Comments on: National Horror 101

By: JSiobhan

JSiobhan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:01:12 +0000

I am not an pro-Obama troll but I would like to offer a different perspective. As a college administrator, I have no issues with Obama’s plan for public service for several reasons. First, a 100 hours is only three of four hours a week for a academic year. Some students already receive federal financial assistance for under the work study program and they must work 15-20 hours for wages. Under Obama’s plan these students may be able to have more time to study with a reduction of work hours. Second, I would rather young people commit to community service to receive their higher education than enlisting into military service. I am deeply disturb by the number of poor 18 year olds who have been killed or wounded in Iraq because the military was their only option to get a college education. Third, Obama is attempting to establish a post-liberal society where citizens assume the responsibilities of the community–not the government. Finally, community service on college campuses is one of the most popular activities students do. They learn a number of leadership skills and their involvement in the community provides them experiences they can not receive in the classroom. Some community service is offered as class credit. Most of my students come from affluent backgrounds and they are volunteering at an increasing levels every year. You may disagree with Obama as a candidate but do not balk at his ideas especially if they are similar to Bill Clinton’s volunteer service for college students.

By: tampagurl

tampagurl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:09:21 +0000

You obviously don’t know any rednecks, “Fool on the Hill”.

The “latte-sipping elite liberal” make their money pretending to help the poor. By the time all the liberal’s palms are greased, the poor probably only receive 1/4 of the money meant for them.

Please, don’t even get me started on how they have kept the poor down in order to promote themselves. They give the poor just enough to keep them coming back.

These new democrats care more about what the world thinks of them than they care anything else. rednecks don’t give a shit what the world thinks of them.

By the way, I was a democrat until this year but I was always a conservative democrat. I will gladly give up all I own and live in a tent before I give up my freedom to these new democrats.

By: tampagurl

tampagurl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:42:19 +0000

From what I have read about our history, it was the red neck militia that helped win our independence.

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:35:02 +0000

Here is the text of my letter to Ms. Brown:

Dear Ms. Brown,

The choice of Gwen Ifill as a “moderator” in the VP debates this year makes a mockery of the term “moderator”. I understand that it is very difficult to find a truly impartial actor to play this role, especially in the current tendentious atmosphere of the American political situation. Still and all, I would hope you could do better than Ifill, who not only appears to be “in the tank”, as they say, for Barack Obama to an embarrassing degree, but has also leveraged her hopes for the financial success of her new book on the prospect of an Obama victory.

Do you view your management of this debate as an unimportant piffle, or do you take pride in the responsibility afforded you as Executive Director of the Debates Committee? Although I do not know you, I strongly suspect the latter. I believe that, when faced with such a glaring partisan injustice, you will remember first that you are an American, and that the weight of the Republic is squarely on your shoulders. Never again, perhaps, will the decisions you make have such sweeping ramifications. Never in your life, perhaps, has so much faith been placed in your judgment. Will you fail this test? Will you plunge forward and hope no one “important” will notice the rank injustice represented by your choice of moderator? Or will you rise to the occasion, and show that your commitment to fairness and your integrity are commensurate with the position afforded you?

Ms. Brown, I hope that you will repudiate the choice of Gwen Ifill as moderator, and seek to resolve this blatant conflict of interest by appointing another moderator. If not, then the only chance you’ve ever been given to serve and defend the United States of America will have been squandered.

And although ultimately we will forget your name, Ms. Brown, and the role you will have played in subverting and cheapening American democracy, you will never forget the choices you make between now and Thursday night. And you will have to live with the knowledge that you were given a chance to be good and fair and righteous, and you chose to abrogate your responsibilities.

I know regret, Ms. Brown. I don’t wish it on anyone. I hope that you will take heed of the many warnings you must be receiving—although I expect that many of them are angrily and crudely constructed, and this must tempt you to disregard the underlying complaint entirely. I implore you to examine your heart and your soul, and contemplate the importance of your position, and I think you will see that America deserves–and requires–better from you right now.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

And then I sign my name, of course. I took that part out of this post, because my name isn’t important.

