A Message to the Haters; Here Are But a Few of President Obama's Accomplishments!!!! More To Follow

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

Yeah I know and I have heard it all!! The President is a turncoat, he has done nothing to help black america, he does not care about black america, he is an uncle tom, I don't support him!!! Blah, blah, blah. They remind me of the teacher on Charlie Brown who lectures and all you hear is her distinct voice, Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.. That is what Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, the GOP, the morons who just don't get it, the selfish persons of all races who have the attitude of I've got mine and you betta get yours, the list goes on and yes I could go on, and on, and on, and on, but why should I? We understand that it is very easy to talk about what you would do if you were President while governing from the safety and comfort of your couches, offices, classrooms, tv shows, and homes. But the reality is, that while you are asleep, our Commander in Chief is governing while black. Consequently, he is on the media "hit-list" of pseudo-intellectuals, pseudo-radicals, selfish politicians with ulterior motives, closet supremacists, and unenlightened persons who refuse to afford him the same amount of time to fix this country that it took the GOP and Bush to dismantle it. So on behalf of the rest of America who just witnessed the masterful intelligence job that gave America the head of the World's #1 terrorist, and to all of you who refuse to have an intelligent discourse of our President's accomplishments; this list of accomplishments are for you. All done may I add, in the midst of relentless resistance by the Party of "NO!"

MILITARY & VETERANS
• Ordered the Pentagon to cover expenses of families of fallen soldiers if they wish to be on site when the body arrives back in the US
• Ended the Bush-era “blackout” imposed on media coverage of the return of fallen US soldiers * Note: The media is now permitted to cover the story pending adherence to respectful rules and with the approval of the fallen soldier’s family
• Ended the Bush-era “black out” policy on media coverage of war casualties * Note: Full information is now released for the first time in the War on Terror
• Ordered better body armor to be procured for US troops
• Funding new Mine Resistant Ambush Vehicles * Note: The old Hummers were very vulnerable to roadside explosives and an alarming percentage of our soldiers lost in Iraq were on account of IEDs
• Working to increase pay and benefits for military personnel
• Improving housing for military personnel
• Initiating a new policy to promote federal hiring of military spouses
• Ordered that conditions at Walter Reed Military Hospital and other neglected military hospitals be improved
• Beginning the process of reforming and restructuring the military to a post-Cold War, modern fighting force ) * Note: Bush announced in his intention to do this but backed off the reforms after 9/11, which include: new procurement policies; increasing the size of Special Ops units; deploying new technologies; creating new cyber security units; etc.
• Ended the Bush-era practice of awarding “no-bid” defense contracts
• Improving benefits for veterans as well as VA staffing, information systems, etc.
• Authorized construction of additional health centers to care for veterans
• Suspended the Bush-era decision to purchase a fleet of Marine One helicopters from suppliers in favor of American made helicopters
• Ordered a review of the existing “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military
• New GI Bill for returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan
• Signed bill providing assistance for caregivers of veterans wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan * Note: The omnibus bill does the following: Training, funding, and counseling for caregivers; promoting pilot childcare programs for women vets under treatment at the VA; independent oversight to prevent abuse; readjustment counseling for National Guard and reservist units; etc.
• Eliminated co-payments for veterans who are catastrophically disabled
• Fulfilled campaign promise to have combat troops (90,000) out of Iraq by last summer
• Established a new interagency task force to assist veterans owning small businesses * Note: The efforts include promoting federal contract opportunities, improve access to loans and capital, mentor assistance programs, etc.
• Signed The Families of Fallen Heroes Act, which covers the moving costs of immediate family members of those lost in service (military, intelligence, and security personnel)

