 merrie says: proposed healthcare overhaul, in which some conservatives accused him of socialism. Obama’s ratings seem likely to rise again if he wins passage of healthcare legislation this fall. One such episode came to a head Sunday when Van Jones, Obama’s green jobs czar, resigned after a week of criticism over past inflammatory statements and for signing onto conspiracy theories questioning whether the U.S. government played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. In another episode, some conservatives have criticized a White House dinner invitation issued to the lead lawyer in the American Civil Liberties Union lawsuits that have forced the government to disclose Bush-era interrogation techniques. The lawyer was invited to an event for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. And Obama’s plan to address the nation’s schoolchildren Tuesday has prompted an outcry among some conservative parents and GOP officials. Some of them have accused the White House of trying to infuse “socialism” into the minds of young people. If only the conservatives would stop accusing him of socialism, he’d be able to pass the wealth-redistributing, government-dominated, private health-care demolishing health care reforms Americans are demanding. If only the conservatives would stop accusing him of socialism, he’d still have an avowed communist who believes our own government perpetrated the single worst act of terrorism in history running a cockamie plan to boost the economy by decimating industry. If only the conservatives would stop calling him a socialist, he’d be enlisting the nation’s bright-eyed schoolchildren this very morning to help him do whatever he wanted the nation’ bright... Especially when, the next day, the newspaper I work for reported that the white cop in question had once thrown his all into saving a black man’s life and is a highly regarded racial sensitivity instructor. It was kind of sad watching Obama and Prof. Henry Louis Gates mouthing off for the cameras the night before that broke, knowing what was going in the next day’s paper. If only Skip had returned our calls … That’s before you get to the other bits the LA Times didn’t mention, like how Obama’s State Department invited Iranian mullahs over for hot dogs on the Fourth of July. (The mullahs were too busy smashing domestic dissent, developing nukes and mocking Obama. They couldn’t make it.) The... * Let’s see. White voters make up about 74 percent of the electorate. Fair enough, that qualifies as a “crucial bloc.” Given the LA Times’ observation that vast swaths of America’s electorate is so susceptible to conspiracy-theorizing and criticism of phenomenally bad policy and politicking, a key question unaddressed in this article is why black voters are immune to it. |
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