[Rhodes22-list] Political - It is hard to believe he is from NYC - Maybe others should take the 'A' train...

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Dr. Sowell's latest book, "Economic Fallacies" came with the Amazon order
last week but is third down in the cue.  I'm finishing "War and Decision"
first then Yon's book.

As to the good Rev. Wrong, he'll fade but not go away.  There's bigger fish
to fry and perhaps more damaging ones.  The Obamboozler flat out lied when
he said in the last debate that Ayers was an English prof and he didn't
consult with him.  He worked for him for eight years, he started his
political career at Ayers home, Ayers father, the CEO of Commonwealth Edison
was a big financial backer.  Michelle and Ayers wife (another unrepentant
bomber) worked at the same law firm.  Ayers is an education prof and he
personally wrote the grant for the Annenberg Challenge Fund and handpicked
Barry to run it.  In the end, this may be bigger than Wright.  The MSM can't
protect this guy forever.

When all this "blows" over, we can talk about his Hamas friends, his Syrian
friends, and his Iraqi friends.  This is not conspiracy theory, the facts
are there and can't be ignored forever.

This is going to be fun to watch.  I'll try and keep you two weeks ahead of
most of the press and a full month ahead of the NYT's.

Brad

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

>
> Political commentary -
>
> I have sat and listened to politics and commentary for a long time.  After
> reading the following commentary I had to stop.  For those who do not
> know,
> a certain member of this forum is from NYC, which borough is not that
> important is it.
>
> There used to be a piece of music, "Take the 'A' train."  The 'A' train
> takes you to Harlem, at the time the song was written, a place for
> American
> Jazz.
>
> Maybe Slim could post a sample of the music?
>
> During this time there was a guy growing up in Harlem.  And he wrote the
> following political commentary:
>
> ________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story.
>
> One newspaper story that caught my eye recently was about two high-powered
> schools in South Korea where Korean girls study 15 hours a day, preparing
> themselves for tests to get into elite colleges in the United States.
> Harvard, Yale and Princeton already have 34 students from those schools.
>
> When a copy of the 50th anniversary report on members of the Harvard class
> of 1958 arrived in the mail recently, I thought back to one of my fellow
> students in that class who had worn a hole in the sole of his shoe but put
> a
> folded piece of newspaper in his shoe to cover the hole, rather than tell
> his parents.
>
> He realized that they would buy him a new pair of shoes if they knew— and
> he
> also realized that they could not afford it.
>
> He went on to become a professor at several well-known medical schools and
> to have various achievements and honors over the years.
>
> From even further back in time, I received a letter recently from a man
> who
> grew up in my old neighborhood back in Harlem. When he and I were in the
> same junior high school, one day a teacher who saw him eating his brown
> bag
> lunch suddenly arranged for him to get a lunch from the school cafeteria
> without having to pay for it.
>
> It happened so fast that my schoolmate had already taken a bite from the
> school lunch when he suddenly realized that he had been given charity— and
> he wouldn't swallow the food. Instead he went to the toilet and spat it
> out.
>
> By now his brown bag lunch had been thrown out, so he just went hungry
> that
> day. He went on to become a very successful psychiatrist.
>
> Like everyone else, I have also been hearing a lot lately about Jeremiah
> Wright, former pastor of the church that Barack Obama has belonged to for
> 20
> years.
>
> Both men, in their different ways, have for decades been promoting the far
> left vision of victimization and grievances— Wright from his pulpit and
> Obama as a community organizer for the radical group ACORN, as a
> collaborator with former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, and as the
> member
> of the U.S. Senate with the farthest left voting record.
>
> Later, when the ultimate political prize— the White House— loomed on the
> horizon, Obama did a complete makeover, now portraying himself as a healer
> of divisions.
>
> The difference between Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright is that they are
> addressing different audiences, using different styles adapted to those
> audiences.
>
> It is a difference between upscale demagoguery and ghetto demagoguery,
> playing the audience for suckers in both cases.
>
> People on the far left like to flatter themselves that they are for the
> poor
> and the downtrodden. But what is most likely to lift people out of
> poverty—
> telling them that the world has done them wrong or promoting the work
> ethnic
> of the Korean girls, the dogged determination of my Harvard classmate with
> the newspaper in his shoe, or the self-reliance of my fellow junior high
> school student in Harlem who had too much pride to take charity?
>
> When young people go out into the world, what will they have to offer that
> can gain them the rewards they seek from others and the achievements they
> need for themselves?
>
> Will they have the skills of science, technology or medicine? Or will they
> have only the resentments that have been whipped up by the likes of
> Jeremiah
> Wright or the sense of entitlement from the government that has been
> Barack
> Obama's stock in trade?
>
> In the real world, a sense of grievance or entitlement, as a result of the
> mistreatment of your ancestors, is not likely to get you very far with
> people who are too busy dealing with current economic realities to spend
> much time thinking about their own ancestors, much less other people's
> ancestors.
>
> Another seemingly unrelated experience was being in a crowd at a graveside
> in a Jewish cemetery last week. That crowd included people who were black,
> white, Asian, Catholic, Jewish and no doubt others. This country has come
> a
> long way, just in my lifetime.
>
> We don't need people like either Jeremiah Wright or Barack Obama to take
> us
> backward. The time is long overdue to stop gullibly accepting the left's
> vision of itself as idealistic, rather than self-aggrandizing.
>
> Thomas Sowell
>
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