RIGHTS
• Instituted enforcements for equal pay for women (Lilly Ledbetter Bill)
• Appointed Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina, to the Supreme Court
• Held the first Seder in White House
• Appointed a diverse Cabinet and diverse White House staff
• Spoke at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization
• Signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation that includes acts of violence against gays under the list of federal hate crimes
• Reversed the Bush-era practice of politicizing Justice Department investigations and prosecutions against political opponents
• Pushing for some of the 9/11 perpetrators to be tried in federal court * Note: The process has moved at a snail’s pace and, in the face of opposition, Obama has remained quiet
• Signed an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Bill to provide federal research and support for treating the disease
• Allowed the State Department of offer same-sex benefits for employees
• Proposed that the Pentagon repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; placed a “freeze” on current efforts to remove alleged homosexuals from the military
• After eight years of neglect, the Justice Department and EEOC are again enforcing employment discrimination laws
• Convened the White House Tribal Nations Conference, inviting representatives from 564 federally-recognized Indian tribes
• Provided increased school projects for Indian lands and increased funds for the Indian Health Service
• Signed an Executive Order mandating that his Cabinet develop plans to work with and consult Indian tribes on issues impacting Indian lands
• Commissioned a study to develop alternatives to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
• Called for federal agencies to look into recognizing gay partnerships in terms of benefits
• Signed an Executive Order for the President’s Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Signed Executive Order to promote the federal government as a “model employer” when it comes to hiring the disabled * Note: This includes new efforts to increase the recruitment, hiring, and training for the disabled
• Programs to assist Spanish speakers with the US Census
• Elena Kagen appointed to Supreme Court
• Tasked all federal agencies to develop new strategies to address HIV/AIDS
• After organizing studies on the topic, tasked the Pentagon to eliminate “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
• Signed Fair Sentencing Act * Note: The Administration continues to deescalate marijuana interdiction and raids; increased dramatically the amount of cocaine one must possess to be sentenced to jail; eliminated mandatory sentencing for first-time drug abusers and simple possession
EDUCATION
• Authorized construction funds for high-speed, broadband Internet access in K-12 public schools
• Increased funding for school construction
• Increased funding available for student loans
• Expanded the national youth service program
• Streamlined the federal student loan process to save eighty seven billion dollars over the next ten years
• Changed the rule to allow students struggling to make college loan payments to refinance their loans
• Beginning discussions with Congress for education reform * Note: Much of Obama’s education reform has been sidelined by opposition in Congress
• Initiated a “Race to the Top” competitive federal grant program for states who develop innovative policies
• Instituted a “judgment review” allowing families with student loans to petition to have their current financial status determine the loan rather than the previous year’s finances
• Launched “Educate to Innovate,” a public/private partnership making $236 million available for science, mathematics, and technology education programs
• Proposed capping the maximum amount students must pay on student loans (as percentage of their income
• Proposed reducing student loan obligations for individuals going to work in community and public service jobs
• The federal government will offer direct student loans, cutting out the cost of private banks (“middle man”) who increase the costs in order to make a profit
• Increased investment in technologies for schools/education
DISASTER RESPONSE
• Ordered a review of hurricane and natural disaster preparedness
• FEMA once again reports directly to the president * Note: Bush removed FEMA (prior to the Hurricane Katrina disaster) from this status
• Demonstrated an immediate and efficient response to the floods in North Dakota and other natural disasters
• Ordered that funds be released and red tape be streamlined for the ongoing Hurricane Katrina recovery effort in the Gulf Coast
• Timely and massive relief effort in response to the earthquake during the first month of last year and ensuing humanitarian crisis
Components of the response:
- The FBI’s National Center for Disaster Fraud was tasked to look into possible fraud with organizations soliciting funds for relief
- Announced the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund
- Established an emergency Haiti Task Force in the State Department
- Established a website with information, resources, and a posting of a “person finder” online to help families and friends to locate loved ones
- Joint aid and relief planning with the U.K.
- Sponsored a resolution in the UN Security Council for additional security and police forces in Haiti
- Dispatched the US Navy floating hospital (USNS Comfort) and, within a few days, naval and relief ships, Coast Guard cutters, Coast Guard aircraft, and US military personnel
- Initial dispatch of several ships and cargo planes full of humanitarian aid and supplies, search/rescue teams, and Department of Health & Human Services personnel for emergency medical and aid support
- Established a mobile US air traffic control center at the destroyed airport in Port-au-Prince
• After the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a freeze was placed on new deep water projects
• Executive Order to establish new security measures to minimize accidental release of bio and chemical agents; new strategies for public health and bioterrorism response
• Established a national commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon spill to examine facts and report a plan of action; new efforts to prevent offshore spills
• After a slow start in responding to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the White House is promoting a long-term plan to reconstruct the damaged Gulf and negotiated with BP the establishment of a multi-billion dollar trust fund for victims of the spill
• Extended national flood insurance program for those in need during current economic crisis
OTHER INITIATIVES
• New federal funding for science and research labs
• Signed national service legislation; expanded national youth service program
• Increasing opportunities in AmeriCorps program
• Instituted a new focus on mortgage fraud
• Ordered the DEA to stop raids on medical marijuana usage
• Ordered a review of existing “mandatory minimum” prison sentencing
• Signed an order to limit airport tarmac delays and the time passengers had to sit in the plane/on the tarmac during delays
• Restored the EPA to “Cabinet level” status * Note: Bush removed the EPA from this status
• Beginning discussions with Congress for comprehensive immigration reform
* Note: Much of Obama’s immigration reform had been stalled by opposition in Congress
• Commissioned expert panels and reports from NASA; announced a new direction for human space flight that involves funding a new heavy lift-launcher and jettisoning the Ares 1 program; boosting NASA’s budget by a billion dollars in a couple of years.
• Ordered a ban on text-messaging for all commercial truck and bus drivers
• Signed bill – FAA Air Transportaiton Modernizatin and Safety Improvement Act
More to Follow,,, lol.....

