Our banks are tanking.
We are at war in the Middle East.
Iran is burning posters of our new President. Meet the new Iran. Same as the old Iran.
Unemployment is going up, not down.
We have dumped trillions of dollars into Wall Street only to wake up an find our investment is lost.
The DOW tanked yesterday and millions of people lost more of their savings. These are people who sacrificed the Gotta Have It Now attitude for a little of their own financial security. They didn’t buy things they couldn’t afford and they paid their bills responsibly. They didn’t borrow that which they could not pay back.
We installed a President who has preached Hope and Change for nearly two years. While we recognize the history associated with the color of his skin, we did not see his job as completed with that achievement. We saw it as just a beginning, where a lot more history must be made, and we had better get it right. He is, after all, the President of a country in deep distress that has nothing to do with race.
We saw Hope and Change as meaning that our President will address the horrendous domestic and foreign affairs problems which are resting heavily on the shoulders of all the people of the United States of America.
Yesterday, more than ever in my not so short life, America needed a comforting Benediction in the worst of ways –and instead this is what we got:
Was this really necessary?
Posted by mcnorman
Rev. Joseph Lowery benediction prayer rap?
“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right,” Lowery said.
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"This is not culture. This is not custom. This is criminal."
You know? It must not be like my state where they live, Uppity.
We all get along out here on the West Coast.
Always have, post Martin Luther King.
fab new masthead! LOLOLOL!
Oh, Uppity. What a year.
OMG that new header!!!! LMAO!!!! That is too perfect.
As for that “pastor” above……
Never mind, I’m sure this is a family site.
expect 4 more years of race baiting. did anyone think it was over? race baiting suppresses criticism of the ONe.
VB, it’s like that most places. Barky just threw this guy a bone so he could get even over transgressions from 50 yrs ago, before he dies. I HOPE he felt real good about teaching white ppl a lesson.
I know I’ll “do what’s right” from now on & remember to self-flagelate when I’m tempted to slip.
hmmmm….I’m white and left the democratic party after 30 yrs….is that what he meant?
love the new mast head uppity….
Arrrggg……That is so offensive.
Love the purple and the car, uppity.
If your purple, get the nurple.
That guy’s brown and he’s a clown.
Just when you tell yourself that you should feel better about all this goings on…another smack on the ass.
Thank you…you said it so well. My anger left me speechless yesterday.
A vindication prayer, for what purpose? You’re absolutely correct. At this time in history, this was the last thing that we needed to hear. This is the uplifting future that Obama presents. 0 and his bots should leave the hypocrisy at home in Illinois.
Obama held a circus event and he didn’t even get the 4 million he expected under the Big Top. .
Yeah that header is a knockout. We are so LUCKY to have Freedom Fairy. Without her, you would never have this fun.
LOL McNorman, with Obama EVERYTHING is exaggerated times four. So what else is new?
I can’t help myself. I’m watching MSNBC and they’re king of stumbling around like zombies who ate the last brains.
MiniKeith Richard Wolfe was answering a question about how supporters might be upset by Barfy’s “childish things” speech and that they wanted change. He responded by blaming the supporters. They should have known that they were going to have to sacrifice and pay more and all the other things that are apparent now.
I’d like to see that woman who said Obama would remove all her worries still pumping her own gas and paying for it.
I’m fairly convinced that, no matter what Obama does, his nutball followers will be his downfall. The more they talk, the less chance that he will succeed. They simply are a detriment to following Barack Obama.
I think it was offensive, but then again I’m just a typical white woman so what do you expect?
First more white people voted for Obama than any President in history, but that’s not good enough.
Second what about all the post racial, hopey changey, unity pony crap? Words, just words indeed.
Last but not least I think more offensive than the prayer rap was the snickering response as it was being said by the POTUS himself. In all fairness that could have been an automatic nervous kind of response, like when something pops out of your child’s mouth in public you didn’t expect.
I hope we’re not treated to this kind of race baiting for the next four year. Then again I hope I buy the winning lottery ticket ….wonder which scenario has better odds of actually happening?
“was this really necessary?”
Only to Obama’s ego, I’d say. Other than that nothing, nothing BHO and his Obots say worth 2 cents to me.
The primaries and GE showed me they are ppl of no integrity…they walked all over ppl, lied, cheat and played downright dirty. They may have succeeded, but the coming 4 years is a long time for BHO and Obots to produce “change” and hope. To me, insofar, it has been same ole same ole washingtonians.
