RedEye's Re-Post Countdown to my 5th Blog-O-Versary #4

As the date of my Blog-O-Versary draws nearer I'm finding it harder and harder to decide which of content of my many post, or the tone of some of my comments actually got me kicked off the front pages of Left in Alabama, and eventually banned for life, but I think it's fair to say Hollering Anti Semitism Edited , posted on June 16, 2009 kinda got the ball rolling...

Redeye's Post Election Blogstroll  posted on November 4, 2009, 9 days before my front page privileges were suspended was probably one of the nails in the coffin....

 Pay attention all you candidates out there who pander to the right wing/conservative/moderate white crowd at the expense of your base,  Give us a reason to vote for you or we'll stay our Donkeys' at home.

It's like Deja Voodoo All Over Again. 

Remember, Support our Troops on Veterans Day and Everyday.

Eye report, you decide.

Joe Reed is right (pun intended), the opposition to Obama is rooted in racism

Joe Reed, long time vice chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party JOHN DAVID MERCER

"I know I'm right. All you have to do is look at all those ads the Republicans ran, not against the Alabama Democrat running against them, but against Obama. Hell! They mentioned him so often that I expected to see his name on the ballot Tuesday."

I know Joe Reed is right too.  All you have to do is read the comments following the articles written and posted by Charles Deen on al.com for verification and validation.

Let's recap.
After (not to be confused with before) the midterm elections, Charles Deen asked the most hated black man in Alabama, I mean, Joe Reed, why whites (including white democrats) voted against their self interest, and against Obama.  Joe Reed is quoted as saying this:

  "Too many whites in Alabama are motivated to vote against Obama because he is black. Now they will tell you it's because he's liberal but he's really not liberal in my view. But he sure as hell is black," added Reed, 76.

Gasp!  What did he say that for?  How dare Joe Reed tell the truth!

 "White voters, especially the middle class and poor white voters should be the very ones demanding a lottery to help pay their kids college costs and expanding Medicaid to help pay health care costs. And what did they do in the governor's race? They voted against those things by voting for Gov. Bentley who will nothing to get a lottery and who has said he's opposed to expanding Medicaid."

Reed is also quoted as saying the state democratic party shares the blame for Tuesday's debacle, and I agree.  Instead of petty bickering and infighting, and distancing themselves from Joe Reed and his bunch, the Alabama Democratic Party should have circled the wagons and formed a unified front against the republican extremism and bigotry (yes I said it) that "won" on Tuesday.

I saw the writing on the wall when the Alabama Democratic Majority was formed.

The Alabama Democratic Majority was formed because the Alabama Democratic Party is seen as the party of black citizens (like that's a bad thing,) and it drove white men out in droves.  I remember being at a local Democratic County Meeting where the topic was how to get white men to come back to the democratic party.  I said then, and I say now, the only way to get  white men to come back is for the Alabama Democratic Party to turn it's back on it's core principals and beliefs.  In other words, turn into the Alabama Republican party.

Democrats "lost" because the red, republican, confederate, slave states have way too much power and influence.
Own it.
All of it.

The Difference Between "Us" and "Them"

 

Fist Dap jobsanger

Might as well start the year off right (pun intended).  Sorry, but I am one of the Howling Left who doesn't get it.  I am NOT happy about the fiscal cliff  compromise.  Clearly, Obama, the upper middle class, heirs, and some of the American people  won, but guess who lost...the usual "suspects" aka Obama voters.  You know, the people who actually voted for the candidate who ran on, and won on, a $250,000 threshold and no cuts to Social Security benefits, Medicare and Medicaid twice. It's Deja Voodoo all over again, President Obama pandering to those who MIGHT vote for him, at the expense of those who DID vote for him.

I know there are some who believe the Tea Party is on the brink of extinction and can be removed, but I'm not one of them.  Republican controlled state legislatures and governors offices have gerrymandered themselves into a majority in the House, and an organized minority in the Senate, insulating them from being voted out. They don't have to do anything but obstruct the evil democratic agenda and they have a government job with government benefits for life.  Unless, and until, the Suckers who hate Obama more than they love America wake up and smell the coffee, we are stuck with them.

Which has me worried about Alabama's lone African American seat in Congress.  Looks like Rep. Terri Sewell (D. 07)  is facing a challenge from Stanley Mack, who calls himself a conservative who happens to be a black man. (code for republican  front man).  Regular readers know I am a critic of Sewell, but at least she is a liberal who happens to be a black woman.  The last thing the citizens in black belt need is a conservative who happens to be a black man representing them in Congress again.