[Bennetta]

Hey professor, here's more food for knowledge on NDAA, your president and his civil liberties/civil rights record AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS - especially for you:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/vote-against-obama-in-iow_...

Professor C. L. Sanders said:

I don't want you to forget that it has not been signed yet. Also, tell me a little about him taking on the entire Congress in order to save the middle class. After all, unless I am mistaken, jobs and the economy and class warfare is at the forefront. How does he rank on that? Americans are loving him, how about you? Or perhaps human suffering and GOP callousness means nothing to you.

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

If you don't like President Obama then it is based upon your neo-colonial self hatred and inward jealousy that a black male reached the pinnacle of american success. You can keep your head in the sand all you want to and pretend that he has done nothing to help black, white, latino, asian americans but just a footnote, the latino community loves him! Maybe they understand that your other choice the GOP wants your children to drop out of school and become janitors! Or maybe you like the fact that the GOP wants to roll back civil rights to the 60s by denying you the right to vote. Or maybe its the healthcare law that they want to turn back on you or maybe its the execution of an innocent black man that you love from the GOP. Say what you will but this President continues to work tirelessly even when the GOP voted to raised your payroll taxes by 1,000.00 and then went home for Christmas, but I don't hear you talking about that! Maybe you should read more and practice self love so you will learn how to stop hating on this man. Get your facts straight "angry woman."
 
Bennetta said:

To be clear, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has already been passed by Senate and House so NOW IT IS ABSOLUTELY WITHIN OBAMA'S POWER TO VETO THIS ASSALT ON AMERICAN CITIZENS' CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, if he desires.  Obama gets "F" in ALL categories of presidential responsibility and accountability for ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS and NOBODY I KNOW is loving him at all...the fact that you would even think it w/b ok to respond with such a deliberate false notion, does not really speak very high of YOU.  In fact, the reality is that obama has NOT done anything for any African Americans nor other minority groups which is just shameful on so many different levels given the few, like you, whom seem to just can't stop trying - UNSUCCESSFULLY MIND YOU - to defend his NON-civil rights, NON-civil liberties, NON-human rights, ABSOLUTELY NON-ECONOMIC AND HORRIFICALLY NON-POVERTY records on policies addressing such critical issues of the day.  

Obama won't even acknowledge, let alone attempt to address, the needs of ANY African Americans which is why NONE OF US SHOULD FEEL OBLIGATED TO AGAIN VOTE FOR HIM MERELY BASED ON HIS COMPLEXION AND ASSUMED ETHNICITY....I say lets ignore him the way he has continued to ignore Blacks during the past three years.  I can't even imagine him returning to Chicago's Hyde Park community after he LOSES the upcoming campaign given how he has tragically ignored any indication or notion of care and concern for the inner-city African American Middle, Working or Poor classes whom ALL graciously, grandly and honorably supported his epic and historic political rise - I wander what that will feel like for him...hmm - knowing all of these Black people honorably and proudly campaigned and supported his historical rise first to U.S. Senator and then President - and once he (obama) got in White House, what did he do FOR THEM?  Well, he decided to get in bed with the repeatedly proven Abusive and "harmful to all minorities" Government Intelligence Agencies (Hoover's and Bush's legacy to Obama via Patriot Act with historical tragic ties to Cointelpro and NOW Obama's own signature NDAA....

AND NOW come to find out EEOC too is NOT being required to defend OUR (African Americans') workplace civil, constitutional and human rights?  Tell me what has Obama's Administration done to acknowledge and address this African-American specific Government-Agency problem?  I guess I just believe that African Americans deserve much more than what's been given (NOT) by this GOP-acting, War-loving and Constitution-hating current Administration....really saddens me when I think of what obama has become...a consummate of hypocrisy...

Professor C. L. Sanders said:

I don't want you to forget that it has not been signed yet. Also, tell me a little about him taking on the entire Congress in order to save the middle class. After all, unless I am mistaken, jobs and the economy and class warfare is at the forefront. How does he rank on that? Americans are loving him, how about you? Or perhaps human suffering and GOP callousness means nothing to you.

[james wilson]

I agree with Bennetta. Clearly she has been paying attention to important things. The prof. is caught up in fantasy land; trying to defend the indefensible, i.e., the track record of this administration, which is 100% controlled by what Howard Dean has accurately called, " the Republican wing of the Democratic party."

