politics from the eyes of an ebony mom
While watching Morning Joe today they played this ad and the Joe Scarborough asked why did the president appear darker in this ad. Look at the ad the President has been darkened for effect. The rhetorical question is why, but we all know the answer.
The Republicans have a number racist dog whistles that they have used and continue to use on President Obama, but I don’t think the IRS scandal is in that particular playbook. The IRS situation stinks to high heaven. This should not be debateable. It is being investigated as it should be but a racist dog whistle? I think not, this is stretching a point beyond the recognition of reasonable people. Share your thoughts.
First lady Michelle Obama was speaking at a private fundraiser. Her prepared remarks were interuppted by lesbian advocate, Ellen Sturtz. Mrs. Obama stepped away from the microphone and refused to speak while Sturtz shouted. Sturtz contention is the White House has not done enough for gay rights. Sturtz was silenced by the crowd and the first lady did continue. Question: Should a speaker engage a heckler or ignore them? http://now.msn.com/michelle-obama-confronts-heckler-ellen-sturtz-at-fundraiser
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Have you ever gone for a drive with the car in reverse? If the answer is yeas please tell me when you are on the road so I can stay home. Seriously most people would say no to the question, but isn’t that what the government is doing now? We are now trapped in Scandaland. The IRS scandal seemingly has so many layers. It started with the Tea Party and now we see the let them eat cake mentality was the norm. Eric Holder long an enemy of the right is now making some on the left recoil, but what about jobs? Is anybody talking about the unemployment rate? During the election season last year jobs and the economy were hot topics, but in Scandaland there seems to be no room for this in the conversation. So I guess we will just keep the car in reverse and keep looking back at what is wrong without looking forward to accomplishing some big things. Don’t get me wrong we have big problems and issues that warrant investigation, but does everyone have to just address scandals? Share your thoughts.
Tavis Smiley has been a critic of the president since 2007 when he did not attend his State of Black america conference. His criticism cost him his job on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Since that time Smiley and Joyner have had a very public, brutal parting of the ways. This morning on the TJMS they were mocking Smiley’s contention that the president was pressuring his sponsors to drop him. If I had heard these Smiley musings a month or so ago I would have dismissed it as another case of Smiley sour grapes. In 2011 Smiley lamented that President Obama was the first president in years who had not extended an invitation to the White House to him. So there is a history of Smiley indignation with this White House, but in light of the AP scandal and the IRS debacle it is not so easy to dismiss Smiley. Many contend that Smiley is not the influence he used to be, but he still has an audience and therefore he still has influence, and he might actually have a valid point.
Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan is a frequent panelist on sunday morning talk shows, and she is consistent in her cricitism of the president, but Jon Stewart shows how her scale of wrongness has changed over the years. Watch the clip and share your thoughts.
Listen to CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson discuss the compromising of her computers. News people are supposed to report facts. Is she making an allegation not yet supported by fact? Listen and share your thoughts.
Republicans often say that black Democrats are tied to the “Democrat plantation”. it is interesting that these same GOP surrogates are often crying about being called names by the left, but they find nothing wrong with this kind of characterization. Plantation politics is an important page in the GOP political playbook, and often the black conservatives are ever so willing to articulate this philosopy. Charles Blow of the New York Times wrote an excellent piece today on plantation politics read it and share your thoughts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/opinion/blow-blacks-conservatives-and-plantations.html?_r=1&
I thought the deficit was the most important issue facing Americans. The GOP leaders were committed to balancing the deficit no matter what it took. Cut, cut, cut that is what Americans were going to have to do. This was by far their issue, but nobody is talking about the deficit anymore. Did it become less important or is there another way to attack the administration? Three issues have become front burner issues: Benghazi, AP and IRS. The IRS scandal is a valid issue. No adminstration has the right to target a group for special scrunity, and we lost four lives in the Benghazi tragedy, but let us not forget 4,000 lives have been lost in Iraq where was the GOP outrage then? America has a number of problems including jobs…no one is talking about this on either side of the aisle. Is there any governing going on in DC or is there only partisan posturing?
