Some thoughts about unemployment and stimulus.

Be warned there is some math below.

I got thinking about the stimulus program and the unemployment numbers.  Here is what I thought about....
*Note: for simplicity sake I'm keeping the numbers round.*

The average life expectancy in the USA is about 85 years old.

The approximate population of the USA is about 300 million.

Lets say that age group of the typical full time employee falls between 18 to 65.

So we can formulate that the approximate number of Americans that falls inside that full time employment group is roughly half the population.  So approximately 150 million people.

Now the unemployment number (when you include those that are no longer looking for work, with those that lost full time employment and are working part time, with those that are collecting unemployment) is about 15%.

So the number of unemployed Americans is about 22.5 million.

Now the Obama/Democrat stimulus program (mind you not counting the second program and Bush's program) is somewhere around 1 trillion US$.

This stimulus program was specifically created to "save or create" jobs.

If one divides the 1 trillion US$ by the number of unemployed Americans of 22.5 million a shocking number appears.

That number is 44,444.44 US$.  That's a typical middle income family in America right now.  If it so happens that the home has 2 unemployed Americans the number of course doubles to 88,888.00 US$.  While the first number is a moderate middle income lifestyle (maybe only 1 new car and 1 old car in the driveway instead of 2)  the $88k is a pretty comfortable income for a typical family of 4 or 5.

So that said...I'm having a REALLY tough time understanding what happened to all the money.  How is it we are still "officially" sitting at  nearly 10% unemployment?  This is a year and a half since Obama signed it into law.  He could have taken that 1 trillion US$ and paid every single unemployed America a living wage and given the entire economy breathing room and a chance to recover.  No loans or mortgages would have slipped into default causing the FDIC insured banks to choke on their debts forcing them to be stingy with business loans or in some cases failing.  The economy would've rebounded because Americans would still be spending money.  Sure some economic restriction would have still occurred but right now I'd bet we'd be looking at MUCH lower unemployment.  Plus the government would REALLY be handing out $44k.  You forget that they'd take in about 25% in taxes and about 7.5% in FICA.  So here's another MATH equation to look at.

If out of the 1 trillion US$ that the government handed out in my hypothetical as salaries for the unemployed they took back 32.5% in taxes and FICA.  Then they'd get back about 325 billion US$.  WOW!  Imaging that.  In effect we could have shave a third of the stimulus program right at the beginning.

Anyways those are my thoughts.  What are yours?

The NAACP denounces racism in the Tea Party?

The NAACP is stating that there are racists in the Tea Party....OK...I'm sure there are but that isn't the point of the Tea Party. Does the NAACP think there aren't racist in their ranks? Oh wait ACTUALLY they know there are because back in 2000 Mr. Mfume suspended the Dallas branch President Lee Alcorn for his anti-semetic remarks. In fact it's a statical probability that any large collection of people is going to have some racists in it. This doesn't make the group racists though. We need to base the group by it's desired goals and actions as a group not by individuals. Take for example the Catholic Church, or any church, do you really think that there isn't at least one racist sitting in the pews during Sunday service? Yet I don't think anyone would say the Catholic Church is racist or has racist goals.



This declaration by the NAACP is frivolous and is a distraction from the real issues being raised by honest people. Especially when one considers the make up of the Tea Party. In general the Tea Party is made of non-affiliated independent voters that were not activists. Yes most of the party is white but the % of black Americans is close to 10% to 12%. So by porportion we'd expect the Tea Party to be less than 10% black as we know that it's unlikely that ALL black would be of the mind set of the Tea Party goals. In addition, it's highly likely that a large percentage of Tea Party members actually voted for Obama since Obama got a large percentage of the "Independent" vote.



