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Obama’s speech, redux

I was, as I said initially, impressed with the boldness, while dissing his policy prescriptions. Later, when I thought about it, I realized he was refusing to do what he told Imus to do, i.e. walk out. But I was quite taken aback by VDH’s reaction, calling Barry a vapid phony. Cobb, who is no Barry supporter, was so irritated he wrote VDH an open letter in protest. Now comes some more of VDH’s concerns and I see what upset him. Barry wants to expand the therapeutic curriculum of American schools to include more Harriet Tubmans, who Mr. B. already has heard about in second grade, fergawdsake, but nevermind U.S. Grant or Shiloh. If you were dazzled by the half-black man, who has run not as a half-black or any other racial man, suddenly addressing racism you might have missed these basic Lefty educational concerns. I did. I caught the indiscriminate attack on corporations and the silly remark about the government providing people good jobs (bureaucratic ones for party workers, sure, but no one else). The therapeutic stuff, however, got VDH where he lives. He’s a college professor who has long complained about the preminent position of this gripe history to the detriment of actually understanding history.

Stuff Black People Like

Get educated. Hell, get churched, as Cobb might have said, but didn’t. Classic stuff here. A fun read.

What we look for in a president

Here’s the Huckster on Jay Leno: "People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off."

Cute, but no cigar. Rather, as Cobb puts it, when the world is going to hell, we look for someone with a good hand on the wheel of the whole American handbasket. And that’s not likely to be the guy we work with. 

Sharp humor ahead

Cobb vows to be funnier, skewier, in ’08. I can relate. Also to his dismissal of a certain overcrowded city to our north as Fart Worth. But while I agree that Houston is an armpit, I would disagree that it’s the one of the South. That label still goes to Atlanta, still the place everyone down South has to go through even on the way to hell.

Life is like dodgeball

No kidding. And that’s just one of the fifty rules kids won’t learn in school, according to author Charles Sykes. They do waste an inordinate amount of time trying to keep the playground at Mr. B.’s school safe for everyone’s self-esteem. Sticking out your tongue, for instance, is a reportable offense. Too bad the real world doesn’t operate that way. I like this one because it’s so true: "Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them."

Via Cobb, who takes his Scout son target-shooting. Now that’s good training. 

What privacy?

Politicians like Ron Paul pretend they can help you keep your privacy if you vote for them. Flapdoodle. The IRS and the credit card companies already have all the details anyone needs to know about you–names, addresses, social security numbers, etc. Get over it.

Via Cobb 

UPDATE: Paul has his own currency, without even being president. Well, it’s not his. But his face is on it

Sell out/buy in

I enjoy reading Cobb, a conservative black engineer, and descendent of a freed black Union soldier in the Civil War, who is decidedly not one of the race hustlers so prevalent these days. Particularly like his current post on who’s a race sell-out and who isn’t. And this remark by one his commenters:

"If you keep your credit clean, and save some money, you will have an easier time managing your financial life in America. If you don’t commit crimes and treat people ethically so they don’t sue you, you won’t have to worry about the justice system. Them’s the rules."

Yep. Worth the read