Cornel West is miffed with Obama, it would seem – from the New York Times:
…So let me ask you: in 2007, you introduced Barack Obama as your “brother, companion and comrade.” But in May, you referred to him as “the black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs” and the “head of the American killing machine.” What in the world happened?
It was a cry from the heart. What happened was that greed at the top has squeezed so much of the juices of the body politic. Poor people and working people have not been a fundamental focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
But you have also acknowledged that this is more than just political — you’ve said that after campaigning for him at 65 events, you were miffed that he didn’t return your phone calls or say thank you.
I think he had to keep me at a distance. There’s no doubt that he didn’t want to be identified with a black leftist. But we’re talking about one phone call, man. That’s all. One private phone call…
Barry, come on, give the guy a call – 65 campaign events and you can’t even pick up the phone?
Here is the leftist revolutionary…whining that the President doesn’t call him. Sorry, but this gets more pathetic the more I think about it. Where is the fire and the spirit?
I’ll tell you where it is – it was bought by billionaire leftists who have taken over the Democrat party. And the really astounding thing is that these liberal billionaires used people like West to do it. Just throw ’em a grant; get their books published, have an award ceremony for them…and people like West go from the barricades to the courtier. And are now upset that His Majesty, Barry I can’t spare the time…
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Some flyers may not see savings from expired taxes
DALLAS (AP) — Some airline customers won’t see savings this weekend even though several federal taxes on tickets have expired. US Airways and American Airlines raised fares to offset the tax savings. That means instead of passing along the savings from expired taxes, the carriers are pocketing the money while customers pay the same amount as before.
The taxes expired after midnight Friday night when Congress failed to pass legislation to keep the Federal Aviation Administration running. That gave airlines a choice: They could do nothing — and pass the savings to customers — or they could grab some of the money themselves.
“We adjusted prices so the bottom-line price of a ticket remains the same as it was before … expiration of federal excise taxes,” said American spokesman Tim Smith. US Airways spokesman John McDonald said much the same thing — passengers will pay the same amount for a ticket as they did before the taxes expired.
POOR little GOP is about to lose one of its talking points. This story is center stage on Yahoo and shows what really happens with tax cuts for ‘wealth creators’.
SO in summary nobody in the world knows who West is and it won’t matter to the elections but people fly US Airways and see the tax cuts don’t trickle down.
barstool,
Please think things through. Do you suppose other costs may have increased for the airlines in that time frame? Maybe fuel? Maybe union health care benefits? Do you suppose the union may benefit from that extra $25? Would that be ok for you?
And US Air is not a wealth creator stool, they are job creators. Please quit demonizing everyone with money. It makes you look childish
cluster
Please quit demonizing everyone with money. It makes you look childish
more like STUPID to me but hey baldork is a college “teacher” so I guess he qualifies.
Well not all airlines pocketed the $25 dollars and of course if the costs had changed they should have been pricing their tickets accordingly. Do you suppose that companies might have a barrier to entry and just pocket extra money when customers don’t have a choice?
US is NOT a job creator. They are a corporation whose objective is to maximize profits. If they could make more money by flying planes without pilots etc they would. You have drank the kool aid and are not even consistent with astrology 101.
PS. I am not demonizing it is YAHOO and people commenting on YAHOO. Keep defending the unpopular and inconsistent, it makes you look clueless.
bardolf, i guess those people who fly us air or american have no other choice but to fly those 2 airlines huh?
as soon as their sales start going down cause they are losing customers to other airlines they will fall in line as well. all it takes is one airline to capitalize on usair/american airlines’ stupidity….
now let’s talk about how when you are in drought conditions and the government tells you to conserve water and you do…then they raise taxes on said water cause you didn’t use enough of it….i guess those stories get lost on ya?
ragingbull,
actually yes there quite often there is NO competition for airlines so people don’t have a choice. They can choose not to fly or something equally inconvenient like 2 exchanges which obviously makes one shut their mouth about $25. The idea that there are tens of companies waiting to compete for your flight from Phoenix to Miami might hold in your high school economics class but it doesn’t hold on Expedia. In college economics they get a tad more sophisticated and add the concept of barrier to entry which explains why companies can get away with pocketing the $25 tax cut.