Just for a kicker, lets not forget that I never remember hearing a peep out of the NAACP last August regarding the beating of a black man by SEIU members in front of a St. Louis town hall meeting. Why did Kenneth Gladney get beaten? Because he was a black man handing out Don't Tread On Me flags out infront of the town hall meeting. It was my understanding that the NAACP was suppose to be for equality of all people. If that's so then why not Kenneth's equality to believe in what he believes and protest what he chooses to protest without being molested? Where was the declaration against SEIU? Oh wait, I forgot, Zaki Baruti, President of the Universal African Peoples, at a ralley organized by the NAACP IN SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE THAT BEAT Kenneth Gladney stated "That we call him (Kenneth Gladney) a Negro in the fact that he works not for our people but against our people. In the old days we call him Uncle Tom. I just got to say that.". Sooooo, wait, huh? What? Really? Direct off the home page of the NAACP "Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization." Sooo ummm freedom of speech isn't a CIVIL RIGHT? To freely organize to protest in a civil manner isn't a CIVIL RIGHT? To go one step further this Mr. Baruti made a false statement during an interview on the O'Reilly Factor. He said "in the buttons he was selling they had pictures of President Obama in white face with blood coming out of his eyes and his mouth which is a character that reflects back to the Jim Crowe era." Either Mr. Baruti is completely disconnected from reality or he knows he's lying because the characture of Obama that he describes is not white face but it's Obama made up like the Joker in the last Batman movie. In addition, I'm not claiming to be all knowing in things that are racist, have you ever heard of white face? I've heard of black face. I've never heard of white face. I even googled white face to see what it offered...nothing on the subject of racism. Sooooo ummmm huh? Clearly, Mr. Baruti is cluless and it's a shame that the NAACP saw fit to have this man speak for them and support people that denied Mr. Gladney's civil rights.

Oh yes and one last point to make, before ANYONE at the NAACP or afflialated with the NAACP goes around calling someone an Uncle Tom they'd better think about their own history.  Consider that the slave owning south was controlled by the Democratic Party, consider that the Civil War was about Democrats wanting to keep the southern states slave states, consider that the Democrat Party worked with the KKK and Red Shirts to keep blacks and Republicans from voting in southern states (in some cases it actually involved open combat with armed militias), consider that the Jim Crow Laws were brought about by the Democrat Party during the Redeemer Era, consider that the Democrat Party actively fought against the de-segregation of the south, consider that the Democrat Party filibustered against the Civil Rights legislation.  Now consider that the NAACP is VERY cozy with the Democrat Party.  Tell me again who's the Uncle Tom?



As Jesus said...Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Somehow I'm thinking that the evidence shows the NAACP is not without sin when it comes to racism.

Obama the Thug?

If you know anything about Big O you know he's got very close connections to labour unions and specifically SEIU. In case you didn't know about his connections to SEIU here's a brief history...

• Obama the candidate addresses SEIU meeting in 2006 (here's a 6 minute video of the address). OK so if you've watched the video you're thinking NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS.
• Obama and Andy Stern have a close relationship. Andy Stern is the head of SEIU. In fact he thinks so highly of Andy Stern he's appointed him to head the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. (here's my proof)
• Here's another video of Obama at another SEIU meeting. CLICK HERE. Please note here Obama says to the SEIU crowd "Your agenda has been my agenda..." OH REALLY? He goes on to say "before debating health care I talked to Andy Stern and SEIU members." Fantastic.
• So was it your agenda Mr. Obama when SEIU thugs beat a black man on the street? Here's the video. Did you, Mr. Obama, talk to Andy Stern before or after they beat Kenneth Gladney. SEIU claims about the attack are on their website click here to read it. Even though there is video and about a dozen witnesses SEIU put up a bunch of lies on their site. Here's an interview of Kenneth Gladney explaining how the whole attack started click here.
• Want to see more videos of SEIU members intimidating people? Click here and watch a video about SEIU members threatening a 16 year-old girl. Then there are plenty of other videos of SEIU intimidation click here.  I could go on and on and on. That's enough for now I think.  My point is made I believe....SEIU frequently practices intimidation and threatens people to bully them to bend to their will.

