Michelle's Great Adventure as America Burns

Michelle's Great Adventure as America Burns

These aren’t the times that try men’s souls as much as they are times for some people to live large, grab all the gusto they can get, party ’til ya puke, suck long and hard on the taxpayers’ teats, forget all the misery at home and go on vacation and live in the lap of luxury before you have to return home to your ghetto at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C.

Hey! If your hubby can hail Marine One and helicopter to a venue 6 miles away rather than take the plebeian mode of transportation in a limo and suffer through all those hours and days in the blazing sun of various golf courses, surely the First Lady, Michelle LaVaughan Robinson Obama, is entitled to take Second Daughter Sasha to Spain on a little tour.

No?

The fact she spent it luxuriating with 40 of her bestest bffs was merely coincidental: Sixty rooms were reserved for the entourage at the 5 star, posh Villa Padierna in Mirabella on the Costa del Sol where “rooms start at £210-a-night and stretch to around £4,100 for a villa with 24-hour butler service and private pool and garden:” http://tiny.cc/lef7c.

Reminiscent of Nero fiddling while Rome burned and compared to Marie “Let Them Eat Cake” Antoinette . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1833)

Racism In (and Outside) America

Racism In (and Outside) America

Probably the 3 most pathetic news items to hit the wires in the last 24 hours are the desparate efforts of Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Charles Rangel to blame their ethical violations on racism and the effort of the family of mass murderer Omar Thornton to do likewise.

They’re pathetic but explicable in the racially-charged atmosphere and race-baiting the Obama administration has created in this country.

Gallup has released its latest poll on the president’s job approval ratings revealing, in a nutshell, that there is a marked racial component in how African-Americans think and function.

Gallup reports that “Obama’s job approval ratings among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in July are all at their lowest levels to date, although the overwhelming majority of blacks still approve.”

Thus, in post-racial America, it seems that quite a few people still operate on a racial plane. Blacks, especially, approve of and will undoubtedly again vote for Obama come 2012 although their approval has slipped to a still robust 88% in July as opposed to the 96% that voted for him just 20 months ago.

Since only 38% of whites now approve of the job Obama has been doing, a 50% difference, something seems awry. Compared with the 2008 tally when Obama garnered 43% of the white vote, that’s a very significant disparity since blacks only comprised 13% of the overall vote and whites 74%: http://tiny.cc/ktxwp

So what do we make of that plethora of numbers? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1824)