"Thou doth protest too much??"

Ok, this week, I really had nothing to say on the political side of things. Only that polls are tightening in Congressional races and that the ascendancy of a Speaker Oompa Loompa may be premature. Who knows he could get it, then again, he might get challenged by the more conservative faction of the Republican Party for the Speaker's chair. So who knows what will happen. But, speaking of the Republican Party, lets look at the state of Michigan. In the state of Michigan, they have assistants to the offices of many state offices. Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State and assistant Secretary of State. Where our excursion follows us today is to the office of the Attorney General. Like the other offices, assistant Attorneys General are there to help out in case the elected Attorney General is incapacitated. They are also there to "assist" the Attorney General in any need pertaining to the office. However, I never thought their functions were to do this to an SGA President of a college.

Take a look.



Okay. Lets recap, Assistant Attorney General of the state, get it THE STATE of Michigan, Andrew Shirvell, targeting an SGA President. SGA President, who is not a state employee, but basically an employee of the school. Who was elected not by Michigan, but the student body of the University of Michigan. Saying that he was funded by outside gay groups to run, (I never thought running for SGA President was the equivalent of running for the White House.) Ok, lets take the gay thing out for a minute. A grown ass man, is stalking a college student. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW ISN'T THIS GUY NOT FIRED OR COMMITTED!!!!!!!! If I were that SGA President Chris Armstrong,a restraining order may be needed.

"He's pushing a RADICAL AGENDA!!!!!!" Duh. Its college. At least 60% of us could be considered radical. We don't all give a crap about gay marriage or gays in the military. Some want all military bases around the world closed. Hell, the male freshman population would love to have "Free Condom and Topless College Women day." I mean, my God, this guy talks about tuition rates and extending cafeteria hours. On the coed living together part, some do already. I mean, there over the age of 18. Yeah, they designate an apartment for women while men have one next door, but its so lax that it ends up happening. I'll never forget my sophomore year when every morning, I'd see one of my roommates girlfriends cooking breakfast.(P.S. she made good pancakes.)

Where did they get this guy from?

Where did they find this guy.

Question to the Media: Why does the President have to "relate to me?"

Ok, today watched the CNBC Town Hall thing today. President Obama, as usual, gives substantial answers to the questions that the press deems "too long". Hey, if it isn't a soundbite like "Bring it on!" was, well to hell with covering it. What I was surprised at though was the sort of "post-game analysis in which they review the highlights, so to speak. In this exchange here, I found it ridiculous.

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Ok, lets see. He relates to me because he was broke before. He's black like me. He's white, and somewhere in me, I have a drop of white (thank you slavery and especially my Great-Grandfather on my maternal grandmother's side and maybe my paternal grandmother's as well.) Here's the thing, I don't want President Obama to go around, grasping ahold of people saying ," I feel your pain." Hell, I remember reports of the media ridiculing President Clinton for doing that. Now, suddenly its in vogue now? What the hell. Listen, the President has a lot of shit I don't have. One, a huge 132 room house leased to him for four years with an optional renewal by the landlords for another four, along with a fleet of Cadillac's, Yukon's, airplanes and helicopters. He has bodyguards, maid service, home office, $400,000 a year plus $50,000 Expense account. Was loaded beforehand due to him and the First Lady's lucrative jobs. Has two kids in private school and is probably the most famous man on the planet. If he ever says," I feel your pain." to me, I would probably say the same thing that Louise Jefferson said to George.

Hell, even if you are a defeated former president, you make out well. Look at President Jimmy Carter, defeated in 1980 in a landslide and has been living the high life since.

The whole interview, with shots of where he lives.