The Prof.'s claim that this administration has defended the "middle class" is the exact opposite of reality. Every policy of this administration has been against the middle and poor classes, and in the interest of the 1%, or more accurately, the top 10%. Which is why their implementation have been put off until after the 2012 election. If these policies were so good for the public, it seems to me, they would have been implemented ASAP.

Healthcare reform, the Republican version pushed by this administration, forces people to buy inferior policies with no price controls. The traditional Democratic versions of "single payer" and "public option" were blocked by this administration from even being discussed. Therefore, there is nothing to stop what was the primary problem with health care in the first place--exorbitant cost. People will still go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills.

One of the first acts of this administration was to appoint, in the midst of a jobs crisis, not a jobs commission, but a "deficit commission" headed by right-wingers to cut social safety nets of the middle class such as Social Security and Medicare for the elderly middle class, and Medicaid for the poor.

This was followed by 50% cuts to heating assistance and other programs for the poor. These are indisputable facts! Then, as result of the feint "debt ceiling" issue, the admission signed into law a congressional junta to cut these programs by $1.5 trillion. The president has said that any attempt to stop these cuts will be vetoed by him. And what are these cuts? Medicare by hundreds of billions, Medicaid by hundreds of billions, and Social Security directly by raising the retirement age and lowering benefits, or indirectly by undermining (defunding) it with "payroll tax cuts for employees and employers. There is no such thing as a "payroll tax." The FICA deductions are workers' Social Security retirement investments. One would think the prof. would know these rather simple things.

Moreover, the policy of outsourcing jobs has excerated under this administration. So called free trade agreements such as the recent ones with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia will, according to economists will cause millions of middle class jobs. That's helping the middle class, right Pro. Sanders?

One could go on and on about how this adminstration is hurting the middle and poor classes. That's why every credible study clearly staes that more and more "middle class" people are becoming impoverish, while the rich are getting richer during the last three years. For the poor, and near poor, things are so bad that folk have taken to outright fantasizing that they are doing better than ever.

The prof. is obviously one of the latter. Just making up stuff outright, or assigning value to trivia like the "accomplishments" he listed. None of which have any relevance to the real lives of suffering people.

 

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

No the Professor understands one clear reality! The BLACK RACE WILL NEVER BE RESPECTED BY THE GOP BECAUSE OF ITS UTTER DISRESPECT AND IGNORANCE. That is why Newt can tell you negros that your only role models are drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes, and the best your kids can hope for is working as janitors but you don't say a word do you? Mitt Romney can tell you that you need to collect your food stamps and be happy. Ron Paul tells you that he will continue to garner the support of white supremacists and hate groups who despise blacks, jews and gays and again you are quiet. Write down all the rhetoric you want about my President but you are the one who is in dream land but let me wake you up! Who will you vote from these leading candidates? I understand your jealousy and self-hatred but I cannot wrap my mind around why your group are such cowards! Why won't you speak out against all of this injustice in america? The Occupy wall street movement addresses it. Its interesting that Bush gave these banks and businesses bail out money, they pocketed the money and are being protected from paying their taxes by McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, and the rest of the GOP because they are "job creators?" Tell me where are the jobs? I refuse to let you dumb me down as the 99% movement has awakened but your group remain asleep! Interesting enough, Mr. Obama will be President again! If you cannot handle that reality then there is Delta, Northwestern, Southwest, and Korean Air! Why don't each one of you and the GOP who are blocking the President's legislation go to a very far place outside of america so that we can rebuild it back from the brink of destruction that Bush and the GOP took us to.
 
james wilson said:

I agree with Bennetta. Clearly she has been paying attention to important things. The prof. is caught up in fantasy land; trying to defend the indefensible, i.e., the track record of this administration, which is 100% controlled by what Howard Dean has accurately called, " the Republican wing of the Democratic party."

The Prof.'s claim that this administration has defended the "middle class" is the exact opposite of reality. Every policy of this administration has been against the middle and poor classes, and in the interest of the 1%, or more accurately, the top 10%. Which is why their implementation have been put off until after the 2012 election. If these policies were so good for the public, it seems to me, they would have been implemented ASAP.

Healthcare reform, the Republican version pushed by this administration, forces people to buy inferior policies with no price controls. The traditional Democratic versions of "single payer" and "public option" were blocked by this administration from even being discussed. Therefore, there is nothing to stop what was the primary problem with health care in the first place--exorbitant cost. People will still go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills.

One of the first acts of this administration was to appoint, in the midst of a jobs crisis, not a jobs commission, but a "deficit commission" headed by right-wingers to cut social safety nets of the middle class such as Social Security and Medicare for the elderly middle class, and Medicaid for the poor.

