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Here’s another thing that no longer gets attention.

But Florida has always had illegals – Cubans and Haitians – that come over by boats.

NOW, they are saying that Mexicans are coming over by boats to California.

Is the difference in it that Cubans and Haitians – let me clarify that Haitians are not as welcome – but does it have something to do with political asylum?

We are supposed to hate communist Cuba and welcome Cubans that make it to US waters?

The news never reports on it anymore, because we’re all focused on illegals from Mexico, but the Cuban and Haitian refugees are still coming here.

I am not sure if anything he can say now will do any good and busting out the Republicans for for the lying sack of crap they are will be futile.

The only thing Obama should do, I think, is speak directly to the American People in the same style he did back in July, simple and to the point. He must tell the people about who he really is and what he isnt, why he became President, what he wants to do for this country, for the American people and why.

He must ignore the Republicans and the “Professional Left” and just have an intimate conversation between the leader and the people that he serves.

Wonder how much a White House speech or a bunch of WH speeches will do with this much money screaming “Liar, liar…”

“REPORT: Conservative Groups Gearing Up To Spend $400 Million On Midterm Election”

Oh, thank you SCOTUS for your wise decision giving corporations personhood.

In the wake of the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, corporations and special interest groups now enjoy the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on elections. Now, with less than 10 weeks until November, it

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I want Obama to be as inspirational as he was when he delivered the “We are not the blue states or the red states, we are the United States” speech. That was my first glimpse of him that had me saying “Who is this guy?” and was epic enough that I stepped out of my cave and googled the hell out of him. I’ve been caveless since.

After 8 horrible years of bowing my head aghast at what Bush and Cheney had strategized, that moment of hope (yes, it was hope)that we could undo the bullshit and set a new course, was overwhelming.

The words I’d like to hear from Obama would be too detail oriented, too specific about how he has been duped by the Rovian machine that continues, step by step, to discredit him by marketing lies and innuendo in an attempt to allow the teabaggers to think they’re clever. I’d want to hear too much based on knowing too much.

But for the general populace’s consumption…Obama needs to remind the nation of his background, his credentials, the problems he faced upon entering the oval office, and where he’s gone since then. No small task. He will have to mention some of peripheral bullshit that became headline news and then insert his own disclaimers. He needs to remind everyone the birth date of the problems we continue to face, the associated players and process he envisions – step by step – to remediate them. And he’s got to do all that while maintaining a leader stance, without even a whisper of victim.

HP had a Rachel thread last night, whereby Maddow did not want to speak about the mosque situation due to its manufactured status and spin. I admired her for that, but it has to be addressed. A NYC cab driver was attacked because he was muslim. The potential for chaos due to bigotry is escalating in this country. So many ignorants, so little time to educate them.

BTW, I posted the link on hp twice. Pended both times, but it came up shortly thereafter. First time it stood and has stayed. Second time it posted (on the Rachel thread) it stayed for 3 minutes and they took it down. Bet they’re watching me now.

See you guys tomorrow night for the Vox.

Johnny Adlibseed says:

“America will be watching him closely to make sure he

I would love our President to tell a story, non fiction of course, of how we got here.
People are desperate with this economy and many are just plain lost.
They need directions.
They need to know how they got lost.
They need to know where they are now and they need to know the way home.
Directions with visuals.
Kinda like the “You are here” maps
that you see in a kiosk at the shopping mall or on a wilderness trail.
There is that big, usually red, arrow, pointing to your exact location.
If it is somewhere in the wilderness it’s nice to see some civilization in the form of that sign.
Rather then, say, on a Nav system, just telling someone to turn north at the next light,
I feel people need to understand where they are.
People seem so disoriented, easily confused, and yes,
full of fear and with that, any level of hate has sadly become possible.
No one likes that feeling.
We like to know where we are on the map
even if you don’t know everything about where you will be next,
it’s reassuring to know how you got there.
A timeline maybe, of how polices that sent jobs overseas,
have had a direct effect on where we are now.
If reducing the revenue in the form of the Bush tax cuts was so wonderful for jobs,
Where are all those jobs?
How can you kill something you never created?
There needs to be a cause and effect connection.
Our President Obama talked about so many of these things on the campaign trail
Now it fells like they need a whole new approach along with a compass to tell us where we are.

Just maybe talking to their pocket book
could get a few folks from following the latest hatefest fad.

Maybe if the one doing the talking makes sense.

My fellow Americans, I ran for office with the promise of hope and change and correcting the wrongs from the previous administration when it came to our image as Americans and America around the world.

I ran on the promise to bring jobs back to America and Americans by taxing corporations that outsource jobs and give tax breaks to corporations that bring the jobs back home.

I ran on the promise of health care reform and regulating the health insurance companies from denying sick Americans coverage and making health coverage affordable to all.

