by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on March 28, 2010
It was called the Grand Old Party. That’s what G-O-P used to stand for. Some may say it still does, but for all intents and purposes one can honestly say, there is nothing grand about the current edition of the Republican Party and it has disappeared when it’s most needed. No, I don’t mean to save the country from a liberal President or even a Democratic House and Senate. It is as simple as Ying and Yang. The honest to goodness push back of the left not by simply saying “No” but with legitimate alternative ideas to bring to the table. The left needs you, not to substitute your ideas for theirs but more so to test their ideas against yours. But where are the legitimate new ideas, ideas that were not woefully followed during the Bush Administration?
Michael Steele has become the poster child for the party’s idiosyncrasies. It is no secret that as qualified as he may be for the position, he was and clearly is a GOP push back to Obama’s candidacy and Presidency. The GOP played a not so subtle race card the same way McCain played with gender when he selected Sarah Palin for his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Subsequently, both Steele and Palin made for great photo ops and the appearance that the GOP had a progressive bone in its body politic, however, at the end of the day they became thin veils inadequately masking the GOP’s internal and philosophical dysfunction. Read more... (1167 words, 2 images, estimated 4:40 mins reading time)
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on September 9, 2009
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
September 9, 2009
Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery
Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Health Care
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Washington, DC
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people:
When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on the verge of collapse.
As any American who is still looking for work or a way to pay their bills will tell you, we are by no means out of the woods. A full and vibrant recovery is many months away. And I will not let up until those Americans who seek jobs can find them; until those businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive; until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes. That is our ultimate goal. But thanks to the bold and decisive action we have taken since January, I can stand here with confidence and say that we have pulled this economy back from the brink.
I want to thank the members of this body for your efforts and your support in these last several months, and especially those who have taken the difficult votes that have put us on a path to recovery. I also want to thank the American people for their patience and resolve during this trying time for our nation.
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by Rev. Dr. Linda Logan on September 6, 2009
I am a 71 year old African American woman living in Hemet, Ca. In all of these years I have lived through many ugly racially charged events in this country that I call home. I have survived the humiliations that have been heaped upon me, even in my home state of Minnesota.
Lynching’s, assassinations, and the bloody marches in this country have all left me with emotional scars, that I have attempted to heal by believing that surely, surely time would allow humanity to realize that we are here together and that working as one cohesive unit is the only means of our survival. However, today my heart began to bleed again. Here in the year of 2009, my ten year old grandson arrived home from school with a permission slip to be signed by his parents as to whether he would be allowed to listen to the speech next Tuesday being given by the president of the United States, one Barack Obama. I was unable to speak, I felt as though I was being strangled by some unseen hand. The insult was so obvious and painful that I found it difficult to breath. Nothing had changed.
The fact that the Hemet Unified School District or any other, in this country that espouses freedom of speech would exhibit such a blatant disrespect of their president and then by implication channel these same feelings into their students who are 90% Hispanic and a10% blend of Caucasian and African American a feeling of being questionable and/or inferior is reprehensible. I have no recollection of the necessity for students to be given permission as to whether or not to listen to the first President Bush, or any other duly elected head of this country. Read more... (680 words, 2 images, estimated 2:43 mins reading time)
by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. on August 9, 2009
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