This was followed by 50% cuts to heating assistance and other programs for the poor. These are indisputable facts! Then, as result of the feint "debt ceiling" issue, the admission signed into law a congressional junta to cut these programs by $1.5 trillion. The president has said that any attempt to stop these cuts will be vetoed by him. And what are these cuts? Medicare by hundreds of billions, Medicaid by hundreds of billions, and Social Security directly by raising the retirement age and lowering benefits, or indirectly by undermining (defunding) it with "payroll tax cuts for employees and employers. There is no such thing as a "payroll tax." The FICA deductions are workers' Social Security retirement investments. One would think the prof. would know these rather simple things.

Moreover, the policy of outsourcing jobs has excerated under this administration. So called free trade agreements such as the recent ones with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia will, according to economists will cause millions of middle class jobs. That's helping the middle class, right Pro. Sanders?

One could go on and on about how this adminstration is hurting the middle and poor classes. That's why every credible study clearly staes that more and more "middle class" people are becoming impoverish, while the rich are getting richer during the last three years. For the poor, and near poor, things are so bad that folk have taken to outright fantasizing that they are doing better than ever.

The prof. is obviously one of the latter. Just making up stuff outright, or assigning value to trivia like the "accomplishments" he listed. None of which have any relevance to the real lives of suffering people.

 

[Miles Scott Vonlogan]

 This Negro must be working for the Obama Administration? No Colonel Sanders you can tell this Administration not all Black People eat at KFC. This Administration is nothing but old white guys falling over themselves telling this Head Color Man in Charge what to do.Hell they have more Black People in some of the red neck towns in Mississippi than they do in this White Administration.Most black forgot one thing,"Squeaky wheel gets the grease". The Crazy on the right has been losing their mind. They gets to keep all the money they have stolen and amnesty for all the people they have kill. Since Mr Charlie is Black now ,most of us have stop raising hell. We on the Left has been getting a version of flash back plantation mentality from this White House.They have paid off must of the negro leaders to calm down the field slaves.

[Ricardo Jones]

Too many of US Black people have lost our Moral Courage and the Moral high ground. We need those shinney objects to define ourselves. During the civil rights strugggle we had everthing to gain and nothing to loose but our lifes. It was equality or nothing. Today we have too much to loose to tell the truth and/or stand-up for the rights of our children and grand children. Our problem is with US not the master. We have become our own oppressors.  

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

Bravo!! Well said sir...

Ricardo Jones said:

Too many of US Black people have lost our Moral Courage and the Moral high ground. We need those shinney objects to define ourselves. During the civil rights strugggle we had everthing to gain and nothing to loose but our lifes. It was equality or nothing. Today we have too much to loose to tell the truth and/or stand-up for the rights of our children and grand children. Our problem is with US not the master. We have become our own oppressors.  

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

Well I tell you what. Call up the GOP and see if you can serve drinks at their next picnic. You bring the tuxedo.

Miles Scott Vonlogan said:

 This Negro must be working for the Obama Administration? No Colonel Sanders you can tell this Administration not all Black People eat at KFC. This Administration is nothing but old white guys falling over themselves telling this Head Color Man in Charge what to do.Hell they have more Black People in some of the red neck towns in Mississippi than they do in this White Administration.Most black forgot one thing,"Squeaky wheel gets the grease". The Crazy on the right has been losing their mind. They gets to keep all the money they have stolen and amnesty for all the people they have kill. Since Mr Charlie is Black now ,most of us have stop raising hell. We on the Left has been getting a version of flash back plantation mentality from this White House.They have paid off must of the negro leaders to calm down the field slaves.

[james wilson]

As is the pattern with what the blogger and scholar, jwill7, has called "zealots," the pro., unable to defend his position intellectually, has resorted to ad hominem retorts and "bogeyman" refernces by calling the entire Black race "ignorant" because many African Americans see through the game this adminstratioin is playing.

First, let me make it clear. I, like most other Blacks don't give an ant's graduation prom about what "Newt
," or any other racists, of any party says. Most Blacks have long known what these people think of us. People sophistificated  in policy analysis know that these people are simply appealing to their racist base, but if elected, they will do what all others do, including the present administration--lead their voters to Wall Street.

So give that crap a rest will you Prof. And let's deal with the real issues. Haven't you heard? "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." The sticks and stones that are hurting Black folk are these right -wing policies under a supposedly "Democratic" administration. The laws that are outright taking away civil liberties, economic policies that are impoverishing people (with Blacks suffering the most-- over $200 billion lost in home foreclosures over the last three years; unemployment rates, according to most economists hovering near 40%-50%). Did the racists you named do this to us "ignorant Black folk"? But wait, there is more; wealth transfers to the rich, and none of the people you named are president while these things are taking place. Did you know that Wall Street had a greater profit in the first 2.5 years of the present administration ($85.52 billion) than it did in 8 years of Bush ($77.17 billion)? Look it up.