So why the post? Because when most of this was going on I tried to think OK lets give Obama the benefit of a doubt. Obama wanted health care reform and the union thugs showed up. MAYBE it was coincidence...MAYBE. Now Obama wants economic reform and guess what....the union thugs have shown up AGAIN.
This time they're showing up at the private residences of private citizens and intimidating them. See Video 1 and see Video 2.  It wasn't a small group. Video 1 shows SEIU, using 14 buses showing up at Mr. Greg Baer's home with 500 members. Mr. Baer's teenage son was the only one home at the time. Mr. Baer was attending his younger child's baseball game. On returning to his house he saw the mob out in front of his home. With his younger son in the car he decided to call the police. The police told him they wouldn't disperse the crowd for fear that the mob might turn violent. Imagine yourself as Mr. Baer, you've got your youngest son in the car with you, your oldest trapped in your home by a mob of 500 people. What do you do? Mr. Baer decided he had to get his son out of potential danger. He politely moved through the crowd asking people to please move out of his way he had to get to his home because his teenage son was in there.
Why protest outside Mr. Baer's home? Well he works for Bank of America. It just so happens that SEIU is in debt to Bank of America for 4 million dollars. Huh? It also just so happens that SEIU gave almost 70 million dollars to the Democrat Party. Huh? History is full of examples where evil men use groups to intimidate private citizens. Hitler used similar cut-outs/thug groups to intimidate people. Either Obama stands up and denounces SEIU or he's in agreement with their tactics. So far Mr. Obama has remained silent. So far Mr. Obama has shown his silent alliance with SEIU by giving it's leadership principle roles in our government. Mr. Obama has very little time left in my opinion to separate himself from this group or he risks wearing the label of Nazi. This kind of intimidation can not stand. If Mr. Obama won't denounce SEIU it is time for all you fence sitters out their to get over your poor choice of voting for Obama. Realize you made a mistake voting for this man. Time to take a stand against this sort of intimidation.  This is UN-AMERICAN.  Is this the HOPE and CHANGE Obama promised us?  HOPE you won't have a crowd of thugs show up at your home?  Time to CHANGE residence so your family is safe from thugs?

"The flag should never be used as wearing apparel,..."

According to U.S. Code Title 4 Chapter 1 Section 8d "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel,...".  While I understand the desire or intent is patriotic it is disrespectful to the flag to wear it as apparel.  So those children over at the Live Oak High School may have intended to show patriotism by wearing apparel to school depicting the American flag it in essence is a form of disrepect to the flag.  While I don't agree with the schools reaction I do think there could've been a better method to expressing their patriotism without disrespecting the flag.

Ex Parte Quirin

If you don't know what Ex Parte Quirin refers to let me explain it in simple terms.  This is a case in which the US Supreme Court upheld the jurisdiction of military tribunals over eight NAZI saboteurs.  All eight were found guilty and convicted.  Six of the eight were executed by electrocution.  It's relevant to our discussion that one of those six was German born but US naturalized citizen (at age ten).    If we have precedent of putting US citizens in front of military tribunals and furthermore executing them why are we putting non-citizen and citizen saboteurs into civilian courts?  Both Bush and Obama have completely screwed this up.  There is absolutely no excuse for having detained terrorists for years without getting in front of a military tribunal.  Just as there is no excuse for putting terrorists through our civil courts systems.  Faisal Shahzad is a modern day equivalent to a NAZI saboteurs.  His attempted attack on Times Square would have killed Americans, hurt our economy and created fear and terror in America.  We keep calling people like Shahzad as terrorists.  Maybe we should begin "labeling" them as saboteurs instead.  Shahzad as a saboteur would not have the same rights as he currently has in civilian courts.  The efficiency of a military tribunal would be quick and just.  Follow by an execution if found guilty.  No more weeks, months, years of propaganda and consuming millions of our tax dollars.  Time for Americans (including you President Obama) to find our backbones and begin to treat this war as a war.  We didn't soft glove the NAZI saboteurs we shouldn't be soft gloving Muslim saboteurs.

Ghosts of Obama Present

The last three postings looked at individuals that have in the past been directly linked to Obama.  Knowing who he's associated with gives us a window to Obama's soul.  None of us associate with people who hold values and ideals that are in considerable condradiction to our own.  Obama's past is littered with fanactical extremists as I believe is proven with the last three posts. Now I'd like to look at people he is connected with currently.  People can change over time so I think it's only fair to give Obama the benifit of a doubt and review the people he surrounds himself with today.  If we find that the people he currently associates with are more centrist and less fanatical then I would say that his past connections do not reflect his current ones.  Unfortunately, what I've found is that Obama has solidified his connections to radical and corrupt individuals.  Let me lay out below a list of his current associates and you be the judge.


