Intermarkets' Privacy Policy Support
Donate to Ace of Spades HQ! Recent Entries
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/8/24) Off Grid Edition
Gun Thread: Second September Edition! Food Thread: Steak: Maybe The Government Won't Screw It Up! First-World Problems... The "Philadelphi Corridor" Is The Key To Gaza...Anyone Who Pressures Israel To Relinquish Their Control Wants Hamas To Survive Sunday Morning Book Thread - 09-08-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel] Daily Tech News 8 September 2024 Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/7/24) Saturday Evening Movie Thread 09/07/2024 [TheJamesMadison] Hobby Thread - Sept 7, 2024 [TRex] Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024 Captain Hate 2023 moon_over_vermont 2023 westminsterdogshow 2023 Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022 Dave In Texas 2022 Jesse in D.C. 2022 OregonMuse 2022 redc1c4 2021 Tami 2021 Chavez the Hugo 2020 Ibguy 2020 Rickl 2019 Joffen 2014 AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published.
Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups
|
« Obama: I, Personally, Will Shut The Government Down |
Main
| Obama's "close friend", high school chum, and golfing buddy arrested in Honolulu prostitution sting »
April 07, 2011
Unexpected Racists: Blacks, Hispanics Less Supportive Of ObamaAnd I do quote noted scholar Jeneane Garofalo: "This is racism, straight-up. This is all about hatin' on a black man as president." Since I have it on her learned authority that only racism can account for a lack of enthusiasm for Obama, I must conclude our nation faces a new scourge: Black on black racism. Once monolithic, blacks' support for the first African American president is still.... Andrew Malcom, citing speculation by Gallup, figures this is either due to the budget squabble or the war in Libya. I doubt that. Maybe I'm just a cynic and an elitist but I always figure that such issues, being abstract or concerning lands far-away, are generally very second order sorts of things. It's the economy, stupid. Isn't it usually? I don't think people loved Bill Clinton or his policies. I think they liked him okay, but loved the economy. I think people (and when I say "people" here I'm just talking about the up-for-grabs middle) had more actual affection for Reagan, but at the end of the day, what they loved was the economy. His policies? Sure, they liked those, because they figured those created the economy they loved. We have not had a recession like this in a long time. Not since the actual Depression. And I'm still reminded of Amity Shaes, quoted by Megan McCardle, noting that during the first couple of years of the Depression, people were still pretty optimistic. Sure, it was bad, but they expected the economy would rebound in 12 or 18 or even 24 months, same as it always did. It wasn't until a little later than that that the unceasing, no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel grind of it got to them and put them in a properly depressed mindset. I'm still wondering when that shoe will drop. I know we're supposedly in a recovery but... the last few recoveries featured very solid growth to kick them off (5% per quarter, annualized, even 6% or 7%) whereas this "recovery" is only around 2-2.5%, not even keeping pace with population growth, and it looks like it can slip down to contraction at any moment. Another Way the Media Is Biased: Anyone actually working in the media has a job. That means to them unemployment is a political issue. An abstraction. Just a scoreboard matter, something that is important chiefly as it effects Obama's reelection chances. It's not an abstraction to someone who's been out of work for 18 months, and it's not just a number on a scoreboard for someone who is losing hope he'll be employable even after the recession ends. This is something the media can't help, really, but, as with all of their many biases, they really should take a look at it once in a while. The media is politically biased so they're eager to credit Obama with "AMERICA IS BACK" recoveries that aren't really recoveries (while they insisted that Bush's 6.8% quarterly growth didn't mean anything, because the U6 underemployment figure hadn't fallen yet). But outside of the political arena and beyond the parochial interests of media partisans... unemployment and a near-depression are very, very real. The media blows this recession off as a mere hurdle for Obama to argue his way around. It's not. It's really not.
| Recent Comments
[/i][/s][/b][/u]Oddbob:
"Thanks, Weasel. A lot of good thoughts bandied ab ..."
Weasel: "Posted by: rhomboid at September 08, 2024 09:57 PM ..." rhomboid: "Due to my circumstances, I am certain I have saved ..." ck: "If you shoot enough, you save a lot. It takes a lo ..." Weasel: "OK, the ONT should be up soon. Thanks again and h ..." RI Red: "Well, I’d best call it a night so I can go t ..." rhomboid: "Customer service, support, to include frequent no- ..." Weasel: "As I’ve said before, you don’t save mo ..." ck: "I've been stocking up on Midwest powders from Amer ..." RI Red: "As I’ve said before, you don’t save mo ..." xnxx: "My spouse and I stumbled over here by a different ..." Weasel: "Weasel, looks like a lot of pent up demand on relo ..." Recent Entries
Sunday Overnight Open Thread (9/8/24) Off Grid Edition
Gun Thread: Second September Edition! Food Thread: Steak: Maybe The Government Won't Screw It Up! First-World Problems... The "Philadelphi Corridor" Is The Key To Gaza...Anyone Who Pressures Israel To Relinquish Their Control Wants Hamas To Survive Sunday Morning Book Thread - 09-08-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel] Daily Tech News 8 September 2024 Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/7/24) Saturday Evening Movie Thread 09/07/2024 [TheJamesMadison] Hobby Thread - Sept 7, 2024 [TRex] Search
Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Primary Document: The Audio
Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings) George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer Top Top Tens
Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) |