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Political Month in
Review: (March 2008) by Willie
Williamson
Retarded Spitzer
Dumb Ass
Ferraro
Dumb Ass
Clinton
Dumb Ass
Obama
Retarded
Wright
Eliot Spitzer: Lets face it…Eliot Spitzer is loony.
Former NYC Mayor Koch said it best when asked about Spitzer on a
television interview, “he’s got a screw loose…” My guess is that Koch hit
the nail on the head. It doesn’t take a genius, schooled in the
science of the mind to rightfully make such an observation about a
person. Crazy people telegraph their distorted view of themselves
and the world in many ways…Spitzer is a prime example of this. He
seemed to regard himself in some kind of ego-maniacal way. People
close to him may not have uttered this fact openly, out of fear, but
they certainly are coming out of the closet about it now that he is
no longer a threat to them.
In a nutshell, Spitzer was
the Governor of New York, which made him the chief law enforcement
officer of that State. He committed multiple crimes, of which some
are felonies. He was caught…told to step down or be thrown out on
his ass, and will hopefully be prosecuted for the crimes. Spitzer
should be treated fairly, and without strong, vindictive emotion by
those who may be charged with carrying out the task of prosecuting
him for his criminal acts. They should not stoop to the low level;
‘he’ did in his treatment of others as a prosecutor. The man is a
lunatic…remember that…make a clear case, get him sentenced, and
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Geraldine Ferraro:
Not much to say about
her or her stupid situation with the Obama remark. She has a history
of being a rather mundane, common, old-school political,
get-little-accomplished, office holder, from the corrupt, Queens/NYC
Democratic Party, which pretty much wraps up any wonderment about
her. I spent most of my
life, living in Queens, New York…I had many a day feeling sick to my
stomach watching, listening to, or hearing about her, Sabbatino,
Manes, Manton, D’Amico, Onorato, DeMarco, Hevesi, Vallone…to name a
few. >>Index
My only question is…did her
dumb-ass statement come from using the wrong medication, the wrong
dose, not taking her medication, booze, illegal drug use, dementia,
or just sheer stupidity?
Hillary Clinton:
Asks Ferraro to step
aside from any political campaign activities for her because of a
stupid remark about herself and Obama’s qualifying for a run at the
Presidency, but lets her wayward husband Bill, keep appearing on her
behalf. Now…is that a dumb-assed thing to do or what? >>Index
Barack Obama: We shouldn’t let Obama off the hook about
his dismissal of Jeremiah Wright’s tyrannical, divisive, mean,
racist, inflammatory outbursts as something akin to an “old school”
uncle sometimes saying something that you don’t agree with. That
certainly comes off as a dumb-ass statement, Barack. Do you expect
the masses to smile, laugh and nod in acceptable agreement with you?
Personally, I want so much
to trust in your ability to make good, sound judgments and decisions
for us as President of the United States. I want to witness strength
enough in you to be able to express your dismay at the words of a
seemingly, angry, mean-spirited, un-Christian-like man, who calls
himself Reverend even if it might cost you some votes amongst his
blind, followers. Imagine all the votes you will save, or gain for
yourself by openly separating yourself from people like Wright…votes
from people like me, who are not yet convinced you are the right
candidate for the office you seek.
Stop adding to the worry we
people have about you, who are waiting on the fringes, not quite
sure yet if you are truly the same man ‘inside’ as you project
outwardly. We have been fooled so many times before…we are not taken
in by the lame, frenzied gathering of those swooning over empty,
smooth words and a luring smile. Walk your talk…be a man…a ‘real’
man of the people, not a man of a single or handful of evil spewing
tyrants.
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Obama’s Church Response to J.
Wright’s Media Attention? –
3/16/08
“AN ATTACK ON OUR SENIOR PASTOR
AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
CHURCH"
Police Blues has posted this blog segment from
the following link below, by someone representing themselves as Rev.
Chuck Currie of United Church of Christ. The statement has received
coverage by news agencies today, 3/16/08. Police Blues does not
represent this statement as an authorized UCC release, having no
success verifying the authenticity of its
source.
http://unitedchurchofchrist.blogspot.com/2008/03/statement-from-trinity-united-church-of.html
“AN ATTACK ON
OUR SENIOR PASTOR AND THE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
CHURCH"
Chicago, Ill. (March 15, 2008) — Nearly
three weeks before the 40th commemorative anniversary of the murder
of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah
A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the
public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of
oppressed women, children and men in America and around the
globe.