Richard Holbrooke

• February 2001 to July 2008 Mr. Holbrooke sat on the board of AIG.  This is the same AIG that has recieved billions os US taxpayer dollars to keep from going bankrupt.  AIG is one of several parties (public and private) who's business practices were directly responsible for the current global recession.  It's curious to me that anyone would give Mr. Holbrooke a job.  He and the rest of the board of directors are directly responsible for the business practices.  He should be living under a bridge not advicing President Obama.  Mr. Holbrooke currently holds the positions of "Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan".

Steven Rattner

• One of the four founding members of the Quadrangle Group.  The Quadrangle Group is under investigation by the SEC for a kickback scheme involing the NYS pension fund.  He was named as the "senoir executive" of the SEC complaint against the Quadrangle Group.  In February 2009 he was hired as Treasury Advisor, Head of the Auto Task Force even though he was and investor in the Cerberus Capital Management the owner of Chrysler.

Ron Bloom

• Is a self described Socialist has had a long relationship with radicals going all the way back to his youth.  As a young man Ron was active in Habonim which is a progressive Labor Zionist youth movement.  Starting at the age of 10, Ron attended  Camp Galil.  Camp Galil was a Labor Zionist movement summer camp.  He attended it for 4 years and eventually became a counselor.  Ron Bloom was initially hired to be the Senior Counselor to the U.S. President for Manufacturing Policy and was later hired (after Steven Rattner stepped down) as U.S. Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.  He recieved these positions even though his attitudes towards capitalism and the freemarket were well known and of public record.  At the 2008 sixth annual Distressed Investing Conference held at the Union League Club Mr. Bloom was a speaker.  He is quoted as stating during that conference:

"Generally speaking we get the joke.  We know that the free market is nonsense.  We know that the whole poiunt is to game the system, to beat the market, or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money because they're convinced that there is a free lunch.  We know this is largely about power, that it's an adults only, no limit game. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun.  And we get it that if you want a friend, you should get a dog."

Carol Browner

• She was hired as the Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.  Previously, she was one of 14 leaders of the socialist group Commission for a Sustainable World Society.  The stated goal of this commision is for "global governance" and states rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.  Soon after her appointment by the Obama administration her biography was removed from the Socialist International's web page.  The Socialist International is a organization that contains many of the world socialist democratic political parties.  It organizes socialist political parties throughout the world and has traditionally worked against and been critical of U.S. policies.  The Socialist International group includes Angola's MPLA.  The MPLA with assistance of Soviet arms and Cuban troops won the Angolan civil war.  It has stated that the Cap-and-Trade legislation does not do enough and is not restrictive enough.  They are against the U.S.-Mexico border fence.  They have stated that developed countries like the U.S. must decrease their consumption and suggest that economic limits that force a decline of the overall ecomony would be one good tool to achieve this.

These are the first four connections.  There are more to come but I think 4 is a good start for you all to digest.  I'll post four more soon.

One last ghost of BO's past....

I'm back on the net.  For those that didn't know I moved recently and was without internet for about 3 weeks longer than I expected to be.  So back to discussing BO's past connections.  Why?  Well I've been told over and over again by educated people that these connections to Marxists, racists and extremist is not important.  They explain it away by saying basically he can't control what other people do.  So he made a few poor choices with who he's associated with it's not who he is. Just because he has some loose connection to these people isn't really an issue.  Well, I'm attempting to make the point that: 1) these people are not loosely connected to him; 2) he knew these people and what they stand and still choose to associate with them.  Finally, I want people to ask the following questions: If I was always in the company of racists would it not be assumed that I was a racist?  Why would I associate with racists if I wasn't one?  As a minimum associating with racists means I tolerate racism even if I may not agree with it.  Then ask the question:  Why would I hire/employ racists?

With those questions in mind we finish up with one last ghost from BO's past.  Here is some information about Rev. Wright:

Reverend Wright:

FACTS:

• Rev. Wright subscribes to the ideals of Black Liberation Theology. Black Liberation Theology was founded by African-Americans as a way to counter radical black Muslim influences on the black community. Rev. Wright frequently cites works by James Cone and Dwight Hopkins. Cone and Hopkins are considered by many to be the leading theologians of this belief system. Note that both Cone and Hopkins were far left of center and critics of their works call the Black Liberation Theology a mixture of Christianity and Marxism. Turning Jesus into a leftist rebel, making racist statements against whites and Asians, and describing blacks as helpless victims.
• Quotes from works that Black Liberation Theology is based on:

 Cone states that it should be the goal of black men to "aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.".