I don’t know what story you are talking about with respect to water (is it frontpage of YAHOO?) Based on your facile reasoning with respect to companies keeping tax cuts I would guess you’re leaving out most of the important details in favor of putting forth a talking point. I assume your water isn’t owned by you with some well system but is brought to you with the help of some government project.
baldork
what a crock of commie crap, only some lefty loon jr college teacher would complain about such nonsense.
you know what BUY stock in the airlines and reap the “WINDFALL” of the grrrrrreeeeeeeaaaaady corporations.
Obama as your “brother, companion and comrade.”
commie bastads both 2012 cant come fast enough
Psalm 109:8
well bardolf, a quick expedia search shows that at least 4 other airlines offer flights from phoenix to miami. and yes, most have a 1 stop flight…oh the horror! i know i “choose not to fly” then to be “inconvenienced” by a change over!
and the water thing…happened a few summers ago. sorry you didn’t get to read about it on YAHOO! guess it really isn’t news unless it appears there. fact is, in NC we were in severe drought restrictions, our gov. went on tv and told us we all had to do our part and conserve. we had mandatory water restrictions. we all “sacrificed” per the govs request. and when the drought ended, the tax revenue from the water was not there, so the gov raised the taxes on water. yup, we got punished for doing what was right, and what was asked.
last i checked though, companies can do whatever they want with their “tax cuts” in regards to their pricing. if people are willing to pay it, why shouldn’t the company earn that extra profit? ever see jeans being sold for $100? people are willing to pay for it. as soon as they aren’t those jeans won’t be prices at $100. if american wants to charge double for their flights and people are still willing to pay for it they hey…good for them! eventually the market will set the price.
Bull, the same thing happened in Colorado with electricity. People were told to use less, they did, revenues went down, so electricity prices went up.
Neocon,
You sound like Anders Breivik.
Oh yeah FORKER all the way
painintheazz
and you sound like the pig fredrich schwartzputz
barstool.
Think of it this way. That extra $25 is going to help pay for the union pensions that the airline is on the hook for, and is coming out of the pocket of some rich, fat cat Floridian who is off to vacation in Phoenix. That should make you feel better.
out of the pocket of some rich, fat cat Floridian
NOW im PISSED!!!!…(.NOT )…LOL
“Poor people and working people have not been a fundamental focus of the Obama administration. ”
Then Barry actually did something right. Because the focus of ANY administration should be the governance of the United States.
When the nation is properly governed, and offers the security to its citizens required by its Constitution, the nation is strong, it is prosperous, and the states have the ability to enact any charitable policies they choose.
And “the people” have the means to participate in private charity as well.
Charity is not the job of the federal government, nor should it be. And the men who wrote the Constitution were quite clear on this.
“Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.”
-Thomas Jefferson
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
“… [T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.”
-James Madison
We feel this question and answer are significant, “How can Obama be the president you want him to be when he’s facing this Republican Congress?”
“I’ll put it this way, brother: You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. If you’re just going to reflect it and run by the polls, then you’re not going to be a transformative president. Lincoln was a thermostat. Johnson and F.D.R., too. “
Obama had two years with super majorities in both houses of congress and did what he damn well pleased, hence the GOP congress now. It seems that the voters weren’t all that enamored with what he did, and decided to break the thermostat.
Sorry
Why does the name “Majordomo Pain” appear familiar? Me thinks me smells a forker…
a smelly forker indeed..
The bubble(head) computer: “We feel this question and answer are significant, “How can Obama be the president you want him to be when he’s facing this Republican Congress?””
Listening to those little voices in your head again????