Has the Alabama republican party finally gotten their claws into Alabama's lone democratic seat in Congress?  Strike that.  Did the Alabama Democratic Party  enable the Alabama republican party to get their claws into Alabama's lone democratic seat in Congress?

I HOPE not.

The difference between us and them is we believe in helping the least of these. ~RedEye 

RedEye's Monday Must Reads in "Perfect Context"

Voting:  A privilege guaranteed by the Founding Fathers to Conservative White Christians-h/t What Would Jack Do

The Real Voter Fraud Culprits

No, Alabama is NOT Nazi Germany.  There Are No Gas Chambers There.

Following former republican  Mississippi Governor Haley Barbours'  breadcrumbs to Alabama.  What the heck was he thinking? Good question.

Onward Backwards Soldiers!  Shadrock, I mean,  Shadrack McGill soldiers on

Susan G. Komen Puts Romney's  'Not Concerned About the Poor' in Perfect Context

Race and Death Penalty Juries

What I'm reading today

Pippa Abston Blog

I don’t want to occupy Wall Street. I want to evict it from places it has no business being, namely our government. We need to Occupy Government—not by marching on it but by restoring it to what it was intended to be, a representative republic of the People. No matter what Mitt Romney says, corporations are not and never will be people.

BobNBama: They wonder why we don't like them?

We all have a choice. Don’t let yourself be treated like a sheep to be sheared. Don’t do business with companies that don’t value you as a customer.

Why poor, white voters vote against their self interest

It boggles the mind. But then again, people, especially poor people, have a long history of voting against their own self-interest because they believe that if they work hard enough, they too can be rich.

The Bribery Brothers

Exactly, how many palms have the Koch Brothers greased with moolah and how much money is it? Think about how lately progressive blogs have been flooded with trolls left and right cheer leading for the GOP trying to intimidate and harass folks to vote for a Republican candidate.

Occupy Fox News

The real protesting, however, will be going on outside the meeting as the Occupy Los Angeles crowd migrates over from their base in Downtown L.A. to give Fox a taste of what it’s like to be occupied. They will be joined by FreePress, Change to Win, Common Cause LA, Brave New Films, and others.

In Reality the Fake Center Cannot Hold

As the nation stumbles toward what could become an epic replay of the 1968 presidential election, many in the Washington political media are hunting for cover. At least that's a charitable explanation for the fad of sentimental bipartisanship among the nation's deepest-thinking pundits.

Libyan Government warns NYPD to Exercise Restraint

TRIPOLI (The Borowitz Report) – As arrests mounted in the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York City, Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) issued a stern statement today warning the NYPD to exercise restraint.

“The Libyan transitional government regards any attempt to infringe upon the American protesters’ right to express themselves as a violation of international standards of free speech and liberty,” the Libyan statement read. “We will not sit idly by and watch this happen.”

What you are reading today

Update; The sad, sorry state of public education in Huntsville, Alabama

What Obama doesn't understand about the Professional Left

RedEye's Week in Review

Craven is as Craven does

Always the help never an equal

Read On. Read often.

Well it looks like Scott Beason has job security

Remember when I said Scott Beason shouldn't resign his Senate post he should be fired by his constituents? Well it doesn't look like that will be happening because at least one of his constituents doesn't see where he's done anything that would otherwise jeopardize his ability to serve his constituents.

Oh really? Scott Beason must not have any African American (aborigines), or Hispanic (empty the clip) constituents.

As an Alabama State Senator Scott Beason represents ALL Alabamians, even Aborigines and Hispanics. As chairman of the powerful the Senate Committee on Rules, which is the gatekeeper of legislation in the Senate and decides which bills come to the Senate floor for debate, he has proven he doesn't have the capability of representing Alabamians.

What ADC chair Mark Kennedy said all the damn way!

“This is the second time this year Beason has made such racially inflammatory remarks, first suggesting we ‘empty the clip’ on immigrants and now calling black voters ‘illiterate’ and ‘aborigines’,” Kennedy said. “Beason has demonstrated time and again that he lacks the tact necessary to hold a chairmanship as critical as rules committee chairman.”

I find it hard to believe the people who elected him don't feel the same way. But then again, maybe not. This is Sweet Home Alabama.

There is a mean spirit on the lose.

Lord help us.

So, now we know how "white Dems" really feel

This is one of those times I really hate no longer being allowed to post at Left in Alabama, but it's also one of those times I realize why I'm no longer allowed to post at Left in Alabama. The white wing of the Birmingham/Jefferson County Alabama democratic party held a forum to try and figure out How will Alabama Dems Rise Again after the November massacre. Calling themselves Dems instead of Democrats should have been my first clue, but this comment by mooncat defines how Dems really feel about the Democratic Party and African American Democrats specifically.