UW,
The example for that is King Cheeto, right wing Republicans turned moonbat Democrat, who lost big time after Joe Lieberman got reelected, then glomed onto the hopeychange express. The one that ran over Howard Dean and will quickly forget the ass-roots.
raGing, very astute about the raace thing. What that man should have pointed out, was when ppl quit making it an issue, it will cease to be one. He just opened up an old sore. His. Sad.
To answer McNorman’s question: No. It was merely the latest in a long series of nasty cheap shots by Barack Obama’s supporters. Necessary? No. Kind? No. Moral? No. Religious? No. Beneficial to anyone (including Obama)? No. Accurate? No. Funny? No. Loving? No. Words you’d expect from a “Man of God”? Certainly not.
I heard McCain wants to skip all the procedual stuff and just vote up or down on Hillary Clinton’s nomination. Barfy? He was planning to let her twist in the wind while he was posing for WH photos.
I wish those A Holes would do NY a favor and give her back.
If she had evaded taxes and was about to run the US Treasury, I suppose there wouldn’t be a problem.
All this nonsense and stuck with Caroline besides.
Barfy was in church today being serenaded by a group of clergy who condemn homosexuality, see women as second class citizens, decry stem cell research, and view one another as the enemy since their particular version of “God” differs from the other.
The separation of church and state as guaranteed by the framers has been blurred if not outright obliterated. I remember Bush, sitting with head bowed calling on the Lord for guidance, then bombing the hell out of Iraq and their innocent citizens.
Worship whomever and however you choose but please, keep it out of the political arena. It never works out. One need only to look to the Sunni’s and Shia’s, the Arabs and Jews, the Irish Catholic and the Protestant brigades, to completely understand that religion in the political spectrum invites more division and phony proclamations
What went on inside the National Cathedral today was the sheerest form of hypocrisy the nation could observe. You wondered after awhile if they were extolling the Lord or comparing Him to Obama. Sickening.
PJ, very astute! I’m agnostic, but I don’t run around rubbing in ppl’s faces. There is no place for religion in a government of a multicultural/multi religious society. Separation of the Church and State used to be important. today, not so much.
It’s interesting as more and more people are identifying themselves as non theistic, the government officials are running each other over to proclaim their beliefs.
That benediction? Very sloppy. Too bad.
i have to say that “white will embrace what’s right” dig burned me up i am only a few degrees short of supernova heat over that. then there was Brokaw who said “take that you bigots in the south”. (meaning na na na obama is president) well let me tell you what UNITY is about the furthest thing from my mind now. as of yesterday, i became a full blown anarchist. i never had any slaves and i didnt kill any indians either. so i dont feel like burdening myself with guilt i dont own. the same way every black man walking down the street shouldnt be suspected of snatching a purse i shouldnt be slighted on national tv for my georgraphical location. this is just the beginning of milking white guilt for all its worth. im sure the shakedown is soon to follow. i can hardly type i m so furious.
Oh puhleeze!! Another rhyming fool? Why didn’t the get J.J. ?
my bad…should have been why didn’t they …
This really made me angry to as it had no place. And you know what? I don’t hold Barack resonsible for what this ass said. I just think he shouldn’t have said it. The blessing was for the entire nation as we recieve a new president. Not a lesson on racial tension or healing. To hijack the ceremony by calling for blessing this way showed very bad judgement. If only his last line had been, “white will be alright” or even “white will not be so uptight” the entire tone would have changed. But no, had to go there. Had to bring the hate. Totally discredited everything else he said.
sparringk9 do you have a link or a vid of Brokaw saying that?
I would like to out the CHANNEL 6 news in Atlanta known as “11 Alive News Channel”. Last night when covering this speech, 11 Alive news pre-empted the last phrase about white will embrace right. I watched with horror as they caught it off at red man before cutting it and going into commentary of the events of the day. This was obviously done on purpose as they know it would outrage many Americans who understand the tackiness of those words on such an historic day. Absolutely racist and unnecessary!
SHAME ON YOU 11 ALIVE NEWS FOR NOT GIVING THE WHOLE STORY IN YOUR COVERAGE. If things were reversed it would have been ran OVER and OVER AGAIN… ad nausem…
Racism – in any form – toward any race is unacceptable………..
deadenders: im looking for it -i paraphrased Brokaw but im not off by much. hang on and to MissPolitico: i am atlanta based too and thought i was still just burning crazy but now i know its true. post racial my arse!
deadenders: the quote was this:
Listen, I just want to say one thing. Having been in the South in the ’60s and Los Angeles, in Watts and northern urban areas, when we were evolving as a country, I’m thinking of all the bigots and rednecks and people I met along the way. I’m saying to them, “Take this.” You know?
