Discussion

• JumperPin :

  
  GOBAMA !!!
  

  Posted on January 3, 2008 2:25 PM

• robert beal :

  Kucinich and Richardson's idealistic bases may be more enamored of Obama, but their record and message -- change -- have more in common with Edwards.

  I would have thought that in advising their supporters they would go with substance versus image.

  Posted on January 3, 2008 8:33 PM

• waltc :

  Obama has pretty much proven he's a goto boy for K Street and the establishment despite the torrent of bullshit he feeds his followers.

  If you're poor, working or middle-class Obama is a wolf in sheeps clothing.

  
  

  Posted on January 3, 2008 9:32 PM

• below_mason_dixon :

  JumperPin: Nice unjustifiable promotion of Obama. Sorry, but he is another bourgeois rightwinger. BTW, I remember you being pro-affirmativeaction. Sick. Your centrist race-card-playing type of democrat is a HUGE part of the destruction of the party and of the left. Way to go in helping the DLC.
  
  You and others might not catch up with some of my AA comments on a previous blog. So here they are:

  Posted on January 7, 2008 12:06 PM

• below_mason_dixon :

  Affirmative action is racist and invalidates any notions of eglalitarianism and equality in America. I say this as a HARDCORE leftist, someone who is effectively a socialist, someone FAR to the left of Sirota. I want an America with NO AA, where merit ALONE is used.

  Now I do not believe in race, majorities, or minorities. As a non-Aryan Euro, how the hell am I in the majority? Those of my ethnicity are minorities. So is everyone. It is RACIST and ARROGANT and EXTREMELY ARBITRARY for the rightwing corporate elite to label ALL Euros as majortiy, and all else as minority. There is no logic in that at all.

  That said, for one to act as if the modern universtiy is racist against those who are classified as "minorities" is complete and utter BS. The "minorities" get UNBELIEVABLE favoritism at the expense of of "majorities" like me. Entire budgets and programs are directed towards them. The rest of us are just treated as scum who the university wants to extract money out of. Screw that.

  You think rich "whites" hate AA? Nope; they LOVE it cause it keeps the blacks at bay, and it pumps in more people into the workforce for them. Why do you think our business-owned legislatures are SO concerned with "minority" performance? The answer is because they want them to WORK. It is a lot better for the business elite to have a black person working rather than unproductively sitting around smokin' Mary Jane.

  And of course, it gives the APPEARANCE of racial equality by screwing over working class "whites" while not harming rich "whites."

  Bottom line: AA is a racist tactic of the rightwing elite. And Nixon was the main founder of it. And now SARKOZY wants it in France, NOT the left.

  Posted on January 7, 2008 12:07 PM