Either I’ve Gone Insane Or The World Has Turned Upside Down

No Tom you aren’t going nuts the world is imploding….it has to do with money, banking, finance and economics so most Americans eyes glaze over and they are in denial. Hunters and financial professionals “get it”.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/bought-and-paid-for.html

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=112452

Now comes his forecast

for a global depression and for the United States, “Obamageddon.”

“We want to make it very clear that the policies leading to the decline of ‘Empire America’ have been long in the making,” Celente told Barello. “What has happened in the Obama administration is that they have taken policies far beyond even what Bush took with the TARP program; for example, with his stimulus package, with the buyouts, with the bailouts, the rescue packages, these are unprecedented in American history.

“Never before has so much phantom money been printed out of thin air, backed by nothing, producing practically nothing,” Celente continued. “You don’t even have to be a student of history to know the outcome of this. All you have to do is have your eyes open, and start thinking for yourself.”

Obama winning the Peace Prize was the most outrageous piece of news this week, and possibly will be this whole month. While we hear of other laureates achieving discoveries in structures and functions of ribosomes and chromosomes, this man has gotten a “great honor” for just being the president. For being the first African-American President, which was for some reason a big deal (ironically, the fact that this caused great commotion suggests that we still view blacks as “different”).

I don’t ever follow the news on the president because I really don’t want to know. It’s always something about spending a trillion dollars, lengthening the school day (so students can learn more? what a joke! See my argument at my blog), a new healthcare bill that has the fuzziest details of any law ever proposed, or a new conflict with Iran (or Korea, or Afghanistan, etc.).

Obama has some crazy ideas. “Change has come to America”. Yes, it has, but how vague he was! What kind of change? “Change we can believe in”. Right. A trillion dollar deficit is definitely something we can believe in. Most Americans can’t even imagine how big that number is. I can’t wait to see what’s next from the oval office.

(ironically, the fact that this caused great commotion suggests that we still view blacks as “different”)

I’m not sure I understand your statement here. Blacks have received the Nobel before without much fanfare, i.e. Mandella, King

On the other hand white such Al Gore laughingly received the Nobel prize.

I certainly wish people would move beyond explaining differing opinions as being something other than race related.

Perhaps I was a bit presumptuous. But, when Obama was elected president, the media was full with buzz emphasizing that he was the “first African American president” for about a week. Many view that if Obama were to fail, he would bring down the entire race, a perspective that quite shocked me. Why do people make such a big deal? I don’t think it was a surprise that he won. We have seen Blacks in politics countless times before. It has been long since we have forgotten the racist attitudes of the 50′s, and we should not be treating African American accomplishments in a special light – we should merely be viewing them as great examples of the Blacks’ capability. Don’t get me wrong – I think that being a president is a big deal in itself, but I didn’t like how everyone was focusing on the fact that he is the first of his race to hold office.

Upon further thought, I guess the reactions could have been interpreted as a proud contrast against the discrimination that occurred forty years ago. We can see how far we’ve gone after the Civil Rights Movement.

don’t let them change the subject to race every time you want to talk about the Constitutionality and legality of the One Party Rule jackboot agenda.

Thanks for the clarification cynte415. I have written before about President Obama getting elected “because he was black” and the desire by so many people to witness history. While a romantic notion it makes about as much sense as giving a Nobel Prize to Obama for the reasons nobody seems to understand.

I also wrote that we carried this same “history-making” nonsense into the selection of Sonia Sotomayer as a Justice to the United States Supreme Court. She obviously was not the most qualified to fill that spot but so many were anxious to have the first female Latina. What does this tell honest thinking people about the Constitutional construct of a nation, “of the people and by the people”?

And Bob, you are absolutely correct. It is extremely difficult to carry on honest discourse, while attempting to educate people to “alternative” thought processes than those being shoved down our throats, when expressing opposing viewpoints is immediately demonized by the left and accusing me and others like me as being racist.

It is a distraction for sure and a true reflection of those who are opposed to seeking the truth. Truth is something no honest man should EVER fear.

It was Robert Ingersoll, in writing about Abraham Lincoln and the opposition he faced in putting an end to slavery, that said: “He knew that slavery had defenders, but no defense, and that they who attack the right must wound themselves. He was neither tyrant nor slave. He neither knelt nor scorned. With him, men were neither great nor small – they were right or wrong.”

Every time someone tosses in the race card, simply because you disagree with Barack Obama, they are the “defenders who have no defense” and by attempting to demonize others, by “attack[ing] the right” are only “wound[ing]” themselves.

(As clarification, I think what Ingersoll was referring to in his use of “right” was not right or left but of truth.)

Further clarification: Cynte415, my response to Bob was not an indirect response to you about being accused of racism. I asked for a clarification and got it. My reference was to many other comments, along with emails that I get on a regular basis, accusing me of racism because I am in disagreement with President Obama’s policies.

The charge of “racism” is a tactic…it has worked for 40 years.
“Game over”

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/8925/alinsky.htm