Posted on 09/02/2008 9:48:37 AM PDT by grace522
Fatimah Ali: We need Obama, not 4 more years of George Bush By Fatimah Ali Philadelphia Daily News
AMERICA is on the brink of a long, harsh and bitterly cold winter, with a looming recession that the GOP won't even admit to. The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the wealthiest think that everything is fine.
Rich Republicans just don't understand that millions are suffering. But many of their working class do, and they're beginning to abandon their own party.
When lifelong Republican Barney Smith told the Democratic convention that he'd vote for Barack Obama for president, he gave pause to even the most conservative members of his party.
Smith, like many disgruntled working-class Republicans, is ready to turn his back on his party because he's having such a hard time providing for his family. Like others, Smith fell victim to the loss of 3.2 million American jobs as factories closed or their work was outsourced to cheap labor markets overseas.
Poet Langston Hughes once wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow."
Many wealthy folks live in a dream state and ignore people like Smith, whose tale of personal woe preceded Obama's acceptance speech.
He opposes John McCain because, he says, America can't afford another four years of failed GOP policies that have extended $200 billion in tax cuts to big corporations but not to the nation's 100 million families.
Our national debt has soared from $5.6 trillion to $9.6 trillion under Bush. The Republicans have overstayed their welcome and dragged us into a nightmare that must end soon, or this nation may be headed for chaos.
Obama tugged on the nation's heartstrings when he challenged McCain's tough talk and told the truth about the current policies.
Critics of the GOP believe that a four-year extension of the Bush administration will be disastrous. People are struggling, and the privileged are so out of touch they pretend it's OK that children go hungry.
Over the last eight years, we've lost 3.2 million jobs, and started a war that's cost trillions. The lies and deceit that got us into Iraq in the first place are just the tip of the iceberg and have ruined America's reputation across the globe.
Meanwhile, our economy continues to crumble, while crime, homelessness and poverty continue to soar.
Despite the fact that thousands of immigrants risk their safety to come here because this country may offer them better opportunities, the truth is that poverty lives right here in our own backyard.
Suffering is widespread as the gap between rich and poor widens. The Bush administration doesn't get it and neither does McCain. He is so out of touch that he hasn't a clue how many homes he owns, while the working class struggles to hold on to one.
The Democrats desperately need many more voters like Smith to cross party lines in order to secure the White House. Obama says electing him to the nation's highest office will not only help restore America's moral standing globally, but will lift the nation's low morale and improve our declining economy.
He promises to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers and ease the burden for millions of families. And I believe him, although his critics say he's out of touch with the working class and blast him for not having a lineage that includes slavery.
But just because his ancestors never wore shackles, and he has paid off the student loans from his elite education doesn't mean he doesn't have compassion. Or that he doesn't understand the pain of those who live in dire poverty, who've lost their homes, who want yet can't afford college, and who lack health insurance.
His acceptance speech indicated that, unlike McCain, Obama gets it because hard times aren't so far behind him that his memory's been erased.
If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!
Plenty of Americans would rather stay in their dream state than to recognize the poverty sweeping across the country, right here, right now.
Obama understands that people are suffering. Every week, prices go up at the supermarket, and people are unable to feed their families. It already is dark and stormy for millions, who can't even afford pencils, book bags and lunch money for their children.
But when Obama wins the White House, we may just see a revolution that can turn the tide and improve this nation for everyone, not just a select few.
And I expect him to keep his word.*
Fatimah Ali is a regular contributor. E-mail her at fameworksmedia@yahoo.com
A woman — but why this woman?
Susan Reimer
September 1, 2008
“Does McCain think we will be so grateful for a skirt on the ticket that we won’t notice that she’s anti-abortion, a member of the NRA and thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution?”
“His selection of Sarah Palin is insulting on so many levels that I am starting to feel like the Geico caveman.”
“John McCain picked Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and mother of five, to be his running mate to woo women like me.”
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No, Honey, he did pick Sarah Palin ‘to woo women like you’. Sarah will woo real women in the country who despise ‘women like you’.
Obviously a global warming denier!