In fact, research well before you go public with nonsense. If by knowing these things makes one "ignorant," then, since you are redefining reality anyway with your zealous tirades, I guess it's only fitting that you would consider being informed "ignorant," and being uninformed, such as yourself, "knowledgeable."

Happy New Years. And please, study more. Will ya please?

Oh, by the way, using "sagging pants" terminology such as "hater" says a lot about your intelligence.

 

 

No the Professor understands one clear reality! The BLACK RACE WILL NEVER BE RESPECTED BY THE GOP BECAUSE OF ITS UTTER DISRESPECT AND IGNORANCE. That is why Newt can tell you negros that your only role models are drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes, and the best your kids can hope for is working as janitors but you don't say a word do you? Mitt Romney can tell you that you need to collect your food stamps and be happy. Ron Paul tells you that he will continue to garner the support of white supremacists and hate groups who despise blacks, jews and gays and again you are quiet. Write down all the rhetoric you want about my President but you are the one who is in dream land but let me wake you up! Who will you vote from these leading candidates? I understand your jealousy and self-hatred but I cannot wrap my mind around why your group are such cowards! Why won't you speak out against all of this injustice in america? The Occupy wall street movement addresses it. Its interesting that Bush gave these banks and businesses bail out money, they pocketed the money and are being protected from paying their taxes by McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, and the rest of the GOP because they are "job creators?" Tell me where are the jobs? I refuse to let you dumb me down as the 99% movement has awakened but your group remain asleep! Interesting enough, Mr. Obama will be President again! If you cannot handle that reality then there is Delta, Northwestern, Southwest, and Korean Air! Why don't each one of you and the GOP who are blocking the President's legislation go to a very far place outside of america so that we can rebuild it back from the brink of destruction that Bush and the GOP took us to.
 
james wilson said:

I agree with Bennetta. Clearly she has been paying attention to important things. The prof. is caught up in fantasy land; trying to defend the indefensible, i.e., the track record of this administration, which is 100% controlled by what Howard Dean has accurately called, " the Republican wing of the Democratic party."

The Prof.'s claim that this administration has defended the "middle class" is the exact opposite of reality. Every policy of this administration has been against the middle and poor classes, and in the interest of the 1%, or more accurately, the top 10%. Which is why their implementation have been put off until after the 2012 election. If these policies were so good for the public, it seems to me, they would have been implemented ASAP.

Healthcare reform, the Republican version pushed by this administration, forces people to buy inferior policies with no price controls. The traditional Democratic versions of "single payer" and "public option" were blocked by this administration from even being discussed. Therefore, there is nothing to stop what was the primary problem with health care in the first place--exorbitant cost. People will still go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills.

One of the first acts of this administration was to appoint, in the midst of a jobs crisis, not a jobs commission, but a "deficit commission" headed by right-wingers to cut social safety nets of the middle class such as Social Security and Medicare for the elderly middle class, and Medicaid for the poor.

This was followed by 50% cuts to heating assistance and other programs for the poor. These are indisputable facts! Then, as result of the feint "debt ceiling" issue, the admission signed into law a congressional junta to cut these programs by $1.5 trillion. The president has said that any attempt to stop these cuts will be vetoed by him. And what are these cuts? Medicare by hundreds of billions, Medicaid by hundreds of billions, and Social Security directly by raising the retirement age and lowering benefits, or indirectly by undermining (defunding) it with "payroll tax cuts for employees and employers. There is no such thing as a "payroll tax." The FICA deductions are workers' Social Security retirement investments. One would think the prof. would know these rather simple things.

Moreover, the policy of outsourcing jobs has excerated under this administration. So called free trade agreements such as the recent ones with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia will, according to economists will cause millions of middle class jobs. That's helping the middle class, right Pro. Sanders?

One could go on and on about how this adminstration is hurting the middle and poor classes. That's why every credible study clearly staes that more and more "middle class" people are becoming impoverish, while the rich are getting richer during the last three years. For the poor, and near poor, things are so bad that folk have taken to outright fantasizing that they are doing better than ever.

The prof. is obviously one of the latter. Just making up stuff outright, or assigning value to trivia like the "accomplishments" he listed. None of which have any relevance to the real lives of suffering people.

 

[Ricardo Jones]

Amen Brother James!