I have been reading No Quarter since I took a class at American University from Larry Johnson (who is the man, by the way…). I wanted to share my letter with you folks because our hopes and our fears are aligned in a way that has never before been the case. The NQ posters are a source of pride for me, and you exhibit the best qualities of America–a dedication to principle and integrity when it appears that the world is arrayed against, a willingness to transcend dogma and party when freedom is threatened, and a resolve that leaves dictators and demagogues writhing impotently in a tangle of soiled pantwear.

Never give up, never surrender.

By: The Fool on the Hill

The Fool on the Hill — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:33:34 +0000

What makes you think all the “rednecks” would side with fat-cat republicans who have lied to them, sent their jobs overseas, pandered to the rich, and screwed them over six ways from Sunday? The “latte-sipping elite liberal” is just a stereotype conservative blow-hards such as multi-millionaire Rush Limbaugh like to rant about, while pitching positions that actually serve their own wealth and privilage.

By: Hillary or Bust

Hillary or Bust — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:11:27 +0000

Yeah, but who joins the army? Patriotic conservatives who sure aren’t going to let America fall to communism from within.

By: Animal Control

Animal Control — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:53:48 +0000

Can we refrain from capitalizing fascist as the capital version refers to Italian fascism which had very little in common with Nazi Germany.

At least that’s how my dictionary reads.

By: mee

mee — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:42:06 +0000

yes a MUST READ is in BUSINESS INVESTORS DAILY (?)
09-04-08 MICHELL’s boot camp for radicals.. this is a group which OBAMA started in 1992 and michelle became executive director in 1993…brainwashes youth that America is a racist oppressive place in need of “social change”..real mission to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about “social change”thru threats and pressure tension and confrontations…Bill Clintons Americorp funds more than half of PUBLIC ALLIES but yes Obama wants to nationalize it to a tune of $500 billion..remember “we’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as strong powerful well-funded as the military…by the way recently Obama secured millions for DICK DURBIN who wants to recruit”men of color” for public allies radicals and socialist funde by un-knowing Americans

By: bemused

bemused — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:39:01 +0000

I totally agree, timing is everything in social engineering. But for Hillary to come in now would be like Indiana Jones timing. Not really a strategy unless she had advance knowledge of something that could stop Obomanus in his tracks, how to deploy that event at just the right moment, and why she would be the one to fill in. We might assume she has a good knowledge of economics and could foresee the meltdown, this would make her an attractive candidate, but how could she know that it would all go down the way it is? Too many ifs.

By: Zorro Astor

Zorro Astor — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:14:37 +0000

Finally.

Finally someone is taking the time and expending the energy to make people afraid.

It’s about time.

Thank you.

By: MG - PUMA

MG - PUMA — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:08:07 +0000

I actually heard this tape and saw it on YouTube several months ago. The video just had a still photo of Michele and Louis Farrakan’s wife among other AfAm women.

I do not recall the name of the video and its probably been flagged and taken down by YouTube.

But, it is on my hard drive.

MG – PUMA

By: kat in your hat

kat in your hat — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:00:37 +0000

What is a civilian military? Is it going to be millions of “Obama Truth Squad” civilians? Will they be armed?? Is it like an Obama gestapo? Real brownshirts maybe. There will be “informers” maybe, many oppressed countries have informers…even normal grocery store clerks and taxi drivers, etc work undercover. Or will there be Obama sentinels standing guard in our cities? On our blocks? Throw all this in with Obama’s FISA vote. Then watch the internet turn pristine with only Obama love if he wins. Watch traffic cameras multiply…big brother style. Google tracks everything we do and they support Obama…just think–total dossiers could be put together just based on our internet activity.

UGH…then how about banning guns, so there is no way that American citizens can revolt.

I want a reporter to have an in depth interview with Obama ONLY ON the topic of “change” and “changing America.” Can’t someone get the details, and not just rhetoric?

By: pasmalltowngirl

pasmalltowngirl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:47:40 +0000

Done. Pass this on to all the blogs.

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:42:01 +0000

fox news just reported that early voting in ohio is light, at best.

By: churl

churl — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:41:04 +0000

I’d say the best timing for a bombshell will be as late as Halloween. Just a few days before the election gives enough time to get the information out but not enough time to develop a really good counter.