Black People Politics : "Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama" : Cornel West

[Hermetic]

Right and Exact, its called obstructionism, which most fail to acknowledge, in their short-sighted critic of Mr. Obama.

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Everyone with any foresight recognized the obstructionism President Obama would experience as soon as he got elected to office. He focused on pushing something through that he had to have known would be reversed if his party was not in power, leaving his most iconic legacy at the mercy of a simple majority vote.

If President Obama had focused on infrastructure first in his first days in office when he had that Democratic majority, the money would have all ready been spent and equipment and supplies purchased before the Republicans regained the House. It would have been a sunk cost that the Republicans could not strip away, with the benefits being a lower unemployment rate (which at the time peaked at 10 percent) and a boost to the economy. It may have also saved the Democratic majority in the House, because people may have felt better about their economic outlook voting back in those they felt responsible for it.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

um, obama gone.....he gone yall

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

... If President Obama had focused on infrastructure first in his first days in office when he had that Democratic majority, the money would have all ready been spent and equipment and supplies purchased before the Republicans regained the House ...

This kind of argument you posit is arm chair quarterbacking. The unemployment rate is at an all time low, and no president of recent has a better jobs increase rate than Mr. Obama:

A jobs record Obama can (and should) brag about

... The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the final jobs report of the Obama era late last week, and it showed the United States added over 2.15 million jobs in 2016. That’s the sixth consecutive year in which the country has seen job growth over 2 million – a streak unseen since the late 1990s ...
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/jobs-record-obama-can-and-should-brag-about

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[Orisons]

[QUOTE="willa, post: 977351, member: 35993" When I speak of the Middle East, I'm actually talking about the murder cults there, who are busy with horror killing even among moderate Muslim people not just other nations.

Sorry for not making that clear. I grieve for the loss of those innocents that ISIS, etc. have targeted. I have empathy for what Middle East families have suffered, seen, and the loss of their deeply loved family members and community friends at the hand of those who are seeking world dominance through murder.

And actually I can see how this is a subject that can be too hard to even think about. Therefore I'll move on to a different subject.

I think it's great that forum members don't have to agree with each other. And I personally am very respectful and like that fact.

I appreciate forum family with their ideas and concepts even when I don't agree. You make a lot of sense with your debates.

You have a gift of listening for consideration for what people say.

And then you have your own opinion. Good.

Thanks Willa /QUOTE]

Willa, though undeniably the historical record highlights that the Semitic/Arab onslaught on Africa/Africans predates that of Europe by 2 millennia and that the peoples of African ethnicity have NOTHING to gain from either camp; doesn’t this so flaccid attempt to point the finger of blame/throw stones at Islam in the 21st century come from Christians who are existing in easily the largest glasshouse on the planet, as underlined by the fact that don’t all the countries of the Americas and Australasia currently speak/have European elites totally dominating them in every area of human activity as highlighted by ALL of them having European opposed to indigenous languages as their national tongue as standard?

Don’t Europe’s own history books highlight that Europeans exterminating any one or thing that they perceive to be different/even a little dangerous is in fact a very integral part of the European collective ethos/asili as opposed to ours; as underlined by the manner in which ALL the wolves, wild boars, bears etc that used to roam Europe in general, Western Europe specifically were exterminated hundreds of years ago [along with the so very cynical extermination of the buffalo in the USA], in stark contrast to Africa's so many large far more dangerous large animals like elephants, hippos, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, wildebeasts and even very dangerous apex predators like lions, leopards, giant pythons and crocodiles, still existing TODAY?

How many European or Africans monarchs have ever conquered as many countries/ethnic groups as Genghis Khan, aren't all of those countries that were completely overrun by the Mongolian horsemen still independent sovereign nations TODAY; whereas when is that EVER likely to be the case for the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia who actually managed to survive [not be totally exterminated like the many of the indigenous American clans and all of the indigenous Tasmanians, but have been relegated into a minority powerless underclass in their homelands] the ongoing European onslaught?

Which surely begs the question, is that level of maliciously EVIL barbarity towards non-whites generally, people of African ethnicity specifically as highlighted by the ongoing African HOLOCAUST of over 500 years duration; a Europeans whites/Christian thing?

Wishing this WAR away hasn't worked for the African collective in the USA, the rest of the Diaspora and Africa for the last 500 years because Slavery and Colonialism didn't so much end as evolve into the current reality of White/European socio-economic domination in every area of human activity so why are WE expecting the so murderous chaos in most of our communities and countries to improve in the near future?

Aren’t WE all being overly optimistic, very very fundamentally naive in expecting the beneficiaries and the rest within the European collective [including their lower echelons], of the systematic all pervasive RACIST onslaught that has facilitated Europe’s inhabitants in less than 600 years totally overrunning/conquering the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australasia, other regions of Asia and all of Africa [while also still controlling a sizable section of Africa TODAY], to willingly give up on the vehicle [White Supremacist Racism allied with cultural Darwinism] that has transformed the people generally, their elite’s specifically, from this planet’s poorest continent [Europe] into the richest and most socio-economically powerful/dominant people in the world TODAY?

Isn’t ANYONE who genuinely believes they are not programmed
graphically illustrating that their programming is COMPLETE?
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[Chevron Dove]

When I speak of the Middle East, I'm actually talking about the murder cults there, who are busy with horror killing even among moderate Muslim people not just other nations. Sorry for not making that clear. I grieve for the loss of those innocents that ISIS, etc. have targeted. I have empathy for what Middle East families have suffered, seen, and the loss of their deeply loved family members and community friends at the hand of those who are seeking world dominance through murder. And actually I can see how this is a subject that can be too hard to even think about. Therefore I'll move on to a different subject.

I think it's great that forum members don't have to agree with each other. And I personally am very respectful and like that fact. I appreciate forum family with their ideas and concepts even when I don't agree. You make a lot of sense with your debates. You have a gift of listening for consideration for what people say. And then you have your own opinion. Good. Thanks Willa

thank you very much!!! Now you inspire me to do that even more!!!

At the end of the day, in my heart, 'I'm a people person' and I love humanity so much!!!--even if I don't agree and get upset, I can't hold grudges long because I always forget so quickly who, what, when, where, and why... ' And then if someone tries to remind me of something, I always like to say, "I'm sorry for whatever it was, let's move on.