[Professor C. L. Sanders]

Perhaps you should post on the gop website since you want to talk about the facts! First of all assign the mortgage debacle and crisis to the correct administration, the bush administration! Fact. The obama administration put dodd frank in place to address the mortgage collapse. As for the unemployment rates; these have been high for the last 30 years but you want to only speak out on this black president's watch! Wonder why! That takes no courage to speak out when the reason he was elected was to get this economy out of the ditch. You ignore who pass laws, the do nothing congress who has passed no legislation but sit there and keep the president's from being voted on in the chamber. Talk about that for a little while before you get to our president because your arguments hold no water. Question? Why was tarp passed, who passed it, and who were the recipients? Answer those questions and get the president out of it.






james wilson said:

As is the pattern with what the blogger and scholar, jwill7, has called "zealots," the pro., unable to defend his position intellectually, has resorted to ad hominem retorts and "bogeyman" refernces by calling the entire Black race "ignorant" because many African Americans see through the game this adminstratioin is playing.

First, let me make it clear. I, like most other Blacks don't give an ant's graduation prom about what "Newt
," or any other racists, of any party says. Most Blacks have long known what these people think of us. People sophistificated  in policy analysis know that these people are simply appealing to their racist base, but if elected, they will do what all others do, including the present administration--lead their voters to Wall Street.

So give that crap a rest will you Prof. And let's deal with the real issues. Haven't you heard? "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." The sticks and stones that are hurting Black folk are these right -wing policies under a supposedly "Democratic" administration. The laws that are outright taking away civil liberties, economic policies that are impoverishing people (with Blacks suffering the most-- over $200 billion lost in home foreclosures over the last three years; unemployment rates, according to most economists hovering near 40%-50%). Did the racists you named do this to us "ignorant Black folk"? But wait, there is more; wealth transfers to the rich, and none of the people you named are president while these things are taking place. Did you know that Wall Street had a greater profit in the first 2.5 years of the present administration ($85.52 billion) than it did in 8 years of Bush ($77.17 billion)? Look it up.

In fact, research well before you go public with nonsense. If by knowing these things makes one "ignorant," then, since you are redefining reality anyway with your zealous tirades, I guess it's only fitting that you would consider being informed "ignorant," and being uninformed, such as yourself, "knowledgeable."

Happy New Years. And please, study more. Will ya please?

Oh, by the way, using "sagging pants" terminology such as "hater" says a lot about your intelligence.

 

 

No the Professor understands one clear reality! The BLACK RACE WILL NEVER BE RESPECTED BY THE GOP BECAUSE OF ITS UTTER DISRESPECT AND IGNORANCE. That is why Newt can tell you negros that your only role models are drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes, and the best your kids can hope for is working as janitors but you don't say a word do you? Mitt Romney can tell you that you need to collect your food stamps and be happy. Ron Paul tells you that he will continue to garner the support of white supremacists and hate groups who despise blacks, jews and gays and again you are quiet. Write down all the rhetoric you want about my President but you are the one who is in dream land but let me wake you up! Who will you vote from these leading candidates? I understand your jealousy and self-hatred but I cannot wrap my mind around why your group are such cowards! Why won't you speak out against all of this injustice in america? The Occupy wall street movement addresses it. Its interesting that Bush gave these banks and businesses bail out money, they pocketed the money and are being protected from paying their taxes by McConnell, Boehner, Cantor, and the rest of the GOP because they are "job creators?" Tell me where are the jobs? I refuse to let you dumb me down as the 99% movement has awakened but your group remain asleep! Interesting enough, Mr. Obama will be President again! If you cannot handle that reality then there is Delta, Northwestern, Southwest, and Korean Air! Why don't each one of you and the GOP who are blocking the President's legislation go to a very far place outside of america so that we can rebuild it back from the brink of destruction that Bush and the GOP took us to.
 
james wilson said:

I agree with Bennetta. Clearly she has been paying attention to important things. The prof. is caught up in fantasy land; trying to defend the indefensible, i.e., the track record of this administration, which is 100% controlled by what Howard Dean has accurately called, " the Republican wing of the Democratic party."

The Prof.'s claim that this administration has defended the "middle class" is the exact opposite of reality. Every policy of this administration has been against the middle and poor classes, and in the interest of the 1%, or more accurately, the top 10%. Which is why their implementation have been put off until after the 2012 election. If these policies were so good for the public, it seems to me, they would have been implemented ASAP.

Healthcare reform, the Republican version pushed by this administration, forces people to buy inferior policies with no price controls. The traditional Democratic versions of "single payer" and "public option" were blocked by this administration from even being discussed. Therefore, there is nothing to stop what was the primary problem with health care in the first place--exorbitant cost. People will still go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills.

