The biggest black “Tom” of all “Uncle-Toms,” “pitch black” justice of the supreme court, Clarence Thomas, has apparently given his “white wife” the go ahead to form a “Non-Profit” “Tea-Party group!”
The LA Times Reports: The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.
“I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you,” she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama’s “hard-left agenda.”
In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said.
“I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country,” Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great.” [ READ MORE ]
Time and again, the Obama administration has upheld virtually every Bush war policy in and out of court, including the notion of an all-powerful unitary executive, the right to permanent worldwide war, the right to hold prisoners indefinitely without charges and to rendition them and to illegally spy on Americans. Rather than govern with a clear moral authority, he has instead governed weakly from “the middle,” as a naïve politician, appeasing the same right wing opponents that detest his every move. Ironically, Bush did not receive a decisive electoral mandate, yet he governed decisively. Contrarily, Obama was given a massive electoral mandate, only to govern timidly as though he owes his victory to the sore losers of the Tea Party Movement.
By: Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez President Barack Obama is an enigma. No one quite seems to know what he actually stands for.
Most progressives saw in the election of Obama, a Nelson Mandela figure. Based on his first year in office, many are understandably disillusioned.
Conversely, much of the right wing of this country demonize(d) him as a Joseph Stalin figure, this in a “right-center” country.
The context of the 2008 election is important in making sense of these views; it was a landslide. Obama garnered 54% of the electorate compared to 46% for McCain (Apparently, someone forgot to tell the electorate that we live in a “right-center” country).
Understanding this, the 2010 analyses of McCain/Palin and their supporters matter little because it is their views that were thoroughly repudiated in the 2008 elections. And their hostile opinions of the president have not actually changed. If anything, they’ve been emboldened by now having 41 votes in the senate – compared to 59 for the Democrats (Apparently neither party can count as Bush never needed 59 votes to govern forcefully, albeit for the wrong causes). They would be quite happy with a Torquemada figure, someone who governs from a place of fear, with an iron fist, who is not afraid to employ torture.
The Obama enigma has more to do with the expectations of those who swept him into office. In truth, those who thought they had gotten Mandela – a liberator – were few because most understood that Obama was elected head of an empire, not head of the UN Human Rights Commission. Many more Democrats and Independents thought they had elected a Martin Luther King figure – someone who would fight for the rights and dignity of all human beings. Unquestionably, Obama indeed can speak like MLK, but his actions, especially on matters of war and peace and human rights, have been much closer to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
The Obama/Biden administration is clearly different than a McCain/Palin administration would have been. Obama has set a different tone worldwide, but he has not substantively altered the Bush-Cheney doctrine. And rather than investigate former administration officials for their roles in carrying out an illegal war, Obama unilaterally has given them “get-out-of-jail free” cards. Worse, he’s embraced most of Bush’s extra-legal policies in court. The only substantive difference has come in relation to Guantanamo. For conservatives, Guantanamo is Nirvana – a place outside the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. While he has moved swiftly to close it down, he has not repudiated its most reprehensible feature: indefinite detention of suspects without charges.
The context of the 2008 election was a clear repudiation of all things Bush-Cheney. Bush argued that September 11, 2001 had given him the right to ignore the U.S. Constitution, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court, and international law. Beyond that, he crafted a circular argument for his assertion and exercise of dictatorial powers; we were a nation at war. That assertion depended upon a condition of permanent worldwide war.
That’s why people had hoped for an MLK figure. That instead we got a Clarence Thomas is not hyperbole. Time and again, the Obama administration has upheld virtually every Bush war policy in and out of court, including the notion of an all-powerful unitary executive, the right to permanent worldwide war, the right to hold prisoners indefinitely without charges and to rendition them and to illegally spy on Americans.
At home, Obama has bungled his electoral mandate, especially on health care, the economy and immigration. Rather than govern with a clear moral authority, he has instead governed weakly from “the middle,” as a naïve politician, appeasing the same right wing opponents that detest his every move. Ironically, Bush did not receive a decisive electoral mandate, yet he governed decisively. Contrarily, Obama was given a massive electoral mandate, only to govern timidly as though he owes his victory to the sore losers Tea Party Movement.
There are several precedents for governing from the middle. One came in the early 20th century in Mexico after the ouster of dictator Porfirio Diaz. The naïve new president, Francisco Madero, thought he could reconcile the nation by ignoring his own supporters while appeasing Diaz’s allies. He left them in power where they soon deposed him.
Hopefully Obama will not suffer the same fate. However, unless and until he begins to act upon his stated convictions, he will continue to find himself proverbially in the middle of the political highway as roadkill. He doesn’t have to be Mandela; the 2008 Obama will suffice.
