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Monday, February 16, 2009

The Clock is Ticking on The Economy Timebomb

It’s been a month and nothing’s really happened yet? What the fuck Barak?

Ha ha ha ha – I’m sure a lot of people are subconsciously thinking that.

“What Does Obama Mean?” as in, is he the personification of that old Hollywood staple The Magic Negro? If you’re not keenly aware of this issue, it’s basically this – in many a Hollywood movie, a white hero gets into trouble (usually morally or spiritually or metaphysically) and he runs into a Black person who has all the answers for what ails this white boy, i.e. Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance, Whoppi Goldberg in Ghost, Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy, Regina King in Miss Congeniality, and that’s just to name a few… I didn’t even think about it or use IMDb.com to get a comprehensive look at the sub-genre. The sad thing is that Obama NEEDS to be the Magic Negro for the United States, because the country has lost it’s way spiritually, morally, economically and respectability.

Obama’s first piece of major legislation will be this Stimulus Package (the Fair Pay Act is overdue and should had been decided by the Supreme Court a few years ago, but that's what happens when GOP/WBN Justices sit on the high court). President Obama's package will cost in close to $800bn (and for some reason that might not be enough!!)… and then he needs to handle the second $350bn of the TARP funds… hopefully, this time President Obama will be smart about who gets that money and what they do with it; perhaps he’ll take a cue from what Gordon Brown is doing in the UK, he’s making the banks sign binding contracts that they will make credit more available with the bailout money (instead of just propping up a flagging balance sheet!) – otherwise, we can safely assume that the Wall Street Fat Cats will make sure they keep their jobs through this crisis and be in position to rise again like a phoenix when the economy final emerges from the ashes…

It’s curious that President Obama’s first televised interview was with an Arab news channel and the never-ending tension in Israel was discussed. It surprised me that Qaddafi dropped a potential solution in the NYTimes Op-Ed pages a few days back… but truth be sure, the Holy Land situation will not work itself out until the Palestinians can begin to up lift themselves and have a functioning economy. If the US really wants to send shock waves, they need to drop a gang of cash on the new Palestinian governing entity and boost their tattered economy with more vigor that our own!

President Obama also took aim at bin Laden and al-Qaeda’s claim that Barak was a House Nigger… he basically said that their principals were passé and bankrupt, because all they offer their followers and Muslims/Arabs in general was violence and beat-down lifestyles. I mean, what Muslim terrorist group has ever actually DONE GOOD for the Jaleel Hooka (i.e. the Arab world’s Joe Sixpack) and the rest of the Arab Street? They promise change, but all the do is bring misery and failed attempts at bringing Middle Eastern Society into the 21st century… On a certain level, these militant groups enable it so the despots can still run shit with a sword to the neck, a cattle prod to the nutsack and an iron first to the face.

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