One of the first acts of this administration was to appoint, in the midst of a jobs crisis, not a jobs commission, but a "deficit commission" headed by right-wingers to cut social safety nets of the middle class such as Social Security and Medicare for the elderly middle class, and Medicaid for the poor.

This was followed by 50% cuts to heating assistance and other programs for the poor. These are indisputable facts! Then, as result of the feint "debt ceiling" issue, the admission signed into law a congressional junta to cut these programs by $1.5 trillion. The president has said that any attempt to stop these cuts will be vetoed by him. And what are these cuts? Medicare by hundreds of billions, Medicaid by hundreds of billions, and Social Security directly by raising the retirement age and lowering benefits, or indirectly by undermining (defunding) it with "payroll tax cuts for employees and employers. There is no such thing as a "payroll tax." The FICA deductions are workers' Social Security retirement investments. One would think the prof. would know these rather simple things.

Moreover, the policy of outsourcing jobs has excerated under this administration. So called free trade agreements such as the recent ones with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia will, according to economists will cause millions of middle class jobs. That's helping the middle class, right Pro. Sanders?

One could go on and on about how this adminstration is hurting the middle and poor classes. That's why every credible study clearly staes that more and more "middle class" people are becoming impoverish, while the rich are getting richer during the last three years. For the poor, and near poor, things are so bad that folk have taken to outright fantasizing that they are doing better than ever.

The prof. is obviously one of the latter. Just making up stuff outright, or assigning value to trivia like the "accomplishments" he listed. None of which have any relevance to the real lives of suffering people.

 

[james wilson]

Once again Professor, I must take you to school. Will you please pay attention!

You mentioned the Dodd-Frank Act. This legislation did nothing to address the core problems with the financial markets. The "too big to fail" are still doing business as before. If anything, Dodd-Frank facilitated more unlawful conduct which is why Wall Street's profits have grown exponentially since it's passage. (You need to study more.)

You mentioned which administration the "mortgage debacle" happened in, you are correct, the collapse occurred in the Wall Street, Neocon, Bush administration, but the etiology is based in the Clinton adminstration's repeal of Glass-Seagal in 1999. (You need to study more.)

You talk about TARP, the $700 billion bailout. But you fail to discuss, or perhaps you don't know, that the present president put his 2008 campaign on hold and traveled to D.C. to twist Democrats' arms in coercion to vote for it. Moreover, perhaps you don't know these things, but TARP was mere peanuts when compared to the over $12 trillion (with a T) that Wall Street has been given by this administration, according to a Senate committee report. (You need to study more.) Moreover, the banks were given (gifted) $75 billion by this administration to supposedly "keep people in their homes." But the program kept very few people in their homes because it was simply a publicity stunt to cover up it's real intent, which was to gift Wall Street. Why is it reasonable to think so? Because according to a CBO report, there were never any standard rules or guidelines to the program. (You need to study more.)

You referenced that Black unemployment has always been high. That is true. But Black unemployment was at about 11 % percent when the current administration took office in January 2009. Since then, depending whose stats are used, it has increased by over 5% to 7% offically, but unoffically, by more than 20%. (You need to study more.)

You stated that the current administration was elected to get the economy out of the "ditch." You are right in that assertion. The question is--has it done so? If you believe it has, other than increasing Wall Street's profits (as discussed in my earlier post) then there is no need to discuss matters with you any further, or farther, because you need another type of interview--on a couch.

You talk about a "do nothing congress": Standard re-election  rhetoric. But the Congress passed numerous progressive bills between 2009 and 2010, including jobs and everything else, but it was the do-nothing administration that failed to give support to the progressive legislation. Instead, it only focused on right-wing Republican legislation like health care, and extending the Bush tax cuts--often cutting solo deals with the GOP to do it behind the backs of the Democrats. (You need to study more).

You say my argument does not hold water. I'm glad it doesn't. It is not supposed to. It is supposed to hold logic and facts. And that is what it holds.

You keep talking about GOP this and that. That's the problem with people like you --stuck in an obsolete Dem-GOP paradigm. The issue is no longer party but principle and policy. The Democratic party has become a carpon copy of the Republican party since Al From took it over in the 1980s with his DLC crap. (You need to study more.)

Now both parties serve Wall Street equally, in search of campaign donations.

You say I'm on the wrong site, no, you are on the wrong site. You need to go over to where Al Sharpton and the administration's other employees and zealots mumble nonsense passing as wisdom among the uninformed.

If you want to debate with me, Professor, I welcome it. But first you must become more informed, more conversant with the issues of debate and more emphatic with those these regressive policies are destroying.