The Republican Shutdown and Default Is Designed to Destroy the Legacy of President Obama

[Tx4obama]

The Republican Shutdown and Default Is Designed to Destroy the Legacy of Obama

Republicans have a unique and undisguised strategy to freeze the 113th Congress. It’s a one-card deck. And that card is the race card played incessantly 24/7, every operative day of the legislative year and every day Congress is not in session. The card is directed at the black man in the White House, Barack Obama. This is not news. You’ve seen it in my prior writings and from pundits throughout the progressive universe.

It goes something like this. The red neck and power tie consortium of backward, hateful whites and the greedy billionaire tax cheat power mongers, who politically play the former for all their worth at the polls, are dedicated to setting the stage to completely castrate the Obama administration. This unholy duo is bent on accomplishing this abominable goal to the extent that the history books will dismiss Obama’s two terms as economically ineffective, devoid of accomplishments and exercises in futility. And please don’t be so naïve as to think these attacks are aimed at just Barack. The true purpose is to guarantee that no black man or woman will ever again see the light of the Oval Office.

In short, we’re fighting a political domestic war every bit as fiercely as the Civil War. From 1861-1864 an estimated 600,000 people died because one side of the conflict wanted to continue to own and control the roughly 4 million slaves as counted in1860, about the same percentage of the population that blacks represent today. That side called itself “The Confederate States of America.” Ironic, insofar as 7 Southern states had just seceded from “America” with 4 more on the cusp. Lest we go too nuts over iconic Republican President Lincoln, you’ll remember that he was content to let the South keep their slaves, he was just pissed that they seceded.

The current hostilities that I choose to call the “Uncivil War” reflect every bit as much of a war in dimension and intensity as the original War Between the States except the current war well exceeds that accursed blot on our history in body count. No, there aren’t 600,000 physically dead casualties; there are untold millions of “dead” hopes, dreams, aspirations, opportunities and fair play, frosted with a deep-seated race hatred that in some corners of our nation hasn’t changed one iota since the 1860s, the 13th Amendment notwithstanding.

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Full article here:

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/15/debt-ceiling-partial-shutdown-agreement-near-matter-attacks-aca-continue.html

[gopiscrap]

1. and also to weaken the presidency for future Democrats

[florida08]

2. They want to impeach him

and trying to create something with which to do it. Not gonna happen

[hopemountain]

3. i'm counting on the president's smooth style

no doubt he has faced racism in the work place and out in community many, many times. as a woman of color i venture to say his instincts and abilities are finely attuned with such challenges.

hopefully, he has plenty of support from our other highly skilled and smart elected representatives.

unfortunately, the jokers are wild and they don't care who gets hurt as long as they can be wild and mean and get what they want.

[DinahMoeHum]

4. The GOoPers are kamikazes. This is their last-ditch effort.

n/t

[Bill USA]

5. The Nazis burned down the Reichstag building and blamed it on the communists and told people: elect

us to safeguard Germany from the commie- extremists who would hurt our country.

THe GOP have made a quantum leap to closing the Government down and doing damage to our economy .... all the while saying it's Obama and the Democrats who are causing these problems...... and, yes... they say vote for the them to save the U.S. from the extreme (i.e. commie) Obamacare and the Democrats - who, of course, are at fault for the deficit (ignoring the fact that the Republicans did the most to create the deficit).

[blkmusclmachine]

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[frog64]

7. you got it

You got it, fellow Texan. the do not want O going down in the top ten. He would have with an economy that is slowly coming out of the muck and Obamacare which will succeed, relatively. but now, no way. the economy will sink. they will stain his legacy with another recession/depression. Even if the Dems win next year, it will take them two years to redress the situation, if they are able to do so at all. I hate those chickenshit Republican bastards. They did the same thing to Woodrow Wilson.

[yurbud]

8. This is what we did to Allende and the Sandinistas

from the end of the Cold War, we have seen all the nastiest tactics our government has used on other countries brought home one by one.

[fasttense]

9. Only 8% of the US population owned slaves before the civil war

Only 25% of the South owned slaves. It was a rich man's game to own slaves. The average guy never owned slaves yet they dragged an entire country into war over it. The uber rich conned and manipulated the poor Southerner into fighting a war for them. Just like they are conning and manipulating the TeaBaggers into fighting this fiscal war for them.