card…racial profiling. Clearly in this case, it was not true. There was no profiling there was an officer responding to a call of a crime in progress. Sgt. James Crowley responded to the home of Gates, who is a professor at Harvard University. Obama, instead of applauding Sgt. Crowley for his quick response and even-tempered response to what was potentially a very dangerous situation, slams the officer and the department as “acting stupidely” and throws down that trump card that is all to often played in this country. Check out the arrest report here, for what actually happened. Clearly, Gates had flown into a fit of rage at the idea of being questioned by a white officer, when the officer needed in fact to verify that Gates was the owner of the home that he was seen breaking in to. This is not an outrageous request, it follows police procedure. Gates flying into a rage screaming about the officer being a racist and “talk to ya mama out front” shows that he was very clearly out of control. Many witnesses have already verified this take.

So why was the President even weighing in on this matter?? Without the facts, Obama made an enormous mistake to take sides and fire insults at the arresting officer. Here is the video of Sgt. Crowleys response (or really a non-response) in which he tells reporters that he is NOT sorry, and will NOT apologize to Gates or anyone else about the incident.

Of course realizing the error of the Presidents ways, the White House decided to spin this around, and run damage control. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs addressed the media today about the controversy.

“Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid,” Gibbs told reporters as Obama landed in Cleveland for two health care events Thursday. He said Obama felt that “at a certain point the situation got far out of hand” at Gates’ home last week.

Acting stupidely is apparently quite a bit different from being stupid. Interesting take. It is worth noting that Sgt Crowley, according to the Boston Herald, has taught a racial profiling class at the Lowell Police Academy for the past five years. He is considered to be an expert at the local police department, and has never had anything but the top recommendations from his commanding officers. Gates clearly believed that this white cop was picking on him by his reaction, and Obama exascerbates this mentality with his irresponsible, Jesse Jackson-Al Sharpton-style attack at this white officer.

Just like any good community organizer, the first step to organizing a movement is to enflame the masses. It is engrained in his entire mentality to do just that. I mean, we elected a black President for goodness sake, do we still really believe that racism is still a problem running rampant? Blacks, Whites, Latinos, Asians…we all have the same opportunities in this country (some lessened by affirmative action I might add) but this is not an issue. The information the President cited about blacks and latinos being disproportionately  arrested is outdated material, and was centered around urban areas, which as always have a higher population of black residents.

Thankfully, this officer has the support of his colleagues and the state police union who have all come out and blasted the irresponsible prime-time scolding that Obama gave this officer. Even Bill Cosby, the outspoken comedian, came out swinging against the President. Wonderful words from a legend.

“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest],” Cosby said on Boston’s WZLX. “If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut.”

Word of advice for the President of the United States. Next time, get the facts before you speak. Hundreds of millions of people watched you play an irresponsible, Jesse Jackson-Al Sharpton-style, race attack on what appears to have been a legitimate arrest. Before you shoot…aim next time!!

This is the last that the Political Fish will say about this matter. I have thought that this may be a diversion (although a really bad idea if it is)away from the Presidents health care debacle, so we will get back on point. There is much to talk about when it comes to the healthcare debate.

The Obama spin machine is in full effect these days as the Prez himself is trying to deflect the criticism of his nominee for the Supreme Court seat being vacated at the end of the year by Justice David Souter. As far as spin goes, there have definetely been better attempts, as Obama issued this statement in reference to Judge Sotomayors racist statement that Latina women would be better judges than white men. Obama stated dryly “I’m sure she would have restated it”.  Really. That’s all he has got to defend her. Spin translation = had she known this day was coming she would have lied, and not let the world know that she feels superior to another ethnicity. Obama then proceeded to demonize those who have scrutinized his pick by saying “I think that when she’s appearing before the Senate committee, in her confirmation process, I think all this nonsense that is being spewed out will be revealed for what it is,”. Spin translation = vast right-wing conspiracy, and we will win! He better hope that all this “non-sense” doesn’t get revealed for what it is, or this woman will surely not take a seat on the bench. This nonsense that he speaks of is nothing more than ethnic narcissism that both Obama and Sotomayor clearly hold dear to their hearts. He better hope that is not what is revealed during the Senate hearings.

Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, not to be undone offered this spin job as he told reporters “I think she’d say that her word choice in 2001 was poor.” Well of course she would now, seeing the firestorm her remarks have caused. Spin translation simply = duh.

Obama added today in his Saturday Internet address “What I hope is that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process, and Congress, in the past.” Ironically enough, Barry Obama supported the failed Democratic attempt to filibuster President Bush’s nominee Justice Samuel Alito, who did not fit the idealogy of Obama, but was however a very qualified choice for Supreme Court justice.

Hypocrisy, brinkmanship, spin, and deception. Now thats change we can believe in right?

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