It's a brand-new dance/We're bringin' it back (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ms_xeno) wrote,@ 2008-03-21 12:11:00 |
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| Entry tags: | eat the duopoly, electoral reform, isms galore, war is a racket |
People, It's "Bread & Roses." Not "Cake & Roses."
IOW, The Crank would really love it if you'd all just stop prattling to her about Obama and forwarding her the front-runner's confection du jour. She's queasy enough as it is.
Save your teeth by chewing on this for a spell instead.
...Every year, the National Urban League publishes a study, "The State of Black America," in which the ills and disparities that persist in this country are catalogued. Every year, the story is basically the same. The United States has a way to go that only public policy can address. However, when Harvard University/The Kaiser Family Foundation did a study on White attitudes about race several years ago, it found that Whites have little appreciation for the reality of Black life in America, from police harassment and intimidation, to imprisonment, to family income, unemployment, housing, and health care. But without an appreciation of the reality faced by many of our fellow Americans, the necessary public policy initiatives to change those realities will find difficulty gaining acceptance in the public discourse...
...I am glad that candidate Obama mentioned the existing racial disparities in education, income, wealth, jobs, government services, imprisonment, and opportunity. Now it is time to address the public policies necessary to resolve these disparities. Now it is time to have the discussion on how we are going to come together and put policies in effect that will provide real hope and real opportunity to all in this country... -- Cynthia McKinney, 3/18/08
Frankly the only good thing The Crank could see coming from all this Obama worship would be a mass rejection of all things Democratic. Should Iron Lady II manage to finagle a win for herself at the convention, despite her obvious inability to communicate with desperate people as readily as Senator Pastry Chef does, it could happen.
The Crank places a very special emphasis on the word "could." For all their accusations that the GOP is the "fear party," it's likely that McCain will be a very effective vehicle for Democrats to flog each other with their very own special version of the tactic. Hell, it's inevitable. If there's one thing Democrats love to do, it's shouting from the rooftops every ten minutes to anyone who'll listen about how very FEARful they are of McCain or whomever. Only to scratch their heads five minutes later and wonder why this openness about their fears does not make their leaders behave towards them in a more respectful manner.
Oh, never mind. Can I have a piece with more frosting ? Oh, and a scoop of gelato, Please ? Somebody has to put the dentists' kids through college, right ?