(take this was Barack Obama is president)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/01/20/tom-brokaws-revenge-calls-out-bigots-rednecks-obama-inauguration-day-tak
check out Bud White’s benediction
http://budwhite.wordpress.com/
sparringk9 thanks for the link you have given me something to write about tonight during LOST unless they preempt it with some more Obamanation BS.
raGing
I think UW needs to add that to her sidebars. I didn’t know Bill traveled to other blogs.
let’s see. Brokaw is spokesman for the Greatest Generation, Vietnam Vets, & now for the civil rights movement? He told Colin Powell (whose parents were both Jamaican immigrants) this same crap that Rick Warren said at the invocation yesterday:
“And now we have the son of an immigrant as president, first generation.”
wtf? BHussein’s sperm donor came to HI on a student Visa. Dumped The Mother of the Sucubus. Went to Harvard. Shacked up with another white woman, took her back to Kenya (where he had another wife & 2 kids) & made 4 more kids before divorcing her. that’s a total of 7 kids.* (*minimum confirmed progeny).
I’m sure Powell was very impressed considering his resume is 10x longer than President Sucubus’.
This so called preacher should be ashamed of himself. Slavery was and is a bad thing, but give me a break, America has been trying to right these wrongs for a very long time. There are more blacks that are educated, own houses, businesses, have high positions in corporate America, etc. What is this man talking about “doing what’s right? I am so sick and tired of hearing black people downgrading all of the positive things that have taken place in America. These people need to get a life and get a real job!
meanwhile african inhumanity to other africans (specifically muslim africans’ genocide on christians, animists ,etc) is never as bad as a nation who corrected her path and now has a black president but it is clear that is STILL not enough. not to mention the trafficking of east european girls, indian girls, acid baths for woemn, hackin off heads in iran, iraq, pakistan…..nope its always america that sucks. i am so fed up/ we’ll never get out from under until everybody drives a porsche and lives in a wealthy lily white neighborhood like jerimiah “god damn america” wright.
deadenders i will be over to read your post tonight.
im impressed. i watched LOST 4 seasons and i have no idea wtf it is about.
I think using this jerk to go after religion is the same as singling him out to criticize African Americans. Religious groups have done more to help humanity than all the governments combined. Radical Islam is more of a political movement than a religious one, trying to implement a version of Islam that never existed because it keeps the people from knowing how corrupt and uncaring their rulers are.
What great work on the banner FF… the Pink 59 Caddy
…blast from my past pump jockey days…with kittehs at the wheel and another hanging on for dear life…it looks like a those lowly humanoid skateboarder is in tow, too.
This is good….today McCain is calling for an up-and-down confirmation of Hillary and Kerry (who else?) opposes the motion “to protect procedure for other Senate members.”
Protect procedure, my ass= Blatant tantrum by Kerry as payback to both BO (for snub) and Hillary (the gal who won the MASS primary, in spite of Kerry, the Kennedys, Gov. Deval (No You Can’t) Patrick.
Ohhh, er the reason for Carter shunning Clinton
yesterday? Jealousy. I mean here is impeached
Clinton, with a much higher popularity rating. And Carter (Didn’t you see him smack himself upside the head?) is thinking= “Damn! Maybe I shudda had
a BJ!” (Or a V8, whatever.)
As for the white guilt theme that ran through all of this, it’s out of place and overkill. How in the world can anyone expect REAL CHANGE if a preacher can’t let go of this set-in-stone, out-of-date attitude?
A lot of HOPE the country had for any sense of unity behind BO was dashed by Lowery’s idiotic
racially-charged “benediction.” It was just so
“in-your-face,” you might mistake it for campaign strategies of bots.
THIS is NOT CHANGE we can believe in. Repeating a
line from McNorman= “He is, after all, the President of a country in deep distress that has nothing to do with race.”
Nothing.
Consider the following:
From Trannies to First Lady.
Before designing Michelle Obama’s inaugural gown, Jason Wu toiled in toys creating dolls of the First Lady of Drag, RuPaul, and the self-appointed “World’s #1 Transexual”, Amanda Lepore.
Why all the hypocrisy?
Daaaamn,
I beleive I called Barfy walks like RuPaul. Ironically, Michelle just walks like Paul.
ok, that was really funny p4p
Well, I managed to avoid every single tiny tidbit of coverage of yesterday’s fiasco, but I’m tuned in to C-Span2 (wow, Senate votes are boring) to see if anyone votes against “Our Woman”. So far, it’s been all “ayes” for Hillary (and it BETTER stay that way!!).
I don’t care bout barky, but they’d better not screw Hillary over….again.
I think it was all part of barky’s plan so Hillary wouldn’t get any press.