I ran on several noble things that would help every day Americans, middle class and poor Americans, and I have failed.

I did manage to bring forth health care reform, but sadly, it’s without regulations or price caps.

I have failed to bring forth the hope and change that I promised, because I realized once becoming President of the United States of America that it is impossible to stop the oligarchy of whereby the rich rule our once great nation.

I promised to reach across the aisle to Republicans, but once I took office, people such as Rush Limbaugh and other FOX pundits vowed that I would fail, and they are sadly, getting their wish and the Republicans in office are helping me fail by obstruction.

I ask you, my fellow Americans, to recall when we worked valiantly for the Olympics to be held in Chicago, and when we lost the bid, how the Republicans reacted.
They raised their arms and cheered a loss to the United States of America.

The Republicans have become extreme right-wing, and even though they preach less government, they are managing to bring in more government that strip women of their right to a safe abortion, limitations on stem-cell research, and circumventing Federal law according to the Constitution of the United States of America by stopping people of color and demanding their papers.

And the Republicans seek to revise the 14th Amendment to punish the children of illegals who come here and are born in the United States of America.

I am accused of being a Marxist, Socialist, and across the spectrum I am accused of being a fascist and Hitler because I authorized the loans to the American auto companies that saved millions of American jobs.

I have no excuse for saving the banks and mortgage companies and Wall Street, the very entities that caused the economic collapse and so many Americans to lose their homes due to foreclosure, while granting themselves million dollar bonuses.

A president can only do so much.

As president, I cannot make law, but must rely on both houses of Congress and then when a bill gets to my desk I can either sign it, making it law, or veto it.

I had grand visions for America when I took office, but I have learned that there is no reaching across the aisle, and have realized with much sadness that America was not prepared for Her first black president.

Many would accuse me from that statement of playing the race card.

And that saddens me.

I’ve been accused of being a racist against white people whereby my mother was white and after she died from breast cancer that it was my white grandmother who raised me in Hawaii.

And yes, my birth certificate can be found from the hospital where I was born online as can a birth announcement.

As your president, I cannot accomplish all that I’ve promised without the help of both houses of Congress and you, the American people.

Are we going to allow the corporations to rule our country?

I am fighting against the Citizen’s United ruling, but I don’t have the support of Congress or the Senate.

When it comes to the wars, we have left Iraq when it comes to combat troops, but we must leave 50,000 to help them recover from a war that should have never happened and was based on lies.

Afghanistan is a mess, and I agree, but all I can do is listen to top Generals, because when it comes down to the real reasons, I cannot stop the oligarchy that controls our war machine and Wall Street.

So, my fellow Americans, I am asking you to help me beat the rich corporations that rule our nation and the beginning to stopping the rich and the corporations is by ending the Bush tax breaks.

God Bless America and good night.

LOL

In Eugene Robinson’s op/ed to today, he sums up for me what I feel an Obama speech should say. Quit the fearing/hating of everything that goes bump in the night. The very people that preach self reliance and condemn “victimhood” are they very ones running scared and yelling about being “victims” from everything! Reverse discrimination, places of worship, “political uncertainty”, Mexicans-Mexicans having babies and the boogie man! Where are the “grizzlies”? Crying ‘I’m scared of the woods’? That is not American. The recovery act was an opportunity for to use and improve America not condemn at every chance.

When did the loudmouths of the American right become such a bunch of fraidy-cats and professional victims? Or is it all an act?…….Yet right-wing commentators and politicians have twisted themselves in knots to portray the Park51 project as some kind of grievous assault – and “the American people” as victims. Victims of what? Rauf’s sinister plot to despoil the city with a fitness center, a swimming pool and – shudder – a space for the performing arts………..

The thing is, though, that the manufactured brouhaha over the Park51 project is part of a larger pattern in which the far right embraces victimhood and stokes fear. The faction that likes to portray itself as a bunch of John Waynes and “mama grizzlies,” it turns out, spends an awful lot of time cowering in the corner and complaining……how eagerly the far right wants to sell the false narrative that African-Americans, once they achieve positions of authority, will use their newly acquired power to punish whites for historical discrimination. The facts of the Sherrod case argue persuasively against this fiction…..Does the far right really have so little faith in our nation’s strength, resilience and values? I hope this is all just cynical political calculation, because there are genuine challenges out there. We’ll be better off meeting them with a spine, not a whine.

I am not as good as a writer as many of you , so permit me to borrow Mr. Robinson’s words to convey my thoughts.

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Focus people! your speechwriters, not political scientists. What do the American need to hear to quell the hatred?

We need an activist President.

I think with Obama there is “no there there”. Unless he shows a side of himself that he’s kept in his back pocket, I think he is not really interested in saying or doing anything that will cause upset. He has become as bland as they come.

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