So this is what post-partisan hope and change looks like

Unbelievable. We wish. This is truly some banana republic bull-shit we are witnessing. We really could go for some "fairness" and "neutrality" about now.



If you told us six months ago something like this would happen, we’d have told you that you were nuts and would’ve asked to see your Birther I.D. card.

Yeah, the administration’s policies are definitely not to our liking but barring an entire news organization? Dude, that is just straight-up whack.

Here’s what we think is going on: Obama, the politician has never had his politics or his world view challenged in any serious way and certainly not opposed to in the way it has been recently. So with no prior experience in how to respond to this withering criticism, he’s lost – he doesn’t know how to respond.

Into this response decision vacuum steps Axelrod and Emanuel. They know how to respond. In fact, "know", is inaccurate because their response is completely reflexive in nature: Attack!

Attack, Attack, Attack! Attack 24/7. And when you are done attacking, attack some more! And when the opponent appears to be tiring or even vanquished, Attack! And when you have finally destroyed the opposition and there is nothing left of it but a smoldering, wimpering heap of crushed beliefs and ideology, you… Attack!

And even when your attack causes you to lose credibility with the masses and even an entity that carried you across the finish line on its collective shoulders, you…. Attack!

They don’t know anything else. What we are witnessing is the political personification of the scorpion and the frog.

The administration is losing its ass, losing credibility, getting pounded in the polls and generally looking like a spiteful central American junta and yet they keep plunging that stinger into the back of the frog.

We’ve never seen anything like it.

The Play-doh Offensive Update

Our girl on the scene, Ms. Teresa Neally of the United States Navy checked in with Mongo about a week ago to thank everybody who had sent care packages to her in Afghanistan. (Care to contribute?: The what and how, here) She also wanted to pass along some big news: the recent opening of a school built by the military which was funded by American citizens. We promise to pass along more details later. Click on pictures to enlarge. The colors are amazing, aren't they?




















UPDATE #1: Welcome, Readers of Aztec Talk.

If it's Good Enough for Grandma....

If you can’t make it to church this morning, don’t sweat it, BwD’s gotcha covered. Barack’s Traveling Medicine Show over at Trinity has a guest speaker this morning: Rev. Michael Pfleger with today’s message of hope, unity and reconciliation.



UPDATE #1: It appears that Obama has seen and heard enough. After nearly 20 years at Trinity, Camp Obama is severing ties with the church. Obama claimed that the divisive words of former pastor Jeremiah A. Wright did not reflect his views but rejected his leaving the church for political expediency because those mean, nasty reporters poring over all of the Trinity medicine show’s sermons were just making his attendance there one big political circus. Story here.

The New York Times does their best to soft-pedal the Trin’s rhetoric: “Trinity’s pastors preach an often fiery philosophy known as Black Liberation Theology. It is not a separatist philosophy, but it argues that the poor and oppressed occupy a special place in God’s eye. Ministers are expected to provoke and push.”

Hmmm… we didn’t ask but since they brought it up…

Here’s James Cone, the Godfather of Black Liberation Theology:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

And here’s Wright himself from his book, “A Black Theology of Liberation”: "There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: 'How can we become black?'"

So the NYT is quite right in their assumption that BLT is not separatist but merely a socio-political construct that tailors a God to suit their agenda and asks white people to renounce their inherent racism and “go Black”. See…. Unity! Damn. No wonder self-hating white liberals love these guys.

UPDATE #2: Chicago: Is it the water..? Is it the air..? Something has to explain the lunacy that overtakes some people there. Father Pfleger offers an apology of sorts on his chuch’s webpage (and check out Black Jesus at the top of the website. There's only one Black Jesus as far as we're concerned). He’s sorry… He’s really, really sorry. In fact this whole unfortunate episode has been painful – more painful than the day his foster son was murdered. Unbelievable.

A Reversal of Fortune?

Your antidote for future-generations hand-wringing can be found here.



H/T: The Coffee Shop Blog via The Scratching Post