HEYYY, who’s the Sen that just voted no?? I gotta look this a-hole up grrrrrrr
LOL meanchelle LOOKS like Ru Paul, Barky would DO Ru Paul. Must be a match made in … umm not heaven, but somewhere…. I just don’t know where.
The prayer was absolutely racist, divisive and frankly, just plain trashy. Taking the entire extravaganza into consideration; money no object during the worst financial crisis in generations, I think the entire inauguration was extreme, gaudy, and in very bad taste. Things don’t look promising for the next four years.
mcnorman, is that true about Mechelles dress designer? Or were you joking?
Hillary is now Sec of State. I can’t believe how relieved I am about that. What a strange year this has been.
Well, I’m glad for Hillary, if this is what she really wants…but…poor New York!
94-2, she’s official!!
It is true. I posted because I found it funny that the MSM refused to say anything about Jason. He is talented and if I were a pole dancer, I pick him.
http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/first-lady-fashion/
the first pic should make you laugh
don’t have food in your mouth
mcnorman, omg! That is so funny! I thought her wardrobe yesterday was ghastlly, but of course, every time I turned the TV channel last nite, all I heard was how beautiful and classy she was.
By the way, re: the Lowery prayer. On nq yesterday, the wording was worse, it said “when blacks will not be asked to sit in back” instead of “give back”. I found an AP version (don’t trust them either) that says he said “when blacks don’t have to get in back” referencing, I guess the sitting in the back of bus 5 decades ago. I also thought the “when yellow will be mellow” sounded like an insult to Asians, & he ended the prayer by “Say Amen, Say Amen”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h4SrWpZNd-yocKSO7_9FO51iLJowD95R4RTG0
sorry, but I just Obama’s expression as being smug, don’t see any type of nervous embarassment … well, he finally got what HE wanted
It’s clear that division will be used to keep us on the straight and narrow
socalannie
Thank you. I will correct as most of the MSM is perpetuating a lighter version. I read somewhere that 0 smiled when this Rev Lowery was reading those words.
is that a blow up doll mcn?
turns out my first instinct about Geithner’s tax underpymt was correct. he forgot to press the audit button on Turbo Tax.
this is scarey.
mcnorman, 4:39 PM
is that what godzilla wore to the inaugural ball? It looks with my old chenille bedspread.
He did smile when that was being said. everyone on his side smiled or chuckled. The whole thing was ghastly. I heard “when black will not be asked to give back”. You were right, the whole thing was classless. At the ball, he said, “isn’t my wife a good-lookin woman?” WTH? A LA Times article about her dress today said that while rhinestones in the daytime could be considered a no-no, times are different now and rules have changed. Ha! thanks for letting us know she could have looked tacky, but really didn’t, whew!
LOL, pity the poor woman Mary, she is now in the hands of the fashionistas. They are a cruel bunch. Even her good reviews will suck, “gloves the color of creamed celery.” Bleck! Oh, I just love your outfit, you look like a pile of mushed vegitables…
That so-called man of God is an 87-year-old, semi-senile left-over from the 60’s, caught in a time warp. But the morons yelling and screaming and cheering for him were not. Neither was the big zero who invited him to speak and was sitting there lapping it up. Oh, wait barfo didn’t know that the guy is a racist– same deal as with Rev. Wrong.
yttik,5:34 PM:
“Oh, I just love your outfit, you look like a pile of mushed vegitables…”
G(uffawing)OL
When I was young, I never dressed like a beatnik or a hippie, and now that I’m old, I’m not going to dress like South Side Chicago.
Yo yo yo Mary get some izzle in your snizzile
Why is it every time I see her waering something lately, it reminds me of curtains??
wearing!!!!! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol from dressing trannies to first ladies.
Lowery is an anti-semitic racist who met with Arafat several times.
You are all so funny today. I was terribly distraught after listening to this old man in a time warp yesterday.
You have revived me once again. Thank you.
Her dress last night looks like she had an accident and changed into a roll of toilet paper in the bathroom before coming on stage.
Toilet paper and another item dispensed in women’s bathrooms.
DE used or unused?
what was that Zulu hoola skirt thingy with red flames she wore to church today? she may be getting psyched for hostile action. watch yourself Mary.
I prefer bag lady look to the hoola skirt thingy. I heard DC was cold, so what’s up with the spring fashion show?
Not sure mcnorman, you’ll have to ask succotash and malaria, they know stink when they smell it.
Hal was respectful and didn’t look too closely…..
Bruhahahahahaha! raGing
we all know Mary’s going to be the first one at re-education camp. Save us a spot, Mary! I wonder if they’ll have pie?
