With his Harvard degree and elegant bearing, not to mention his attractive white wife, Obama seemed set to become a powerhouse among the newly emerging cadre of elite Africans who were slowly assuming control of the country’s power structure. But here was Obama now without a job and his checkered employment record a matter of some talk in Nairobi circles……

Obama is the second president of this millennium, but the first chief executive of the America of new possibilities — a multiracial, multicultural nation whose emergence the old order is working mightily to forestall in its desperate attack on his presidency. The GOPs total lack of respect is downright contemptible — if not unpatriotic. Such contempt, I’m convinced, is rooted in something other than political differences. Today, you might not see the overt actions of racist southern governors like Ross Barnett or George Wallace in the 1960s. But the presence of Jim Crow, Jr. — a more subtle form of racism — is there.

This has been one of the most contentious weeks in American political history. We have witnessed Tea Party Republicans take this nation to the edge of financial chaos; President Obama abdicate his leadership role and beg the electorate to petition Congress, and Standards and Poor’s and Moody’s treat Congress and the President as unworthy supplicants. [...]

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment covers the “four great hypocrisies” of the debt deal and the necessity of taking the governance of this nation back from politicians. Keith hammers both left and right — but serves up the most of the venom at the Tea-Party lunatics and the super rich oligarchs.

Conservative pundits hate it when liberals play the victim card because it distracts from the real victims: CONSERVATIVES. In his article — Living Under Obama: White Male ‘Conservative’ Victimhood and The New Realities of ‘Black Privilege’, Christopher Deis elaborates: The election of Barack Obama has been difficult for many Americans. As Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck [...]