Fatimah Ali is nothing more than a race-baiting swine. Read the articles she has written over the years. Inintelligible, pandering nonsense. Plain and simple she she’s a brown-skinned non-Republican who will someday sign reparations legislation that will reward her and people who look like her for their government subsidized bad behavior and poor life choices.
That’s the black agenda circa 2008.
This sums up the Obama message pretty succinctly.
The Democrats have yet to figure out that no one likes a storm-cloud at a picnic, no matter how lousy the potato salad turned out.
Read Post 14.
If you subscribe to that mentality, than yes, undoubtedly.
Another lie. Smith was provided training and got another job. He said that his family was doing fine until the DEMS ask him to speak at their convention and he was then turned into another whiner.
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Speaking of whiners...I saw a 37 year old New Orleans evacuee who had arrived in Shreveport, La, on the news, with her SEVEN kids. She was complaining because her kids didn't have anything to do! They looked pretty happy to me shooting hoops. I think she must have been wondering when & where her government credit card was going to show up!
Fair enough. Hope Drudge picks this up.
If Obama wins look for all the penetenturies to be emptied as per Bill Ayers. Look for the fairness doctrine to be re-implemented, that should be a great step forward for free speech. Democrats believe in free speech as long as they determine what that speech will be. Do you Democrats look beyond your emotional reaction to everything. Emotion has no intellect, that meens people can’t think rationaly from an emotinal base.
Of course you are.....
My understanding is that Drudge is a devout supporter of Obama.
I don’t believe articles fomenting race warfare would help the Obama cause.
Am I wrong about Drudge? I’m just relaying what others on FR have indicated.
bring it, ho
Heck, even if Obama wins, there will be race wars. Anyone here remember what happens in Detroit when the Pistons WIN the NBA championship?
I think, if Obama is elected, six months into his term there will be millions of very disappointed people. His ultra-liberal base is just to uninformed and illogical to realize that everything they think he is promising (reparations, commutation of sentences, etc.) are beyond the scope of the power of the presidency. I’m sure if you asked anyone of them, they are convinced that he will “change” all the ills of the world in his first month in office. It just can’t happen! If anyone remembers, it was the dems hope that Jimmy Carter would be the saviour by wiping out the Washington bureaucracy and bringing in a whole new team. What happened was a mess. The infrastructure of the federal government has been in place for a couple of centuries, it’s not going to be changed in a couple of months or a couple of years. This, like many things, can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it. The good thing is that it brings stability to our nation, the bad thing is that mistakes take a lot longer to correct than the victims of those mistakes are happy with. We live in interesting times.
I think, if Obama is elected, six months into his term there will be millions of very disappointed people. His ultra-liberal base is just to uninformed and illogical to realize that everything they think he is promising (reparations, commutation of sentences, etc.) are beyond the scope of the power of the presidency. I’m sure if you asked anyone of them, they are convinced that he will “change” all the ills of the world in his first month in office. It just can’t happen! If anyone remembers, it was the dems hope that Jimmy Carter would be the saviour by wiping out the Washington bureaucracy and bringing in a whole new team. What happened was a mess. The infrastructure of the federal government has been in place for a couple of centuries, it’s not going to be changed in a couple of months or a couple of years. This, like many things, can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it. The good thing is that it brings stability to our nation, the bad thing is that mistakes take a lot longer to correct than the victims of those mistakes are happy with. We live in interesting times.
They have mouth, we have the guns. Hmmm... I wonder who will win the race war.
We already know Muslims prefer Obama.
Perhaps she worked her way up in the Farrakhan News Service?
What bothers me is this quote:""If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war,..."
Sounds like a threat rather than a prediction.
The left will try to blackmail the public about such things, look at the anarchist nuts in St. Paul.(somebody should check their IDs, I have a feeling many of them come from other countries where anarchists are "acceptable" and even trained (Putin, are you reading this?)
It's going to be an interesting 2 months...
Wow...ignorance combined with arrogance and race-baiting all in one neat package of Fatimah Ali! On the anniversary night of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech we are treated to the rhetoric of a man that the media wants us to accept without a complete vetting. You want us to accept Barack Hussein Obama based on the color of his skin rather than on the content of his (deeply flawed) character.
How about we consider voting Principles over Pigment?!
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