Brazile tells it like it is.
Democratic Party strategist Donna Brazile is raising some eyebrows after admitting she swiped President Barack Obama’s complimentary blanket from his inauguration ceremony, and then joked it was not a criminal offense because, “We have a black president … this was free.”
Read the rest.
Can we pass notes at re ed camp?
I hope they have vending machines…I am not much for arugala.
I’m guessing no junk food. We’ll probably only get fed once a day cuz we’re fat Americans.
she’s probably rubbing that stinky thing between her big ham hock legs tonight DE.
she gave him the nomination. what’s he gonna say? give it back?
Hi everybody – love the banner Uppity!
I love reading the posts and comments here, you guys lift my spirits.
I tortured myself and watched the coverage of the indoctrination, er, inauguration. I was also appalled by his little rhyme. But I saw something just a little while ago that made me chuckle. Over and over again yesterday, media reported on how great it was that the Obama girls were picking out their clothes from J Crew and what a great message of normality that sent, blah, blah, blah.
Then today, it was reported that the J Crew website was flooded with requests for the outfits, which do not exist. Seems they were custom made for the occasion. Do you think that all those parents enthralled with the theatrics of the empty suit will ever open their eyes and see the scam they helped elect?
mcnorman= I am not much for arugala.
The botguards (not bodyguards) will forcefeed it to ya.
Just say “I LOVE arugala and HATE ppppie!”
Reverse psych. All that pie.
Ooops, I started it…..p p p
Good God raGing we are as racist as the bozo I stuck in spam says we are.
TWO DAYS TILL NATIONAL PIE DAY!
WooHoo! well, one white just did what was right
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01212009/news/politics/caroline_kennedy_ends_senate_seat_bid_151234.htm
HOLY MOLIE
Carolyn K withdrew her name for Senate!!!
Interesting DE….WTH does Donna Brazile mean by that crack? What does the race of the President have to do with getting free stuff or taking things and it not being considered stealing?? Was there some kind of cosmic change yesterday that I missed?
So the J Crew story was all bunk, what a piece of work these people are. I seriously doubt finding out the story was not true will change any obots mind.
I’ll send goodies to you all in re-ed camp. I already have a plan to stay out of camp. I’m going to memorize that weird Obama kids song and sing it over and over again while chanting yes we can, when they come to take me. I figure they’ll think my camp assignment was a mistake because I speak their language!
Awesome CK withdrew? Oh to be a fly on the wall.
Apparently, Teddy took a dive yesterday so she’d have an excuse for pulling out. Of course, it still makes no sense that she would withdraw because her uncle collapsed when he’s still in the Senate. Then again, she never made any sense anyway.
Donna Braziele can’t go much lower as a political prostitute. It really is too bad that someone like Donna has to be attached to our political system. She is a huge waste. My goodness..what is MAMA going to say about that blanket stealing?
Did this man not realize he was evoking racism from 4 decades ago and a “black” man had just become president or did he sleep through that part?
On the original post, Uppity — word!
I wonder if re-education camp will be anything like jury duty?
They seemed kinda uptight but I honestly don’t see a problem in sock-skating on the freshly waxed marble floors of the courthouse hallways while waiting to be called for a jury. It’s not like we had much else to do, they didn’t even want us drinking when we went out for our lunch break!
Oh well.
I never did get picked for a jury and haven’t been called for duty for over 8 years now. I told them before I left that I looked forward to serving again, but I guess they just haven’t needed me.
More DOW records=
–Lost the largest amount EVAH the day after Barf’s errection…(coff) –down 486 points
–The fololowing day, it dropped 443 more.
–Now, the biggest inaugural day loss EVAH.
–A combined record loss for two day after
barf’s errection and his inaguration was
a mer minus 1251 in the DOW.
Did someone say CHANGE? Oh pleeeease, no!!
At this rate, it will be pocket change..
They will have to catch Mary before they can put her in reeducation camp. But just in case they get me, I’ll be the old woman smacking everyone with her cane. Bwahahahaha.
deadenders,
“Yo yo yo Mary get some izzle in your snizzile”
I’m izzling as fast as I can.
wodiej,at 7:57 PM Said:
“Did this man not realize he was evoking racism from 4 decades ago and a “black” man had just become president or did he sleep through that part?”
wodiej,
The guy is 87 years old. He probably has trouble knowingwhich way to put his pants on. But again, the cheering multitudes don’t have that trouble. This is the crap that is taught in black studies in the colleges and passed on to the next generation of teachers, who take it down to the high schools, the junior high schools, the elementary schools.