“Dr. Wright has preached 207,792 minutes on Sunday for
the past 36 years at Trinity United Church of Christ. This does not
include weekday worship services, revivals and preaching engagements
across America and around the globe, to ecumenical and interfaith
communities. It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy
to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound
bite,” said the Reverend Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United
Church of Christ.
During the 36-year pastorate of Dr. Wright,
Trinity United Church of Christ has grown from 87 to 8,000 members.
It is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ (UCC)
denomination.
“It saddens me to see news stories reporting
such a caricature of a congregation that has been such a blessing to
the UCC’s Wider Church mission,” said the Rev. John H. Thomas, UCC
general minister and president, in a released statement. “ … It’s
time for us to say ‘No’ to these attacks and declare that we will
not allow anyone to undermine or destroy the ministries of any of
our congregations in order to serve their own narrow political or
ideological ends.”
Trinity United Church of Christ’s ministry
is inclusive and global. The following ministries have been
developed under Dr. Wright’s ministerial tutelage for social
justice: assisted living facilities for senior citizens, day care
for children, pastoral care and counseling, health care, ministries
for persons living with HIV/AIDS, hospice training, prison ministry,
scholarships for thousands of students to attend historically black
colleges, youth ministries, tutorial and computer programs, a church
library, domestic violence programs and scholarships and fellowships
for women and men attending seminary.
Moss added, “The
African American Church was born out of the crucible of slavery and
the legacy of prophetic African American preachers since slavery has
been and continues to heal broken marginalized victims of social and
economic injustices. This is an attack on the legacy of the African
American Church which led and continues to lead the fight for human
rights in America and around the world.”
Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. preached the Christian tenet, “love thy neighbor as
thyself.” Before Dr. King was murdered on April 4, 1968, he
preached, “The 11 o’clock hour is the most segregated hour in
America.” Forty years later, the African American Church community
continues to face bomb threats, death threats, and their ministers’
characters are assassinated because they teach and preach prophetic
social concerns for social justice. Sunday is still the most
segregated hour in America.
Posted by Rev. Chuck
Currie
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Mission Statement From Barack Obama’s
Church (website) -
3/16/08
Mission Statement: What Trinity Is
About
Trinity United Church
of Christ
has been called by God to be a congregation that is not ashamed of
the gospel of Jesus Christ and that does not apologize
for its African roots! As a congregation of baptized believers, we
are called to be agents of liberation not only for the oppressed,
but for all of God’s family. We, as a church family, acknowledge,
that we will, building on this affirmation of "who we are" and
"whose we are," call men, women, boys and girls to the liberating
love of Jesus Christ, inviting them to become a part of the church
universal, responding to Jesus’ command...
continue
reading...
Hillary’s, Manic Spending Sprees? by Willie
Williamson
Bipolar disorder may be the
culprit behind recent reports of Clinton’s mad spending on things
like Deli sandwiches, luxury suites in Nevada and allegedly, 50 million dollars for
consultants. I could have saved her campaign coffers 49 million
dollars easily…for a mere mil, in consultation fees, I would have
advised her to quit the race immediately, and take the bus
home.
I’ve known people with
Bipolar…in their manic state,
they talk loudly, fast, furious and incessantly. They develop a wide
eyed, accusing, facial expression and then laugh when you act
surprised by their verbal attack. The manic mood also seems to send
them off on spending sprees, like Hillary’s people, throwing money
around like it was confetti.
A good friend of mine
used to give thousands of dollars away to people she perceived as
needing a helping hand-out. She would go into mom-and-pop stores in
the neighborhood, buy a few hundred dollars worth of goods that she
had little or no use for, in order to raise their sales receipts for
the day. These actions would only occur when she was forgetting to
take her Lithium on a regular basis, or the dose needed to be
adjusted.
I have watched Clinton
very carefully during these political campaigning days of hers…there
is certainly an indication that something is wrong with the firing
of synapses. Not that mine are firing in the right order, or with
the right frequency…maybe that’s why I can see it in her. It
takes one to know one, it’s been said. Let’s face it…something
seems certainly wrong with her demeanor quite often; does she look
straight to you, or do you detect something askew in the membrane?
