QUOTE (+ EDITED QUOTE) OF THE(SE) DAY(S)

“Oh, how the rules change when Black Folks come up to bat! It's like you told us the game was Basketball, we showed up with sneakers, and now its Ice Hockey. Race continues to trump all other concerns. With all the achievements realized by President Obama, why the Democrats can't sell their agenda remains a mystery to me.    Regrettably, Progressives are lousing the opinion shaping wars in the electronic and print media. When you consider what will happen to all the progressive legislation since FDR if the Republicans retake the White House, it becomes a very scary picture.

Wake up Folks and get the vote out.” —Kenyon C. Burke,  Ed. D (a Civil Rights pioneer in New Jersey and elsewhere back in the day and still going strong)

And here’s my revised version of a post from Lydia Rivers that Doc Burke  sent me and others:

HERE’S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!

Once Obama was elected, all of a sudden,
folks got mad and want to “take America Back”...
BACK TO WHAT/WHERE? Who took it?

 


After The 8 Years Of The Bush/Cheney Disaster,

Now They Get Mad?

They didn't get mad when the Supreme Court
stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

They didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy

company officials to dictate Energy policy and

push us to invade Iraq .

They didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a

country that posed no threat to us.

They didn't get mad when we spent over 800 billion

on said illegal war.

They didn't get mad when Bush borrowed more

money from foreign sources than the previous

42 Presidents combined.

They didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars in cash

just disappeared in Iraq .

They didn't get mad when Bush embraced trade and

outsourcing policies that shipped 6 million American

jobs out of the country.

They didn't get mad when Bush/Cheney didn't catch

Bin Laden.

They didn't get mad when Bush rang up 10 trillion

dollars in combined budget and current account deficits.

They didn't get mad when they saw the horrible conditions

at Walter Reed and other military hospitals.

They didn't get mad when we let a major US city,

New Orleans , drown.

They didn't get mad when we gave people who had

more money than they could spend, the 1%, over a

trillion dollars in tax breaks.

They didn't get mad with the worst 8 years of job

creations in several decades.

They didn't get mad when over 200,000 US Citizens

lost their lives because they had no health insurance.

They didn't get mad when lack of oversight and

regulations from the Bush Administration caused

US Citizens to lose 12 trillion dollars in investments,

retirement, and home values. Etc. etc. etc.

They finally got mad when a black man was elected

President and decided that people in America

deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.

Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, job losses

by the millions, stealing your tax dollars to make the

rich richer, and the worst economic disaster since

1929 were all okay with them, but helping fellow

Americans who are sick...saving the auto industry…

getting Bin Laden…actually reducing government

spending compared to Bush/Cheney…actually

creating jobs (but not fast enough because the

rightwing Republican Congress and governors

et. al. were cutting government jobs like cops and

teachers, faster than private sector jobs could be

created and corporate fat cats would rather sit on

their profits than invest in the economy while 

there's still uncertainty around the globe and 

just maybe because it will get someone more

sympathetic to their greed elected)...etc. etc. etc.


[And in many ways the above goes for a lot of
folks on the left as well as almost all on the right.]