Damn, I would switch with Jimmy Carter in a heartbeat. He is doing pretty well for himself. No way in hell do these guys feel my pain. They may be empathetic to my pain. Sympathetic to it. They may have known the pain before, and cringe at the thought.  President Carter with his wife Rosalynn might help me build a house, but they don't feel my pain. Look, I elected a President not to feel my pain, but put in policies that benefit me as well as people around me so I can staunch the bleeding, put an ice pack on the pain, and make it heal. (Long ass metaphor, almost forgot what the hell I was talking about.) Its nice to "feel my pain", but then you tell me the solutions to how to stop the pain. Its how it works, and I respect politicians more when they do that then trying to get me to believe that a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who had a father who was a CIA chief, RNC chair, U.S.Congressman, Oilman, heir, Vice President, and President would, "have a beer with me."  To me, thats just like the time Governor Mitt Romney quoted Baha Men lyrics.



(LIKE SERIOUSLY MITT? Are you going to sing Flavor Flav's greatest hits in 2012 to try to blight President Obama's approval? How about Freddie Jackson or Moms Mabley's comedy stylings. I swear, I think he thought with this strategy that he would end up with 20% of the black vote.)

Media, I don't care if my President doesn't feel my pain, I just want him to fix the problem. I wish you would fix your problem and just report instead of analyze.

Oh yes, Newt is running for President.

Anybody remember that house speaker that shut down the government, seemingly because of a seating place on Air Force One. The guy that was behind impeaching an American president for having an extramarital affair, WHILE having an extramarital affair. A guy who, as Walter Matthau put it (At the 3:23, just replace John Gustafson with Newt Gingrich)...........



Ok, so he didn't say that, but yeah, thats my feeling toward him. Well, he's running for President of the United States now. He hasn't announced yet, but he has no need to announce. He's been throwing loads of diapercrap at the President like some insane toddler.

Like here-Where President Obama is now 16 years old.



and here, where the CBO is now wrong since bureacrats created it and the top 2% will be damn dirt poor to invest if their taxes jump to 40% from the 35% they are on now.



and this, where he wonders why President Obama can't say that the Park 51 community center shouldn't be built.



(Even the muslim ones Newt?)

This is a guy that financed this film and released it on Saturday.



The piece of the analysis to me which further tells me that he is running for President is this quote, from the revered conservative digest, The National Review.

“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.

“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”

A con man, wow. Newt Gingrich, the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who left office in disgrace wants to call someone a con man. So it is said by the family values conservative that left his cancer stricken first wife for his second, then left her for his third after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. (If I were "Listy", I would definitely get a checkup, cause for Newt a runny nose=nother woman.) The guy that impeached President Clinton about lying about his extramarital affairs while having his very own. The guy, who according to his second wife Marianne,

"He believes that what he says in public and how he lives don't have to be connected," she says. "If you believe that, then yeah, you can run for president."
Sitting on a bench, she squints against the light. "He always told me that he's always going to pull the rabbit out of the hat," she says.

I had a conversation before where someone declared that President Obama was narcissistic. I listened, though fundamentally disagreed with that point of view. Hell, anyone that runs for President has a huge ego, no doubt about that. However, no one can tell me that he does not love his wife and children more than he does himself. A real narcissist wouldn't be able to possess that.  I don't get that with Newton Leroy Gingrich. Newt should talk, lambasting the President's transparency, leaving the Speaker's chair with ethics violations and even having his own party believing he was too manic for any leadership role. Everything he said above is a projection of him onto the President.

Yes Newt, run. I hope to God you run so we can fillet your already smoldered political corpse. Run, trying to "otherize" the President again. Say he's "anti-colonial, I am too. I understand why Kenya wouldn't want to be under British rule. Hell, we should understand their plight. Weren't we under British rule. Weren't George Washington, John Jay, James Madison, John Adams, and all the other founding fathers "anti-colonial" as well?

I really don't want to get cocky. President Obama could very well be defeated in 2012. Its hard to tell what lies ahead and anything can happen. However, with the straw poll 2012 Republican lineup for Presidential nominees.......Palin, Gingrich, Barbour, Romney... its hard not to be.

A DAMN RUG!!!!! Really?