Getting back to her
spending habits…if she ever does make it back into the White House,
this countries finances will sink further into turmoil, unless she
turns the purse strings over to Bill, perhaps. From most accounts,
when Bill ran the office, the country had a surge in prosperity.
Bush sent the economy spiraling shortly after he took office, due to
his medicinal problem, Hillary is sure to do the same. Unless of
course, she stays in a depressive state, sleeping 16 hours a day,
not leaving the house and eating Twinkies
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Another
Bust in the House – U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi Indicted by Dept. of Justice -
2/22/08
The Justice Department
announced the indictment of U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona on
charges he supported legislation in exchange for a land deal, which
fattened his pockets with more than $700,000. The thirty-five count
indictment is charging Renzi with conspiracy, wire fraud, money
laundering, extortion and insurance fraud. Others named in the
indictment are his former business partner, James W. Sandlin, of
Texas, and Andrew Beardall, of
Maryland.
Renzi could be sentenced to over 40 years in
prison, if convicted on all counts of the 26 page indictment. He and
his co-defendents are due to appear for arraignment March
6th, at the U.S. Magistrate Court in Tuscan,
Arizona.
Rep. Renzi was a member of the House
Intelligent Committee until April of last year, when he stepped down
following an FBI raid
on a family business, investigating whether he had used his office
for personal gain…which appears to be the norm these days among our
elected officials in Washington.
Isn’t it about time that we change the laws
regarding allowable conduct for our representatives in Washington?
Think of all the tax-payers money that could be saved by permitting
criminal behaviour by House members, Senators and the Executive
branch. We would be able to reduce a great deal of expenditures by
law enforcement agencies, not having to investigate criminal conduct
on the hill. Perhaps we
can go as far as to make criminality a pre-requisite for such office
seekers? Full transparency in government would be less of a problem
under these rules also…People would know the truth, and not stress
their worried little minds as to why our lives are becoming
increasingly worse, rather than
better.
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What’s Wrong With
McCain
If you ask
me…it’s hard to figure out what’s wrong with most of the current
presidential candidates…but, something’s wrong with them all.
Putting your finger on exactly what it is, is as tough as trying to
finger the con inside the head of a pool-room hustler. You ‘know’
something’s up…you just can’t figure out what. Every time you think
you got an old con-game figured out, they come along with a new
twist on it; just like the politicians.
On the
street, you learn a lot. It ain’t from a manual, or textbook someone
eventually hands you…it’s from observation, listening and intuition.
It helps a lot when someone with an ‘in’ smartens you up, too. Like
an old pool-room junkie; some hard lined old bull who’s been around
forever. The old guy who you remember as a kid, always there,
sitting and watching everything. He seems to know all the regulars,
and they all know him. He’s the guy you go to for advice. If he
takes a liking to you…takes you under his wings…you’ll learn all the
tricks and moves to look out for.
Getting
back to the elections, and what’s wrong with McCain…this is what I
see. The guy is angry all the time…I mean…even when the guy is
smiling, he clenches his teeth and makes his jaw bulge under the
strain. The guy looks and sounds like he’s ready to explode at the
drop of a hat. A guy like this on the street, is a guy you might
greet and chat awhile with, but you don’t bring home to meet the
wife. You keep him a little at arms length. As long as he’s alright
with you, you’re alright with him; that kind of thing.
McCain is
like one of those guys. People who don’t know him, get a little
nervous around him. He seems wound tight…dangerous. They hear about
some tough times the guy went through earlier in life, like fighting
in a war and stuff. Hearing this, they develop a sort of apathy, but
a sense of caution. The way he talks and acts, seems to indicate
that he lost it at some point, and is struggling to make a
comeback.
Not that
the man is bad…I ain’t saying that, he might be an angel, soft
spoken, kind to old ladies, quiet but, say the wrong thing, and
he’ll explode. He’ll over-react to small things. A guy like that
might punch you in the face for putting ketchup on his hamburger in
a diner. Maybe he doesn’t want ketchup, or maybe he wants to put it
on himself. Most people would understand that you were trying to do
a nice thing for them, guys like McCain, if they didn’t hit you,
they’d curse you out.
Now…I
don’t know if I want a guy like that in the White House with the red
button on his desk…know what I mean? It’s a little scary to think
about. Old man bush was kind of like this. I worried about him too.
Fortunately he never made it into the second term, or else we might
have gotten ourselves nuked in retaliation for a first strike. He
could have bounced a missile off of
China for a bad egg-roll or
something…We got lucky there…Maybe not next time.