There is a perception that the ADP caters to black voters but ignores white voters. A significant number of Democrats, some on the SDEC, have expressed concern to me that the ADP will "become like Mississippi" where, I gather, race is the significant difference between the two parties. If you want to run for office and you're white, you run as a Republican, if you're black you run as a Democrat. Now, I know that isn't strictly the case in Mississippi since they recently had a white Democrat run (unsuccessfully) for Senate, but this is a huge concern for people who care about the Democratic party in Alabama.

Wrong mooncat, the ADP doesn't cater to black voters, they take black voters for granted. If you want to run for office and you're white in Alabama you run as a conservative democrat, with emphasis on conservative, to garner the white vote. and democrat to garner the black vote. Black voters have no where else to go but the ADP.

And how exactly does the ADP cater to black voters? By giving them a seat at the table? By addressing their issues and concerns?

If race is the elephant (is that a pun?) Joe Reed is the mahout And this is why he needs to step back gracefully.

Oh really now?

So now we know how white democrats, strike that, we know how some white democrats feel about it's minority members and it's leader. Black democrats need to go somewhere and STFU and STFD because they are driving white democrats away. Not.

In last year's midterm election, white voters favored the GOP by a margin of 60 percent to 37, according to the national exit poll conducted by Edison Research. It was a higher percentage than the margin claimed by the GOP during its 1994 landslide victory.
Anzalone argued that margin was reflective of the "political environment" and didn't mean there was a "death sentence" on Southern Democrats.
"We had this same conversation after the 1994 elections," he said, before citing a series of Democratic victories over the last two decades. "The reality is that white voters are up for grabs for Democrats.
"You've got to be patient, you've got to build your argument. Will it come immediately after a big swing like this? Not with big gains," he said.
White voters will come back to the party when they feel "comfortable" with a particular Democratic candidate, Anzalone predicted.

Rep. John Lewis doesn't have to be concerned about a "mass migration" of African-Americans to the GOP. He needs to be concerned about a mass migration of African Americans becoming Independents because as much as it pains me to para quote Dale Jackson, the democratic party doesn't want us and the republican party won't have us.

 What to do and where to go?

If Artur Davis votes for Health Care Reform white voters won't vote for him

If white voters don't vote for Congressman Artur Davis he will not be elected Governor.

If white voters vote for Congressman Artur Davis he will be elected the first African American Governor of Alabama.

It's more important for Congressman Artur Davis to be elected governor of Alabama than it is for all Americans to have access to quality,affordable,health insurance.

If Congressman Artur Davis is elected the first African American Governor of Alabama it symbolize progress in Alabama and erase the racist history and imagery of the past.

Ain't that a dip?

This is the tortured, flawed logic/campaign strategy/ sorry a$$excuse that is the Artur Davis for Governor Camp. In the latest saga in the Davis for Governor campaign and HCR, Congressman Artur Davis was too skeered to vote yes and too skeered to vote no, so he didn't vote at all. Bless his heart.

Ain't that a dip?


If white voters won't vote for Congressman Artur Davis if he votes for HCR how is his being elected the first African American Governor going to symbolize progress in Alabama?

If white voters elect Congressman Artur Davis the first African American Governor of Alabama,what will it mean for black folks?

If white voters won't vote for Congressman Artur Davis if he votes for health care reform ain't that a dip?

Congressman Artur Davis (AL-7) continues to put his personal, political interest ahead of the interest of his constituents. You know, the people who elected him to go represent them in Congress. You know, the people who actually DID vote for him, and probably would have voted for him for Governor if he hadn't thrown them under the bus for his own political gain.

I don't know which is worse, two NO votes or a refusal to vote. It's like throwing his constituents under the bus, then backing up and driving over them again.

If Artur Davis' representation, or the lack there of, of the voters in AL 7 are an indication of how he will represent the voters in the entire state, thanks but NO thanks.

Artur Davis has convinced me he has no honor and no courage. Artur Davis has convinced me he cares more about being elected the first African American Governor of Alabama than he does the people of Alabama.

I'm going to leave with these questions;
1. Why won't white voters vote for Artur Davis if he votes for health care reform?

2. Are white voters going to vote for Artur Davis because he voted against health care reform?

3. If Artur Davis is elected the first African American Governor of Alabama will it symbolize progress for Alabama and erase it's racist past?

4. What does it say about white voters if they won't vote for Artur Davis for Governor if he votes for health care reform?

Inquiring minds want to know.