Obama to Dave: ‘I was actually black before the election’ – The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency — Apparently the appearance went well. You can be sure Letterman will finally be getting some White House dinners, something he has complained about for 20 years with every President.
President Obama didn’t bring a Top 10 to the just-completed taping of David Letterman’s show, but he did bring a couple of zingers.
When Letterman asked him about Jimmy Carter’s claim that racism is behind a lot of recent political attacks, Obama deadpanned: “It’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.” (Which he won, if you’ll recall.)
Obama didn’t bring a Top 10 list with him, but Letterman had a special one ready.
I’ll watch this, but it sounds kind of dull.
$20, LDA
I really want to think everything is alright know (post-Bush), but the people who surround him are very evil and dangerous i.e. John P. Holdren (look him up).
Why not tell us why they are evil instead of expecting to do your searching for you. I don’t think Holden is evil simply because I have not seen anything suggesting otherwise.
And, like what I extend to you, everyone is inherently NOT evil until proven otherwise.
#19-Mr Fusion-When are the Republicans going to actually do something in Congress?
Can’t, not enough votes. Obama and Pelosi are running the show.
This wonderful road to socialism is being paved exclusively by Democrats. They are building a land where the soup lines are long and the family pet will be a rat or the occasional squirrel.
# 21 Mr. Fusion
How would you finding something out be you doing something for me?
Ecoscience – John P. Holdren, Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich (1977)
Page 787-8: “Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”
Page 837: “Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”
Evil or forward thinking? Hitler, just misunderstood?
#23, LDA
You quoted two passages from a 30 y/o book. Why not read the whole book and get back to us.
Hitler? I hardly think so. Especially when compared with the rhetoric coming from the right wing. They want people to just die for the simple reason they can’t afford health insurance.
#24 Mr. Fusion
“…Especially when compared with the rhetoric coming from the right wing. They want people to just die…”
You wildly misquote / paraphrase the whole right wing (whatever that is), I accurately quoted from a thousand plus page book (no room for the whole book here, feel free to read it if you really care).
I thought the point of protesters claiming there will be ‘death panels’ was that they didn’t want people to die. I guess everyone sees things through their own bias.
“Hitler? I hardly think so.”
Have you read Mein Kampf (he was emulating America).
Rockefeller Foundation > Eugenics > Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Eugenics > Hitler > Genocide.
I am not suggesting the same path / outcome, but I am suggesting the same twisted thinking (and backing by the same power structures).
Make of it what you may.
# 24 Mr. Fusion and # 25 LDA, just kiss and make up.
#25, LDA,
You obviously haven’t read the book. If you had you would know that it is about the limits of population growth on Planet Earth. It offers some possible solutions while RECOMMENDING none.
The right wing nuts want to bring it up and twist it to stop Obama. Their racism will never cease. Get over it, you guys lost the election.
I thought the point of protesters claiming there will be ‘death panels’ was that they didn’t want people to die.
They would deny health care to those unable to afford it. They would continue the insurance companies continuing their own death panels of denial.
Have you read Mein Kampf (he was emulating America).
No. I started reading a library copy years ago and gave up. It was such a poor read. I also only read snippet of Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book and quit for the same reason.
Regardless, from what I read in Mien Kampf had nothing to do with America and everything to do with Germany’s greatness.
Rockefeller Foundation > Eugenics > Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Eugenics > Hitler > Genocide.
WTF that means.
#27 Mr.Fusion
You are correct, I have only read quotes from this text. I have however read Malthus & Galton etc. and the intellectual / economic & social pseudo-elite have been offering hypothetical possible solutions that were later implemented through eugenics programs. For centuries they have mostly been proven wrong by advances in food production etc. They continue to this day with pathological fervour.
Do not delude yourself that opposition to Obama is (more than a small percent) racist (what race is he anyway?). I am not a supporter of religious fundamentalist / right wing Republicans (I do however not rule out agreeing with them on certain issues) so I didn’t lose anything, I also opposed the people who told Bush what to say. If anything I am a reformed leftist. By the way the Democrats control the legislature and the executive, Republicans could not stop them if they wanted to, so do not fall into that trap either.
I agree Mein Kampf is tedious drudgery to plod through (why people fear it’s ‘power’ is beyond me). However the scum who wrote it sites American eugenics programs as inspiration for his views on the subject.
I use > to mean ‘lead to’.
Look up the modern eugenics movement and you will find the Rockefeller family at the heart of it. They contributed to the establishment of eugenics in America and later in Germany (e.g. Kaiser W. Inst.) which was expanded by Hitler into the ‘scientific’ destruction of ‘inferior’ races and individuals we call the holocaust / shoah.
I am not suggesting that Holdren is equivalent to the Nazis. I am however saying he is in a direct line of those that gave scientific justification for one of the worst crimes in history and I would prefer he was not advisor to the President for Science and Technology. I guess we will have to agree to differ.
P.S. The Nazi’s were the ‘National Socialist German Workers’ Party’ (that’s right leftists), and they were not elected on a platform of genocide and destruction, they came to save hard working Germany families from international bankers and their communist accomplices (I wonder if they put a cap on their salaries).
I guess rightwingers are allowed to have as many corporate mouthpiece entities on television as possible, but the moment Obama gets interview from a friendly TV show host, its SOCIALISM, NAZISM, COMMUNISM, America is going straight to hell!