Cone states that to arrive at such destruction it requires black hate and white guilt. That blacks need to tell the story of their oppression so forcefully and precisely that whites "tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil."

Black Theology and Black Power, Pages 139-140 states that Jews are not the only chosen people "To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!"

Black Theology and Black Power, Pages 14-16 "It is important to make a further distinction here among black hatred, black racism, and Black Power. Black hatred is the black man's strong aversion to white society. No black man living in white America can escape it...But the charge of black racism cannot be reconciled with the facts. While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism. Racism, according to Webster, is 'the assumption that psychocultural traits and capacities are determined by biological race and that races differ decisively from one another, which is usually coupled with a belief in the inherent superiority of a particular race and its rights to dominance over others.' Where are the examples among blacks in which they sought to assert their right to dominance over others because of a belief in black superiority?...Black Power is an affirmation of the humanity of blacks in spite of white racism. It says that only blacks really know the extent of white oppression, and thus only blacks are prepared to risk all to be free."

Cone makes the argument: Black Theology and Black Power, Page 139 "We cannot solve ethical questions of the twentieth century by looking at what Jesus did in the first. Our choices are not the same as his. Being Christians does not mean following 'in his steps." and on Page 140 "Therefore, simply to say that Jesus did not use violence is no evidence relevant to the condition of black people as they decide on what to do about white oppression."

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 143 "The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil."

Cone believes: "People should love each other' sounds like Riis Park at sundown. It has very little meaning to the world at large." Black Theology and Black Power, Page 135

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 24 "All white men are responsible for white oppression. It is much too easy to say, "Racism is not my fault," or "I am not responsible for the country's inhumanity to the black man...But insofar as white do-gooders tolerate and sponsor racism in their educational institutions, their political, economic and social structures, their churches, and in every other aspect of American life, they are directly responsible for racism...Racism is possible because whites are indifferent to suffering and patient with cruelty. Karl Jaspers' description of metaphysical guilt is pertinent here. 'There exists among men, because they are men, a solidarity through which each shares responsibility for every injustice and every wrong committed in the world, and especially for crimes that are committed in his presence or of which he cannot be ignorant."

Black Theology and Black Power, Pages 39-41 "For the gospel proclaims that God is with us now, actively fighting the forces which would make man captive. And it is the task of theology and the Church to know where God is at work so that we can join him in this fight against evil. In America we know where the evil is. We know that men are shot and lynched. We know that men are crammed into ghettos...There is a constant battle between Christ and Satan, and it is going on now. If we make this message contemporaneous with our own life situation, what does Christ's defeat of Satan mean for us?...The demonic forces of racism are real for the black man. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil." The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by the demonic forces."

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 73 "Racism is a complete denial of the Incarnation and thus of Christianity...If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or "the principalities and powers"), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it. It was the white "Christian" church which took the lead in establishing slavery as an institution and segregation as a pattern in society by sanctioning all-white congregations."

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 143 "Whether the American system is beyond redemption we will have to wait and see. But we can be certain that black patience has run out, and unless white America responds positively to the theory and activity of Black Power, then a bloody, protracted civil war is inevitable."

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 136 "The revolution which Black Theology advocates … [means] confronting white racists and saying: 'If it's a fight you want, I am prepared to oblige you.' This is what the black revolution means."

Black Theology and Black Power, Page 16 "Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will."

A Black Theology of Liberation, pages 63-64 "The black theologian must reject any conception of God which stifles black self-determination by picturing God as a God of all peoples. Either God is identified with the oppressed to the point that their experience becomes God's experience, or God is a God of racism...The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the Biblical revelation. By electing Israelite slaves as the people of God and by becoming the Oppressed One in Jesus Christ, the human race is made to understand that God is known where human beings experience humiliation and suffering...Liberation is not an afterthought, but the very essence of divine activity."

A Black Theology of Liberation, p. 70 "Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does not represent God as being for oppressed blacks and thus against white oppressors. Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God. The brutalities are too great and the pain too severe, and this means we must know where God is and what God is doing in the revolution. There is no use for a God who loves white oppressors the same as oppressed blacks. We have had too much of white love, the love that tells blacks to turn the other cheek and go the second mile. What we need is the divine love as expressed in black power, which is the power of blacks to destroy their oppressors, here and now, by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject God's love."

