I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you….

That is hilarious.

Uh, no reg. Sorta like a husband with a chronically unhappy wife, you want her to be happy so you can get some peace. But any attempt to try to resolve it is viewed as being ‘controlling’.

You way over estimate the power of the white community to do anything about what is now a black community problem, and it is a big one.
It is abundantly clear this has got to be solved by black folk themselves. The damage done to race relation my the Wrights in their community, more prevalent and shocking than one could have imagined. is incalculable.

Passing the poison of resentment, conspiracy, victimhood, and racism to the next generation? Tell me just what in hell you think the white community can do about this without being accused of being ‘controlling and racist’.

Michelle Obama at university - writes, apparently in “academese,” a thesis on the issues and responsibilities facing folks such as herself, a working-class black woman, who’ve gained a shot at an elite education (in a long and fine tradition of the black educated class meditating on their role in the larger “black community.”)

Christopher Hitchens at university - along with developing a prodigious knowledge and appreciation of English literature, hawks copies of the Socialist Worker outside the factory gates, assuming that the only thing that keeps the blokes from paying much attention to His Hitchens as a “vanguard” herald is their “false consciousness.”

Advantage: Michelle Obama

“I’ve been reading this blog since ‘03, and reg’s insightful comments definitely predate the ever-contemptful asininity of “samuel stott” and the KPFK-inspired “destroy-the-empire” soft-headed prattle of dipshit-in-training “sergio”.

Congratulations to “Samuel” for winning the “Reg” 2008 Epigone of the Year Award. Putting scare quotes around my legal name, under which I pursue all of my happiness, conduct all of my business, for all the honest world to see, was a pure stroke of genius. Or wait, perhaps it was just the kind of “cheap” “rhetorical” “trick” “brave” “po-mo” “nhihlists” “employ” “when” “they” “want” “to” “problematize” “any” “given” “idea” or “argument” “without” “otherwise” “making” “an” “argument.”

In any case, astute readers will notice “Samuel’s” divagation. The topic of discussion was the relative talent and intelligence of “Reg” v. that of
poor “stupid” Christopher Hitchens.

I can beat that. I got both a Jimmy C and a Ronnie way back when….

Besides which most of the time she harps on his flaws and pecadillos — maybe too cute by half, but also hardly a major offense.

Thank God I haven’t heard Oprah enough to know whether this sounds like her.

all in all — these comments are freakinjg innocuous. The sort of overstatement you’d expect in a campaign.

You’ve gotta come up with something better than this, Bob. Your reputation is on the line.

Exactly my point. If you’re honest with yourself, you’d probably discover that you’re a bit biased, and choose to look for controversial quotes when and where it suits you. But you surely knew that already.

I didn’t think so.

I can’t recall a word C McCain has ever said. Can you?

I am very careful about dissing The O. She seems to have colonized the brains of three-quarters of the females in my extended family.

Where has O been lately, anyway?

Sorry, I ain’t taking the bait–I refuse to spend even a minute wading through the aneurism-inducing detritus of GWB quotes. If you want to believe there’s nothing disturbing and Orwellian about them, well hey, they’re your fantasies–enjoy ‘em.

As for the Michelle Obama quotes, well, you’re still conveniently overlooking the fact that they’re the words of a presidential candidate’s spouse. Disturbing words from John McCain? A concern. Cindy McCain? Uhm. Huh?

And regarding Oprah, you’d better be careful in dissing the “O”:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/oprah_launches_own_reality

GWB, November 2001.

“Hundreds” more? Please.

Sigh.

a. Bush was referring to nations, no voters.
b. It’s arguable whether it was wise as policy and posture, but I think telling any nation they couldn’t claim to “non-alligned” in the GWOT is perfectly defensible.
c. I do find Oprah-speak creepy. That’s why I don’t watch Oprah. Or read books by Tony Robbins or Deepak Chopra.

“comfort zone” is not my cup of tea, either.

neither is:

Obama will “reguire you…”, “demand that you shed…”,”demand that you put down…”,”demand that you come out….”,”demand that you move out…”,”Demand that you push…”,”demand that you engage…”, never allow you to go back….”

That’s not hectoring, creepy and, er, demanding? Give me a break

Michelle Obama at university - writes, apparently in “academese,” a thesis on the issues and responsibilities facing folks such as herself, a working-class black woman, who’ve gained a shot at an elite education (in a long and fine tradition of the black educated class meditating on their role in the larger “black community.)

Christopher Hitchens at university - along with developing a prodigious knowledge and appreciation of English literature, hawks copies of the Socialist Worker outside the factory gates, assuming that the only thing that keeps the blokes from paying much attention to His Hitchens as a “vanguard” herald is their “false consciousness.”

Advantage: Michelle Obama

You’re exaggerating the intent of her remarks.

I think you’re out of your comfort zone.

What about it bothers you?”

gee whiz. It is hectoring, demanding, and — dare i say it — cultish. I mean, he is merely seeking the Presidency. My “comfort zone” is my own goddam business, being a grown up American. Ditto whether or how I may want to “engage.” I live my life “as usual” because I choose to. Fuck a bunch of messsianic bullshit.
My ‘divisions” are not going to be put down. Democratic politcs is all about divisions. Elections produce losers, which is what Obama will be if the Democratic Party is stupid enough to nominate him.