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>Gee, knuckle dragger, I see that you forgot what the >Crawford Catastrophe bequeathed Obama: >a) 2 wars, one of necessity (Afghanistan, permitted to >become the world's #1 opium producer after your boy >failed to nail bin Laden at Tora Bora in Dec., 2001, >and the other, Iraq, justified by a web of lies. How >was Saddam going to produce a "mushroom cloud" over a >US city when there was no evidence at all of the >massive physical complex needed to separate uranium >isotopes?) >b) the worst economic collapse since the Great >Depression, a deep recession which began before Obama >took office. >(I fault Obama for not being more aggressive in >allocating stimulus money for job creation than he >has, even to the point of establishing a new WPA and >CCC. I also fault him for having the likes of Larry >Summers as one of his economics advisers. Summers is >an investment banking deregulation advocate). >c) total obstructionist nihilism by the Republican >members of Congress and Obama's futile attempts at >bi-partisanship. Unless you're the inattentive boob I >think that you are, you might wonder just why some of >the most vicious attacks on Obama and his policies >come from the likes of Senators Jim DeMint, Tom >Coburn, Jim Inhofe, Saxby Chambliss and David Vitter. >Hint: they're all white southerners. A white >Congressman from Georgia, Lynn Westmoreland, called >Obama "uppity." I lived in the Old South for a couple >of years prior to the Civil Rights Act. "Uppity" >always preceded the word, "nigger." > >The other night in Nashville, the kick-off speaker for >the Tea Party convention was ex-Republican Congressman >Tom Tancredo, who was musing about the need for new >civics-literacy tests. Before the Civil Rights Act, >such tests were used to disenfranchise Black Americans >who wanted to vote. They were part of white >supremacists' Jim Crow laws---such as separate >drinking fountains for blacks and whites, separate >sections in movie theaters for blacks and whites, etc. >Tancredo's grandparents were Italian immigrants, and >with his height, physiognomy and swarthy complexion, >Tancredo would have been discriminated against in many >cities and suburbs in the US 70 years ago.

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