True, indeed. I was a Kool-Aid drinker in 2007 and 2008. In fact, I was raised on Kool-Aid, was waterboarded with Kool-Aid throughout my college and post-graduate school years, and have only within the past three or four years begun the process of detoxification. My apologies for what I and my fellow Kool-Aid drinkers did to America in 2008. If we were in the same room, I suppose I could let you flog me. I did help put a stop to some of the worst excesses in 2010, and at considerable risk to my personal and professional associations, I did what I could in 2012 to convince people not to re-up. I figure I have 40 or so years left in my life to make up for my past political misdeeds.
I apologize for being so harsh, it’s just that not being the best informed myself, I was informed enough to know better in 2008, but it (being informed) was then as is now useless when it comes to voting as we are outvoted by the Kool-Aid drinkers,by the sentimentalists and moochers of course, and that just raises my blood pressure. Again, apologies.
You might send this “test” to your FIL, as well.
If he is only impressed with black “leadership”, he might be interested in Francis Rice’s “Black History Test”, wherein, he can educate himself as to which party is and HAS been on his side historically.
(you might “bait” him into paying attention to this test, as it was compiled by a brilliant black woman.)
http://www.nbra.info/DYK-HistoryTest
Good luck and I admire your trying to reason with him. I’ve given up on my sister who boasts about a Harvard education, but doesn’t have the common sense to realize she’s about to be bitten by her “choice” in the HOMOPOTUS.
You also say you are a black attorney who has won millions for black people in LA. If deserved, fine. I don’t know enough about the particular cases to judge. But here is another one of your lonnnngggg quotes.
“The next major disappointment was during the financial crisis in the Fall of 2008. With Wall Street teetering on the brink of collapse, the Bush Administration proposed a bailout. On the first vote in the House of Representatives, however, it unexpectedly failed. The “Nays” came mostly from Republicans breaking with their President and Party leadership, but at that time Republicans were in the minority in the House. The marginal votes that put the Nays over the top came from members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who were concerned about the lack of protections against foreclosures on distressed homeowners included in the bill. They were demanding that if we were going to bailout Wall Street, they sure as hell better not turn around and foreclose on homeowners behind on their payments without some kind of forebearance (In retrospect their prescience was remarkable). During the ensuing week, Obama returned to Washington from the campaign trail, and put pressure on the black lawmakers who had voted Nay to change their votes (under threat of being 86’d from the White House of the first black President), and also turned down an offer from the Secretary of Treasury to include the foreclosure protections. At the end of the week, the bailout was put back up for a vote and it passed narrowly with the margin of victory being provided by the Black Caucus vote switchers. As a result, millions of homeowners unnecessarily lost their homes, many of them black, and statistically, all of the black wealth generated throughout the 90’s and 2000’s was wiped out. Our homeownership rate is now where it was 20 years ago, before countless hours were spent by countless people getting blacks into homeownership for the first time in their lives. The Wall Street millionaires and billionaires who caused the calamity lost nothing, and were back to record profits within a year or two. Communities were devastated by blocks full of empty and abandoned homes. I firmly believe to this day that either the banks should’ve been allowed to go bankrupt or the money should’ve been loaned to them with the requirement that they forebear on foreclosures until it was paid back, and that if either of those things had happened, the crisis would’ve been much less severe.”
Since barack obama was a major mover in seeing that unqualified blacks and others who could never have qualified for homeloans got them anyway from banks intimidated by boycotts and finally by law, are you NOW saying that once he became president, he wasn’t ‘black’ enough? Like say, bill clinton?
Congratulations on coming as far as you have. I came from a liberal family, thought I’d go to college in Canada if Reagan were ever elected and voted against him both opportunities I had.
At least I learned, but there were a couple of years in between when I was in the wilderness and didn’t want to be associated with what I thought was the worst about Republicans.
I’m pretty confident now that I know what presents the best and only opportunity not only for freedom but also for prosperity and for the least among us.
FReegards.
I grew up in Mass and thought handgun control was something the government did, among many other stupid thoughts. I can mainly say that it's a long and arduous process to unlearn all that knee jerk thinking. The correct details are not hard to learn, but the correct ways of thinking take forever.
Welcome to Free Republic. :~)
Imagining that any random person who is currently an American citizen has "40 or so years left in life" proves that you do not understand the gravity of our current political, social, and economic situation.