• Rodriguez can be reached at: XColumn@gmail.com or PO BOX 85476 – Tucson, AZ 85754
Memo To Sean Hannity and Fox News: If you want to use blacks to disparage other blacks, please select “pretty looking” ones. An ugly Auntie-Tom will never “convince” any person of color. Deneen Borelli can rightfully criticize the black community like many of us do, for we are not perfect — but joining Republican bigots in doing so, is utterly despicable — and Treasonous!
Notes: Deneen Borelli is a Fellow with Project 21, a network of BLACK CONSERVATIVES which is an initiative of The National Center for Public Policy Research, a national public policy group based in Washington, D.C. [ READ MORE ]
Borelli on Hannity: A “big message” in black community is “you are owed something… and don’t have to work hard“
Wrong! Blacks just want to work as hard as whites! Despite some “progress” over the years, racism and bigotry are still huge stumbling blocks staring at many in the black community.
Racist Fox News Mis-information THUG, Sean Hannity, is fond of parading “Uncle-Tom” blacks (people of color) on his show to disparage other blacks (people of color). Borelli is not the first, and unfortunately will not be the last person of color to be used and abused by whites who are bent on maintaining years of unfettered privilege — at all costs.
Here are other examples:
1. ”White supremacy, sensing the need to repackage itself for consumption in polite company, partially fills the demand for racist bile by outsourcing to mercenary writers of color. Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza — of Filipino and Indian descent, respectively — are top guns of the genre, ever eager to slander non-whites, especially Blacks, as threats to Euro-American white ‘civilization.’” — Margaret Kimberly | [ READ MARGARET'S ARTICLE ] [ DINESH D'SOUZA TRIES TO EMBARRASS OBAMA ]
2. In one of my first posts in this blog, in 2007 — I illustrated how Sean Hannity and Fox News routinely use blacks, like his despicable poodle “Reverend Pork-CHOP” Jesse Lee Peterson, to pour scorn on the black race and on candidate Obama. [ READ and WATCH ]
4. One, James T. Harris, attended a McCain-Palin Town-Hall HATE-MEETING, packed to the rafters with NEO-KLAN lynch mobs, to “help” bring down candidate Obama!
Obama the mad scientist?: When speaking about Barack Obama’s health care proposal, RNC Chairman UNCLE TOM Michael Steele compared the president to a mad scientist performing a health care “experiment” on the country.
The “punkified” Steele is a sorry one man NEGRO-COMEDY that keeps on giving, reminiscent of southern slavery. Southern white bigots have always preferred a harmless “house negro.” A butt-licking, boot-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Nigger, who will trot around making a fool of himself while promoting the cause of a racist “slave-master” — the Republican Party.
Yeah, that’s Michael Steele, and so is Justice Clarence Thomas.
Steele is a despicable piece of black garbage, who should be stripped naked and frog-marched back to 1700s America, where he belongs.
Like cats that have lost their whiskers, the Republicans seem off balance now that they have lost their talent for hypocrisy.
They are still practicing the ancient political art of Tartuffery, of course, just without their former aplomb.
Who can forget the glory years, when the Gipper invoked God but never went to church? When Arlen Specter accused Anita Hill of perjury to distract from Clarence Thomas’s false witness? When Newt Gingrich and other conservatives indulged in affairs with young Washington peaches as they pushed to impeach Bill Clinton?
No one had more flair than W. and Cheney, crowing about making us safe as they made the world more dangerous, and bragging about fiscal restraint while they spent us into oblivion.
Now when Republicans get caught flouting the principles they dictate, they are not able to practice hypocrisy with such impunity. [ READ MORE ]
References:
1.Frank Rich: Republicans Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do — The Sotomayor show reduced the antics of Washington’s clueless ancien-régime to a spectacle as ridiculous as it was obsolescent. The hearings were pure “Alice in Wonderland.” Reality was turned upside down. Southern senators who relate every question to race, ethnicity and gender just assumed that their unreconstructed obsessions are America?s and that the country would find them riveting.Instead the country yawned. [ READ MORE ]
2.Bill Greener: My GOP is Too old, too white to win — A Republican looks at the numbers and sees disaster ahead, unless his party figures out how to be less — caucasian. — A recent poll shows Republicans, at the national level, are viewed favorably by fewer than 10 percent of all Hispanics. The word for this is “disaster.” By 1988, the non-Hispanic white vote had shrunk to 85 percent; by 2004, it was about 77 percent; and in 2008, it had shrunk to 75 percent. Last November 13 percent of the electorate was black. Barack Obama won almost all this vote (97 percent). Between 8 and 9 percent of the electorate was Hispanic, a demographic Obama won by a 2-to-1 margin (compared to the 40 percent Bush had won in 2004). That means before the first non-Hispanic white vote was counted, the score was 19-3 for Obama. [ READ MORE ]
The biggest black “Tom” of all “Uncle-Toms,” “pitch black” justice of the supreme court, Clarence Thomas, has apparently given his “white wife” the go ahead to form a “Non-Profit” “Tea-Party group!”