• Quotes from Rev. Wright:

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color." Meaning it is Rev. Wrights assertion that the US government created the HIV virus to preform genocide against people of color.

"And the United States of America government, when it came to treating her citizens of Indian descent fairly, she failed. She put them on reservations. When it came to treating her citizens of Japanese descent fairly, she failed. She put them in internment prison camps. When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools, put them in substandard housing, put them in scientific experiments, put them in the lowest paying jobs, put them outside the equal protection of the law, kept them out of their racist bastions of higher education and locked them into positions of hopelessness and helplessness. The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America, as long as she tries to act like she is God, and she is supreme. The United States government has failed the vast majority of her citizens of African descent.."

"The government lied about Pearl Harbor too. They knew the Japanese were going to attack."

Discussing the 9/11 attacks he said: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye... and now we are indignant, because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost.". Meaning we deserved what we got.

Now lets look at some facts about Obama's relationship to Rev. Wright:

FACTS:

• Obama met Wright in the late 1980's
• Rev. Wright married Barrack and Michelle.
• Rev. Wright baptized Barrak's children.
• Obama's 2006 memoir "The Audacity of Hope" title was inspired by one of Rev. Wrights sermons.
• According to Obama's own speech titled "A More Perfect Union" he described Rev. Wright as both a role model and a spiritual mentor.
• In 2007 Rev. Wright was appointed to Barrack Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee. This was a group of over 170 national black religious leaders who supported Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination.

ANALYSIS:

Regardless of what you want to assume about Barrack's relationship with Rev. Wright, how often he actually attended the church, or what he may have thought about the sermons one must consider for themselves what they would have done in Barracks position. Would you have sat there and quietly listened while someone ranted bigotry, racisms, and anti-Americanism? I hope not and I would expect you to hold Barrack to that same standard. Why didn't he denounce Rev. Wright even once for 20 years until it became an issue during the campaign? I don't want to believe Barrak feels the same way about white people as Rev. Wright, Cone and Hopkins do. I choose to believe that maybe he lacked the courage to argue with a man he thought of as a mentor. But, then you also have to ask, how much influence on my life have people had I consider role models and or spiritual mentors? How much influence have the teachings of Rev. Wright, Cone, and Hopkins had on Obama's life?



Conclusion:

We can't say for sure that Obama is a racist nor unpatriotic and I do not mean to label him as such. We can assume that Rev. Wright is a bigot, racist and unpatriotic based on his comments both on and off the pulpit. We can draw clear conclusions that the Black Liberation Theology has a racist slant which is hardly Christian. The idea of the Black Liberation Theology completely washes over the historical importance that Christianity had on the abolishment of slavery in the USA. We know that Obama did not denounce a man he himself called a role model until it became necessary to maintain his political career. These points are difficult to argue against. Therefore few possible conclusions can be drawn. Either Obama lacked the courage and conviction to rise up against racism and bigotry or he agreed with it. So if he lacks the courage or conviction to stand up to one such as Rev. Wright how can we expect him to stand up for us as our President? If he agrees with the sermons then what path will he lead our country down? How many times have you sat silent while someone spewed hate, bigotry and racism? As a minimum maybe you can say, well I never denounced a hate monger but I chose not to further associate with them. All Obama would have had to do is walk away from Wright, his teachings and his church. He didn't. Maybe it was because he saw it as a means to further his career? A reverend of a church in a mostly black community with approximately 10,000 parishioners might have had something to do with it. Or maybe it was because he agrees with those ideals of Wright. How many of you call racists mentors and role models? No one I want as a friend does. No one I want as a President should.

This is the final associate from Obama's past we'll be discussing here.  Of course there are other's we could bring up but I think the three I've posted about (Raila Odinga, Bill Ayers, and Rev. Wright) are the prime 3 which are "officially" in his past.  They supposedly have no direct contact with him today.  So now lets look at people which he is still currently in contact with.  The next few posts will focus on his association since becoming President.  I'd like to specifically look at the people he has chosen to elevate into positions of power in government.  As we go forward please ask yourselves this: If these people are Communists, Marxists, racists, and in general radicals and extremists why then would Obama hire these people and/or associate with them if he didn't appreciate and value their point of view?