My advice to McCain: Lighten
up dude...things ain't all that bad.
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your questions or comments to Police
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think. – Ed.
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What's
Wrong with Hillary? - by Willie Williamson -
TAO
Personally, I think that
there are more things wrong with having Hillary Clinton as President
of the United States, than there would be right. As far as I’m
concerned…a persons character fits or doesn’t fit the position of
leadership they seek, or hold. Hillary has the type of verifiable
personality flaws that hinders getting the job done. She has been
accused of being a tyrant in the White House as First Lady, without
anyone of note coming forward to defend her against those charges,
so we can assume what we heard, is the truth.
There are many tales of
her bullying and intimidating staff members into getting her own
way. This character flaw has not seemed to have been corrected as
Senator of New York. No one is coming out on her behalf, speaking to
her kindness and consideration of others. She is a scornful woman,
who is used to getting her way…right or wrong…in any manner she
chooses. This is not a person I want representing me in the highest
office of my country.
Her great flaw are the
lies…she seems as much a liar as her husband Bill. Supporters of
this woman refer to her gross lies as “miss-spoke, mistaken,
embellishments” and other lightly worded defenses. Some are plainly,
‘GROSS’ lies. Running for cover with her daughter Chelsea in Bosnia
dodging sniper fire, is considerably different than being told of
reports of sniper fire in the area. Then, she has the audacity to
claim that it was a miss-spoken recollection due to “lack of sleep” and has “owned up to it”. Owned up to
it?!?! How…with another lie? Something is terribly wrong with this
woman…dangerously, emotionally wrong.
Hillary should be
spending more time at a mental health facility, on the couch, rather
than on the campaign trail. That’s my take on her…I cold be wrong, I
might be crazy…but it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for. If
so, vote for her.
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What’s
Wrong with Barack?
by Willie Williamson –
The Average Outsider
Barack comes off as a
level headed, calm, smooth talking man of compassion, but under that
veil seems to lay quite a different person. His charming way in
front of an audience seems to be well rehearsed, and a learned
skill. Watch him closely…you can easily see that Obama is
acting…putting on a show. His gestures and mannerism is really not
much different than most other politicians. Seems to me, Barack took
lessons from the same acting coach, as did Hillary, Bill, and a host
of others. The delivery might be a little different, but that’s due
mostly to the speech writers.
Does Barack Obama’s
association with Ex-Pastor Wright matter to me?
Definitely…especially when that relationship is a “close”
relationship, and ongoing for nearly twenty years. I’m a Christian,
and if Wright was Pastor of my church spewing racial hate, I would
expect him to be removed, or I would remove my children, and myself
from that particular church –period. Enough has been said about that
issue, of which my words would echo, so I am not going any further
with the Wright thing. In my opinion…something is seriously flawed
with Obama’s take on the whole thing.
On the issue of equating
his “white mother’ or “white grandmother” on equal plane with the
bigoted Wright, displays Barack’s flawed thinking also. As many have
said…we can’t choose our blood relatives, but we certainly can
choose our Pastor. Obama’s defense of Wright with “all the good
things that he and the church has done…” amounts to a load of horse
shit. A Christian church, and a man of God, is supposed to do good work in
the community…it is not anything special, beyond what is expected. A
true follower of Jesus Christ, anointed in the Spirit and believing
in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, does not speak in a church to his
congregation, like Jeremiah Wright.
“Typical white
person”…????? What thinketh thee of a man who takes offense to being
referred to as “articulate”, then freely uses a stereotypical remark
about his white grandmother? Me, I don’t think much of a hypocrite
like that…I don’t trust hypocrites, and I don’t want another one as
my President.
Would somebody ‘PLEASE’
come out of the crowd who is worthy of our vote…I’m so tired of
waiting.
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Willie Williamson
considers himself your average man on the street, with an opinion.
(The Average Outsider -
TAO) Born and raised in New York City, he went on to earn his G.E.D.
in the military after quitting high school. Willie has spent some
time in college, changing his major half a dozen times or so, and
remains degree free to this day.
Williamson
has worked at a variety of jobs over the years, considers himself
semi-retired, broke and one step away from homelessness. He
presently earns extra cash by writing articles for various
publications, including Police
Blues. The author can be reached through PoliceBlues.com from
our contact page.
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