Ok, I understand it. We are heading into a midterm election where the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate can change majority parties. I get that in elections like these, that Presidents are usually drug through the mud on many policy initiatives and executive decisions. I never thought that a rug would get this much attention to the detractors of President Obama.

Every four years, we have a U.S. presidential election, where we change the occupant or keep the occupant in for one more term. In that, the winner is afforded a four year lease on the huge white complex on Pennsylvania Avenue. While there, they can do anything they want with their private quarters and their offices. One of those offices is of course the Oval Office, where during their term, they make the choice to personalize the office and put their mark on it. Nearly every President does it and a least a week ago, the current President chose to continue that tradition. It wasn't any big shakes to anyone who doesn't care about things like this, except for our media. I guess after six months, you sort of get tired of the old, "The First African American President in U.S. History does_________! Isn't that amazing!!!" stories that they put out. To me, hes basically a President who, besides President Clinton, wouldn't be more uncomfortable than me at one of my family reunions.

All in all, its a cool look. I'm not exactly dude on Trading Spaces, but if I were President, my First Lady would definitely be designing the room, because I wouldn't know what the hell to put in it. Wallpaper, new reupholstered chairs, couches, paint, etc. are all expected in a remodeling of a room. However, one bit of controversy is the rug. In the report on the Washington Post, the rug has various quotes inscribed on it.

In the center is the presidential seal, and the quotes on its border include some of the most famous words ever spoken by Americans:

- "GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE" - Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

- "NO PROBLEM OF HUMAN DESTINY IS BEYOND HUMAN BEINGS" - John F. Kennedy.

- "THE WELFARE OF EACH OF US IS DEPENDENT FUNDAMENTALLY ON THE WELFARE OF ALL OF US" - Teddy Roosevelt.
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- "THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF" - FDR's inaugural speech.

- "THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS LONG, BUT IT BENDS TOWARD JUSTICE" - Obama's favorite Martin Luther King quotation.

Fair enough right. Rug with quotes on it from prominent Americans in history was a great idea for a rug. Well, up until this happened.

One quote reads, “The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Towards Justice.”


As the Washington Post’s Jamie Stiehm points out, the quote attributed to King is not really King’s quote at all.


It’s Theodore Parker’s.


King often quoted and paraphrased Parker, an abolitionist and minister from Massachusetts, who in 1853 proclaimed, “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one ... And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

As soon as I read that, I said aloud these words,.......


"THIS SHIT JUST GOT STUPID!!!!!!!!!"


The simple fact is this, that just because Dr. King did use Parker, who says the same thing in a more or less different way, does not mean that Dr. King should not be referenced when saying the quote. I looked at the speech that Dr. King gave, titled, "A look to the Future", given at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Where the moneymaker quote stands.

"So my answer to the question of our theme is that the future is filled with vast and marvelous possibilities. This is a great time to be alive. Let us not despair. Let us realize that as we struggle for justice and freedom we have cosmic companionship. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Basically, Mr. Parker did say the same thing, albeit in a much greater context. Dr. King, however, said the quote in the same, exact way as quoted on the rug. Common sense should dictate to you that the quote was meant to be portrayed as Dr. King had said it. Unfortunately, we don't live in the age of common sense anymore.

The second thing to do, LOOK AT THE RUG!!!!!

Rug by the rugmakers.

I don't see any names there attributing quotes to the people. SO, for people who want to attribute the quote to Theodore Parker, go ahead. Be my guest. This is the United States in America, where each of us has the right to attribute quotes to people who made them first in some different words. I think.

The nature of this attack and the media's efforts at covering it is farcical. Its as then-Sen. Barack Obama said in the primary debates.



Damn, you have to wonder if Dr. King were alive today, would he be subjected to this since he borrowed from Parker. Or, how about President Lincoln. "Of the people, by the people, for the people" sounds the very same as Parker's quote, "of all the people, by all the people, for all the people" Shouldn't these two people be taken to the mat. Come on media, the economy, the elections, most of all jobs. We really don't give a damn about the rug.