POU Comments Of The Week

Re ABL. A star is born. No wonder the haters troll her BJ posts like moths around a light bulb. She’s interrupting the Obama-hatementum – and winning.

ps – and if we needed any more proof that Greenwald is a libertarian, he’s spinning a new conspiracy theory. A libertarian specialty!

And with that, I’ll see you all in our underground bunker at the next Top Secret Obot Council meeting. Geographic coordinates of the location are encrypted in this message. Per usual, Koolaid is on the house.

I’m tripping out on how the MSM is shocked that the GOP acted like fools last night.

Ol David Gergen, who would rather pass a kidney stone than give the President props any day, has an article entitled : “Why GOP candidates should cool it” at CNN.

I find it hilarious that the media would expect different from people from a political party whose members actually look to scums Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck as de facto leaders

Or whose members of Congress yell out “You Lie!” while the President is speaking in a SOTU(and turn around and raise money off the lack of decorum).

Or that batshyt Michelle Bachmann at one time said she wanted the American people “armed and dangerous” against the President’s policies and an investigation of Congress for “unAmerican” members.

Hermain Cain “jokes” about killing immigrants at the border with an electric fence.

Or how Rand Paul supporters beat a WOMAN during the 2010 campaign.

And let’s not forget how angry John McCain was during the debates, he looked like his head would explode.

Or the nastiness, racism, and downright mob atmosphere at some of the Tea Party (included with gun-carrying “patriots”)

and now media wants to act like they are surprised when all these years you claimed these uncouth, unprofessional, lowdown republicans were “passionate” and concerned about their country….HA! This is the mess you’ve been making excuses for.

Bernie Frank is right. Rallying and protesting is good but it’s ultimately empty if it’s not accompanied by by electing people who support your views. Why can’t the OWS learn from the teabaggers? Teabaggers staged protests, but at the same time they mobilized and voted for teabag candidates. Why is it so difficult for people to realize that occupying Wall Street is a tactic that can’t be sustained over a long haul? Why would Wall Street worry, or change, if the teabag Republicans (the enablers of Wall Street) gain control of all branches of government? Do the promoters of OWS envision sustaining the occupation for one, two, or four more years? I know it’s not acceptable, in progressive circles, to ask hard questions about OWS. But unless we ask hard questions, that hopefully will provoke the re-thinking of both tactics and goals, OWS may end up being a feel good exercise with no concrete benefits for the 99%. With winter coming soon, I just don’t see how OWS is sustainable.

Erica, I appreciate you and GoBrooklyn’s attempts to engage these folks, but I was done with this from jump when I viewed Occupy Portland’s unfocused, rambling manifesto, which was very dismissive about voting, and naively believe that disengagement from the political process will yield results. I do believe that protest can be an effective tool, but it’s only effective when there are clearly stated achievable goals and strategy involved, beyond just being angry and occupying parks. From experience, I participated in alot of stuff like this in S.F during Reagan’s presidency in the ’80’s(sit-ins in the Financial Dist., holding up traffic, etc) and while it’s cathartic, in the long run, it just pisses potential allies off who are trying to get to work to support themselves and their families. To borrow from Eclecticbrother on the twitter, I’d like the focus of OWS be to ‘Reform Wall Street’ but to do that, you have to implement policies, and the only way of doing that is WINNING ELECTIONS, not tooling round in parks saying you’re pissed off. This lot seems to me, the same sort of rag-tag far leftists and fellow travelers that have made the same strategic mistakes for the last 40 years, and I’m not about to allow them to give the keys to the WH because of their simple assed nonsense.

I apologize for the long-windedness of my post, I just had to get a few things
off my chest.

“During the protests, West addressed fellow demonstrators over a megaphone and ensured them that King would approve of the demonstrations were he alive today. “

Really, motherfucker? The same Dr. King who was locked-down in a Jim-Crow era Birmingham, Alabama prison on trumped up charges? Who had to write the famous letter on toilet paper and have his lawyers smuggle it out? Who had to live with the fact that the police were waiting at every march and demonstration to set dogs, water hoses, and batons on everyone in sight (man, woman, or child)? You really think he’d approve of you intentionally setting out to have the police arrest you for the sake of attention in guise of an “homage” when all he had to do was exist? Forget MLK for a second, the average black persons in America’s life revolves around not getting fucked up by the police; do you think WE are impressed? Cornel, your empty-rhetoric, showboating ass can be summed up in two words:

Nigga, please!

The “great brother, prophet, doctor,” is so cynical. Simulating ones arrest is not the same thing as what Dr. King and other Civil Right workers had to endure. I wish the “great, brother, prophet, doctor,” would talk to Congressman John Lewis, who was constantly brutalized, about what it felt to be arrested more than forty times in his young life.

It is really sad to see this seemingly intelligent person be so consumed with jealousy and envy that he would do anything to try to upstage the President. I now know why envy was considered by Christians as one of the seven deadly sins. Here we have a distinguished Ivy League professor who is so envious of the President that he would do anything, including making a fool of himself, in order to try to undermine the President.

By the way, the “great brother, prophet, doctor,” may be impressing the holier than thou progressives, who hate President Obama, but I doubt that he has massive followers in the African American community. At least, I haven’t heard of a formation, in our community, of a “Free Dr. West” organization.

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